Post a controversial music opinion

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

to some really obnoxious adidas-sniffing purist it is.

so basically the best kind of controversy.

If I randomly played either "Tonight's the Night, Pt. 1" or "Tonight's the Night, Pt. 2," I defy anybody to tell the difference.

Sarah Longfield > St Vincent

The 'shock g discovered tupac' references in the last couple of weeks reminded me how much I despise tupac and think there's absolutely nothing of any value in his entire oeuvre other than 'California Love' (which I love for some reason).

I don’t like Tupac. I can’t say “despise” but none of his music does anything for me.

Hes overrated for sure. But two of his greatest songs, definition of a thug, and pour a little liquor, I'll take over pretty much everything else.

"metal" is fucking garbage and the people who play it deserve to be laughed at maliciously and relentlessly.

I used to feel that way too.

*cracks knuckles*

I predict Austin will be running our metal poll ten years from now.

rockism in reverse

feels great when people still have this opinion. i don't want you to get it

I've never really had any interest in metal either tbh, I don't hate it or anything though.

rockism in reverse

Assuming "rockism" has something to do with classic-era rock critic orthodoxy, few things are more rockist than hating metal. It's not a reversal of anything.

Do metal fans ever feel that there is too much metal, too many bands? It seems to an outsider like me that the genre is over-saturated even in 21st century terms (cheaper recording, digital distribution etc.).

certain genres of metal, absolutely yes

my fellow metalheads will disagree with me on what genres these are though

i appreciate austin's controversial opinion. i mean, they knew that was going to be controversial, and just went for it.

<3

Do metal fans ever feel that there is too much metal, too many bands?

I almost feel this way about every genre. I've given up even trying to keep up.

there are too many bands and musicians in general! i really do believe that. it's not anyone's fault. there are just too many

is that controversial? haha, hold on

there are too many bands and musicians in general

Yeah, this is hardly specific to metal.

nah i'm glad that there are infinite bands and musicians. imagine if we were to run out?

run out of metal bands?

what would i laugh at then?????

by glorious god and heaven and hell, you're right! we need those fucking idiots!

ugh. fuck.

i hate being wrong.