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Old 01-09-2019, 02:05 PM   #16221 (permalink)
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Old 01-09-2019, 02:12 PM   #16222 (permalink)
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he was in at least a proto-punk band

as demonstrated in the Winkies Peel Session I posted itt

his approach to music favoring creativity over technicality is very punk
When you say "punk" all I hear is "punker".
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Old 01-09-2019, 03:10 PM   #16223 (permalink)
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Can't sleep, gonna ramble.

I don't know if these are unpopular or not, or if anyone even particularly cares, but whatevs, here's a few of mine...

Oasis' last two albums are their best. Kinda sucks that they split when they did, they were starting to get as interesting musically as they'd ever been.

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.

Calvin Harris sounds much better since he's been working with better collaborators. One Kiss is an absolute beast of a tune.

Flowers Of Romance by PIL is probably my favourite post-punk album ever.

A lot of the 1st wave British punk albums don't really hold up that well. The exceptions being Never Mind the Bollocks, The Clash and the Buzzcocks' Another Music In a Different Kitchen (which you could argue isn't really punk rock, but pop music played fast)

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.

13 is Blur's best album.

K is one of the masterpieces of Britpop.

Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned is the Prodigy's best album.

And I think that's about it from me.
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Old 01-09-2019, 03:21 PM   #16224 (permalink)
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Disagree with the Ziggy one.
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Old 01-09-2019, 03:24 PM   #16225 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 01-09-2019, 03:24 PM   #16226 (permalink)
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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.
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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.
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Old 01-09-2019, 03:34 PM   #16228 (permalink)
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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)
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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)
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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.
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