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<p>In relation to the BabyMetal video above, look at this. A lot of it is summing up my feelings.</p>
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<p>Ditto. And again for everyone Ive met who has heard Babymetal.</p>
<p>wtf? -> this is cool -> wtf? -> wtf? this is cool -> wt -> this -> wt -> Im not sure -> wtf -> this is cool -> what just happened? was I just punked?</p>
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<p>no doubt this will result in a new sub genre which is mostly loathed due to an influx of inferior copy cats and these guys will be blamed for it (similar to FNM and nu metal).</p>
<p>but for now - I love that someone has managed to make metal fun, and its great to see some females bringing a uniquely female element to a genre that has mostly featured only testosterone fuelled, chest-beating white men since ever.</p>
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<p>Dave Grohl is a fuken dude, and is totally my hero (watch him as he goes). He's also the best live frontman i have ever had the pleasure of watching. They just always look like they are having fun on stage, and it leads to a great show. This'll be the 5th time i have seen them, and they've never disappointed. </p>
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<p>The concert in Sydney last time they were out was the absolute balls. A few metres from the stage, trying my best not to get knocked down by young blokes who were clearly off their head. Great fun.</p>
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Local residents would have been spewing :)<br><br>
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<p>that's pretty awesome. Boys love them some Sabbath</p>
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<p>BabyMetal - Gimme Chocolate</p>
<p>Melodic Death Metal meets J-Pop. </p>
<p>This shouldnt work, but it does.</p>
<p>Who said Death Metal cant be fun?</p>
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<p>Metal? Yikes.</p>
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<p>I didn't watch it all the way through, being Japanese and involving young girls did a large octopus appear on stage and chase them?</p> -
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<p>Two weeks today until the Foo Fighters in Brisbane. At the moment i can't stop listing to "their" first album, the one Dave made by himself in a week. It's a pretty fucking fun listen, punky guitar strumming mixed in with some more complex melodic stuff. Doesn't get enough love as far as i am concerned, and it's a pity these songs aren't on the live rotation any more</p>
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<p>Beethovens Eroica, the birth of so many ideas that are still employed in modern music today. <br>
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<p>Beethoven was the original bad boy of music, a non conformist who had his own ideas of what music should be.<br>
He was the first composer to learn and compose for the piano (as opposed to those prior who had learnt their craft on a harpsichord, a much different instrument with no dynamics).<br>
People hearing Beethoven perform on the piano believed he was possessed by the devil.<br>
Beethovens demands of his pianos were so great, they typically broke as a result. Piano makers hated building instruments for him. <br>
Such a contrast to those musicians today who break instruments as some sort of childish artistic statement.</p>
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<p>The start - two loud, aggressive Eb Major tuttis is reminiscent of what one might expect from a metal tune. Beethoven immediately breaks the rules by using a C# where a C# had no place to be. For the audience at the time, this would have been extremely unnerving as opening themes in sonata form were always in the key of the symphony. Then, Beethoven starts developing the theme (wtf), introduces more themes (double wtf), transitional sections and just to top it all off, aggressive syncopated rhythms and hemiolas that wouldnt be out of place in a metal song. Theres more happening in the exposition of this movement than one would typically find in an entire symphony composed at the time. Its light years beyond anything that had ever been written up to that point in history and placed demands on an unsuspecting audience who were mostly unprepared for such an musical onslaught.</p>
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<p>My favourite part of the whole movement is this clip.<br>
This clip starts half way through the development section, Beethoven introduces a fugato (a small fugue idea that lasts only a few bars) and then takes us down into the most dissonant, darkest of holes... despair... pain... hopelessness... horror bordering on the hysterical... after lots of gnashing of teeth, from the hole emanates a weak, soft light, the most bittersweet theme which is made all the more melancholic due to the tragedy it follows. I still recall the first time I heard this, walking home from work completely unsuspecting... and then it was like the whole world opened up around me and enveloped me in inconsolable grief.<br>
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<p>Foo Fighters day!</p>
