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don't jump on my throat, I'm the last person who generalise based on musical genres. look how you "analyzed" gwen stefani's music, kinda weak I think.
No matter what fucking style the music is, you take the chord progression or a riff or a vocal melody and play it on a piano or acoustic guitar and see how it sounds. If it sucks then the song is weak, if it doesn't suck, then the song doesn't suck.
For your information, Gwen Stefani writes majority of her songs, and I seriously don't care about her. Easily identifiable hook is a good hook. There are bazillion dudes who can write 30 minute prog epics, who cares, if you can't write a good tune over 3 simple chords then there's something really wrong.
And should I start seriously analyzing the bands you listed down. Uh c'mon.
I'm a HUGE Gary Moore fan, I'm the best player who can cover his shit in my country...ask anyone. But I think 70% of his SONGS are friggin' lame.
But his friend and follower John Sykes is a seriously amazing songwriter. He can write an album full of hits. He has written an album wich sold 20 Million copies, and it wasn't because of the fucking label.
Andy Timmons wrote some decent hair metal tunes with Danger Danger and sold millions, now he is playing tasty solos over not very interesting backing tracks, not a lot of songwriting going on.
Porcupine Tree tries to be modern day Pink Floyd, they focuse on creating a trippy prog mood rahter than greating big anthems. Some of their stuff is cool, some is pretty lame. Typical Prog fan music.
Sinergy is one of the most booring bands I've ever heard in my life. Somone else should analyze their music, they are just too annoying for me.
Evergrey and Opeth does nothing for me, no hooks whatsoever.
Haven't listened to Iced Earth and Rage since I was 16, I remember them as riff not song oriented bands.
Lamb Of God reminds me a lot of 80's thrash bands but they have one of the most annoying "vocalists" ever. Their choruses are still "look how cool riff I came up" not strong chord progressions.
Jorn Lande is a good singer, his songs, well maybe in '75.....
Early Savatage was cheesy as hell IMO, but a decent riff band. I really liked the last 3 albums though, the writing was better, the choruses were stronger, they had also a lot more groove too. Didn't Streets went Platinum or something?
Nevermore, cool riffs, they would be just another riff band if it wasn't for the Queensryche (the best songwriters progressive metal genre) influence. They have taken many many songwriting ideas from Ryche and Warrel uses a lot of Tate's vocal melodies. But they are not nearly as good writers as Queensryche was. Some of their songs could get some media exposure but I think they are a little bit too heavy for most of the people.
Tool was like a breathe of fresh air. The only progressive metal these days who GETS IT and follows the classic prog rock bands instead of endless wankery bands. Best writers in the genre after Queensryche, and sorry the chart unfirendly stuff is BS. When Lateralus came out, Tool was in the charts and MTV played them almost every single day. Tool was #1 on the Billboards, meaning the highes selling act in the world at the moment. They write great songs, have great grooves and vibe. They are awsome in my book.
No matter what fucking style the music is, you take the chord progression or a riff or a vocal melody and play it on a piano or acoustic guitar and see how it sounds. If it sucks then the song is weak, if it doesn't suck, then the song doesn't suck.
For your information, Gwen Stefani writes majority of her songs, and I seriously don't care about her. Easily identifiable hook is a good hook. There are bazillion dudes who can write 30 minute prog epics, who cares, if you can't write a good tune over 3 simple chords then there's something really wrong.
And should I start seriously analyzing the bands you listed down. Uh c'mon.
I'm a HUGE Gary Moore fan, I'm the best player who can cover his shit in my country...ask anyone. But I think 70% of his SONGS are friggin' lame.
But his friend and follower John Sykes is a seriously amazing songwriter. He can write an album full of hits. He has written an album wich sold 20 Million copies, and it wasn't because of the fucking label.
Andy Timmons wrote some decent hair metal tunes with Danger Danger and sold millions, now he is playing tasty solos over not very interesting backing tracks, not a lot of songwriting going on.
Porcupine Tree tries to be modern day Pink Floyd, they focuse on creating a trippy prog mood rahter than greating big anthems. Some of their stuff is cool, some is pretty lame. Typical Prog fan music.
Sinergy is one of the most booring bands I've ever heard in my life. Somone else should analyze their music, they are just too annoying for me.
Evergrey and Opeth does nothing for me, no hooks whatsoever.
Haven't listened to Iced Earth and Rage since I was 16, I remember them as riff not song oriented bands.
Lamb Of God reminds me a lot of 80's thrash bands but they have one of the most annoying "vocalists" ever. Their choruses are still "look how cool riff I came up" not strong chord progressions.
Jorn Lande is a good singer, his songs, well maybe in '75.....
Early Savatage was cheesy as hell IMO, but a decent riff band. I really liked the last 3 albums though, the writing was better, the choruses were stronger, they had also a lot more groove too. Didn't Streets went Platinum or something?
Nevermore, cool riffs, they would be just another riff band if it wasn't for the Queensryche (the best songwriters progressive metal genre) influence. They have taken many many songwriting ideas from Ryche and Warrel uses a lot of Tate's vocal melodies. But they are not nearly as good writers as Queensryche was. Some of their songs could get some media exposure but I think they are a little bit too heavy for most of the people.
Tool was like a breathe of fresh air. The only progressive metal these days who GETS IT and follows the classic prog rock bands instead of endless wankery bands. Best writers in the genre after Queensryche, and sorry the chart unfirendly stuff is BS. When Lateralus came out, Tool was in the charts and MTV played them almost every single day. Tool was #1 on the Billboards, meaning the highes selling act in the world at the moment. They write great songs, have great grooves and vibe. They are awsome in my book.
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