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Post by Cast on Oct 19, 2013 12:57:31 GMT -5
I saw this thread on another forum so I thought it would a good idea to bring it on over here. What are some unpopular or uncommon musical opinions that you have?
I'll start, I think Robert Plant is a massively overrated singer and is the weakest link in Led Zep by far.
Nirvana is a good band, but I wouldn't even rate them in my top 10, or even top 20 for best bands on the 90s.
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Post by eva on Oct 19, 2013 14:10:24 GMT -5
I don't like Kasabian. And I don't like Arctic Monkeys.
Their singers irritate me for some reason.
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Post by mkoasis on Oct 19, 2013 14:44:46 GMT -5
I don't really have time for a lot of new music (and by new, i usually mean acts that came into prominence since 2000) NOT becuase they aren't any good or whatever, but a) I just can't keep up with them and b) I'm too busy discovering older music that is new to me.
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Post by Pat Butcher on Oct 19, 2013 16:52:54 GMT -5
The Beatles are the most over-rated pop band in the history of music.
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Oct 19, 2013 17:00:16 GMT -5
I hate Radiohead. Bruce Springsteen is vastly overrated. U2 are not as good as society thinks. Sex Pistols are a massive ear and head ache.
On the reverse, Los Campesinos! deserve more respect and attention (especially from this forum) - they get critical acclaim in their reviews, though. Brilliant band - one of the very best around, actually.
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Post by Sternumman on Oct 19, 2013 18:01:26 GMT -5
I hate Radiohead. Bruce Springsteen is vastly overrated. U2 are not as good as society thinks. Sex Pistols are a massive ear and head ache. On the reverse, Los Campesinos! deserve more respect and attention (especially from this forum) - they get critical acclaim in their reviews, though. Brilliant band - one of the very best around, actually. I vehemently disagree with you. I dont like the Who, Stone Roses, Beady Eye, or the Jam. I like Dave Matthews and think Yeezus is one of the best albums of the year. |
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Post by Cast on Oct 19, 2013 21:03:55 GMT -5
I hate Radiohead. Bruce Springsteen is vastly overrated. U2 are not as good as society thinks. Sex Pistols are a massive ear and head ache. On the reverse, Los Campesinos! deserve more respect and attention (especially from this forum) - they get critical acclaim in their reviews, though. Brilliant band - one of the very best around, actually. I vehemently disagree with you. I dont like the Who, Stone Roses, Beady Eye, or the Jam. I like Dave Matthews and think Yeezus is one of the best albums of the year. Yeezus opinion might not be too unpopular outside of here. Kanye has been destroying it. Not his best album by any means, but it does add a great deal towards his legacy. I too find The Boss overrated. Smith Westerns and FIDLAR are the two most important up and coming rock n roll bands. Really looking forward to how these bands grow. Smith Westerns have the finest pop/rock songs that I've heard since Noel in his hey day (Varsity is the best song of the year for me) and FIDLAR is just pure rock and fucking roll. Janelle Monae is one person who I think deserves superstardom. I'm talking like Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry levels. Her music is so imaginative, it combines so many flavors; classic/neo soul, rock, hip hop, funk, psychedelic rock. She has no limits, does her own thing, and has extremely catchy music that is genuine. We really should be hearing more from her. |
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Post by mimmihopps on Oct 20, 2013 4:36:47 GMT -5
I don't believe what most music papers, especially NME are telling us cos their reviews are based on their stuff's opinion. Everyone has a different taste in music, so you just can't judge an album, a band if they're good or not for someone else.
I trust my own ears and I know what I love.
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Post by manicsfan on Oct 20, 2013 7:50:00 GMT -5
I vehemently disagree with you. I dont like the Who, Stone Roses, Beady Eye, or the Jam. I like Dave Matthews and think Yeezus is one of the best albums of the year. Yeezus opinion might not be too unpopular outside of here. Kanye has been destroying it. Not his best album by any means, but it does add a great deal towards his legacy. I actually think 808s & Heartbreak is Kanye's masterpiece. |
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Post by Teotihuacan on Oct 20, 2013 13:08:20 GMT -5
I actually think 808s & Heartbreak is Kanye's masterpiece. is a rare example of West's boasts being completely justified and the song surprisingly living up to its lavish title.  |
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Post by sammygreen on Oct 20, 2013 14:12:05 GMT -5
I don't really like the Beatles,and I dislike all micheal Jackson I find it annoying pop dribble.
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Post by Let It🩸 on Oct 20, 2013 18:42:16 GMT -5
I don't like Kasabian. And I don't like Arctic Monkeys.Their singers irritate me for some reason. me either... i like a few Arctic Monkeys songs but i don't really like the singer's voice. and when compared to the bands that the Arctic Monkeys's are compared to it makes the Arctic Monkey's seem very average. the next Oasis? come on... i also don't really like the White Stripes because i don't like Jack White's voice. he's a very talented guy but i can't get past his voice, normally. plus most of the stories i hear about him are of him being a real dickcheese burger. not a big Pink Floyd fan, basically because the drum sound on The Wall annoys the shit out of me. i like a few songs...'Money', 'Wish You Were Here', maybe a few more. i like the Katy Perry songs i've heard, just simple pop music. she's really talented and i'd also like to see her topless. God bless. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2013 16:46:17 GMT -5
Justin Bieber has talent. Maximum respect for him.
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Post by matt on Oct 27, 2013 5:51:41 GMT -5
I hate Radiohead. Bruce Springsteen is vastly overrated. U2 are not as good as society thinks. Sex Pistols are a massive ear and head ache. On the reverse, Los Campesinos! deserve more respect and attention (especially from this forum) - they get critical acclaim in their reviews, though. Brilliant band - one of the very best around, actually. Again, completely disagree - Radiohead and U2, for bands from the past 30 years, are two of the most ecletic bands of all time. I think most folk here know I love U2. I prefer U2 because I think their sound change is drastically different (e.g. post-punk early stuff, while ten years later they made Achtung Baby) and I think Bono is a better singer and I can definitely play them when I'm in a good or bad mood but my differences of opinion are definitely subjective. For Radiohead, that trilogy of albums from The Bends to Kid A is nigh on perfect - amazing considering they were all released in the space of less than five years and how different they all seem - you could be forgiven for thinking you were listening to a career spanning 'best of' - I mean, U2 went through 'eras' at a time stretching five years at least - Radiohead went through three in five years! I think you need to find a niche in Radiohead's back catalogue to start getting into them. If I started off with Kid A, I would be puzzled to say the least, but start off with The Bends - more conventional, a bit more user friendly - and then progress from there on and then you get it. Whatever anyone says about their latter output, The Bends is THE BEST PURE ROCK ALBUM OF THE 90s (I exclude Oasis Definitely Maybe because some of that is pop which is 'rocked up' hence why it is my favourite album of all time and Blur are more a poppy band rather than rock for me). Perhaps it's their best album to get an idea of how cohesive as a unit they are as a band, without studio trickery of the latter albums obscuring any false impression that they aren't a 'true group'. This is a band I used to hate years back when I was 16, but have grown to appreciate their brilliance that it's embarrasing to look on my younger self. I mean, this is coming from a guy who pathetically used to hate Blur simply because I liked Oasis (again definitely not the case now, I LOVE Blur). I couldn't really care for both bands output over the last ten plus years (amazingly for some, I can't get into In Rainbows). I've still bought them all, but the greatness seems to come sporadically for both bands. At the moment, it takes both bands five years to complete a record! And there is genuinely no fault I can find with Springsteen - love his voice and love his performances and love his sound and love his band and love his albums and love his lyrics. |
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Post by matt on Oct 27, 2013 6:13:49 GMT -5
I used to like Kasabian - and I still think they have decent tracks (from the first album mainly) - but the last year has seen me completely go against them.
The pair of them - Serge and Tom - seem like a pair of classless arseholes and are as cliched and forced about their rock star image as you can get and are completely deluded as to how good they really are. Tom Meighan thinks he's this generation's Liam Gallagher, yet still hasn't found the ability to sing. Instead of coming off as flippant, tongue in cheek and funny in interviews, he just seems largely like a very unpleasant yob.
Serge, on the other hand, looks like somebody who's received his very own Build Your Own Rockstar kit for Christmas from his Mum and Dad. Likewise, he can't sing to save his life - his voice is weaker than a cat with laryngitis.
Their first album was very decent, but lately, their tunes have attempted to obscure how mediocre they are by inserting weird psychedelic jams all over the place which just come off an meandering and gratuitious.
They can't write a conventional tune to save themselves, and their attempts at ballads and slow number are so wet they make Coldplay look positively heavy metal - sadly, unlike Mr Chris Martin and co, they have no melodic ability whatsoever.
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Post by Frank Lee Vulgar on Oct 27, 2013 17:49:11 GMT -5
I've bought some of their albums, liked a couple of their songs and generally enjoyed them quite a bit, but I can't seem to figure out what's supposed to be so great about Arctic Monkeys. To me AM is a really, really boring or even bad album and even their debut has some really bad songs on it. Best band of their generation? No way.
I don't like what I've seen and heard from Arcade Fire's Reflektor so far. Very generic music, masked by a complete retreat into unnecessarily artistic style and clothing.
On the other hand, I have no clue why the Fratellis seem to be hated/seen as average by so many. They have the tunes, they have the sound, they have the attitude - all in a very straightforward way. That's what music is all about in the end.
Also, as always, matt - your posts are wonderful.
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Post by Manualex on Oct 27, 2013 21:39:33 GMT -5
Sometimes the band you like/love has the tunes, but it isn't the right moment or scene for people to realize, others it's just a pretty face with regular sounding songs, that hopefully can win you over with newer releases.
But music(or atleast in the mainstream) has become a game, a game where the one that loses is the listener, a big resposable of this are labels who only want to hear about them $$$$, marketing tools, lots of BS and not about the stuff that really matters The music.
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Post by Gergely on Oct 28, 2013 9:10:54 GMT -5
I'm annoyed by the singing of Thom Yorke, that kinda put me off from Radiohead. I never got The Who or The Smiths (I also have problems with the voice of Morrissey), and I can't see what's top notch about Arctic Monkeys and Kasabian.
I also think that McCartney is better than Lennon (both are great of course).
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Post by Boy with the Blues on Oct 29, 2013 9:44:38 GMT -5
I understand the comments about the Arctic Monkeys, but I honestly think their first album is one of the best debut indie rock albums of all time.
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Post by shinealight on Oct 31, 2013 6:11:09 GMT -5
hate Radiohead, Arcade Fire are just rubbish, I'm pretty much a fan of Pete Doherty (talking about music) and don' t mind some classical music. Don' t mind Rihanna (when she gives me BJ in my dreams ) - just joking |
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Post by Bring It On Dan on Oct 31, 2013 8:32:35 GMT -5
Pete Doherty is the greatest lyricist of the 21st century.
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Post by benoitbe1 on Oct 31, 2013 11:52:02 GMT -5
I never understood why people liked so much LCD Soundsystem. I never liked theirs albums... but, strangely, I liked their performing live (saw on streaming). I think that's my uncommon musical opinion. Not a drama  But... I FUCKING HATE french "musicians" like David Guetta (he's making MEGASHIT since 10 years..). You don't know how the music tastes of french people are bad... here, Radiohead and Muse, for exemple, are over, overated (I like Radiohead, i don't like Muse). Less than 0,1% of french people know the Stone Roses... |
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Post by manic on Nov 10, 2013 0:49:28 GMT -5
I think Yeezus is over rated and Kanye West is a dreadful MC.
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Post by Bittersweet Split on Nov 10, 2013 23:51:47 GMT -5
The Bends is THE BEST PURE ROCK ALBUM OF THE 90s Not disagreeing outright with your opinion but I think you may need to define pure rock a little more outside 'Blur and Oasis do not fit in it' |
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Post by Bittersweet Split on Nov 11, 2013 0:00:57 GMT -5
Pete Doherty is the greatest lyricist of the 21st century. this makes me think you haven't listened to much 21st century music to be honest matt beringer gareth campesinos will shieff hell, maybe even alex turner (imo) |
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