Post a controversial music opinion

lol

ya I like almost all of Tomato Ketchup, just like everyone else

― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, March 1, 2019 10:10 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It goes with everything

it's a Candiment

Emperor Tonetta Ketchup

stealing this, tyvm

ya I like almost all of Tomato Ketchup, just like everyone else

AHEM

I can pin-point the exact moment chronologically that I get off the Stereolab bus and that's "Monster Sacre" toward the end of Tomato Ketchup. (The title track right before it is of course one of my favourite Stereolab songs)

i listened to Dots and Loops once and knew it was over for me. I wanted buzzy punchy moog-heavy dance/pop

^^ that's what my experience was

"Monster Sacre" is such a pretty and forlorn song though! Also interesting rework of an Erik Satie piece.

This is the thread for controversial music opinions. This is the thread for all this Stereolab talk: "Their early stuff was better"

Dots & Loops is best Stereolab LP, Margarine Eclipse is #2, there's your controversy?

ETK is ruined by Cybele's Reverie, a great single which does not fit on there at all.

Fine here’s a controp

Tierra Whack made the best debut of all time and she’s going to be the most omnipresent thing for the rest of our lives

i think u mean

Tierra Whack made the best debut of all ti

Lol

Between her and leikeli47 I’m happy that Missy is being felt if not justly beafied

Um *beatified

here's a proposition: there's virtually no instrumental rock or pop music that wouldn't be improved by some sort of vocal

Nice try.

there's virtually no instrumental rock or pop music that wouldn't be improved by some sort of vocal
― imago
Easily falsified by thousands of techno, trance and house club hits, subsequently rereleased with added vocals to score a chart hit.

Also, Rush.

those aren't rock or pop imo xp

give me a break, oscillate wildly is just about the only smiths song i can bear now

but yeah, could you imagine albatross with vocals? or popcorn or nut rocker or green onions or telstar

i can imagine albatross with vocals, yes

they go as follows: "this is no ordinary chocolate trifle..."

:D

but yeah, could you imagine albatross with vocals?

― kolarov spring (NickB)

i think it goes "here comes the sun king"

re: telstar with vocals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtubEdQUJZ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lncJJ27mXLo

lol

omg

oddly entrancing

once the initial laughter has subsided, yes

'Albatross' by Fleetwood Mac sung by a pair of horny albatrosses

LJ that's as bad a controp as I've seen but I perversely want to hear someone try YYZ with vocals

I mean, "rock and pop" are predominantly vocal musics and a lot of the best instrumental examples are pushing the definitional categories (you could e.g. argue that Mahavishnu Orchestra and GYBE, or even "YYZ", are something other than pop or rock). NickB's counterexamples seem strongest. I don't want vocals on Dick Dale. 2xp!

The Chantays - was trying to remember who did "Pipeline"

what about the theme from Star Wars?

Do big band era hits count as pop?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OhkhBwrK_w

the Ventures rule

The Shadows' hits dried up when they started singing.

this was more a test-the-waters than an actual cast-iron opinion, but I have seen far too many support bands that could really have done with, yknow, a singer

Tim Booth (lead singer of James) regularly cites Patti Smith as his biggest influence, and despite James not really having the same truck as Patti in the critical world I immensely prefer Tim both as a writer and singer

I think I feel the same away about almost anybody she is said to have influenced. Much respect but those records, eh

think not liking Patti Smith is more a "controversial opinion" than a controversial opinion these days

I unabashedly still love her first three albums, and plenty of what came later, which seems more controversial these days.

Oh don’t get me wrong I do love Patti Smith

Kraftwerk, Roxy Music and David Bowie are considered to be the holy trinity of influences on synthpop/new romantic etc. but personally I think Pink Floyd (Meddle to Animals) should also be in there.

Not saying no one was familiar with PF, but if you asked say Daniel Miller or Robert Rental who they were listening to, I think they'd claim their influences were Wendy Carlos, Tomita, Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Can and Faust on the instrumental side.

Daniel Miller was a fan of early rock'n'roll (hence the Silicon Teens), The Beach Boys and The Kinks. Also Can, and yes, Pink Floyd.

John Foxx? Pink Floyd fan - even covered 'Have a Cigar' ... Andy McCluskey also a Pink Floyd fan, confessing as much on OMD's forum a few years back. Alan Wilder of Depeche Mode chose Meddle as one of his favourite LP's in a Quietus article. Phil Oakey said Floyd were his "model of what a band should be" in a 2003 interview...

David Gilmour is on Duran Duran side project Arcadia's LP, and I'm fairly certain he didn't end up on there by accident.

no, he ended up there because money

Vince Clarke chose The Dark Side of the Moon as one of his favourite LP's for the Quietus, too.