Unpopular views about music

[Senator Armstrong]

Limp Bizket had a couple of good songs.

Keep on rollin

 

[Xanen]

MSI are not nearly good enough to ignore the vile shit Jimmy did.

 

[Shart Attack]

I like polka. It's just really happy music about bitches and beer.

 

[CarlosDanger]

Also, Dio-era Black Sabbath is my favorite era of Black Sabbath. Dio is such a charismatic singer that nothing by Ozzie compares to me, even though I love his material too.

I love all eras of Sabbath but yeah the Dio era is my favorite, Heaven and Hell was the album that got me into heavy metal as a kid, and it is still my favorite album of all time. I wore it out on both CD and cassette. I love the Ozzy stuff, those first 6 Sabbath albums are magical.

 

[Claus]

The first Panic! At the Disco album, Fever You Can't Sweat Out, is a really good album. It's not high art or anything but the songwriting and vocals are really catchy and the cabaret elements are a load of fun.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s Return of the 36 Chambers needs to be in the same category as Nas’ Illmatic and The Notorious B.I.G’s Ready To Die. I really don’t get why they don’t put ODB in the same category as greatest rappers of all time.

 

[My Name is Ed]

Not sure if it's unpopular here, but it generally is elsewhere: first of all, understand that I don't really like death metal very much for its often screeching and incomprehensible lyrics (I don't hate it, I just think it's an acquired taste, and I haven't).

My distaste in death metal is why I don't like Cindy Lauper.

 

[AGreatDipAtAFairPrice]

I think Kendrick Lamar is a very fine artist, yet he's gotten completely out of control after all the praise got to his head. His album this year, Mister Morale and the Big Steppers, is one of the most pompous, grandiloquent and schizophrenic Jesus Complex albums I've ever heard. "I'm so deep and meaningful I'm like Christ Jesus with a Pulitzer. I know I do so much for humanity and mean so much to you but MY GOD MAN I CANNOT SAVE THE WORLD!" Just nauseating as hell. Crown, Savior, the therapy session motif, trying for all of these emotional home runs and stuff, yuck. I'm not saying he needs to change 180 in the other direction but something more grounded would be both appreciated and relieving!

 

[Hambubger]

It all ends up sucking ass

 

[thegooddoctor]

Bad> Every other MJ Album, I adore Thriller and the rest but Bad just has the right amount of edge towards it and Its where his singing really peaked with him changing image into the late 80s rebel. It was the peak before his steady complete mental disintegration in sanity and quality I feel.

 

[AnOminous]

Bad> Every other MJ Album, I adore Thriller and the rest but Bad just has the right amount of edge towards it and Its where his singing really peaked with him changing image into the late 80s rebel. It was the peak before his steady complete mental disintegration in sanity and quality I feel.

I always liked Thriller, probably just because the video for the title track was amazing for the time and I saw it on Friday Night Videos. That and Bad were both before his psychopathology really came to the fore. (Also I don't think that's a very unpopular opinion re Bad.)

 

[snailslime]

Adam Levine sounds gay. (I like his music, it's just funny)

 

[malapropism]

I break up by music listening by album/release, but i'm not against skipping filler. I wasn't always like this, and as a kid just listen to random mp3s and youtube, didn't think albums were worth the cost (and to care to pirate high quality stuff at that time). I found that listening to 50 odd tracks shuffled ad nauseam limited how much I enjoyed the songs, so i am biased against those who only shuffle.

Most of my unpopular views less so with what I like, but what i dislike with other listeners and my pet peeves will only apply to people who would list music as a hobby, I feel like they are going to the theme park just to ride the biggest roller coaster.
1. This includes the rym/mu-core/ etc music "fan" whose taste looks identical to this with a few slight differences,

sometimes i call it the Pet Sounds Syndrome. People latch on to the most critically acclaimed release by an artist or band and listen to it until apathy sets in without exploring their discography any further. Listening a complete discography by some prolific 20+ release artist is a big ask and its a piece of my own masochism to finish that, but these people are missing out on all the great stuff even the "silver medal" releases have.

2. The next one might seem some weird hipster attack on mainstream listeners, but I know some diehard merch buying fans guilty of only listening to singles, like even across decades by some artists, its no sin to prefer the radio friendly tracks especially if its been a while but i never got the people who give up when its a minute without a hook or chorus. I dated someone who didn't even recognize a track on the most famous album by their favorite band because they only knew their singles. Deep cuts can be awesome!

3. Final one is just people who never went beyond their favorite artists in their teens in their favorite genre, I will never shame anyone for liking any particular artist but I loathe anyone who says "x is the best genre artist" when they've listened to 5 tops. This effect and the amount of circlejerking made any fan group or music group online a pain to talk to.
In decades past this would probably come off as elitism or a big ask for people to spend more money, but with torrenting, soulseek, or spotify its only laziness to discover new stuff and its peoples' own fault if they get burnt out of their favorite stuff.

Bad> Every other MJ Album

I'd recommend giving Dangerous (1991) a try, I have similar opinions on you to Jackson's work but for me that's the cutoff, Shame its post vinyl crash so its really bloated with some filler. The highs outweigh the lows for me.


final bonus round for the puzzle piece sticker - I think music should be played loud. Good quality lossless files or speakers help but fuck, i just want it loud. There's a limit with distortion and all that shit, but i when i'd offer up my aux i'd want people's taste to breathe. i've seen how some people listen and it makes "background noise" sound loud.

 

[/WhitePill/AF]

I'd recommend giving Dangerous (1991) a try, I have similar opinions on you to Jackson's work but for me that's the cutout, Shame its post vinyl crash so its really bloated with some filler. The highs outweigh the lows for me.

I love Dangerous I really do, but Bobby browns Don’t be Cruel (1988 ) is the best of new jack swing imo. Bobby’s can’t compete vocally, but the production is much more laid back & knows how to use all its space as a pose to throwing the kitchen sink

 

[nunya]

Lyrically rap is the best genre, no contest.

 

[Spunt]

I listened to Kid A the other day for the first time in about 20 years. Maybe I could see something in it that I couldn't as a teenager, and I'd understand why everyone tongue-washes it?

Nope. Still only one genuinely great song (How to Disappear Completely) and one interesting song (National Anthem). The rest is just interminable electronic booping, and it goes on for fucking ever. It's an astonishingly boring album.

 

[McMitch]

MacArthur Park is a long-form, keyboards- and guitar-driven song with icomprehensible lyrics that delve into being silly. It develops a musical theme that it returns to after both a major thematic shift and an extended instrumental section.
In short: MacArthur Park is a progressive rock song.

 

[Mister Uno]

I think Pink Floyd is one of the most overrated bands. However, I love their album "The Wall" and the movie. Don't care for anything else.

 

[Matthew216]

I don't know how "unpopular" this is, but after watching Todd in the Shadow's review of Yello's "Oh Yeah."

and listening to some of their other stuff. I've decided that I like Yello.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

This Pharrell album predicted the NPC meme before I heard it being used in popular and Internet culture in current day. His cartoonish face exemplifies it perfectly.