Your unpopular music opinions

ItsAWindUp · 22-12-2011 10:17pm

Nolanger wrote: »

Leftfield and Underworld - dance music for people who don't like dance music.

Bit of a foolish comment to make IMO

Nolanger · 22-12-2011 10:21pm

It's one of my unpopular music opinions!

rcaz · 22-12-2011 10:25pm

I think the main problem with it is that it implies Underworld aren't ****in' unreal.

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

rcaz · 22-12-2011 10:28pm

Also, I don't think Underworld are really 'dance' music. They're electronic, sure, and they take influence from proper dance, house, techno et al, but they mostly make 'songs', as opposed to 'tracks', if you get me.

Scubadevils · 23-12-2011 12:32am

I've always kinda had Underworld as a crossover band/electronic act, even right when they first appeared in the early 90s. I always remember hearing 'Born Slippy' for the first time in a club in Dublin back then - it was played probably 3 weeks in a row and people were almost killing to find out what it was called... these being days before shazam and the like :pac: plus there was this crap of DJs holding back the names of tracks...

Android 666 · 23-12-2011 10:14am

The problem I have with Underworld that grates more and more with the passing of time is Karl Hyde's rambling lyrics. They don't sound profound they just sound extraordinarily goofy. I can take stream of consciousness but this is stuff can be really daft at times.

Great band though and dubnobasswithmyheadman through to beaucoup fish is a trio of great albums.

Scubadevils · 23-12-2011 12:13pm

I really haven't kept up with Underworld tbh since 'dubnobasswithmyheadman' - I think my wife bought several others since so I must delve into them again at some point.

I was given 'Barking' though last Christmas as a gift and I think I got as far as the 3rd track before frantically hitting the stop button...

viadah · 23-12-2011 12:26pm

Black Eyed Peas make the absolute sh|ttiest music. It's the musical equivalent of being bopped on the head with a balloon repeatedly by a developmentally challenged four year old, it's that blandly irritating.

karaokeman · 23-12-2011 3:17pm

viadah wrote: »

Black Eyed Peas make the absolute sh|ttiest music. It's the musical equivalent of being bopped on the head with a balloon repeatedly by a developmentally challenged four year old, it's that blandly irritating.

Black Eyed Peas are pretty atrocious but it gets worse.

The Wanted and Justin Bieber, both absolutely and utterly dire beyond comprehension. My skin literally crawls every time I'm at a club and hear either of their muck being played, I actually want to leave every time.

If you ever hear a radio DJ even consider playing Glad You Came, I insist you change the station because really those are 3 minutes or even a few seconds of your life you will never get back.

Nolanger · 23-12-2011 7:23pm

Organized Konfusion - the greatest rap album of the 1990s.

Birneybau · 23-12-2011 7:57pm

karaokeman wrote: »

Black Eyed Peas are pretty atrocious but it gets worse.

The Wanted and Justin Bieber, both absolutely and utterly dire beyond comprehension. My skin literally crawls every time I'm at a club and hear either of their muck being played, I actually want to leave every time.

If you ever hear a radio DJ even consider playing Glad You Came, I insist you change the station because really those are 3 minutes or even a few seconds of your life you will never get back.

No, Black Eyed Peas are horrendous. You need to change the club you go to as well.

karaokeman · 23-12-2011 8:42pm

Birneybau wrote: »

No, Black Eyed Peas are horrendous. You need to change the club you go to as well.

I agree the Black Eyed Peas are totally s***, all I'm saying is this The Wanted are infinitely worse.

And I go to different clubs most of the time I don't hang around at the one place, unless your talking about the Roost in Maynooth thats different.

dceire · 23-12-2011 8:44pm

Adele and Florence & the Machine are ridiculously overrated middle of the road radio friendly drivel merchants.

Padjooshea · 23-12-2011 10:53pm

Great comments on the Black eyed peas.Brilliant.I'ts not really dance music if it doesn't make you dance.It only makes me cringe ina corner whilst other mad idiots hop around like monkeys.Why is this music played in every single club in Ireland.

Scubadevils · 23-12-2011 11:03pm

Padjooshea wrote: »

Great comments on the Black eyed peas.Brilliant.I'ts not really dance music if it doesn't make you dance.It only makes me cringe ina corner whilst other mad idiots hop around like monkeys.Why is this music played in every single club in Ireland.

Well that music is played in every single sh1t club... which is probably 99.648% of clubs in Ireland.

Padjooshea · 13-02-2012 7:53pm

not really sure if your last comment is for my comment or against it.All i know is variation is freedom.I don't think we should be bombarded on our radios and when we go out by the same music.

karaokeman · 13-02-2012 8:51pm

Padjooshea wrote: »

not really sure if your last comment is for my comment or against it.All i know is variation is freedom.I don't think we should be bombarded on our radios and when we go out by the same music.

Not all radio stations play the same music, only the commercial ones like FM104 and Spin1038 do. I enjoy Irish traditional music so I can hear that on SinE, Tuesday nights on DublinCityFM.

Not really sure about clubs as I haven't been out on the Dublin night life, only in Maynooth because I'm in college there. But Propaganda is supposed to be good from what I've heard.

rcaz · 14-02-2012 2:20pm

karaokeman wrote: »

Not all radio stations play the same music, only the commercial ones like FM104 and Spin1038 do ... But Propaganda is supposed to be good from what I've heard.

wut

Kold · 14-02-2012 3:04pm

rcaz? What's an rcaz?

Kold · 14-02-2012 3:04pm

Is it like being close to rcazm?

music producer · 14-02-2012 4:24pm

I enjoy the music of Sufjan Stevens - I daresay not many on this forum are familiar with his music. It's a bit quirky in the light rock/alternative vein....

Mindkiller · 14-02-2012 8:16pm

I can't tell if you're being disingenuous or not, but I daresay many on this forum are well familiar with him.

rcaz · 14-02-2012 9:24pm

Hang on, this guy is a music producer, he must know more than us.

Padjooshea · 14-02-2012 10:34pm

karaokeman wrote: »

Not all radio stations play the same music, only the commercial ones like FM104 and Spin1038 do. I enjoy Irish traditional music so I can hear that on SinE, Tuesday nights on DublinCityFM.

Not really sure about clubs as I haven't been out on the Dublin night life, only in Maynooth because I'm in college there. But Propaganda is supposed to be good from what I've heard.

I don't want to sound funny here but you can't really get ona traditional irish,buzz and then go out and listen to crap-dance.The same goes for the majority of music unless you find an alternative bar.

karaokeman · 14-02-2012 11:00pm

Padjooshea wrote: »

I don't want to sound funny here but you can't really get ona traditional irish,buzz and then go out and listen to crap-dance.The same goes for the majority of music unless you find an alternative bar.

I will have to disagree with that.

I'm interested in music in general, I'm not genre-specific like some people say like a friend of mine who used to only listen to metal and nothing else. There may be many bands I don't particularly like but there are many more in that genre I would listen to.

Of course you won't find trad music and hard rock, techno-dance in the same venue but for me music always depends on my mood.

Da Shins Kelly · 15-02-2012 2:41am

I don't know how unpopular it is here among you folk, but I know barely anyone myself who would agree with me when I say Beck is by far and away one of the most talented musicians alive.

music producer · 15-02-2012 4:29am

RE: Sufjan Steves - I wasn't being disingenuous, and I'm happy to hear that many are familiar with him. Most people in my music circles aren't familiar with him, to my chagrin.

Sinfonia · 15-02-2012 1:15pm

I inherently don't trust anyone who doesn't like Beck or Sufjan.

Android 666 · 15-02-2012 1:24pm

Sinfonia wrote: »

I inherently don't trust anyone who doesn't like Beck or Sufjan.

I like Beck and Sufjan but I couldn't eat a whole one…

Padjooshea · 16-02-2012 8:02pm

karaokeman wrote: »

I will have to disagree with that.

I'm interested in music in general, I'm not genre-specific like some people say like a friend of mine who used to only listen to metal and nothing else. There may be many bands I don't particularly like but there are many more in that genre I would listen to.

Of course you won't find trad music and hard rock, techno-dance in the same venue but for me music always depends on my mood.

Fair point.But it does make for a funny night out.Maybe some moshin to the Katy Perry or something.Germany is so good for the mix of music.More than 1 or 2 clubs per town.

music producer · 16-02-2012 8:59pm

How about the McClain Family Band, bluegrass-y

karaokeman · 16-02-2012 9:16pm

Bono is a very good singer.

Father Damo · 17-02-2012 11:23am

viadah wrote: »

Black Eyed Peas make the absolute sh|ttiest music. It's the musical equivalent of being bopped on the head with a balloon repeatedly by a developmentally challenged four year old, it's that blandly irritating.

The worst thing about them is that there are some chin stroking alternative hip hop fans (cocks, in other words) who claim they only went to pot after they signed Fergie and went all pop about 8 years ago.

Fact is BEP have been utter sh1te since their inception nearly 20 years ago. Of course back in those days the hip hop coming out of California from Death Row records etc was so good there wasnt room for rubbish like this to prosper.

Kold · 17-02-2012 1:00pm

Father Damo wrote: »

The worst thing about them is that there are some chin stroking alternative hip hop fans (cocks, in other words) who claim they only went to pot after they signed Fergie and went all pop about 8 years ago.

Fact is BEP have been utter sh1te since their inception nearly 20 years ago. Of course back in those days the hip hop coming out of California from Death Row records etc was so good there wasnt room for rubbish like this to prosper.

I reckon there is better hip hop now then there was then. I don't think it's a lack of decent hip hop that has let them become successful, they don't appeal to a hip hop audience. Why do you call fans of alternative hip hop 'cocks'?

Father Damo · 18-02-2012 3:15am

Kold wrote: »

Why do you call fans of alternative hip hop 'cocks'?

I was referring to the "they were great before Fergie" brigade as cocks.

Im not mad about the alternative stuff mind.

Nolanger · 18-02-2012 2:11pm

Some of the 3rd division Britpop bands (Marion, 60 foot dolls, Supernaturals, Northern uproar) have a few great songs.

irishh_bob · 18-02-2012 2:13pm

karaokeman wrote: »

Bono is a very good singer.

thats only become an unpopular opinion in the past decade or so , granted i havent liked a U2 song since about 1993 but he is a great singer and the bono slagging has gone too far lately

RandolphEsq · 18-02-2012 4:05pm

I really like Coldplay.

Kold · 18-02-2012 6:16pm

irishh_bob wrote: »

thats only become an unpopular opinion in the past decade or so , granted i havent liked a U2 song since about 1993 but he is a great singer and the bono slagging has gone too far lately

I never really hear of his voice being slagged. Just his vacuous lyrics and the fact that he's meant to be a bit of a tool.

Nolanger · 18-02-2012 7:23pm

James Brown was a better performer than Michael Jackson.

karaokeman · 18-02-2012 9:14pm

Kold wrote: »

I never really hear of his voice being slagged. Just his vacuous lyrics and the fact that he's meant to be a bit of a tool.

In my experience people slag Bono any way they can. If its not because he preaches its because they think he can't sing or write good songs.

But I agree the slagging is going old now and its reaching a point of irrelevance.

I was one of the 240,000 people who saw U2 at Croke Park almost three years ago, great live band btw, I'd go for music over personality at a bands gig anyday.

music producer · 18-02-2012 11:48pm

I like a couple of Radiohead's albums. The album that has "Last Living Souls" has something I have never experienced before. When I listen intently in stereo, positioned properly between the speakers, a particular sound on one of the songs seems clearly to be coming from outside the speaker area - i.e. from somewhere to the right of the right speaker!

Android 666 · 19-02-2012 1:06am

music producer wrote: »

I like a couple of Radiohead's albums. The album that has "Last Living Souls" has something I have never experienced before. When I listen intently in stereo, positioned properly between the speakers, a particular sound on one of the songs seems clearly to be coming from outside the speaker area - i.e. from somewhere to the right of the right speaker!

Last Living Souls is by Gorillaz

EdenHazard · 19-02-2012 2:07am

On Boards these would be controversial:
Chris Brown is a living breathing MJ.
Bieber is the new JT|(Awaits Justin Timberlake is also **** comments)
Jason Derulo is super talented

DEFTLEFTHAND · 19-02-2012 3:11am

I never liked the Stones, I can appreciate them but just don't dig their music, I think Jagger may be a big part of the reason.

yomamma · 19-02-2012 3:47am

katy perrie, british rap, but on i never understood was korn. Ilike my rock music but what the **** this aint music just the oul saying bunch of boys shoutin words. How can ye respect that musee

This might be shoutin version but it real music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf61K6ZKu_4

SilverScreen · 19-02-2012 1:20pm

yomamma wrote: »

katy perrie, british rap, but on i never understood was korn. Ilike my rock music but what the **** this aint music just the oul saying bunch of boys shoutin words. How can ye respect that musee

This might be shoutin version but it real music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf61K6ZKu_4

Their debut album was good enough for its time although not as original as everyone makes it out to be, but everything after that doesn't interest me. But who are you to say what is and what isn't music? If you think Korn is just a bunch of guys shouting I'd love to see your views on Napalm Death or Mayhem.

ItsAWindUp · 19-02-2012 1:47pm

Nine Inch Nails may be the worst band I have ever heard. Unlistenable crap.

green day rule · 19-02-2012 3:16pm

Black Vail Brides , Pure Sh!te

VenomousFish · 19-02-2012 3:21pm

Zero1986 wrote: »

Their debut album was good enough for its time although not as original as everyone makes it out to be, but everything after that doesn't interest me. But who are you to say what is and what isn't music? If you think Korn is just a bunch of guys shouting I'd love to see your views on Napalm Death or Mayhem.

I was never really a big fan of Korn, but I always did think they were at least original. Could you give me an example of some bands with stuff similar to Korn's first album? I'm curious.

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