Your most controversial music opinions

[lessthanwill1]

LCD Soundsystem’s best song is Home. 

[waltere]

My hot Coldplay take is liking Viva la Vida more than anything else they've done.

[dotdash79]

Biology by Girls Aloud is one of the greatest pop songs ever

[stuartbert two hats]

Just now, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

Weren't his band actually a Beach Boys tribute act before joining him?

Sort of. The Wondermints were a normal band who also happened to do some amazingly faithful Beach Boys covers. He apparently heard them play Cabinessense and was blown away, so they became the core of his live band, but other musicians were added, and some of the Wondermints have left over the years.

[priest17]

2 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

The best British band of the 21st century is still The Horrors

This is the controversial thread, take your reasonable takes elsewhere

[Matt42]

43 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

Completely agree.

When I was younger music was incredibly tribal. You liked what you liked and you wouldn’t be seen dead listening to anything outside of your genre. The last decade has broken all of this down, mainly due to the rise in steaming making music instantly accessible for everyone, also the decline and then death of publications such as NME and also the fact that there’s just too much good stuff out there. I certainly listen to a much more diverse range of artists than I did when I younger.

But there are definitely people who feel the need to demonstrate how cutting edge and diverse their tastes are and will champion any old crap whilst shitting on the older stuff.

This is probably the right way to put it. I think the typical “no pop shite at glasto book stereophonics” crowd are still stuck in the tribalism era and have never ventured outside of what they’ve always listened to. I personally think if the music industry is to go anywhere it needs to not listen to people like this. Or they can just go IOW as it seems like IOW is pandering to that crowd massively.

And yes - there are people which reject all rock and say that hyper pop should fill festival lineups - but I think I sit in the middle.

I love a good classic rock booking. I love a new artist being booked. What I hate is “glasto is a rock festival” “everything other than a band” is shite crowd. It feels like a time capsule opinion from the early 00s.

Edited February 13, 2021 by Matt42

[stuartbert two hats]

Elbow were better after Seldom Seen Kid than before.

[priest17]

Just now, dotdash79 said:

Biology by Girls Aloud is one of the greatest pop songs ever

Such a baller move making you wait 2 minutes for a chorus. Someone once did a huge thread on twitter about how Girls Aloud were the best guitar band of the 00s and I think about it every day.

[Punksnotdead]

4 minutes ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

Ahh, that was three pages ago. Everything and everyone's getting it now 😂

In that case........Glastonbury festival is rubbish! 😄

[incident]

Nearly everything ever produced by The Beatles is better when covered by someone else.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

Just now, Punksnotdead said:

In that case........Glastonbury festival is rubbish! 😄

Last year's was. Can't see this year being much cop either

[dentalplan]

4 minutes ago, priest17 said:

This is the controversial thread, take your reasonable takes elsewhere

The legend’s slot is embarrassing and it should be stopped before it consumes the entire festival.

[Hugh Jass]

11 minutes ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

@Hugh Jass profile picture isn't actually a picture of Hugh Jass

Better?

[parsonjack]

Idles have churned out nothing but shouty, tuneless crud.

[priest17]

2 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

The legend’s slot is embarrassing and it should be stopped before it consumes the entire festival.

Better

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

2 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

Better?

Better.

[Gacheezbo]

Bon Jovi actually have lots of very good songs. Feels good to say it aloud.

 

 

[priest17]

2 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

Better?

For no reason...

[priest17]

All accordions should be lobbed onto fucking space I hate the bastards, they're stupid and big and sound rank.

[Chawk]

8 minutes ago, priest17 said:

Such a baller move making you wait 2 minutes for a chorus. Someone once did a huge thread on twitter about how Girls Aloud were the best guitar band of the 00s and I think about it every day.

The Horrors vs Girls Aloud

[waltere]

Don't think this is massively controversial on this board, but Mumford & Sons, Bastille, and the other 'posh boys playing folk' are some of the worst things to ever happen to music and need to be fired into the heart of the sun.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

Anyone who takes an acoustic guitar and is not an official act at the festival should have their registration revoked for the next three million years

[kalifire]

9 minutes ago, incident said:

Nearly everything ever produced by The Beatles is better when covered by someone else.

Including that mashup album with The Wu-Tang Clan. 

Edited February 13, 2021 by kalifire

[Andre91]

Saxophones are dirt. 

[dotdash79]

1 minute ago, Andre91 said:

Saxophones are dirt. 

Nothing more sleazy than a man playing a saxophone solo