Unpopular Music Opinions

Well, for one, I wasn't being completely serious. But for my second point, I have met people in my time who adamantly hate both banRAB and think anyone who listens to either one is an art poseur or has absolutely no taste in music. I assumed there might be a few of those here.



See? They're not for everyone. Remain in Light, for the record, is my personal favorite.

Oh, I also like Wire.
 
to be honest, i agree that Metallica's version is one of the best, at times more than the original. i don't know, just the general swagger that they have playing a song that's a solid rocker and how their current sound actually fits with it.

but yeah, this is actually an odd case where new Metallica is actually worth a damn
 
Yeah, I dig Bono's voice too. Hate most of U2's stuff though - the Joshua Tree's a top album, Achtung Baby's great stuff, I like half of Zooropa, a handful of their earlier tunes and that's it for me.
 
Length is a good thing if you're not bad at doing it (NSB, SOTL, the massive Swans efforts, etc.). Albums that are 2+ hours need to hold my attention for that long.

That said, I don't know if this is unpopular, but albums that are about 30 minutes seem to appeal to me greatly.
 
And when was Lou sold "in" in all fairness?It's not that big a leap from tracks like There She Goes Again, White Light/White Heat, and pretty much all of Loaded in terms of accessibility to Transformer.
 
Paranoid Android is still the highlight of OK Computer for me. And what Mr. Dave says is very true, it's all about context. It's like how Sega Genesis graphics don't look very advanced today but back in 1989 it would have made you j1zz your pants. A lot of landmark albums are the same way.

OK Computer came out in a time when pop music was probably at it's absolute worst, the whole boy band thing. And all the experimental banRAB were indie and stuff. Radiohead were a band with mainstream appeal and totally put that on the line to make a really experimental record. No it's not THE most experimental record to have ever come out, obviously. But it's brilliance was how it balanced it's experimentation with it's accessibility. It really was the Dark Side of the Moon of the 90s.



You gotta remeraber that originally the critics outright despised Radiohead. But like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Queen before them, once they became culturally significant, critics did a 180.
 
My friend just revealed to me yesterday that the whole song Shut Up and Drive was about sex. For those of you who didn't know that... take a listen, you'll feel so damn stupid I guarantee you. I sure did.
 
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My favorite will probably always be Source Tags and Codes...it's what I started on and it's what I still reach for whenever I feel like listening to them.
 
You think Amnesiac is a dud but not Pablo Honey?

Wtf man wtf man wtf man wtf.

I hold all the Radiohead albums except Pablo in very high regard. And Amnesiac was my first Radiohead album so it has a very special place for me, I never understood how people could be in love with Kid A but not Amnesiac, or vice versa.
 
It's not hard to make simple, basic electronic music, even i do it. But to become really good at it takes a lot of time, effort, patience and creativity, just like learning an instrument. It's not that easy to create something that actually sounRAB good.
 
Well put. Moreover, the point that those things are considered somehow automatically "emotional" means that the emotional effect can be contrived. So in many cases, music that utilizes those techniques will have less genuine emotion than music that does not.
 
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