Euphony vs. Cacophony

  Euphony....  Wow that's nice
  Cacophony.....    Bad attitude.

Yeah!  I'm guessing someone's really gonna take a bite ... sooner than later. 

How about these bad-attitude lyrics? (a kid had to explain the contradictions to me); this song is just not right: 

I come from Alabama
With my banjo on my knee
I'm going to Louisiana,
My true love for to see

It rained all night
The day I left
The weather it was dry
The sun so hot,
I froze to death
Susanna, don't you cry

Oh, Susanna,
Oh don't you cry for me
For I come from Alabama
With my banjo on my knee

Joan, Mike, Mcourter and MGH,

Yeh, my daughter's name is Suzanna (from the rebel state, I'm afraid) ... the kid that 'enlightened' me ... while I tried to play my guitar in some absurd banjoic manner. 

I had hoped by now that this thread had devolved into psychedelia-vs-metal wars
... or, at the very least, some country-vs.-hiphop bashings.

Last night (while roller skating) I couldn't help but notice everything was hip-hop and no country (... a bit strange for my rebel state, AL) ...
 
Caleb, my 19 y/o stated that he "can't skate (or dance) to country music without tripping and falling."

mgh

I had hoped by now that this thread had devolved into psychedelia-vs-metal wars
... or, at the very least, some country-vs.-hiphop bashings.

oh, ok then, that country music is rubbish, pop music is just manufactured auto-tuned parp, jazz? - nah, tres uncool, hip-hop, well where's the musical talent, they don't even sing most of the time, cack-ophony...clearly musically sublime and true euphony!

(BTW i don't like that band at all, it's just an example of musical wankery of the most boring kind, just as this is an unsubtle attempt at irony, or is it sarcasm?)

Well I got through about 3 minutes of this ... which was a lot like your metal (I love yours a lot more ... as I've read your lyrics 'driving' your passion)
 
Yesterday (before reading your post), in an attempt to increase cacophony in my percussive hyper-euphony ... 
 
... I ordered Toontrack's Library of the Extreme - Blasts & Fills MIDI's by Dirk Verbeuren.  I'm still unsure if I should $plurge ($89) for the:
 
1) Drumkit From Hell EZX (Swedish, cutesey, and artificial sounding to my ears),
2) Claustrophobic EZX (hip-hoppish ... also cutesey artificial sounding to my ears),
3) or the Twisted Kit EZX ... which, at least, has original/unique sounds.
 
... to compliment the spooks of Dirk Verbeuren.  Something tells me, none of the above compliments him that well; I think his examples employe the standard Avatar (Superior2) and EZD Pop kits ... which suits my croniness. 
 
... despite Verbeuren's apparent 'gothic spook' ... Verbeuren is far more convincing than the euphonic Peter Fredlander's (who sounds like Karen Carpenter from Hades (... who's 'only just begun' (... though I love that song (...etc.)))).
 
His trans-meter stuff works well in 6/8 sections as well as 4/4.  (Which is still my level)
 
Gothic spook vs. politically correct: both reprobations have their followers.
 
But gothic spook may be rapidly becoming politically correct ... in the manner that hip hop has become the reasonable standard for roller skating.
 
Personally, I don't vote for politicians (ever ... (and, yeh, I'll gripe about our politicians almost as much as the Chr!st did (oops!  Sorry to ramble ...))).