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Post by negativeone on Oct 3, 2008 21:59:24 GMT -5
Well, I don't know if this was started in another instance, but I'm wanna read some creepy answers, hehe...
I listened Mudvayne first when I was like 12 years, and I didn't realize that what I was listening in that moment will mark me so deep in the next years (and life).
Songs like Trapped in a wake of a dream, The patient Mental or Pharmaecopia makes a really strange sensation in my mind, kinda 'what the fuck is going on with this song?, I can't just stop listening to it!'
The intense meaning of the songs, the complicated tempos, the way they arrange the rhythm, the way that Chad expresses in stage phrases like "I'm so soiled" or "Don't feel sorry for me"...
What about you, guys?
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Post by stallan on Oct 3, 2008 23:00:01 GMT -5
The first thing that drew me to them was the bass playing. Ryan inspired me to pick up the instrument. The next thing was the catchyness of the songs, but knowing that they were still amazing songs and that the song writing was top notch. All this was after hearing Dig, Death Blooms, Not Falling and Happy. Then I bought LD50 and it changed my life. Not once before had (and still have) I seen a band go so deep with their music combined with message. Then I picked up TEOATTC and they had evolved, yet kept the same ideals. Then I saw them live which re-affirmed my love with of their art. Then I picked up Lost and Found. I didn't love it for a while, but then I realized the intent behind it, and it grew on me even more than it had before. Now with FTPBTP and beyond, they have become my favourite band and I love them enough to get them tattooed on me. And for the future-I see more subtle epicness coming.
Oxygen Wasters- Come ON!!
/drunken rant
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Post by mudvayne8megan on Oct 5, 2008 3:04:04 GMT -5
Why do i listen to Mudvayne?
I truly believe they are the greatest band ever.
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Post by crippenrocks on Oct 5, 2008 15:14:29 GMT -5
My first concert was Summer Sanitarium 2003 and I didn't even know who they were besides a band on the bill. I actually didn't like them too much but the studio albums grew on me and they kicked ass opening for Korn later. Now I just love them.
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Post by digit24 on Oct 5, 2008 23:08:07 GMT -5
I used to listen to rap and was a wigger (save it guys), and one christmas my brother, tired of my wanne be self, bought LD50, TEOATTC, and L&F for christmas, and made me listen to em all... Every instrument stands out, most bands the bass blends with the guitar, mudvayne has bass that you can tell is bass, but not me out of tone. The lyrical expressions, how every song they have can create a new mood for me, or a new headspace, its basically my own legal high. Besides, everybody, no matter who you are, has a mudvayne song they can relate to.
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Post by digit24 on Oct 5, 2008 23:08:57 GMT -5
sorry, BE out of tone not ME out of tone
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Post by lauren on Oct 6, 2008 18:00:26 GMT -5
I used to watch TRL before I got really into rock while in middle school. One day Carson Daly was introducing new videos (this was probably 2001) and he showed a clip from the "Dig" video and said: "Here's a video by some guys who probably even scare Marilyn Manson." And I was like "Whaaaat is this?!"
Flash forward a few years later. So I'm writing this book that I've been working on for a super long time and in it the main character has a brother that I based largely off of Matt Holt from Nothingface. After awhile the character really needed to become two and I started looking for someone who could inspire a twin brother. Ta da! Chad! From there I started listening to Mudvayne a lot more and totally fell in love with the band. Everything about them - the lyrics, the vocals, the drums, the bass - is amazing. And they manage to sound heavy and hard enough to play with the big boys but they actually MEAN something. Chad's lyrics and the concepts behind the albums are so intelligent and thought out that I wish more bands would put as much effort into their music. I love listening to them and thinking of them not only in terms of Mudvayne but in terms of this character I created. "Shadow of a Man" especially, cause he says "Are you my brother? You look like me" and "My lost twin" and all that. They just amaze me to the point where I want to tattoo my body with their lyrics. There are only two other bands that I would even think about doing that for aside from Mudvayne.
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Post by Candle on Oct 6, 2008 20:08:18 GMT -5
Well, I listen to Mudvayne because during the first Ozfest show of '05, Mansfield, MA, I realized that true Metal and a beautiful rock show were certainly alive and well--these guys swept me off my feet just like Maiden did in '81/'82 (and it was a treat to see Mudvayne for the first time, then Maiden a little bit after!!)
I feel centered and deeply energized when I listen to these guys...and oh yeah: Ryan's HOT!
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Post by lauren on Oct 6, 2008 20:41:05 GMT -5
I feel centered and deeply energized when I listen to these guys...and oh yeah: Ryan's HOT! I second that! And digit24 - don't worry, I have my embarassing musical past. I was swept up in the boy band craze (I was 11 in 1999 so it's to be expected) and weened off that thanks to Limp Bizkit, which isn't too great either. Thank god for Korn and Marilyn Manson and my journey into METAL! |
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Post by shroomfairy on Oct 7, 2008 5:04:09 GMT -5
It's all Chad's fault! I was out of the music loop for a few years, totally missed Korn for the first few years. Let's just say I was in country and rap hell. (due to a relationship and the area I was in had NO rock stations at all!!!) Anyway, I left all that and came back around to rock and metal. I fell in love with Korn and started watching MTV again. I was always turned off by any band with make up, just did not see the point. One day while doing other things I had MTV on in the background and heard this amazing voice and this amazing music. I caught a glimpse of the snow and some really hot guy!  When the video ended, they didn't show the band name again. It took me a few days to catch the video again and I could not believe it was Mudvayne. I bought all their CD's, developed a huge crush of Chad, and here I am! |
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Post by stallan on Oct 7, 2008 7:09:24 GMT -5
just like Maiden did in '81/'82 I hope you realize how lucky you are. I wish I grew up in the 80s. |
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Post by Candle on Oct 7, 2008 23:51:52 GMT -5
@ stallan: I do. I really feel blessed, in some funny way---some Times just feel like 'sandbars' if you will, and I really feel in many ways the '80's--all of the years--were resting places, waystations, and hatching grounds culturally (globally) for all that has come to be. I know: how moronic that seems, but I really feel that, at least musically (culturally?) that time was both the endtimes and beginingtimes of how we experience music; and communicate with each other globally. Well, that's embarrassing. For another thread, say? But I know what you mean: I do feel fortunate, though please believe me: each 'era', either defined by year or by genre of music (as some define their personal eras by!) brings its own special truth to the world---the NWOBHM was not the begining of Metal or of Music...but I found a truth in it that has stayed with me since, stayed with me in percieved "fallow" times, musically, really. Maybe all people feel this way for their own era (chronologically; Kronologically; or culturally) and that may be a good thing--I know that while I find it easy to tease those who name certain Music as character-defining, I also find it unsettling to do so, at the end of the Post--I was for so long estranged from Metal and Rock in general, that when I found myself fullly back in love and faith with it, I'd missed a whole lot: not the Music necessarily, but the fans' love of it. I dig watching people at concerts get into it; I love hearing people talk about their favorite songs and artists (whether it's friends or strangers on the T.) When my Korn-loving Baby Bro told me of his escapades in moshpits (back when everyone picked each other up and proceeded) or hard-won and brief conversations with people at the soundboards mid-venue; or of conversations with fans and Maiden/Korn/RATM/Good Charlotte (god help me) after the show....well, that's when I took the free ticket to Ozzfest '05 in Mansfield, snickering all the way, until I practically passed out in the parking lot that served as the second stage and of course, until MV's show. Anyway, I seriously digress. My point is: yes, I feel blessed that I witnessed and soul-benefitted from the Metal I grew u p with... but damn, those torn jeans and cut-off sweatshirts were expensive!  But: I DO remember Bruce Dickinson wearing, at the time of the release of The Number of the Beast, soft white boots....Hmm... |
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Post by Naomi on Oct 15, 2008 13:30:29 GMT -5
I was 11 when I first heard Mudvayne, a classmate's sister always played "Cradle" and I grew to like it.. hehe, I remember thinking they were cool because they reminded me of Halloween XD ..No one else my age listened to that kinda stuff at the time, only my teenage friends as I recall.. but I never really payed attention to them til I was 12, that was when I realised what an awesome band I discovered.. Come to think of it... This is October.. .the same month I got really sick and almost died, Skring was >the< song of that moment (heh I think there's a Mudvayne song for EVERY instance  ) |
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When the video ended, they didn't show the band name again. It took me a few days to catch the video again and I could not believe it was Mudvayne. 
But: I DO remember Bruce Dickinson wearing, at the time of the release of The Number of the Beast, soft white boots....Hmm...
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