Your unpopular music opinions

jill_valentine · 11-08-2011 11:44pm

karaokeman wrote: »

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are not over-rated by any means or other. While Keidis may not have the best singing voice he is still one of the better American songwriters of the 1980s/90s.

I like the one about California.

karaokeman · 11-08-2011 11:48pm

jill_valentine wrote: »

I like the one about California.

I believe that is Californication you're talking about. The title track in itself is one of the best tracks on the album, the best obviously is Otherside.

Dani California is good too, was released as a single off their last studio album Stadium Arcadium.

Aldebaran · 12-08-2011 12:42am

karaokeman wrote: »

I believe that is Californication you're talking about. The title track in itself is one of the best tracks on the album, the best obviously is Otherside.

Dani California is good too, was released as a single off their last studio album Stadium Arcadium.

Woooooosh!

gfgfgf14 · 12-08-2011 2:44am

There is no such thing as bad music.
Songs do not get "old"
Kelly Clarkson is my favourite artist because of the stunning voice.
Listen to the song "Wash Rinse Repeat" by Kelly Clarkson...in my view it's the most honest song i have ever heard from an artist against their record label.
X factor is not bad for the music industry.

Trevor451 · 12-08-2011 2:51am

99.9% of modern music is absolutely trash. This is coming from somebody who is 16.

rcaz · 12-08-2011 3:46am

Trevor451 wrote: »

99.9% of modern music is absolutely trash. This is coming from somebody who is 16.

I was the same when I first got The Clash. But there's great **** like that everywhere, I'm only really figuring this out now... :eek:

jill_valentine · 12-08-2011 3:47am

El Pr0n wrote: »

I was the same when I first got The Clash.

There's creams for that now.

1stimpressions · 12-08-2011 5:24am

Trevor451 wrote: »

99.9% of modern music is absolutely trash. This is coming from somebody who is 16.

Mark this post for yourself, in five years time you will smirk and in ten you will burst out laughing. I should know I've got ten years on you. Go look and there is as as good music today as there ever has been. I listen to 5 or six new albums a week in between listening to thousands of others I already have and many of the new ones are from the last few years.

These threads always develop into massive musical snobbery and one-up-manship. Most opinions here are quite popular among music followers and people willing to post in a music thread.

To win here you have to name something that is popular and say you like it. Or say you don't like some less popular music that most people here like. It's been a fun but predictable read so far though.

I'm not sure if this is unpopular enough for me to say I like this tune or not but , "we know that music is music"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3vvn2qOh58

kelle · 12-08-2011 5:34am

I was a big fan of Stock Aiken Waterman music in the 80's, and still enjoy listening to those songs.

They had a beat you could really dance to, and had a feelgood factor!

Of course, I never dared make this public - I would have been like a lamb to the slaughter but reading comments on Youtube videos of Rick Astley, Brother Beyond, Donna Summer and Kylie I know there's a lot of closet SAW fans out there!

kelle · 12-08-2011 5:42am

Firetrap wrote: »

The Pet Shop Boys are under-rated.
Arcade Fire, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Arctic Monkeys are over-rated.
I don't think Elvis Presley was all that wonderful

I love PSB- I was disappointed to miss out on a European tour they did last year. Anyway I bought tickets for Take That's June concert last October - and it was the icing on the cake when I found out PSB were the support act! I preferred them to TT, they only played 7 songs but it was so great to see them.

I've never liked Elvis music, I ended up in an argument with a middle-aged couple we socialised with in Greece years ago for daring to say this!

Temaz · 12-08-2011 8:54am

I prefer Springsteen's folky acoustic albums to the E Street Band. (runs away)

karaokeman · 12-08-2011 9:00am

Trevor451 wrote: »

99.9% of modern music is absolutely trash. This is coming from somebody who is 16.

I'll admit half of R&B is ok and the rest isn't.

If your talking about rap there's no arguing there. Some old rap songs from the 1980s were good but modern rap is absolute diatribe.

SilverScreen · 12-08-2011 9:47am

gfgfgf14 wrote: »

X factor is not bad for the music industry.

First you need to distinguish between music and the music industry. I think X Factor is bad for both. For the music industry it's all the more power and money to Sony Music at the expense of some young wannabe popstar and the also public, while for the art of music itself it has reduced pop music to even more of a cabaret act and even more of a joke.

Kold · 12-08-2011 11:12am

X Factor is bad for humanity in general, clueless people queuing up to be exploited at least sweatshop kids don't have to deal with the entire nation knowing they're a c*nt.

Duke Leonal Felmet · 12-08-2011 11:58am

My unpopular opinion if that David Bowie is rubbish and overrated.

Oh, and the 00's were the worst decade for music. Some good bands, yes, but so much drivel. No scene, just bands with skinny jeans and no imagination.

smokedeels · 12-08-2011 12:44pm

Trevor451 wrote: »

99.9% of modern music is absolutely trash. This is coming from somebody who is 16.

90 percent of everything is crap

Past decades look better now because they’ve gone through a filter system, you the consumer must do the leg-work and find the good stuff happening now.

Cygni · 12-08-2011 12:46pm

mars bar wrote: »

I don't get Radiohead or Muse or Placebo. I think they are terrible.

You need to be high ...

smokedeels · 12-08-2011 12:53pm

Cygni wrote: »

You need to be high ...

A friend with weed is better?

karaokeman · 12-08-2011 3:30pm

smokedeels wrote: »

Trevor451 wrote: »

99.9% of modern music is absolutely trash. This is coming from somebody who is 16.

90 percent of everything is crap

Past decades look better now because they’ve gone through a filter system, you the consumer must do the leg-work and find the good stuff happening now.

Sure in 20 years from now everyone will be looking back and saying our generation was unreal. They will be like "ya know the 00s were quite awesome we had Lady GaGa, we had Kings of Leon, we had Muse etc. etc.).

During the 80s some people were saying they didn't like it because with Madonna a lot of new pop music started to become manufactured. But nowadays anyone will tell you the 80s was great with all the disco classics they had.

It seems to be a tradition that manufactured pop is frowned upon and defined as the one reason our generation isn't all that great.

me-skywalker · 12-08-2011 4:10pm

Duke Leonal Felmet wrote: »

My unpopular opinion if that David Bowie is rubbish and overrated.

You leave David Alone! The Rise and Fall of Ziggy is one of the greatest albums EVER!

smokedeels · 12-08-2011 4:30pm

Duke Leonal Felmet wrote: »

My unpopular opinion if that David Bowie is rubbish and overrated.

Ah stop, the man's body of work is too large and varied to be dismissed in one sentence.

jill_valentine · 12-08-2011 11:38pm

smokedeels wrote: »

A friend with weed is better?

I get jokes. :cool:

Duke Leonal Felmet · 12-08-2011 11:42pm

I know it's against the grain, but I just can't get into him. I am very open minded musically, but he doesnt fit.

Scubadevils · 12-08-2011 11:45pm

I've never been too keen on Bowie either, that is until a friend convinced me to listen to 'Low' from start to finish, I love that album now but haven't tried anything else.