Why do you like or dislike screaming in music?

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#1 OfficialJab
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Most of the music I listen to is about half-screamed. It's definitely an aqcuired taste but...once you're used to it you like it just as much as singing. If it's you're thing. I think it's some nice variety once you're used to it.
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#2 BobbyTurkalino
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I dont mind it every once in awhile, especially if its in just one part of the song. But if its screaming throughout the entire song I dont care for it.
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#3 linkin_guy109
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you know i really dont know why i like it...i guess im just into heavy music which screamo music is, if music is too light it seriously makes me uncomfortable and hurts my ears
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#4 cjek
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I think it detracts from the music, and is completely pointless and irritating. It's even less creative than most modern rap.
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#5 Hinata237
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I love the screams. They used to hurt my ears and I disliked bands that used too many screams in their songs, but once my sister started getting in love with them, I did as well since she always had her stereo on...

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#6 OfficialBed
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anthony, you know why i love screaming in music....remember seeing underoath at the underground?....that was a mint show!...if anyone loves screaming in music, click the myspace link in my sig....i'm sure you will enjoy
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#7 LoG-Sacrament
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i do. it reflects certain emotions, moods, and feelings better than clean vocals can.
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#8 Ninja-Hippo
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I'm not a fan at all. I guess it just isn't my kind of music. It ends up simply sounding like noise to me, as opposed to a song. But that's just me.
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#9 DJ-PRIME90
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Well I dislike a song that is full of non-stop screaming, but screaming every once and a while is fine8)
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#10 Ninja-Hippo
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i do. it reflects certain emotions, moods, and feelings better than clean vocals can.LoG-Sacrament

Such as angry, enraged, furious, irate.... :P

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#11 FragStains
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If the genre warrants it...

I find, when properly implemented, it adds a tremendous amount of passion to the music.

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#12 DisturbedChild7
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I'm just a fan. I don't listen to it as often as I used to but I still listen.
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#13 LoG-Sacrament
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[QUOTE="LoG-Sacrament"]i do. it reflects certain emotions, moods, and feelings better than clean vocals can.Ninja-Hippo

Such as angry, enraged, furious, irate.... :P

dont forget power and lament :P

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#14 guitarman89
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Screaming just doesn't sound very pleasant to me, not my kind of music.
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#15 sinistergoggles
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Screaming is not music.
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#16 cametall
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Screaming is OK in small doses if used to create some kind of effect or emotion in a song.

Otherwise it gives me a headache. I can barely listen to Killswitch Engage or Mudvayne, let alone these other bands that sound like prepubescent teens screaming (squealing is more like it) at a Beatles concert...

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#17 OfficialBed
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Screaming is not music.sinistergoggles

obviously it is....doesn't matter if you like it or not...it's music...accept it

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#18 dracula_16
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I like it when it's done well. There are plenty of bands who are terrible at screaming, and there are bands who are excellent at it.

An example of good screaming is Lamb of God and an example of bad screaming is Underoath.

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I don't like screaming in my music. It tends to ruin good songs. I can tolerate a little bit, but it's just retarded.

Juneau, for instance. Ruined.

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#20 OfficialBed
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I like it when it's done well. There are plenty of bands who are terrible at screaming, and there are bands who are excellent at it.

An example of good screaming is Lamb of God and an example of bad screaming is Underoath.

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lamb of god and underoath are both amazing bands

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#21 waelzleb
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I dislike sreaming in music so much its just u cant understand anything t hurts my ears it kills the definition of music rap is better
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#22 rosesforever89
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I like it when there is some screaming but I dont like for the whole song to be screaming.

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#23 gasmaskman
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I tend to like it when it's actually done right, with technique, and not some idiots blowing their vocal chords out because they don't know what to do.

EX: Circle Takes The Square

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#24 Ilived
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What kind of screaming are you talking about? The stupid thrash metal screaming? That stuff is ridiculous.
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#25 sinistergoggles
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[QUOTE="sinistergoggles"]Screaming is not music.OfficialBed

obviously it is....doesn't matter if you like it or not...it's music...accept it

but i don't want to! :cry: it makes me cry and wanna kill kittens :( :P

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#26 D9-THC
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Screaming Like This I really enjoy.

But screaming like Like This I just cannot stand.

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#27 XxXFaTTxMaTTXxX
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It hurts my ears.

Plus anybody can scream

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#28 makaveli_89
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hurts my ears.

it's just mindless screaming.

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#29 UTXII
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I like metal (not emo/screamo) and its basically a part of the genre. You get used to it, and then love it! :P
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#30 DivergeUnify
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sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. also depends on how they scream
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#31 LAZZOR
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I used to hate it but now it just depends on the band. Black metal shreiking annoys me. I'm more into the metalcore stuff myself.
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#32 OfficialBed
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Screaming Like This I really enjoy.

But screaming like Like This I just cannot stand.

D9-THC

i'm sorry, but in the first video, he wasn't screaming at all...he was pretty much shouting

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#33 StevenCrockett6
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I don't like screaming in my music. It tends to ruin good songs. I can tolerate a little bit, but it's just retarded.

Juneau, for instance. Ruined.

bangell99

That version of the song is actually the original version called 'Juno'. They released the lighter version as 'Juneau' which was on their first proper album.

You should hear their early stuff, it's friggin awesome.

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#34 clyde46
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Its not my fav, but when your p***ed off then theres nothing better.
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#35 SuperVegeta518
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Well one of my favorite bands is As I Lay Dying, and that's about 95% screaming. I don't know why I like screaming in music. I just sort of did one day. It wasn't really acquired because I hadn't listened to much music with screaming in it.
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#36 dante_123456
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depends...do you mean screamingthat is used in Death Metal (which is avtually growling, but n00bs call it screaming) or screamo screaming? growls=awesome screaming=gtfo of here you whiny ****
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#37 Fire_Ants
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I listen to sort of like what you listen too. I mean, I could care less if they screamed or not, as long as it's good :)
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I don't like it...because I don't like screaming. Putting it to music doesn't make it any better.
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#39 Cerussite
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I don't mind screaming if it's done well.

I can't stand the vocalist in Circle Takes the Square, but I love City of Caterpillar's vocalist. Both bands that utilize screaming.

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#40 jackvegas21
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Depends on what mood I'm in.
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#41 amapi
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I don't like it...because I don't like screaming. Putting it to music doesn't make it any better.LJS9502_basic

Took the words right off my keyboard.

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#42 Dargiboo
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I dislike it. I can just listen to my brother scream if I want to hear screaming.
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#43 rosesforever89
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Have any of you ever heard a girl screaming in a song? There are some that just get on my nervers like Otep but the girl in Flyleaf is really good at it. I can do it too. Took me some time to get it just right though.
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#44 Erasorn
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I'm rather indifferent about it, some can pul it off some can't. Just like anything in music.
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#45 Thechaninator
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Screaming can do so much for music, its just that there are too many people who don't use it right.

A great example of how much it can improve a song, just look at the different version of The End of Heartache by Killswitch Engage:

Clean singing only

Screaming intacked


If you ask me, the clean version is actually terrible. The screaming put in does so much for the song its incredible.

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#46 AAllxxjjnn
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I dislike it, to me it just sounds like this mass of irritating noise.
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#47 Bulldog19892
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I hate screamo, but a good scream can do a song really good. (ex. 'Climbing up the Walls' by Radiohead)
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#48 HybridPhoenix
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there has to be at least SOME clean vocals but I do have a little collection of screaming music

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#49 Thechaninator
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Have any of you ever heard a girl screaming in a song? There are some that just get on my nervers like Otep but the girl in Flyleaf is really good at it. I can do it too. Took me some time to get it just right though.rosesforever89

Yeah Lacey can scream quite well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsDGZan8XqA

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#50 iloverikku11
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it conveys emotion better than singing, but i enjoy both.