Why Didn't Anyone Tell Me?

[jitz]

About Bullet For My Valentine and their awesomeness? You've all dropped the ball and should be ashamed of yourselves.

[Chillalex]

same as whatever else you listen to (avenged seven times?) so I didnt think there was much need to.

But really, from all my mates who like american metal, they've all said that they much prefer Avenged over Bullet (they hate them) so thats sorta why.

[Legendeath]

Hi, We are Bullet For My Valentine. All of our songs are the same power chords. Same OH yell in the break. Same shitty solo's. Yeah BFMV is crap.

[jitz]

Bullet for my Valentine are from Wales, which is why I though you UK'ers would be more on the ball.

Their music is pretty different from Avenged Sevenfold's aswell, it's more metal, more aggressive, faster. It's very...Iron Maiden.

EDIT - Legenddeath is that comment based on their first album or the new second album Scream, Aim, Fire? There's like a scream in two songs. Power chords and metal go hand in hand, what's your point?

[Legendeath]

Let's not start a huge music argument here. But I am talking about there first album. I haven't listened to Scream, Aim, Fire yet. But I know they were going more aggressive with there new album. My point is, is that it's nothing new from any other metal. It's basically the same thing. Just changing the tempo occasionally and switching up chords. Technically all music is that. But in my opinion BFMV sounds like the same more than any other band.

Edited February 16, 2008 by Legendeath

[jitz]

I'm not interested in a huge music arguement either. Just keep in mind you're basing an arguement on a band's debut album, I can list countless bands where their first album is technically restricted due to money, time, and ability.

I can hear shades of what you're talking about in the album, but it doesn't detract from the experience. It's still only their second album, and for a modern metal band I reckon they hold a lot of promise to only get better with time, and I think they're pretty excellent as they are.

[Aero]

not my style of music man otherwise i'd mayb have told you ... probably not tho hahahaha.

but the 2nd album would need to be a good bit different to the 1st if ur liking them to maiden? i'ma give this a listen... if im disappointed ima rape ur nose holes

[Fozy]

SCream. Aim. Fire is a great album. I would voice more bands more often no i know someone will actually use it to good use. sorry jitz.

[System of a Daan]

I caught a Bullet pick once at Graspop Metal Meeting in Belgium. I was proud but I dont like the band that much. But Avenged Sevenfold (like Trivium) should drop their instruments and get back to the mental hospital imo.

[jitz]

Yeah I don't get the whole "fuck they just through a near worthless piece of plastic off the stage, lets all lunge for it at once, fall over, struggle to get back up, and find out the guy outside the crowd that all went for it actually ended up with it". It's a pick, do these people that grab them, sleep with them at night? These people don't even play guitar, because guitarists know how worthless they are. No use from a band adds value to them, not even sentimentally.

As for the mental hospital comment, I really don't see where you're coming from. What's even more confusing is that you name is a take on System of a Down who go out of their way to make radio friendly mental rock, yeah you know the songs, it's like one song, but he's subtlely changed the words slightly that he rambles non stop and pretended it was another song. Hey, you bought it.

[Aero]

would this grab u more jitz-

at the aerosmith concert, steven threw both his sunglasses AND harmonica out to the crowd! joey also chucked out a drum stick or 3 as well.

[jitz]

A harmonica is a legitimate musical instrument, it's actually worth something, but I don't know if wrapping your mouth around something that Steven Tyler has done the same thing to is such a good idea, you really have no idea where he's been, and I don't think you want to know. Drum sticks also rank well on the worthless scale, using a drummer's battered drum sticks will not make you a better drummer. Sticks are cheap. There's no point in killing yourself to grab it.

[Aero]

aye, but its something a little more solid to have as a keepsake. its a decent size and, if ur a big fan, mayb have a large collection of stuff of the band etc then it's not gonna look out of place is it?

[jitz]

Yeah I think people take idolism far too seriously. They make music, yes a drum stick is a tool of their trade, doesn't mean it should hold a value for someone who's never going to use it simply because they're a big fan of the band. I have to dig holes occassionally in my job, doesn't mean the shovel should be worth something to my many adoring fans who work in an office and have no use for a shovel. The drum stick will inevitably get lost, be found again under the bed, get lost again, get damaged, found again, and then discarded as the pretend wealth you thought you had the day after the concert has well and truly vanished a year later when you realise, it's a piece of wood, it may aswell be a plank of wood some stranger gave you after dismantling his old shed.

These people that take shit that seriously, whats next? Keeping band member's hair in a jar? It's lunacy, enjoy their music but don't ever think these people are your friends. I'm a huge fan of HIM and Avenged Sevenfold as most people know here, you know what I own for each bands? Every cd released, and a T Shirt of each band, aswell as buying a concert ticket for concerts the day they come out. I'm travelling to Sydney to see HIM on March 24th because they're not coming to my city, that's how I show I'm and fan and it's something the band can recognise too as it's a ticket sold, it's money in their bank account. Aveneged Sevenfold go on sale tomorrow for a show with Bullet for My Valentine and Atreyu in May, I'll be buying the ticket the minute it goes on sale - and they're coming to my city, it will be awesome.

Having a drum stick a band member throw to a faceless crowd doesn't make you a huge fan, it makes you a tool.

[Subrick]

Well, whoever caught that stick could get it signed and sell it for a lot of money in a few years.

[jitz]

No, they couldn't. Firstly, scoring a drum stick doesn't get you close to the band. Secondly, they're thrown at hundreds of tour stops around the world. You're in no way in possession of a one-of-a-kind drum stick.

[Subrick]

Well, what would you consider a "one of a kind" drum stick?

[jitz]

What a stupid question. Think about it - there is no such thing as a one of a kind drum stick. Which is my point: the drum stick, the pick, the set list, the general shit thrown off stages, is worthless and will always be worthless. To them on a personal level too, it should be worthless. If they have a shrine for a band that they add this shit to, then they need a life.

[Aero]

nah, man if i had the sun glasses, harmoica, or to a lesser extent a drumstick from a gig of a band i loved and it was a gig i really enjoyed, it would be a keepsake, same as the pictures that we took, if i had a collection of that band... in this case aerosmith, which i do, then it would hardly sit pride of place in that collection, but it would certainly be alongside it. get me?

i wouldnt fight ofver they things tho, to me thats botheration.

[jitz]

Did you just make up a word? Botheration?

Yeah I don't understand the whole collection thing, which is where I'm coming from. I love bands for the music, not to look at them.

[Aero]

erm.. i dunno, its mayb a "word" in northern ireland or something, local speak or what have you lol.

well, ok here's how it goes down for me, why i collect aero stuff -

im from a bigish family, as such, i didnt need many friends when i was younger, n didnt go looking for them. hit secondry school n i went to a grammer, my bros n sisters did, so i get called gay etc, get pushed away from them n feel like a loner for a year or 2, not really used to making friends etc.

it was round then i discovered aerosmith n started collecting their albums.. u know, the 6 studio albums n the 500000 best of's hahahaha. anyways, loved the music, found some songs i could relate to, heard stories about the toxic twins etc n started buying books etc about them too (honestly, walk this way is an excellent autobi) it then became the thing to buy dave aerosmith stuff for christmas etc and as such i got records, singles, bdges/pins etc and started collecting them myself too.

as such its a hobby now and my collection is also worth quite a bit. i love the band, the stories, love the wings and recently have really started to appreciate how far the guys have come lifestyle wise since the drug days, they are rolemodels in some respects... it's really the same idea as ppl who collect hornby trains... or buttons or whatever!

makin any more sense to you?

i'd like to point out at this stage btw that i have alot of friends now... honest, all aerosmith talk aside lmao.