Your unpopular music opinions
February 13th, 2015 at 5:56 PM ^
...simply awesome album.
February 13th, 2015 at 5:34 PM ^
February 13th, 2015 at 9:59 PM ^
Stravinsky fit in your taxonomy?
February 13th, 2015 at 5:36 PM ^
Bach>Beethoven BOOM!
February 13th, 2015 at 5:38 PM ^
February 13th, 2015 at 5:39 PM ^
I still think Motown music is better than 50% of the crap on the radio.
Used to like ska/punk music until I was about 22. Still hit the Mustard Plug pretty hard on the way home from work sometimes.
Jimi Hendrix Blues Album is some of the best guitar work I've ever heard.
Sufjan Stevens was great until he went all electronic. Please go back to your roots.
Tupac for lyrics, Biggie for beats. I would like Kanye a lot more if he just stopped acting like a douche to everyone else in the industry. His music is great imo.
All country musicians should have to take a class on Woody Guthrie. I find a lot of it is pandering, sappy crap. If people like it, good for them.
EDM isn't bad but the people who are diehard fans kinda suck to hang out with when they're all drugged out.
February 13th, 2015 at 5:47 PM ^
Motown will always rock. And that Hendrix album is awesome.
February 13th, 2015 at 6:18 PM ^
Jimi Hendrix Blues Album is some of the best guitar work I've ever heard.
I recommend Jimi Hendrix: Live at The Fillmore East 1969-70
February 13th, 2015 at 5:47 PM ^
The Doors and Jim Morrison: They aren't just disgustingly overrated, they're just flat out not very good at making music.
Kanye West: Greatest hip-hop artist of all time. Yeah, he sometimes doesn't know when to shut up sometimes and has his moments that are musically questionable (his last album, arguably 808s and Heartbreaks too), but refuses to give in to what fans expect from him and still manages to come up with some of the greatest rap songs ever. Also, his producing is undeniably amazing. Would Jay-Z be as big as he is if he wasn't working with a lot of K-West beats early on?
Cher: I may be a 29 year-old, heterosexual male, but I dig her sound, past and present.
February 13th, 2015 at 5:49 PM ^
I like 70's soft rock, like Bread and America. "Guitar Man" by Bread is one of my favorite songs.
February 13th, 2015 at 6:01 PM ^
Robert Earl Keen is the best and only country artist I listen too. Thanks Texas for that find
February 13th, 2015 at 6:19 PM ^
RIP Elliott Smith. Best for a rainy, cloudy day.
February 13th, 2015 at 6:11 PM ^
February 13th, 2015 at 6:19 PM ^
How about: Contemporary US rock music is overrated in the US because our rockist mainstream music media is racially biased and the industry wants to be able push music by people who look like white fans.
Like, for instance, consider hip-hop and college/indie rock. Hip-hop, like jazz , funk, and disco music before it, has been embraced internationally, much more so than college rock. But in the US, college rock is what's been more popular now -- a lot of that is because it gets pushed more as being things like "intellectual" and "emotionally deep," and people who want to feel smart about themselves and project a smart image of themselves get sold into artists promoted as embodying those concepts easily, especially if it's someone who looks like them since it makes it more comfortable for them to be fan.
So hate me now, Pitchfork devotees.
February 14th, 2015 at 8:56 PM ^
February 15th, 2015 at 1:14 PM ^
February 13th, 2015 at 6:41 PM ^
February 13th, 2015 at 6:48 PM ^
George Michael is one of the most talented artists of his generation. Up there with the best.
There may be a lot of people who agree with me though.
February 13th, 2015 at 6:49 PM ^
Bruno Mars sucks.
Aside from one song (Grenade) everything he comes up with sounds like a cheesy, generic ripoff of something that's been done before.
February 13th, 2015 at 9:57 PM ^
Its called singing, not whining.....
February 13th, 2015 at 6:54 PM ^
1. Aerosmith
2. Dave Matthews Band
3. Led Zepplin
4. Anything played on the Didgeridoo
5. Country &/or Western Music
6. Captain & Tennille
7. Rob Zombie
8. Aerosmith
9. Aerosmith
10. Aerosmith
February 13th, 2015 at 10:49 PM ^
Then they get sober, release Permanent Vacation and become Steven Tyler's backup band with a pile of crap music to follow. Completely formulaic garbage. Their musical arc makes me sad.
February 13th, 2015 at 7:02 PM ^
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February 13th, 2015 at 7:13 PM ^
Give me Bonnie Raitt, Reba, Trisha, Wynonna, and LeAnn (with the exception being Shania Twain, she's beyond terrible) and keep your shitty ass Blake Shelton's wife, something about an Antebellum Era, and whatever other atrocious nonsense is out there.
February 13th, 2015 at 7:18 PM ^
Kenny Rogers was better with the First Edition
February 13th, 2015 at 7:39 PM ^
Also, I like Rush without shame. Just listen to Subdivisions and tell me that isn't amazing art.
As I get older I listen more and more classical. Attitude and lyrics just don't interest me much anymore.
Check out Angel Olsen. For whatever reason I find her amazing.
February 14th, 2015 at 9:06 AM ^
February 13th, 2015 at 7:58 PM ^
The Beatles nearly ruined rock music w/ Sgt. Pepper.
Most rap music blows. I like very little after NWA.
The best song ever is Blitzkrieg Bob.
The best album ever is Never Mind the Bollocks.
The best band ever is The Clash.
I have Hanson's Mmmbop on my Ipod.
Polkas are fun.
Nobody in the history of thw world is/was a worse live act than The Cars.
Dave Brubeck is a genius. So was Dylan, but with 30 albums, yeah there are some stinkers.
Captain Beefheart is stupid. Anyone paying money for that got played.
XM's Alt Nation is a waste. Even then it's better than SiriusXMU. Most of the songs Brian plays on the podcast other than the White Stripes are insipid.
I don't know what Springsteen album I hate more: Nebraska or the Seeger Sessions.
Metallica's Black album is much better than the earlier stuff. I don't care what their fans say.
Nirvana saved the 90s. The Hives saved the 00s, though the White Stripes are great too.
February 13th, 2015 at 11:37 PM ^
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February 14th, 2015 at 4:12 AM ^
I like everything you say. You're my boy, Blue.
February 14th, 2015 at 7:49 AM ^
February 14th, 2015 at 12:41 PM ^
over rated album. I love Pay Me My Money Down on the Seeger thing. The Clash is truly outstanding. The best song ever is Honky Tonk Women, but Thunder Road, 5:15 and Hallelujah are in the conversation. The Cars are the worst live band I've seen. Best show I've seen was James Cotton at the Pig around 1990 or so.
February 13th, 2015 at 8:23 PM ^
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February 13th, 2015 at 8:29 PM ^
February 13th, 2015 at 9:54 PM ^
When I first heard rap on some Detroit radio station from my South Quad (pre reno) dorm room in 1984, damn that was pretty cool.
THIRTY YEARS LATER, can we please move on?
February 14th, 2015 at 4:05 AM ^
True story. I was putting my gigantic headphones on to run around Royal Oak in 1998ish and tuned in to 88.3FM detroit/Windsor and they introduced the local new hot music of "Eminem" and his self-appointed first song "Slim Shady." Well, I ran with it. Literally. Listening to the song and running around Royal Oak. I kind of liked the song at the time. Happy "Slim Shady" caught on and had a decent career. I heard "Eminem" on that run almost 20 years ago and thought "Eminem is a pretty stupid handle for an entertainer." And here we are.......
February 14th, 2015 at 1:16 AM ^
1999 called and wants its Bill OReillys/Hillary Clintons back.
February 14th, 2015 at 12:04 PM ^
when melodies, arrangements and harmonies no longer mattered. Just angry cursing promoting disrespect of self and others passed lazily off as keeing it real..."artistry".
February 13th, 2015 at 8:28 PM ^
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February 13th, 2015 at 8:36 PM ^
The Meat Puppets are the best alt-rock band and 99% of indie rock is whiny, non-melodic garbage.
February 13th, 2015 at 9:00 PM ^
February 13th, 2015 at 9:51 PM ^
Def Leppard's producer married, and subsequently produced Shania Twain. Yes, you can start to hear the cross over (if you can stand to listen long enough...)
February 14th, 2015 at 1:10 PM ^
...and a boatload of other folks.
Mutt Lange has produced (and written songs for) about a billion hit albums in about a dozen different genres.
AC/DC - Highway to Hell, Back in Black, For Those about to Rock...
Def Lepard - High and Dry, Pyromania, Hysteria
Foreigner - 4
The Cars - Heartbeat City
Brian Adams - Waking up the Neighbors, 18 til I die
Nickleback - Dark Horse
Maroon 5 - Hands All Over
Muse - Drones
... and on and on.
February 13th, 2015 at 9:29 PM ^
February 13th, 2015 at 10:23 PM ^
Yes, and thank you.
February 13th, 2015 at 9:46 PM ^
.. Mike Patton, one of the most original and creative musicians in the last couple decades. Not everything he does is good, some is crap, but I appreciate that he tries new things and doesn't seem to care if people like it or not.
February 14th, 2015 at 8:48 PM ^
February 13th, 2015 at 9:48 PM ^
Don't get heavy metal. Best concert video - Talking Heads, "Stop Making Sense."
February 13th, 2015 at 9:52 PM ^
February 13th, 2015 at 10:01 PM ^
Adagio for Strings by Barber is so powerful. Played during the ceremony in NYC after 9/11 and in the movie Platoon. If you haven't heard it, its just beautiful.