Unpopular views about music

CatParty said:
totally overrated. i almost hate them. only because it causes such an uproar with some people when i say "they're okay" and not act like i am being by god when i hear their music.
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Whaaaaaat?! Only "OK"?!

I'm kidding. When I was a stupid middle schooler, I used to get into dumb arguments involving musical taste. Not anymore; to each his own. I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I can respect that others might not find them that great - as long as they aren't obnoxious about it (and CatParty wasn't obnoxious).

Because I'm generally pretty live and let live when it comes to music, I actually don't have as many of these as I do for unpopular opinions about movies or TV:
1. Except for maybe one or two random songs here and there, I can't stand rap and hip hop. Everyone talks about it being such deep "poetry", but all I see are a lot of songs about "poppin' off the hoes". And for that matter,

2. I always have to laugh when rap "artists" talk about "keepin' it real" while they sit in palatial mansions surrounded by Rolls Royces and high-dollar items.

3. I'm sick of these idiots who blast their music and/or bass so loud that you can hear it coming from a mile away. Nobody cares about your shitty music!

The joke's on them, though. They'll be deaf before they're thirty years old.
 
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The early Beatles is exactly the same kind of empty bubblegum crap as top 40s from any other era. They didn't get good until they went crazy.

1. Except for maybe one or two random songs here and there, I can't stand rap and hip hop. Everyone talks about it being such deep "poetry", but all I see are a lot of songs about "poppin' off the hoes". And for that matter,

2. I always have to laugh when rap "artists" talk about "keepin' it real" while they sit in palatial mansions surrounded by Rolls Royces and high-dollar items.

3. I'm sick of these idiots who blast their music and/or bass so loud that you can hear it coming from a mile away. Nobody cares about your shitty music!
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Old man man circa 1998.
 
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You can put me in the doesn't like Bob Dylan camp. I think Knocking on Heaven's Door is insanely boring. The Guns N Roses cover sucks too. I also never really got into Led Zeppelin. I don't dislike them, I just do not understand the appeal.
 
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Good music started being made in 1976 with punk and disco. Everything older sounds as antiquated to me as "It's a Long Way to Tipperary".

Doesn't mean I can't rock with some 50s and 60s stuff, just that it sounds distant, old fashioned, out of time.
 
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I enjoy both Grateful Dead and Phish. This is a cardinal sin among hippies despite the fact members of both bands routinely collaborate.
 
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Nirvana and Bob Marley are both overrated.
Just because you hear a song in a movie or video game, doesn't mean enjoying it makes you a poser.
I don't see the obsession people have with Death Grips.
Despite the crap lyrics and batshit crazy fanbase, I legit enjoy ICP. No surprise, considering my username, eh?
 
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If I had to rank the Beatles solo careers from best to least impressive:

George, John, Ringo, Paul (with the exception of Wings)
 
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I don't care what the song is, how talented the singer may be or how good it would be otherwise, the second I hear even the faintest trace of autotune I immediately hate what I'm listening to. And no "it's part of the style" is not an excuse.
 
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A friend always criticizes me that I do not like noise, therefore I just can't stand bands like my bloody valentine. And I dont despise the the value of their musis, is just the distorsions make me feel... weird... in a bad way, but according to my friend the reason is that I need "more culture " to understand gender. What a snob.

In other hand, I like "new age" music. Is a general error say new age is a genre, but a multiple kinds on music as folk, celt, ethereaal, mystical voices etc and is a whole world beyond Enya, Era, Vangelis, etc.
 
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trombonista said:
"How You Remind Me" is a decent song.
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Meh. Liked it better when the exact same song was called "Someday"
and if you mashed the two songs together, you might end up with a 1/4th of a decent song.

Its like "Chris Gaines" doing a Stone Temple Pilots impersonation while singing something written by Diane Warren.
 
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Plushy said:
A friend always criticizes me that I do not like noise, therefore I just can't stand bands like my bloody valentine. And I dont despise the the value of their musis, is just the distorsions make me feel... weird... in a bad way, but according to my friend the reason is that I need "more culture " to understand gender. What a snob.
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Well, Loveless might be my favorite album of all time, but I will agree that music snobs are the worst kinds of people. If you don't like it, you don't like it.

My personal unpopular opinions:

-The Who are really boring. Some exceptions, to be sure, but I think they are mostly unmemorable.
-The best era of Pink Floyd was post-Barrett pre-Dark Side. I still love it all up to the Final Cut.
-I think Metal is the one genre I just can't get into. All metal sounds incredibly cheesy to me, ESPECIALLY progressive metal. I don't think I've ever heard a metal song I can say I enjoyed.
-Captain Beefheart > Frank Zappa
-My Chemical Romance has some genuinely good songs.
-Animal Collective is so much more than the hipster shit that a lot of people think they are. MPP is nowhere near their best album; a whole listen through their entire discography will show that they are probably the most consistently creative, groundbreaking, and just flat-out fun bands of the past decade.
-Biggie > Pac 4ever
-Yung Lean has jumped the shark HARD. I loved him when he first came out, now I'm not sure wtf he thinks he's doing.
 
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The Hunter said:
You're gonna have to give me some more names to convince me you hate country and not just Taylor Swift. :/

But I will agree that new country is awful compared to the old stuff. Sounds more like pop music than it does country.
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Its worst than you realize.
If you thought that Nickelback was a pile of self-plagiarizing dopwank, get a load of how incestuous and formulaic modern country music has gotten....
Note how its not two, but SIX different songs played simultaneously at the end.

anyhow


Smashing Pumpkins "Gish" > Smashing Pumpkins "Siamese Dream"
Nine Inch Nails "Pretty Hate Machine" > Nine Inch Nails "The Downward Spiral"
Public Enemy "Fear of a Black Planet" > Public Enemy "It Takes a Nation of Millions"
Bob Dylan "Blood on the Tracks" > Bob Dylan "Blonde on Blonde"
Kate Bush "The Sensual World" > Kate Bush "The Hounds of Love"
Metallica "...and Justice for All" > Metallica "Master of Puppets"
Gwar "Scumdogs of the Universe" > Every cookie-monster vocal downtuned-to-D booga-booga-i'm-so-scary death metal band ever. (With the possible exception of Dethklok.)

What, not heretical enough?

Fiona Apple "Tidal" > Joni Mitchell "Blue"
Cocteau Twins "Victorialand" > Sonic Youth "Daydream Nation"
Garbage "Garbage" > Nirvana "Nevermind"
Green Day "Dookie" > Clash "London Calling"

heretic enough to warrant an exterminatus?

XTC "Oranges and Lemons" > Beatles "White Album"
and
XTC "SkylarKing" > Beatles "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band"

and finally

World Party "Goodbye Jumbo" > anything by Oasis, Pink Floyd or Captain Beefheart you care to name.

Also David Bowie's "Diamond Dogs" is just as good as "Ziggy Stardust", and anyone who disagrees is a cloth-eared philistine.
 
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