Your unpopular music opinions

GLaDOS · 11-07-2011 5:32pm

AhSureTisGrand wrote: »

Stairway to Heaven. Cue disagreement

Funnily enough, most Zeppelin fans (well from what I can tell anyway) wouldn't have that as their favourite song, mostly due to overplaying

Shapey Fiend · 11-07-2011 5:34pm

New music is more interesting than old music. Particularly hip hop. Nostalgia does my head in we'd be better off with a lot less of it.

AhSureTisGrand · 11-07-2011 5:49pm

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Funnily enough, most Zeppelin fans (well from what I can tell anyway) wouldn't have that as their favourite song, mostly due to overplaying

Not surprising. I imagine most Pulp fans don't hold Common People as their favourite for the same reason

Say Your Number · 11-07-2011 6:37pm

The Risk album by Megadeth isn't that bad
Thunderstruck by AC/DC is hugely overrated

Nolanger · 11-07-2011 6:52pm

The only grime artist worth listening to is Wiley. The others are watered-down, commercial sh*te.

figarofigaro · 11-07-2011 9:44pm

Malice wrote: »

This is suposed to be unpopular opinions isn't it?

Well, I probably understated it. I'd actually go as far as to say that everybody should bloody well like them with no exceptions.:D

Bodhidharma · 11-07-2011 9:48pm

I hate guitar Gods - Hendrix and Clapton

The Who are rubbish

Billy Corgan was better in every way than Kurt Cobain

Rap/Hip Hop is misongynistic/selfish/materialistic drival and has a terribly negative influence on young people

U2 are a great band

Green Day are bloody awful

There are as many good bands around today as there always has been HOWEVER there will never be another Dylan, Beatles, Zeppelin, Nirvana type phenomena

Pseudo-sex in pop videos (fake lesbian stuff, I'm looking at you Fergie, Rihanna, Katy Perry) demeans women and is all the worse because it seems women are the main proponents of it

There are no good black or women rock bands (I think Blondie are awful and are only regarded as good because they have a woman singer)

Frank Grimes · 11-07-2011 9:59pm

I hate the fcuking Eagles, man

abouttobebanned · 11-07-2011 10:02pm

lol there are some crazy opinions on this thread!

karaokeman · 11-07-2011 10:49pm

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I love The Beatles. That seems to be 'uncool' nowadays.

I beg to differ.

Most people I know love the Beatles and constantly argue that they created music.

In that sense its obviously the 'cool' thing to love the Beatles.

For me, I would rather go for Coldplay any day.

Geo10 · 11-07-2011 11:10pm

I think "Baby One More Time" is the catchiest, most epic, genius song of all time.
I feel Britney Spears is the only artist worth listening to. I listen to her music 24/7.... never any other artist.

wonderboysam · 11-07-2011 11:27pm

Be here now is an awesome album :E

Oasis_Dublin · 12-07-2011 2:00am

Oasis post-Morning Glory are still fantastic. Don't Believe The Truth is the best post-MG studio album.

Radiohead's best album is The Bends. Pablo Honey wipes the floor with any post-OK Computer album.

Popular music without guitar is sh*te (99% of the time!).

A band does not need multi-million punt stages to put on a good live show. They sort of miss the point of live music.

sky88 · 12-07-2011 2:27am

the arctic monkeys suck

Pudsy33 · 12-07-2011 3:49am

AhSureTisGrand wrote: »

People who complain that "music sucks nowadays" are automatically wrong.

On a similar vein, in 20 years the top rated comment on YouTube (or whatever) for Use Somebody will be, "Man I wish they played music like this on the radio".

Placebo have some good songs but also have terrible lyrics and an irritating cnut for a singer

The only people who love The Smiths are angsty teenagers from the 80s.

The Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips is the single most annoying album ever.

Kanye West is something of a genius

Foo Fighters have one and a half good songs per album them the rest is ****e. Same with Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Van Halen are a sackful of guitar ****

Modest Mouse are a poor man's Pixies

Led Zeppelin have one good song the rest are average

Bright Eyes needs to feckin' cheer up

Foals are not good

Jimi Hendrix is boring

Manic Street Preachers have one good song

Dave Grohl — why do people worship him?

Adele's music would be more enjoyable if she were better looking

Everyone secretly loves ABBA

i disagree with everything you just said :P

Bodhisopha · 12-07-2011 4:14am

Led Zep suck balls.

Washington Irving · 12-07-2011 7:47am

sky88 wrote: »

the arctic monkeys suck

Your opinion is incorrect.

Malice · 12-07-2011 2:01pm

Bodhidharma wrote: »

There are no good black or women rock bands

Do you mean bands composed entirely of black people and bands composed entirely of women?

Adyx · 12-07-2011 2:03pm

AhSureTisGrand wrote: »

Stairway to Heaven. Cue disagreement

If that's the song you like, that's the song you like. Who am I to tell you any different? Besides, it is a good song.

endabob1 · 12-07-2011 2:25pm

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

New music is more interesting than old music. Particularly hip hop. Nostalgia does my head in we'd be better off with a lot less of it.

I think the older you get the harder it becomes to hear genuinely "New Music" the vast majority of stuff I hear is essentially reworking of older music, Rap/ Hip Hop which was fresh and exciting has become especially stagnant in the last decade.

Not sure on what's popular/unpopular really but stuff that surprises most other music fans I know

I never liked the Beatles, I know the Stones were basically just a derivative R&B band but I much preferred them
The Pixies & Frank Black are just awful, it all sounds the same to me.
Radiohead bore me senseless (Parts of OK Computer excepted)
I discovered that I liked Bruce Springsteen (a lot) very late in life
Paul Weller might be an arrogant ---- but he could pen a mighty fine tune,even with the Style Council
Country Music is great

J_E · 12-07-2011 5:35pm

nyarlothothep wrote: »

Muse used to suck but their later works are superior.

The Resistance says you're wrong

The Gibzilla · 12-07-2011 6:04pm

I really like the Second Coming despite the fact that it sounds like something Led Zep threw away in places.
I wish the Stones had split years ago I think it's cringe-worthy watching them now.
I think the "Long And Winding Road" is the worst song The Beatles wrote.

Bodhidharma · 12-07-2011 7:04pm

Malice wrote: »

Do you mean bands composed entirely of black people and bands composed entirely of women?

Yup (Living Colour and the likes of The Bangles were rubbish

Oasis_Dublin · 12-07-2011 7:44pm

AhSureTisGrand wrote: »

The only people who love The Smiths are angsty teenagers from the 80s.

Johnny Marr.

The Floyd p · 12-07-2011 8:21pm

I hate Bruce Springsteen.

Jerichoholic · 12-07-2011 8:41pm

The Floyd p wrote: »

I hate Bruce Springsteen.

This is a very strange illness. Can you explain why?

RandolphEsq · 12-07-2011 9:22pm

I have given up listening to any music other than songs that I can go running at a fast pace to. Consequently, song quality gets judged according to how apt it is to run to.

kwestfan08 · 12-07-2011 10:54pm

Never really got The Cure. Depressing ****e if you ask me.

Kanye West isn't given the credit he deserves as an artist. Five phenomenal albums one after each other IMO.

Eminem will go down in history as one of the best artists of the 21st century.

Adyx · 12-07-2011 10:57pm

Oasis_Dublin wrote: »

Johnny Marr.

J'en ai marre

rcaz · 13-07-2011 1:15am

Pudsy33 wrote: »

i disagree with everything you just said :P

I agreed with a lot of it, but that Soft Bulletin one? Best album ever recorded I reckon :pac:

Pudsy33 · 13-07-2011 5:21am

El Pr0n wrote: »

I agreed with a lot of it, but that Soft Bulletin one? Best album ever recorded I reckon :pac:

damn straight! :pac:

eskimocat · 13-07-2011 10:31am

I really don't like U2!...sinful i know

Jerichoholic · 13-07-2011 11:41am

eskimocat wrote: »

I really don't like U2!...sinful i know

That's a very popular opinion, don't worry. Much like my opinion on Kanye West, I don't really want to hear about how wealthy he is in every one of his songs. I was once told by someone born in the middle of a bog in the middle of nowhere "Don't be hatin' on Ye".

SilverScreen · 13-07-2011 2:06pm

kwestfan08 wrote: »

Never really got The Cure. Depressing ****e if you ask me.

It's the best depressing ****e you could listen to, all the best music is depressing. Who the **** wants to listen to happy happy happy music?

Kanye West isn't given the credit he deserves as an artist. Five phenomenal albums one after each other IMO.

Wouldn't be so sure about that, My Dark Twisted Fantasy was hyped to the high heavens. I think he gets more than his fair share of credit.

Eminem will go down in history as one of the best artists of the 21st century.

Ha aha ahahaha.

Sure, and Vanilla Ice was the greatest artist of the 90's...

el dude · 13-07-2011 10:12pm

The Foo Fighters are a bit ordinary.

loyatemu · 13-07-2011 10:53pm

Inspiral Carpets were the best of the Madchester bands.

Jako8 · 14-07-2011 1:12am

I only like or two Smiths songs.

I only like one or two Nirvana songs.

I'm sick of people saying music isn't as good today as there was in the *insert decade here* (Normally the 80's). There's lots of brilliant music being produced if you look in the right places. it also annoys me when someone either initially likes a song but dislikes it when he hears it's in the charts or hates a song because it's in the charts. Give it a chance, I mean there's a lot of chart music that I personally wouldn't listen to but there's some enjoyable stuff too.

rcaz · 14-07-2011 2:32am

el dude wrote: »

The Foo Fighters are a bit ordinary.

A bit?!

Nolanger · 14-07-2011 7:02pm

Most successful rappers rip off the exact same samples as lesser known artists from a few years earler.

Shapey Fiend · 14-07-2011 8:06pm

Nolanger wrote: »

The only grime artist worth listening to is Wiley. The others are watered-down, commercial sh*te.

There are a hell of a lot of the emcees are grime purists and make far less frequent stabs at commercial singles like Wiley. I think he's probably got the best approach because he does both. He'll put out an album that he says is complete ****e, then release 9 zips of grime stuff on Twitter for free. You might enjoy Tempa T, JME, D Double E or P Money.

MagicMarker · 14-07-2011 9:58pm

Adore is the Smashing Pumpkins' only good album.

TimeToShine · 15-07-2011 1:28am

MagicMarker wrote: »

Adore is the Smashing Pumpkins' only good album.

but Gish!

TimeToShine · 15-07-2011 1:39am

After the Gold Rush is the best album ever made.

OK Computer is the second best album ever made.

The Who are shíte apart from one or two songs.

Neutral Milk Hotel are shíte apart from 2 songs.

Arcade fire are horrible.

Mumford and Sons are absolutely and utterly horrific, all their songs sound exactly the same.

KoL suck.

The Clash suck, Doors have 2 good songs, Bon Jovi have 2 good songs, Fleetwood Mac suck, Iggy Pop has one good song, rest sucks.

Tom Petty kicks ass.

Tom Waits sucks apart from one song.

rcaz · 15-07-2011 1:45am

TimeToShine wrote: »

Tom Waits sucks apart from one song.

What song?

retalivity · 15-07-2011 2:00am

Captain beefheart - no its not avant garde, its ****ing annoying ****e
u2 are dire (just to add to the pile)
a lot of pink floyds stuff is piss...except dsotm, wywh, and meddle
rem - go die in a fire
kol - ****e
scandinavians know how to make proper girl pop music - robyn, annie, the sounds.
closest ireland/england got was girls aloud
continiental european electronic music > american electronica >>>>>>>>>ireland & england electronica

TimeToShine · 15-07-2011 2:12am

El Pr0n wrote: »

What song?

rain dogs

scary · 15-07-2011 2:16am

AC/DC are rubbish
Thin Lizzy even more so
Def Leppard don't even get me started

Jimmy Iovine · 15-07-2011 2:28am

Zero1986 wrote: »

Ha aha ahahaha.

Sure, and Vanilla Ice was the greatest artist of the 90's...

Ah here you shouldn't be trying to compare Eminem to Vanilla Ice.

At the tail-end of the 90s and the first 3 years of the 00s Eminem was pretty untouchable. 3 albums that are high up on the Rolling Stones top 500 of all time list.

Then he went and won an Oscar for 'Lose Yourself', a first for a rap song. Not to mention that he's one of the highest, if not the highest, selling artists of the decade from 2000 on.

Sure he's tailed off in recent years but for a period of 4-5 years he was THE biggest artist in the world IMO. Therefore I don't think it's that much of a wild claim to say he'll go down as one of the best artists of the 21st century.

EDIT:

I forgot to add that Seamus Heaney, of all people, even praised Eminem when he was asked if there was a figure in popular culture who aroused interest in poetry and lyrics in the way that Bob Dylan and John Lennon did during the 1960s and 70s.

- "He has created a sense of what is possible"
- "He has sent a voltage around a generation"
- "He has done this not just through his subversive attitude but also his verbal energy"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3033614.stm

karaokeman · 15-07-2011 9:12am

retalivity wrote: »

closest ireland/england got was girls aloud

Girls Aloud are class, especially Nadine Coyle:D

Namlub · 16-07-2011 4:37am

I really, really dislike REM/Michael Stipe's voice

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