Your most controversial music opinions

[Tranquility of Solitude]

I love Pink Floyd.

[priest17]

ariana grande is better than taylor swift

[CaledonianGonzo]

Just now, zero000 said:

Best thing he ever did was polish off that enormous breakfast. 

I saw Babyshambles at Benicassim and even Shane MacGowan coming on to sing Dirty Old Town couldn't throw them a lifeline.

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

1 minute ago, waltere said:

Be Here Now is Too Much Cocaine: The Album, which is a place many an act has ended up and it's almost never good listening

Sticky Fingers and Station to Station want a word.

[waltere]

2 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Sticky Fingers and Station to Station want a word.

Yeah the Stones and especially Bowie are the 'almost' in that sentence

[ShakeyCrash]

6 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

If Be Here Now is so good then how come it also has My Big Mouth and Fade In-Out on it?

Because it has them on it 😀.

Also i would say the strokes best album is the new abnormal.

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

5 minutes ago, Tranquility of Solitude said:

I love Pink Floyd.

What's Atom Heart Mother like?

Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast aside, I've genuinely never heard it.

[Quark]

Not so much an opinion as an overlooked fact, but when people give it to current artists about lacking integrity by reinventing their image to get successful and famous (a la Raggy Bone Chap) they tend to ignore the fact that this is exactly what Bowie did. All about changing himself to get fame and success. Like an industry hoor.

[Stokesy10]

Daft Punk and The Streets are two of the most overrated acts of all time.

[Spindles]

The Strokes are shit and everything they have ever recorded sounds the same.

[Ozanne]

It might not be controversial but it’s probably pretty disliked but I love pop bands, give me a good song I can singalong to and I’m set. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

3 minutes ago, ShakeyCrash said:

Because it has them on it 😀.

Also i would say the strokes best album is the new abnormal.

 

The Super Furry Animals releasing Radiator a few days after Be Here Now roasts Oasis far harder than anyone else will ever manage.

[HeyPorter]

Music was not better when you were younger. 

[grumpyhack]

16 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

What's Atom Heart Mother like?

Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast aside, I've genuinely never heard it.

Brilliant.  I saw it first performed live at the Shepton Mallet Festival in 1970.  Blew me away. Fat Old Sun is a great track, particularly Gilmour's second half guitar solo.

 

Edited February 13, 2021 by grumpyhack

[Quark]

Just now, HeyPorter said:

Music was not better when you were younger. 

You take that back!!!

[Gilgamesh69]

Another one: Bob Dylan is incredibly overrated. Sure he may be good at writing lyrics, but if that's all I wanted then I'd just read poetry instead. Most of his music sounds pretty boring... no wonder he's loved by hipsters that can only play a few chords

[efcfanwirral]

I've got loads of these but the main ones:

 Coldplay 2016 is my favourite live show ever. Not for 100% musical reasons but it was special for many reasons, and a spectacular night. 

- I really enjoyed U2 in 2011, first time seeing them and thought the atmosphere was really good with big singalongs. Yes it was raining but not their fault. Not as good as seeing them in Singapore on their Joshua Tree tour at the end of 2019

- Stereophonics have quietly released some of their best music in the past few years, certainly their best since the first two albums. The two horrible ones after those were not the end for them

[Hugh Jass]

34 minutes ago, ShakeyCrash said:

Be here now is a fantastic album and was only panned because it was time for people to turn on oasis (well that and magic pie).

 

 

Not the nine minute long songs, ludicrous over production and general sound of a band who had taken far too much cocaine?

[CaledonianGonzo]

9 minutes ago, HeyPorter said:

Music was not better when you were younger. 

You mean it's just a coincidence that it reached its peak just as I turned 17?

[CaledonianGonzo]

5 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

Not the nine minute long songs, ludicrous over production and general sound of a band who had taken far too much cocaine?

But enough about Pink Floyd 

[ShakeyCrash]

1 minute ago, Hugh Jass said:

Not the nine minute long songs, ludicrous over production and general sound of a band who had taken far too much cocaine?

Nah, definitely what i said😀

[found home in 2009]

Most people would agree that Lennon and M

1 minute ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

You mean it's just a coincidence that it reached its peak just as I turned 17?

I always felt that the late 60s/early 70s (before I was born) and 90s (when I was a teenager) produced the best music. I was aware that thinking the 90s was good might be nostalgia for when I was a teenager.

Was pleasantly surprised to see a thing looking back on Annie Nightingale's career and she was asked best eras of music and said 60s and 90s. So with that confirmation bias I am now going to assume it's nothing to do with nostalgia and just the correct opinion to have.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Just now, found home in 2009 said:

Most people would agree that Lennon and M

I always felt that the late 60s/early 70s (before I was born) and 90s (when I was a teenager) produced the best music. I was aware that thinking the 90s was good might be nostalgia for when I was a teenager.

Was pleasantly surprised to see a thing looking back on Annie Nightingale's career and she was asked best eras of music and said 60s and 90s. So with that confirmation bias I am now going to assume it's nothing to do with nostalgia and just the correct opinion to have.

We're you 16 going on 17 when you first heard the best music of the 60s?

[found home in 2009]

The majority of 80s music was shit because they programmed drum machines to be absolutely perfect in time and it just took away all humanity from the music and made it soulless.

I do think songs using drum machines/electronic music can be good - but I think you need small deliberate imperfections in there.

[found home in 2009]

Just now, CaledonianGonzo said:

We're you 16 going on 17 when you first heard the best music of the 60s?

That's a fair point. Yeah I would have been.

But Annie Nightingale is ancient and recognises the greatness of the 90s so there must have been something good about it.