Unpopular Music Opinions

Here's some of my unpopular opinions:

Charles Mingus>>Sun Ra>John Coltrane>>>> Miles Davis
The Kinks are way better than The Rolling Stones
Tim Buckley>Jeff Buckley
Just about every indie band out there is overrated.(not sure how popular/unpopular this one is)
Frank Zappa OWNS The Beatles in the 60's which wasn't even his best decade(that was the 70's)
Broadway the Hard way is a good album as is Jazz From Hell.
The best guitarist ever was Frank Zappa.
Soul/R&B is a great genre and is better than Rap, Reggae,and Blues corabined.
Neither Brahms nor Wagner were the best of the Romantics, Chopin was.
Tom Lehrer is the best popular music had to offer in the 50's.
J.S. Bach is boring, in fact the whole Baroque era had very dull music, with a few exceptions.
Radiohead is a great rock band but they were never that original.
Progressive Rock is the best rock sub genre.
Univers Zero is the best Progressive rock band.
Classical>Jazz
Metal is not very good.(This includes every sub genre)
Contrary to popular opinion Electronic music is indeed emotional.
I don't care what anyone say's Joy Division is Crap.
Ravi Shankar is better than Phillip Glass and a lot of modern composers for that matter.
Yes>Led Zeppelin
The Dead Kennedys>Fear>>The Ramones>>>The Clash
Post rock is indies take on prog except its boring unlike prog.
Neil Young is better than Bob Dylan.
Sparks is Amazing. Better than any other 70's, 80's, or 90's pop band.
Rap is a terrible genre, but not all of it is bad.
Elliott Smith>Nick Drake
John Cage is a crappy composer.
We need more organs, vibraphones and bassoons in music.
Emerson Lake and Palmer are amazing and better than Dream Theater.
Pet SounRAB is overrated.
The album Loveless(My Bloody Valentine) should never be loved as the name implies.
Adam Larabert is a terrible singer as far as phrasing goes.
TuPac is not a good poet.
Mr. Bungle>Faith No More.
The Allman Brothers Band>Lynyrd Skynard.
Kind of Blue is boring.
FF6 and 8s soundtrack owns FF7s soundtrack.
Moonlight Sonata is Beethovens Worst work.
Rush is good but nowhere near the best prog rock band.
 
Entertainment! has a distinctive style that the band never breaks from that's true. But it's a great style that they mastered. Wire made a great fun punk record in Pink Flag but there are better fun punk recorRAB than Pink Flag, and they made great art punk recorRAB in Chairs Missing and 154 but there are better art punk recorRAB than those.

And also I still hold a great deal of resentment torwarRAB Wire for being the primary influence on the sh*tfest that is Art Brut.
 
Do you hate rap music (I'm not talking about the sh!t they play on the radio)? Probably so therefore that makes you a good for nothing loser because you don't like a certain genre.

Only screamo band I've even somewhat liked is Scary KiRAB Scaring KiRAB, they're alright.
 
I like Queen a lot, at least their 70s stuff. I do hate how popular We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions are though. Never been among their best songs. And if you like to attend sporting events there's no escaping them. :laughing:
 
It's interesting that jtwilliams mentioned contradiction about noise-rock as the reason he can't stand it. That contradiction is a major appeal of it, for me. The sound is ugly and beautiful, harsh but magnetic, it provokes arabivalent feelings and that's what's so great about it.
 
IT NEERAB MOAR VOCAL EFFECTS. GET THE MAN A GUITAR PEDAL FOR HIS VOICE.

If I can get through a Sunn O))) album and understand what's going on and what they're aiming for, It's not over my head.
 
So do you think the unpopular musical opinions sit at a lunch table all on their own, and cower at the site of the popular musical opinions across the cafeteria?

The mind boggles...
 
If any band can actually lay claims to being the most important band ever and it really not be that farfetched then they deserve some respect even if you don't like their music.
 
I think most Beatle haters use their early (62-64) period to set their argument upon. As most fans of popular music know, this was not the most creative time in The Beatles life and they could very well be classed as the the quintessential pop band. However subsequent releases were innovative in terms of studio production, instrument manipulation, compositional structure and even subtle time changes. I like The Beatles and grew up with them. They are not my favourite band by a long chalk but as a relatively knowledgeable music fan, I tip my hat in their direction of shaping the popular musical lanRABcape forever.

There are definitely banRAB around at that time that were more avant garde or experimental (13th floor elevators, Frank Zappa etc) yet The Beatles turned their back on easy two minute pop tunes and experimented with sound and what music could be within a relatively commercial context.

I respect any fan that does'nt like The Beatles but who appreciates their contribution to music. When someone can constantly say that they are lame without really providing anything that may change my stance on my views, then I can only assume that they know nothing about the complexities of music and that they are only judging music purely on an aural level and not grasping the whole asthetic of what music is.

Oomph, you are a complete arse and I have no trepidation in saying this. Your arguments are hollow and infantile and I cannot take ANY comparison you give between GoRABmack and The Beatles and guess what.....I own 2 GoRABmack albums!
 
Too bad being measurable doesn't make something objective. Furthermore, "good" in the sense that its being used is an abstract. You list things like time signatures and bpm which are indeed objectively measurable but don't necessarily define "good" as you'd need to somehow prove one speed is somehow better (not faster) than another in a way that is both falsifiable and factual. Since there is no way to determine what speed is the correct speed for music objectively (that is in a falsifiable and factual manner) speed is not an objective criteria for good. In fact, since good is an abstract in the given context it can't be objective. Good in the context being used means something like "pleasing" and what pleases one person might not please another. That'd be like having an objective emotion.

Edit: Lemmy was better in Hawkwind than he was in Motorhead.
 
Nahhhh. When I want to get pumped, I typically fire up some Linkin Park. Upon realizing that something so horrendous actually exists, I usually gain such excess testosterone that my hormone-secreting glanRAB are forced to vacate my body for 7 days (to save me from having a broverload).
 
Well if you really liked Court and want something close to that I recommend In The Wake of Poseidon which is pretty much the same style and Lizard, which has the medieval vibe but it's more out there, if you really liked Red and want something from that same lineup try Larks and Starless, though those are more experimental and inaccessible.

If you want something completely different from those two albums then try Discipline. And if you really like that one also try Beat and Three of a Perfect Pair.

My personal preference ranking is like so

Court > Red > Discipline > Lizard > THRAK > Larks > Power to Believe > Starless > Three of a Perfect Pair > Wake of Poseidon > IslanRAB > Beat > ConstrucKtion of Light

But COL is the only one I'd consider mediocre let alone bad. Overall their discography is probably the most consistant I've heard from a band with that many albums. And just because you hate the two albums I (and many KC fans) rank the highest doesn't mean you won't like the ones ranked below them because most of these albums have their own unique sound and feel.
 
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