# Slipknot? Could someone explain this fucking shit! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 2, 2002, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072 "2002-07-02T18:21:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072/1 "2002-07-02T18:21:37Z")
The old adage about reaping what you sew is so true. But the music I drove my parents nuts with is nothing like the fucking wierd shit my kid is listening to. First off, some of it sounds like a fucking bear growling into a microphone with some asshole killing a guitar in the background. Then there’s Slipknot. Have any of you seen these fucking guys? What the fuck?:eek: Are they trying to look like they climbed directly out of hell or what? Hey, I was a teen in the 70’s, so my fav groups were Kiss, Nuggant, and the like. But even they are nothing like this shit. At least you could understand what the hell they were **singing** and they weren’t just fucking screaming into a mike. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072/2 "2002-07-02T18:31:03Z")
Shocking the bourgeois isn’t as easy as it used to be. In order to properly piss off parents and authority figures now, you have to out-KISS KISS. Wonder what kind of stuff your grandkids will be using to piss off their parents :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072/3 "2002-07-02T18:33:13Z")
And you WALKED 30 MILES to school, in the SNOW! ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072/4 "2002-07-02T18:47:19Z")
I like Slipknot, its nice and relaxing. As far as not understanding the vocalist, its pretty easy to make out him repeating “People = shit” over and over. Good solid sound, 3 drummers, a DJ, and a pissed off singer makes for a good band. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072/5 "2002-07-02T18:48:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Revtim \* > \*\*And you WALKED 30 MILES to school, in the SNOW! \*\* Damn straight I did! With no shoes! Uphill! Both ways!😛 Jesus, **Revtim** , I’m only 42. It’s not like I listen to Perry Como. But some of the shit my 17 year old is playing in his room is creepy! Even his older brother thinks it’s crap! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Wrong_Girl)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072/6 "2002-07-02T18:58:27Z")
Damn you, **pkbites**! You totally beat me on the “both ways” part! I didn’t think you could talk about walking that far in the snow without adding that it had to be both ways. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072/7 "2002-07-02T19:01:22Z")
Slipknot is simply rebellion music. Really. Like Marilyn Manson and Alice Cooper before them. It’s not worth getting upset over, really. Most people I knew that listened to them in high school have stopped. And besides, Slipknot is slightly more bearable than Manufactured Pop Crap™. ---
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072/8 "2002-07-02T19:02:10Z")
You stole my line **Revtim**. I remember when I was in high school, Mad Magazine had a … well … thingy (they aren’t exactly articles) about how much trouble future kids are going to have finding music more offensive than the Beastie Boys. I thought to myself “How true. Good luck, whippersnappers.” And boy, have they. Of course, my dad said the same thing that you said, **PK** , about modern music about all of the music that I listened to. And his dad hated Led Zepplin, claiming that it was “nothing but noise.” It may be good for you to know that one day your son will be saying the same thing about his own kids’ music. Makes you wonder whether parents bitched about their kids’ tastes in Mozart’s day. “Eine Klein Nachtmusik? Keep that shit down!” ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072/9 "2002-07-02T19:16:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nocturne \* > \*\*And besides, Slipknot is slightly more bearable than Manufactured Pop Crap™. \*\* I don’t see the difference between the two. I simply see Slipknot as the angry crowd’s answer to N’Sync. Coordinated head banging? Check. Rebel Slipknotter, cute Slipknotter, ugly Slipknotter, demon Slipknotter? Check, check, check, check. Demographically targetting highschoolers? Check. All the elements are there. They parallel each other nearly identically. If ever you hear some kid laud their praises and claim that their _such_ an alternative to The Backstreet Boys, point and laugh at them. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072/10 "2002-07-02T19:38:22Z")
> [@](#): > > With no shoes! Uphill! Both ways! Into the wind. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072/11 "2002-07-02T19:43:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\* > Into the wind. \*\* And carrying my brother! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072/12 "2002-07-02T19:46:58Z")
Back in the day, people seriously used to consider swing as “too sexual”… And of course, when the waltz first came out, everyone thought it was obscene-because you weren’t supposed to dance so close. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Necros](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/necros/32/11086_2.png) [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072/13 "2002-07-02T19:53:07Z")
I just find someone complaining about Slipknot but saying they used to listen to Kiss terribly amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072/14 "2002-07-02T20:22:27Z")
Hey, a little incoherence would have done wonders for the aural felonies spewed out by the likes of Kiss and Ted Nugent. Slipknot is annoying, sure, but at least you can’t understand them. Now, where the hell are my Aimee Mann CDs? ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072/15 "2002-07-02T20:43:08Z")
Easy. Let your kid feel like a rock-n-roll rebel for a little while. He’ll grow out of it. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072/16 "2002-07-02T20:48:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*Hey, a little incoherence would have done wonders for the aural felonies spewed out by the likes of Kiss and Ted Nugent. \*\* Crap, that reminds me. Ted Nugent is in my building right now. :shudder: ---
**Author:** ![Norrybaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9a28c/32.png) [@Norrybaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norrybaby)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072/17 "2002-07-02T20:57:25Z")
I still think _Intensities in ten cities_ is a hell of an album title. And what’s he doing in your building? He’s still alive?? I haven’t thought about him for years ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072/18 "2002-07-02T21:13:13Z")
**pk** , I think you should give the kid a [White Stripes CD](http://www.towerrecords.com/product.asp?pfid=2628375). I’m going to use the Little Room clip next time one of my cow-orkers has their speakers up too loud. :insert evil grin here: Yeah, Ted Nugent’s still alive. He has a new [cookbook](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0895261642/qid=1025643975/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-8716345-1220125) for freshly killed game. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072/19 "2002-07-02T22:01:41Z")
They wear masks because even they are embarressed by the “music” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072/20 "2002-07-02T22:05:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Munch \* > \*\* > > I don’t see the difference between the two. I simply see Slipknot as the angry crowd’s answer to N’Sync. Coordinated head banging? Check. Rebel Slipknotter, cute Slipknotter, ugly Slipknotter, demon Slipknotter? Check, check, check, check. Demographically targetting highschoolers? Check. > > All the elements are there. They parallel each other nearly identically. If ever you hear some kid laud their praises and claim that their _such_ an alternative to The Backstreet Boys, point and laugh at them. \*\* Well let’s see, N’SYNC don’t go around bleating about killing your parents like Slipknot do, and N’SYNC don’t hide their faces like Slipknot do. And N’SYNC don’t scream fuck or shit or cocksucker every 3 seconds in any of their songs, unlike Slipknot. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipknot-could-someone-explain-this-fucking-shit/117072.md?page=2)