Teen Angst

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Do many people go through a metallica phase, usually in their teens (about the time they write butterflies are free poetry)? I was wondering if this was a common phenomenon; I've had a lot of conversations recently with people who admit they did some time waving lighters to nothing else matters... Or is it just the people I am talking to?

― Menelaus Darcy, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmm...all depends. In my case, I was fairly angst free, I think. Had a couple of close friends in high school, got along fairly well with everyone else...any romantic or self-esteem worries I had at the time seem very distant and blurred, so I don't really know if they were there at all. I think I preferred to just spend my time reading books and watching videotapes and the like...

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am a teen going through my metal (not Metallica in particular) phase (?) but not for any reasons of angst. And I have NEVER EVER written butterflies are free poetry; I hope someone shoots me if I start.

I think that is common but not in the majority.

― Maria, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I treasure my time as a Metallica listener; so much cheap amusement. I did not personally write butterflies poetry, but being at an all girls school you can be damn sure that a lot of classmates did. They would have recitals in between telling each other that they looked like rachel hunter. I am sadly no longer a teenager and can no longer legitimately hang around highschools but I hope that one day the gangly awkward phase that started for me then will be ended :)

dammit people dont even have teen angst like they used to. Yes, I can see that i am going to be a fantastic old woman. I've even started wearing purple and red together already.

― Menelaus Darcy, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't forget your cat Tiddles, m'dear. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kids these days don't go through a Metallica phase. They go emo or (the fashion statement formerly known as) punk. Sensitive, albiet angst ridden teens die their hair black and wear tight t-shirts with vintage jeans and listen to Jets to Brazil and The Get Up Kids. At least, that's how my friends deal with it. Of course you could always go the Slipknot / korn / Insane Clown Posse route, although I wouldn't recomend it.

― God of Rock (with a skull and cross bones), Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Somehow, my high school angst phase bypassed what would have been typically Metallica and Guns N' Roses.. and went straight towards Coil, Swans, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Young Gods, you name it... (And this was before I started dying my hair and looking like a punk.)

― Brian MacDonald, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

didn't really have a teem angst phase, didn't care much for Metallica or grunge. but there was my embarassing wigger phase, where i would learn all the words to fave rap song of day and cruise around my high school rapping it. yikes, no wonder i had no mates!

― di, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

for my antipodean friends: mates = NZ slang for friends.

― di, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think every time someone says 'wigger' they should be forced to actually come out and say 'wannabe nigger' (or 'white nigger', depending on your etymology). and thank god i never had a phase like that, eh?

― ethan, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm idealistic and hopeless. I have dreams but don't believe I can accomplish them. I think, maybe I could in the next life, but what's the point if I won't remember how miserable I was? And why should I get up when I fall when if I hadn't fallen I wouldn't want to get up so badly?

I listen to a lot of Belle and Sebastian and Magnetic Fields, usually in the dark and under a blanket and in my bed. It's comfort music for me. I don't want to write poetry so no butterfly poems for me, but I do write narratives that are usually deleted or shredded right after. Is that angsty? I do it because I think it would be painfully embarassing to read what I wrote in a journal a few years later.

― capricious pants, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I still wear my nin shirts and write poetry, but I smile a lot more then I did when I was in high school.

― bnw, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Angst took the form of Ian Curtis for me

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I dont associate Teenage Angst with Metallica at all. I associate Metallica with headbangers-for-life or the guy next door in the early 90s. In the big metal years of 91-93, the "Black Album" was being played everywhere, just like "The MMLP" was being played everywhere last year.
"Disintegration", talk about teen angst!

― Simon, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Angst took the form of Ice T. I think my brain is somehow miswired.

― Helen Fordsdale, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know any Metallica fans that I would consider particularly angst-ridden. Though I did once read a hilariously overwrought 10- part Daria (as in the cartoon) fanfiction in which Daria becomes suicidal after listening to a Metallica song and realizing that life is meaningless. Forty pages later she's cured by the realization that Jesus loves her. I really don't know why I read that story.

― Justyn Dillingham, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Every day I wake up and thank God I'm no longer a teenager. Every minute was sheer hell.

― dave q, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A few years ago I developed a huge-liking for UK indie music, and started wearing vintage t-shirts and flares, (the Camden phase) that kind of thing. I was a depressed teenager (erm, I still actually am a teenager, though) and it was comforting. I think I'm growing out of it. But I want to keep the t-shirts. And some of the music. For it was good (and still is). Don't think I ever wrote poetry, and if I did, knew it was crap and just threw it away.
But now I know someone going to art school and she says: 'I'm joining a collective where we all play instruments we can't play and have happenings' and I groan slightly.

― Bill, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I still listen to Metallica and I are 25. But Megadeth are vastly superior. There was this guy at my high school and he had a big Metallica logo and picture on his leather jacket. But, he wasn't very cool. My best teen angst bands were: Skid Row and Alice In Chains. actually, my reason for not liking Metallica at school was that I was never sure if it was pronouced Metal Licker or not.

― james, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, I prefer Megadeth as well. I don't listen to any metal to serve angst, though. It makes me happy and energetic. I listen to Pink Floyd to encourage my angst. Or I listen to Pink Floyd at 4:30 in the morning because I'm not miserable enough at any other time of day.

I hate angst. It has made it so I'm unable to be worried over real huge big problems because I'm too preoccuppied and self-centered. No more no more no more!

― Maria, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I associate going 'ooh yehhheyyyyyyahhhh' a lot with Metallica. Haven't participated, except in moments of intense KONNNNGGGGGOOOOOO.

― David, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I meant to say 'irony', but you know.

― David, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to be goth hop man. My angst was dark wretched 70 bpm beats and Trent Reznor's remix of Puff Daddy. I am trying to seek therapy through Daft Punk and Britney Spears. People say I'm "fucked" but we'll see who gets the last laugh.

― Honda, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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