OT – What is your greatest musical hot take?
It’s a Friday deep in the heart of OT season so I thought I’d ask, what is your greatest musical hot take? Someone must believe that “Major Tom” is better than “Space Oddity” or that Chris Gaines is superior to Garth Brooks
For me it is that George Harrison was the greatest Beatle. He wrote the single greatest Beatles song “While my guitar gently weeps” and had the best solo career. I will go to my grave believing that “My Sweet Lord” Is infinitely better than “Imagine”. There can also be no argument that The Travelling Wilburys were better than Wings (it’s not a fair comparison, I know).
I remember you is the greatest hair metal ballad
Blink 182 deserves to be recognized as a legitimately good band
I tend to agree with Sports.
What is it with all the 60 year-old grandparents walking around in Blink 182 shirts?
I saw three of them in the last couple of weeks at places like the mall and Memorial Day parades.
Is this a new fidget spinner fad that I missed?
The Doors have to be up there as well. Not maybe the front runner but they were something different with the combination of rock and blues. Then mixing it up with songs like Crystal Ship.
Jim Morrison is vastly overated as a poet.
Is he, though? I always thought that the general consensus is that his poetry is terrible.
I enjoy the Doors quite a bit, and Mr. Mojo Risin was an integral part in the band off-center charm, but yeah...he's not a lyrical genius.
Metallica S&M is one of the greatest albums (and concert series') of all time.
For Whom the Bell Tolls and Fade to Black are to Heavy Metal what Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig are to baseball.
That down picking freak of nature is so damn metal
While I agree with you, it's not really a hot take if Kurt Cobain made the same argument, damn near verbatim:
I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it [smiles]. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band — or at least in a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard.
from: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kurt-cobain-the-rolling-stone-in…
Basically the whole alternative music thing from the 90s was aping that "soft and quiet then loud and hard" dynamic, not just Nirvana. Pearl Jam, the Pumpkins, Weezer, Cranberries, Foo Fighters, etc etc etc.
This is wildly incorrect, so appropriate for the hot take thread.
Nirvana? Sure. Pixies were a major influence (but then again, Boston had the most influence on "Smells Like Teen Spirit").
Is Alice in Chians derivative of the Pixies? Soundgarden? Even Pearl Jam (they really didn't do the "quiet-loud-quiet" thing -- they are much more influenced by the Who, Neil Young, Kiss, and (after the first album) punk bands like the Ramones.). Not to mention less popular bands like Screaming Trees, L7, Tad, and so on.
skynyrd
outlaws
allman brothers
marshal tucker
maybe even .38 special (stretching a little there)
Sweet Home Alabama and Freebird are the Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig of Southern Rock.
we replace 38 Special with ZZ Top?
any other suggestions to add? thought of jimmy buffet, but he was only mildly 'rock and roll', but certainly southern.
Drive-By Truckers - Especially Southern Rock Opera, Decoration Day and The Dirty South.
Little Feat - Little Feat and Sailin' Shoes.
I'm late to Southern Rock, but these are all essential listening.
another winning addition. and it's not like i haven't known about them for 40 years. vapor lock on my part.
Tres Hombres is so great from start to finish
Fantasy Girl from .38 Special was one of my favorite songs as a kid. I still really like that band.
It gets even more annoying after you play it 1000 times.
suggest you both stop.
(exercising my 'M.O' degree., 'master of the obvious').
When you're in a working band you have two choices -
1) Play songs you don't like
2) Cease being in a working band
is the greatest rap group of all time. It's not even close.
This cannot stand without comment. I have to go do something (work, seriously?) so I am not going to be around for the meat of this thread, but this is off base. NWA, Outkast, The Geto Boys, Public Enemy, Tribe, the Beastie Boys, etc. etc.
Bone had its moments but the GOAT??? No way.
1st of Tha Month
Thuggish Ruggish Bone
Foe tha Love of $
Look Into My Eyes
If I Could Teach The World
Thug Luv
Notorious Thugs
Ecstasy
Resurrection (Paper, Paper)
Can't Give It Up
Days of Our Livez
Tha Crossroads
I Tried
See Me Shine
I love Outkast, Geto Boys, and NWA (the others you mentioned are nowhere near Bone), but Bone has the better catalog of songs you can play over and over and they never get old. Plus, they created a whole new style of rap that everyone has tried to copy since.
"We came in the game and changed things
Made braids mainstream
Made everybody wanna harmonize in their raps
Even when they can't sing" - Krayzie Bone
have to work anymore!
Actually, you make a compelling argument, and this is your hot take, not mine, so I won't try to refute it. (Except to say that you underate Public Enemy IMO).
If I Could Teach the World was a genuinely great song that I forgot about.
I tend to underrate Public Enemy. They just weren't my personal preference.
BDP, PE, or Furious Five.
Even if the Wu Tang Clan stopped at 36 Chambers they would be better than Bone Thugs. And I like Bone Thugs.
Wu Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with
They have a lot of good albums.
for most underrated band. Sun King and Fire Woman are the Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig of underrated rock band songs.
The Cult's Electric is on my Top 10 albums list.
Absolutely kicks ass, I can't listen to that song enough.
Bruno Mars > Prince.