From: roy@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Rivet Head)
Subject: Re: Poseur Bands
Organization: California State University, Sacramento
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:27:04 GMT

In article <dsembr01.727806366@starbase.spd.louisville.edu> dsembr01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Darren S. Embry) writes:
>In <cfM6OOK00awBQ0vGdp@andrew.cmu.edu> Eric Scott Jefferson <ej0i+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

[ORIGINAL ARTICLES EDITED TO SAVE SPACE]
>
>>Anthrax-
>>	As has been pointed out, Kiss is probably the favorite band of this
>>group or at least of Scott Ian (who also listens to rap. Arrrggghhhh!
>>Everyone knows black people can't produce good music. We have the word
>
>YOU JUST NULLIFIED YOUR CREDIBILITY RIGHT THERE, YOU MORONIC RACIST
>SCUM-WAD!  Ever heard of Jimi Hendrix.  Just in case you're not really as up
>on metal music as you thought you were (and apparently you're not!) he was
>black, okay?  You may have heard of Living Colour, also.  
>
>>Any Seattle band
>>	Seattle bands do not continually sing about the dark side of life
>>(which death bands seem to mean chopping up babies) and thus should
>>never under any circumstances be considered metal (well Alice In Chains'
>>songs are pretty dark but they are about drugs which we all no is a
>>non-problem while serial killers and Satan are real problems)
>
>Excuse me?  Drugs is a non-problem?  Babies born under the influence of
>crack are non-problems?  Death is a non-problem?  You need to get your
>brain cells (both of them) tuned, kid.
>
>>Slayer
>>	An obvious poseur band. For one thing they do not like death metal
>>since they consider this music to take everything to ridiculous extremes
>>(this was said in an interview with RIP). Also Seasons in the Abyss was
>>an obvious sellout. And they like the rap group the Geto Boys and anyone
>>that likes rap is an obvious poseur, no repreieve.
>
>SLAYER IS THE HEAVIEST BAND YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  If Slayer is not metal, what
>is?  Rap is not sellout music.  And I challenge you (don't worry you don't
>have to if it's too much for your puny mind) to come up with any examples of
>rap influences in *any* of Slayer's music.
>
>>This list is far from complete and will thus be added to from time to time.
>
>Gee, what a vivid imagination you have there :)
>
>>"They're out ta get me. They won't catch me. 'Cause I'm innocent." --
>>Guns N' Roses
>
>I thought you said Axl Rose was "such an asshole".  I also recall you saying
>"don't listen to band X because the vocalist's an asshole."
>
>From your twisted point of view, if you keep using your stupid biased
>unfounded arguments to prove that "band X is a poser band and should not be
>listened to and it's not heavy metal", sooner or later there will be no
>metal.  Nothing should be listened to.  All bands are posers.  Surely, there
>must be that one non-poser band out there.  If there is, maybe I could
>pretend I'm you and use stupid unfounded biased arguments like you to prove
>that they're posers and they shouldn't be listened to.


Listen people, the guy was being sarcastic.  I suspected this by the
second paragraph.  But it became more and more obvious the more I read.
And besides, if he was serious, he wouldn't include Bums & Posers in
his sig.  (If you remember back about a week or so, he was the first
person to get flamed by Sourshit because of his sig.)

Anyway, stop flaming the poor guy.  I'm sure he already feels stupid
enough as it is since no one understood his joke.


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