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    #92
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Adore is the Smashing Pumpkins' only good album.


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    #93
    TimeToShine
    Registered Users Posts: 4,881 ✭✭✭TimeToShine


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Adore is the Smashing Pumpkins' only good album.

    but Gish!


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    #94
    TimeToShine
    Registered Users Posts: 4,881 ✭✭✭TimeToShine


    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.


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    #95
    rcaz
    Registered Users Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭rcaz


    TimeToShine wrote: »
    Tom Waits sucks apart from one song.

    What song?


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    #96
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,041 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    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


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    #97
    TimeToShine
    Registered Users Posts: 4,881 ✭✭✭TimeToShine


    El Pr0n wrote: »
    What song?

    rain dogs


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    #98
    scary
    Registered Users Posts: 416 ✭✭scary


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


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    #99
    Jimmy Iovine
    Registered Users Posts: 9,416 ✭✭✭Jimmy Iovine


    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


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    #100
    karaokeman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭karaokeman


    retalivity wrote: »
    closest ireland/england got was girls aloud

    Girls Aloud are class, especially Nadine Coyle:D


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    #101
    Namlub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭Namlub


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


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    #102
    pappyodaniel
    Registered Users Posts: 5,717 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    Gruff Rhys is the coolest living musician today.

    Animal Collective are fu*king ****e.

    4FM is nice to listen to when driving (maybe I'm getting old).

    RHCP's Californication is as bland an album as I've ever heard.

    Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights is their only good album.

    Hocus Pocus by Focus is the best song ever written.

    Daft Punk's Discovery is the best album of the (20)00s.

    ASIWYFA are boring.

    The Beatles can never be over-rated.

    The two guys behind Rubberbandits are going to be huge.

    Galway has produced fu*k all bands of note for such a 'cool' city.

    My Bloody Valentine are over-rated.

    Australia has produced some of the best bands in the world for a country with 'no culture'.

    Blur were better than Oasis.


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    #103
    rcaz
    Registered Users Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭rcaz


    Fitter Happier is savage.


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    #104
    figarofigaro
    Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭figarofigaro


    The Pixies have 1 song I can listen to. The rest ranges from lackluster to outrageously bad.


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    #105
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    The best synthpop album is Architecture and morality by OMD.


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    #106
    Jerichoholic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭Jerichoholic


    In Ghost Colours is the best album of the last 10 years.


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    #107
    novarock
    Registered Users Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭novarock


    I cannot stand the beatles... I cant listen to them under any circumstances. ever.


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    #108
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    I don't like The Beatles, I don't like The Rolling Stones, I don't like Pink Floyd. The Kinks outshine all their contemporaries of the time.

    I don't like U2, and not because I don't like Bono on a personal level. I just never heard a song of theirs that I like.

    Bob Dylan is a brilliant songwriter and his songs performed by others are class, but I can't listen to him, and he's a crap performer.

    Billy Joel is a really good song-writer and a great performer. There's far more to him than this hits that get played on radio (especially Uptown Girl).


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    #109
    rcaz
    Registered Users Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭rcaz


    El Pr0n wrote: »
    Fitter Happier is savage.

    Ooh, also, Treefingers is class.


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    #110
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Acid dance music wasn't invented by DJs in Chicago in the late '80s. An Indian keyboardist was recording similar stuff in 1981/82.


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    #111
    Dale Parish
    Registered Users Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Dale Parish


    I really do hate rap and R&B


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    #112
    rcaz
    Registered Users Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭rcaz


    Nolanger wrote: »
    Acid dance music wasn't invented by DJs in Chicago in the late '80s. An Indian keyboardist was recording similar stuff in 1981/82.

    That's not an unpopular opinion, that's fact :pac:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/apr/10/charanjit-singh-acid-house


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    #113
    Kold
    Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


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    #114
    JerryHandbag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    The Edge is a brilliant musician


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    #115
    Android 666
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Android 666


    El Pr0n wrote: »
    That's not an unpopular opinion, that's fact :pac:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/apr/10/charanjit-singh-acid-house

    Nah, that's just a cultural oddity. People didn't start making those acid sounds because they all heard Charanjit Singh's Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat, they did it because they heard Acid Tracks by Phuture and all the subsequent releases to bear that trademark sound. So while Singh created music similar to the Chicago sound, the real acid house movement was started by Phuture.


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    #116
    Foreverdelayed
    Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭Foreverdelayed


    The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers.
    Certainly the best album of the last 30 years.

    Bob Dylan's vocals do my head in, but he's a fine lyricist.
    John Lennons solo work is pretty dire bar a few.
    Guns n' Roses were actually pretty good.
    Metal is ****e in general.
    Rock the Casbah is the ONLY good Clash song.
    Oasis are bad bar Definitely Maybe.
    Blur are worse.
    Suede are the best British band of the 1990's.
    U2 are actually pretty damn good.
    REM's early work is phenomenal.
    Don't really see the fuss about the Stones.
    Same with Nirvana... :P


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    #117
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Slick Rick, Big Daddy Kane, and Rakim are the 3 greatest rappers of all time.


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    #118
    seoirserob
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭seoirserob


    I think Led Zeppelin could have probably shaved 15 to 20 minutes off every album, maybe more than that.


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    #119
    Herb Powell
    Registered Users Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    endabob1 wrote: »
    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
    I.........I.............I cried :(:(


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    #120
    Mister Jingles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭Mister Jingles


    Foreverdelayed wrote: »
    The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers.
    Certainly the best album of the last 30 years.

    Bob Dylan's vocals do my head in, but he's a fine lyricist.

    Could never get my head around how he, and Al Green were in the top 20 of The Rolling Stones 100 Greatest Singers of all time.


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    #121
    gudwan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭gudwan


    El Pr0n wrote: »
    Fitter Happier is savage.

    I find it hard to understand how you, or anyone, could really like it. But, on the subject of unpopular Radiohead opinions, I think that Pablo Honey is all right. Not great, but all right.


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