http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:45:00 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/02/23/111610.php#comment-95405 "HIM are, in their native Finland, considered pop rockers." Haha, really? Interesting. Especially when you consider that it is not even true (I'm a Finn, I think I know something about it) but anything to make them look bad, right? You don't have to like them, but please stop abusing the "pop/rock/goth"-words. It's getting old. HIM is not gothic rock or whatever, neither do they want people to see them as "goth rockers". HIM's music is simply melodic melancholic metal/rock (depends which album we're talking about), but it seems like that is too difficult for some people to understand. In record stores you can usually find them under "rock/metal", they're not consider "gothic" (except in England, haha) or "poprockers" (except in your head). They're just HIM here, a rock band. 95405@blogcritics.org Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:45:00 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/02/23/111610.php#comment-46853 I quite like Evanscence in fact... I just hate to see HIM shoved in the Goth ghetto with a bunch of miserable doom & gloomsters. They and a few other so-catagorised bands like Cult of Luna are far more than merely miserable gits dressed in black. 46853@blogcritics.org Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:40:33 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/02/23/111610.php#comment-46793 I hope not. I know what your trying to say but to compare them to Evanescence is rather tacky. HIM has much more talent than that band so do many others that band is just there for kids in high school looking a way out of thier pop music main stream. Anyways it's nice to hear appreciation for a great band. 46793@blogcritics.org Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:20:02 EST