Unpopular Music Opinions

The Batlord · 11-15-2019, 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

There are still countries where if you are caught stealing they cut off your hand. When in that country - DON'T STEAL!

Posting anti-gov stuff on Facebook in a country like Vietnam?
Sould get 40 years for stupidity.

Seriously though, with the US pumping more and more business into Vietnam they will have to be careful about looking like a despot country.

On second thoughts......

Don't rock the status quo.
Free trade will spread freedom.

Yup, neoliberal credentials check out.

**Frownland** · 11-15-2019, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

There are still countries where if you are caught stealing they cut off your hand. When in that country - DON'T STEAL!

Posting anti-gov stuff on Facebook in a country like Vietnam?
Sould get 40 years for stupidity.

Seriously though, with the US pumping more and more business into Vietnam they will have to be careful about looking like a despot country.

On second thoughts......

That's quite an unpopular music opinion. Most music enthusiasts aren't down with that Uncle Tom ****.

Chula Vista · 11-15-2019, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Free trade will spread freedom.

That's the concept. It's baby steps though.

**Frownland** · 11-15-2019, 11:33 AM

The 0% success rate of free trade introducing any kind of freedom to a country apart from the freedom of US corporations to exploit local markets is hard to argue with, Bats!

The Batlord · 11-15-2019, 02:36 PM

I'm certain all those US dollars going into China will save Hong Kong.

**Frownland** · 12-04-2019, 10:45 AM

I bet the Miles Davis collab would've been cool to hear, but if Hendrix survived he would have definitely soiled his career. I think he'd basically wind up in SRV's role and it would overshadow his psychedelic work.

**Exo** · 12-04-2019, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I bet the Miles Davis collab would've been cool to hear, but if Hendrix survived he would have definitely soiled his career. I think he'd basically wind up in SRV's role and it would overshadow his psychedelic work.

This is an aside to your specific point but I think most top tier musicians go through a time where they're putting out garbage. Top tier in this case meaning mainstream popularity. Hendrix most likely would have put an album out in the 80's that sounded like a mix between Stevie Ray Vaughn and The Edge. I mean...look at what the 80's did to Iggy f*cking Pop...

Motherf*cker had a shirt on AND tucked into his jeans. Nobody survived the 80's unscathed.

**Frownland** · 12-04-2019, 10:59 AM

Mr. Waits would like a word. And if you use Blood Money or Alice as counterexamples I swear to god I'll ban you.

**Exo** · 12-04-2019, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Mr. Waits would like a word. And if you use Blood Money or Alice as counterexamples I swear to god I'll ban you.

So as I was typing up my post, I thought about Waits, and I deliberately added the part about "mainstream popularity" which is a line I think Tom stayed right under. He never really had a "radio" hit. Popular? Yes. Household name? No. Obviously there are artist who never put garbage out and stayed clear of the hivemind 80's garbage machine but most didn't and Hendrix certainly would have succumbed to it. I mean, f*ck, look at Jefferson Airplane.

**Frownland** · 12-04-2019, 11:20 AM

He was in the Shrek movies though (twice!), it doesn't get more top tier mainstream than that.

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12-04-2019, 10:45 AM	#16546 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	I bet the Miles Davis collab would've been cool to hear, but if Hendrix survived he would have definitely soiled his career. I think he'd basically wind up in SRV's role and it would overshadow his psychedelic work. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

12-04-2019, 10:59 AM	#16548 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Mr. Waits would like a word. And if you use Blood Money or Alice as counterexamples I swear to god I'll ban you. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

12-04-2019, 11:20 AM	#16550 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	He was in the Shrek movies though (twice!), it doesn't get more top tier mainstream than that. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x