Post a controversial music opinion

Not liking Syd era Floyd is hardly controversial, I think most Pink Floyd fans think that.

controversial among my dorky friends then

i wish i had more controversial opinions :(

I imagine your dorky friends are massively outnumbered by non-dorky Floyd fans.

yeah I don’t like Eno’s rock records either, especially when he sings. “In a hollow land” is desert island track for me though.

I like/love all Pink Floyd through The Wall.

kinda feel the same about jazz guitar, guys like Les Paul or Danny Gatton that throw in stuff from country etc. is cool... probably doesn’t count, though. fusion guitar absolutely rules.

Wait, what do you mean by jazz guitar if you're excluding all of that, then? Joe Pass/Wes Montgomery/Jim Hall?

most jazz guitar is terrible.

Lots of it is good, but those Pass/Hall imitators who play like they're afraid someone will hear them can all get fucked. And Kurt Rosenwinkel too, especially when he uses that pedal that makes his guitar sound like a fucking slide whistle.

elyc6 0nset is as good as anything on Confield

well yeah. It's probably the best track on elseq

freedom by wham! is better than freedom! '90 by george michael

Yeah, I completely agree! I mean, I like both, but I feel like 'Freedom' is a better song.

The Pennine Studios version of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is superior to the Strawberry Studios version.

my controversial opinion might be that brian eno's rock records aren't very good.

Thank you. His 'singing', ugh.

Oakenfold's Tranceport is a stellar dance mix, deserving of study.

while I admire the politics, I hate Bikini Kill's music, and will stan for many other riot grrl era bands much more stridently than I ever will for BK. BK's songwriting and vocals are shit, even considering the aesthetic of the era and genre.

i agree with this

not an opinion i am ever going to offer irl

90% of the music released on kompakt is boring as fuck

Electroclash was awesome and fun.

I mean, sure, a singles compilation across Bikini Kill-Le Tigre-Julie Ruin would be ideal.
New Radio is a top 10 American punk song for me though.

Def agree abt electroclash

Electroclash backlash was thinly veiled homophobia, also

90% of the music released on kompakt is boring as fuck

― marcos, Friday, 17 May 2019 18:24 (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this has been true since around the time they released Total 12 but the noughties was an incredible run, since then though I would put the figure closer to 99%

I still very much dig it, still go running through the woods on occasion listening to Thomas Fehlmann Justin Kohncke Jurgen Paape

the catalog is a little samey and era-specific but they're just really rich recordings

xp but yeah referring to that hot run

i always thought i was the only one who never got the hype about kompakt. rich is not the adjective i'd associate with the music on that label. embarrassingly repetitive stuff.

The first few Total comps, Michael Mayer's Immer and Gui Boratto's Chromophobia are all good.

Kompakt was fine and had loads of great tracks, it's just that the minimal trend it started/mainstreamed has, pretty much to this day, sucked nearly all productional/compositional ambition, boundary pushing or whatever you want to call it out of 'underground' club music <- ok controversial opinion right there

I buy the latest Total compilation every year. They're mood music, and I can put them all into a giant playlist and shuffle them. I don't dance; I listen to them while writing, or driving.

same

it’s dance music ffs, more like 40% is jackin, 20% is corny, 40% “boring”

like many dance labels

now tell us what you think about perlon

that wasn’t a response to unperson, just the original opinion

immer 2 >>>>>>>> immer 1

We are
A perfect label
Besides the fact
That we're not there

Based on seward's recommendation I have blind-bought several Kompakt releases, albums by Lansing-Dreiden, and scooped Deep Purple from the bargain bin. I currently own none of these albums, they were all returned and/or resold

at one point i started buying ever mott the hoople lp

also my phone tried to autocorrect that to mitt the hoopla lol

I really like Mott The Hoople and my last post was not a crit of seward's taste but an expression of "different strokes" etc.

goes without saying we all worship skot :)

Rage Against the Machine got a way undeserved bad rap because some (most?) of their fans were meatheads but all three of their original studio albums whip ass. I feel like if they came out today, in "the Twitter age," they wouldn't be nearly as broadly successful but way more intensely beloved.

Twitter would've slaughtered them for signing with Sony and railing against multinational corporations.

Denzel Curry's cover of 'Bulls on Parade' has made them slightly less uncool.

Rage Against the Machine got a way undeserved bad rap

there should be a thirteenth note

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohlen%E2%80%93Pierce_scale

Twitter would've slaughtered them for signing with Sony and railing against multinational corporations.

― Siegbran, Tuesday, May 21, 2019 1:43 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, this. I'm sure there's a few successful acts that thrived in previous decades that would struggle if they appeared now due to things like Twitter etc. but I guess that's a whole 'nother thread that I'm not willing to start.

I buy the latest Total compilation every year. They're mood music, and I can put them all into a giant playlist and shuffle them. I don't dance; I listen to them while writing, or driving.

same. Kompakt is really good music for working and I'd say maybe 75% of music listening I do is while working, so this kind of stuff still occupies a big place in my music consumption.

Yes but is it trve ambient?

whenever I try to listen to ambient when working I just start falling asleep. I need something with a good tempo beat.