Music is special. What I look for in music is not something to entertain me. I don't like funny music. I want something to provide me with something extreme and dare me to get through it. I want music to be like a fight, like a fist in the face. I want them to provoke me. I want someone to SAY something to me, to want to communicate something to me. I think that is the problem with a lot of electronic music. I don't feel like someone wants to tell me something. It doesn't feel like a personal challenge. It feels like noise. And I'm not trying to say something insulting with that. I'm not trying to say that the musicians are bad or that they can't write good songs or whatever. I'm just saying that I don't see or hear the musicians. I think that is why I prefer bands with live drums, to be quite frank. Simple trick. Live drums are always a bit untight. People play untight.
I don't know. I guess that if I want to be provoced emotionally in any way it has to be intuitive (meaning, I hear the human behind it) or it has to be quite intellectual (like Laibach). Otherwise I'm bored. I guess that if you like to dance you can enjoy it on another level. But I don't dance. Probably has a lot to do with the fact that I take myself and my facade very seriously. Making a fool of myself is not a possibility. I don't know if I would, but if I think I was I wouldn't enjoy it. So...
Talking about "funny" music, BTW. I'm not trying to say that I only like bands without humor. That is not it at all. But I don't see a line between being serious and having/being fun. Just look at Laibach. Or Einstürzende Neubauten. I think they are funny as hell at times, but that doesn't mean that they are not dead serious at the same time.
But to quote Vim Fuego: "I don't think you can be very funny about metal."
Metal is too often too straightforward, too unintellectual and too serious/"true" to be able to be funny without being plump or stupid. But that is it's strength too. That is why I love it. Very few games. Just a lot of feeling. The pretentions are on a completely different level.
I'm not saying that you can't laugh AT metal. Sure you can. It is easy. But what is the point? You can laugh AT everything. It is just a question of taste. A taste in what you think is funny. Nothing else. Artistic endevours have to be taken for what they are. They have to be looked at subjectively, from the point of what the artwork is supposed to be. They have to be taken as serious artistic explorations. When you have seen them from that point and from the culture that they are meant to work in and you understand or at least accept that you can decide if they work or not. And then you can choose to laugh AT them or WITH them.
Anyway, in the end I hate subcultures (and I love them). Why? because people are sheep. People are idiots. And that goes for every group everywhere every time. You all suck.
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Gwar is funny metal.
If you want in your face electronic music that dares you to get through it, try Current Value's "Faith", Donny's "Symptomless Coma" or Limewax's "One of Them"
There seem to be some kind of notion that they are funny, and they certainly try, but I can't for the life of me think that they are anything but silly (which sometimes (not this time) is the same thing).
Thank you for the recommendation, though. My interest for electronical music is at an all time low right now, but I will try and keep your recommendations in mind when this banjo worshipping I'm totally occupied by right now tapers out.
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