Randy Blythe
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593 appearances
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3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 15 Apr
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I did definitely become deeply involved in the punk rock scene, but at the same time, listening to The Cure. The Smiths came later. My best friend from middle school loved them and When we graduated high school, he actually gave me the Smith's greatest hits compilation. The orange one, I think, louder than bombs is a joke because I was like, the Smith sucks. But now I like them.
I know a couple of people that know Robert Smith, but I don't think I have that much pull otherwise, otherwise I'd ask him for you.
100% and I do to this day sometimes. I still feel like a space alien at times. Like yourself, I was a very nerdy child. I had a very deep love of books. I was not a sports guy. I come from a really small town where, you know, if you were... anything like you played football and I just sucked at that.
So I wasn't interested in football and just suppose the normal regular high school teenage things. And I found myself gravitating more towards definitely books and stranger things and I felt like an outsider and was treated as such at times. It's like, you're a nerd because your social groups, when you're young, kids are trying to find their place. And I really couldn't find a place.
I just knew it was weird. And I, that's where i when i was really young i tried to fit in for a little while but it just didn't work i just couldn't i was like a square peg going trying to go into a round hole and i didn't understand i didn't understand why someone would be mean to me because I enjoyed reading books or they're like, you're a nerd. I'm like, but that means I'm smart.
Isn't that the goal to not be an idiot? This did definitely lead to a feeling of sort of separation from my peers. When I discovered punk rock music, that's when I first started feeling, oh, someone else understands me. Because by the time I had given up trying to fit in, I started to become mad because I was like, I just can't fit in and people are judging me. So I was like angry.
I was angry about this. And I didn't really feel comfortable in my own skin. And then I started here. I first heard the Sex Pistols, Nevermind the Bollocks, a tape in the seventh grade. This other guy I knew who was a skateboarder gave me. And I was like, these people understand. I heard the music. They're angry and they understand.
And I started delving into that subculture some and eventually going to shows and meeting people. And most of the people in that subculture were exactly like me. They did not fit in. So... as much as I would like to think of myself as I'm okay, I'm this stoic outsider sort of human beings are social animals. And the quote, no man is an Island is absolutely true. We need social groups.
We crave social contact. And so I found that within the music scene, this underground music scene. And it was the first time I really felt I belonged until I My 11th and 12th grade year, I also wound up going to a high school for the arts half of the school day. And it was a bunch of other weirdos who didn't fit in. So I found my group. But for a long time, I felt very much an outsider.
And some of that may have been heightened by the very nature of being a teenager and going through hormonal changes and everybody feels crazy. But I think I definitely was an outsider and maybe just that teenage confusion that everyone goes through added to that.
Depressing, highly depressing, which manifested itself for a long time in an outward expressions of anger. I was very angry that I could not fit in. And also at the same time, angry outside, but also very self-critical at the same time, pointing fingers at myself. Like I said, I didn't really feel comfortable in my own skin. And it's like, what's wrong with you?
Why are you... Something must be wrong with you. Why can't you fit in? To my view, everybody else was...
okay which of course is also probably colored through the lens of a teenage eye where everybody looks at other people but it was depressing and i think as i get older i talk to my parents about this because i dealt with some depression and unsuccessfully few methods that i'm sure we'll get into in a bit i tried to deal with depression and i'm older i talked to my parents a few years ago i'm like
Do you think I had some depression as a child? If I was, I suffered from that and they're like, yeah, I definitely think you were a very sensitive child. And I certainly felt that way. And I internalized that outsider feeling and it was, it was not good. It was not good. Angry and depressed. That's how it made me feel. How about that?
Did you ever feel like that at all? As if I was putting on a mask? Like I said, I think we all wear masks to a certain degree. I think that's how we function in social groups. We have to, there's an unspoken social contract where you can't say every single thing that comes through your mind.
I don't know about you, because some crazy things come from my mind that I just shouldn't speak out loud from time to time. But for the most part, I gave up on the mask pretty much young, where I just didn't understand why people would care. I don't come from money.
So I never, when I grew up, I would wear hand-me-down clothes and those were not the most in-style clothes or whatever when I was younger. And people, they would make fun of me or they'd make fun of the neighborhood I lived in. And because it was not a wealthy neighborhood. And I, for a while, just did not understand why this was. I'm like, it's not my fault that I don't have the new clothes.
And who cares? It's about being a good person. And that really affected me emotionally. I tried to fit in. As I said, it didn't work. I was just like, screw this. I am not changing myself.
so i as i said as a sensitive very good natured child that sort of nature that the good natured sensitivity began transformed into a sort of external hard shell of anger i think and i don't know if it's so much a mask i was putting on is it was just a reaction to my inability to understand the way My peer group functioned at such a young age.
I basically became a walking middle finger for a long time. I don't think it's so much a mask. It was more like a protective shell. And that's not sustainable either, though, after a while, because you grow up and who wants to hang around the constantly angry guy? That's not cool. You don't get a lot of, oh, he's always mad. Let's invite him to the party. That doesn't work either.
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