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
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 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMm9ltRpXWg
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Wednesday, December 15, 2021 3:52 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
and god is empty just like me
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 23:19 (two years ago) link
i don't like christmas, i don't participate in christmas. i don't like music that reminds me it's christmas. christmas lights are ok if they approach the ideal of 'abstractly bright and shiny things in a dark season.' not really hate, just i would prefer not to.
i like to imagine some huge outdoor bonfire on the solstice with massive subs playing kevin drumm albums for 24 hours, the winter holiday of my dreams.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 23:28 (two years ago) link
i read a little bit about the pagan holiday that xmas stole from. honestly it sounds like a shitty holiday too! arbitrarily enforced merriment that is a self-conscious inversion of some of our nastiest tendencies, no thanks.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 23:32 (two years ago) link
NP: "Goop on Ya Grinch"
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 23:36 (two years ago) link
John Fahey's The New Possibility is beautiful and I think transcends "Christmas music"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 23:41 (two years ago) link
that i would listen to
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 23:41 (two years ago) link
I'm doing everything I can to take a break from Christmas this year. It won't be completely successful, but it is considerably scaled back.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 16 December 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link
I've hated Christmas and the music for most of my life but now I'm actively invested in created a magical month for my son. I've been playing lots of cartoon Christmas music and this record https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1b4Bp30OjY
― JacobSanders, Thursday, 16 December 2021 00:40 (two years ago) link
📹
― beard papa, Thursday, 16 December 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link