Unpopular Music Opinions

[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

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by clydepepper

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

Don't mind me, I'm kicking myself over not listening to u/thiccdadsclub's advice of Reddit last week. LOL

[Snapolit1]

So much hating on the Eagles. Eye opening!!

[clydepepper]

any 'call waiting' musak.

.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by clydepepper

any 'call waiting' musak.

.

When retail could still afford in-store music, one of the Muzak companies provided a bunch of rock songs done that way.

The most surprising was enjoying one and realizing it was Seek and Destroy by Metallica.

[MooseDog]

For fans of "southern" rock...back in the day when rock was regionalized:

Green Grass and High Tides > Free Bird

[carlsonjok]

Originally Posted by steve B

When retail could still afford in-store music, one of the Muzak companies provided a bunch of rock songs done that way.

The most surprising was enjoying one and realizing it was Seek and Destroy by Metallica.

I was on hold waiting for a company wide conference call to begin. The synth string music sounded vaguely familiar, so I Shazamed it. It turned out to be a Muzak version of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit."

True story.

[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.

[Snapolit1]

Spur of the moment a few years ago I went to see Cheap Trick. I have a few musician friends who are into them. Never a band I had much feelings about either way. It was a small club and I stood fairly close to the stage. I was one of the worst acts I have ever seen. And prob a band that toured constantly pre-Covid for 25 years A lot of bad music to sit through to get to I Want You to Want Me.

[Kevin]

The Strokes > The White Stripes

[bobbyw8469]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Spur of the moment a few years ago I went to see Cheap Trick. I have a few musician friends who are into them. Never a band I had much feelings about either way. It was a small club and I stood fairly close to the stage. I was one of the worst acts I have ever seen. And prob a band that toured constantly pre-Covid for 25 years A lot of bad music to sit through to get to I Want You to Want Me.

I always liked their theme song to the little known movie "Up The Creek".

[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.