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Not sure what that has to do with Bono or Bono's vocals?

Buses flatten vocals

has to do with having to try harder, represent oneself as product of this underdog drama: Irish heritage, rich in culture, endlessly striving in other ways, so Bono and immigrant-heritage rebel son Bruce of the boondocks, tend to overdo things. Stated as sympathetically as possible, but I still don't care about Bono that much---he's had his moments, Springsteen had more, when I was keeping up with him.

(Springsteen sounded very worn, wearier than ever, but indomitable, an old rock singer as old rock, v. recently on Saturday Night Live w E Street Band---a more discernible melody might have helped, or hurt.)

Not really recognizing of Bono in there but neither of us are interested in him so nbd.

They are both white guys who are in a band

And frequently show up as talking heads in rock docs.

They both play to the back of the room, that’s for sure

Oh yes.

daft punk was never anything other than predictable and boring.

just like this post i am currently writing.

Homework sports a handful of classic tracks. I don’t need the rest of their discography.

There are good tracks on both of the first two albums and the Tron sequel soundtrack, and the live album is great. They disappeared pretty far up their own asses on albums 3 and 4, though.

Homework has very good bits but is kind of mind numbing, Discovery was mostly good but pretty uneven, HAA was actively awful but worked pretty well live, RAM super professional and impressive but I never wanted to listen to it. in short, they are a land of many contrasts

i had a really long post typed out about how daft punk was actually fucking awesome, but that it had nothing to do with their music. which brings me to my point: is there a "musical fan fiction" thread, by chance?

"music facts that are 100% false" maybe???

My controversial DP opinion is that playing their albums (as albums, from front to back) is the worst way to listen to them.

homework and discovery are pretty much flawless, imo, the live albums are sick, the rest is okay -> bad

these are not controversial opinions

human after all is fucking sick

My controversial DP opinion

Um

I said on Twitter that while I recognize Daft Punk were Important, they didn't mean much to me. I tried. When hip-hop and R&B artists like Kanye and The Weeknd folded their melodies or absorbed their ethos, they were at their most beautiful, though. "I Feel It Coming" and "Stronger" sound more amazing than ever.

If you folks insist it's not a controversial observation to say DP isn't really an album band, I'm fine to withdraw that descriptor. People seem to love at least their first few albums (as albums).

late period Can albums (Saw Delight, Landed, s/t) may have some goofy and underwhelming tunes, but the good stuff on those records rivals anything the band ever recorded

Dunno if I consider Landed late period, maybe the last of their classic period?

U2 are best thought of as a singles band.

Junior Jack's "Thrill Me" >>>> Daft Punk's "Burnin'"

Saw Delight is the first CAN album I heard and is still a favorite along with Landed and Soon Over Babaluma

U2 are best thought of as a singles band.

da funk was my gateway to house music, no shame, I wasn’t hangin with Gavin hardkiss and hawke when I was 13

not that I am now I don’t know what the point of that name drop was, sorry

Dunno if I consider Landed late period, maybe the last of their classic period?

Agreed.

Rob Zombie's solo albums are a) better than you think and b) better than the White Zombie catalog, most of which was pretty uninspired and some of which (Make Them Die Slowly) was actively horrible.

Pet Shop Boys are best thought of as an albums band
― brimstead, Monday, February 22, 2021 3:14 PM

for the first four or five albums, yes absolutely.

Can never made a bad album, besides Out of Reach

oh wait they had that reunion album too

Daft Punk were good/great at times, but Around The World is a mediocre song (that vocoder thing gets old after about 10 seconds) and a horrible music video, the whole concept is that everything is synced to the music and everything is a half-beat out, I can't even watch it.

I dunno if it's controversial or he's best thought of as singles artist or not, but for me Bowie rules as A Great Singles Artist of late 60s-early 80s, though I love all of black starand enjoy all of several others, though there are some I never heard, don't remember at all, may never hear or re-hear---the singles don't leave that much foreground in the headspace.

there are dozens of rap diss tracks better than "ether," including machine gun kelly's eminem diss

Ether sucks

terrible beat for a diss track, for one

whiny tone with jabs that rarely land, for another.

definitely skip that one every time on Stillmatic

straight homophobia all the way through, i feel like i'm taking crazy pills whenever i see some jabroni on twitter saying nas won the jay-z feud

90s nostalgia is a helluva drug.

yeah, "y'all f*****s", "Cockafella", "I rock hoes, you rock fellas", "Gay-Z", "Rockafeller died of AIDS, that was the end of his chapter/And that's the guy y'all chose to name your company after?" appearing in supposedly the "greatest diss track of all time" is kinda o_O.

I'm used to homophobia in rap, especially 2001, but those lines aren't even clever, they're like the "results 1 of 1,000 for gaydiohead" of rap.

That's deeply unfair to 'results 1 of 1,000 for gaydiohead' imo.

i remember when "ether" came out and people were going nuts over it and i kept finding myself saying things like, "you guys do know that he's supposed to be responding to 'takeover', right? one of the most vicious and effective diss records of all time? you guys know that one, right?"

because anybody who did also knows that "ether" was weak across the board.

takeover was actually a good song clever Doors flip, listenable outside of the context of beef

lol
the context of beef
I inhale it

I love takeover

takeover is totally classic

i guess my opinion was not so controversial haha