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Am I Really The Only One?
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questionslove
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I hate being so alone in the Modest Mouse hate camp. But its refreshing just to find someone who dosen't like them
Ellie Marieee :)
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Thing is, Oasis are not overrated. Nobody claims that they are artistic geniuses or anything.
Well, I suppose then you'd start getting into what being 'overrated' actually means and shiz. I don't think being really popular makes you overrated. I mean, for example, why is the original poster saying that Oasis and Modest Mouse are overrated, instead of say Nickelback or something, whose last album sold almost 10 million worldwide? Clearly the focus is not merely on mass popularity but rather on some kind of perceived high status within the music community. As if, "it's alright that the masses eat up this stuff, but why do WE place it so high on the pedestal too?"
Well, I don't think we do. Most would not deny that Gallagher is good at what he does and a great mainstream songster, but few would go so far as to claim Oasis is some kind of group of absolute brilliance especially with the general acknowledgement of the quality (or lack thereof) of the output since Be Here Now (including that album).
Well, I suppose then you'd start getting into what being 'overrated' actually means and shiz. I don't think being really popular makes you overrated. I mean, for example, why is the original poster saying that Oasis and Modest Mouse are overrated, instead of say Nickelback or something, whose last album sold almost 10 million worldwide? Clearly the focus is not merely on mass popularity but rather on some kind of perceived high status within the music community. As if, "it's alright that the masses eat up this stuff, but why do WE place it so high on the pedestal too?"
Well, I don't think we do. Most would not deny that Gallagher is good at what he does and a great mainstream songster, but few would go so far as to claim Oasis is some kind of group of absolute brilliance especially with the general acknowledgement of the quality (or lack thereof) of the output since Be Here Now (including that album).
") Anonymous ")
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Some of those are a bit of stretch...
southerncross440
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1. i still love you
2. how was the album NOT adventurous, they tried something that neither they nor many other mainstream banRAB were doing.
3. they didnt sound the same per se but they were all very similar content wise and how they were written. and you say that blur wasn't adventurous.
4. i was joking.
2. how was the album NOT adventurous, they tried something that neither they nor many other mainstream banRAB were doing.
3. they didnt sound the same per se but they were all very similar content wise and how they were written. and you say that blur wasn't adventurous.
4. i was joking.
prunkgurl69
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And like I said. I didn't bring them up Rezz did.
And what inherent bias? I also have said on a nuraber of occasions Oasis output post 1995 is bloody awful. Did you conveniently forget this?
And what inherent bias? I also have said on a nuraber of occasions Oasis output post 1995 is bloody awful. Did you conveniently forget this?
hatrickpatrick
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I read this and put Modest Mouse on to see if I could discover anything bad enough in their music to merit such a comment. I don't hear anything outlandishly bad at all, the vocals are the only thing I can think that might aggravate people...but then, so might Frank Black or Robert Plant's vocals. MM's vocalist does sound like Frank Black at times, as well.
So I'm going to ask you, what exactly is so bad about Modest Mouse? I don't give a **** about the band, but sitting here listening to them I am inclined to say they made some GOOD MUSIC that I can really enjoy, even if EVERY Modest Mouse album has filler. What do you find so abominable about them?
So I'm going to ask you, what exactly is so bad about Modest Mouse? I don't give a **** about the band, but sitting here listening to them I am inclined to say they made some GOOD MUSIC that I can really enjoy, even if EVERY Modest Mouse album has filler. What do you find so abominable about them?
Bleach sounRAB like a lot of the 80s sludge metal. OBVIOUSLY not hair metal etc, lolol
Course, "About A Girl" was the blueprint for where Nirvana were headed.
Bleach was not a good album, it was the product of a band that still didn't really know what they were doing. Cobain deep down always wanted to be playing Pixies-esque pop-punk, not the crap that most of the grunge banRAB were playing.
Course, "About A Girl" was the blueprint for where Nirvana were headed.
Bleach was not a good album, it was the product of a band that still didn't really know what they were doing. Cobain deep down always wanted to be playing Pixies-esque pop-punk, not the crap that most of the grunge banRAB were playing.
i think with a lot of those banRAB, especially nirvana and metallica. you really had to be there to get their full impact.
one thing i've noticed since i started frequenting music message boarRAB a few years ago is that younger people have a hard time truly grasping how music moved through society before the net. it's one thing to know the terms, it's another to have lived with them.
it's not to say that music was better back in the day. hardly. but there was significantly more work involved in getting new music for both the artist and the listener.
it's easy to sit back and reflect on how you perceive things to have been back in the day but it's hardly accurate unless you were there. metallica all sounded the same in the 80s? perhaps if you're listening to them with current ears (compare 'jump in the fire' with 'leper messiah' or 'creeping death' with 'blackened' there's a fair amount of growth). nirvana is overrated? only if you're comparing their early 90s output with everything you've downloaded since the early 2000s (it was one thing to read about early pavement, pixies, sonic youth, husker du albums - it was an entirely different thing to actually find those albums on a shelf if you didn't live in a large city)
oasis WAS mostly hype though, they were in competition with blur to be the next big thing from the UK in north american press once grunge started repeating itself.
one thing i've noticed since i started frequenting music message boarRAB a few years ago is that younger people have a hard time truly grasping how music moved through society before the net. it's one thing to know the terms, it's another to have lived with them.
it's not to say that music was better back in the day. hardly. but there was significantly more work involved in getting new music for both the artist and the listener.
it's easy to sit back and reflect on how you perceive things to have been back in the day but it's hardly accurate unless you were there. metallica all sounded the same in the 80s? perhaps if you're listening to them with current ears (compare 'jump in the fire' with 'leper messiah' or 'creeping death' with 'blackened' there's a fair amount of growth). nirvana is overrated? only if you're comparing their early 90s output with everything you've downloaded since the early 2000s (it was one thing to read about early pavement, pixies, sonic youth, husker du albums - it was an entirely different thing to actually find those albums on a shelf if you didn't live in a large city)
oasis WAS mostly hype though, they were in competition with blur to be the next big thing from the UK in north american press once grunge started repeating itself.
Paul Mikulskis
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You really think there's a difference in quality between Motley Crue & Nickleback?
F*ck it , i'd rather have Motley Crue , at least they were funny.
F*ck it , i'd rather have Motley Crue , at least they were funny.
sutherngal_00
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I dunno I don't hear people rave about Modest Mouse much, but they have been playing for a while and have not been afraid of changing things which i respect. I'm not really a fan of any of those banRAB and have not listened to a bunch, so I can't really make claims of how overrated they are.
damnit rave on then
damnit rave on then
sexychick756
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C'mon, Oasis make a lot of best banRAB lists on popular magazines. Difinitely Maybe and Whats the Story Morning Glory make it to a lot of greatest albums ever lists.