Unpopular music opinions

[jamespowers]

I never said he wasn't talented. I just said his voice sucks

lol lol lol lol In other words he should be a writer not a singer.

 

[HepKitty]

lol lol lol lol In other words he should be a writer not a singer.

He is allowed to play bass. He's actually pretty good at it

 

[Yeps]

I am going to chime in again, this time on rock music, these are more unpopular opinions here.

I love the first 30 or so seconds of AC/DC songs, but then that guy, or the guy who replaced him, starts yowling away and I just can't go on.

I really like Springsteen, but not from the 80s (he came out with an old time country/bluegrass album of traditional songs recently, and it is amazing.)

I don't think Bob Dylan was really that talented of a songwriter (don't get me started on his singing). I guess he really did resonate with the culture though.

I feel much the same way about Led Zeppelin as I do about AC/DC.

I love Queen.

I love the song Dream On, but nothing else by Aerosmith.

Pink Floyd is great, but Dark Side of the Moon is over rated. (I prefer The Wall).

Mark Knopfler was the greatest rock guitarist to ever live. Good songwriter too.

If you want danceable modern music, go to latin america. Not all of it is good, but there is enough to pack a floor with actual dancing.

 

[Widebrim]

If you want danceable modern music, go to latin america. Not all of it is good, but there is enough to pack a floor with actual dancing.

That I like! :eusa_clap

 

[John in Covina]

Royal Crown Review just does not do it for me. Everything they do seems to be a copy of a copy of a copy of something.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Not sure if this is unpopular or not, but I love the Mills Brothers.

Their thirties stuff, with instrumental impressions, is brilliant. "No musical instruments or mechanical devices are used on this recording with the exception of one guitar."

 

[Lady Day]

I really like Springsteen, but not from the 80s (he came out with an old time country/bluegrass album of traditional songs recently, and it is amazing).

You're talking about the Seeger sessions, I'd imagine. I have that album, and it's fun, but its like a meal without the right amount of salt. Its almost there all of the time. It's missing something...what is it...soul!
It's very frustrating, because the sounds are robust and the musicians are so into it, but it's always only almost.

LD

 

[martinsantos]

Cage is almost a criminal. 4'33'' is just a fraud. As Stockhausen, usually.

I always fell that they are laughing in the audience's face, when this think about the "geniality" of the "composer".

Alba Berg is just great if you want to make that boring relative to go away from your home. (But Wozzeck opera is interesting).

The russians had a lot of good modern composers. Gliere, Kachaturian, et alii. Tonal music, but you can feel them "modern".

Schoemberg has a lot of really good music. Somewhat difficult to listen, but sincere, criative and well made. Most of it before the dodecafonism.

On to concert music.
I rather like Wagner.
I think that Shoenberg was one of the worst things that happened to western music (not that his was terrible, it just set a bad precedent.)
It is a shame that more people did not imitate and build on the style of Gershwin.
John Cage does not deserve to be called a composer.

 

[scottyrocks]

I am going to chime in again, this time on rock music, these are more unpopular opinions here.

I love the first 30 or so seconds of AC/DC songs, but then that guy, or the guy who replaced him, starts yowling away and I just can't go on.

I really like Springsteen, but not from the 80s (he came out with an old time country/bluegrass album of traditional songs recently, and it is amazing.)

I don't think Bob Dylan was really that talented of a songwriter (don't get me started on his singing). I guess he really did resonate with the culture though.

I feel much the same way about Led Zeppelin as I do about AC/DC.

I love Queen.

I love the song Dream On, but nothing else by Aerosmith.

Pink Floyd is great, but Dark Side of the Moon is over rated. (I prefer The Wall).

Mark Knopfler was the greatest rock guitarist to ever live. Good songwriter too.

If you want danceable modern music, go to latin america. Not all of it is good, but there is enough to pack a floor with actual dancing.

Ah, some positive. I'd like to add-on.

Springsteen is one of my favorites. But the 70s version.

I agree with you on Dylan. For me he's like nails on a chalkboard.

The replacement singer for AC/DC, Brian Johnson (sp?) is an absolute shrieker. Yuk.

Although not a big Zep fan, I think Plant's vocal ability is amazing.

I think your and my feelings on Queen and Aerosmith are somewhat reversed. I love much of Aerosmith but Queen I can take or leave most of the time.

Knopfler - one of the greats. But I would have to say that my favorite guitar player is Stevie Ray Vaughan. He makes those things come alive and sound like multiple instruments when he wants to.

Dark Side of the Moon, if not overrated, has certainly been overplayed.

 

[Fletch]

Royal Crown Review just does not do it for me. Everything they do seems to be a copy of a copy of a copy of something.

IIRC, Eddie Nichols started out as a jacket artist to punkers and was paid in pizza - one slice per jacket. Sounds like someone desperate to be part of a scene if you ask me.

 

[Fletch]

2 comments: First, I think every performer worth his or her salt understands that it's any audience member's prerogative to hate them. If your feelings get hurt by being booed off the stage (not that this usually happens, but it can) then you're in the wrong business.

I'll up the ante from hate to ignore. Being booed is at least attention. Even that, in show biz, is a privilege.

 

[HepKitty]

IIRC, Eddie Nichols started out as a jacket artist to punkers and was paid in pizza - one slice per jacket. Sounds like someone desperate to be part of a scene if you ask me.

I met Eddie Nichols at the Park City Jazz Festival. He's a pretty cool guy, as is Marcus Miller. The most polite man I've ever met MM is, that's for sure, and an incredible bass player.

I'll up the ante from hate to ignore. Being booed is at least attention. Even that, in show biz, is a privilege.

lol excellent!

 

[Amy Jeanne]

I don't like: The Beatles, Elvis, The Cramps, The Pogues, Aerosmith, KISS, or Springstein.

I find most 1950s and early 1960s music unlistenable.

I love music from the 1890s to the swing days, but I can only take so much of it.

I think the 1980s was the best decade for music, especially 1979 to 1983.

I like over-produced, insipid pop music. Especially by fake bands!!

 

[HepKitty]

I like over-produced, insipid pop music. Especially by fake bands!!

lol Yeah I can see this being an unpopular opinion here. Awesome!

 

[Amy Jeanne]

The Rolling Stones. I'm just not a fan. Plus Mick Jagger is one ugly man and is not aging well.

lol lol lol
You are cracking me up, rue!!!! And I think we have pretty much the same taste except for Queen. Unpopular opinion: I LIKE QUEEN! I also don't mind the Stones during their 79-81 period. Anything else = bleh.

More unpopular opinions:
I like Asia.
I like Phil Collins (I get so much crap for this lol)
I think "We Built This City" is a great song.
Can't stand Sinatra.
Never got into Nirvana, even though they were the "spokesmen" for my generation.
I often judge modern music by the image of the band.
I loathe Janis Joplin.
I'll take the Boswells over the Andrews, too. I can't stand the Andrews Sisters.
I think Sister Rosetta Tharpe is the best guitar player EVER. And she's buried around the corner from where I live

 

[Amy Jeanne]

lol Yeah I can see this being an unpopular opinion here. Awesome!

Yea!! KIDD VIDEO (an 80s cartoon band). Love them. Guys Next Door (crappy early 90s kids' TV show) -- LOVE THEM. I also have a soft spot for the Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? soundtrack. I also like Milli Vanilli and Nolan Thomas.

 

[Berlin]

Hmmm..so many I can write down here..but I'll say Phil Collins and Mariah Carey for now.

 

[John in Covina]

I don't like the pop band sound we have today, insipid saccarin sweet love songs punctuated with with somebody doing the vocal show off of how many extra notes can I sing in this part. All I can think of is the scene in Amadeus where the King says "Too many notes!" This is that for real.

(If you have ever seen it there is an episode of the Simpsons where they go to see a Springfield Isotopes baseball game and the National Anthem to open the game is sung by Bleedin' Gums Murphy. It is done in the lets stick in a lot of extra notes style. The bit shows the clock changing while the sun sets and it is dark by the time he finishes singing.)

 

[CharlieB]

Hmmm..so many I can write down here..but I'll say Phil Collins and Mariah Carey for now.

Mariah Carey, the human car alarm. Only dogs can hear some of her notes...

 

[jamespowers]

lol lol lol
You are cracking me up, rue!!!! And I think we have pretty much the same taste except for Queen. Unpopular opinion: I LIKE QUEEN! I also don't mind the Stones during their 79-81 period. Anything else = bleh.

More unpopular opinions:
I like Asia.
I like Phil Collins (I get so much crap for this lol)
I think "We Built This City" is a great song.
Can't stand Sinatra.
Never got into Nirvana, even though they were the "spokesmen" for my generation.
I often judge modern music by the image of the band.
I loathe Janis Joplin.
I'll take the Boswells over the Andrews, too. I can't stand the Andrews Sisters.
I think Sister Rosetta Tharpe is the best guitar player EVER. And she's buried around the corner from where I live

I am with you on Janis Joplin. She is like the female Mick Jagger, as Rue describes him, to me.
I can see Asia in the heat of the moment.