Unpopular views about music

[Train Operator]

The Carpenters were actually really good even if the brother was a gay asshole and the sister was an anorexic who starved herself to death.

That said, the best cover of "Top of the World" was by these nip chicks.

speaking of The Carpenters i thought i'd share my hot take about Richard i had in another thread.

I find most of the songs Richard Carpenter wrote to be just mediocre but were elevated by virtue of having Karen sing them. if it wasn't for her no one would know who he is or really care about his songs.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

I can't stand the overuse of synth music (increasingly) in a lot of films. It feels as it if the director is wanking off to his nostalgia, and going, "Listen to how the soundtrack sounds exactly like the music from the greatest decade evar!"

I say "a lot", but there is a reason why I said "increasingly", 'cos the only films I can think of are It Follows, You're Next!, and Drive. Now, this is gonna sound odd, but I like the soundtrack to Drive, but not the songs. The songs are 'Eighties-sounding fanwankery.

 

[Maurice Maine]

Well, if we consider it's British music in this case, these are my personal favorites from that area:

Oasis (and their individual careers)

Feed Me

No, this is not a hyperborean reference

Nom De Strip

Some other British Bong artists that are much better than the bowl haircut gang:

• Adele (I think this sounds good)
• The Who (even if it's a meme, I actually do like this one)
• Pink Floyd had this song, pretty solid IMO
• Coldplay (this one is actually decent)

So yeah, The Beatles got nothing going on, worth remembering.

Okay but in 1965-1967 what was good british music for you? Engelbert Humperdinck? lololol

 

[NevskyProspekt]

Calling All Stations by Genesis isn’t a bad album. An often-mediocre album, sure - but not a bad album. The title track, Congo, Shipwrecked and the Dividing Line are all slappers. It took balls for Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford to carry on without Phil Collins behind the drum stool or at the mic (and both of them are brilliant songwriters in their own right). Ray Wilson deserved better but the album just came out at the wrong time when the industry was changing fast.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Okay but in 1965-1967 what was good british music for you? Engelbert Humperdinck? lololol

Please Release Me is pretty good. I liked Tom Hardy's "cover" in Bronson, as well.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

I always preferred Buddy Holly and the Crickets over Elvis. In fact, this is a popularly discussed what-if: What if Buddy and his band didn't croak when they did? It's likely that Elvis wouldn't have been as big as he was, or, even if he was, he might have been in a sort of "rivalry" with at least Buddy Holly and Co. Also, speaking of another plane crash, perhaps he would've collaborated with Patsy Cline.

 

[Ewan McGregor]

Metalheads are annoying and insufferable.

 

[Cemetery Support]

Metalheads are annoying and insufferable.

this is common knowledge

 

[Shart Attack]

I always preferred Buddy Holly and the Crickets over Elvis. In fact, this is a popularly discussed what-if: What if Buddy and his band didn't croak when they did? It's likely that Elvis wouldn't have been as big as he was, or, even if he was, he might have been in a sort of "rivalry" with at least Buddy Holly and Co. Also, speaking of another plane crash, perhaps he would've collaborated with Patsy Cline.

If Buddy Holly had lived, he would've wiped out the remnants of the Red Army with a katana and challenged Death to a guitar duel. (Source)

Rockabilly died pretty hard after 1960. Holly's death contributed to that, but it probably wasn't going to be relevant much longer with the Boomers coming of age and turning into hippies. Holly would've had to reinvent himself like Elvis or bow out gracefully like Bill Haley. I think the most interesting timeline is the one where Holly transitions to country music in the early 60s and collaborates with Waylon Jennings, who was supposed to die in the same plane crash. Then we could've gotten the Buddy Holly outlaw country arc in the 80s and 90s.

Related unpopular opinion, in the sense that no one cares: Elvis's cover of Hound Dog is better than the original. Nobody would give a shit about Big Mama Thornton if Elvis hadn't covered Hound Dog.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

If Buddy Holly had lived, he would've wiped out the remnants of the Red Army with a katana and challenged Death to a guitar duel. (Source)

Rockabilly died pretty hard after 1960. Holly's death contributed to that, but it probably wasn't going to be relevant much longer with the Boomers coming of age and turning into hippies. Holly would've had to reinvent himself like Elvis or bow out gracefully like Bill Haley. I think the most interesting timeline is the one where Holly transitions to country music in the early 60s and collaborates with Waylon Jennings, who was supposed to die in the same plane crash. Then we could've gotten the Buddy Holly outlaw country arc in the 80s and 90s.

Related unpopular opinion, in the sense that no one cares: Elvis's cover of Hound Dog is better than the original. Nobody would give a shit about Big Mama Thornton if Elvis hadn't covered Hound Dog.

On Hound Dog, I'm not sure which version I prefer. I'm also surprised at how different they are.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I still find rappers making songs that were (allegedly) named after famous video games to be both lazy and somewhat tacky:

To this day, I still have no clue what this has do with a famous horror game that was real competition towards Resident Evil.

 

[Day of the Cope]

Metalheads are annoying and insufferable.

This thread is for unpopular opinions.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Bohemian Rhapsody is a dogshit song.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Don't Stop Believin' is the single most annoying song ever written and ruined karaoke forever.

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

Modern electronic fucking sucks and it peaked in the 90s-early 2000s.

 

[Franz Joseph]

Maroon 5's first two albums were really good.

 

[Lil Miku]

Maroon 5's first two albums were really good.

"Misery" was their last good song.

 

[umami's milk]

Their cover of No Ordinary Love by Sade, unfortunately, is not I was so bummed when I listened to it, I thought they would knock it out of the park.

Following this up to say I recently found out Deftones covered Duran Duran's "The Chauffeur" and I was so pleased with what they did with it! I still love the original more, but I'll add this version to my collection, too.

 

[RealMuthaForYa]

The only things worth listening to from the Clash are Give ‘Em Enough Rope and Combat Rock. The rest of their albums are overrated and at best can be harvested for a few good songs. And yes, London Calling is average.

 

[Rick The Stick]

Disturbed is what non-metalheads think metal sounds like. Every song of theirs sounds the fucking same. There was a great meme vid called like "the greatest hit of Disturbed" that demonstrated this perfectly. They're a one note band who's biggest spike in relevancy since the monkey noise in Sickness was a cover of a fucking Simon & Garfunkel song. That was also autoutned to shit, no less.

Lol. Lmao even.