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Jan 27 '12
among the living: christianbeale: I’ve had people who listen to hardcore tell me they...

christianbeale:

I’ve had people who listen to hardcore tell me they don’t care about bands’ lyrical content and that absolutely blows my mind. Without a focused message behind the music, is there really any difference between hardcore music and things like radio pop that are only created to…

Lyrics matter as much to me as the music. Yeah, if a band’s lame and has good lyrics, I’d rather read the lyrics and not listen to the band, but the bands I love and the bands I like are separated by how good the lyrics are. 

I’m not going to say there’s a right and a wrong way to listen to music, and hardcore especially because it’s not something I’m super heavily involved in other than listening to it, but I will say the reason I love bands like Bane, Paint It Black, American Nightmare, Last Lights, etc. is because those guys can write the shit out of a song, and while I love how heavy Hatebreed’s first couple of records are, it just doesn’t resonate with me the same way as the bands I’ve been consistently listening to since I was 16 or 17. 

Also, PUNISHMENT DUE INFIGHTING SCAB LINEUP 2012 I LIKED THE DEMO WITH PETE JUDGE BEFORE HE JOINED PAPA ROACH 

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  1. poursomewhiskeyintomy reblogged this from blooddirtbonesmud
  2. andrewgebbia reblogged this from christianbeale
  3. christianbeale reblogged this from petejudge and added:
    If lyrical content isn’t the dividing line between hardcore and other styles of music than what is? The fact that it’s...
  4. twowordsonepromise reblogged this from christianbeale
  5. blooddirtbonesmud reblogged this from petejudge and added:
    Lyrics matter as much to me as the music. Yeah, if...band’s lame and has good lyrics, I’d...
  6. blooddirtbonesmud said: the focused message behind caseracer is look at butts on the internet
  7. petejudge reblogged this from xwalshyx92x and added:
    i’ve said it a million times before, putting lyrics on a pedestal in hardcore is stupid. there’s a lot of hardcore bands...
  8. xwalshyx92x reblogged this from christianbeale
  9. bigplansofsleepingin said: And this is why I get dirty looks for saying I refuse to support bands with messed up messages. My biggest pet peeve is the people who attempt to defend Bad Brains for this exact reason.
  10. demonica said: theres also the people who pick certain words of a song and totally take it out of context to make it seem way worse/different than what it was originally intended to mean.
  11. crosscrowdedrooms said: Was just thinking about this today
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