Are you a music pretender?

They were my middle school stuff.. before I found metal. 🖤

@DarkHeaven I've never actually listened to the cure, but I remember when I was younger having a listen to Pantera and Sepultura. I couldn't understand a think they said but I remember the guitar work impressive.

@Laughman Pantera & Sepultura only certain songs for me. Not huge into thrash/scream Metal. I sort of went from Metallica & Iron Maiden to NIN & TOOL when industrial busted the scene in early 90’s. It was love because NIN married a techno metal sound to Emo lyrics. Was first music that truly spoke to me. 🖤

I honestly hated 90s music because so many bands jumped on the Nirvana train. So we had years of grunge and metal music that all started to sound the same. How many bands tried to copy pearl jam? But it is nice to connect to specific music. That's essential the reason it exists.

@Laughman My favorite Album by The Cure was Disintegration. Here are some songs off that album. 🖤
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@Laughman Industrial Metal was different. There are still no bands that sound like TOOL & NIN. But I know what your saying the alternative grunge rock scene got so weird and bland during the 90’s.

@DarkHeaven I'm actually at work so I'll have to listen to them later on :/

@DarkHeaven I like metal too but I like melodic metal. I really hate it if it has no melody and is only for people thrashing around and moshing.

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@Laughman No big deal. lol

@BetweenKittensandRiots Yeah with the fall off of Industrial & Punk, Melodic Metal has picked up the mantle I’m finding out. I lost about 11 years of my life from Feb 2007 until Dec of last year, so I’m just getting caught up. Honestly the only non thrash/scream metal that is good I’ve heard is melodic metal.

@DarkHeaven I like industrial but I tried hanging out in soulseeks industrial chat and they hate anyone who uses a sequencer in their music and told me I really like EBM and you'll get hated on if you like anything that uses a sequencer people here listen to throbbing gristle and the legendary pink dots.

I've only marginally gotten into Throbbing Gristle. Some of their songs are catchy but a lot of it is meh.

@DarkHeaven [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7INFV5_PJnQ] old school industrial.

Looks like I'll be watching a lot of videos tonight...

@BetweenKittensandRiots Yeah. I like really dark punk industrial but most of that stuff was gone by the end of the 90’s. Not so much a fan of the more Techno stuff. I like skinny puppy, type o negative, candlemass, mindless self indulgence, cruxshadows, kmfdm, covenant, & even Volbeat. 🖤

@DarkHeaven I'm guessing that is a list of bands, and not ice cream flavours?

@DarkHeaven I love KMFDM. But honestly I'm really into electric stuff. I love synthesizers. <3 The birthday massacre and VNV Nation. I also occasionally listen to the human league. hehehe.

@BetweenKittensandRiots It’s cool. Not my gig but I did have a run with Lords of Acid back in the day. Liked their sound and closest I got there.

@BetweenKittensandRiots human league... didn't they have a one hit wonder?

@Laughman I was more of a Tears for Fears type but whatev’s. 🖤

@Laughman Yeah the only song by them most people remember is don't you want me but I remember when Z100 would play Tell me when and I bought the CD and I used to plug cds in and listen to them whole and explore discographies of entire bands. I know a lot of there songs that didn't burst into the mainstream.

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@Laughman No not in the UK, they were big for a number of years here. 8 top 10 singles & 6 top 10 albums plus more that did not make the top 10.

@DarkHeaven wow I remember them back in the early 90s. They just vanished.

@DarkHeaven <3 Tears for fears.

@Laughman Them, the Cure, and Morrisey’s the smiths all had that early Emo goth sound I loved in Middle school. It was an important time for me musically. Was just beginning to find myself and assert my own musical tastes as a person.

@DarkHeaven Portlands Radio was weird because it stayed independent well into the 90s and a lot of songs used to come on the radio regularly that didn't get mass play elsewhere like Leah Andreone was huge in the Portland market and the Human leagues tell me when came on the Radio frequently in the early 90s. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Q-z7ldYG8]

I never realized we were living in a bubble until I left portland and was in orlando for a time and no one had ever heard of leah and I introduced her some of my friends by playing the CD on my boom box. I have one friend who loves her to death who lives in orlando.