Your most controversial music opinions

[blutarsky]

6 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

Yeah but some of Taylor Swifts deep cuts are miles ahead of her most popular work. Some artists have good singles but it doesn’t scratch the surface of what they can do musically. 

Nah, I’m basic. 

[balti-pie]

Controversial takes: Taylor Swift is a load of bollocks, and im absolutely befuddled by the idea of her headlining any stage, let alone the pyramid. 

[Green Croc]

22 hours ago, Skip997 said:

The following bands/artists are/were massively overrated:

U2

Oasis

The Smiths

Bruce Springsteen

 

Blasphemy. I'll let you have U2 but the rest are kings

[balti-pie]

Bruce Springsteen is about as middle of the road ploddy nonsense as the human mind can imagine.

I've tried, loads of times, with early/late/mid period/hits/b-sides, having been specifically recommended by mates who love him - 'oh you'll love The River! listen to this track! lemme make you a playlist!' - and its all just so lumpen and uninteresting. My first thought upon him coming onstage with Paul McCartney (a Beatle, ffs!) was ugh, now i bet he plays some nonsense of his and everyone will go mad - and i was 100% right, he did play some interminable rubbish and everyone did indeed go crazy for it.

He's staggeringly overrated and i wouldnt pay a fiver to go and see him. i read the Springsteen tour thread with a kind of curious detached interest - look at what these people are excited by! ffs, am i wrong, or is everyone else? 

Edited July 28, 2022 by balti-pie

[Green Croc]

5 minutes ago, balti-pie said:

Bruce Springsteen is about as middle of the road ploddy nonsense as the human mind can imagine.

I've tried, loads of times, with early/late/mid period/hits/b-sides, having been specifically recommended by mates who love him - 'oh you'll love The River! listen to this track! lemme make you a playlist!' - and its all just so lumpen and uninteresting. My first thought upon him coming onstage with Paul McCartney (a Beatle, ffs!) was ugh, now i bet he plays some nonsense of his and everyone will go mad - and i was 100% right, he did play some interminable rubbish and everyone did indeed go crazy for it.

He's staggeringly overrated and i wouldnt pay a fiver to go and see him. i read the Springsteen tour thread with a kind of curious detached interest - look at what these people are excited by! ffs, am i wrong, or is everyone else? 

 

[balti-pie]

2 hours ago, Green Croc said:

 

The only interesting thing is Silvio Dante on guitar 😀 I appreciate this probably makes me an artless heathen, but if that’s my role then I’m right up for it 👍 it’s just great swathes of bland 

[Gnomicide]

6 minutes ago, balti-pie said:

The only interesting thing is Silvio Dante on guitar 😀 I appreciate this probably makes me an artless heathen, but if that’s my role then I’m right up for it 👍 it’s just great swathes of bland 

I mean, you're wrong, so very, very wrong but it's a valid opinion. One of my musical regrets in life was being put off him for so long by the songs Born In The USA and Dancing in The Dark. Once I finally started delving deeper it was apparent I'd cocked up.

But as you've said, you've tried so he's clearly not for you. 

[The Nal]

I get people not liking U2, Bruce and Oasis. Fine. But people who don't like The Smiths are weirdos. 

I put them in the same bracket as people who don't drink, people who do 5k morning runs at Glastonbury and people who fuck animals.

[Skip997]

2 minutes ago, The Nal said:

 people who do 5k morning runs at Glastonbury

These people are possibly weirder than the camp chair at stages people, the bed at 12.30am people and the beard, pewter tankard, sandals with socks people.

[Green Croc]

21 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

I mean, you're wrong, so very, very wrong but it's a valid opinion. One of my musical regrets in life was being put off him for so long by the songs Born In The USA and Dancing in The Dark.

Serious? Dancing in the Dark is one of my favourite songs of all time

[Gnomicide]

22 minutes ago, Green Croc said:

Serious? Dancing in the Dark is one of my favourite songs of all time

Yep, it just grates for some reason.

[Green Croc]

5 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

Yep, it just grates for some reason.

Fair play each to their own. What are your favourites?

[Gnomicide]

Just now, Green Croc said:

Fair play each to their own. What are your favourites?

Now there's a question. 

Thunder Road, Jungleland, The Rising, Brilliant Disguise, Darkness, Racing, Land of Hope and Dreams....

I could go on!

[Quark]

28 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

Now there's a question. 

Thunder Road, Jungleland, The Rising, Brilliant Disguise, Darkness, Racing, Land of Hope and Dreams....

I could go on!

Streets of Philadelphia is massively underrated 

[kingbadger]

1 hour ago, Green Croc said:

Serious? Dancing in the Dark is one of my favourite songs of all time

Hot Chip version is miles better than the original though 

[Green Croc]

35 minutes ago, kingbadger said:

Hot Chip version is miles better than the original though 

Miles better is a big call, but it is a very very good cover

[Jay Pee]

Let me just say that i don't actively disklike either of these bands but I massively don't understand the idolatry of Radiohead and Muse.

Forgive me for I have tried.

[stuartbert two hats]

On 7/27/2022 at 2:58 PM, Skip997 said:

Yea add them and:

Mumford and Sons

Elbow

Mumford and Sons would need to be rated to be overrated.   I think they're perfectly rated, most people think they're shit.

[stuartbert two hats]

On 7/27/2022 at 1:39 PM, moogster said:

Am wondering if anyone her finds the Beatles overrated. As in I understand their importance in the history of (British) music, great songwriting but... Maybe a little too much on a pedestal?

I don't.

[stuartbert two hats]

On 7/27/2022 at 1:54 PM, blutarsky said:

I’m the same, I was just being abrasive. 
Thinking of full albums I’ve listened to recently and which track has been my favourite the one that immediately springs to mind is Wet Dream from Wet Leg, which isn’t the biggest hit, albeit it was still a single. 
 

Anyway, I was just being abrasive for the sake of it! 😬 

Don't be daft, their big hit is their best song.  

[stuartbert two hats]

5 hours ago, balti-pie said:

Bruce Springsteen is about as middle of the road ploddy nonsense as the human mind can imagine.

I've tried, loads of times, with early/late/mid period/hits/b-sides, having been specifically recommended by mates who love him - 'oh you'll love The River! listen to this track! lemme make you a playlist!' - and its all just so lumpen and uninteresting. My first thought upon him coming onstage with Paul McCartney (a Beatle, ffs!) was ugh, now i bet he plays some nonsense of his and everyone will go mad - and i was 100% right, he did play some interminable rubbish and everyone did indeed go crazy for it.

He's staggeringly overrated and i wouldnt pay a fiver to go and see him. i read the Springsteen tour thread with a kind of curious detached interest - look at what these people are excited by! ffs, am i wrong, or is everyone else? 

You are very right.  He seems like a nice bloke and all, but so dreary.

[stuartbert two hats]

1 hour ago, Gnomicide said:

Now there's a question. 

Thunder Road, Jungleland, The Rising, Brilliant Disguise, Darkness, Racing, Land of Hope and Dreams....

I could go on!

So can Bruce. On and on and on and on 🥱

[DeanoL]

On 7/27/2022 at 1:39 PM, moogster said:

Am wondering if anyone her finds the Beatles overrated. As in I understand their importance in the history of (British) music, great songwriting but... Maybe a little too much on a pedestal?

Given that they're generally rated as the best band of all time, by definition if you think they're the second best band of all time then they are overrated!

[Gnomicide]

1 hour ago, kingbadger said:

Hot Chip version is miles better than the original though 

*Checks still in the controversial opinions thread*

Don Estelle and his dodgy disco mates are shite, the only thing they could do that would make anything better is fuck off.

[Skip997]

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6 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

*Checks still in the controversial opinions thread*

Don Estelle and his dodgy disco mates are shite, the only thing they could do that would make anything better is fuck off.

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