Your unpopular music opinions
February 14th, 2015 at 1:48 AM ^
Doc Brown hates anything remotely urban. It's pointless to try to reason with him unless you can smack the "old and out of touch" out of him.
February 14th, 2015 at 2:39 AM ^
Wait, this is a "unpopular music opinions" thread. We should praise him for having an "unpopular" opinion about Kanye.
February 14th, 2015 at 2:45 AM ^
Unpopular music opinion: Kanye is overrated rapper and his last 3 albums are overproduced garbage.
Stupid music opinion: Kanye is the downfall of pop music
Read his other posts. Dude writes off a whole genre of music for no reason while trying to come off intellectual on the same topic he wrote off.
February 15th, 2015 at 12:53 PM ^
February 14th, 2015 at 2:51 AM ^
February 14th, 2015 at 2:46 AM ^
What is so complicated about music that makes Kanye West some undercover genius that only the musically gifted can recognize?
In my opinion, he sucks. His songs are boring and hard to listen to. They used to be decent though, then he decide he was the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ or something and all of his songs got really weird.
I guess if you are really into Kanye, it might be decent stuff, but Id rather just listen to a song and know what the guy is talking about
February 14th, 2015 at 10:29 AM ^
...you literally have no idea what you're talking about, yet you talk.
Kanye has more stuff that he wrote/produced on his own than people have in their entire career.
February 13th, 2015 at 4:37 PM ^
I despise people who think you have to play an instrument to be a musician. Not all musicians came from middle to upper class families who could afford the shit to satisfy your elitist view of music.
Also hate people who think sampling is "stealing." The original artist gets paid too.
Eminem is the only hiphop most people in Michigan ever listen to.
Radiohead kinda sucks after OK Computer
February 13th, 2015 at 4:39 PM ^
Also for Detroit Hip Hop artists: J. Dilla>>Eminem (even though Dilla wasn't a rapper, Donuts is a fantastic album). Also Danny Brown is putting out much better music than Eminem right now.
February 13th, 2015 at 4:51 PM ^
I get your point and generally agree with you, but your statement that to play an instrument you have to be middle-to-upper class is simply not true. Just like you don't need a baseball glove to play stickball. Some examples: Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, Kurt Cobain (was homeless at various times). In the case of drums, you literally only need your hands to play, or some sticks you can find in a dumpster. In the case of guitar, if you have to, you can use a single string and a broomstick, like many blues musicians have done. In sum, a lack of nice musical instruments does not mean you can't be a musician.
February 13th, 2015 at 6:03 PM ^
Not all musicians came from middle to upper class families who could afford the shit to satisfy your elitist view of music.
My wife grew up with a single parent, lived in a trailer (not a manufactured home, a 1969 Detroiter), and spent significant amounts of time on welfare...
...and she plays several instruments, all she picked up during her youth.
It's quite possible to learn to play instruments and read/write music even if you're dirt poor. You think lots of Delta Bluesmen were rolling in dough and living a middle class lifestyle?
February 13th, 2015 at 7:04 PM ^
Obvious hyperbole is obvious. Many genres came into existence solely b/c of the lack of opportunities to play/learn instruments.
February 14th, 2015 at 12:54 PM ^
I can't think of any.
Turntables are instruments.
Banging on a plastic bucket is an instrument.
The human voice is an instrument.
February 14th, 2015 at 3:23 PM ^
Lol yeah you say that now... flip back the clock to the 70s and 80s when turntables etc first started gaining traction (aka actually scratching records) and you'll be shocked. Nice job broadening your definition of instrument to fit your argument.
February 14th, 2015 at 3:38 PM ^
My argument? Your argument about a musical instrument being a necessity to be a musician is an argument with a completely different poster.
I just disagreed with your erroneous assertion that poor people can't learn to play instruments.
February 14th, 2015 at 3:45 PM ^
Right I admitted the exaggeration. I was saying not everyone has access to "traditional" instruments that people always get up on their high horses about.
February 13th, 2015 at 8:12 PM ^
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February 14th, 2015 at 1:11 AM ^
Keep being a douche. It suits you. I also recommend you read the name of this thread again. Then again you're also the guy who thinks all rap sucks, so I'm not suprised by your hypocrisy.
February 14th, 2015 at 2:48 AM ^
February 14th, 2015 at 3:52 PM ^
Don't forget DJ Shadow too.
February 13th, 2015 at 4:33 PM ^
I will jam the shit out of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and all that shitty pop music in the privacy of my own car.
February 13th, 2015 at 4:33 PM ^
I like the Monkees
February 13th, 2015 at 4:37 PM ^
They don't write their own songs or play their own instruments. That's not even Michael Nesmith's real hat!
February 13th, 2015 at 4:57 PM ^
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February 13th, 2015 at 7:44 PM ^
Among other things, Runn DMC covered a pretty cool song of theirs called Mary Mary.
February 13th, 2015 at 4:34 PM ^
Rap is crap.
February 13th, 2015 at 4:42 PM ^
Rapping technique hasn't been just about rhyming since like 1985.
Yeah rhyming is important, but its a small part of the overall technique of a rapper. A lot of it has more to do with delivery, syllabic flow, word play and overall meaning rather than just making two words rhyme.
February 13th, 2015 at 4:37 PM ^
Out of all of the 2014 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Hall & Oates were the best. (Hall & Oates > Nirvana, Kiss, Ronstadt, Cat Stevens, E Street Band, Peter Gabriel, etc.)
February 13th, 2015 at 4:37 PM ^
Not just music, but with anything artistic, I really dislike the idea that "the best" and "favorite" get conflated. I don't look at, watch, or listen to something because I necessarily think it's the best, I partake because I enjoy it, and I don't see the problem with that. Art in general would be very boring if it was nothing but a skill contest.
TL;DR version, even admitting Kid Cudi is probably not a top-10 artist doesn't stop me from listening to the MOTM series more than I listen to a lot of "better" artists/albums and don't see why it should.
February 13th, 2015 at 4:38 PM ^
February 13th, 2015 at 4:41 PM ^
Green Day wasn't any good until American Idiot. (posting as a separate unpopular music opinion)
February 14th, 2015 at 2:10 AM ^
WHAT, you're goddamn right that is unpopular.
American Idiot was the beginning of the end.
February 13th, 2015 at 4:51 PM ^
pop music.
February 13th, 2015 at 4:38 PM ^
I actually respect Taylor Swift as a musician. Why? Because she writes her own stuff. The difference between playing music and writing music is hard to overstate and/or explain to a non-musician, but writing something and then playing and singing it is significantly harder than playing something someone else wrote.
February 13th, 2015 at 4:40 PM ^
Contemporary classical music is better than contemporary rock music.
February 13th, 2015 at 4:41 PM ^
I don't understand the hype surrounding Nirvana, the Foo Fighters, and other bands of the type... I actually really can't stand them
February 13th, 2015 at 4:44 PM ^
Having been a freshman at UM the year that Nirvana blew up huge, it was a kick to see every student listen to them. Even the hip hop fans in Mary Markley were blasting Smells Like Teen Spirit (with the bass cranked to 10).
February 13th, 2015 at 4:49 PM ^
Those bands greatly benefitted from following what might have been the worst period in rock history – hair metal. When the prior era was Motley Crue, Poison and Ratt, it isn’t too difficult to look like a champ.
February 13th, 2015 at 4:52 PM ^
me thinks yer right. Round and round...what comes around goes around.
February 13th, 2015 at 4:55 PM ^
It's just like the reaction to the late 70's Disco and Bubblegum ... Punk emerged (Sex Pistols, Clash).
By the late 80's the hair bands and the synthesized pop stuff was big ... and Grunge emerged (Nirvana, etc.)
New things are almost always in response to existing things.
February 14th, 2015 at 6:21 AM ^
Another unpopular opinion: I think Them Crooked Vultures is the best thing Dave Grohl has ever been a part of.
February 13th, 2015 at 4:41 PM ^
Coldplay has some bad songs, but the majority of their music is good - and in fact some of it is great. They do about as good of job as the "biggest band in the world" can do to generally produce solid music.
February 13th, 2015 at 4:41 PM ^
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February 13th, 2015 at 4:49 PM ^
Is that like conservative comedians?
February 13th, 2015 at 4:45 PM ^
Biggie wasn't very good
also, Donovan > Dylan
February 13th, 2015 at 5:36 PM ^
Oh yeah! In my small vinyl collection I have Sunshine Superman and The Freewheelin Bob Dylan. I like both, but I prefer Donovan.
February 13th, 2015 at 4:43 PM ^
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