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Kraftwerk were kinda shit and the influence of dub on electronic music gets overlooked cause of Eurocentricity

Radio-Activity is a fairly engaging listen as a whole, but the only pre-Computer World song that I have a need for in my life is "The Robots"

Y'all need the Ralf + Florian album.

Y'all need the Ralf + Florian album.

Nah, fuck that hippie bullshit.

This thread has taken a most unfortunate turn

hippie bullshit is....great

this is the best hippie bullshit you'll ever hear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToiLyjxABM0

hippie bullshit is....great

It can be. I love Can. But that's not what I come to Kraftwerk for, and it's not where their talents lay.

If it were hippie bullshit, I wouldn't have liked it.

Can, whom I like a lot, tend to be baggier.

Faust is the (often very good!) hippie bullsh*t

hippie bullshit is....great

It can be. I love Can. But that's not what I come to Kraftwerk for, and it's not where their talents lay

I like efficient German engineering Kraftwork too! They were just generally really great

First one I heard was Computer World probably around 2004 and to me it was laughably dinky and slight

next year I'd purchased Minimum-Maximum and suddenly everything about the band made sense

"tin machine" is david bowie's finest rock song

It's not a bad song! My Bowie controp is that Reeves was his finest guitarist-for-hire

ok these are two actual controversial opinions

oof

amon duul ii is underrated hippie bullshit

^ truth. keith forsey (who wrote "flashdance (what a feeling)" and "don't you (forget about me)") drummed for them

Underrated by who?

R. Kelly's music was always shit, regardless of his status as a sexual predator.

hi, Alex!

https://dakiniland.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/bloomcounty.jpg?w=590

this must be some kind of killing joke

syd > frank ocean

I agree w that actually

Same

most artists >>>>>>>> Frank Ocean

I posted the following already in the Abba vs. B-52's thread but as Tom D. pointed out, it belongs here:

My favourite Abba song was always this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEbZqnC2oN4

I think it is an outlier in their oeuvre. So much punch, so much drive, almost a punk song from 1973. After that it was all downhill.

the riff in Ring Ring reminds me of Suicide.

Eric Clapton peaked in Cream and everything since has been less a downhill slide than a plunge into an abyss of mediocrity. Everything good about Derek and the Dominoes is despite, not because, of him.

controversial?

On that note: George Harrison's entire solo career is overwhelmingly mediocre

Both on-topic and both wrong, but I am thrilled to see ppl taking the thread seriously

I doubt anyone except Tim Ellison will disagree with Paul.

I'd be surprised if there was a majority of people who don't think that Eric Clapton's best work was with Cream.

Old Sock is the best Clapton album

Genuinely controversial opinion:

Hobo Johnson is annoying, and quite likely a bad person too, but there is also something new and potentially interesting in his music, and I can totally understand people (especially teenagers) being into him.

Old Sock is the best Clapton album

― L'assie (Euler), Friday, January 11, 2019 8:46 AM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

finally someone with the guts to say what we're all thinking

Truly, Hobo Johnson is our Bob Dylan.

I heard Sting's "Love Is The Seventh Wave" at the grocery store the other day and thought it was a pretty good song.

I doubt anyone except Tim Ellison will disagree with Paul.

what am I, chopped liver ovah heah

the Cure's "goth trilogy" albums (Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography) kinda suck and are v boring, esp to what came immediately after

god, that's so wrong. perfect post for this thread though

Shakey otm. They don't suck, but they don't move me, and the hysterics are often silly. I prefer their desolation in discrete doses ("Sinking") or in manic garb (most of The Top).

Shakey, you like most solo Harrison?

wouldn't occur to me to accuse seventeen seconds or faith of hysterics, they're both v subdued records. pornography? ok

True. SS just...vaporizes.

well "most" is probably pushing it, but "overwhelmingly mediocre" is an unfair descriptor of a catalog that includes the hands-down best Beatles solo album imo, and one of my favorite albums ever. There's a smattering of great songs across the rest of the catalog all through the 70s and 80s, plus his role in the Wilburys.

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also "primary" is such a fucking awesome song

I haven't listened to any of that era (outside the singles, which were clearly singles for a reason - they're the best songs on these) in a long time and was just giving them a listen this morning and their just so... blank. lots of tuneless plonking, minimalist arrangements that don't go anywhere. Smith got better once he started firing people left and right and decided to throw a few pop songs onto every release.

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