Your unpopular music opinions

lordgoat

Jimmy - have you listened to Frank Oceans solo?

Bleedin' lovin' it!

Temaz

lordgoat wrote: »

Jimmy - have you listened to Frank Oceans solo?

Bleedin' lovin' it!

I'm Temaz and I feckin love Frank Oceans album!

old hippy

gorugeen wrote: »

I'd rather roughly sand me ear lobes than listen to Janes Addiction.
The only thing to come from high flying birds is sh*te.

Finally got to see Jane's Addiction last year; worth the wait.

High Flying Birds - is that the other Oasis spin off band? More of the same old unadventourous gloop.

Jimmy Iovine

lordgoat wrote: »

Jimmy - have you listened to Frank Oceans solo?

Bleedin' lovin' it!

Yea I've only had a chance to it twice but I love what I've heard so far.

"Thinkin About You" is a brilliant song. I love it when he switches from a 'normal' range to higher notes. Really shows off his talent.

"Bad Religion" is another quality song. Heard him sing it on Jimmy Fallon's show last week with The Roots and he was fantastic. He is better at singing live than the majority of artists are in a studio.

"Pyramids" is just a beast of a song. It takes serious balls to release a 10 minute long song as the second single of your debut album, but when it's as good as this it doesn't matter.

"Pink Matter" is superb as well. This is the kind of Ocean-song that I love, he takes a verse and the hook and he has a rapper doing another verse. André 3000 showed as well why he has to stop with this movie nonsense and get back in the studio. Screw this Hendrix film that he's doing. Get in the studio with Big Boi and put out another classic 'Kast record. Thanks!

I'd give it a 9/10. I don't want to give it a perfect 10 just in case Frank reads my review and gets a big head from it all :P.

viadah

An unpopular music opinion would seem to be that Charles Manson's music is stellar work.

paddymayoman

Pitbull can rhyme kodak with kodak

SdoowSirhc

paddymayoman wrote: »

Pitbull can rhyme kodak with kodak

Why do people like Pitbull? Or him and J Lo....

LH Pathe

SdoowSirhc wrote: »

Why do people like Pitbull? Or him and J Lo....

because Flo Ryda said so?

A teenage 'mafia' with is not a person. They take gangbangers from porn and instill em in the charts now tell me they should be considered in any way, shape or form

paddymayoman

The music charts are as bad as fifty shades of grey. can you blow my whistle?

lorrieq

Pitbull was paid a lot to rhyme Kodak with Kodak.

Don't get me wrong. I like all kinds of music. My favourite band is Colplday 😜 But some modern music is really great, just because it has more of a technological input means nothing. Still as impressive. Still as emotive.

Namlub

lorrieq wrote: »

Pitbull was paid a lot to rhyme Kodak with Kodak.

So? It's still shite

grenache

I think every song of Mick Flannery's is ultra depressing. I have to switch the radio station if he comes on. There's Blues and then there's Mick Flannery. His music makes Thom Yorke's seem positively happy.

paddymayoman

lorrieq wrote: »

Pitbull was paid a lot to rhyme Kodak with Kodak.

Don't get me wrong. I like all kinds of music. My favourite band is Colplday 😜 But some modern music is really great, just because it has more of a technological input means nothing. Still as impressive. Still as emotive.

Coldplay are decent but the rest of modern day pop music makes me laugh

3hn2givr7mx1sc

lorrieq wrote: »

Pitbull was paid a lot to rhyme Kodak with Kodak.

Which makes it all the worse.

RikkFlair

The La's one & only album is better than all of Oasis back catalogue combined.

Bobby Baccala

Snow Patrol are a load of me bollocks, depressing shower of pricks.

Cienciano

Foo Fighters are as bland and boring as Snow Patrol.

Rothko

RikkFlair wrote: »

The La's one & only album is better than all of Oasis back catalogue combined.

Totally agree, one of the best debut albums ever

karaokeman

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

Snow Patrol are a load of me bollocks, depressing shower of pricks.

I have a friend whose a diehard Snow Patrol fan and she says they are very genuine as people, but thats off-topic:rolleyes:.

You should check out their first two albums, much more grungey, post-Nirvana kinda stuff and less of what is now conventional Snow Patrol.

Wexford2012

karaokeman wrote: »

I wouldn't necessarily say she's sh**e, overrated perhaps. Overrated in the way people go on about her, people treat Adele like she has brought something new to music and is some sort of innovator.

Her music in actuality is very derivative, she has a contralto-style vocal range. It was common in the area of non-classical music with the likes of Cher, Grace Slick, Mary Fahl, Lisa Gerrard and Stevie Nicks.

It does seem to be coming back into fashion now, Lana del Ray is a good example, heck even Lady GaGa uses contralto in her singing.

Adele is just one of many.

Completely agree. But I do feel Lana Del Ray has more room to develop. I'm quite looking forward to hearing some of the new material on her album re-release of Born To Die - http://bit.ly/OcTPVa

Bobby Baccala

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjjHtSwFPnU

No other man in hip hop could do anything like this, Andre is simply one of the greatest.

Temaz

RikkFlair wrote: »

The La's one & only album is better than all of Oasis back catalogue combined.

Love the La's album but I'd rate Morning Glory as a better album.

cometogether

The Stone Roses' 'Second Coming' is a brilliant album, criminally underrated

old hippy

Stevie Wonder hasn't made a decent album since the 70s. And Tower of Power had more funk.

Cruel Sun

The Pixies are one of the most under rated bands of all time. They deserve way more recognition.

Da Shins Kelly

old hippy wrote: »

Stevie Wonder hasn't made a decent album since the 70s.

"Is it in fact unfair to criticize a formerly great artist for his latter day sins, is it better to burn out or fade away?"
- High Fidelity

Bobby Baccala

old hippy wrote: »

Stevie Wonder hasn't made a decent album since the 70s. And Tower of Power had more funk.

I dont think he ever thought he'd see somebody say that.

Winston Payne

Live music generally isn't worth the effort.


I would pay Sixto Sounds eighty euro for one album on the condition that it contained eight tracks and was over forty minutes long. Value for money AND room for experimentation. I would make this an annual subscription if he promised three albums per decade say. I know people are saying that there's great music out there but I ain't finding it.


I could make a choice selection from Mega Man X: Maverick Rising's rock songs and it would be album of the year for 2012 no question. I feel confident saying this in late July. That's not just for rock now. That's everything. Throw in a dance track or two from it and it'd be even more of a runaway winner.


Daft Punk peaked very early.

People have given AC/DC a lot of flak for making the same album for a long time in this thread, but nobody's pulled up Motorhead on it. Not necessarily a bad thing for either of them to do mind. Fair is fair is all.


This thread hasn't given Jurassic 5 enough love.

This thread hasn't given Kiss enough hate.

The Indie landfill period of the last decade was one of the worst movements in music history. "Oh, it made kids pick up guitars again". To what end?! Bunch of cardigan tugging ninnys with bands that all start with "The" and all sound like the same kind of whiney crap. It'll promote the same kind of revulsion that the worst excesses of hair metal and disco do in the future I sincerely hope.

_coinin_

I dont like Beyonce, I heard a radio DJ say she has the best singing voice of the century. I think she shouts most of the words

Even though most people are mad for Adele ..... I just like her single 'Cold Shoulder'. The rest bore me.

Jay-Z annoys the hell out of me. Nas is better

Jamiroquai and Garbage are underrated. I think Jeff Buckley Lilac wine is better then Hallelujah.

One Hot Mintue is a great album (but most say it is their worst)

I like Nancy's singing voice more than Frank Sinatra.

Paul McCarty is really overrated. IMO, George was the best of The Beatles....then Ringo, John.... Paul doesnt get a spot

All Saints are a far better pop girl group than Girls Aloud, so were Suga Babes

karaokeman

Winston Payne wrote: »

The Indie landfill period of the last decade was one of the worst movements in music history. "Oh, it made kids pick up guitars again". To what end?! Bunch of cardigan tugging ninnys with bands that all start with "The" and all sound like the same kind of whiney crap. It'll promote the same kind of revulsion that the worst excesses of hair metal and disco do in the future I sincerely hope.

Thats because all those bands aren't proper Indie bands.

To be Indie you need to start on an underground (or your own) label and build up your reputation from there.

Most people for example will say Nadine Coyle is pop and The Kooks are Indie, whereas in reality they are both pop, simply because Nadine was signed to her own label (Black Pen Records) so is an Indie pop artist and who were The Kooks signed to? Virgin, EMI, they were signed to major labels.

I am unconvinced that this "Indie" landfill period inspired kids to start playing guitars again.