Your unpopular music opinions
February 13th, 2015 at 10:17 PM ^
Can't stand Katy Perry and Taylor Swift. Love The Violent Femmes, "Kiss Off," and Elvis Costello, "All This Useless Beauty."
February 14th, 2015 at 1:10 AM ^
Wisconsin band that sounded like an early 80s version of the Velvet Underground and wore overalls. Love their music.
February 13th, 2015 at 10:27 PM ^
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February 14th, 2015 at 1:50 AM ^
gem at the end of the comments section
February 14th, 2015 at 10:42 AM ^
Obligatory because Randy Marsh.
February 13th, 2015 at 10:50 PM ^
Oh, and Alice in Chains too, but probably not unpopular.
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February 13th, 2015 at 10:51 PM ^
GREATEST BAND OF ALL TIME!!!!!
February 13th, 2015 at 10:57 PM ^
Don't get the love of the Doors so much. Love Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - "Suite Judy Eyes," especially. WOODSTOCK. Of course Janice Joplin singing, "Me and Bobby McGee," there too. Amazing memories. Thanks for this post.
February 13th, 2015 at 11:10 PM ^
Psychostick should win best song, best album, best artist, and best new artist at the grammy's every year.
February 13th, 2015 at 11:19 PM ^
Check out Pink singing, "Me and Bobby McGee." Amazing voice.
February 14th, 2015 at 12:05 AM ^
February 14th, 2015 at 1:16 AM ^
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February 14th, 2015 at 1:47 AM ^
February 14th, 2015 at 2:28 AM ^
Tell me about it. Shit drives me crazy.
February 14th, 2015 at 1:49 AM ^
1: Country Died with Waylon Jennings
2: Ke$ha is a goddess
3: Depeche Mode is great
February 14th, 2015 at 2:04 AM ^
Queen is the greatest rock band of all time, without any doubt in my mind.
Beatles are great, but a bit overrated.
Lou Reed / VU > Bob Dylan & most other bands / artists
Jack White fucking blows, along with the Black Keys. Boring, trite, inconsequential bullshit
Troutmask Replica is a great album
I could list all the good bands on Domino Records on one hand, mostly just Ulrich Schnauss, John Cale, Four Tet, Jon Hopkins, and The Kills.
Radiohead is fucking phenomenal, every album. They get better with every album. A matter of evolution, really.
Guns N' Roses were absolutely great, even though Axl Rose is one bigotted, racist, piece of shit motherfucker.
One of the best rock bands of the early 21st century was Girls. Like combining Beatles with Beach Boys, Lou Reed, Neil Young, and Procol Harum.
Fugazi was probably the best punk band of all time, and their best album was either The Argument or Red Medicine.
February 14th, 2015 at 2:09 AM ^
Love Depeche Mode. Willie Nelson makes my ears hurt. Classic quote though. "Lance Armstrong deserves his titles, when I was on drugs, I couldnt even find my bicycle."
February 14th, 2015 at 2:10 AM ^
one of the single handedly greatest and most profoundly american songs i've ever heard is "Ashes of American Flags" by Wilco. Insanely perfect lyrically, and sonically, well...
Wilco is one of the all time American greats. I'm not usually very patriotic or nationalistic (i'm a big Noam Chomsky reader), but Wilco makes me feel all fuzzy and proud inside.
February 14th, 2015 at 2:13 AM ^
Queen and Girls. I like you.
February 14th, 2015 at 2:38 AM ^
February 14th, 2015 at 2:41 AM ^
I feel sad and old that Neptunes no longer is a thing...
February 14th, 2015 at 1:41 PM ^
I feel like 90% of people don't think that Pharell existed before Happy/Blurred Lines.
February 14th, 2015 at 2:45 AM ^
I didn't like the faux-country singer Taylor Swift but I actually like the pop princess Taylor Swift.
February 14th, 2015 at 7:21 AM ^
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February 14th, 2015 at 9:14 AM ^
1. Every musician that died before their time is overrated, even the ones that were genuinely great (you can be both!)
2. Steven Wilson is one of the greatest songwriters in the history of rock, and too few people even know who he is. It's very rare to find someone that can do melodic/catchy and progressive/technical and alternative/experimental all so well at the same time.
3. Dredg's El Cielo is the best album of the milennium.
4. Extreme metal is one of the most intellectually rewarding genres of music to be explored. Of course not everyone is going to enjoy it on a sonic level, but the stereotype of it being mindless noise could not be further from the truth. While most other genres are suffering a severe bout of stagnation, metal just keeps expanding and evolving.
4b. I am less frustrated by people that dismiss metal altogether than I am by people that claim to like metal and heavy music but don't seem to be familiar with anything outside of the mainstream. They hear you like metal and immediately bring up Rob Zombie or some shit. There's this whole internet thing out there, guys! You have no idea what you're missing.
5. Some of the most beautiful songs I've heard have come out of the bluegrass/folk/Americana genre, and it's a real bummer everyone gets caught up in the "I hate country" mindset to listen. I hate radio country too. But this is nothing like that.
6. Everyone is allowed guilty pleasures. As an 80's kid, I will always have a soft spot for those cheesy power ballads. I will unashamedly howl along"I wanna know what love is!" every time that song is playing.
7. Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger was the best grunge album of all, and this is coming from someone that thinks Jar of Flies is a gift from heaven and listened to Ten until the cd melted.
8. Led Zeppelin deserves every ounce of praise and every ounce of criticism. It's all warranted. Both sides are correct. They're the musical equivalent of a person that steals money to pay for medicine to save someone's life. Rock doesn't exist in its present form without LZ doing what they did. They may be theives, but some crimes are noble.
9. The Moody Blues in their prime were everything that The Beatles or Pink Floyd were: Creative, progressive, evocative, redefining. I don't care that they had less mainstream success or started playing 80's synth pop later in their career followed by watered down soft rock after that. Days of Future Passed was groundbreaking, and each of the next six albums were tremendous as well.
10. Chuck Schuldiner is God. I don't care what I said in my first point.
11. *Controversial opinion of the day* Sometimes, there is a lot to be said just for accomplishing exactly what you set out to do. Judging solely on that critierion, Call Me Maybe is one of the greatest songs ever. Look, it's not for our demographic. It's for teenage girls using their parents' credit card to download iTunes songs that they'll listen to over and over for a month and then never again. But it's a fun song, it's catchy, it got people talking, what more do you want? For what it is, for what it was trying to be, there aren't too many songs that hit the bullseye better. *Disclaimer* It could just be that I thought it was really cute to watch my daughter dance to it on the playstation, but still...
February 14th, 2015 at 1:03 PM ^
Stevie Ray Vaughn is not over rated. Hendrix may be, but only because he's so incredibly well thought of.
February 14th, 2015 at 3:06 PM ^
Well I love me some SRV, so I'm not inclined to argue
February 14th, 2015 at 3:19 PM ^
In response to 4b - I think it's ok to use the mainstream to get hooked onto the genre like I did, but yes, absolutely you have to go out and explore. If I never explored past Disturbed and Tool I wouldn't have found Pelican, Isis, Crowbar, Mastodon (even though they are kinda mainstream these days), Baroness, Fozzy, or The Sword. And that would tragic.
February 14th, 2015 at 9:23 AM ^
February 14th, 2015 at 1:07 PM ^
Very early JL Hooker is too ( as well as his later fully amplified work)
February 14th, 2015 at 10:02 AM ^
Metal is much deeper and intellectual than people give it credit for.
February 15th, 2015 at 11:49 PM ^
I don't think it's about that...people just don't like the screaming and yelling. No one says it's not deep/impactful stuff. But it's screaming. Which is not for most people.
I don't think anyone is saying they're just screaming dumb nursery songs.
February 14th, 2015 at 10:09 AM ^
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February 14th, 2015 at 11:10 AM ^
Mats fan since 85 when I heard "FUCK SCHOOL" and fell in love with "Kids Don't Follow" from the STINK album. What a magical band with the greatest collection of anthem songs there are.
February 14th, 2015 at 11:28 AM ^
Messed up the meter of his songs by adding extra words. Often strained to hit the notes.
February 14th, 2015 at 11:53 AM ^
I will legitimately pull a Costanza and not date a girl if she has "poor" taste in music. I was talking to this girl at work and had been texting back and forth for a couple weeks...until she told me the best concert she ever attended was Imagine Dragons and she loved them before they were cool!!!11!
No.
Imagine Dragons sucks.
They were never cool.
This girl is now Radioactive, as far as I'm concerned.
February 14th, 2015 at 12:46 PM ^
A brain, a sense of humor, and taste in music. All three are must haves.
February 15th, 2015 at 11:53 PM ^
2 outta 3 if she puts out.
Kidding!
If she's got awful taste in music, I don't need to have the same taste in music, I just need her to respect my taste and not play her horrid shit around me.
Music is personal for me, I wouldn't share it with a girlfriend anyway. At least not on a level that requires them to like/understand what I'm into.
Sports on the other hand...she needs to like/understand sports. Simply because that is both private and non-private. If she doesn't like sports we're probably not going to see each other or talk much, which could be an issue.
February 14th, 2015 at 12:39 PM ^
Rap and country sucks. Terrible.