say whatever you want, that other stuff still sounds like shit imho.
Ha metal shredder guitarists are so bad. They are so unconfident about playing good sounding notes that they just play anything as fast as they can. Could you imagine all piano players just speedin down the keys every song. Boring. If you anyone want to hear a real guitarist, listen to folk guitarist leo kottke. He blows all metal shredders, and keller williams for that matter, out of the water. Late sixties was the best era of music. You had Duane Allman, Eric Clapton, Page, Hendrix, Joe Walsh, John Fogerty.
first off i listen to hendrix alot and my favorite guitarist is stevie ray vaughan, who i think blows any guitarist out of the water, but those are pretty much the only exceptions to the genres i listen to. second not all metal songs are just crazy fast notes. listen to some slower metal songs like pantera's cemetery gates and planet caravan, metallica's fade to black, their instrumental orion or call of ktulu, the list goes on. they play it because it sounds good not because they cant compete with guitarists of different genres. and yes there are some guitarists out there that just sound like random crap but you can say that about every genre. one of those faster songs that i think has probably some of the best guitar riffs would be the four horsemen by metallica (heh old school metallica fan if you haven't figured it out yet;) ). the riffs in that song mimic a horse running i mean you can basically picture what the song is about just off of the guitar riffs. listen to it, its pretty damn good. but anyways, my whole music catelog isnt based off of guitars
i think crap like rap is just mindless babble that rappers shit out and mtv packages it in a wigger-friendly box so the little rich white kid down the street can feel like a cool gangsta badass. it doesnt even sound good or make sense, they freaking make up words to compensate for their shitty vocabulary. i mean fuck thats not even trying anymore. pop is the same thing but minus the rappers and adding a shitload more of mtv prettying up the package. look at ashlee simpson lindsay lohan: absolutely NO TALENT whatsoever, they shouldnt be allowed to touch a microphone yet mtv synthesizes the shit out of them to the point they dont even sound like the same person just to push platinum records out of a hot girl to little teeny boppers. the only reason they are popular is because they are hot and everyone knows it, i mean at least britney spears somewhat had a voice (not really but bear with me for sake of arguement,) nowadays they either a) take some famous person's hot sibling and turns them into a musician regardless of musical talent or B) takes teeny bopper actresses that fat greasy 40 year old perverts drool over and sell it to little kids, while those fat greasey guys download their provacative music videos and mute them which just further boasts their popularity. country is just the same shitty song over and over again and i think the original songs everyone copies suck anyways.
but all of that is my opinion and what do i know anyways