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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.

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

Exactly. I have a Spotify playlist of all the Kompakt "Speicher" singles/EPs that's a major writing/editing soundtrack for me.

the Pop Ambient compilations are still mostly good in an unmemorable way, whereas the last Total compilation was actively unlistenable

There’s one on every messageboard: https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/controversial-beer-opinions-thread.559492/page-114

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

― pomenitul, Tuesday, May 21, 2019 8:45 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

re: rage covers, i’d pay good money for a john scofield record doing them

came here to post this tho

dickie betts >>>>> duane allmam

mountain mam

The amount of good songs Prince made after Purple Rain can be counted on 1 hand. Sign O the Times' production on the whole (some tracks avoid it) is a prime example of mid-late 80s bad synth, overly gated ugliness.

a lot of the production makes me think of, like, sunset strip hair metal... a good thing

or, like, hysteria. i haven’t actually ever listened to hysteria

Re: Kompakt, yeah, a lot of it is not too exciting, but that's been true of dance and club music since... forever?

my favorite underrated Kompakt dude? Jurgen Paape. i wouldn't say i normally like stuff that could be described as "muscular," but i love this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJm72_Mo1ps

Rickie Lee Jones's best album is The Magazine

Tab.......25 > Dopesmoker

the band are yacht rock

Madonna's music is bad and Madonna in general is an embarrassingly lame human being

I feel that way about many (most?) pop stars, but not Madonna

She means a lot to my spouse but, yeah, I'm often mystified by what people seem to get out of most of her work, especially since the 80s. "Live to Tell" is cool, though.

Some great singles and a solid album (Ray of Light). Good enough in my book.

the band are yacht rock

― mark s

not really but this def is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuqFmG9Lp30

I’d rather listen to the worst Limp Bizkit album than the best Joe Satriani album. But I’d also prefer to pour mercury from a broken thermometer into my ears than to listen to a full Satriani album.

brian eno should retire.

Hard to say whether that's a genuinely controversial opinion, Moka. I'm on board with it, though.

Indeed. It is probably more controversial to think that "The Crush of Love" is a classic single, which I do.

Wouldn't call it classic, but it's one of his better pieces, yeah.

Madonna is a better songwriter than Paul McCartney.

Not a Beatles fanatic by any means but nah.

I feel like there has been a drift over the last couple of decades where consensus has gone from "every note Bon Jovi ever recorded is completely worthless" to "some Bon Jovi tracks / LPs are actually good" and I cant help feeling that this is a symptom of a greater moral decline.

Joe Satriani and many of his ilk of late 80s guitar mag shredders are underrated

So is Limp Bizkit.

bon jovi has some jams. cross road is a decent greatest hits album

it isn't that their music is unbearable, it's just that if their whole discography were to be deleted, nothing of value would have been lost. i don't get why people would use their limited time on earth listening to them when there is other music available.

you mean The Beatles yeah?

THANK YOU

They should make an alternate reality movie about what the world would be like if there never was a Bon Jovi.

Sounds fine, would be a bit annoying explaining why they were bad, but I'd get over it.

what the world would be like if there never was a Bon Jovi.

https://frinkiac.com/img/S04E21/888169.jpg

We'd have a thread called "Every huge artist has their "For Those About to Rock-- We Salute You" - a huge event album that ultimately feels a bit hollow & signals a career decline"

it isn't that their music is unbearable, it's just that if their whole discography were to be deleted, nothing of value would have been lost. i don't get why people would use their limited time on earth listening to them when there is other music available.

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, June 21, 2019 9:59 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you mean The Beatles yeah?

― nashwan, Friday, June 21, 2019 10:03 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

THANK YOU

― Rory end to the lowenbrow (Noodle Vague), Friday, June 21, 2019 10:15 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this whole exchange gives me life. I don't hate the Beatles nor do I hate Bon Jovi, but I'd rather hear Bon Jovi than the Beatles about 99% of the time. of course, i'd rather not hear either of them because they're both kind of trash, but at least Bon Jovi is real trash.

the Rolling Thunder Revue is great if you like overplaying and coked-up shouting

hmm well i *do* like rock and roll music...

This opinion isn't controversial.

That is precisely why I haven't watched it, as a matter of fact.

Based on their first album, Magma are an okay-ish band.

the best replacements song is TMBG's "hi we're the replacements"