Q: One of the things that intrigues me is how you arrive at conclusions about certain genres of music. For example...

Q: One of the things that intrigues me is how you arrive at conclusions about certain genres of music. For example, you openly dislike heavy metal. Why is that?
A: Because it's symphonic bombast without the technical complexity of classical music, although there is a lot of virtuosity. I can say this--I'm 72. This isn't the time for me to start liking loud guitar solos. That music is so masculine in a retrograde way. I don't like it. It's a very 19th century idea of power.

>Because it's symphonic bombast without the technical complexity of classical music
metalcucks BTFO

Yes...the limp 72 yr old showed us

He's been saying exactly the same thing about metal for decades.

>I'm 72
Uhhh.. do you know where you are sir? I think you made a wrong turn and ended up on the wrong side of the internet. AOL, aarp, forbes, hotmail, and the Wallstreet journal is back that way sir.

Don't know who that is but I feel about the same.
>masculine in a retrograde way
Yup

>Because it's symphonic bombast without the technical complexity of classical music, although there is a lot of virtuosity.
Him being an utter numale aside, this is painfully accurate. Listening to Malmsteen turning Vivaldi (for some reason, him and big three of composers is all there is for the most of metalheads) into a tasteless bombastic wankery is like looking at Mormon churches.

& i'm sure he's been soft the whole time. You know, you're allowed to see how ridiculous metal can be & still enjoy it. Not everything needs to be art school punk

it's funny that Motorhead received probably the highest ratings of all bands he reviewed

also he's got his new book out

I don't get it.

>also he's got his new book out

Oh, you mean where he admits he was a total scumbag who had sex with his girlfriend a few hours after she'd been raped?

I was making an unfunny Reddit joke about websites that old people use. Never fucking mind.

wow really?

Yeh it was a chick who worked at the Village Voice he was dating. She got raped outside Christgau's apartment and he said they had sex later the same day, and he says now he really wishes he didn't.

the supreme soy scourge overlord

tbf it wouldn't have made a lot of sense for him to review or write a lot about metal anyway since the target audience for the Village Voice generally weren't the kind of people who listen to metal.

>it's funny that Motorhead received probably the highest ratings of all bands he reviewed

Motorhead aren't even really metal though. At least Lemmy claimed he wasn't.

Was Christgau the forefather of all nu males?

>You know, you're allowed to see how ridiculous metal can be & still enjoy it
He gave a B+ to Rain in Blood, which was...unexpected.

That's an easy one though. He likes rock to be loud, fast, and sloppy which is just what RIB is. One of the things he hates is music that's too precise and overproduced. Also Slayer are a pretty silly band and don't appear to take themselves all that seriously on that album. Metallica seem to actually mean what they're singing.

The hotmail thing cut deep, why would they need both AOL and hotmail anyway?