Unpopular views about music

McMitch4kf said:
I would argue The Beach Boys were better than the Beatles. Brian Wilson was able to keep up musically with all four of them by himself, and would have done so for at least as long as the Beatles if he hadn’t also been doing four people’s worth of drugs.
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In order to contribute to this argument that will never die, I will say in addition to Brian Wilson's drug habit, the toxic entity of Mike Love definitely hindered The Beach Boys prosperity and the quality of Brian Wilson's prolific songwriting. Mike Love was a consistent downer about the post surf era and was always trying to gear the band back towards its initial surf fame (with a few exceptions). I was just listening to recordings of live BB concerts during 1968 and Mike Love is constantly putting down all their new material and the band. He sounds like a nervous school child putting down their book report.
 
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protomartyr said:
The Beatles have a few good songs but most of it hasn't aged very well. Additionally, their fan-base is legitimately slavish and cult-like in a way I've never seen of any other artist (and I literally stole my username and avatar from a band I like).
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Did you forget that Beyonce exists? Look up Kevin Allred under lolcows to get a taste of her fans.
 
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I do not like Nirvana, outside of the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" song.

Alternative rock in general just kinda sucks and is overrated outside of a handful of artists and individual songs.
 
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Tool are the most overrated band ever. Where do I begin?

Every Tool fan I've met without question has been a socially disabled autist and edgelord, who somehow believe that them just liking the band makes them a galaxy brain super stud with august musical taste.

Power bottom worship of JMK, or whatever the hell he's called. No surprise here, as he's the archetypal Rain Man, king of all that is awkward: a schematic laid down for his equally awkward fanbase and dick-riders. His wine is dogshit and massively overpriced, but the orders keep flowing as if each bottle personally contained a concentrate of his own semen.

Cringe ass lyrics. Can't name any songs, but I've been inadvertently subject to hundreds of hours of Tool over the years by friends. Lyrical dogshit, edgy toss. Embarrassing that this stuff is coming out of the minds of thoroughly middle-aged men.

If Tool's discography had any more of an overall blend of distortion, we'd be listening to white noise. My gramophone from the 1930s sounds clearer and crisper, and actually pleasant to listen to. Tool sounds like a bailing machine when someone threw a bag of dog shit inside, or like elderly Chinese men being flattened by garbage trucks.

Preparing my anus.
 
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english_nigger said:
Tool are the most overrated band ever. Where do I begin?

Every Tool fan I've met without question has been a socially disabled autist and edgelord, who somehow believe that them just liking the band makes them a galaxy brain super stud with august musical taste.

Power bottom worship of JMK, or whatever the hell he's called. No surprise here, as he's the archetypal Rain Man, king of all that is awkward: a schematic laid down for his equally awkward fanbase and dick-riders. His wine is dogshit and massively overpriced, but the orders keep flowing as if each bottle personally contained a concentrate of his own semen.

Cringe ass lyrics. Can't name any songs, but I've been inadvertently subject to hundreds of hours of Tool over the years by friends. Lyrical dogshit, edgy toss. Embarrassing that this stuff is coming out of the minds of thoroughly middle-aged men.

If Tool's discography had any more of an overall blend of distortion, we'd be listening to white noise. My gramophone from the 1930s sounds clearer and crisper, and actually pleasant to listen to. Tool sounds like a bailing machine when someone threw a bag of dog shit inside, or like elderly Chinese men being flattened by garbage trucks.

Preparing my anus.
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I see you are also a man of taste


More seriously, Linkin Park was actually good on Hybrid Theory and Meteora. They knew their audience. I could just be biased since I was a moody, hormonal middle schooler when Meteora came out.
 
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Tool sucks, but then again I generally detest alternative rock and punk in general.

Also, Billie Ellish sucks and so do the vast majority of hip-hop artists after 2001 or so. Classic rock and oldies are unironically good, even if they are mainstream.

And a new unpopular opinion, but Neutral Milk Hotel sucks balls too.
 
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I don't think an instrumental track is "background music" just because it has no lyrics.

Seriously, I don't understand this one. At least half the people I've talked to react to instrumentals like they're just white noise because there isn't a human voice in there. Most background music is instrumental, yeah, but that doesn't make an instrumental background music by default.
 
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L50LasPak said:
I don't think an instrumental track is "background music" just because it has no lyrics.

Seriously, I don't understand this one. At least half the people I've talked to react to instrumentals like they're just white noise because there isn't a human voice in there. Most background music is instrumental, yeah, but that doesn't make an instrumental background music by default.
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you too have been talking to retards? hm.

alot of people want vocals for their songs but that depends on the area, for instance where i live alot of people have a distaste for the soundcloud rappers that are oddly famous in the US but hear fellas on the similar tier level of being shit that do have a "background beat" to go with their voices or else they sound like utter garbage. what i don't quite get is people shitting on kayne besides him being on the s.p.e.c.i.a.l spectrum, he has a couple of hit or miss things done in the past and lately doesn't seem to hit once, there's also people in my region that keep latching on blinding lights from the weekend (has some nice beats) but the heartless song of his album sucks ass even though he started as a rapper but his voice seems to not mix with rap that much lately, in your eyes he kinda fucks up the rhythm of the song when singing "i tried to find love" but the sax at the end and flow of the beats holds the song together. save your tears is underrated, aside from the usual bandicamp trending stuff i can't judge much to give a unpopular opinion, people hear whatever they like as long as they aren't annoying about it, also dubstep mostly suck ass because of they try to make it sound irregular/loud beats to make it "aggressive" but end up sounding like a bad DJ with parkinson's, vaporwave/synthwave is hard as fuck to find and it seems the fuckers enjoy being hard to listen probably because of some are undergroundfags, Parcels is doing okay for a indie rock sthick, they even got daft punk to collab with them once and here's hope them frenchies make another album in the next millenia or so because they sure a shit know how to make instrumental stuff, motherboard, voyager and horizon are sick as fuck with the bass. apologies for straying a bit from the unpopular stuff. the music scene is a bit stale because of covid and all you can gets at the moment is from sound communities like jamendo, bandicamp and soundcloud being the only ones i can member.
 
Even as a die hard Iron Maiden fanboy...

their first album has REALLY not aged well at all, even by 1980s debut records standards. For one the production is god awful; there is no depth to the sound mix at all and everything literally sounds like there's no sonic weight beneath it, as if everything is way too high in the mix. Steve's bass sounds like farts 50 percent of the time and the fact that it's unbearably high in the mix for the whole album doesn't help matters which is especially baffling as Killers, released barely a year later, would boost one meaty sounding EQ. Paul Di'Anno's voice on the album is god awful and 90 percent of the time sounds like a dying cat. Dennis Stratton was replaced for a fucking reason as I literally cant name a single contribution of his that sticks out, even his solos on the legendary Phantom of the Opera. Clive Burr is held way too far back and rarely has a moment of going apeshit like he does on so many songs on Killers; and my god, only Remember Tomorrow and Phantom stick out as being particularly memorable and the rest of the album is either painfully average or boring (that "Iron Maiden" ends up being as fucking mind blowing as it does live is one real mystery).

Even the band themselves hate it, as the title track is the only song that gets any play from it nowadays apart from Phantom, Running Free and Sanctuary, which were all last played in 2013/14.
 
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Syaoran Li said:
I do not like Nirvana, outside of the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" song.

Alternative rock in general just kinda sucks and is overrated outside of a handful of artists and individual songs.
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To my ears "Smells Like Teen Spirit" just sounds like Lucas Werner trying to do angsty musician.

Come to think of it it would be hysterically funny if The Wern suddenly started trying to sing alternative and play guitar on his channel now that he's seen this thread, because you know he scours this place compulsively every day.
 
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A Gay Retard said:
GG Allin's only contribution to music was inspiring Dwarves. Otherwise he fucking sucked.
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Strongly disagree. His later hardcore stuff was pretty good. His earlier Ramones stuff was good too. Nothing earth shattering and of course his shit eating made him but the people who say he had no musical talent almost never have heard more then one or two songs by him.

There is a reason bite it you scum has 3.1 million views on Youtube despite GG being dead for nearly 30 years
 
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