Your unpopular music opinions

viadah · 14-12-2011 1:11am

Mick Hucknall looked like he smelled of piss.

onlyrocknroll · 14-12-2011 11:22am

viadah wrote: »

Mick Hucknall looked like he smelled of piss.

Superficially that sounds like a really stupid comment, but actually I know exactly what you mean.

Oasis_Dublin · 14-12-2011 1:41pm

karaokeman wrote: »

Also I said that Justin will be forgotten within a short period of time, Take That are still going strong 20 years on.

Still strong because of their new music, right?

karaokeman · 14-12-2011 1:46pm

Oasis_Dublin wrote: »

Still strong because of their new music, right?

As El Pron said we need to let go of the Take That argument now, so yes I will leave it at that strong because of their new music.

Back to the topic of unpopular music opinions.

Frusciante didn't make the RHCP.

Oasis_Dublin · 14-12-2011 1:58pm

karaokeman wrote: »

As El Pron said we need to let go of the Take That argument now, so yes I will leave it at that strong because of their new music.

Ha, fair enough.

karaokeman wrote: »

Back to the topic of unpopular music opinions.

Frusciante didn't make the RHCP.

Here's an opinion that's so popular, it might become unpopular; music with guitars, pianos, or a combination of both, is fundamentally better than all other music.

rcaz · 14-12-2011 2:06pm

Oasis_Dublin wrote: »

music with guitars, pianos, or a combination of both, is fundamentally better than all other music.

SilverScreen · 14-12-2011 2:22pm

Oasis_Dublin wrote: »

Here's an opinion that's so popular, it might become unpopular; music with guitars, pianos, or a combination of both, is fundamentally better than all other music.

That's, erm, interesting. In what way is it fundamentally better? From my own view no form of music is 'better' than another as such.

Here's an unpopular opinion of my own: I think Jason Newsted was the best bass player Metallica ever had. In fact he was too good for Metallica. If you want an idea of how good he really is listen to the Flotsam and Jetsam album Doomsday For The Receiver. It's just a pity Metallica never let him play to 1/10th of his abilities in case he overshadowed Cliff Burton.

MOSSAD · 14-12-2011 9:56pm

Imaginary Boy wrote: »

I like ABBA

Heard this one? Never finished, different people piecing it together, great sax on it courtesy of the guy who guested on Gerry Rafferty's Baker St. There's a bit of a hiss on the track, but not a bad song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPxS0hz-eCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z54QLZ2ASDE&feature=related

Android 666 · 14-12-2011 11:26pm

Oasis_Dublin wrote: »

Here's an opinion that's so popular, it might become unpopular; music with guitars, pianos, or a combination of both, is fundamentally better than all other music.

That's confusing the medium with the message. Saying that guitar and piano based music is better than all other music is going to deprive you of a lot of really fecking great tunes that are out there...

Oasis_Dublin · 14-12-2011 11:36pm

Android 666 wrote: »

That's confusing the medium with the message. Saying that guitar and piano based music is better than all other music is going to deprive you of a lot of really fecking great tunes that are out there...

Deprive me? I said one was better than the other. I never said I don't listen to other types of music!

Android 666 · 14-12-2011 11:48pm

Oasis_Dublin wrote: »

Deprive me? I said one was better than the other. I never said I don't listen to other types of music!

Sorry, your statement seemed to suggest you dismissed music made on other instruments

Kold · 15-12-2011 2:47pm

The guitar is by far the most overrated instrument in existence.

Oasis_Dublin · 15-12-2011 3:08pm

Android 666 wrote: »

Sorry, your statement seemed to suggest you dismissed music made on other instruments

Nah, one's better than the other. It'd be like me saying that "anything that Noel releases will be fundamentally better than anything Liam releases." It doesn't mean that I won't be listening to the Beady Eyes' next release!

Caiseoipe19 · 15-12-2011 3:24pm

Apart from a few great songs, Bob Dylan isn't all that great...at all.

karaokeman · 15-12-2011 8:18pm

Kold wrote: »

The guitar is by far the most overrated instrument in existence.

What guitar solo's have you heard?

Technocentral · 15-12-2011 8:31pm

Kold wrote: »

The guitar is by far the most overrated instrument in existence.

Give me a Polymoog any day.

Technocentral · 15-12-2011 8:31pm

karaokeman wrote: »

What guitar solo's have you heard?

Guitar solos are for hippies.

rcaz · 15-12-2011 8:47pm

karaokeman wrote: »

What guitar solo's have you heard?

Yes because solos are the measure of every instrument.

rcaz · 15-12-2011 8:54pm

Kold wrote: »

The guitar is by far the most overrated instrument in existence.

Having said that, no instruments are inherently better or worse than any other.

Sinfonia · 15-12-2011 9:55pm

El Pr0n wrote: »

Can we give the Take That thing a rest? It's been argued and argued and nobody's agreeing with anyone :pac:

I'm agreeing with everyone.

Kold wrote: »

The guitar is by far the most overrated instrument in existence.

While Bassoon and Contrabassoon are criminally underrated!

karaokeman wrote: »

What guitar solo's have you heard?

Yeah Kold, what the hell would you know???!1

karaokeman · 15-12-2011 10:33pm

El Pr0n wrote: »

Yes because solos are the measure of every instrument.

They aren't but after listening to a list like this I can't see why anyone would think guitar music is overrated.

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Queen - Killer Queen
Led Zepellin - Stairway to Heaven
Deep Purple - Highway Star
Stone Roses - Love Spreads
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Guns 'n' Roses - Sweet Child 'o' Mine/ November Rain
Oasis - Little by Little
Van Halen - Eruption
Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
Rage Against The Machine - Bullet In The Head
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
The Eagles - Hotel California
Thin Lizzy - Still In Love With You
Metallica - One
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Pearl Jam - Alice
AC/DC - Let Ther Be Rock

rcaz · 15-12-2011 10:36pm

karaokeman wrote: »

They aren't but after listening to a list like this I can't see why anyone would think guitar music is overrated.

Because most of that list is the exact same type of guitar playing

lordgoat · 15-12-2011 10:39pm

El Pr0n wrote: »

Because most of that list is the exact same type of guitar playing

you forgot boring! Or was it implied.

Edit: Christ the eagles, who the **** listens to the eagles.

rcaz · 15-12-2011 10:42pm

lordgoat wrote: »

you forgot boring! Or was it implied.

Not boring... I prefer 'safe'. Having said that 99% of modern bluesy noodling is safe, boring guitar workout stuff, but Maggot Brain is fantastic.

But then I'd like to recommend an alternative version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmddP2cJkJ8

karaokeman · 15-12-2011 10:52pm

lordgoat wrote: »

Edit: Christ the eagles, who the **** listens to the eagles.

More people than how many listen to Joe Dolan I can tell you that much.

SilverScreen · 15-12-2011 11:06pm

I wouldn't say guitars are overrated one bit. There's such a wide range of things that you can do with electric guitars and bluesy noodling is only a small portion of it.

Take Glenn Branca for example who experimented with unconventional tunings and playing. He was one of the biggest influences on Sonic Youth and alternative rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5WD9o4jMyc

Or Slowdive who produced some of the most amazing guitar sounds I've ever heard and used guitars to create a huge wall of sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwUdO2B9x1U

Kold · 15-12-2011 11:43pm

karaokeman wrote: »

What guitar solo's have you heard?

Ummmm lemme think now... There's that one in that song by that black guy with the perm.... That's all I can think of. It was ok.

rcaz · 15-12-2011 11:45pm

Zero1986 wrote: »

Or Slowdive who produced some of the most amazing guitar sounds I've ever heard and used guitars to create a huge wall of sound.

Masters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chaYm2TqfHM

And maybe my favourite guitar player ever, Ronald Jones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQA1KEkNi_o

dasdog · 16-12-2011 12:01am

^ your MBV link has an extra 'p' character tagged on the end

Kold wrote: »

The guitar is by far the most overrated instrument in existence.

Most overused anyway. And since this quote has there been a single song referenced that doesn't involve electric guitars with overdrive or distortion?

For an instrument that helped spawn so many styles its been hampering creativity for years.

rcaz · 16-12-2011 12:06am

dasdog wrote: »

For an instrument that helped spawn so many styles its been hampering creativity for years.

Nah, poor musicians hamper creativity. There are zillions of musicians who make synthesisers and drum kits and whatever else sound rubbish too.

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