Unpopular views about music

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Varg Did Nothing Wrong said:
Very unpopular opinion here: I don't think Jimi Hendrix was magic or that his music/guitar ability was head and shoulders above his contemporaries. Don't get me wrong, I love Peace in Mississippi and Voodoo Child as much as the next man but to say that Hendrix is THE guitar god of the 20th century, but ignore John Cipollina or the other dudes that were around at the same time and general place, playing a similar style of music and with a similar level of technical skill...

Hendrix seems to get a lot of hype. Probably because he died young.
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He's venerated in the way he is because his guitar style is so foreign, even today. He's a hard guy to cover properly. There are physical limits to being able to play the way he did - for similar reasons to why it'll probably take a generation or two before someone is able to out-do Michael Phelps with swimming. He had freakishly long fingers and was self-taught, so his style is extremely personal. That's really his legacy more than any technical accomplishment.

The guitarist scene changed so rapidly after his death that I have a hard time buying him as the undisputed master of the 20th century, but he's definitely one of the most fully realized personalities for that profession.

More on topic, I will never understand the veneration of Jack White. He's not a great songwriter, and everything unique about his style was borrowed from prior musicians and better imitated by people like Dan Auerbach than White ever could hope for. His solo stuff these days is boring glam rock pablum, yet he constantly is hailed as one of the saviors of Rock Music in the 21st century instead of a herald of the genre's inevitable demise. People keep treating him like the Herbie Hancock of rock and roll when he's really more like Wynton Marsalis.
 
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Darndirty said:
I'm at a point in my life where I enjoy music without vocals. From video game or movie soundtracks to classical, I'm relatively young but I just can't get into any of today's trends and even the stuff I used to love like Metallica and rage against the machine and just too...angry for my to be able to relax to now. Give me beethoven or the skyrim theme etc over just about anything. Well except Irish folk music, I'll always dig that.
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As I get older I'm starting to find myself preferring instrumentals over music with vocals too. The original trilogy of Star Wars had great instrumentals that still sound amazing.

 
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I'm getting really fucking tired indie folk. At this point, I think I can die happy if I never hear another song from the Avett Brothers, Bon Iver, the Lumineers, or any of there lot ever again. It's all sounds so soulless to me.

For the band that was said to be a a conerstone of emo music, a subgenre I'm not to big on, Sunny Day Real Estate is a pretty good band.
 
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early white stripes was actually awesome and some of my favorite music before jack white disappeared up his own ass and became a johnny depp lookalike

i used to love indie folk too until every other song on the radio became an indie folk wannabe. i blame the lumineers and their shitty boring ho hey song for this, back in that era we had a huge EDM swell and I think people were looking for something different from bangerz and will.i.am.

x ambassadors makes me want to dig my eardrums out with a spoon and are definitely the biggest offenders in this category.

speaking of annoying acoustic guitar shit i didnt think train could get any worse, and then i heard "play that song" and died a little bit more inside.
 
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Absolutego said:
More on topic, I will never understand the veneration of Jack White. He's not a great songwriter, and everything unique about his style was borrowed from prior musicians and better imitated by people like Dan Auerbach than White ever could hope for. His solo stuff these days is boring glam rock pablum, yet he constantly is hailed as one of the saviors of Rock Music in the 21st century instead of a herald of the genre's inevitable demise. People keep treating him like the Herbie Hancock of rock and roll when he's really more like Wynton Marsalis.
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Oh, and Meg White being praised for doing simple 4/4 beats that are hardly any different from The Beatles and AC/DC.

How she got placed on a list of greatest drummers over Carl Palmer and Mike Portnoy escapes me.
 
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Varg Did Nothing Wrong said:
Very unpopular opinion here: I don't think Jimi Hendrix was magic or that his music/guitar ability was head and shoulders above his contemporaries. Don't get me wrong, I love Peace in Mississippi and Voodoo Child as much as the next man but to say that Hendrix is THE guitar god of the 20th century, but ignore John Cipollina or the other dudes that were around at the same time and general place, playing a similar style of music and with a similar level of technical skill...

Hendrix seems to get a lot of hype. Probably because he died young.
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Sure, there always were guitarists superior to him from a technical standpoint (he was born in the same year as John McLaughlin afterall), but like Absolutego said, he's still a one-of-a-kind guitarist. Above all I love his rhythm playing, and how he used hammer-ons and pull-offs to extend chords and voicings with grace notes, a really cool way to give your chord play an almost orchestral feel. Still, I will agree that some of his more feedback-laden solo impros haven't aged that well.
 
1. Neutral Milk Hotel is boring and not the best band ever, nor even close.

2. Lifehouse is better than Pearl Jam, at least it speaks to me more. I do appreciate Pearl Jam but Lifehouse is the band that hit home with me, even if it is derivative of Pearl Jam.

3. The Gorillaz are awful rap-rock and I would always change the station when they came on.

4. Adele is nothing special and I avoid her music any time I can. She's a full-grown woman-child who has never done anything important or said anything meaningful.

5. Death Cab For Cutie is damn boring and the worst example of hipster music. (not sure if that's unpopular compared to 2 and 3)
 
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Varg Did Nothing Wrong said:
Very unpopular opinion here: I don't think Jimi Hendrix was magic or that his music/guitar ability was head and shoulders above his contemporaries. Don't get me wrong, I love Peace in Mississippi and Voodoo Child as much as the next man but to say that Hendrix is THE guitar god of the 20th century, but ignore John Cipollina or the other dudes that were around at the same time and general place, playing a similar style of music and with a similar level of technical skill...

Hendrix seems to get a lot of hype. Probably because he died young.
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Jimi Hendrix was a product of his time. There's been better guitarists out there since his passing.
 
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Eiffel 65 gets a bad rap because of Blue getting way too played out + having a hilarious early 2000s CG music video, but their first two albums, Europop and Contact, were actually really good synthpop albums. There was quite a bit of range to their sound besides all the upbeat radio singles, like downtempo Depeche Mode stuff and even a bit of Frenchy filter house.
 
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Un Platano said:
Smooth jazz would be more respected as a genre if it wasn't immediately associated with elevators and weather channels, and also if someone other than Kenny G was considered the forefront of the genre
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I thought hating Kenny G was actually obligatory.
 
AnOminous said:
I thought hating Kenny G was actually obligatory.
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It certainly is, and it's too bad that people think of Kenny G when they think of smooth jazz. There's many better artists out there. Because of mediocre studio musicians and him though, people often aren't willing to look further.
 
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