Your most controversial music opinions

[Radiochicken]

I can separate the music from the person.

[jparx]

Smashing Pumpkins not a grunge band is a statement of fact, no?

[CaledonianGonzo]

Just now, jparx said:

Smashing Pumpkins not a grunge band is a statement of fact, no?

Definitely bundled in with grunge bands at the time, but it doesn't bear much scrutiny when you listen to them.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

1 minute ago, Hugh Jass said:

Pink Floyd were actually shite.

See, I never used to get them. Until someone told me to turn off all the lights, lie down and play DSOTM in it's entirety. Then I got it. I'm still not a fan but I see why they're popular. Musician's musicians. 

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

2 minutes ago, Radiochicken said:

I can separate the music from the person.

We seem to have to be separating the art from the artist a lot these days, don't we?

[Hugh Jass]

I like Robbie Williams

I’ve never made it through Urban Hymns without getting bored and switching off.

Springsteen bores me to tears.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

1 minute ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Definitely bundled in with grunge bands at the time, but it doesn't bear much scrutiny when you listen to them.

They have a few grunge-tinged songs but they are not a grunge band

[Hugh Jass]

2 minutes ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

See, I never used to get them. Until someone told me to turn off all the lights, lie down and play DSOTM in it's entirety. Then I got it. I'm still not a fan but I see why they're popular. Musician's musicians. 

I like Comfortably Numb, but just can’t get into any of their other stuff.

[MrHew]

NOT my opinion! But look which Radiohead album my friend put in her top 10 albums of the 90s (they also can't count)

Mine again in no particular order. 
Greenway- Dookie
Bluetones -expecting to fly
Blur-Parklife
Ben folds five- whatever and ever amen
Ash-1977
Levellers- levelling the land 
Radiohead- Pablo honey
Oasis- definitely maybe
James-Laid

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

6 minutes ago, Tranquility of Solitude said:

I secretly adore Spandau Ballet and would love to see them do the legends slot.

No need to be secretive about it fam. Chant #1 fucks.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

I made peace with not enjoying modern popular music when I realised it's not aimed at me.

[CaledonianGonzo]

1 minute ago, MrHew said:

NOT my opinion! But look which Radiohead album my friend put in her top 10 albums of the 90s (they also can't count)

Mine again in no particular order. 
Greenway- Dookie
Bluetones -expecting to fly
Blur-Parklife
Ben folds five- whatever and ever amen
Ash-1977
Levellers- levelling the land 
Radiohead- Pablo honey
Oasis- definitely maybe
James-Laid

 

She should have placed it at #9.

[Hugh Jass]

Just now, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

I made peace with not enjoying modern popular music when I realised it's not aimed at me.

Music achieved perfection in 1995.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

This thread is cathartic

[CaledonianGonzo]

2 minutes ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

They have a few grunge-tinged songs but they are not a grunge band

A few tracks on Mellon Collie mibbe, but Gish and Siamese Dream as  whole are way too polished and melodic to qualify.

 

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

1 minute ago, Hugh Jass said:

Music achieved perfection in 1995.

@Gnomicidehas entered the chat room 

[CaledonianGonzo]

1995 Summer of Britpop nostalgia sent British guitar-based alternative and indie music down a dead end street it will never get out of.

[Simsy]

I love Eurovision.

[jparx]

On the subject - The Melvins are the best grunge band of all time by a country mile.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

Rock and roll isn't dead...

...but it's currently in palliative care.

[stuartbert two hats]

Muse's early stuff was even worse than their later work, not better.

Less controversially, it's all dreadful.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

2 minutes ago, jparx said:

On the subject - The Melvins are the best grunge band of all time by a country mile.

Green River would like a word...

[Hugh Jass]

2 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

1995 Summer of Britpop nostalgia sent British guitar-based alternative and indie music down a dead end street it will never get out of.

As I accelerate towards 40 I find myself increasingly with less time to seek out new or challenging stuff and reaching more for the comfort blanket of the indie music of my teenage years and 20’s. 

[Hugh Jass]

2 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Muse's early stuff was even worse than their later work, not better.

Less controversially, it's all dreadful.

Simulation Theory was actually decent.

(That’s the hottest take on this entire thread)

[Tranquility of Solitude]

Masochistically hoping @eFestivals suddenly opens up the voting buttons at a random moment in this thread, and in a perverse musical chairs type fashion everyone starts backtracking and scrabbling for cool opinions.