What exactly is the difference between hard rock and metal?

>>73174148
One is hard, like a rock. The other one is hard, but like a metal.

>>73174148
hard rock is better than metal

Hard rock has power chords, metal has riffs and distortion.

>hard rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQWmVHWQ6RI

>metal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT516h7QwA4

>>73175023
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>>73175021
Hi, Christgau.

They're different points on the same spectrum, the halfway point between the two being NWOBHM shit like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVid_fLzN5g

>>73175023
I never knew Pink Floyd could rock that hard.

>>73175480
Too bad the lyrics (evil woman fucking with my mind) are some of the most generic ever. But it's still a good hard rock number. :^)

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>>73175979
t. feminist

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>Tyranny and Mutation [Columbia, 1973]

>Says S. Pearlman: "We want to be disgusting, not trans-repulsive." Says R. Meltzer: "This is really hard rock comedy." Musically, Long Island's only underground band impales the entire heavy ethos on a finely-honed guitar neck, often at high speed, which is the punch line. And the lyrics aren't inaudible, just unbelievable--a parody-surreal refraction of the abysmal "poetry" of heavy, with its evil women and gods of hellfire. Which is not to suggest that it doesn't become what it takes off from. But is that bad or good? B+

Doesn't he know that the whole evil woman and Satan tropes in metal came from the blues?

Blue Cheer is the difference.

>>73176195
yikes

>>73176371
Apparently not.

Try out Albert King--"I've Made Nights By Myself". There's your classic bluesman singing about evil hoes.

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>>73176371
So he's basically saying I like BOC because they make fun of metal, which I hate.

>>73178706
Critics tend to only like music with ironic jokes or self-aware vulgarity.

>>73176371
It's not a bad album, though I don't get where he derives the whole metal parody thing from.

>>73178706
BOC used up all their good songs on the first album.