No but seriously they're pretty awful.

Slipknot is one of the better bands from the nu-metal era, and quite honestly nu-metal wasn't that bad.

You and me both bro.

Eh, at least it's more tolerable than the current wave of deathcore/hardcore.

tbh, some people may find it ironic (or for some, deserved) that alot of these deathcore bands list groups like Korn and Limp Bizkit as main influences, hehe.

But it is :(

I don't get what the big deal about LCD Soundsystem is.

I share your unpopular opinion. I think most people that like them aren't that experienced with electronic music. Otherwise they'd recognize that their sound is nothing special. At least that's the impression I got when I listened to one of their albums...I'd heard it all before, it just sounded more polished and packaged for the masses. More pop. People like pop, so there you go. I guess that's the big deal...it's easily accessible.

I'm with both of you on the LCD Soundsystem front. Not a horrible band IMO but at the same time I really don't get what the big deal is either.

well can you enlighten me as to why? i understand that a good number of groups ripped off of each other, but really what musical genre hasn't?

- sometimes I think the following bands might be better than The Beatles, album for album:

Van Halen
Steely Dan
AC/DC
Joni Mitchell
Iron Maiden
Pavement

lmao:finger:

If anyone writes a genre off because many of its artists aren't original, they're dumb.

Nu metal is boring, skilless garbage. It all sounds exactly the same and the sound is terrible. It's annoying. It's repetitive in a bad way. I've never heard a nu metal song I like.

Whenever someone says "Better than The Beatles", I take it as quality wise. There's no denying the impact The Beatles had on music, and whenever someone says "I don't like The Beatles", I'm fine with it, so long as that person knows what they did and respects them.

Now, I think Van Halen and AC/DC are fuc‎king terrible. I'd rather have a cow take a crap in my ears than listen to their music. I think they're insults to top-tier artists and should have never released an album.

Joni Mitchell and Pavement I've heard of but don't know a lot about.

Steely Dan, though, is my definite favorite band. S‎hit, I'm listening to them right now. Now, album-to-album, quality-wise? I'd say this is plausible. Steely Dan is probably the most consistent band in history and were always top notch, and I think that they could definitely run the table in a discussion about album quality.

ok, i can why you don't like it, but on my side of the fence i enjoy the main groove of the songs combined with the hard hitting instrumentation. while you may see that as "boring" i see it as something i can really move to, in a way a kind of heavy funk music.

as for how it's "skilless", i say it's not so much what you have, but how you use it. there's plenty of musicians who have skill up to their eyeballs, but squander it in meaningless shred-fests and overblown displays of technicality. not saying that there aren't people with alot of skill who can really make music, just that i'm not too picky on skill levels as long as the musicians can take what they have and make it entertaining.

but yeah, not sayng you have to like nu-metal or anything. there's music that doesn't appeal to me, but i still can get why others like it*cough* classical *cough*

Yeah I'm not much of a classical fan either, even though I appreciate the talent it takes to make that kind of music.

I share your opinion of nu-metal but I hate the argument in any situation when people say that a ertain genre or even band takes no skill. Who cares if they're playing power chords or their whole songs consist of sweeping, it's about whatever sounds good.

Some extremely hard stuff can sound great



and some really simple stuff can sound just as good. (as it can sound bad just like any other style of music)

I love Classical music.
Damnit, another Unpopular Music Opinion?

No, classical music is the ****. Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Haydn, etc

Wait, so it's dumb to write off a genre because many of its artists aren't original, but it's ok to write one off as boring, skilless garbage? :crazy:

Don't worry, I didn't understand it the contradiction there, either.

I'm all for grooves but every nu metal song I've heard either doesn't have any real groove or a terrible one. And then they have all that heavy bullshi‎t going on in the background and it just doesn't work at all.

Yeah, but 95% of talentless musicians make terrible music with the other 5% maybe doing something interesting.

Def. I rarely try to sway one's musical tastes covering entire genres.

Cause originality = awesome, right? So, like, Merzbow is the greatest isn't he? http://imgur.com/FFY5R.gif

I could never stand Primus either. I tried really hard but I just couldn't pull it off.

I like Primus per se, but I don't ever think I consider one of their albums a 'masterpiece'. They're just good, and some of them aren't even that. If they do get some sort of hero praise on here, it'd puzzle me.

i would love a playlist of all the worthwhile Primus songs so I don't have to go through their discography. there are certainly some good ones.

'1979' by The Smashing Pumpkins is a pretty annoying and overrated song. And I say that as a fan of their first 4 albums.

I can't fault you for your opinion...but this makes me sad. That song is awesome...as is 90% of Mellon Collie.

I never liked it much even before it was a single, even less after.

I've got one - Whatever People I Say I Am, That's What I'm Not isn't Arctic Monkeys best album, Humbug is.

Ok here's a few:

Hendrix is as much of a guitar wanker as Yngwie Malmsteen. A guitar wanker is a guitar wanker whether they have bluesy soul or not. I particularly dislike electric Blues guitarists like Stevie Ray Vaughn and Robert Cray.

In the 80s Megadeth was a better band than Metallica. Dave Mustaine was a better musician than all of Metallica combined. After the 80s both bands sounded horrible.

Pink Floyd is as boring as any generic 70s rock band.

Rock and Roll itself is not very good. I don't like Elvis or any of the Sun Records stuff much. Early Beatles was forgettable. All of these white guys ripped off black R-n-B artists who made boring music in the first place.

In general, musicians were more skilled, more imaginative and more passionate 200 years ago than they are now.

Alternative country bands are neither alternative nor country. They make their money by blatantly ripping off their musical heroes in a way that they feel is clever and new but it is not.

Canadian indie rock bands that were popular in the 00s, in general, suck.

Same goes for Brooklyn.

I find this quote that was in my head this morning appropriate:

"Nothing is a powerful place to stand. Only from nothing can you create."

So it follows that anything after the initial invention of music is influenced by what came before it, and therefore, less imaginative.

Arctic Monkeys suck.
/unpopular music opinion

I don't like Tom Waits, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, or Bob Dylan

Surely you like at least one David Bowie song....

That's an opinion that's extremely unpopular with me.

Out of the bunch I only like David Bowie.

I dislike Bowie as well. Listening to a full album of his bores me, I think I'm broke.
I just never could get in to Bowie, maybe one day.

Tom Waits is an unremarkable piano player and his voice isn't brilliant or groundbreaking, it's just grating as shi‎t. In a bad way.

I think Toad the Wet Sprocket are actually pretty good....

....*watches credibility sink into quicksand*. :D

^ I like one of their songs, it was on the I Know What You Did Last Summer soundtrack. I can't remember the name though, so I guess I didn't like it *that* much.

Hole are a brilliant band.

this one i highly agree with.

the rest, eh, not so much.

No, Hole are not brilliant, nor are they really a band so much as an outlet for courtney love's caterwauling. They're awful.