Unpopular Opinions.

Madam_X wrote: »

Dismissing anything "non mainstream" and pretending to see merit in Justin Bieber or whatever in order to appear anti "hipster"... is just as pretentious and smug as being a "hipster".

I wasn't their biggest fan or anything (had to google Johnny as I only remembered Morrisey ) but were The Smiths not huge in the 80's or thereabouts?

I just remember when my elder sister wasn't tormenting my parents by singing Madonna's "Like a Virgin" out loud (she was about 17 at the time), she was listening to The Smiths on her walkman! :pac:

Justin Bieber though? Jaysus...

ShowMeTheCash wrote: »

Democracy!!! People on a whole are stupid.... I say we should move to a Dictatorship!

No more, asking questions, arguing blah blah blah... Just someone going, right this is what we are doing! Deal with it!

unfortunately this bit usually means a bag of quicklime and a shallow pit...

...having said that, many dictatorships end with a politician dangling from a rope, so thats nice...:D

old hippy wrote: »

The Smiths were the biggest band from Manchester in the 80s. Apart from Joy Division/New Order, The Stone Roses etc.

A lot of people didn't get them and only in later years realised that they weren't a band of misery guts and were in fact, a genius band esp with the songwriting talents of Marr/Morrissey. Best partnership since Lennon/McCartney.

It wasn't until they released their last couple of LPs that I finally realised how brilliant they were. I even liked Morrissey's early solo stuff.

To be honest, although I'm sad that it ended the way it did with The Smiths (all the fighting and court battles and everything, a sour end to it all), I'm glad that they finished before they had time to outstay their welcome. They're one of the very few artists out there that have a pretty much perfect discography, as far as I'm concerned.

And I love the Morrissey/Marr partnership much more than Lennon/McCartney. As great as Lennon/McCartney was, there's something really special about The Smiths, for me. It's an amazing meeting of lyrics and music, where they really compliment each other and it's difficult to imagine those lyrics without Marr's guitar work and vica-versa. It was just the perfect match, and I don't think Morrissey has ever or will ever make anything as good as what he created with Johnny Marr, no matter how much he thinks he has or will. It's a shame he seems to repeatedly shun Marr's attempts at an olive branch. While I wouldn't be keen on a Smiths reunion, it would be kinda cool if they reunited onstage as a one-off or Marr appeared on a Morrissey album or something.

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Speaking of the 'Madchester' music scene Oasis weren't the working class muck savages they were made out to be in the media. Noel Gallagher had been around the block with the Inspiral Carpets and he knew the business well before he signed his first contract at 27 years of age. He produced songs which defined a section of the 90s generation, in person he's a very interesting person to listen to, very articulate.

The Roses and Smiths were also great but don't dismiss Oasis, listen to their full back catalogue before casting judgement.

I have to be honest, I did just that in my earlier post!

My wife has their back catalog alright but I never liked their music, she considers Oasis indie, to me they were Britpop, but I feared if I said I preferred to listen to Blur in among all these music greats, I'd be told GTFO in no uncertain terms! :pac:

Does that prove or disprove MX's point? Because I didn't really understand when hippy started talking about johnny marr, the reference to the smiths threw me right off when they were a huge band at the time. I didn't know there had been a resurgence in their popularity!


I'm confused

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

You were right Oasis were Britpop, the Stone Roses released their first album via Silvertone an 'Indie label'. Music is subjective I don't want people to lie about liking a band but I do feel respect is deserved for Oasis. Unusually I found I loved everything from that period, Blur included. 'Coffee and TV' is one of my favourite songs ever.

Best keep that to myself- happy wife, happy life

*walks milk carton across the breakfast table while humming "coffee and tv"* :pac:


Brilliant video

Siuin wrote: »

If I had actually gone to the bother of developing a picture of my dinner and showed it to all my friends a few years back, people would have thought that I was mentally ill.

Well, personally, I would prefer a slideshow and/or power-point presentation of your week's dinners. You get more out of it that way.:pac:

Unpopular opinion: yes work colleagues, your children are not half as interesting as you're making them out to be.

^ I think she sounds like shes just whining...argghhh!