Posted on 07/09/2015 1:01:36 PM PDT by Sopater
Heavy metal was the No. 1-selling music genre in 1989, and parents feared the worst: that Satan worship, drug use, loads of sex, and suicide went along with it, write researchers in the journal Self and Identity. Records were burned, "Parental Advisory" warning labels were born, and some '90s research suggested that teens who were into metal had a boatload of problems. And then decades passed. How did those metalheads turn out? Pretty OK, found the team led by Humboldt State University psychologist Tasha Howe, reports Billboard. It found that while middle-aged metalheads were more likely to have engaged in risky behavior as youths, they in no way differ from both non-metal-loving peers and college students in terms of "life satisfaction and current functioning."
To get to that conclusion, researchers surveyed 377 adults, both metal-lovers (groupies, musicians, and fans), peers who preferred different music, and California college students. It turns out the metal groups' recollections of their youth were "significantly happier" than the comparison groups', and they had fewer regrets (about a third did, compared to 44.9% of students and 51.3% of non-metal peers). As for why they possibly turned out like they did, the researchers point to a "kinship in the metal community ... a way to experience heightened emotions and intense connections with like-minded people, which seemed to contribute to their eventual positive identity development." This suggests, they write, that "fringe style cultures can ... serve a protective function" for youth. The authors do note, however, that "this was a community sample of relatively high functioning individuals who volunteered to participate," which may have skewed the results. (Another study found excessive headbanging could kill.)
Sometimes we can be all the same guy. Especially with the country and the punk since most of the good punk rockers are big fans of Johnny Cash.
Same here. I have a hell of a synthpop fetish these days but I always did. But I was always a metalhead at heart and always will be.
Of course, some of it gets pretty netal too depending on where you look. The ‘dark Synth stuff is pretty brutal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyDTnB87c-Q
Not for everyone though. And the whole satanic thing is pure camp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyN-OAHC4TY
Pretty funny. Short blonde hair, leather and studs. Wanted by all the chicks in ‘86.
Freegards
No, I’m just saying we were there. Some posters make us all sound like brainfried sex addicts that drool in their wheaties.
Of course country guys and punks and the rest did great stuff. We were usually all close to the same fans anyway.
It was Grunge that brought lefties back into the forefront of rock music.
Twilight Zone with PD is in my top 5 Maiden songs.
I can appreciate that. Unfortunately many, especially the fringe who always populate the net, are quite narrow-minded.
I am extremely eclectic, though I admit I tend to dislike noise like metal or rap. 2 sides of the same coin to me.
But I DEFINITELY like many of the more popular examples of them. As well as other hard stuuf. Never mind the soft, truly talented and beautiful stuff.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
LOVE it.
OMG. Trailer trash from Glen Burnie! LOL (i.e., typical metal fan)
Ah, got you. I cannot deny that. I’ve known some really good people of all kinds, including metalheads. Even if they weren’t all on the top of the ladder.
You know what get me? How the hell did we not know? I mean the guy could not have dropped more clues if he tried. And we just didn’t catch on.
Well most of us. I was one that was totally clueless. Looking back though his lyrics take on a whole different meaning ;)
Oh, another noise-maker I don’t like. I really hate the whining. That influence still hasn’t left music, nor “fashion” FTM. God curse grunge. Yuck.
Killers is still my favorite Maiden album... maybe my favorite metal album period.
Rob Halford would be horrified and insulted by your opinion.
Freegards
Maybe I could have phrased it a lot better than I did.
I just think back to my own experience back in the DotCom era at Off-Road.com when the web was young. It seemed like there was always metal playing on a stereo at a race or at 3 in the morning at the CoLo where our servers were housed or wherever. Not always of course. Lotsa Jimmy Buffet down in Baja ;)
I always say that’s one of the ultimate proofs drugs are bad for you. A whole generation of us memorized Jawbreaker and had no idea.
Dude, you would have gotten your ass kicked if you would have even SUGGESTED Rob Halford was anything other than the manliest of metal gods. I mean, the clean cut studs and leather look was just his thing, it was COOL. I remember all the biker types being waaaaaay into priest.
Just imagine if he would have come out on stage before a show circa 1985. (Birmingham accent) ‘I have a very special and exciting announcement before tonight’s show...’ Chaos ensues.
Freegards
I put it far above Number of the beast. Blasphemy I know ;)
Honestly I think my favorite is Brave New World. It has none of the classics but something about it just does it for me as a whole. I don’t really mind Blaze more like a side project than “Iron Maiden”.
For me probably:
1: BNW
2: Killers
3: Live after Death/or Rock in Rio
4: Somewhere in Time
5: NOTB
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