Unpopular Music Opinions

[DaClyde]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

We've had a lot of fun lately with music threads. Here's a different one. Let's call it unpopular music opinions. What's that music opinion you are totally convinced of that other people shake their heads in absolute disgust. I have many of these. Here's my No. 1:

The Rolling Stones are vastly overrated and just not very interesting musically.

(God, that one pisses off a lot of 55+ year old white dudes.)

While I was reading Keith Richards autobiography, I was so much more entertained reading about how the songs were developed than I have ever been actually listening to the songs he was talking about. Maybe that is just a credit to him as a storyteller.

Originally Posted by rats60

Queen is the most overrated band of all time. There were never very popular. Then their singer dies and people start pushing them as a good band.

Agreed, to a point. Once you stray from the greatest hits, there aren't a lot of great album cuts. But then very few bands have ever been able to release album after album of wall to wall great songs.

[D. Bergin]

Here's my hot take on two early to mid-90's bands with a tragic history and a similar trajectory.

No, not the big ones you're thinking of............


Blind Melon - Best known for "No Rain" (the bee girl music video). Lead singer Shannon Hoon died of an overdose in 1995. Retrospectively, critics and lots of hard core early 90's fans seem to loathe this band, that song in particular, and that entire first album.


I love it....LOL. Still do to this day. I've got their debut CD buried somewhere around here, and it got plenty of air play in my house back in the day. I thought the whole thing was pretty entertaining. Had that early 90's new music kind of feel, without being overwhelmingly depressing and overwrought (not that I didn't also like that kind of music to).


Sadly, it's made almost every worst album of the 90's list I've ever seen.




Sublime - Best known for "Santeria", "What I Got", "Wrong Way" and others. Lead singer Bradley Nowell died of an overdose in 1996. Retrospectively, critics and alternative radio stations seem to love this band. Credited with being innovators of the California beach, reggae, ska scene of the 1990's. Didn't become popular at all until after their lead singer died..............and then..........became............HUGE. To this day you can't avoid their music for more then a couple hours on certain types of radio stations.


They are like fingernails on a chalk board to me, LOL. Comes across as a cheap Bob Marley wannabe beach bar band. Repetitious, droning, and full of itself. All of the songs in their limited library sounds the same to me. Lots of people still like them. I can't seem to avoid an episode of PTSD every time I hear snippet of one of their songs, and flash back to driving a UPS truck, listening to one of the 3 stations I can get on my little radio, and "What I Got" comes on for the 27th time (or was it one of the other songs, and I just couldn't tell the difference), during that long day of delivering packages.

[D. Bergin]

Another quick hot take:




Oasis - Didn't like them. Hated their sound. Annoyed me to almost anger.




The Verve - An Oasis like band. Known best for "Bittersweet Symphony". I found them about 1000% easier to listen to for some reason.

[judsonhamlin]

-The Who. Nope, just nope
-The Eagles. Agree with all above
-Oasis. Shack was much better, just poorly marketed
-Dylan. Except for Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts. You can even add Jakob to that list
-The Doors. Except for The End and Peace Frog
-Journey

And the Kinks are better than the Stones

[earlywynnfan]

Saw the title and some thoughts popped into my head, thought I'd be a pariah. Then it turns out many of you feel like I do!

Stones: doing the same boring thing for 50 years.
U2: Started off cool, now their songs just drone on and on and on.
Duran Duran: liked them in the 80's, and a lot of their stuff still holds up
Police: couple cool songs, most just annoying.
Dylan: don't get him at all.
Eagles: meh

Also do not get: Velvet Underground, The Smiths, James Taylor.

Ozzy should have quit years ago.

Dick Dale should be way more famous.

[Nunzio11]

[QUOTE=D. Bergin;2062022]Here's my hot take on two early to mid-90's bands with a tragic history and a similar trajectory.

No, not the big ones you're thinking of............


Blind Melon - Best known for "No Rain" (the bee girl music video). Lead singer Shannon Hoon died of an overdose in 1995. Retrospectively, critics and lots of hard core early 90's fans seem to loathe this band, that song in particular, and that entire first album.


I love it....LOL. Still do to this day. I've got their debut CD buried somewhere around here, and it got plenty of air play in my house back in the day. I thought the whole thing was pretty entertaining. Had that early 90's new music kind of feel, without being overwhelmingly depressing and overwrought (not that I didn't also like that kind of music to).


Sadly, it's made almost every worst album of the 90's list I've ever seen.


Love the Blind Melon shout out. “Soup” is a great album. A little darker than the first album. It was released weeks before Shannon Hoon’s OD. They still have a really loyal following.

[nolemmings]

Jon Bon Jovi sucks.
When I'm generous, I'd call his songs facile and trite.

[Jim65]

Originally Posted by nolemmings

Jon Bon Jovi sucks.
When I'm generous, I'd call his songs facile and trite.

He's Johnny Bravo from the Brady Bunch episode. Totally talentless who made it big because he fit the suit.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by nolemmings

Jon Bon Jovi sucks.
When I'm generous, I'd call his songs facile and trite.

100% agree, Def Leppard sucks too. Both are what your little brother would listen to instead of good rock. Any time a song of theirs creeps onto the playlist I switch.

Dylan and the Grateful Dead, both unlistenable trash unless you are stoned. My Chemical Romance's version of Desolation Row is a million times better than Dylan's.

Springsteen meant a lot to me as a teenager, as did Star Wars, not so much now. Simplistic and derivative. Everything Springsteen does sounds just like everything else he has done since 1981.

I hate Metallica and other bands of that genre; sounds like trash trucks dropping cans on cats.

Jazz is boring and the fans are pompous twats.

Classical is what elevators and dentists offices were made for.

Opera is like nails on a chalkboard.

I'd rather have another colonoscopy than sit through an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.

Hamilton sucked.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Nunzio11

Love the Blind Melon shout out. “Soup” is a great album. A little darker than the first album. It was released weeks before Shannon Hoon’s OD. They still have a really loyal following.

Yeah, I probably still have that one around here somewhere to, but it's probably been a couple decades since I listened to it. Gotta dig it out one of these days.

[D. Bergin]

It's easy to name popular bands, artists you don't like for a thread such as this.

It's much harder to name something you DO like, that isn't necessarily the popular choice among the masses/critics/etc..

I see Duran Duran mentioned a lot in this thread.............but they've seemed to gain more retrospective support through the years, then a lot of people seem to realize. So it's really not as "unpopular" as you might think, to declare you think they were pretty great.

For example, who here likes "Nickleback"? I don't. I don't think I ever did, but then my daughter accused me of owning a couple of "Nickleback" CD's. I denied it. Then she dug through my old collection of CD's and found two of them. I promptly blamed it on my wife, LOL! Then I thought.......maybe I DID like "Nickleback" at one time.....and I repressed it, deep deep down.

Also have a couple "CREED" Cd's, I'm not particularly proud of.




In addition to my previous actual support of "Blind Melon", let me add "Stone Temple Pilots". Of the West Coast "grunge" type bands of the early 90's, they are generally accused of being "pretenders" of the era nowadays. I don't know if it's simply because they are a California band and not a Seattle area band, or if people simply don't like them anymore.



"The Big Empty" (from The Crow soundtrack), is still one of my favorite songs of all time, and I thought they had several solid albums throughout the years. Generally considered sacrilege, but I preferred them, to other more highly revered contemporaries of the era, such as "Soundgarden" and "Alice In Chains".

[steve B]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Sublime - Best known for "Santeria", "What I Got", "Wrong Way" and others. Lead singer Bradley Nowell died of an overdose in 1996. Retrospectively, critics and alternative radio stations seem to love this band. Credited with being innovators of the California beach, reggae, ska scene of the 1990's. Didn't become popular at all until after their lead singer died..............and then..........became............HUGE. To this day you can't avoid their music for more then a couple hours on certain types of radio stations.


They are like fingernails on a chalk board to me, LOL. Comes across as a cheap Bob Marley wannabe beach bar band. Repetitious, droning, and full of itself. All of the songs in their limited library sounds the same to me. Lots of people still like them. I can't seem to avoid an episode of PTSD every time I hear snippet of one of their songs, and flash back to driving a UPS truck, listening to one of the 3 stations I can get on my little radio, and "What I Got" comes on for the 27th time (or was it one of the other songs, and I just couldn't tell the difference), during that long day of delivering packages.

Their version of "smoke two joints " has always seemed unrealistically fast paced to me. And I don't even smoke.

[steve B]

Surprised at all the like for Duran Duran. I never liked them, and unlike some other overplayed pop bands I've never found I like them much hearing them only once a year or so.

The Stones, I like some old stuff, but my HS friend was really into their as I called it disco album. Since then they've become like the guy that tore up the league for 5-7 years, but has settled in as a .250 hitter and just won't retire.

Unpopular here, but I like Clapton. Not like really like his stuff, but I don't hate it.

Pretty much every hard rock or metal band once they decide they're "artists" That's pretty much code for "I can't come up with anything but I'll mess around with synthesizers and hope it sells. "

[Snapolit1]

Dean Martin is criminally underappreciated. Dino could sing anything well.

My wife insists on putting on the Sinatra XM channel all the time. Anyone who thinks Frank didn't sing a bad song hasn't listened to this station. He has a million bad songs. Or a million songs he ruined with schtick. Dino is as genuine as it comes.

[SteveWhite]

Any band with Joe Walsh playing the guitar is pretty good. So. I'll listen to the James Gang, and what was that other band he was in, oh, the Eagles. They became a rock band about half way through New Kid in Town.

[Kevin]

John Lennon’s - “Imagine” and “So This is Christmas” are terrible songs. Judge mental songs.

“...and what have you done?” F*ck him

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by Kevin

John Lennon’s - “Imagine” and “So This is Christmas” are terrible songs. Judge mental songs.

“...and what have you done?” F*ck him

Kevin- We need to work on you coming out of your shell. LOL

[Snapolit1]

So much hating on the Eagles. Eye opening!!

[clydepepper]

any 'call waiting' musak.

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[earlywynnfan]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Dean Martin is criminally underappreciated. Dino could sing anything well.

My wife insists on putting on the Sinatra XM channel all the time. Anyone who thinks Frank didn't sing a bad song hasn't listened to this station. He has a million bad songs. Or a million songs he ruined with schtick. Dino is as genuine as it comes.

I've never really understood the fascination with Sinatra, either, and I'm totally willing to listen to that style.

Two other way-back guys who are underappreciated, in my mind, are Louis Prima and Little Richard. I imagine my grandparents, he in his bowtie and she in her poodle skirt, doing the Charleston, then along comes Little Richard?? I'd give anything to see him perform in the late 50's. And Louis Prima is the first guy I'd call "cool."

[sthoemke]

Primus sucks

[quinnsryche]

Led Zeppelin is the most overrated band of all time. I absolutely DESPISE every single song I have EVER heard from them. Robert Plant can't sing, Jimmy Page is the most overrated guitar player in history, John Bonham sounds like he's kicking his kit down a flight of stairs and who the hell is John Paul Jones?
Whew! I REALLY need to get that off my chest.

[Bocabirdman]

Well it looks like everybody is despised.

I'll pile on....

The only Stones that I can listen to after all these years is the stuff they did with Mick Taylor.

Led Zep could have been an awesome band if Joe Cocker had accepted Page's invite instead of recommending Robert Plant.

Aerosmith should have stayed "broken up" about 1980

Roy Buchanan needed better management. He could have, should have been huge.

Ray Charles became irrelevant when he kicked heroin.....I mean come on....singing with a muppet?

John Cougar and Eddie Money had careers due to a lack of 80's competition.

Fleetwood Mac was a much better band before Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham came on board.

[Seven]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Dean Martin is criminally underappreciated. Dino could sing anything well.

My wife insists on putting on the Sinatra XM channel all the time. Anyone who thinks Frank didn't sing a bad song hasn't listened to this station. He has a million bad songs. Or a million songs he ruined with schtick. Dino is as genuine as it comes.

I think Dino is so underappreciated because of how private he was. Did a very good job of Setting up the barriers between his Public Persona and Private Life.

As for your point on Sinatra, all of his fans, myself included, don't remember the bad songs, we only remember the good renditions . I think Sinatra is so well received because of how much of a Showman he was, the fact that he could dance, sing and somewhat act. His constant links to the premier Hollywood Starlets, or his questionable ties to the Italian Mafia. He was an interesting person. And Damn Good looking too, if I say so myself!

[Kevin]

There was this club called Brownies in Alphabet City. Ian was always there, after Anthrax got big. A guy hanging out watching good music. I think the sound guy at Brownies was a legend in the NYC music scene.