Liege Evilmus wrote:
Look, if musics good, it's good reguardless of genra! But I been hearing some crap song lately about an umbrela and I swear, they ran out of words about a third of the way through that song. And yes that deserves to be mocked along with all the other tunes that fall into that collective "I love you more than my Peeps.." WHat the hell is that!?!
Right and the lyrical content of "good" metal is any better. Whatever the genre, you're really blowing hot air about mental chewing gum. Maybe metal's got a bit of bitter taste to it, but it's just chaw, hoss.
Now I also agree that a Pure Metal SoundTrack sadly just wouldn't work, but something with an edge would be nice, someone mentioned PowerMan 5000, maybe some Sound of Urchin, Get One True Thing for the romance end, Give DragonForce a montage, and let KMFDM round off the score with Cubanate.
And you've recreated a 13 year old boy's basement, and again limited the demographic appeal this film's merchandising is going to reach for with a soundtrack (the "boy" demo is already served by toys, and whatnot, this soundtrack needs to reach something broader to justify its existence). PM5K's too cartoonishly flash gordon, good for a "remix" of the animated one, but not for this (which while being about giant robots, is striving to treat them somewhat "seriously").
And also my friend, all the example bands you mentioned, not only still record but they also tour every summer! Check your facts.
So doesn't Cindi Lauper.... Calling all those bands "active" puts them in what I call the "Aerosmith category" of album production. See, I think sometime around when Aerosmith had pretty much migrated from hard rock to something more like pop rock, when they had all those videos with Alicia Silverstone, Aerosmith actually stopped recording. Rather, everything they had ever played in a studio was loaded into a database, and now whenever Steve Tyler and Joe Perry are short on cash, they "just put play" and their computer produces a "new" Aerosmith album. Most classic metal is pretty much played out in a similar fashion. To know classic metal is done by listening to the stuff produced in the 80s ... to keep buying their product is just fanboydom.
Finally I don't know if anyone should be worked up by the pop soundtrack at all. Generally in contemporary films, with great exception, the score soundtrack drives the film, particularly the action. Rarely does the pop music supplement play a major role in the movie, it's just a way to sell records and grant artist exposure by bundling the music into a disc with an image from the movie poster on the cover.
For what it's worth I think all this metal posturing makes everyone sound like pussies who want to be bad, Japanese art noise music, like Merzbow, would rock for mind blowinglly alien machines blowing each other away, and would teach the metal posers what real chaos is. Hmmm, another mashup idea for when this film's DVD comes out.
It's boring and sounds like any other song out there today. I would love to see some Stan Bush on there, or even some other mondern rockers (maybe Wolfmother?). We need a rockin' soundtrack for this film, not some watered-down, emo-isque, boring crap!
. Thus making your argument based on unconfirmed information.
