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Title: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on November 23, 2014, 06:55:37 PM
Seasons is better than RiB

Sound of White Noise was Anthrax's best album

JC >>> Justin

The Infamous is the most overrated album of its genre
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 23, 2014, 07:04:29 PM
The Chronic is overrated.

pretty sure I win. or lose, depending on your perspective
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Post by: jakefromstatefarm on November 23, 2014, 07:08:11 PM
:yeshrug

I enjoy 2001 more

and Doggystyle, and Quik is the Name, and Strictly..., and Cube's solos. So I ain't mad at cha
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Post by: nudemacusers on November 23, 2014, 07:14:47 PM
2001 is the og ringtone rap album.  :teehee

swans are mad overrated and are traded as cred currency on the internet far too often :bolo

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Post by: jakefromstatefarm on November 23, 2014, 07:21:38 PM
2001 is the og ringtone rap album.  :teehee
I can't even deny this (http://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/pachah1.png)
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Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 23, 2014, 07:30:29 PM
New Order was a way better band than Joy Division
U2 is not actually the great Satan of music and were quite good for a bit of time, Achtung Baby was actually rather good (since then though....)
If Kurt Cobain hadn't committed suicide no one would talk about Nirvana anymore
Rap mostly died with Tupcac and has largely devolved into "I got more bitches/money/houses/etc" than you pissing matches
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Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 07:35:03 PM
Rap died with 2pac and has not evolved past the 90's era. All Eyez On Me was the height of rap, and the genre has only seen a downward trajectory since. It peaked in 96, and has yet to be topped. It is the most stagnant genre on the radio next to country but fortunately, it's on the come up with the new class.

American rock pales to UK rock.

Electronic is the best genre going right now.

The only good Soundgarden song is Black Hole Sun.

Grunge sucks.
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Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 07:41:06 PM
Early 90's love ballads fucking owned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGoWtY_h4xo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EdmHSTwmWY



And the fact that I cannot turn my radio on and be greeted with love songs makes me feel dead inside.
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Post by: nudemacusers on November 23, 2014, 07:45:06 PM
you motherfuckers couldn't even wait until page 2 for nirvana hate :tocry
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Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 07:46:06 PM
Foo Fighters > Nirvana
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Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 23, 2014, 07:48:43 PM
you motherfuckers couldn't even wait until page 2 for nirvana hate :tocry
Let's kick it up a notch.
Nirvana's unplugged performance was a mess that they barely shambled to the end of.
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Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 07:49:56 PM
:umad

Who said anything about stanning? The Colour and the Shape > Nirvana's entire discog.
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Post by: nudemacusers on November 23, 2014, 07:51:00 PM
Foo Fighters > Nirvana
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xLNwqxaRR8U/Uqopq6CmswI/AAAAAAAABj0/ezZSKOXVIQs/s1600/Lisa.gif)

you motherfuckers couldn't even wait until page 2 for nirvana hate :tocry
Let's kick it up a notch.
Nirvana's unplugged performance was a mess that they barely shambled to the end of.
(http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-02/enhanced/webdr04/26/16/anigif_enhanced-11735-1393450177-11.gif)
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Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 07:52:20 PM
Hangin' onnnnnnn
here until i'm gonnnnne
right where i belong
just hangin' onnnnnnn

:umad

Feelings caught
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Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 07:55:05 PM
Black Album (Metallica) is a fantastic album.

Nah, no need to catch feelings over crappy aughts rock.

At least they're not Muse, terrible band that one is.

The Colour and the Shape was released in 97.

For that matter. Muse > Nirvana. Hullabaloo > Unplugged

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2L_oiHNgdg
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Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 23, 2014, 07:59:53 PM
Guru would be somewhere rapping for change if he didn't link up with Premier.

The same goes for Bone Thugs N Harmony and DJ Uneek.

Dilla was nowhere near anyone's top 5 until he died and still doesn't need to be there.

The last truly dope Nas album was Stillmatic.

Tupac was never that great outside of Me Against The World.
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Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 23, 2014, 08:00:50 PM
The Infamous is the most overrated album of its genre

Khaki wearing motherfucker  :pacspit
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Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 08:01:14 PM
Dilla was pretty popular before he died. Let's not change history. Then again, as a Common fan, I was always fond of him. I remember people - including myself - being disappointed Kanye was producing so much of Be.
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Post by: jakefromstatefarm on November 23, 2014, 08:01:20 PM
Black Album (Metallica) is a fantastic album.
:shaq2
Guru would be somewhere rapping for change if he didn't link up with Premier.
Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is
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Post by: jakefromstatefarm on November 23, 2014, 08:02:29 PM
Khaki wearing motherfucker  :pacspit
I've already said my piece about this jawn. Shit is a 4.5/17 16 on the Esch scale

The Unforgiven is the only track I can go back to and not feel ashamed for fucking with, everything else on that album is derivative proto-Nickelback basura

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I fuxed w/ From Under the Cork Tree :avbehh
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Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 08:02:58 PM
FlyLo's You're Dead was a scatter shot album of random ideas and no central theme nor cohesion. 2 minute long songs and pretty sounding song bridges does not a good album make.

Kendrick Lamar is the most overrated of the new rap class. J Cole is better. I like Wale more too.
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Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 23, 2014, 08:03:31 PM
Dilla was pretty popular before he died. Let's not change history. Then again, as a Common fan, I was always fond of him. I remember people - including myself - being disappointed Kanye was producing so much of Be.

Among rappers sure, but I swear none of these "fans" really held dude in that high of a regard when he was alive. I've seen some outlandish shit brehette, like Dilla's rapping changing how somebody views MCs  :what

Slum Village were terrible rappers until Elzhi joined. ALL OF THEM.
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Post by: Cheddahz on November 23, 2014, 08:03:46 PM
- New Order is so much better than Joy Division
- "Paul's Boutique" isn't the best album by the Beastie Boys (that honor goes to "Check Your Head")
- Big Sean is actually decent
- The only three Kanye albums worth listening to are College Dropout, Late Registration, and Yeezus
- There hasn't been a decent alternative/rock/indie/whatever album in half a decade
- People who just judge people for listening to "mainstream music" are scust
- Aphex Twin and Flying Lotus released two albums this year that should had been so much more
- Most of Jay Z's albums are better than Nas's best albums, but the albums by Nas haven't dropped as low as "MCHG" or "Kingdom Come"
- The Chronic 2001 > The Chronic
- Rick Ross is solid
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 08:04:20 PM
Man the late 90's and aughts were bad for mainstream anything.

:beli

And you're defending Nirvana.
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on November 23, 2014, 08:05:11 PM
that music is pleasant but inessential
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Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 23, 2014, 08:07:10 PM
Let's keep dropping bombs.

A lot of Jazz is musical masturbation. The performer is the only one that really enjoys it. A lot of other people like to act that they know what's going on but they have no clue but don't want to let everyone else know they don't know what's going on.  #notalljazz (but a lot of it)
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Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 23, 2014, 08:07:21 PM
Khaki wearing motherfucker  :pacspit
I've already said my piece about this jawn. Shit is a 4.5/17 16 on the Esch scale

Esch Santana can head on somewhere  :pacspit
spoiler (click to show/hide)
That said, I'll take another Prodigy/Alchemist album before a new Mobb Deep album these days  :larry
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Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 08:09:06 PM
Let's keep dropping bombs.

A lot of Jazz is musical masturbation. The performer is the only one that really enjoys it. A lot of other people like to act that they know what's going on but they have no clue but don't want to let everyone else know they don't know what's going on.  #notalljazz (but a lot of it)

rofl this got me furious
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Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 23, 2014, 08:09:53 PM
- Rick Ross is solid

Quiet as kept, dude has yet to drop a wack project.
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Post by: nudemacusers on November 23, 2014, 08:14:23 PM
Let's keep dropping bombs.

A lot of Jazz is musical masturbation. The performer is the only one that really enjoys it. A lot of other people like to act that they know what's going on but they have no clue but don't want to let everyone else know they don't know what's going on.  #notalljazz (but a lot of it)
(http://memeguy.com/photos/images/this-woman-hulks-out-throwing-a-table-and-catching-a-folding-chair-in-mid-air-no-idea-whats-going-on-23441.gif)
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Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 23, 2014, 08:14:36 PM
There hasn't been a good mainstream female rap album since Dirty Harriet.
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on November 23, 2014, 08:15:29 PM
agreed on sound of white noise being anthrax' best doe
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Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 23, 2014, 08:18:41 PM
Almost missed this

- Most of Jay Z's albums are better than Nas's best albums, but the albums by Nas haven't dropped as low as "MCHG" or "Kingdom Come"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9zJat43Kao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4cJg8riPSI



:trash
:trash
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:trash :trash :trash :trash
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Post by: nudemacusers on November 23, 2014, 08:20:09 PM
AC/DC sucks and is for manchildren who drink cheap beer at trash bars and are on their third marriage

wu tang is for fatherless (either legally or in spirit) white people who spend all their time with headphones on their ears

the only people who listen to classic rock stations in 2014 have "don't renig in 2012" stickers on their ratty ass datsun pickup.
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Post by: Atramental on November 23, 2014, 08:26:46 PM
Music? Useless noise as far as I'm concerned. /terrisus
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Post by: toku on November 23, 2014, 08:26:58 PM
The first two Linkin Park albums are great. As is Limp Bizkit's second album "Significant Other" and like half of of Korn's discography (Up to like "Take a Look in the Mirror" minus maybe "Untouchables").
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Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 23, 2014, 08:28:41 PM
I need to expand my musical palate.

I've heard of all these bands but never bothered to listen to them  :fbm
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 23, 2014, 08:29:54 PM
Find me 5 producers who chop samples better than Dilla. I'll wait. Find 5 producers with better or on par drums. I'll give you Pete Rock, so find 4 more.

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Post by: Mupepe on November 23, 2014, 08:30:54 PM
the only people who listen to classic rock stations in 2014 have "don't renig in 2012" stickers on their ratty ass datsun pickup.
I only listen to classic rock stations

On that note, Queen is horribly overrated and only have a handful of good songs.
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Post by: nudemacusers on November 23, 2014, 08:32:03 PM
blaque people apparently have terrible taste in rock music :oreilly


will cosign on queen.
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Post by: jakefromstatefarm on November 23, 2014, 08:33:43 PM
agreed on sound of white noise being anthrax' best doe
say this around trve cvlt cvnts and they spzz the fuck out. SoWN isn't anything earth-shattering but honestly if that's what you're listening to Anthrax for you lawst

spoiler (click to show/hide)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW0HeE9ymYU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DFy_O9TD8o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC9frQfmRZI
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John Bush era Anthrax had a Pantera-y Grungeish feel to them, their last couple were a not-quite-nu-metal but not-quite-thrash-anymore in a changing hard rock landscape. Super derivative music but when they were on they could hit the right notes

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN7gZnKpfsk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOu8ymqCPwU
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Post by: toku on November 23, 2014, 08:34:00 PM
The only era of Madonna to even come close to her early 80s eras was Ray of Light era.

http://youtu.be/zETVr04XUE4
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 23, 2014, 08:34:57 PM
Let's keep dropping bombs.

A lot of Jazz is musical masturbation. The performer is the only one that really enjoys it. A lot of other people like to act that they know what's going on but they have no clue but don't want to let everyone else know they don't know what's going on.  #notalljazz (but a lot of it)

(http://i.imgur.com/zSlohLr.gif)
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Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 08:35:27 PM
Man the late 90's and aughts were bad for mainstream anything.

:beli

And you're defending Nirvana.

There's defending, and then there's shitting on Foo Fighters and Muse. Which if you know me you knew you'd have seen me express that very opinion before. Nirvana isn't even one of my favorite bands. But they made music I enjoyed, and suddenly deciding the weakest and most underwhelming rock bands of that era are better by virtue of your nostalgia for the period it came out.

98-07 is by far the worst period for any kind of mainstream music with few exceptions here and there. That's not controversial, that's straight up facts.

i thought you mean mainstream anything by everything, not even music
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Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 08:37:20 PM
i listen to classic rock stations
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Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 08:37:41 PM
Nah, I meant music.

agreed
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Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 23, 2014, 08:39:05 PM
Find me 5 producers who chop samples better than Dilla. I'll wait. Find 5 producers with better or on par drums. I'll give you Pete Rock, so find 4 more.

Premier in his prime
Alchemist

this pigeonhole aint but so big though and I think you know that  :ufup
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Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 08:40:14 PM
Did Mac just say black people have terrible taste in rock while he's defending Nirvana and shitting on queen in the same post
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Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 08:41:16 PM
Agreed, Esch.
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Post by: jakefromstatefarm on November 23, 2014, 08:41:54 PM
The first two Linkin Park albums are great.
subterranean-key, I don't hate on anyone who stans Meteora or Hybrid Theory. Like, even at the time I fucked with it as an 11 year old self-pitying mouth-breather I was like, "(http://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rudy.png)These guys make music for fekkits," but I can't deny that they had a lot of catchy material



Blackout > In The Zone >>>>>>>> Princess of Pop era >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anything else post-KFed
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Post by: Pickles the Firecat on November 23, 2014, 08:41:55 PM
Let's keep dropping bombs.

A lot of Jazz is musical masturbation. The performer is the only one that really enjoys it. A lot of other people like to act that they know what's going on but they have no clue but don't want to let everyone else know they don't know what's going on.  #notalljazz (but a lot of it)

(http://i.imgur.com/rGLL4KH.gif)
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Post by: nudemacusers on November 23, 2014, 08:45:37 PM
Did Mac just say black people have terrible taste in rock while he's defending Nirvana and shitting on queen in the same post
:umad
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Post by: nudemacusers on November 23, 2014, 08:46:39 PM
The first two Linkin Park albums are great.
subterranean-key, I don't hate on anyone who stans Meteora or Hybrid Theory. Like, even at the time I fucked with it as an 11 year old
:dead :tocry
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 23, 2014, 08:46:53 PM
Cajole isn't here so this won't have any pushback but...I've never really liked The Who. They have good albums obviously but I always felt they were missing something that bands like the Stones or Zeppelin had.
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Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 08:49:02 PM
Cajole isn't here so this won't have any pushback but...I've never really liked The Who. They have good albums obviously but I always felt they were missing something that bands like the Stones or Zeppelin had.

listened to who's next?
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Post by: jakefromstatefarm on November 23, 2014, 08:49:04 PM
:dead :tocry
point being, I was up to my eyeballs in Simple Plan-esque self effacing maudlin garbage. evidently Linkin Park was too much though :paclaugh
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Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 23, 2014, 08:49:07 PM
Ska sucks.
how is that uncontraversial? Ska is just fat white guy with a fedora that can't even pretend they understand jazz music.
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Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 08:50:03 PM
Did Mac just say black people have terrible taste in rock while he's defending Nirvana and shitting on queen in the same post
:umad

queen is totally my favorite band so yeah i'm mad

WHAT OF IT

least i can admit that unlike some people
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Post by: king of the internet on November 23, 2014, 08:50:40 PM
Ska sucks.

This thread is for opinions, not objective facts.
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Post by: nudemacusers on November 23, 2014, 08:51:38 PM
:dead :tocry
point being, I was up to my eyeballs in Simple Plan-esque self effacing maudlin garbage. evidently Linkin Park was too much though :paclaugh
no i was responding to the fact that you were 11 when meteora dropped :tocry
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Post by: El Babua on November 23, 2014, 08:51:59 PM
Cajole isn't here so this won't have any pushback but...I've never really liked The Who. They have good albums obviously but I always felt they were missing something that bands like the Stones or Zeppelin had.

Studio Who aren't even the same band as Live Who IMO. The only studio album I enjoyed from them track to track (for the most part, anyway) was Quadrophenia. Live at Leads and Isle of Wright are fantastic and right up there with the best of their time.
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 23, 2014, 08:52:40 PM
Cajole isn't here so this won't have any pushback but...I've never really liked The Who. They have good albums obviously but I always felt they were missing something that bands like the Stones or Zeppelin had.

listened to who's next?

Yea. Not saying they're bad, I just don't rank them high personally compared to the 60s-70s shit I like.
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Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 23, 2014, 08:55:06 PM
Somewhere along the line in the 2000s, "conscious" hiphop forgot that it was supposed to be entertaining as well as informative and observant.

Sure the message is positive, but the music itself is no more interesting than elevator music.

Maybe it has to deal with me getting older but much of the "real" hiphop I championed at one point is real boring to me now.
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Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 08:56:03 PM
Cajole isn't here so this won't have any pushback but...I've never really liked The Who. They have good albums obviously but I always felt they were missing something that bands like the Stones or Zeppelin had.

listened to who's next?

Yea. Not saying they're bad, I just don't rank them high personally compared to the 60s-70s shit I like.

agreed
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 23, 2014, 09:00:18 PM
Somewhere along the line in the 2000s, "conscious" hiphop forgot that it was supposed to be entertaining as well as informative and observant.

Sure the message is positive, but the music itself is no more interesting than elevator music.

Maybe it has to deal with me getting older but much of the "real" hiphop I championed at one point is real boring to me now.

Absolutely nothing controversial about this.

It still amazes me that rap nerds who grew up listening to Pete Rock, Dilla, Premo, etc created some of the most empty production with wack drums and weak bass that doesn't bump in the whip. Go listen to an ATCQ album in your car - that shit bumped. "Conscious rap" used to bump in the 80s and 90s. Then the 00s came along...

thank god it's gotten much better now.
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Post by: Cheddahz on November 23, 2014, 09:02:44 PM
ODB will forever be the best member of the Wu Tang
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Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 09:02:55 PM
ATCQ in a car with a good sound system :whew

And Cruncheon says music isn't that important
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Post by: jakefromstatefarm on November 23, 2014, 09:06:13 PM
Where Eagles Dare was their best RAF/Luftwaffe song

neo-soul is mom music
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Post by: Pickles the Firecat on November 23, 2014, 09:07:44 PM
My controversial opinion is that music in general is in a totally amazing place in 2014. Hip-hop specifically has hit a creative peak over the past five years that no other era comes close to. I mean that in terms of variety, depth, experimentation, availability, accessibility--the entire gamut. Local underground scenes have become incubators for sounds that can grow beyond their cities thanks to the internet. So you have LA beat culture, Chicago footwork/juke, southern trap, PNW witchhouse, etc etc all thriving and churning out incredible artists with distinct styles. My favorite part of spending time in other places is just hitting their weeklies and hearing a cities sound. Turntabilism, NY street rap, and other stuff may have fallen off...but what is replacing it is just as good. And more readily incorporates elements from other sonic spaces.

At the same time, I think there is too much emphasis on bangers and making impactful music in a lot of scenes. I don't think a lot of guys have hit on the idea that you can give something emotional weight without being bombastic. The ubiquity of trap is kind of responsible for that imo. A trip-hop revival would really open some guys eyes and push them into new spaces. Musicians in general do a horrible job of mentoring future generations and have only gotten worse at it in today's age. So discovering those things is a personal process and a lot of guys will get there. You can hear Lil Sad putting pieces together as they drop newer material. Lot of other guys too.

Along those lines, I fucking LOVE the fact that we can follow and artists progression from song to song now. Their thought process, what they've learned, how they're applying new techniques, flirting with different elements of different genres...it's all just raw and open to consume. So yeah, a lot of the soundcloud guys are unpolished and kind of hodgepodge but it's because we're watching them become whole from the very beginning. I would kill to have that experience with DJ Shadow, Amon Tobin, Carl Craig, and tons of other guys. It's so dope. You listen to a guy like doujinshi  (https://soundcloud.com/doujinshi)(kitty krew 4 lyfe) evolve over time through just fucking around and taking elements here and there, learning what to keep going forward...it's just such a better understanding of the artist. It's fascinating.
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Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 23, 2014, 09:10:32 PM
ATCQ in a car with a good sound system :whew

And Cruncheon says music isn't that important

Luck of Lucien  :lawd

DE LA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzLVSxlrV-U

(http://i.minus.com/ibsRvkbbM0Urhb.gif) (http://i.minus.com/iBXbqGb5dUECf.gif)
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Post by: jakefromstatefarm on November 23, 2014, 09:14:45 PM
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/so-tupac-invented-the-term-larry-holmes-flabby-n-sick.78217/page-4#post-2877176

every time I think of De La Soul
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 23, 2014, 09:18:53 PM
To pick up on what Pickles said, the super frustrating thing about today is you can really see how a lot of these kids bursting with talent would be able to hone it into something special if they had someone in their corner - be it an A&R, real producer, etc. Just look at how Vince Staples went from being just another good rapper to a dope ass artist the minute No I.D. took him under the wing.

Instead right now we essentially have a giant sausage factory that produces a variety of interesting tracks, then the "artist" disappears. The true benefactor of this tends to be established artists like Kanye who can simply cherry pick the talent, add it to his machine, and run with it. It reminds me of that scene in The Wire where D'Angelo says whoever created the chicken nugget is probably slaving over an oven in a basement, trying to come up with a way to make the fries taste better. If he succeeds McDonalds takes the credit and it's on to the next one.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 23, 2014, 09:22:07 PM
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/so-tupac-invented-the-term-larry-holmes-flabby-n-sick.78217/page-4#post-2877176

every time I think of De La Soul

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We laughed about it later with a bunch of our peoples. It was so disrespectful, but it's a priceless memory. I wish I hadn't met de la, their first two albums were really important to me as a hip hop fan, and I haven't listened to any of their shit on purpose since meeting them. They were that corny to me.

 :goty2 Damn.

As much as I love it, I can concede that Stakes Is High is "grumpy old men: the album", but corny?

Then again, they touched on that with "Is Dead" so...
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 23, 2014, 09:23:33 PM
Yea but Stakes Is High is undeniably dope.
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Post by: jakefromstatefarm on November 23, 2014, 09:30:15 PM
Where Eagles Dare was their best RAF/Luftwaffe song
and Seventh Son is their best album
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 09:33:35 PM
Controversial opinion:

The internet has ruined music. Good music is being made, no doubt. It always will be made. And the amazing thing about the internet is that you can go to previous era's, so that's a positive too and something no previous generations could have done, and it's something we must not take for granted. But even with the indie and lesser known acts included, I still find music of today to have less variety and more incomplete than what I listened to twenty years ago. One of the big problems is the death of the album. Albums just aren't that important in the grand scheme anymore, and are probably an outdated model. This leads to musicians concentrating their output on single tracks, but not cohesive albums that form the finality of the artists' message. The fact that you can just grab an album online for free or a track for 99 cents really contributed to this, and I'm not going to say I didn't do my part in contributing to this, but it still makes me sad. Oh well, farewell to an era.

It's like we're living in an age that has the possibility to bring about a new golden age of mainstream music, but we aren't going to get it because the game has changed so much. Like, there's a lot of great new musicians out there, but I'm not seeing any classic albums from them. It's like we're just flirting with potential, and I think this is true for all genres, except electronic because it somehow has managed to keep its underground status despite going more mainstream.

This probably isn't a controversial opinion. Just had to express it.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: tiesto on November 23, 2014, 09:45:07 PM
The only era of Madonna to even come close to her early 80s eras was Ray of Light era.

http://youtu.be/zETVr04XUE4

I'll back you up on this. :bow William Orbit :bow2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uHE_psgKeI

Also my controversial opinion - I don't "get" My Bloody Valentine at all.
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Post by: nudemacusers on November 23, 2014, 09:47:25 PM
well it was certainly more... special? to discover new music. I remember back in the day, before napster, direct connect, youtube, etc I would get recommendations on shit from the local record store (RIP Sight & Sound, van probably remembers this one :(), and having to wait a couple weeks in some cases to get my hands on it. granted, I was a teen at the time, but now I can flip through like 100 albums in an hour and just skip if a track doesn't grab me in 10 seconds. I have to force myself sometimes to sit down and just listen to something new start to finish.

I really didn't like ok computer at all after I first bought it, but after a couple of full listens it completely grabbed me. I don't know if I do that anymore.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on November 23, 2014, 09:57:46 PM
well it was certainly more... special? to discover new music. I remember back in the day, before napster, direct connect, youtube, etc I would get recommendations on shit from the local record store (RIP Sight & Sound, van probably remembers this one :(), and having to wait a couple weeks in some cases to get my hands on it. granted, I was a teen at the time, but now I can flip through like 100 albums in an hour and just skip if a track doesn't grab me in 10 seconds. I have to force myself sometimes to sit down and just listen to something new start to finish.
Yes. I feel like it's really easy to rail on the health of the industry (which is completely warranted, don't get me wrong) while glossing over the fact that the very way we consume music now has changed drastically. Saturation works both ways and I think the aesthetic of contemporary "mainstream" (whatever that means this week) music has to do with a combination of a) the immense dissemination of music caused by the rise of the internet b) a nose-diving focus of consumer interest that's reflected in sales across all media platforms and c) labels responding to a and b by creating and investing predominantly in conservative products.
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Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 10:02:05 PM
well it was certainly more... special? to discover new music. I remember back in the day, before napster, direct connect, youtube, etc I would get recommendations on shit from the local record store (RIP Sight & Sound, van probably remembers this one :(), and having to wait a couple weeks in some cases to get my hands on it. granted, I was a teen at the time, but now I can flip through like 100 albums in an hour and just skip if a track doesn't grab me in 10 seconds. I have to force myself sometimes to sit down and just listen to something new start to finish.

I really didn't like ok computer at all after I first bought it, but after a couple of full listens it completely grabbed me. I don't know if I do that anymore.

Well yeah. It has its plusses and minuses.

What you say is true, but I miss being able to just read a magazine, watch mtv/bet/vh1 for new songs, and just buying an album. It was simple. It didn't take that much time. Now I've got to follow youtube, facebook, soundcloud, twitter, a billion different music sites depending on music genre niche and expertise, spotify, itunes, all this fucking shit. It's so fragmented and annoying.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Himu on November 23, 2014, 10:26:27 PM
I can buy that.
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Post by: TakingBackSunday on November 23, 2014, 10:30:09 PM
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- There hasn't been a decent alternative/rock/indie/whatever album in half a decade

fuck out of here

Titus Andronicus, the last 5 years, has written some of the best punk rock music in punk history.  They got a sire in Diarrhea Planet, as well.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: TakingBackSunday on November 23, 2014, 10:38:35 PM
I prefer Neon Bible but I more or less agree with you
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Post by: TakingBackSunday on November 23, 2014, 10:46:25 PM
have you listened to the bands I mentioned?
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Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 23, 2014, 10:48:26 PM
Naughty By Nature was corny as fuck
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 23, 2014, 10:48:44 PM
Controversial opinion:

The internet has ruined music. Good music is being made, no doubt. It always will be made. And the amazing thing about the internet is that you can go to previous era's, so that's a positive too and something no previous generations could have done, and it's something we must not take for granted. But even with the indie and lesser known acts included, I still find music of today to have less variety and more incomplete than what I listened to twenty years ago. One of the big problems is the death of the album. Albums just aren't that important in the grand scheme anymore, and are probably an outdated model. This leads to musicians concentrating their output on single tracks, but not cohesive albums that form the finality of the artists' message. The fact that you can just grab an album online for free or a track for 99 cents really contributed to this, and I'm not going to say I didn't do my part in contributing to this, but it still makes me sad. Oh well, farewell to an era.

It's like we're living in an age that has the possibility to bring about a new golden age of mainstream music, but we aren't going to get it because the game has changed so much. Like, there's a lot of great new musicians out there, but I'm not seeing any classic albums from them. It's like we're just flirting with potential, and I think this is true for all genres, except electronic because it somehow has managed to keep its underground status despite going more mainstream.

This probably isn't a controversial opinion. Just had to express it.

Nah, the music scene needed a kick in the ass after how bullshit it got from the mid 90's on. Especially how terribly run the business side of it was, still is and probably will be for a long time. The internet saved it if anything with bandcamp, itunes, spotify, etc. regardless how I find them to be for my own sake, give more options and more of an audience for everybody. Music has gotten more and more for niche audiences that exist, yes. But the variety is more than it has been in a while.

Problem some people have, which is completely understandable to me, is that there's a lot more effort involved in finding it. I honestly don't mind the effort considering the music I found. But in my honest opinion if you're not going to put effort into finding music today you can't really shit on an entire for music considering how much is out there and how much of it is good, could be good or could be bad in a good way.
I can sorta get this but at the same time before there was a bit of a wall of resources you had to overcome to get your music out there. Now there's a lot more music out there for everyone but the issue is the same as the publishing industry. Before, an album would be heavily produced and they'd run it through the ringer back and forth and sideways, and many times artists were told "Nah, that doesn't work so well, try it like this" (when you're an artist you need people to tell you when you stink) and when it worked well you had incredibly polished wonderful music. Now, any schmuck with enough money can have an "album" out there. and if they don't have someone that's an honest critic it all becomes unpolished and self indulgent. There is a lot of good talent out there that could be great if they had one of those more traditional big name producers.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on November 23, 2014, 10:51:47 PM
Naughty By Nature was corny as fuck
:obama I have no problem with this opinion

Treach is one of the best technical mc's ever though
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 23, 2014, 11:04:52 PM
Naughty By Nature was corny as fuck
:obama I have no problem with this opinion

Treach is one of the best technical mc's ever though

imagine a world where Mobb Deep was Prodigy and Treach, with Havoc strictly on the boards for the second album.
:rejoice
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Post by: tiesto on November 23, 2014, 11:23:44 PM
I love a lot of punks overall influence on many things I loved but generally as music i find it largely boring. I like some hardcore and a very limited amount of grind but that's it.

:yeshrug

That's pretty much how I feel about reggae. It has influences in a lot of music I really like (and even influenced Hip Tanaka) but I don't like the traditional stuff at all.
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Post by: Atramental on November 23, 2014, 11:36:04 PM
This track is awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQslNbOh4GU

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Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 23, 2014, 11:37:46 PM
Classical guitar is like tying your shoes with your tongue.  Its incredibly difficult and can impress, but really it's just a novelty and a party trick
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 24, 2014, 12:19:05 AM
Controversial opinion:

The internet has ruined music. Good music is being made, no doubt. It always will be made. And the amazing thing about the internet is that you can go to previous era's, so that's a positive too and something no previous generations could have done, and it's something we must not take for granted. But even with the indie and lesser known acts included, I still find music of today to have less variety and more incomplete than what I listened to twenty years ago. One of the big problems is the death of the album. Albums just aren't that important in the grand scheme anymore, and are probably an outdated model. This leads to musicians concentrating their output on single tracks, but not cohesive albums that form the finality of the artists' message. The fact that you can just grab an album online for free or a track for 99 cents really contributed to this, and I'm not going to say I didn't do my part in contributing to this, but it still makes me sad. Oh well, farewell to an era.

It's like we're living in an age that has the possibility to bring about a new golden age of mainstream music, but we aren't going to get it because the game has changed so much. Like, there's a lot of great new musicians out there, but I'm not seeing any classic albums from them. It's like we're just flirting with potential, and I think this is true for all genres, except electronic because it somehow has managed to keep its underground status despite going more mainstream.

This probably isn't a controversial opinion. Just had to express it.

Nah, the music scene needed a kick in the ass after how bullshit it got from the mid 90's on. Especially how terribly run the business side of it was, still is and probably will be for a long time. The internet saved it if anything with bandcamp, itunes, spotify, etc. regardless how I find them to be for my own sake, give more options and more of an audience for everybody. Music has gotten more and more for niche audiences that exist, yes. But the variety is more than it has been in a while.

Problem some people have, which is completely understandable to me, is that there's a lot more effort involved in finding it. I honestly don't mind the effort considering the music I found. But in my honest opinion if you're not going to put effort into finding music today you can't really shit on an entire for music considering how much is out there and how much of it is good, could be good or could be bad in a good way.
I can sorta get this but at the same time before there was a bit of a wall of resources you had to overcome to get your music out there. Now there's a lot more music out there for everyone but the issue is the same as the publishing industry. Before, an album would be heavily produced and they'd run it through the ringer back and forth and sideways, and many times artists were told "Nah, that doesn't work so well, try it like this" (when you're an artist you need people to tell you when you stink) and when it worked well you had incredibly polished wonderful music. Now, any schmuck with enough money can have an "album" out there. and if they don't have someone that's an honest critic it all becomes unpolished and self indulgent. There is a lot of good talent out there that could be great if they had one of those more traditional big name producers.

Sure, but that issue isn't all and completely the entire industry. Not like said problems didn't exist before. An artist would get too big and nobody would tell him no. Now for you to stand out you have to be great, and especially great live cause that is now the biggest way to get money.

I won't act like the producers didn't help before and weren't at least partly responsible for some great stuff. But I also won't act like they didn't fuck up things either. Taking something about the older times being less important as the main reason music now is not good as *pick your favorite era here* is just a smarter way of saying "this is not the music that came out when I was a kid so it wasn't as good" IMO. Like when PD was talking about A&Rs.
Perhaps I'm misstating. What I'm trying to get at is that sometimes good music takes a lot of money, for talent, production, etc. Think of it this way, Bach's St Mathew's Passion takes two orchestras and 3 choirs to perform. He could do that because he had a great patron who knew his talent. Earlier with the conglomeration of money those that had the studio's ear could use the studio's money to make whatever their/their producer's vision come true. Cake gave an interview a few months ago for their latest self financed album and they were talking about how more and more of their musician friends are having to make music a part-time thing for them because they're just not getting enough money and they were worried that they'll have to too. I've always said your greatest strength is your greatest weakness, it's the same thing here. The greatest strength of the old model is that because there was a huge wall to get noticed by studios that (at best) kept out a lot of crap and it also meant that if you made it to the studio you'd have the resources to focus on music exclusively and to make whatever you/your producer imagined and make it a reality, further, since studios had their own set of producers and engineers you had all these really different kinds of people coming in and influencing music (again, at best for the better though it also failed several times). but the greatest weakness to that was a bunch of nepotism and a whole bunch very deserving talent was completely left out of the game entirely and it was terrible for consumers. The great thing about the new model is essentially everyone can partake if they want, it's great for the consumer. The bad stuff about it is that since there's no real bar for entry there's a lot more crap out there, and because the market is so democratized it's a lot harder for the artist to make it "big" and to have the resources to make whatever they want a reality (though technology will help, but you can't really replace the people factor). Further since this all "self-made" they're missing that eclectic outside voice and people get into a echo-chambers.

It's just different. With everything different you exchange some things for another. I'm sure there's good music being made by these smaller groups. But honestly I don't have the time to go and seek them out.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Rufus on November 24, 2014, 07:08:05 AM
Even most good songs aren't worth listening all the way through. At all, or attentively.

The quality of your sound is more important than what notes you play. Quality in the sense of attributes, not "good" and "bad". In the same way that texture is important for food.
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Post by: Mupepe on November 24, 2014, 07:26:01 AM
I just heard that Beyonce 7-11 song.  I'm feeling really old right now.
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Post by: kick51 on November 24, 2014, 02:28:16 PM
Gotta agree about it not being as fun to discover new stuff these days. Might be a personal problem for me though.  I hit saturation a couple years ago and didn't even realize it until a few days ago.  It occurred to me that I hadn't bought or looked up new music in forever. :lol:   I think the only new group I dug into in that time was Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland.  They had some mystique, though their music is very hit or miss. 

I had a fucking blast from about 00-05.  I'd go see bands based on a blurb written about them on my favorite bar's website. I'd try to look up some stuff and sometimes I'd find stuff about them online, sometimes not.  I feel like there was a pretty big explosion of creativity around that time with instrument and song structure experimentation, following the first wave of post-rock and IDM and shit like that.  I had the feeling that I needed to really dig and discover stuff myself.  I'm sure that type of active listening is still possible, I just got tired and saturated.


my "controversial" opinion: once Phish breaks up, no more rock/progressive/fusion bands who incorporate a heavy amount of improvisation into their show will get as popular again.  That's it for progressive + improvised rock music past the bar/small club level.  It's a shame they're so pigeon-holed by their scene, which is all annoying fratty white boys and a few leftover pseudo-hippies.  Lead guitarist can't even do symphonic full-orchestra performances without the "scene" showing up and being annoying.  but their musical output and what they do on stage is pretty unprecedented, so it'll be a sad day when they hang it up.
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Post by: Human Snorenado on November 24, 2014, 02:38:45 PM
Prog rock is inherently shitty
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Post by: Human Snorenado on November 24, 2014, 02:39:39 PM
Guys who earnestly play banjos (Mumford and Sons, Avett Brothers) are going to burn in hell for all of eternity for crimes against good taste
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Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 24, 2014, 02:44:48 PM
Biggie=Guru >>>>>>>>>>>>Old school NAS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>TUPAC>>>>>>>Any NAS after ether
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Post by: Human Snorenado on November 24, 2014, 02:46:37 PM
Biggie=Guru >>>>>>>>>>>>Old school NAS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>TUPAC>>>>>>>Any NAS after ether

This guy knows what he's talking about

:mynicca
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Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 24, 2014, 02:48:03 PM
While we're at it

Pre sold out Cube >>>>eazy>>>>>>>>Dre>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>snoop

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Post by: Rufus on November 24, 2014, 03:18:16 PM
Guys who earnestly play banjos (Mumford and Sons, Avett Brothers) are going to burn in hell for all of eternity for crimes against good taste
Victor Wooten plays bass in Béla Fleck's band. I haven't listened to many of their songs, but I think a big reason he's there is because the banjo gives his bass a LOT of room. :heh
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Post by: Human Snorenado on November 24, 2014, 03:19:34 PM
Guys who earnestly play banjos (Mumford and Sons, Avett Brothers) are going to burn in hell for all of eternity for crimes against good taste
Victor Wooten plays bass in Béla Fleck's band. I haven't listened to many of their songs, but I think a big reason he's there is because the banjo gives his bass a LOT of room. :heh

Hippie jam bands

:ufup
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Post by: Mr. Gundam on November 24, 2014, 03:27:43 PM
Muse is probably the best rock band from 2001 to the present among rock bands who started in 2001 or later (not including metal here).

Huh? Muse's first album is from 1999.
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Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 24, 2014, 03:30:43 PM
whoa whoa whoa there AIA, easy was easily the best in the bunch.
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Post by: Rufus on November 24, 2014, 03:31:55 PM
Guys who earnestly play banjos (Mumford and Sons, Avett Brothers) are going to burn in hell for all of eternity for crimes against good taste
Victor Wooten plays bass in Béla Fleck's band. I haven't listened to many of their songs, but I think a big reason he's there is because the banjo gives his bass a LOT of room. :heh

Hippie jam bands

:ufup

I know their name. Wooten is legit though.
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Post by: kick51 on November 24, 2014, 04:00:42 PM
That weird drum guitar machine is legit. 

bela fleck is another great example of "not actually a hippie jam band, but guilty by association."  3 virtuoso musicians, but damned for eternity
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Post by: Human Snorenado on November 24, 2014, 04:18:25 PM
Dave Matthews Band was amazing for a good stretch of time. Before These Crowded Streets is a top 100 album.

Incubus is legit one of the best bands of all time.

Pearl Jam was awesome all the way through Yield.

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Post by: TakingBackSunday on November 24, 2014, 04:43:15 PM
I never really got David Bowie.
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Post by: jakefromstatefarm on November 24, 2014, 04:46:25 PM
Clapton is a humongous piece of shit who deserves to have his career torpedoed and his memory wiped clean from staining future generations





...but Layla is the goat riff.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on November 24, 2014, 04:49:36 PM
I never really got David Bowie.

Not even Ziggy Stardust? I can get not liking the rest of this catalog, but ZS is absolutely perfect.
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Post by: Human Snorenado on November 24, 2014, 04:59:11 PM
Start with Hunky Dory. It's his most accessible, "poppy" album.
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Post by: Dickie Dee on November 24, 2014, 05:10:52 PM
Bela Fleck is legit good and was never part of the Mumford/Avett waistcoat-brigade. Dude has been rocking a mullet for like 30 years now.
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Post by: TakingBackSunday on November 24, 2014, 05:15:29 PM
Only albums I really liked were ZS and Low.
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Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 24, 2014, 05:20:57 PM
Takeover was better than Ether  :hitler
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Post by: Himu on November 24, 2014, 05:29:08 PM
Young Americans has Bowie's most pop shit
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Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 24, 2014, 06:39:09 PM
Joseph Haydn didn't write much of anything good.

Mozart wrote some real gems, but a lot of his output sounds kind of same-y. You can often predict exactly how he's going to resolve a melody, exactly which chord changes he's going to use, etc.

Saxophone shredding is boring. Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane both did this too often.

Eric Clapton was never that great.
Agreed on all accounts.  But without Haydn there would be no Mozart and when Mozart is on his game he's untouchable
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Post by: recursivelyenumerable on November 24, 2014, 09:30:05 PM
Coldplay is tolerable
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Post by: Mr. Gundam on November 24, 2014, 09:57:58 PM
For every accessible Bowie song, there are five experimental noodling tunes which turn people off. And I say that as a huge Bowie fan.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: El Babua on November 24, 2014, 10:23:45 PM
The Wall is one of the worst Pink Floyd albums (some really good individual cuts, but it actually sucks balls as one whole piece)

Mainstream Rock has been whack since the 80's

Jay Z has always been a ehh rapper, still a decent songwriter
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Post by: Himu on November 24, 2014, 10:52:36 PM
only great thing about the wall is another brick in the wall parts 1 and 2.
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Post by: jakefromstatefarm on November 24, 2014, 10:57:07 PM
spoiler (click to show/hide)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jx3jGAlKG0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC5JYhNAymY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDGzvJ14_Xg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPG_mZhAhkY
[close]
all those tracks are technically tight. You could also go with Jaz-O era rappity rap Jay and right before RD when he was essentially a Big L clone
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Post by: TakingBackSunday on November 24, 2014, 11:26:04 PM
good kid maad city is incredibly overrated
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Post by: El Babua on November 24, 2014, 11:42:38 PM
Admittedly never listened to much of early Jay. My intro to him was Reasonable Doubt and I'd say his flow/skillset was the best I've heard him. My favorite song from him is still Can't Knock the Hustle
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Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 24, 2014, 11:46:33 PM

Jay Z has always been a ehh rapper

Nah. He's top tier in terms of skills/flow. Can't blame you if you've only heard famous album jay.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nHUJLgLOT44
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on November 25, 2014, 07:24:40 AM
As often as people give nu metal shit (and for good reason), grunge was much worse.  Once Nirvana and Soundgarden blew up, record companies basically signed any asshole from Seattle who wore flannel and had a heroin addiction.  Most grunge from that era doesn't get played now.  If you get an opportunity to watch Beavis and Butthead, complete with music video commentary, you will often hear some of it.  Most of it is simply terrible and that is why nobody ever played that music again (outside of Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Alice in Chains) after 1994.  4 bands out of a total of dozens that took a collective shit on the airwaves from 1991-1994.  I like Soundgarden and Alice in Chains so for me, it is two bands out of a total of dozens.

Jay-Z hasn't released one good post-retirement album.  I think he considers these albums to be a form of marketing as opposed to any kind of real revenue generator.  Although this opinion isn't really controversial.  Jay-Z's career is basically floating on the admiration of white hipsters who unfortunately still get taken seriously in the year of our lord 2014.

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Post by: Mupepe on November 25, 2014, 07:54:50 AM
Michael Jackson Bad as an album is better than Thriller, but no individual song on Bad lives up to Billie Jean or Human Nature.  The song Thriller would be forgettable too if it wasn't for the incredible music video.
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Post by: kick51 on November 25, 2014, 08:52:38 AM
That era brought some pretty cool older artists into the spotlight.  Sonic Youth, Fugazi, Dinosaur Jr., Operation Ivy, off the top of my head. 

I don't think anything from that era sunk this low though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTMVOzPPtiw
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Post by: Cheddahz on November 25, 2014, 10:13:10 AM
The only post retirement Jay-Z album anyone should listen to is American Gangster
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Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 25, 2014, 11:11:29 AM
Joseph Haydn didn't write much of anything good.

Mozart wrote some real gems, but a lot of his output sounds kind of same-y. You can often predict exactly how he's going to resolve a melody, exactly which chord changes he's going to use, etc.

Saxophone shredding is boring. Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane both did this too often.

Eric Clapton was never that great.
Agreed on all accounts.  But without Haydn there would be no Mozart and when Mozart is on his game he's untouchable

Okay, I don't know if this is controversial at all, but...

Peak Beethoven > Peak Mozart.
I dunno. To me it comes down to this:

Peak Bach = Peak Beethoven = Peak Mozart > everyone else.

Although, Beethoven's late quartets and Bach's St. Matthew's passion probably do put them ahead of Mozart as I can't think of a Mozart piece that can compare.
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Post by: Brehvolution on November 25, 2014, 11:20:10 AM
The Wall is one of the worst Pink Floyd albums (some really good individual cuts, but it actually sucks balls as one whole piece)

As a big Pink Floyd stan I agree with this completely, some really great songs but the entire album is full of padding and filler.

I love Floyd, but The Wall is The Official Album of Depression.
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Post by: bluemax on November 25, 2014, 10:59:38 PM
I don't think the Beatles were all that good.

I also think some bands are only still in the public conscious because their leads died before they could drag the band down. Ie Nirvana, Sublime, The Doors

Quote
- There hasn't been a decent alternative/rock/indie/whatever album in half a decade

fuck out of here

Titus Andronicus, the last 5 years, has written some of the best punk rock music in punk history.  They got a sire in Diarrhea Planet, as well.

I kind of agree with the premise. I think there have been some really good punk albums the last few years but any other variation of rock has been awful or worse since like before I graduated college. I hate living in a world where The Black Keys are considered one of the best rock bands around.
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Post by: nudemacusers on November 25, 2014, 11:01:41 PM
that's simply not true


nobody thinks about sublime or blind melon anymore :heh
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Post by: bluemax on November 25, 2014, 11:07:18 PM
I saw a Sublime song on r/music today.

And they mislabeled it as ska which was doubly horrifying.
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 25, 2014, 11:12:19 PM
Good to see we agree Jay-Z has been trash for nearly a decade.
 :win
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Post by: Pickles the Firecat on November 25, 2014, 11:19:38 PM
Sublime gets regular radio play and tons of respect in So. Cal, specifically among beach bros.
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Post by: Vizzys on November 25, 2014, 11:45:22 PM
death grips was good

 
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 25, 2014, 11:52:01 PM
Good to see we agree Jay-Z has been trash for nearly a decade.
 :win

Just like Nas. One good spot (American Gangster) sandwiched absolute garbage. Except Nas was also garbage from 1997-2000 :holeup

and then garbage again from 2002-2012 :holeup

(https://33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqi9xvA6hg1qlys3ko1_500.gif)
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Post by: Yulwei on November 26, 2014, 12:05:12 AM
Mainstream rock - went to shit almost as soon as the 80s ended (with a few exceptions here and there, ofc).
Indie rock  - Some of the most boring music I've ever heard (Tv On The Radio being the single exception i know of in this case.)
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Post by: nudemacusers on November 26, 2014, 12:11:13 AM
beach bros.
aka nobody :heh
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Post by: nudemacusers on November 26, 2014, 01:15:40 AM
yeah they have some good chilljams.

however sublime fans are trashpersons. kind of people who listen to cypress hill.
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Post by: Himu on November 26, 2014, 01:24:03 AM
Michael Jackson Bad as an album is better than Thriller, but no individual song on Bad lives up to Billie Jean or Human Nature.  The song Thriller would be forgettable too if it wasn't for the incredible music video.

Off The Wall is the best MJ album.

Thriller (the song) isn't that good beyond the music video, agreed.

I don't think Bad is that great aside from some singles but it's been a while. I prefer Dangerous over Bad.

The second half of Thriller (album) is, next to Off The Wall, the watermark of Michael's career.

Lady in my Life is a top 5 best of all time album closer.
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Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 26, 2014, 01:24:29 AM
Are you messing with me esse? Donchu know I'm loco?
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Post by: Barraco Barner on November 26, 2014, 04:15:01 AM
As often as people give nu metal shit (and for good reason), grunge was much worse.  Once Nirvana and Soundgarden blew up, record companies basically signed any asshole from Seattle who wore flannel and had a heroin addiction.  Most grunge from that era doesn't get played now.  If you get an opportunity to watch Beavis and Butthead, complete with music video commentary, you will often hear some of it.

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

Sound of White Noise is the best Anthrax album.
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Post by: seagrams hotsauce on November 26, 2014, 04:55:15 AM
Good to see we agree Jay-Z has been trash for nearly a decade.
 :win

Just like Nas. One good spot (American Gangster) sandwiched absolute garbage. Except Nas was also garbage from 1997-2000 :holeup

and then garbage again from 2002-2012 :holeup
This is off base.
Stillmatic is garbage too.
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Post by: seagrams hotsauce on November 26, 2014, 05:55:09 AM
As far as my 'controversial' opinions go: Kendrick Lamar sucks
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 26, 2014, 06:49:30 AM
Every movement spawns bad music though. Think about every big 90s album (whether it was a good album or not): The Chronic, The Black Album, Ok Computer, Jagged Little Pill, Nevermind...basically every album credited with "changing music" spawned a host of wack shit. In hindsight we look back and judge albums based on what happened afterwards, which isn't entirely fair. Nevermind is a dope album, period. It spawned some shit but tbh when I think of grunge I think about Soundgarden, Pearl Jam's first two albums, AiC, Nirvana, and a couple other bands. I'm not hung up on fucking Candlebox.

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Post by: Mupepe on November 26, 2014, 08:16:51 AM
Michael Jackson Bad as an album is better than Thriller, but no individual song on Bad lives up to Billie Jean or Human Nature.  The song Thriller would be forgettable too if it wasn't for the incredible music video.

Off The Wall is the best MJ album.

Thriller (the song) isn't that good beyond the music video, agreed.

I don't think Bad is that great aside from some singles but it's been a while. I prefer Dangerous over Bad.

The second half of Thriller (album) is, next to Off The Wall, the watermark of Michael's career.

Lady in my Life is a top 5 best of all time album closer.
I love me some Off The Wall, but its style just isn't up my alley as much.  Still an incredible album by any measure. 

And yeah, agreed about the second half of Thriller.  But there's SO many great songs on Bad. 

1. Bad (Don't care for this at all really)
2. The Way You Make Me Feel (omg classic)
3. Speed Demon (omg awesome)
4. Liberian Girl (Good)
5. Just Good Friends (gag)
6. Another Part of Me (omg awesome)
7. Man in the Mirror (omg classic)
8. I Just Can't Stop Loving You (omg awesome)
9. Dirty Diana (omg awesome)
10. Smooth Criminal (omg classic)
11. Leave Me Alone (one of my favorite songs of all time)

It just feels like it has much more variety in styles.  And MJ really started his persona with Bad.  It was in full force throughout the album.

Dangerous is fucking great too though.
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Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 26, 2014, 09:43:33 AM
90% of shredding is just going fast. Anyone with patience and time can do it.
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Post by: seagrams hotsauce on November 26, 2014, 09:52:25 AM
90% of shredding is just going fast. Anyone with patience and time can do it.
WHERE IS THE CONTROVERSY HERE
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Post by: jakefromstatefarm on November 26, 2014, 01:20:22 PM
Every movement spawns bad music though. In hindsight we look back and judge albums based on what happened afterwards, which isn't entirely fair.
I agree with this 100%. My beef with grunge is that it sucks. Everything you just listed sans-AiC is garbage. Anthrax did grunge better than anyone out of Seattle.

Thrash Metal is my favorite genre. And it definitely ended up inspiring some of the worst cac whine, PG-13 metal out there.
favorite genre is thrash metal

does not address the Slayer content in the OP :beli
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Post by: jakefromstatefarm on November 26, 2014, 01:40:19 PM
4 out of their first 5 are classics (Haunting the Chapel's right there too) so to me it's kinda splitting hairs. I like Seasons because they finally found their comfort zone with slower tempos; it's what South of Heaven should've been imo.
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 26, 2014, 01:42:31 PM
:yeshrug

On one hand I automatically say MBTDF is dope despite being a sonic mess; after all there are plenty of scattered brained dope albums out there. But when I look at it track by track...

01 Dark Fantasy best thing RZA has done in a decade
2 Gorgeous f. KiD CuDi & Raekwon dope
3 Power f. Dwele not bad
4 All Of the Lights (Interlude)
5 All Of the Lights laughable lyrics, mess of a song but not bad
6 Monster f. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver Ok
7 So Appalled f. Jay-Z, Pusha T, CyHi Da Prynce, Swizz Beatz & RZA one giant MEH
8 Devil In A New Dress feat. Rick Ross Classic
9 Runaway f. Pusha T LOL
10 Hell Of A Life I've listened to this song like 3 times. Forgettable
11 Blame Game f. John Legend Dope
12 Lost In The World Ok I guess
13 Who Will Survive In America Cool

That kinda adds up to a high 7 brehs. I don't want to give it a 7 because it has a lot of individual parts that I like, but as a whole...

Yeezus is a solid 8.
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Post by: Himu on November 26, 2014, 01:58:33 PM
Michael Jackson Bad as an album is better than Thriller, but no individual song on Bad lives up to Billie Jean or Human Nature.  The song Thriller would be forgettable too if it wasn't for the incredible music video.

Off The Wall is the best MJ album.

Thriller (the song) isn't that good beyond the music video, agreed.

I don't think Bad is that great aside from some singles but it's been a while. I prefer Dangerous over Bad.

The second half of Thriller (album) is, next to Off The Wall, the watermark of Michael's career.

Lady in my Life is a top 5 best of all time album closer.
I love me some Off The Wall, but its style just isn't up my alley as much.  Still an incredible album by any measure. 

And yeah, agreed about the second half of Thriller.  But there's SO many great songs on Bad. 

1. Bad (Don't care for this at all really)
2. The Way You Make Me Feel (omg classic)
3. Speed Demon (omg awesome)
4. Liberian Girl (Good)
5. Just Good Friends (gag)
6. Another Part of Me (omg awesome)
7. Man in the Mirror (omg classic)
8. I Just Can't Stop Loving You (omg awesome)
9. Dirty Diana (omg awesome)
10. Smooth Criminal (omg classic)
11. Leave Me Alone (one of my favorite songs of all time)

It just feels like it has much more variety in styles.  And MJ really started his persona with Bad.  It was in full force throughout the album.

Dangerous is fucking great too though.

I don't like Bad (the song) much anymore.

But I can't disagree with that. Leave Me Alone is one of my faves too. I'll give it another listen. By all estimations, thriller wasn't full on pop. Neither was Off The Wall. They were rnb/funk in style. Bad is definitely where Michael opened up to more pop fare.
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Post by: Himu on November 26, 2014, 02:01:16 PM
College Dropout - 4 stars
Late Registration - 5 stars
Graduation - 2 and a half stars
808s - 4 stars
MBDTF - 4 stars
Yeezus - 2 and a half stars
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Post by: Mupepe on November 26, 2014, 02:17:46 PM
Michael Jackson Bad as an album is better than Thriller, but no individual song on Bad lives up to Billie Jean or Human Nature.  The song Thriller would be forgettable too if it wasn't for the incredible music video.

Off The Wall is the best MJ album.

Thriller (the song) isn't that good beyond the music video, agreed.

I don't think Bad is that great aside from some singles but it's been a while. I prefer Dangerous over Bad.

The second half of Thriller (album) is, next to Off The Wall, the watermark of Michael's career.

Lady in my Life is a top 5 best of all time album closer.
I love me some Off The Wall, but its style just isn't up my alley as much.  Still an incredible album by any measure. 

And yeah, agreed about the second half of Thriller.  But there's SO many great songs on Bad. 

1. Bad (Don't care for this at all really)
2. The Way You Make Me Feel (omg classic)
3. Speed Demon (omg awesome)
4. Liberian Girl (Good)
5. Just Good Friends (gag)
6. Another Part of Me (omg awesome)
7. Man in the Mirror (omg classic)
8. I Just Can't Stop Loving You (omg awesome)
9. Dirty Diana (omg awesome)
10. Smooth Criminal (omg classic)
11. Leave Me Alone (one of my favorite songs of all time)

It just feels like it has much more variety in styles.  And MJ really started his persona with Bad.  It was in full force throughout the album.

Dangerous is fucking great too though.

I don't like Bad (the song) much anymore.

But I can't disagree with that. Leave Me Alone is one of my faves too. I'll give it another listen. By all estimations, thriller wasn't full on pop. Neither was Off The Wall. They were rnb/funk in style. Bad is definitely where Michael opened up to more pop fare.
Those horns on Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'   Oh lawd.  So good
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Post by: jakefromstatefarm on November 26, 2014, 02:20:56 PM
:tocry :mynicca my man

I think SitA and SoH are just not that interesting all the way through. I agree with you on the classics thing pretty much tho; they were one of those bands that ran the extreme metal gamut. I like Hell Awaits best because i think the songs are the best thought out overall. The guitar portions are well thought out.
guitarwork on Seasons is WAY less intricate than their previous LP's, I think the best moments on that one are when Lombardo's double bass gets into a groove with the riff, intro to Expendable Youth is some (http://www.dailyveritas.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/impossibletoreplace.gif) shit

but yeah there's a lot of filler, Blood Red, Temptation, title track are all (http://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/sleepsmilie.gif)
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Post by: TakingBackSunday on November 26, 2014, 03:13:04 PM
nope MBDTF is fantastic
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Post by: Pickles the Firecat on November 26, 2014, 07:44:58 PM
MBDTF 6/10
Yeezus 8/10

MBDTF is a good album with a lot of moments like this:

(http://i.imgur.com/J4xVj.gif)

That don't coalesce into something greater. There is something undeniably dope being held back by mediocre verses, poor sequencing, half-baked ideas, and one of the worst masters of all time. Did nobody check the sound levels/staging on this record at all? Because it sounds like mud. But it will always have moments like 'Ye going multi-spatial sadboy demon summoner/shockingly insightful relationship analyst on Blame Game that are just...Goddamn.

Yeezus lost a lot of luster as the people Kanye worked with steadily dropped music doper than Yeezus. Almost everyone involved with that album has released solo material darker, more intimate, more focused, more forward thinking, and straight up better than it. You can listen to something like Xen and immediately hear the difference between an artist bringing a personal inner-vision to life and a dude making a pastiche of dope beats. Makes Yeezus feel like a hanger-on in a lot of ways. But if you're an aging, increasingly creatively bankrupt musician, you could do worse than building a record on the backs of talented young producers.
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Post by: dkdk on November 26, 2014, 08:17:14 PM
nope MBDTF is fantastic

yep time will only strengthen that.
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Post by: El Babua on November 26, 2014, 09:30:26 PM
I can't unhear MBDTF's bad mixing cause of y'all.  :lol

Still my fav album from Kanye, either that or LR.
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Post by: fistfulofmetal on November 26, 2014, 10:06:15 PM
iron maiden is trash.

influential, and important to the genre

still trash.
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Post by: seagrams hotsauce on November 26, 2014, 11:29:39 PM
Didn't MBDTF have like 4 engineers working on the master? No wonder that shit was a mess.

My main sticking points with MBDTF are that a) half the album was out, for free, via GOOD fridays, and b) this is the first (and so far only, thank god) Kanye album where every song sounds like arena rock.
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Post by: ToxicAdam on November 27, 2014, 12:07:45 AM
Queen is the Creed of the 70's. They only became cool because of Freddie's death.
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Post by: Himu on November 27, 2014, 12:10:38 AM
Queen is the Creed of the 70's. They only became cool because of Freddie's death.

:what
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Post by: Human Snorenado on November 27, 2014, 12:16:37 AM
Queen is the Creed of the 70's. They only became cool because of Freddie's death.

YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH
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Post by: ToxicAdam on November 27, 2014, 01:13:56 AM
Arena rock with shit lyrics that even AC-DC and KISS would scoff at.
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Post by: El Babua on November 27, 2014, 03:01:44 AM
Queen was a showtime band, but a damn good one. And Brian May alone > those troglodytes from AC/DC and Kiss
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Post by: El Babua on November 27, 2014, 03:05:31 AM
As for a controversial opinion, this album might retroactively supersede Dear Science as my 2008 album of the year.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl0uFtClAmw
[close]

Aside from the ironic novelty aspect, there's something so damn warm and inviting to this.  :-[
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Post by: El Babua on November 27, 2014, 03:23:40 AM
Angus is a great guitarist no doubt, but the band never appealed to me.

In fact, I really disliked a lot of what was coming out of rock around that time other than punk and what spawned from it.
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Post by: El Babua on November 27, 2014, 01:54:15 PM
Angus is a great guitarist no doubt, but the band never appealed to me.

In fact, I really disliked a lot of what was coming out of rock around that time other than punk and what spawned from it.

Understood, I love that stuff too. I think what changed a lot of how I approached some of the most overplayed songs and bands in a more favorable view is the fact that I didn't have a lot of the exposure to them without it being of my choosing. I definitely heard about the bigger bands before, and I got to choose who I like and who I don't like, as well as songs I do like way before I moved here and realized how overplayed they are.

I love Freebird, mostly because I didn't hear a lick of it till I chose to when I was 15 and learning how to play guitar. Helps out a lot to also not have met crazy fanboys in the land without that many rock dustheads aside from my father who's usually just like "I like this and I don't like this" without force.

Haha, I really wasn't exposed to Freebird (or basically any classic Rock) either until I was a teenager since I went to predominately black schools. Growing up, we had this cable channel called The Box that aired nothing but music videos all day (until 10 when it switched to scrambled Playboy anyways). I believe it had callers in the area requesting songs so it was nothing but hip hop and pop with a little bit of nu-metal and pop punk thrown in.
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Post by: Himu on November 27, 2014, 02:03:32 PM
I only heard freebird through Forrest gump growing up. Great song.

I think ACDC is a great band. One of the best, really. It's just that white people overplay certain rock music to the point where you hate it even if it's good.
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Post by: Rufus on November 27, 2014, 02:12:46 PM
ACDC wears out quick. I liked them well enough for a short while though. Motorhead is more my speed (hurr-durr), but I can name maybe five songs of their's that I like. :shaq2
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Post by: Himu on November 27, 2014, 11:51:30 PM
give this black woman a course on motorhead. who the fuck is motorhead and how in the world are they better than ac/dc
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Post by: TakingBackSunday on November 27, 2014, 11:55:32 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU1WCgm-RQw

thats literally the only thing I know from motorhead, but its a tits song
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Post by: Himu on November 27, 2014, 11:57:30 PM
you realize that's a cover, and not the actual band, right?
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Post by: Sausage on November 28, 2014, 12:03:05 AM
Nickelback is a fucking terrible band.
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Post by: TakingBackSunday on November 28, 2014, 12:11:26 AM
...yes?  And Lemmy is the lead singer of Motorhead, so...not really a cover?
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 28, 2014, 12:14:50 AM
It's hard to hate AC/DC tbh. Album for album they have a very good catalog. Might not have a bunch of classics per se but when you're constantly putting out solid 8 albums in between a couple classics (Back In Black, Highway To Hell) that's perfectly fine.
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Post by: TakingBackSunday on November 28, 2014, 12:22:26 AM
Quote
Might not have a bunch of classics

:what

- Highway to Hell
- TNT
- Hells Bells
- Thunderstruck
- Shook Me All Night Long
- Back in Black
- Shoot to Thrill
- Let There Be Rock
- Its a Long Way to the Top
- For Those About to Rock
- Dirty Deeds
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Post by: Himu on November 28, 2014, 12:30:24 AM
...yes?  And Lemmy is the lead singer of Motorhead, so...not really a cover?

its still not Motorhead though. It's more like Lemmy and some famous and great musicians who aren't the rest of Motorhead

Didn't think the song was good anyways.
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Post by: TakingBackSunday on November 28, 2014, 12:36:43 AM
well ok mrs. who the fuck is motorhead, telling me about motorhead
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 28, 2014, 12:41:41 AM
Quote
Might not have a bunch of classics

:what

- Highway to Hell
- TNT
- Hells Bells
- Thunderstruck
- Shook Me All Night Long
- Back in Black
- Shoot to Thrill
- Let There Be Rock
- Its a Long Way to the Top
- For Those About to Rock
- Dirty Deeds

I'm talking about albums, not tracks. Obviously AC/DC has a shit ton of classic tracks...

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Post by: Himu on November 28, 2014, 12:41:54 AM
well ok mrs. who the fuck is motorhead, telling me about motorhead

It's just odd that you would post a link of not even the full band playing when someone asks about the band ???

Someone asks about Queen, I'm not going to link a video with Elton John playing/singing and not Freddie. Just weird.
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Post by: Himu on November 28, 2014, 12:46:02 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4wMn21DePs

Fucking gods of speed metal :rejoice

AC/DC most definitely has classics, you are a hater if you deny that. You can not like them or their music, but downplaying their best work? Nah.

Oh and Let There Be Rock is the best AC/DC album(I'm sure that would be considered controversial somewhere):

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuUTtVGO10Y

Okay this is good.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 28, 2014, 01:08:15 AM
Quote
Might not have a bunch of classics

:what

- Highway to Hell
- TNT
- Hells Bells
- Thunderstruck
- Shook Me All Night Long
- Back in Black
- Shoot to Thrill
- Let There Be Rock
- Its a Long Way to the Top
- For Those About to Rock
- Dirty Deeds

I'm talking about albums, not tracks. Obviously AC/DC has a shit ton of classic tracks...

Whatever, Mr. "Cher had some hits"
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: sarslip on November 28, 2014, 07:49:08 AM
ac/dc has always sucked regardless of "classic tracks" you stan for, ass-tier rock band.  rather listen to Toto than that BS

also old Cher LPs have great production and songwriting.


Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: sarslip on November 28, 2014, 07:54:25 AM
ac/dc has always sucked regardless of "classic tracks" you stan for, ass-tier rock band.

Why do you say these things to me? When you know that I will kill you for it?

lol i thought this was a "Safe place" 

late 70s rock in general (http://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/scusthov.gif)
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Dickie Dee on November 28, 2014, 09:21:17 AM
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple is one of the best albums of the 90s
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 28, 2014, 09:25:46 AM
yeah they have some good chilljams.

however sublime fans are trashpersons. kind of people who listen to cypress hill.

Agree 100%, they always smell like weed and axe (to cover up the smell), wear shit clothes, and talk about getting high every 15 seconds.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 28, 2014, 09:26:50 AM
ac/dc has always sucked regardless of "classic tracks" you stan for, ass-tier rock band.  rather listen to Toto than that BS

also old Cher LPs have great production and songwriting.

You know, the worst thing about AC/DC is the goddamn jukebox conspiracy. Go to ANY primarily white bar in the country and wait 15 minutes....SOMEBODY will place AC/DC, happens every fucking time.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: sarslip on November 28, 2014, 09:50:23 AM
yeah they have some good chilljams.

however sublime fans are trashpersons. kind of people who listen to cypress hill.
lol

--
Hells Bells is aight tho i cant front, saying "Creed sucks" is "controversial" tho?  :neogaf
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: kick51 on November 28, 2014, 10:40:46 AM
yeah they have some good chilljams.

however sublime fans are trashpersons. kind of people who listen to cypress hill.

Agree 100%, they always smell like weed and axe (to cover up the smell), wear shit clothes, and talk about getting high every 15 seconds.

and are all in their 30s now, people who have been getting high to santeria for 16 years
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 28, 2014, 10:45:41 AM
yeah they have some good chilljams.

however sublime fans are trashpersons. kind of people who listen to cypress hill.

Agree 100%, they always smell like weed and axe (to cover up the smell), wear shit clothes, and talk about getting high every 15 seconds.

and are all in their 30s now, people who have been getting high to santeria for 16 years

And are straight up bums.

Hey man you got a smoke?

Hey man you got some smoke?

Hey man can you get my ins?

Hey man can you give me a ride?

Hey man can you get me a beer?


No fuckhole, you don't have tits, stop dry begging.

Show up to a bar, show, etc without any money brehs.

I stayed at a hotel by a Phish show once. Fuck it all if it wasn't full of 30+ year old cacs showing up with no money for rooms, etc.  Sucked.  Caught one of those hippy shitfucks asking my son for money (my son was like 13 at the time)....I slammed him against the wall.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: sarslip on November 28, 2014, 10:50:51 AM
yeah they have some good chilljams.

however sublime fans are trashpersons. kind of people who listen to cypress hill.

Agree 100%, they always smell like weed and axe (to cover up the smell), wear shit clothes, and talk about getting high every 15 seconds.

and are all in their 30s now, people who have been getting high to santeria for 16 years

And are straight up bums.

Hey man you got a smoke?

Hey man you got some smoke?

Hey man can you get my ins?

Hey man can you give me a ride?

Hey man can you get me a beer?


No fuckhole, you don't have tits, stop dry begging.

Show up to a bar, show, etc without any money brehs.

whoa brah, neg vibes, harshing my mellow over here.  you sound like you could use a chilljam and a open face turkey sandwich (http://cdn.meme.am/images/4168627.jpg)
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 28, 2014, 10:52:55 AM
yeah they have some good chilljams.

however sublime fans are trashpersons. kind of people who listen to cypress hill.

Agree 100%, they always smell like weed and axe (to cover up the smell), wear shit clothes, and talk about getting high every 15 seconds.

and are all in their 30s now, people who have been getting high to santeria for 16 years

And are straight up bums.

Hey man you got a smoke?

Hey man you got some smoke?

Hey man can you get my ins?

Hey man can you give me a ride?

Hey man can you get me a beer?


No fuckhole, you don't have tits, stop dry begging.

Show up to a bar, show, etc without any money brehs.

whoa brah, neg vibes, harshing my mellow over here.  you sound like you could use a chilljam and a open face turkey sandwich (http://cdn.meme.am/images/4168627.jpg)

Want me to be this guy?

(http://i.ytimg.com/vi/9R3bxziySn0/0.jpg)

Dry beg a 13 year old kid for money...."hey maaaann, I know you got some money brother....Can I get 20 bucks?"

13 fucking years old...13.....motherfuckers.


Ask a black person if they have any money brehs

 :kobeyuck
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: kick51 on November 28, 2014, 12:10:52 PM
I stayed at a hotel by a Phish show once. Fuck it all if it wasn't full of 30+ year old cacs showing up with no money for rooms, etc.  Sucked.  Caught one of those hippy shitfucks asking my son for money (my son was like 13 at the time)....I slammed him against the wall.



hey, if it's a sold out and in-demand show like New Years or Halloween, ragged hippy chicks are willing perform sex acts for tix, flashing, bj, etc.  Probably better off trading for drugs though. 

You get a nice mix of rich suburb douches, the despicable last bastion of touring hippies, and ever-shrinking numbers of college kids and teens at phish shows.  Makes for some good people watching, particularly when everyone's hitting nitrous after the show. 
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: ToxicAdam on November 30, 2014, 09:26:11 PM
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple is one of the best albums of the 90s

Interstate Love Song is probably the best rock song of the 90's (Everlong being a close second). Even though that song (ILS) could fit into just about any era, it has a timeless feel to it.

Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 30, 2014, 11:15:44 PM
I remember one of my students asking me to teach them how to play "Smells like Teen Spirit."

Five minutes later his response was "Wait...that's it?"
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: TakingBackSunday on December 01, 2014, 01:27:53 AM
Sonic Youth sucks dick.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Trent Dole on December 01, 2014, 01:39:01 AM
Well they're permaded now cause Thurston a slat so you don't have to worry abut hearing anything new from them ever again!
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: nudemacusers on December 01, 2014, 01:59:37 AM
I like Alice in Chains on a theoretical level (crunchy riffs and dope harmonizing) but listening to dirt is like watching your brother shoot up in an alley pissing himself. ain't nobody want to see that. nirvana was kind enough to keep it abstract and art-y with a dose of altpunk noise.





----------
The W is Wu's best album.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: sarslip on December 01, 2014, 08:47:13 AM
Sonic Youth sucks dick.

this one stings  (http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a2541001691_3.jpg)

seen em live once, they tear it down
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Dickie Dee on December 01, 2014, 08:48:49 AM
I like Alice in Chains on a theoretical level (crunchy riffs and dope harmonizing) but listening to dirt is like watching your brother shoot up in an alley pissing himself. ain't nobody want to see that. nirvana was kind enough to keep it abstract and art-y with a dose of altpunk noise.

Jar of Flies tho
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: kick51 on December 01, 2014, 09:08:28 AM
Sonic Youth sucks dick.


(http://i.imgur.com/ykaCrAc.jpg)


I will admit they are a bit uneven and the lyrics often suck. 

self-titled, bad moon rising, Sister, Daydream Nation, Goo, Murray St., Dirty, Sonic Nurse, 1000 Leaves all say you are the one who actually sucks the dicks tho
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Mr. Nobody on December 01, 2014, 01:11:49 PM
The W is Wu's best album.

 :neogaf

It's the closest they've gotten to returning to the 36 Chambers sound but there are some middling and low points on that album.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 01, 2014, 01:13:50 PM
Christmas music isn't that bad.
It's just that the good stuff (like Coventry Carol, Gabriel's message, etc) never gets much play.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 01, 2014, 01:21:04 PM
Christmas music isn't that bad.
It's just that the good stuff (like Coventry Carol, Gabriel's message, etc) never gets much play.

:ufup

There are exactly 3 Christmas related things worth listening to: the Peanuts holiday album, Fairy Tale of New York from the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl, and Rufus Wainwright's Spotlight on Christmas. Everything else is rubbish.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 01, 2014, 01:22:40 PM
The W is Wu's best album.

 :beli
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 01, 2014, 01:24:42 PM
Audioslave's self-titled is better than anything Rage produced
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 01, 2014, 01:37:58 PM
Audioslave's self-titled is better than anything Rage produced

The guitar work in this is the best thing Tom Morello ever did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzRbeHyIomk

Gets incredibly epic towards the end.
Renegades is my favorite Rage album, imo they were way better when Zack was just providing energy instead of writing and morello was allowed to just riff to his hearts content. Also,  those albums are Loudness War'd to fuck, which I'm guessing is Rubins influence
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: nudemacusers on December 01, 2014, 01:47:35 PM
I like Alice in Chains on a theoretical level (crunchy riffs and dope harmonizing) but listening to dirt is like watching your brother shoot up in an alley pissing himself. ain't nobody want to see that. nirvana was kind enough to keep it abstract and art-y with a dose of altpunk noise.

What do you think of Jar of Flies?

That one gets me from beginning to end.
Oh I really do like pretty much everything AiC has done, I just can't listen to it, it puts me in a dark mood long after I hit stop. Maybe that's a testament to how real it is, I dunno. Junkhead is one of the worst-best songs I've ever heard, if that makes sense. Since I'm a nirvana stanley I guess a comparison in my mind would be listening to All Apologies on repeat for an hour.
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Post by: nudemacusers on December 01, 2014, 01:51:25 PM
dream theater is the squarepusher of rock music.
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Post by: Human Snorenado on December 01, 2014, 02:01:55 PM
Also, Radiohead lacking swag is kind of the point. Thom Yorke's self-loathing is a big part of what elevates that band to elite-tier.

Again though: seeing them live changes things. Watch them bang out Myxomatosis and tell me they don't have power, at least.

By far the most swagless band I've ever seen live is Vampire Weekend (they were at Coachella and didn't conflict with another band I was interested in, so I went).

You might as well have played their cd over the PA system and set up cardboard cutouts of the band members.

Idioteque live

:whew
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 01, 2014, 02:12:21 PM
Simple Plan deserves a spot on that list. Music made by losers, for losers.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 01, 2014, 02:16:31 PM
Genuinely controversial opinion: people who are musicians have shitty musical taste, as they will routinely conflate difficulty with something worth listening to. This explains prog rock.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 01, 2014, 02:18:01 PM
Sum 41 is a legit choice for swaglessness but they did have that baller music video with the diving board

Fake edit: they also had that Punjabi maidenhead playing lead, Esch why are you so mad? :chappellewtf
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 01, 2014, 02:19:06 PM
Adam's Song by Blink 182 probably has a higher death toll, TBH.

Genuinely controversial opinion: people who are musicians have shitty musical taste, as they will routinely conflate difficulty with something worth listening to. This explains prog rock.

If I had ever been infused with gamma radiation, this post would have turned me into a Hulk. Hate.

:umad
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 01, 2014, 02:21:34 PM
Adams song is fucking :jbwow to the nines. That shit still hurts listening to.

No room for subtlety, all maudlin everything; Remember in the second verse when he's like, "Remember the time I spilled the cup in the hall / please tell mom this is not her fault" :heh




:tocry
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 01, 2014, 02:22:31 PM
Adam's Song by Blink 182 probably has a higher death toll, TBH.

Genuinely controversial opinion: people who are musicians have shitty musical taste, as they will routinely conflate difficulty with something worth listening to. This explains prog rock.

If I had ever been infused with gamma radiation, this post would have turned me into a Hulk. Hate.
Dude is IMMENSELY right.

There's tons of music that love because of the "artistry" of its construction like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YX2C4KARos

Would I say it's worth listening to if you're not someone who understands or cares about the intricacies? Absolutely not. Sorta like my point about Jazz.

Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: kick51 on December 01, 2014, 02:28:15 PM
Genuinely controversial opinion: people who are musicians have shitty musical taste, as they will routinely conflate difficulty with something worth listening to. This explains prog rock.


prog is almost literally deader than disco.  I like some of it, but in a lot of ways, it's a genre that's more valuable as an influence in other genres and styles. there are certainly corny music students who still love it and idiots who conflate difficulty and quality, I'll give ya that.  It's like a rite of passage for a high school guitar student to go through this phase when they're trying to find "the best"
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 01, 2014, 02:32:00 PM
It's why no one with any real taste can listen to Rush. Sure, technically what they're doing is incredible, but Geddy Lee sings like an elf being tortured. If you can overlook that, you're probably on the spectrum, just saying.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 01, 2014, 02:34:16 PM
Look for "technical" stuff in rock brehs.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 01, 2014, 02:52:22 PM
To Bring You My Love is better than Muse's entire discography, tho
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 01, 2014, 03:09:34 PM

The W is Wu's best album.

Worse post in this thread, next to the jazz hate.

Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Rufus on December 01, 2014, 03:11:29 PM
Genuinely controversial opinion: people who are musicians have shitty musical taste, as they will routinely conflate difficulty with something worth listening to. This explains prog rock.
It perfectly explains wank of all kinds. One of the few things I've learned playing an instrument is that time dialation alone accounts for a lot of what people think is "taste". Anything can get filtered out like traffic noise if you're not used to the sound.
It also explains why some music seems to 'grow' the more you listen to it.

I still prefer simpler stuff though, but maybe just because I have a hard time listening attentively when I'm not playing myself.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 01, 2014, 03:14:46 PM
Look for "technical" stuff in rock brehs.

You willing to expand this ether to the blues in general or nah?

(http://i.imgur.com/JgZs64Q.png)
Hell, I'd expand it to nearly everything except classical or jazz
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Trent Dole on December 01, 2014, 03:28:27 PM
dream theater is the squarepusher of rock music.
B-but I fucking love Squarepusher. :gloomy
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Eric P on December 01, 2014, 03:53:07 PM
the Amen Break is the greatest 6 seconds of recorded music
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 01, 2014, 03:55:48 PM
the Amen Break is the greatest 6 seconds of recorded music
greatest? No. Most influential? Probably.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Eric P on December 01, 2014, 03:58:39 PM
the Amen Break is the greatest 6 seconds of recorded music
greatest? No. Most influential? Probably.

greatest.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 01, 2014, 04:18:41 PM
Dirty, amen heavy dnb

:lawd
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Eric P on December 01, 2014, 04:35:17 PM
Dirty, amen heavy dnb

:lawd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-4KgkHLOAs

are you familiar with the oeuvre of Paul Blackout?

oh sweet jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFuCXHP90eM
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 01, 2014, 04:46:12 PM
Nope, but that's the sort of thing I was thinking about. Looks like he got started right around the same time (2002ish) that I largely stopped paying attention to dnb.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: tiesto on December 01, 2014, 06:30:26 PM
-M83 sucks
-Sofie is unlistenably bad
-Araabmuzik is a joke
-Nothing wrong with some cheesy early 00's trance
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 03, 2014, 01:04:00 PM
Let's get some classical music opinions in here:

- Vivaldi, Rachmaninoff and Borodin are actually quite good composers and are largely undeserving of the derision they get.
- Mozart is sorta overrated. He definitely has some masterpieces but they're not the ones that everyone talks about like the Rondo alla Turka, or the Jupiter Symphony or Eine Kleine Nacht Musik. Those are just memorable. His good stuff is rarely popular.
- Chopin is overrated. Everything he did Listz did better. Chopin just enjoys popularity because he's got that tragic emotional boy thing going on
- The piano is a percussion instrument
- Dvorak is largely overrated as is Prokofiev
- The most important composer of the late 20th century was not Adams, or Carter or Dun or Tower. It was Piazolla.
- They like to say there's no such thing as a perfect piece of music, but they're wrong. Beethoven's 9th is a damned perfect piece of music
- Rossini > Wagner
- Schoenberg set classical music back several decades
- I am shocked the Castlenuovo-Tedesco isn't more highly regarded possibly the best composer of the mid 20th century
- Villa-Lobos had some good pieces but outside of those he isn't very good.
- It is sad that the Lute is no longer in general play but the harp is. That makes no sense to me.
- The general state of modern classical music is pretty terrible. Hell, some videogame pieces are better suited for performance than a lot of what is being produced today.
- If someone who listens to your piece can't remember any of it distinctly then you've written/played a bad piece.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: sarslip on December 03, 2014, 01:22:00 PM
but Horowitz playing Chopin  :lawd
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Rufus on December 03, 2014, 02:24:20 PM
Didn't the guitar kill the lute?
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Rufus on December 03, 2014, 02:30:36 PM
Because the style wouldn't work on a (normal) guitar.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 03, 2014, 02:31:04 PM
Didn't the guitar kill the lute?
Yeah, my point is that the lute died because it was too hard to play and the guitar just did it better.
The harp is sorta in the same boat. It's too hard to tune and too hard to play and the piano just does it better. The only thing that it does well that other stuff can't do easier and better is those wide sweeping arpeggiated runs, but only that.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 03, 2014, 02:31:34 PM
Didn't the guitar kill the lute?
Yeah, my point is that the lute died because it was too hard to play and the guitar just did it better.
The harp is sorta in the same boat. It's too hard to tune and too hard to play and the piano just does it better. The only thing that it does well that other stuff can't do easier and better is those wide sweeping arpeggiated runs, but only that.

 :gaben
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Rufus on December 03, 2014, 02:32:38 PM
The harp sounds so nice though. :uguu
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 03, 2014, 02:33:46 PM
Beethoven > Mozart all day erryday for me. Most people tend to remember him for the 9th and 5th symphonies but I'd put the 7th right up there, and his concertos (esp. piano) are top notch. Dude was a genius but not as much as...

Bach. Who was probably an alien from a highly advanced future society that came to earth to advance music. That's literally a plausible explanation.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 03, 2014, 02:34:31 PM
Also, Frank Zappa is a musical genius and in 200 years will be viewed as one of the greatest humans of the 20th century.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 03, 2014, 02:37:56 PM
prompt: was Bach the swagginest composer of the Baroque period?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Musical_Offering
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 03, 2014, 02:39:06 PM
Beethoven > Mozart all day erryday for me. Most people tend to remember him for the 9th and 5th symphonies but I'd put the 7th right up there, and his concertos (esp. piano) are top notch. Dude was a genius but not as much as...

Bach. Who was probably an alien from a highly advanced future society that came to earth to advance music. That's literally a plausible explanation.
I don't think anyone has ever mastered the intricacies of music like Bach did. Though Beethoven stabs at your soul with music.
BTW, never saw the love for the 7th. It's good, just not great. But the late quartets man, you should listen to those. Damn stuff will change your life.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: nudemacusers on December 03, 2014, 02:40:30 PM

The W is Wu's best album.

Worse post in this thread, next to the jazz hate.
minimal odb presence, abstract start-stop song structure. dat gza freestyle that just pops in at the end of conditioner.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 03, 2014, 02:41:36 PM
That 2nd movement tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq9Gu5N42HQ

:lawd
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Steve Contra on December 03, 2014, 03:01:59 PM
The amount of stuff I'd rather listen to than the Beatles is pretty staggering.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 03, 2014, 03:03:39 PM
The amount of stuff I'd rather listen to than the Beatles is pretty staggering.

I'm with you on that one man. Add Led Zepplin and Pink Floyd to that shit too. All garbage tier rock.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Steve Contra on December 03, 2014, 03:07:20 PM
Not too controversial (except for fans of dad rock), but James Brown is the best thing in music in the past 100 years or so, by a lot.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 03, 2014, 03:08:18 PM
Steve Contra has the worst taste on this board, about a great many things, and it isn't even close.

Add Led Zepplin and Pink Floyd to that shit too. All garbage tier rock.

Well I guess it is close. If you weren't a former NFL player I would hunt you down as well.  :maf

I didn't grow up with that shit. I grew up with James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Barry White, etc.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Steve Contra on December 03, 2014, 03:10:48 PM
Steve Contra has the worst taste on this board, about a great many things, and it isn't even close.

Add Led Zepplin and Pink Floyd to that shit too. All garbage tier rock.

Well I guess it is close. If you weren't a former NFL player I would hunt you down as well.  :maf

I didn't grow up with that shit. I grew up with James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Barry White, etc.
:interracial
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Post by: Trent Dole on December 03, 2014, 03:11:40 PM
-M83 sucks
:mynicca
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Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 03, 2014, 03:11:55 PM
Forgot moms side

Aretha Franklin, anything Motown, etc.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 03, 2014, 03:14:39 PM
Motown :lawd

Smokey Robinson "Tears of a Clown"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaMX0Cs5Bc4

:lawd


**Is the only Smokey that matters on this board.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Steve Contra on December 03, 2014, 03:16:56 PM
Back when you get on the radio by actually being a good singer :fbm
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 03, 2014, 03:18:26 PM
Back when you get on the radio by actually being a good singer :fbm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeVx1C73o8k
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 03, 2014, 03:18:49 PM
Sam Cooke tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOYuhLNwh3A

:lawd :dead
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 03, 2014, 03:20:24 PM
I see you sam cooke and raise you Otis Redding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sBoUZ6gMkc

Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 03, 2014, 03:22:13 PM
Well, there's this guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87FjkqtK67o
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Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 03, 2014, 03:24:02 PM
ANd this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqAvFx3NxUM

Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Steve Contra on December 03, 2014, 03:24:05 PM
At least white people got David Bowie I guess :fbm
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 03, 2014, 03:25:21 PM
At least white people got David Bowie I guess :fbm

Nah, you guys got 1/2 of Michael Jackson too.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 03, 2014, 03:25:42 PM
At least white people got David Bowie I guess :fbm

White people also have Van Morrison tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlaLYr2jpgs
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Steve Contra on December 03, 2014, 03:26:45 PM
At least white people got David Bowie I guess :fbm

Nah, you guys got 1/2 of Michael Jackson too.
Only after courting him for a few years.
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Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 03, 2014, 03:27:10 PM
And Elvis

 :ufup
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Post by: Human Snorenado on December 03, 2014, 03:28:33 PM
...can we not have Elvis?
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 03, 2014, 03:29:30 PM
...can we not have Elvis?

We don't want him, we have Chuck Berry.


Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: El Babua on December 03, 2014, 03:30:31 PM
Motown :bow2

Beatles are the best though - I don't think their run with Rubber Soul through Abbey Road will ever be topped. Led Zeppelin is good, though I think all their albums are marred by 2 or 3 bad tracks, except maybe Houses of the Holy. Floyd is great, provided it's pre Wall.
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Post by: nudemacusers on December 03, 2014, 03:31:43 PM
on the topic of niche techno, as much as it pains me to say, most/all of tigerbeat6's artist lineup was mad overrated in the early 00s. does anyone care about blechdom anything or cex now? lolno.
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Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 03, 2014, 03:33:41 PM
on the topic of niche techno, as much as it pains me to say, most/all of tigerbeat6's artist lineup was mad overrated in the early 00s. does anyone care about blechdom anything or cex now? lolno.

We got you beat there too breh....

Booty House >>>>>>>>>>>>> Techno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkYRK-8qGJw

Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: nudemacusers on December 03, 2014, 03:49:16 PM
chromeo is the whitest electronic music of all time :heh

even whiter than whatever kompakt and m-nus are shitting out now :heh
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: El Babua on December 03, 2014, 04:05:15 PM
Led Zeppelin is good, though I think all their albums are marred by 2 or 3 bad tracks, except maybe Houses of the Holy. Floyd is great, provided it's pre Wall.

With III I definitely agree with you.

IV has Four Sticks, which was a good idea in execution and has that really good middle section, but doesn't quite come together as a full song.

Physical Graffiti has most of the back half of Disc 2.

With II, I think it depends on how you feel about Thank You and Living Loving Maid. I personally love both tracks, although I could do without Thank You's chorus. Tbh, I only really like that song because of the acoustic guitar solo and the keyboard work.

II is their most consistent album second to Houses IMO. Thank You isn't a bad track, just a little meandering. I like parts of Moby Dick and Bring it on Home, but it's rare for me to play both songs unless I leave the album playing after Ramble On, sorry Bonzo :(
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Steve Contra on December 03, 2014, 04:05:48 PM
It ain't really controversial to say you don't like the Beatles though, they're so universally played and present in real life that all they get is backlash on the internet, they won too much :yeshrug

A controversial opinion here would be to say Radiohead is an average band, or that Daft Punk arent anything special.
I'm not saying The Beatles are bad, just there's a lot better out there.  No matter how many times I qualify this Glen Shinobi still gets mad though :neogaf
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: nudemacusers on December 03, 2014, 04:14:23 PM
be adults and argue about your dad's music brehs :heh
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Pickles the Firecat on December 03, 2014, 04:24:28 PM
Time will reveal squarepusher and flylo to be overrated, just like it did venetian snares :yeshrug

Time definitely won't treat FlyLo well. Cosmogramma --> UTQC --> You're Dead! is a super self-indulgent run of music that:

1. Doesn't fit within the dominate themes of his contemporaries
2. Doesn't match the talent and advancements of (some of) his contemporaries, both locally and globally
3. Is super, super, super smart-dumb pretentious in theory and execution
4. Probably sucks if you aren't into playfully inexplicable jazz motifs
5. Saw a bunch of his "disciples" (for lack of better term) pass him as a musician in many ways
6. Despite the personal growth he's shown, was/is super stagnant in terms of his growth as a musician

I say this as a huge fan of the guy and those albums individually. I love self-indulgent music, I love the frame of mind he comes with, I love his live work. I'm definitely part of the super, super, super smart-dumb pretentious music theory and execution club. It's just not material that will hold up well to critical thought over time. Dude is in for a complete Arcade Fire treatment. Cosmogramma might escape judgment, but in critical circles UTQC is going to be looked back on in the same light as Neon Bible (incredibly overwrought, not worth returning to) and You're Dead! is probably headed for Reflektor treatment ("cool! ...wait, why?"). Tho I doubt people will go back and question Los Angeles, 1983, and his live material the way dudes (rightfully) reassessed Funeral and The Suburbs. But the more and more mainstream attention he gets, the closer and closer that backlash wave gets. You can feel people getting ready to turn on him because their lame cousin from the suburbs is bumping Dead Man's Tetris and went to see FlyLo at (insert local festival here).

At the same time dude could really reinvigorate himself and kick off the second half of a successful, innovative career with this Captain Murphy record if he fully commits himself to it.

I guess one of my controversial opinions is that Arcade Fire, in retrospect, are fucking ultra corny faux intellectual melodramatic shlock that appeals to people who want their cradle to grave middle management lifestyle to feel important. RE: every thought Win Butler has ever had: who fucking cares
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Post by: Pickles the Firecat on December 03, 2014, 04:42:36 PM
Regardless of being the new (old?) buzz kid, PC music is a legitimately dope label/movement and their aesthetic really pushes some cool thoughts with regard to layering, percussion, and spatial composition. Also GFOTY, Sophie, A.G. Cook, et all are just fun as heck.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: nudemacusers on December 03, 2014, 04:49:06 PM
chromeo is the whitest electronic music of all time :heh


Nope.

Cant outwhite ambient side projects from black metal bands, or drone. The latter usually  has no beats. Just vwoooooooooooom

:heh
i dunno i think blvck metal drone has some brown crossover appeal*, while only suburban college cacs are into chromeo, either ironically or sincerely.

*be not white and into the works of burzum brehs :hitler
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Pickles the Firecat on December 03, 2014, 04:53:52 PM
If you haven't formed an opinion on a record in over a year since its release, I'd say you formed an opinion of it.

 :trash
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Dickie Dee on December 03, 2014, 04:54:09 PM
For me it's Suburbs > NeonBible> Funeral then probably Reflektor. Still really liked Reflektor but I don't find myself going back to it very much.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 03, 2014, 05:05:25 PM
Also, Funeral and The Suburbs are fucking amazing.

Not a huge fan of Neon Bible with the exception of No Cars Go (which is one of my favorite songs ever). Reflektor... still haven't formed an opinion on it.

My Body is a Cage, Keep the Car Running and Antichrist Television Blues are all awesome songs. Album as a whole is just kinda "there" but those songs are great.
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Post by: TakingBackSunday on December 03, 2014, 05:43:22 PM
if someone shits on the beach boys here I swear to christ
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Himu on December 03, 2014, 05:47:52 PM
Classical music isn't that great. The classical station here is the worst radio station and it replaced the badass KTRU which would play Afro beat and reggae on Saturdays.

Fuck classical outside of composers like Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart;etc I can fuck with some modern classical like Philip Glass, but it's really not my genre and I'd just rather listen to jazz or electronic.
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Post by: sarslip on December 03, 2014, 06:17:45 PM
funeral > suburbs > reflektor > neon bible
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: sarslip on December 03, 2014, 06:24:47 PM
Discovery > Homework > Human After All > Tron Soundtrack > Random Yacht Memories
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 03, 2014, 07:04:48 PM
CD>LR>Yeezus>MBDTF>>>Graduation>>>AIDS>>>Attack Of The Clones=808s and Heartbreaks
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Steve Contra on December 03, 2014, 07:47:31 PM
It's an overproduced mess of an album.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Himu on December 03, 2014, 07:51:34 PM
Discovery > RAM > alive > homework > tron reconfigured > human after all > shit > tron soundtrack
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 03, 2014, 07:55:46 PM
Pretending Metallica has put out any listenable albums after And Justice For All

:neogaf
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Himu on December 03, 2014, 07:59:13 PM
Black album is a great album with a lot of classics.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 03, 2014, 08:01:15 PM
using "listenable" to describe AJFA... :stopitslime
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Himu on December 03, 2014, 08:10:21 PM
Sure but it has great songs. Who cares.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 03, 2014, 08:11:22 PM
using "listenable" to describe AJFA... :stopitslime
:what

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNk7OM5OypE
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 03, 2014, 08:11:44 PM
TBA is half garbage half Ur-Nickelback post rock

if you accept that the Metallica you grew up with is no longer a viable expectation, their albums become decent, saccharine, safe hard rock radio fodder, and there's nothing wrong w/ that

you can scrap a pretty decent album out of the best tracks from Load/Reload
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Himu on December 03, 2014, 08:12:21 PM
Sure but it has great songs. Who cares.

I didn't say Load was better. I said it was a more consistent album.

I read it wrong lol
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 03, 2014, 08:13:54 PM
:what

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNk7OM5OypE
I mean listenable as in "easy to listen to," not derogatorily; AJFA is by far and away their densest release. fwiw, Frayed Ends is my fave track on the album and one of my favorite Metallica tracks period
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 03, 2014, 08:22:27 PM
I kinda don't hate St. Anger's title track :avbehh

Frantic's lame but in a funny way so that gets the :mannyshrug from me

Some Kind of Monster has a :lawd riff that gets submarined by the AWFUL FUCKING guitar that gets super-imposed on the track for no goddamn reason at all and sounds like nails on a fucking chalkboard

that album gets shat on, deservedly, for a bevy of reasons. The biggest culprit imo is the production as a whole, some serious :mindfuck shit got greenlit on that record
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 03, 2014, 08:25:16 PM
KEA >>> Lightning > MOP >>> AJFA >>>>>>>>>> Garage Inc. >>>>>> Load/Reload

outside of that, ID really C

I enjoy the title track and Some Kind Of Monster on some guilty pleasure steez. But Frantic :ufup
this is pretty much exactly where I stand too, but my friends and I had so much fun yelling FRAN TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TOCK in high school that I'm indifferent towards it these days
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 03, 2014, 08:33:02 PM
It's metal's puberty. The coalescing of an identity against the backdrop of the more commercially oriented glam scene. Tape trading culture. Nascent Genre wars. The birth of the extreme scene and the subsequent backlash by moral guardians all played roles as the genre's symbols, rhetoric and identity were taking shape.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 03, 2014, 08:48:11 PM
Anthrax being the WOAT is maybe the only opinion in metal that doesn't spark heated nigel debate :lol

they were super media friendly and were signed to Island during thrash's heyday, someone's gotta do some digging into the label politics that went on

I enjoy all 3 Unforgiven's :larry
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 03, 2014, 08:53:55 PM
Sad But True and Wherever I May Roam are some killer tracks though. Up there with anything they've done.
I forgot to address this, Sad But True is exactly what I mean when I say Ur-Nickelback. shit is by the numbers downtuned riffage wank that has no purpose outside of inducing cockrock impulses. From a Pantera stanley, that shit is garbage
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 03, 2014, 08:56:08 PM
Hellhammer makes me (http://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/sleepsmilie.gif)

Blood Fire Death >>>>
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 03, 2014, 09:00:40 PM
Nickelback covered Sad But True [sic]
this is another thing, Metlicca is the benchmark for accessibility vs integrity in the rock music industry and their level of subliminal osmosis in caculture is staggering. Fucking Billy Joel riffs Master of Puppets from time to time in live sets
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Pickles the Firecat on December 03, 2014, 09:17:15 PM
Metal plug definitely needs to be revisited. There's so little overlap with metal and most of the plug regulars that almost everything (literally everything in my case) is a first time experience. Think people really dig that.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 03, 2014, 09:18:48 PM
Oh look, it's me, jake and Esch sperging about metal again.
Well, since you mentioned it:

Southern Trendkill (the album) is Dime's best guitarwork

I find Sabbath's production quality an insurmountable obstacle when going through their discog, Tony Iommi is a legend

The Mechanix >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The Four Horseman; if these tracks flipped albums, KEA would be top 5 metal records DOA

it's impossible to not like at least ONE Maiden song. The uncompromising commitment to their aesthetic, unparalleled consistency within their industry, super accessible, crazy commercial penetration and they're still incredibly highly revered inside of their genre. British Outkast.

Varg didn't do it

Alexi Laiho 's vocals sound like Timmy from South Park

Core scene is WAY gayer than the nu-metal scene ever was

Lamb of God is my generation's gateway drug to extreme metal
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Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 03, 2014, 09:33:26 PM
(http://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/laff.gif)
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 03, 2014, 09:37:47 PM
http://www.last.fm/group/Anti+Manowar/forum/105814/_/521566

esch annihilated
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Post by: Himu on December 03, 2014, 10:00:06 PM
Megadeth > Slayer > metallica > anthrax
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 03, 2014, 10:08:47 PM
Any music with cookie monster vocals is trash.
:yeshrug
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 03, 2014, 10:22:35 PM
Ringo was a better Beatle than Paul or John. that's right.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 03, 2014, 10:28:53 PM
Classical music isn't that great. The classical station here is the worst radio station and it replaced the badass KTRU which would play Afro beat and reggae on Saturdays.

Fuck classical outside of composers like Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart;etc I can fuck with some modern classical like Philip Glass, but it's really not my genre and I'd just rather listen to jazz or electronic.
Give piazzolla a whirl you'll probably like it
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 03, 2014, 10:44:42 PM
he's kinda like Zakk Wylde in that he's a great guitarist with a pretty shit aesthetic direction. CoB (and Melo-Death in general) is kinda EDMy, if that makes sense

Needled 24/7 riff gets me like (http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/532447/puffy-dancing-3-o.gif)
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 03, 2014, 10:58:48 PM
EXACTLY like Amon Amarth. God that fucking band is the litmus test for neckbeardedness. everything post Golden Hall is Avicii with tremolo picking
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: fistfulofmetal on December 03, 2014, 11:10:02 PM
amon amarth is a better band now than they were when they started.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 03, 2014, 11:36:29 PM
How can you like Celtic Frost, and not like Hellhammer?
I just conflated Hellhammer and Hammerheart (http://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/lupe1.png)

Nile? (http://i.imgur.com/NsARqvd.png)
I'm so glad you brought this up

brehs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ngfv_5y3o
:rofl it's this shit that's lost in translation in plug

spoiler (click to show/hide)
RE: I like the idea of Nile (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6y_EV7TDhvg/Ti3tFTPhQ9I/AAAAAAAABv8/6Usuhrz3vPo/s1600/2001_Zoolander_049.jpg)
[close]
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Post by: Trent Dole on December 03, 2014, 11:50:47 PM
Most overrated metal artist of all time is Devin Townsend, and all Devin Townsend related things. If i had a nickel for every time some crusty ass barnacle recommended me this bullshit


(http://i.imgur.com/EgQbjiA.png)
Yeah, but he made this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7fRsbbD6T8
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 04, 2014, 12:34:32 AM
Everything about Nile feels like a classic band: exotic/ancient mythophilia, obsessive dedication to the aesthetic, aloof/level-headed face of the band who has a decent grasp on how to manage a career. And yet, all their material -which there's a fuckton of- is pretty middling, like modern Deicide tier. Which sucks because I want to like Nile.

that one's def one of the GOATs. it also conveys how charismatic Lemay is, he'll hand the conversation to Steve, who'll fumble around for a minute and then he'll be like "ok, let me just co-opt your thought real quick....LANGUAGE OF MUSIC"
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 04, 2014, 01:33:23 AM
I can't believe I forgot these. These are actual opinions that I actually got in trouble for by my professors when I was at college:

- Most people play Bach's partitas and Suites for solo instruments wrong. They either play them too clinically or too much in the romantic vein. Fact is, the movements for those partitas and suites are based on dances, some of them even based on latin american dances, so they should be played much more rhythmically than most performers do it.

- Tchaikovsky was gay and likely committed suicide

- Handel's greatest achievement was in self-promotion and marketing. In that hundreds of years after his death many people mention him in the same breath as Bach. Handel's no slouch but this fact is astounding to me.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 04, 2014, 01:41:50 AM
To Mega Therion :blessed

top 5 covers all time :bow2

Edit: Holy Wars :noah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcjN5BNU9CY
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 04, 2014, 08:25:29 AM
Metal is trash music

 :ufup
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Brehvolution on December 04, 2014, 09:43:15 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm7qQlWmMEc

(http://i.imgur.com/EZk6kUX.gif)

Metal is trash music

 :ufup
(http://i.imgur.com/Ap88Wsq.png)
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 04, 2014, 09:52:06 PM
imo, I don't see the hate that The Black Angels get on the interwebs. Over the past 20 years, there's been a movement/revival of Stoner/Psychedelic/Doom that I lump together because they all kinda run along a spectrum. I'm thinking Clutch, Orange Goblin, QotSA, Electric Wizard, Kyuss, Sleep. They all exhibit the same stripped down methodology that some people see as formulaic, and I don't necessarily disagree w/ that. It's harmless and it goes, that's really all I could ask for.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: tiesto on December 05, 2014, 12:29:52 AM
chromeo is the whitest electronic music of all time :heh

even whiter than whatever kompakt and m-nus are shitting out now :heh

Hawtin's too busy throwing speakers on people (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDozKCtVzcQ) to produce anything anyways.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: nudemacusers on December 05, 2014, 04:17:14 AM
surprising upper body strength.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Stoney Mason on December 08, 2014, 05:59:57 PM
Haven't read any of this thread but I'll just toss this out there. Whenever I meet somebody and they aggressively sort of have an anti-beatles agenda instead of just maybe not liking them or preferring some other band of that era I think they are a moron. This amps up if that person is under the age of 25.

Not saying its fair or reasonable. Just saying its how I feel.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: toku on December 08, 2014, 06:06:29 PM
Alexi Laiho 's vocals sound like Timmy from South Park
controvershul: I think him and Children of Bodom are a bit overhated on. yeah it's corny, but if you can honest to goodness listen to folk metal like Ensiferum just for some crunchy riffs, this is pretty much the same thing with some fun guitar work. I decided to randomly fire up Follow the Reaper and it wasn't as 'bad' as I remember. It's basically video game music sensu melodic death metal with some power metal thrown in. totally harmless.

LAte but one thing I've always respected and I think a lot of hard metal heads did too about Children of Bodom is just as much as we think they're kinda silly and corny they do too. They're very self aware in a way a lot of metal bands aren't.

/2cents

feel like i shout add a note that I haven't really heard/listened to any CoB stuff post like 2008 so idk how they are now. Post high school I listen to way more rap than I do punk/folk and metal
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 08, 2014, 07:17:47 PM
Never got the concept of "stoner metal."
it's really just heavy blues riffing and atmosphere
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: toku on December 08, 2014, 07:18:15 PM
I just love double bass kick
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: toku on December 08, 2014, 07:21:46 PM
When weeded I tend to go for saccharine shit more than usual.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 08, 2014, 07:23:37 PM
plus, it's kind of a nebulous term given that all of the bands in the above post can be called stoner yet a lot of their material sounds nothing alike

you might fux w/ the more southern influenced stuff like Corrosion of Conformity or early Zakk Wylde/Black Label Society
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 08, 2014, 07:34:35 PM
Sleep, Electric Wizard, Sabbath (obv), Mercyful Fate (maybe, never listened to them but their p. seminal), stay away from the droney stuff

there's a lot of doom-fusion stuff too, which is par for the course as far as metal subgenres go
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: toku on December 08, 2014, 07:38:27 PM
Thoughts on Doom metal in general? Which bands are best? Some recommendations I've seen are Candlemass, Pagan Altar, St Vitus, and My Dying Bride. Are those good places to start?

High on Fire's Blessed Black Wings and Surrounded by Thieves

http://youtu.be/M6xr8P3upjw
http://youtu.be/h0UxKY6ynq0
http://youtu.be/x7M0dXaTSkE

I have more more recent shit but my metal playlist is fucked up and oudated right now and I've been to lazy to go into my music folder to reorganize so
:yeshrug
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 09, 2014, 10:13:20 PM
Neon Bible is a good album that receives far too hate. It's not as good as Funeral but has so many good to great songs, I really don't understand why some people treat it like the worst sophomore slump ever. Plus it has quite a barn burning outro song.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Pickles the Firecat on December 10, 2014, 12:41:39 AM
Win Butler's lyrics and vocals on Neon Bible are straight out of a high school production of Phantom of the Opera. It's so over the top melodramatic in writing and performance. Instrumentation is similarly overwrought.

Neon Bible reminds me of people who think videogame music is amazing because it's so aggressively, bombastically emotional. Shit is cheesy. Funeral, at its best, sits right below the threshold of too melodramatic and The Suburbs is comfortably under it.
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Post by: Pickles the Firecat on December 10, 2014, 03:31:17 AM
OTOH I think iLoveMakonnen, Riff Raff, and Yung Lean are legitimately dope artists so I'm probably not the best resource for credibility RE: dudes vocal approaches and lyrical ability
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: T234 on December 12, 2014, 09:29:42 PM
Bob Dylan stole (and became rich off of) Folk Music the same way that Elvis Presley stole Black Music, and I strongly hate him for it.

The Beatles made 3 good songs and the rest was dogshit.

Buddy Guy is the best guitar player that ever lived.

Freddie Gibbs + Madlib's "Cocaine Pinata" is Rap Album Of The Decade so far.
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Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 12, 2014, 11:09:48 PM
Buddy guy best guitarist ever :sabu
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 12, 2014, 11:30:15 PM
Christmas music isn't that bad.
It's just that the good stuff (like Coventry Carol, Gabriel's message, etc) never gets much play.

:ufup

There are exactly 3 Christmas related things worth listening to: the Peanuts holiday album, Fairy Tale of New York from the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl, and Rufus Wainwright's Spotlight on Christmas. Everything else is rubbish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKk-2Pu2N8g
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 13, 2014, 12:54:20 AM
Pretending like Buddy Guy isn't in the conversation would be a sucker move. Dude was and still is a god.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 13, 2014, 10:58:19 AM
Hey man Third Eye Blind is just as good as Sublime
 :hitler
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: T234 on December 13, 2014, 12:05:15 PM
Buddy guy best guitarist ever :sabu

Who do you think is better? 100% serious.

As a reminder, Jimi Hendrix cancelled shows to see Buddy Guy play during his first tour of England.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: TakingBackSunday on December 13, 2014, 12:13:55 PM
Hey man Third Eye Blind is just as good as Sublime
 :hitler

Semi-charmed Kinda Life is actually a great fucking song :leon
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 13, 2014, 12:14:55 PM
Jimi might have gone to see Buddy, but Bach walked 120 miles to see Buxtehude and Mozart would cancel events to see Haydn yet no one would say that Buxtehude was better than Bach or that Haydn better than Mozart.

And yeah, Jimi was better. Barrios was better. The Assads are better. But if you're looking for just rock Jimi and Randy are better.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Freyj on December 13, 2014, 12:27:33 PM
Hey man Third Eye Blind is just as good as Sublime
 :hitler

Semi-charmed Kinda Life is actually a great fucking song :leon

Self-titled and Blue are both great albums (Slow Motion  :lawd).

After that it's all shit.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: T234 on December 13, 2014, 12:57:41 PM
Jimi is a better singer than Buddy, but as a Guitar Player?

C'monson.gif


Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 13, 2014, 01:02:02 PM
Jimi is a better singer than Buddy, but as a Guitar Player?

C'monson.gif
Buddy doesn't have anything out there as imaginative as Machine Gun.
You gonna say otherwise?
 :hitler
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: T234 on December 13, 2014, 02:43:13 PM
Jimi never had anything as raw as this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_rd8y8A2oE



I also don't think you realize how close of friends the two of them became. They both took turns calling each other the best guitar player they had ever seen. When Jimi died, Buddy was deeply affected.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 15, 2014, 03:00:50 PM
Jimi never had anything as raw as this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_rd8y8A2oE



I also don't think you realize how close of friends the two of them became. They both took turns calling each other the best guitar player they had ever seen. When Jimi died, Buddy was deeply affected.
We're going to have to agree to disagree here. Buddy took what was already there and did it better.  Jimi created a.whole new horizon.

And Mozart once said Haydn was the best composer of his tome.  But no one really believes that.

Also, walrus,  wtf?
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Brehvolution on December 15, 2014, 03:52:29 PM
Mark Tremonti is the reason Creed was popular. Stapp did his best to ruin it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms61I54CeQA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuRX-tIxph8
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 15, 2014, 04:11:02 PM
ITT, musicians continually mistaking technical prowess of musicians with the overall quality of the output of the bands they happen to be in.

Seriously. Creed was shitty 90's butt rock. The end.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 15, 2014, 04:22:12 PM
I think you mean "musicians"
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 15, 2014, 05:30:57 PM
nu-metal: a reevaluation

Korn: :trash
Coal Chamber: :trash
Slipknot: :yeshrug
Godsmack: (http://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/ehh.png)
Disturbed: :neogaf
Linkin Park: (http://i.imgur.com/QkqAYyB.png)
Papa Roach: (http://i.imgur.com/DB8ftWW.png)
Limp Bizkit: (http://imageshack.us/a/img401/5572/o0qv.png)
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: milchs evil twin on December 15, 2014, 05:34:13 PM
Beyonce hasn't had a single decent song since the end of Destiny's Child.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 15, 2014, 05:43:39 PM
Papa Roach got big off of a riff that was literally a dumbed-down version of Hallowed Be Thy Name.
easily the most derivative one-hit wonder to come out of that scene. they weren't important to their genre like the other bands listed; I wanted to post a Lil B "Game, you irrelevant" smiley but I couldn't find one
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: milchs evil twin on December 15, 2014, 05:46:22 PM
I can still listen to Godsmack every now and then. They're alright.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Pickles the Firecat on December 15, 2014, 05:47:10 PM
Linkin Park is the definition of  (http://i.imgur.com/QkqAYyB.png)

There was some real talent behind Hybrid Theory, I still listen to that record a lot. I chalked it up to nostalgia for a long time but nah, it just has some really strong elements to it.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 15, 2014, 05:53:04 PM
I can still listen to Godsmack every now and then. They're alright.
hence the Ahmadinejad

Godsmack is really seminal when it comes to nu-metal and in a sense estranged from the rest of the genre. They really don't fit the #screamandcryaboutyourmiddleamericanfamily tip that everyone else was on. Their sound is essentially post-grunge Nickelback but only built for hard rock radio, no crossover appeal; iirc, they have a hint of industrial in their earlier stuff but again, no turntables so they really don't fit typical nu-metal genre conventions.

Voodoo goes :yeshrug

Linkin Park is the definition of  (http://i.imgur.com/QkqAYyB.png)

There was some real talent behind Hybrid Theory, I still listen to that record a lot. I chalked it up to nostalgia for a long time but nah, it just has some really strong elements to it.
and I'm so uncomfortable admitting it. When it comes down to it, their first two are solid pop-rock albums, period.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on December 15, 2014, 06:05:45 PM
Nu metal was a way for record companies to hedge their bets: part emo (before emo existed), part grunge, part hard rock, and part rap.  They knew in the venn diagram of those genres that there would be an overlap of a few million people who would be interested.  It was basically marketed to be the anti-girl and boy band pop, even though it was often the same label (or same owners). 
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 15, 2014, 06:07:13 PM
sohh, critique being they were formulaic and had immature lyrical content. that's pretty par for the course when you're talking rock that's intended to get radio play. You don't fuck with them, and that's straight; I don't particularly fuck with them -and I don't want to put words in Pickles' mouth ( :-*)- but I acknowledge that some of their material was effective at what it tried to do.

Deftones were garbage
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Pickles the Firecat on December 15, 2014, 06:07:28 PM
Every Linkin Park song:

Piano melody > "heavy" rock out > Chester what's his face sings a verse > Chorus made to be annoyingly catchy > rap verse > chorus again > half song/half rap verse, can also be a back and forth > chorus > "heavy" rock out again > piano melody plays as the song ends the same way it began.

Add in "my mom doesn't give me what I want" lyrics, and you have a Linkin Park song. Yeah, strong elements  :lol

 :yeshrug

None of that excludes them from having something dope about their music. as jake said, it's catchy pop-rock with a pretty talented turntablist and infinity nostalgia points for anyone in currently in their twenties. Also made gorgeous soundscapes tbh, as a band working together toward a shared vision Hybrid Theory was ultra on point. Maybe that was their production writing for them, idk, it's still dope.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 15, 2014, 06:15:32 PM
Every Linkin Park song:

Piano melody > "heavy" rock out > Chester what's his face sings a verse > Chorus made to be annoyingly catchy > rap verse > chorus again > half song/half rap verse, can also be a back and forth > chorus > "heavy" rock out again > piano melody plays as the song ends the same way it began.

Add in "my mom doesn't give me what I want" lyrics, and you have a Linkin Park song. Yeah, strong elements  :lol

replace the guitar with synths and rap verses with moans and you'll get a NiN song.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Steve Contra on December 15, 2014, 06:15:40 PM
Not content with having someone write multiple paragraphs defending Creed, someone upped the ante and did the same with Linkin Park
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 15, 2014, 06:18:46 PM
So many self-inflicted L's in here

:neogaf
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Trent Dole on December 15, 2014, 06:43:39 PM
Are we all forgetting about Down In It? Trent rapped too.  :-[
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 15, 2014, 06:54:27 PM
Are we all forgetting about Down In It? Trent rapped too.  :-[

Well, I was trying to.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 15, 2014, 07:48:03 PM
yea I've heard a couple NiN songs. Bunch of whiny bullshit, decent melodies. I like some of their songs like March Of The Pigs. I can do without 40yo rich dude angst
:yeshrug

I'm not gonna defend Creed, I've already explained my feelings and what they meant to me. My Own Prison is a great album, I genuinely like Human Clay, Weathered was disappointing. I recognize an L when I take one, so why spend paragraphs performing a crown lengthening procedure it.

Mark Tremonti is an amazing guitarist.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: kick51 on December 15, 2014, 08:13:40 PM
A whole lot of Frank Zappa's work is actually pretty annoying. 
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Brehvolution on December 16, 2014, 11:47:12 AM
It's easy to look back on a time period of music and call it shit and some of it is. A lot of it is still better than the trash that comes out today.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: kick51 on December 16, 2014, 12:01:20 PM
on that note, I don't think good music expires, I just get sick of it or get hung up on negatives without considering the context. 

Saying something is "out of date" is ironic because the person who says this is trying to sound authoritative, yet they seem to discount music from the past completely. 
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Post by: sarslip on December 16, 2014, 03:26:57 PM
neo-soul sucks

garbage genre

weak song structure

lack of memorable songs

lack of ideas
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Himu on December 17, 2014, 08:49:09 PM
bill withers' lean on me is a good song ruined by vast, vast overplaying. it's at the point where i hate the song now and it has been ruined by christians who would force us to sing it at summer camps
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Mr. Nobody on December 17, 2014, 08:52:34 PM
on that note, I don't think good music expires, I just get sick of it or get hung up on negatives without considering the context. 

Saying something is "out of date" is ironic because the person who says this is trying to sound authoritative, yet they seem to discount music from the past completely.

yeah, calling something dated instead of evaluating it on it's own merit always gets an eyeroll from me.

I dunno yall.

An album like Black Moon's Enta Da Stage is a classic, but it's so 1993 for better or worse.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Mr. Nobody on December 17, 2014, 08:54:42 PM
Not even gonna bring up Chino XL's debut with all those old references  :stahp
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 17, 2014, 10:04:13 PM
bring up chino xl in a hip hop discussion in 2014 breh
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Mr. Nobody on December 17, 2014, 10:48:53 PM
Prove my point brehs  :jawalrus
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Post by: thabiz on December 18, 2014, 11:35:52 AM
all music sucks except what im currently listening to
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 18, 2014, 11:51:11 AM
True Romance was a 4/13 on the Esch scale. 3 of those tracks were released over a year before the album dropped
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: PlayDat on December 18, 2014, 09:27:34 PM
Your Old Droog EP > Life is Good.

The former isn't nearly as ambitious, but it's a lot more successful at the lane it stays in.  What Droog lacks in scope, he makes up for in his wordplay density.  Seriously the bar:punchline ratio here is  :whew  LiG has a couple of great songs but I just don't find it as sonically pleasing so it's much less re-playable for me.  I also think Daughters is kind of corny.  Chorus is trash too.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Himu on December 18, 2014, 09:57:02 PM
neo-soul sucks

garbage genre

weak song structure

lack of memorable songs

lack of ideas

No.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OqN0jsSeqPo

Nope.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cE-bnWqLqxE

Nope.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SxVNOnPyvIU
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 18, 2014, 10:22:32 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np21rH7Ldto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QUVNcQdTxo
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Himu on December 18, 2014, 10:25:23 PM
Neo soul artists tend to offer the more sophisticated and write more powerful sides of r&b than is often seen in the mainstream. Erykah Badu for instance touched on subjects no one else in the genre was even close to hinting at as she exposes layers patriarchy in very self reflective music. Alicia Keys, Jill Scott, D'Angelo, Raphael Saadiq, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, John Legend, these artists are legends. I'm not sure what neo soul you're thinking of, probably the 2000's era, but neosoul has been a thing going as far as the late 80's-early 90's after Sade showed you could make pop sophisticated and rap groups like A Tribe Called Quest showed you could make rap have a jazz flavor. Neosoul is almost 30 years old. This isn't some new phenomenon and neo soul artists have dropped plenty of great listens, the latest of which being D'Angelo's Black Messiah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qpyDUfMq-8

< weak song structure

< lack of memorable songs

< lack of ideas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ5BXfXUYwM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNNVaMJJL9g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMC0ftJpOlQ

:hitler
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 18, 2014, 10:28:18 PM
You can totally listen and enjoy Pet Shop Boys and not be gay.
Right? Right?
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 18, 2014, 10:29:13 PM
hating on neosoul is some sucker shit. but then again I'm biased.

Dilla tha GOAT :lawd
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Himu on December 18, 2014, 10:30:54 PM
You need to listen to the new d'angelo album, pd i swear :tocry it's amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3CunfPYkME

all we wanted was a chance to talk
'stead we only got outlined in chalk
feet have bled a million miles we've walked
revealing at the end of the day, the charade

:bow

Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Mr. Nobody on December 18, 2014, 10:32:36 PM
Your Old Droog EP > Life is Good.

The former isn't nearly as ambitious, but it's a lot more successful at the lane it stays in.  What Droog lacks in scope, he makes up for in his wordplay density.  Seriously the bar:punchline ratio here is  :whew  LiG has a couple of great songs but I just don't find it as sonically pleasing so it's much less re-playable for me.  I also think Daughters is kind of corny.  Chorus is trash too.

I agree
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 18, 2014, 10:38:35 PM
Meh, I'd say Life Is Good is a lot better than Your Old Droog EP. The highs (Locomotive, Back When, Bye Baby especially) are simply better than anything on the EP.

Himu: I've never been a big D'Angelo fan tbh. I'll give it a listen soon but I gotta prepare to make my 2014 rap list.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 18, 2014, 10:38:44 PM
New D'angelo album is album of the year. Been wearing that shit out since Monday.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Himu on December 18, 2014, 10:44:34 PM
It truly is.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 18, 2014, 10:50:37 PM
For years D'Angelo was just "that snaggle tooth bitch who stole Devil's Pie from Canibus." My backpack rap nerd days
:dead
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Mr. Nobody on December 18, 2014, 10:51:16 PM
Meh, I'd say Life Is Good is a lot better than Your Old Droog EP. The highs (Locomotive, Back When, Bye Baby especially) are simply better than anything on the EP.

I've played Loosey in the Store with Pennies alone more than the entire LiG album  :yeshrug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn40QBpXUYI

Have your clone drop a better album than you brehs
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on December 20, 2014, 05:33:32 AM
The new d'angelo sucks
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Supermanisdead on December 20, 2014, 05:50:22 PM
You can totally listen and enjoy Pet Shop Boys and not be gay.
Right? Right?

i love pet shop boys and im gayer than magic johnson's son at a carly rae jepsen concert
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Mr Gilhaney on December 30, 2014, 10:01:44 PM
Most swagless bands of all time (http://i.imgur.com/NsARqvd.png)

1) Dream Theater
2) Rush
3) Creed
4) Jethro Tull
5) ICP
6) The Dillinger Escape Plan
7) Radiohead
8 ) Muse
9) Coheed and Cambria
10) Rhapsody of Fire

Runners-up: Say Anything, Xasthur, Boston, Trivium, Sum 41, Between the Buried and Me, Journey


I thought you were cool.

Fuck Coheed and Cambria. RIP Chris Pennie.
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: Eric P on December 31, 2014, 06:45:09 AM
You can totally listen and enjoy Pet Shop Boys and not be gay.
Right? Right?

PSB is probably top 3 favorite act for me
Title: Re: What are your ardently held controversial opinions on music?
Post by: ToxicAdam on December 31, 2014, 05:26:14 PM
The first Black Sheep album was better than any album Tribe ever made.

But Tribe still GOAT rap duo (due to the length and consistency of their career).