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London, Aug 31 : Many devout Christians might think of heavy metal music as crass and even satanic at times, but according to a Church of England cleric, they could learn a lot about life from the genre of music.

At first it seems like a novelty. Heavy Metal bands who's music, lyrics and whole style is based upon Arnold Schwarzenegger films. It's fairly ridiculous, good for a few laughs maybe, but can you really take the music seriously? I say a fairly resounding yes! It all starts with the mighty Arnocorps, who I had the extreme pleasure of seeing live a couple of years ago, a show that was without a doubt some of the most fun I've had. The simple, irrefutable fact of the matter is that these guys don'

[via spike] You would think if a song went to #1 on the charts it would have some kind of redeeming quality. Even if it wasn’t your favorite genre of music, I’m sure you could find one reason why everybody was raving about it so much. So how do songs that have no originality or creativity whatsoever hit it big with the masses? The only guesses are good, old-fashioned stupidity or poor taste. 10. "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley (1988) I feel kinda bad for putting Rick on this list, b