Post a controversial music opinion

xp

no 1 asked u

U r sleepingbag

ud luv that wldnt u

"Post a non-controversial musical opinion" is a more difficult exercise than this thread.

'Ali Farka Touré is pretty cool.'

David Bowie's cover of God Only Knows on Tonight is pretty good and much better than the Beach Boys' original.

I called the FBI, no worries

John Cale's lyrics read like this old Maxell tape advert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe_fiTy81A0

No album is great all the way through.

An album where all tracks are great is not necessarily a great album.

Teenager of the Year is a great album, all the way through

The Replacements are possibly the most overrated band ever.

Topped only by Kiss.

They were. Now their reputation has settled. If anything their skunkish behavior did the right amount of reputation-skinning.

Let It Be > Let It Be

lol which one Simon

Laibach > Beatles?

I’d say everything’s been recorded already but that’s not controversial

...is better or worse than Let It Be?

I don't like you if you have over a hundred 5.0 ratings on RYM

I understand this is a thread for airing stuff like that without need for apology, but I am genuinely curious why that is?

I don't like you if you have over a hundred 5.0 ratings on RYM

― He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, September 20, 2018 1:58 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this but replace 5.0 w 0.5

An album full of really great standard length songs is so much more boring than an album jammed with weird shorter filler (and one minimal 10min+) and just 3 or 4 stand outs.

Probably not controversial around here

xp
it's hard to explain.

Having tons of terrible ratings is a whole different ballpark animal. I don't understand how anyone would want to invest their time into reviewing bad music

Rating ≠ reviewing.

I find washed down pseudo funk bands from the 90’s like say Jamiroquai or Fun Lovin Criminals to be laidback and cool and think they have aged better than most rock music from the decade.

Drukqs is a well-sequenced album. I like how the ultra-dense, aggressive d'n'b tracks alternate with brief ambient interludes, little odds & ends, prepared disklavier tracks, etc. It makes for a less exhausting listen, with moments of relief and odd beauty/humor.

It's not actually tricky to rock a rhyme right on time

I don't like you if you have over a hundred 5.0 ratings on RYM

― He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck)

i wish every record i liked had over a hundred 5.0 ratings on rym

Sometimes I get a kick out of reading bad user reviews for albums I love. Then I click on the user to see shitty music they like.

I agree with moka xp

To confirm they suck

Come with Me > Kashmir

is that controversial?

some music fans' desire to classify things into neat one genre boxes is one of the most frustrating part about talking about music. not that controversial imo but for whatever reason people start to defend their right to listen or discuss however they want etc which is not really what i was getting at to begin with

i know grouper is well-loved but that shit is just too fucking dreary

’80s music is overplayed/overvalued.

Now that Boomers are no longer steering the cultural ship, music from the ‘50s & ‘60s has become slightly undervalued.

Music from the ‘70s and ‘90s is appropriately valued.

Cornershop < Spacehog

Herman's Hermits > Paul Barman

Fill scores are not meant to be listened to on their own (even though they’re made available that way).

i know grouper is well-loved but that shit is just too fucking dreary

― marcos, Saturday, September 22, 2018 9:01 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh fuck this is that good shit. thread honestly hasn't delivered in a while

I know this is a space for challops but a Grouper song came on last night randomly as Spotify was left to its own devices and it was strikingly beautiful enough that a conversation I was in basically stopped mid sentence and I think we were all OK with it.

Acts like Daphne & Celeste only work if you didn't loathe sing-songs as a child. Otherwise it's a dual nightmare: not only is it insufferable in the present, it also recalls long-buried sonic traumas.

This sounds like a comment on their 2000/2001 releases, not their new album

I've only heard their new album. Well, the first three tracks or so – I had to make it stop.

In which case idgi sorry

Extended/12" versions of beloved radio-length pop songs are almost always disappointing.

(By pop songs I basically mean not disco/dance music, that's a different kettle of fish)

Listening to a 90s live set by Ernest Ranglin and being reminded about wondering if the Skatalites were an influence on math rock.
INtricate repetitive details niggled at by various instruments to a rhythm.

Also Sister Ray as a great monolithic funk jam. Always reminds me of gogo

Come with Me > Kashmir

― MarkoP, Friday, 21 September 2018 03:07 (two days ago) Permalink

is that controversial?

― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

I mean I've never heard a good thing said about Puff Daddy's "Come With Me", but maybe I hang out with the wrong people.

Tenacious D's first album is a front-to-back classic.

LIVE had some great singles. Shout out to Dolphin's Cry and Lightning Crashes in particular, I can even forgive them for the Her Placenta Falls To The Floor bit.

The singles off the first Matchbox Twenty album are great.