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Post by wildojinx on Nov 12, 2019 0:04:19 GMT -5
Sympathy for the Devil is a boring song musically that would be forgotten if not for the lyrics. While we're on the Stones, Some Girls is their best album, even with the cringy title track.
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Post by IgnahtaSempria on Nov 12, 2019 1:32:51 GMT -5
Hank Williams Jr. is the worst of the 3. Both his father and his son are better singers and overall musicians than he is, and Junior is really only held in high regard due to the "Southern Pride" angle most of his biggest songs take.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2019 1:36:06 GMT -5
Hank Williams Jr. is the worst of the 3. Both his father and his son are better singers and overall musicians than he is, and Junior is really only held in high regard due to the "Southern Pride" angle most of his biggest songs take. God yes. Junior does have some decent songs, mostly the stuff that's a little outside his normal wheelhouse, but he leans way too much into, "I'm southern, y'all!" And he seemingly cannot stop calling back to All My Rowdy Friends, it's really damn distracting when you notice it. While we're on the subject a lot of Merle Haggard music is just... genuinely gross. A lot of it seems to be coming from an outright active dislike of anyone not exactly like him. His non-message song stuff is fine but anything about where he comes from basically just consists of a ton of whining about how not everyone lives the way he does.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Nov 12, 2019 8:16:37 GMT -5
Beyonce is talented, but she's overrated as all hell and a lot of her lyrics are largely mediocre This has been the hill I've chosen to die on for years now. I've always thought Beyonce was wildly overrated. She's got a hell of a singing voice but I fail to understand why she has this cult-like following, where she's become this amalgamation of Oprah Winfrey, Princess Diana, Aretha Franklin, and Mother Theresa. Her songs are average pop singles at best and if you really dive into the music and lyrics, they're intensely hollow. And my apologies in advance if you incur the wrath of the "Beyhive," like if you (rightly) note how they are no different than #TeamBreezy or Beliebers. Anyway, here are a few of my own unpopular musical opinions that have almost caused fights among friends or co-workers... Bob Dylan suuuuuucks. Just because your singing voice is "iconic" doesn't make it listenable and mumbling out a bunch of incoherent lyrics that make no sense doesn't make them "deep." Fiona Apple's cover of "Across the Universe" is leagues better than The Beatles. And I really like The Beatles' version, so that should be saying something. I'm dating a country music fan and I've had to begrudgingly attend my share of concerts and festivals in recent months and, judging by the crowd sizes at these things, these are wildly popular artists. And I can't comprehend why. Listen to Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton, Kenny Chesney, and Keith Urban and tell me you can tell who is who or a single thing that differentiates any of them. I was never a big country music fan growing up, but at least I can respect the likes of Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, and even John Denver. They were each their own person whose songs had individuality. But modern country music is just this amorphous blob of good-looking guys (and girls, don't think I'm forgetting about the factory that churned out carbon copies like Carrie Underwood, Maren Morris, and Kelsea Ballerini) signing about beer, the beach, parties, and break-ups. Beyonce is very much this generation's Madonna. Not the best singer, dancer, or anything, but through sheer work and force of will has taken herself to that level, getting the right people around her to play the PR game with enough performing talent that she can get away with that kind of a push.
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Nov 12, 2019 9:15:56 GMT -5
With the recent documentary, it's not "kosher" anymore, but I will still jam to Michael Jackson.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Nov 12, 2019 9:23:23 GMT -5
Hank Williams Jr. is the worst of the 3. Both his father and his son are better singers and overall musicians than he is, and Junior is really only held in high regard due to the "Southern Pride" angle most of his biggest songs take. Jr. wouldn't have a career if his daddy weren't Hank Sr. he's the David Flair of country music.
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Post by wildojinx on Nov 12, 2019 9:44:58 GMT -5
Technical Ecstacy and Never Say Die are just as good as Sabbath's other 70s stuff.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Nov 12, 2019 9:52:20 GMT -5
With the recent documentary, it's not "kosher" anymore, but I will still jam to Michael Jackson. Michael to me is the ultimate example of “separating art from the individual.” People are going to react differently depending on what the artist is charged with. I would never brush off anything that happened to Robeson or Safechuck and I hope for only the best for them, but one can enjoy take MJ’s art for what it is while still recognizing the gravity of the situation. I could never get into Godsmack. Back in school they were everyone’s favorite metal group and I always found them to be pretty dull. Gangnam Style was and still is an absolute classic. Elton John was going through some bad personal issues in the late 70s/80s, but I still really like his “A Single Man” album. Not his best work, but “I Don’t Care” is hella catchy.
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Post by Cvslfc123 on Nov 12, 2019 11:23:18 GMT -5
Adele just sounds like she's whining.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Nov 12, 2019 12:11:50 GMT -5
There’s a sizable portion of folks who only hate Cardi B and Nicki Minaj because they’re successful women of color who don’t merely exist just to make you feel comfortable.
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Post by King Boo on Nov 12, 2019 13:47:00 GMT -5
With the recent documentary, it's not "kosher" anymore, but I will still jam to Michael Jackson. Michael to me is the ultimate example of “separating art from the individual.” People are going to react differently depending on what the artist is charged with. I would never brush off anything that happened to Robeson or Safechuck and I hope for only the best for them, but one can enjoy take MJ’s art for what it is while still recognizing the gravity of the situation. MJ is an interesting one in the sense that a very large amount of people literally grew up listening to his music. I know I find myself being torn between wanting to blast "Remember The Time" and feeling like my favorite emoji: It's hard to just turn off enjoying something you've loved for decades, but it's also hard to "un-know" things once you've heard them. I don't know; the whole thing is tricky, imo.
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Post by Bo Rida on Nov 12, 2019 14:29:00 GMT -5
"So what kind of music do you like?"
That question fills me with dread and should be banned, I'd rather be asked about safer subjects like politics, religion or the last jedi.
Even worse occasionally someone will occasionally ask in a completely non judgemental way and I'll feel bad about being so defensive. Yet even then I have no good answer, ever shifting genres confuse me and my tastes are eclectic.
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Post by wildojinx on Nov 12, 2019 14:36:37 GMT -5
Tesla deserve MUCH MORE respect. They were lumped into the 80s hair band subgenre because of their look and the fact that they played hard rock, but they were much more than that:
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Nov 12, 2019 14:43:12 GMT -5
With the recent documentary, it's not "kosher" anymore, but I will still jam to Michael Jackson. Michael to me is the ultimate example of “separating art from the individual.” People are going to react differently depending on what the artist is charged with. I would never brush off anything that happened to Robeson or Safechuck and I hope for only the best for them, but one can enjoy take MJ’s art for what it is while still recognizing the gravity of the situation. I could never get into Godsmack. Back in school they were everyone’s favorite metal group and I always found them to be pretty dull. Gangnam Style was and still is an absolute classic. Elton John was going through some bad personal issues in the late 70s/80s, but I still really like his “A Single Man” album. Not his best work, but “I Don’t Care” is hella catchy. Godsmack are worse than Nickleback because as lame as they are at least Nickleback don't but on airs of being the toughest shit ever, bro (see also: Five Finger Death Punch)
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Nov 12, 2019 15:23:07 GMT -5
“She Keeps Me Up” is not only Nickelback’s best song, but also catchy AF. It’s a total bop.
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Post by Spider2024 on Nov 12, 2019 16:04:16 GMT -5
I normally like Childish Gambino and his rapping (that's not the unpopular part of the opinion. ) I don't get the Redbone song. His rapping is replaced with some weird talking/singing thing that isn't really unique or particularly good (the auto-tune or distortion doesn't really make it special). Also the beat is not much of anything.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Nov 12, 2019 16:49:12 GMT -5
There’s a sizable portion of folks who only hate Cardi B and Nicki Minaj because they’re successful women of color who don’t merely exist just to make you feel comfortable. This. Sometimes I think Nicki can be sensitive to criticism, and Cardi has a need to always assert herself but a lot of that relates to her backstory. Still, that is definitely a factor with some of their detractors. They’re both damn skilled rappers IMO. Bronski Beat has the best version of I Feel Love. Miles Davis’ “electric” period in the 70s and 80s was his most interesting work. Chance The Rapper’s “Hot Shower”’single rules. It’s an intentionally stupid “dumb good time” track and doesn’t deserve the hate. NCT 127 is a better K-pop band than BTS.
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Post by The_Don_Mecha on Nov 12, 2019 16:50:48 GMT -5
Yes is one of the greatest bands of all time.
No one on the Beatles could actually hold much of a vocal tune compared to their contemporaries in the UK.
Took me a long time to come around on this, but Ne-Yo is one of the great songwriters of our time.
Megan Thee Stallion basically ripped off Pimp C's style and flipped it from a woman's perspective.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2019 18:31:09 GMT -5
I haven't heard anything off of Gravity which I know is kind of supposed to be their masterpiece, but beyond that Big & Rich's good songs are very few and far between. I think just their first album is an excellent demonstration of that since it's very frontloaded with all the good stuff, then after Six Foot Town the quality just completely plummets until you get to Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy), then it plummets again as soon as that's done with.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2019 18:34:55 GMT -5
I've never liked The Who. I thought Lulu was an interesting album and I'd probably rather listen to that than any Metallica album after And Justice For All. Not sure if unpopular, but "rip off" or not, I think Lana Del Rey's "Get Free" is a way better song than Radiohead's "Creep." Madonna's Ray Of Light is an overlooked classic. Ray of Light f***ing rules.
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