speaking of condescending
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 December 2021 15:58 (two years ago) link
I discovered Sonic Youth as a teenager coming out of my punk phase
― JacobSanders, Monday, 13 December 2021 16:03 (two years ago) link
have you heard "Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Handcream" recently, though?― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, December 13, 2021 7:49 AM
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, December 13, 2021 7:49 AM
honestly no, but who cares? it's a rambling incoherent mess. very much the zeitgeist of my discrepancy with the band in general.
this is definitely my least favorite ilm thread of all time, the whole premise brings out the most annoying aspects of all of us― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, December 13, 2021 7:56 AM
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, December 13, 2021 7:56 AM
oh come on, friend. it's not that serious and i'm really happy you like sonic youth — honestly, that's great! i'm personally just a little tired of hearing about how innovative and different and omg MINDBLOWING they were when the records sound like none of those of things to me. but if it is to you, awesome!
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:06 (two years ago) link
it's not about sonic youth, i've felt that way for a long time.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:11 (two years ago) link
i mean no one has to like sonic youth! it's not the law.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:13 (two years ago) link
ums otm, if you have a controversial opinion you actually think is worth discussing, bump the apt thread cowards!
― rob, Monday, 13 December 2021 16:16 (two years ago) link
ahh ums, thank you for posting friend! i get what you mean. i'm mostly being flippant and silly when posting in here.
xpost to rob: lock thread?
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
never lock thread!!
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:19 (two years ago) link
this is the place where the opinions come out once and for all!! if the thread is locked, 100 more will spring up in its place!!
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link
tbf, if people enjoy this thread, I can just not click on it. But, here in 2021, are there really any controversial music opinions anymore? I feel like all the sacred cows have been repeatedly slaughtered
― rob, Monday, 13 December 2021 16:23 (two years ago) link
maybe we should lock this and start a "can someone show me a NEW controversial opinion?" thread
― rob, Monday, 13 December 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
Sgt. Pepper isn't as good as critics say!
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
actually
ICP are the GOAT
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
1979-present, Marianne Faithful>>>>>the Rolling Stones.
― bulb after bulb, Monday, 13 December 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
better album:
dirty work or daydream nation?
anyone have any thoughts on this?
ALFRED??
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/OJKSR79.jpg
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
Women have no sense of rhythm
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
(I don't actually believe that) just posting a certainly controversial (I.e. insane, Geir-esque) statement!
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
(wipes hands into air)
my work here is done.
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
I don't like The Beatles quite as much as I used to.
― Santa’s Got a Brand New Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:52 (two years ago) link
Sgt. Pepper is better than (current) critics say!
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
yeah I was gonna add a caveat that there are obvs offensive opinions one could post, though even there, apart from arbitrary nonsense invented to prove the point (right-handed people can't sing, etc), how new would they be? "Geir-esque" suggests not very
― rob, Monday, 13 December 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
Tbf, opinions don't have to be new to be controversial.
― treat the gelignite tenderly for me (Sund4r), Monday, 13 December 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
A thread where you can vent your unpopular opinions without necessarily getting into in-depth discussion with people who are highly invested in the opposite pov seems fine to me.
― treat the gelignite tenderly for me (Sund4r), Monday, 13 December 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
My point was only that non-new controversial opinions are boring (to me), not that newness is a required condition. fwiw I think imago's hyped albums you want to diss thread might serve more of a purpose than this broader thread. Anyway, I don't like the ILE versions of this thread either, so clearly it's something about me not nec the thread
― rob, Monday, 13 December 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
Post a controversial ILX opinion
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Monday, 13 December 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
my controp - "too many notes"
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 December 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
A letter to the editor of Downbeat about 10 years ago asserted that white people invented jazz.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 13 December 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
"Bill Haley invented rock 'n roll" variation there
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 December 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
in retrospect i was just being a baby probably, i can see the need for this thread and obv it's possible to not just click on it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 December 2021 18:37 (two years ago) link
not if you're paid to click on every single thread
*keeps on clicking*
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 December 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
okay, that made me a bit uncomfortable. but good for you, sir!
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
music sucks
― Jeremy Ironist (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
^not really controversial
― Santa’s Got a Brand New Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 02:23 (two years ago) link
Too many notes.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 02:25 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULkuwxJTGtY
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 02:32 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygO-ws6vUrQ
― Santa’s Got a Brand New Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:20 (two days ago) link
https://www.cnet.com/a/img/yynWxy2TZRt7YZxAFZ9FgHDEDLk=/1092x0/2021/07/14/a74a3822-ed85-4b10-a5f2-d9c47e0dba77/screenshot-2021-07-14-at-09-24-09.png
― Evan, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
all christmas music is inherently bad . . . not just subjectively either. it ruins societies and i'm sure if pure evil manifested itself into human form, that would be pure evil's musical preference.
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link
the real problem is radio programming
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
fair point, but why is spotify recommending it to me when i've never even searched for christmas music . . . ever?
sorry, spotify. i like good music.
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
hence pre-radio Christmas music and Christmas-adjacent music - like trad carols and Tallis and Handel and a few others - is okay.
but generally I would agree that Christmas music written post-1943* can die in fire
* = yes, that date is cherry-picked specifically to include the only two 20th-century Christmas songs that are acceptable in my ears
which are also the saddest
and also among the best
they are, of course "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and "I'll Be Home for Christmas"
bittersweet sad Christmas songs are best
fuck Frosty and Rudolph and Santa 4evs
― Mark Antonym (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 21:42 (two years ago) link
"Merry Christmas Baby" (1947) is one of the great standards of the 20th Century.
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 21:47 (two years ago) link
Well, for Charles Brown I think one can move the goalpost to 1947
The boundary can be fuzzy as long as we don't get into Whamistan
― Mark Antonym (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link
guys . . . no.
it's all evil.
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 22:02 (two years ago) link
idgaf what anyone says - "Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney is a very pleasant song and I'm happy to have heard it three times so far this season.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link
it's dope, hate is performative
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 22:27 (two years ago) link
ffs!
― calzino, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 22:29 (two years ago) link
hate is performative, and performance leads to pleasure, and pleasure leads to pain, and pain leads to hate.
yessss
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 22:52 (two years ago) link
christmas music good
― ✖, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link