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11-28-2006, 08:28 AM
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666xH.I.Mx666
omgh him is soi fucking kewl their lyk tha kewlst fuckig gothh aband evar existead!!!!!!11!!1 their so fucking aspooky wid their satanic innuedno and stereotypical goth lyrix lolzor!!!!!!!11!!!1
Seriously, how much do you HATE H.I.M?
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11-28-2006, 08:38 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: U.K
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To be honest I have 5 H.I.M albums...buuuut they were all presents for me. I used to like H.I.M, but once you realise every song is the same, you stop listening to them. Actually, I quite liked their cover of 'don't Fear The Reaper', though only because the female singer in it made it sound different to everything else they do.
I've also seen them live & they aren't that good. I'd have to say it was a complete waste of money, as Ville's singing really was awful live. Worst Halloween ever.
Another factor to me disliking H.I.M is that I find Ville Valo rather...nasty.
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11-28-2006, 09:12 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: The Netherlands
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Strangely, I downloaded it and it's still on my computer, but I don't really like it, even though tons of people recommended it. Valo's whining, droning voice gets very repetitive and irritating after a short while. Bleh.
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11-28-2006, 09:26 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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Though he is not as bad as some bands like for example chem romance. He is still one of the most poserish, annoying, wannabe shitholes ever =/
I mean seriosuly love metal? It is not even metal.
The only decent thing to come out of him is the heartagram, which is a cool symbol, shame it has been tainted by him.
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11-28-2006, 09:59 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Clarkston
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Hehe... Sorry I am a loser so I love HIM. Actually I have their ID case and a poster. I don't buy CD's people burn me copys.
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11-28-2006, 12:06 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: U.K
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Oh another thing that has annoyed me about H.I.M. I like Alfonse Mucha's artwork a great deal. So look why I'm a bit cheesed off:
Heartagrams make everything look so tacky....H.I.M will not get away with this! Argh!
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11-28-2006, 12:20 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Get a CT scan and find out
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How much do I hat H.I.M.? Not at all.
Then again, I'd have to listen to more than one song in order to say that H.I.M. sucks. (At this point, I can only say that the song I heard sucks.)
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11-28-2006, 02:15 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: St. Louis
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Everything that was created before "Dark Light" was great. I actually do own their "Razorblade Romance" album.
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11-28-2006, 02:25 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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I've never heard anything by them... but I guess I probably won't go out of my way to track them down, just based on the reactions in this thread.
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11-28-2006, 02:45 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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I've never really sat down and listened to HIM. I've heard some sample off of iTunes and it really isn't my cup of tea. Not to mention the fact that HIM's logo is everywhere you look!
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11-28-2006, 06:22 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: London, UK
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I find HIM tolerable, some songs even pleasantly catchy, but really... is Ville completely incapable of thinking up lyrical matter that isn't about love? Listen to one song and you've listened to them all.
I've heard many bad things about Ville's voice live, too. And I honestly can't see the 'hawtness' people associate with him. He does have a lovely name though, I'll give him that, but then again all Finnish names are lovely.
HIM: Overrated and repetitive? I vote yes.
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11-28-2006, 07:26 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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It's not even about good love.
You can see in the lyrics that he despises love. It's that, or he thinks it's cool to talk about Love as an evil entity; and for his sake, it better be the first one.
Examples:
"Kill me" I cried and Love said no.
Love's the funeral of hearts.
Love is a gun separating me from you.
I actually like four of his songs. The Funeral of Hearts has a nice tone, and I sincerely like one of the gloomy descriptions of Love (prayer to a god who's deaf and blind); Poison Girl, although again, it speaks about love and death; Resurrection has a more poetic feeling to it, even if it's still about love and death; and The Sacrament, in which I like the way he describes his church isn't about silver and gold - I don't find a point to the "sacrament" itself, but I like that it speaks of a religion mainly about feelings.
But, as you can see, even the songs I like are always about the same. It gets boring very quickly.
Too
Fucking
Redundant.
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11-28-2006, 07:57 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Massachusetts
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""Kill me" I cried and Love said no." is actually a pretty deep line.
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11-28-2006, 08:12 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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I can't stand them. There are to repetitious. And his voice is to winey. There like Mudvayne. Blah...
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11-28-2006, 09:27 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: With the Zombies
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All their songs sound the same to me.
And i'm a bit pissed off that the queer next door listens to their new album, and the Rasmus (while wearing his girly jeans) and prances down the street with a jack skellington bag on his shoulder going "oooh look at me, i'm so goth"...
i dont like HIM, but i wouldnt tear them apart...they're writing teen-gay anthems...that's enough satisfaction for me....
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11-29-2006, 05:13 AM
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I'm going to be the oddball here because I do like H.I.M. I don't think darklight was very good as do many H.I.M. fans, but I do like their lyrical content and you say that they're all the same which means If I like one of the songs I like them all to me. It's like a hour long song to me. =] and I for one like Ville's voice and the guitar riffts are good aswell. The drumming could be much better to me and I don't care at all how popular they are I can go from listening to a band like Mechanical Moth which dosen't have that large of a fan base to H.I.M. and it dosen't bother me. Music is music to me I don't care who it is that provides me with it. Although I think that these obsessive H.I.M. fangirls and such that only listen to H.I.M. and nothing else are ignorant.
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11-29-2006, 06:49 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Suburbiatown, Pennsylvania.
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I can't stand HIM. Ok. We get it. You're sad. Shut up. His voice is so boring and the music is just generic modern distorted guitar. The only reason the little mall kiddies like them is because Bam Margera tells them they do.
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11-29-2006, 09:53 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Clarkston
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Originally Posted by Puppet Master
Though he is not as bad as some bands like for example chem romance. He is still one of the most poserish, annoying, wannabe shitholes ever =/
I mean seriosuly love metal? It is not even metal.
The only decent thing to come out of him is the heartagram, which is a cool symbol, shame it has been tainted by him.
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Hahaha.... I kind of like them it's just like now a days they stole Marilyn Mansons make-up style and give him NO credit whatsoever.... People like that piss me off... Those were the days... Back when... Woah... Let's not get into the random flash back. Yeah I do agree though. As a fan, I do consider them posers but they make a few good songs to dance around to... Hehe...
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11-29-2006, 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by xxkissxmexgoodbye
Hahaha.... I kind of like them it's just like now a days they stole Marilyn Mansons make-up style and give him NO credit whatsoever.... People like that piss me off... Those were the days... Back when... Woah... Let's not get into the random flash back. Yeah I do agree though. As a fan, I do consider them posers but they make a few good songs to dance around to... Hehe...
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Yeah, and Manson stole Nik Fiend's and Johnny Slut's make-up style. Its a viscious chain isn't it? Ah, Alien Sex Fiend and Specimen. THOSE must have been the days. Ya know? Back when music was GOOD.
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11-29-2006, 06:24 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: In Your Pants, PA.
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Oh man, nucca got PWned
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11-29-2006, 08:24 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: With the Zombies
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its strange, i checked out their bass tabs last night...they're kinda pleasant to play! go figure.
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It's not so much the pain
It's more the actual knife
Pretending the picture is perfect
I cut myself to sleep
I close my eyes for a second
And curse my fragile soul
I scream to hide that I'm lonely
The echo calls my name
*ANIMAL CRACKERS*
http://www.myspace.com/persephone_x
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12-02-2006, 09:26 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Athens, GA
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I never cared for HIM. Right before HIM became extremely popular I heard a sample of one of their songs played as a promo for a new CD of theirs, the song being "Join Me In Death". Just from hearing that one sample I developed an abhorrence for the band. I have since heard a few of their other songs, and I still hate them.
I actually have a friend who harasses me for not liking the band. She screeches at me with questions of how I cannot like the band, then she tries to be sneaky and play their music around me. It doesn't work, I still hate it. Slap Your Love tried to the same thing by sending me an excerpt of one song via cell phone, and I thought he had sent me some really crappy and whiny hip-hop song, because that is exactly as it had sounded. Nope, it was HIM, but I didn't bother to ask which song.
It's all a matter of preference, but I really dislike the band and most of its fanbase.
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12-03-2006, 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Haunted House
Yeah, and Manson stole Nik Fiend's and Johnny Slut's make-up style. Its a viscious chain isn't it? Ah, Alien Sex Fiend and Specimen. THOSE must have been the days. Ya know? Back when music was GOOD.
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This is indeed such a pitty.. Poor Johnny Slut. <33
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12-03-2006, 12:36 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Blountsville, AL
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Ahh, good ol' ASF & Specimen... You're gonna make me cwy! ^_^
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