Your unpopular music opinions

lewisdhead

loyatemu wrote: »

I saw a review for "Bandwagonesque" when it came out that said (roughly):

"TF have made a great album here, unfortunately that album is "#1 Record" by Big Star"

That's lazy journalism.

loyatemu

lewisdhead wrote: »

That's lazy journalism.

I'll go back to to 1991 and let them know.

I love "Bandwagonesque", but it's definitely very derivative. "13" is also a great album and very underrated compared with their others. I'm not mad on their post-Grand Prix albums, they're a bit too smooth (not sure if that counts as an unpopular opinion).

lewisdhead

loyatemu wrote: »

I'll go back to to 1991 and let them know.

I love "Bandwagonesque", but it's definitely very derivative. "13" is also a great album and very underrated compared with their others. I'm not mad on their post-Grand Prix albums, they're a bit too smooth (not sure if that counts as an unpopular opinion).

Well it's unpopular with me, not sure if that counts . The unpopular journalism thingy, I guess that was directed at almost every review or mention of the album and the band for that matter since 1991 up to and including now. Along with the Beatles, Byrds, Big Star comparisons. That's the lazy bit. Wasn't aimed at you. Sorry.

Herb Powell

Music produced electronically is just simply not as good as music produced with as much human involvement as possible.

I'm open-minded about music, and I've given it a chance, but I can't warm to it. The more automated it is, the more it loses, imo.

FOR EXAMPLE, LCD Soundsystem had an electro sound going on, but still managed to keep that 'natural' sound. Fantastic stuff.

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

Yamanoto

Benny & Bjorn should have ditched the gals, think the music would have been the better for it.

Anesthetize

loyatemu wrote: »

I saw a review for "Bandwagonesque" when it came out that said (roughly):

"TF have made a great album here, unfortunately that album is "#1 Record" by Big Star"

I love Teenage Fanclub. However there's just as much of a Dinosaur Jr. influence in them as a Big Star influence.

Herb Powell wrote: »

Music produced electronically is just simply not as good as music produced with as much human involvement as possible.

I'm open-minded about music, and I've given it a chance, but I can't warm to it. The more automated it is, the more it loses, imo.

FOR EXAMPLE, LCD Soundsystem had an electro sound going on, but still managed to keep that 'natural' sound. Fantastic stuff.

Hmmm, I certainly can't agree on that. I just wouldn't consider a singer-songwriter with an acoustic guitar churning out bland, unoriginal songs to be better than an electronic artist who has changed the course of music. But at least you're not one of those people who don't consider electronic music to be "real music". I have utter contempt for those people

Indie music will always be my first love, but some forms of electronic music can take your head to places that other forms of music just can't reach.

Brinimartini

I think music died in 1979.

Anesthetize

Brinimartini wrote: »

I think music died in 1979.

Yeah well I think music died in 1978. Beat that.

Herb Powell

Anesthetize wrote: »

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Hmmm, I certainly can't agree on that. I just wouldn't consider a singer-songwriter with an acoustic guitar churning out bland, unoriginal songs to be better than an electronic artist who has changed the course of music. But at least you're not one of those people who don't consider electronic music to be "real music". I have utter contempt for those people

Indie music will always be my first love, but some forms of electronic music can take your head to places that other forms of music just can't reach.

YEah, I agree with you, far too many lads/lassies with acoustics thinking they're hot **** (some of it is great, but a lot of it......isn't).

It's not even that I don't like electronic music, just like I said, I find it hard to make the same connection as with "live" music (for lack of a better term). It takes effort to get right, which I feel a lot of artists don't seem to be putting in. Maybe I just don't get it, and my "opinion" is really a nothing-opinion! Some incredible electronic-heavy stuff out there though, like Death Grips, Tobacco, or Andy Stott. Mindblowing.

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

smilerf

Overrated bands in my opinion

Beatles
Stones
Kings of Leon
One erection
Oasis
Muse
Doors
Stone roses
Sex pistols
Nirvana
Radiohead
Smiths
Rage against the machine

I misses 90's music with boy/girl bands like Steps S Club 7

smilerf

I'm an Alisha's Attic fan

Celly Smunt

I ****ing hate kodaline.

TheBiz

I don't care if you want me to go to the concert. There isn't a Pope's hope in hell of me forking out over €100 to hear a laptop.

Anesthetize

TheBiz wrote: »

I don't care if you want me to go to the concert. There isn't a Pope's hope in hell of me forking out over €100 to hear a laptop.

Context?

tigerboon

haveringchick wrote: »

Florence is terrible, awful stuff, embarrassing.

Can't stand her. That awful wailing gives you a pain in the ear. I wouldn't think it's an unpopular opinion though

Cosmicfox

tigerboon wrote: »

Can't stand her. That awful wailing gives you a pain in the ear. I wouldn't think it's an unpopular opinion though

Seems to be a singer people either love or loathe.

Personally I think they/she/whatever are one of the best performers in a long time.

Herb Powell

I don't get Pink Floyd.

They're one of these bands everyone is "supposed" to like, but aside from a couple of songs (Money, Wish you were Here, the whole Live in Pompeii thing was fantastic, I must say), I don't get the overwhelming appeal.

Cienciano

Herb Powell wrote: »

I don't get Pink Floyd.

They're one of these bands everyone is "supposed" to like, but aside from a couple of songs (Money, Wish you were Here, the whole Live in Pompeii thing was fantastic, I must say), I don't get the overwhelming appeal.

I definitely wouldn't say that

Anesthetize

Nobody is 'supposed' to like any particular band or artist. Anybody who tells you otherwise is an idiot.

Although I'm a fan of Pink Floyd I can understand why some people don't like them. They can come across as boring to a lot of people.