Music Banter - Unpopular Music Opinions

Ziggy Stardust isn't that good of an album. Great songs let down by a pretty flat, muted production style - literally every song on that album sounds much better live. Aladdin Sane sounds much better so far as glam Bowie goes.

I love me some Bob Marley, but his bandmates Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer made far more consistently awesome music.

Hallelujah is probably one of Leonard Cohen's worse songs.

Agreed on all of these. I appreciate Marley more for how nakedly passionate he is than his music though.

MicShazam

01-09-2019 03:24 PM

I guess I don't really like any of bowie's early albums all that much.

About Hallelujah being one of Leonard Cohen's worst songs, I don't know, since I don't know his albums. But I definitely feel like artists that are widely known for just one song tend to have much better songs. Joan Osborne is known for "One of Us", from the album Relish... literally every single song on that album is at least 10x better. She didn't even want to record that song and it doesn't even sound like anything else on the album. The producer insisted and now it's the one song she's known for.

Frownland

01-09-2019 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2032119)

so you mean basically you don't like Sex Pistols?

TFW you hate a band so much that you think that their albums hold up well.

Bulldog

01-09-2019 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2032119)

so you mean basically you don't like Sex Pistols?

Not as much as PIL, and even them I don't really like beyond their first 3 albums.

Pistols are the exception though. That album's beautifully produced - got some great stuff going on with the mixing console on it.

I'm talking more about stuff like the Adverts, X Ray Spex, the Only Ones, Angelic Upstarts etc. I don't hate them or anything, there's a few isolated good tunes, but good albums? Nah. All a bit bleh, if you ask me (and I'm fully aware that no-one actually was)

The Batlord

01-09-2019 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Bulldog (Post 2032124)

Germ Free Adolescents is the bomb and Stiff Little Fingers' Inflammable Material is likewise a raucus good time.

Cuthbert

01-09-2019 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2032125)

95% of Britpop is abysmal and bands like Blur are incredibly bland especially considering the legacy they follow

is that an unpopular opinion

this is no relation to your posts Bulldog other then reminding me I don't like Blur

Britpop is shit yes but Blur are decent.

MicShazam

01-09-2019 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2032125)

I very much don't like britpop. I do have a couple Suede albums. Not sure how much I like them though.

Bulldog

01-09-2019 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2032125)

I'll tell you what - a lot of Britpop bands got better when they moved away from that sound. I'll take Pulp's This Is Hardcore and We Love Life over His n Hers and Different Class anyday. Supergrass' self-titled and Road To Rouen are much better albums than I Should Coco. I much prefer Suede's Head Music to Dog Man Star.

Which reminds me...

Stones Roses - can't stand them.

Bulldog

01-09-2019 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg (Post 2032127)

Germ Free Adolescents is the bomb and Stiff Little Fingers' Inflammable Material is likewise a raucus good time.

I'll agree with Inflammable Material.

Really not a Germ Free Adolescents fan though. I do think Identity's a pretty awesome to this day, though

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