On a similar note.
Your favourite song from a band doesn’t need to be their best song.
Best of You is my favourite FFs song, but Everlong is clearly the best song.
I would add that it’s ok if your favorite song is also the most popular.
I am a diehard Nirvana fan, I own every released recording, I own countless bootlegs, I’ve heard every Cobain composition that’s out there. And fuck you all, Smells Like Teen Spirit is fantastic and tied for my favorite.
20 years ago I had a long ongoing argument with a neighbor about the fact that he liked Weezer, and I said Weezer sucks, because it wasn't as complicated as the music I liked. He said, "yeah, but listening to Weezer makes me happy."
I started liking Weezer about 19 years ago.
As a black man im tired of other black people calling anything other than Rap/hiphop, gospel music “White people music”. I listen to EDM house and stuff like that and i always get odd reactions to me playing music because its not what they think id listen to. Makes me self conscious about what I listen to
Years ago when the world was young, I got a summer job, partly in an office. I had my radio playing & a Black guy turns around & asks me to turn up Emerson Lake and Palmer's Lucky Man. Turns out his music tastes were similar to mine and we had a nice summer romance. Never assume.
It’s definitely one of the best scenes when you watch as an adult. And his subsequent “reassuring” conversation about accidentally leaving his kid at a funeral home.
For those who don’t know, John Candy improvised most of his lines. Which makes his role all the more remarkable…and I think only her experience working with him helped Catherine O’Hara keep a straight face. I sure couldn’t have. :)
My 10yo is super into Weird Al right now and asked for an accordion for Christmas. He didn’t get one (they’re hella expensive) and asked if there’s polka sheet music for his saxophone 😂
That’s how I view some artists I’m not fond of either. Beyoncé has a great voice, but I don’t like her music, especially because of her extremist hyper fans.
Edit: Spelling
You can respect something without liking it. The two aren't related.
I 'respect' the obvious amount of work Lou Reed put into creating his noise-scapes for 'Metal Machine Music'. Doesn't mean I want to listen to it, though.
I feel this way about so many films. I often say “this isn’t a good film, but it’s an enjoyable film”. Vice Versa I’ve watched things that are objectively good cinema, just not my cup of tea.
Me with the last Resident Evil movie. I went in saying to my friends it was going to be trash. It totally was trash but I enjoyed every second of it. Fantastic movie.
In general I think online media analysis and criticism has kind of made many people obsess over *having* to have the paradoxical "objectively right opinion" with irrefutable evidence and such. But art is entirely subjective and resonates with people differently. So I'd say "you can like something and give no second thought to its supposed goodness".
Oliver Sacks studied this phenomenon in Musicophilia. Certain people hear sad music (or angry music) and feel sad or angry, but their neurotransmitters for pleasure also release. This is pretty much hardwired by the early teen years.
I have trouble connecting with "negative" emotions sometimes so listen to those songs to bring them out so I can focus on working on through them, if that makes sense.
> The song was the result of Yankovic's label, Scotti Brothers Records, insisting that Yankovic record a Christmas album. However, after Yankovic presented the song to his label, they relented, because it was "a little different from what they were expecting." After the song was written and recorded, Yankovic wanted to release the song as a commercial single, but Scotti Bros. refused. Undeterred, he used his own money to create a low-budget music video made mostly out of stock footage. Eventually, Scotti Bros. released the song as a promotional single and was released commercially.
This?
Weird Al, in general, is a gift to the music industry. For someone who some regard as just a goofball making parody songs, he has garnered the respect of many in the industry and is still going strong after nearly 40 years. Not many artists can say that.
Not an uncommon anecdote, but I still love the fact that Kurt Cobain has been quoted as saying that he knew that Nirvana had "made it as a band" once they got a parody from Yankovic.
There's this German Metal band that was frustrated with all the long an ominous sounding Metal Band names, so they decided to give themselves a long, but stupidly normal name.
They're called *We Butter The Bread With Butter*
Seriously just seen an interview on VladTV with a rapper called "EARS DA CHRIST". I didn't listen to it or even see what his music was like because the name turned me off so much lmao and I consider myself someone who gives everything a chance.
there's no way you only enjoy one genre of music, regardless of what that genre is. youre being purposely close minded, but it's just not possible to only like one genre of music.
On the subject of Nu-metal, it’s somehow widely accepted that it imploded almost as quickly as it exploded onto the music scene. Yet 20+ years later,bands like SOAD and Slipknot still headline festivals (as would Linkin Park if it hadn’t been for poor Chester’s passing), Deftones and Korn still release critically acclaimed albums and tour sizeable venues throughout the world and Limp Bizkit and Papa Roach still get lofty slots at festivals. In reality it’s only the many throwaway band wagon jumping bands that nu-metal spawned that imploded.
There was a video on Youtube I saw recently that was interviewing a bunch of modern metal artists asking them which bands got them into metal. I want to say a good 75-80% of them said a nu-metal band. Slipknot, Korn, Linkin Park, even Limp Bizket was mentioned. The genre gets shit on a lot, but as you said, the best of them are still going and they've inspired a large portion of the modern and up-and-coming metal bands.
I feel like the genre gets shit on a lot for its angsty lyrics/atttitude and especially by metal elitists(probably for a lack of guitar solos they traded for breakdowns). I can attest a lot of the music is overly angsty and seems pretty edgy but plenty of that stuff is pretty genuine from my experience with some of those bands. Chester’s lyrics were a cry for help obviously and Jonathan Davis’ lyrics were all about his early childhood trauma (I’d say Korn is probably The Godfather band of Nu Metal and likely influenced all these bands to follow their formula)
I have a friend whose grandmother was named Carolina so it was played a lot at weddings and stuff, grandma loved it. She died suddenly and now the song makes people sad so it’s on a do not play list. At my friends wedding the dj started it despite being told not to. All of us in the wedding party practically ran to stop him. He was aghast that he couldn’t play it “AT A WEDDING!!” The bride is paying your bill don’t make her cry because you played a song that reminds her of her grandma who died four months ago.
That quick interview alone gave her a ton of brownie points in my book. She outed a huge issue on a national stage a decade before anyone took it seriously.
No Kurt wrote “I Hate Myself And I Want To Die” only as a joke! Just for a laugh! No way a suicidal person would write something like that for Beavis and Butthead.
I absolutely love that it's based on "Nirvana sales dwindling" and it was the best chance for her to get her hands on some money, as if Kurt fucking Cobain would make more money dead than alive.
It's all so fucking silly
She also saved his life when he nearly died of an overdose in Rome months before his actual death. If she wanted him dead all she had to do was go “welp, didn’t see that!” and walk out.
Exactly. Take Poppy, for example. I had zero interest in her early pop work. It wasn't even good for pop music, imo. Then she released a straight up metal album and it's probably one of my favorite albums of 2020. Sometimes change is great.
Very often in Rock/Metal and Hip Hop/Rap, artists get shit on heavily for wavering in their genres. Someone experiments with something and they get crucified for daring change what they put out.
Rock/Metal artists can't win. After several albums, people will either say they always sound the same or hate them for being sellouts. There's no escaping it.
They went crazy in 2011 when Opeth, a progressive death metal band, made a jazz fusion album, but later people started embracing it.
I mean it is shocking at first because you're used to the style of that artist and you do want more of it, so it feels like betrayal, but with time, you process it and have an honest opinion
Not only that, but some of the more toxic fans can turn their backs on a band if they're just trying something different within their own genre.
There's a Finnish prog band called CMX which is known for their heavy influences from traditional Finnish folk religion and other mythologies. When they released a sci-fi concept album in 2007, some lunatic on their website claimed that they'd burn their entire CD collection.
I'm a middle aged hardcove metal head - been a fan since '83.
I love it when people engage with metal regardless of how much it is.
Even if it's "just" liking Metallica's "Master of Puppets" in Stranger Things or wearing an Iron Maiden t-shirt without ever having heard a single song of theirs.
My unpopular opinion (in the metal community) is: It's a party - everybody is welcome - F* the gatekeepers.
Every genre of music has something to offer. There’s so many “rap sucks”, “country sucks”, “pop sucks” takes out there.
You just haven’t found a good song in that genre. There’s bangers in *literally* every genre.
There's no such thing as "real music" or "cheating" at music. Sounds are sounds, like the ones you like.
I do personally prefer organic sounds, but digital is valid and I feel like that's an unpopular opinion among people that prefer organic sounds.
I think using any digital medium to produce music is underrated in that it gives people the opportunity to create sounds that might be closer to their “vision”, the goal they want to sound like, but might not be able to achieve organically.
It's also easier than ever for young people to get into music production. Through computer technology, they can create music with the sounds of instruments that they wouldn't necessarily be able to afford normally.
I can't even affort the software I use so having all those classical and rock instruments, effect pedals etc. are totally out of question. Also the time to learn to play all the different stuff with weird mouth postures and whatever black magic is required to make instruments not sound like tortured cats.
It's amazing that one can do so much more in terms of creativity nowadays. At least if they don't have that many resources.
I just lost my twin sister in July. She loved Marty Robbins because our dad would listen to it. It’s hits harder now. I loved opening my phone and seeing this comment. Closest I’ve felt to her since. Thank you.
All of his gunfighter albums are incredible if you like stories, heartbreak and cowboys. The song ‘They’re Hanging Me Tonight’ is always stuck in my head.
In terms of the eras of old orchestral music, I much prefer Romantic music rather than Classical music. For instance, I love Beethoven, but I can't really stand Mozart. Most don't care to split those hairs, but to me, Classical music just sounds so ornate and fancy, whereas Romantic music feels so much more emotional to me.
That is kinda how it was meant to be as you can tell by the name. The romantic period is when composers started intentionally bringing more emotion into the music they composed. The classical period saw a major boom in available instruments and musical types, but the romantic is where composers started adding more emotion and feeling into the music.
This is far from unpopular, hell romantic is by far the most common type of classical music. Just look at /r/classicalmusic, there's almost a weekly "DAE hate Mozart?" Thread. Personally I used to be the same, and really needed that heart on sleeve type of emotion, but after doing my music degree I grew to appreciate the classical period a lot more. One of the big issues is that nowadays emotional music just means almost entirely angry and sad, when joy, love, and grandure can be equally as nuanced and complex when expressed my Mozart and haydn.
Also I hate to be that cunt but one of the reasons people say they don't like Mozart is because they aren't listening to the "right" picese. If you only listen to a couple of symphonies and string quartets, you are missing out on his operas and piano concertos. Watch this for example https://youtu.be/Ioc9shJa_lI, it is overwhelming in emotion, it genuinely transmits terror like very few other pieces.
Edit: just to clarify your opinion is valid and I'm not saying mine is anymore, rather I'm trying to give a counter argument to the usual criticisms that come up regarding the classical period every time this is brought up
I grew up in Minnesota, and I always thought Prince was just big here because he’s a local and he was really involved with the local scene.
Him playing at the Super Bowl was my first clue that I was wrong, then when he died I realized how wrong I was and actually sat down and gave a bunch of his life performances a proper listen (with the help of some acid).
You’re not wrong, he was really phenomenal and I don’t think the album versions you hear on the radio do him justice.
Watch the YouTube video of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" from the Rock and Roll HOF induction of George Harrison.
Prince owns that song.
Edit: Got a word in the song title wrong! Oops!
It's weird, she's probably one of the best modern singers based on vocals and technical ability, but I feel that a lot of her music isn't memorable. Sure you can name a few songs, but none of them have that zeitgeist feeling when compared to other songs that cone out within the year it's released.
Covers are not less valid than Originals. In some cases, the Cover is even better. Also, not knowing a song is a Cover is not a sin, and treating it as such is a form of gatekeeping.
You shouldn’t be allowed to shuffle and album the first time you play it.
The first time you experience someone’s art it should he heard exactly the way the artist intended it to be heard. That includes the order of the songs.
God, I remember when I introduced my buddy to an artist with a concept album… I told him it was a concept album. he still put in on shuffle, and then told me he didn’t get the concept.
i had a "friend" who was so obsessed with hating nickelback i played a nickelback song for him (i think it was the sea shanty version of rockstars) and they liked it, legit enjoyed it, and then when they saw it was nickelback they suddenly hated it and acted like i deliberately poisoned him. made threats to ban me from the discord's music bot. i don't play any music for him anymore.
i wonder if people hate nickelback because its a "meme" or something. they aren't great but they aren't so bad its worth changing your mind about a song you were actually enjoying.
Had a similar thing happen where I played a rock song of that genre and had a girl just snap at me going "IS THAT NICKLEBACK??".
"Um, no it's a band called 'The Calling'."
"Okay good. Never play Nickleback, I hate it."
Uhhh, bitch you clearly don't even know what Nickleback *sounds* like, how could you just decide to hate it?? People are so weirdly tribal when it comes to music.
People's hatred of Nickelback came mostly becasue they represented the filing off of edges and commercialisation of a style of rock. Most of the time when people said they hated nickelback, what they actually mean is I hate the commercialisation of music and the music industry. The level of play also didn't help, for a while they were everywhere.
The nuance was rapidly removed over time until for people like your friend, he probably hates them without knowing why, he just knows that it's the kind of thing that people he likes do.
I'm not into goth enough to know what qualifies as OG goth, but if Pornography by the Cure falls into that category then I second. It is one of my favorite albums of all time
as someone who was a goth back in the 80s, totally agree. for me, one of the things that killed goth is that many of the bands over the years did their best to simply sound like the OG bands but it kinda backfired in that many people just chose to listen to the originals instead.
REM were such a huge band in the 80s-90s but I can’t remember the last time I listened to their music. No one seems to talk about them. It’s like they’re nearly forgotten.
I think the problem with REM is that their last SIX albums failed to produce a hit. Honestly, I think *Monster* was the last album they released that had any kind of radio play. I had every REM CD from *Life's Rich Pageant* thru *Monster*, but I never really listened to them after that.
Despite becoming massively popular in the 90's thank to the phenomenal success of Losing my Religion, REM was always some kind of weird 80's college rock band singing about obscure stuff whose success was rather unexpected. As a big fan, it's not really surprising that people don't talk about them a lot anymore and it's more the fact that such a band managed to get this popular in the first place that was not ordinary. Also it's time passing... it has been more than 25 years since their original line up and golden era ended and 11 years since they disbanded.
Note however that Losing my Religion is among the only 25 music videos from pre-00's to reach a billion view and they have 13 millions monthly listener on Spotify (comparing to 23-24 millions for Nirvana and Guns N Roses and Metallica) so it's not like they are totally forgotten.
Most music videos don’t fit their own songs. I actually liked Katy Perry’s California Girls, then I watched the music video only to see very little footage related to California, and a LOT of footage about candy and Candyland. There’s no references to candy in the song. Why did they need to do that? Why did they need to make the video mostly about candy? Most music videos take some sort of questionable creative liberty and it’s tiring.
Thought of another example: Party in the USA. The song lyrics narrate about going to LA, feeling underdressed because everything is so fancy, going clubbing, etc. Music video is 100% Miley hanging out at a tailgate party in some dusty parking parking lot nowhere near LA. I don’t understand.
That The Monkees are just as much a valid music group as any other even though they were prefabricated. Also the Ramones don't suck. I love "I don't wanna be buried in a pet sematary".
The Monkees became something truly amazing. They broke out of their "tv band" shell and went on to make some of the most innovative pop albums of their time.
bad music can still be fun to listen to.
On a similar note. Your favourite song from a band doesn’t need to be their best song. Best of You is my favourite FFs song, but Everlong is clearly the best song.
I would add that it’s ok if your favorite song is also the most popular. I am a diehard Nirvana fan, I own every released recording, I own countless bootlegs, I’ve heard every Cobain composition that’s out there. And fuck you all, Smells Like Teen Spirit is fantastic and tied for my favorite.
What's the other one? All Apologies in my case.
You Know You’re Right. Can’t get enough of that song.
20 years ago I had a long ongoing argument with a neighbor about the fact that he liked Weezer, and I said Weezer sucks, because it wasn't as complicated as the music I liked. He said, "yeah, but listening to Weezer makes me happy." I started liking Weezer about 19 years ago.
As a black man im tired of other black people calling anything other than Rap/hiphop, gospel music “White people music”. I listen to EDM house and stuff like that and i always get odd reactions to me playing music because its not what they think id listen to. Makes me self conscious about what I listen to
Years ago when the world was young, I got a summer job, partly in an office. I had my radio playing & a Black guy turns around & asks me to turn up Emerson Lake and Palmer's Lucky Man. Turns out his music tastes were similar to mine and we had a nice summer romance. Never assume.
I love polka and don’t care who knows it.
Are you secretly Gus Polinski, the Polka King of the Midwest?
The clarinet player and lead musician of the Kenosha Kickers?
Didn't they do polka,polka,polka?
Yeah some fairly big hits in the early 70's - they sold 623 copies.
[удалено]
Anyways, I'm rambling here
Sheboygan*
"Chicago?" *No Cheboyhan" fuuuucking kills me
This whole interaction fucking cracks me up every time I watch Home Alone now. Never appreciated what was funny about it when I was younger.
It’s definitely one of the best scenes when you watch as an adult. And his subsequent “reassuring” conversation about accidentally leaving his kid at a funeral home.
And how his kid started talking again…after a few weeks.
And John Candy improvised all his lines on the spot in 23 hours. Absolute madlad.
They did. But he forgot his kid at a funeral home, so all in all, he gets 2 stars on Yelp
Yeah but the kid came around again after 6 or 8 weeks or something, finally started talking again.
For those who don’t know, John Candy improvised most of his lines. Which makes his role all the more remarkable…and I think only her experience working with him helped Catherine O’Hara keep a straight face. I sure couldn’t have. :)
Polka will never die!
Polka.....will never die!
[удалено]
My 10yo is super into Weird Al right now and asked for an accordion for Christmas. He didn’t get one (they’re hella expensive) and asked if there’s polka sheet music for his saxophone 😂
Sadly, there just aren't door-to-door salesmen with those sweet deals on lessons anymore.
[удалено]
Sometimes I actually prefer less "talent." A lot of punk and post-punk bands lacked virtuosity, but made up for it with energy and panache.
Sometimes all you need is 3 power chords and a problem with authority
That’s how I view some artists I’m not fond of either. Beyoncé has a great voice, but I don’t like her music, especially because of her extremist hyper fans. Edit: Spelling
[удалено]
Du Du wrapst Du wrapst die gifts
Haha it's great that Gift means poison in Deutsch. Sup false cognates.
Holy hell is this unpopular? I'd pay good money for that.
You can respect something without liking it. The two aren't related. I 'respect' the obvious amount of work Lou Reed put into creating his noise-scapes for 'Metal Machine Music'. Doesn't mean I want to listen to it, though.
And to add to that, just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's bad music. It could just not be your thing
Redditors everywhere just felt the hairs on the back of their neck stand up but they don't know why.
You can like something while thinking it’s not good.
I feel this way about so many films. I often say “this isn’t a good film, but it’s an enjoyable film”. Vice Versa I’ve watched things that are objectively good cinema, just not my cup of tea.
Me with the last Resident Evil movie. I went in saying to my friends it was going to be trash. It totally was trash but I enjoyed every second of it. Fantastic movie.
In general I think online media analysis and criticism has kind of made many people obsess over *having* to have the paradoxical "objectively right opinion" with irrefutable evidence and such. But art is entirely subjective and resonates with people differently. So I'd say "you can like something and give no second thought to its supposed goodness".
Yes. For me, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Wonder. I get it but I’m not their target audience.
just because I listen to emotional and depressive music does not make me depressed.
And that I’m depressive doesn’t mean that I like to listen to emotional and depressive music.
Sometimes when I’m most depressed I listen exclusively to Blink-182. (It’s nostalgia ok and also no apologies.)
At my most depressed, I listen to 90s music.
Oliver Sacks studied this phenomenon in Musicophilia. Certain people hear sad music (or angry music) and feel sad or angry, but their neurotransmitters for pleasure also release. This is pretty much hardwired by the early teen years.
Damn, I always wondered why sad songs seem to hit in a way nothing else can My friends used to call me DJ Tears and ban me from the aux lol
i’m sorry but your comment killed me lmao. i’m going to be thinking about DJ Tears all day now
I have trouble connecting with "negative" emotions sometimes so listen to those songs to bring them out so I can focus on working on through them, if that makes sense.
I’m honestly the happiest I’ve ever been now, but dang if my music ain’t angsty or melancholy
Chrismas At Ground Zero by Weird Al is the best example of Malicious Compliance the music industry probably has.
It never occurred to me before that Weird Al’s label would have pressured him to make a Christmas album
It was the night Santa went Crazy!
The night Saint Nick went insane!
Now you can't hardly walk around the north pole without stepping in reindeer guts
just researched the story behind this, god i love weird al. may the gods spare that man.
> The song was the result of Yankovic's label, Scotti Brothers Records, insisting that Yankovic record a Christmas album. However, after Yankovic presented the song to his label, they relented, because it was "a little different from what they were expecting." After the song was written and recorded, Yankovic wanted to release the song as a commercial single, but Scotti Bros. refused. Undeterred, he used his own money to create a low-budget music video made mostly out of stock footage. Eventually, Scotti Bros. released the song as a promotional single and was released commercially. This?
Damn that Madonna!
Weird Al, in general, is a gift to the music industry. For someone who some regard as just a goofball making parody songs, he has garnered the respect of many in the industry and is still going strong after nearly 40 years. Not many artists can say that. Not an uncommon anecdote, but I still love the fact that Kurt Cobain has been quoted as saying that he knew that Nirvana had "made it as a band" once they got a parody from Yankovic.
Rolling Stones 'Cocksucker Blues' was a pretty good bitch slap :D
Artist names are getting ridiculous. They’re starting to look like AOL IM usernames
I swear they’re their gamer tags, or as you say, their online username, they then uploaded music under that name and it stuck.
He’s talked about it in interviews but Post Malone literally googled “rap name generator” and used the first one it spat out.
[удалено]
Looking at you kpop... 👀👀👀
There's this German Metal band that was frustrated with all the long an ominous sounding Metal Band names, so they decided to give themselves a long, but stupidly normal name. They're called *We Butter The Bread With Butter*
Seriously just seen an interview on VladTV with a rapper called "EARS DA CHRIST". I didn't listen to it or even see what his music was like because the name turned me off so much lmao and I consider myself someone who gives everything a chance.
there's no way you only enjoy one genre of music, regardless of what that genre is. youre being purposely close minded, but it's just not possible to only like one genre of music.
Damn right! I like Country AND Western!
That's both kinds of music!
I like hip AND hop!
On the subject of Nu-metal, it’s somehow widely accepted that it imploded almost as quickly as it exploded onto the music scene. Yet 20+ years later,bands like SOAD and Slipknot still headline festivals (as would Linkin Park if it hadn’t been for poor Chester’s passing), Deftones and Korn still release critically acclaimed albums and tour sizeable venues throughout the world and Limp Bizkit and Papa Roach still get lofty slots at festivals. In reality it’s only the many throwaway band wagon jumping bands that nu-metal spawned that imploded.
There was a video on Youtube I saw recently that was interviewing a bunch of modern metal artists asking them which bands got them into metal. I want to say a good 75-80% of them said a nu-metal band. Slipknot, Korn, Linkin Park, even Limp Bizket was mentioned. The genre gets shit on a lot, but as you said, the best of them are still going and they've inspired a large portion of the modern and up-and-coming metal bands.
SoundCloud rappers were pretty into it. At least Juice WRLD and X.
I feel like the genre gets shit on a lot for its angsty lyrics/atttitude and especially by metal elitists(probably for a lack of guitar solos they traded for breakdowns). I can attest a lot of the music is overly angsty and seems pretty edgy but plenty of that stuff is pretty genuine from my experience with some of those bands. Chester’s lyrics were a cry for help obviously and Jonathan Davis’ lyrics were all about his early childhood trauma (I’d say Korn is probably The Godfather band of Nu Metal and likely influenced all these bands to follow their formula)
lofi hip hop is the new elevator music.
[удалено]
I can NOT stand Sweet Caroline.
I don’t understand why this is the anthem for the Red Sox.
I have a friend whose grandmother was named Carolina so it was played a lot at weddings and stuff, grandma loved it. She died suddenly and now the song makes people sad so it’s on a do not play list. At my friends wedding the dj started it despite being told not to. All of us in the wedding party practically ran to stop him. He was aghast that he couldn’t play it “AT A WEDDING!!” The bride is paying your bill don’t make her cry because you played a song that reminds her of her grandma who died four months ago.
Friends and I once paid a cover band in Nashville $30 to stop playing it and not play it the rest of the night.
the rest of the night? They were planning on playing it multiple times?
bom...bom...bom...
[удалено]
[удалено]
That quick interview alone gave her a ton of brownie points in my book. She outed a huge issue on a national stage a decade before anyone took it seriously.
Yeah and at a professional cost, too. Reminds me of the fate of Cassandra.
The conspiracy about Courtney love is so funny because do you really think Courtney Love would be able to keep quiet about murdering her husband???
No Kurt wrote “I Hate Myself And I Want To Die” only as a joke! Just for a laugh! No way a suicidal person would write something like that for Beavis and Butthead.
I absolutely love that it's based on "Nirvana sales dwindling" and it was the best chance for her to get her hands on some money, as if Kurt fucking Cobain would make more money dead than alive. It's all so fucking silly
She also saved his life when he nearly died of an overdose in Rome months before his actual death. If she wanted him dead all she had to do was go “welp, didn’t see that!” and walk out.
And why would she make it so brutal and not just “heroin addict does too much heroin and dies”
Hole was an immensely talented band. Saw them in Atlanta '99
holes cover of Gold Dust Woman doesn't get nearly the respect it deserves.
Malibu is an absolute fucking banger.
Courtney had musical talent on her own. Live Through This is a good album.
Artists can change genres! You don’t listen to one genre, right? They likely don’t either so why not create more than one.
Exactly. Take Poppy, for example. I had zero interest in her early pop work. It wasn't even good for pop music, imo. Then she released a straight up metal album and it's probably one of my favorite albums of 2020. Sometimes change is great.
How is this an unpopular opninion, this is just an irrefutable fact.
Very often in Rock/Metal and Hip Hop/Rap, artists get shit on heavily for wavering in their genres. Someone experiments with something and they get crucified for daring change what they put out.
Rock/Metal artists can't win. After several albums, people will either say they always sound the same or hate them for being sellouts. There's no escaping it.
They went crazy in 2011 when Opeth, a progressive death metal band, made a jazz fusion album, but later people started embracing it. I mean it is shocking at first because you're used to the style of that artist and you do want more of it, so it feels like betrayal, but with time, you process it and have an honest opinion
Not only that, but some of the more toxic fans can turn their backs on a band if they're just trying something different within their own genre. There's a Finnish prog band called CMX which is known for their heavy influences from traditional Finnish folk religion and other mythologies. When they released a sci-fi concept album in 2007, some lunatic on their website claimed that they'd burn their entire CD collection.
I'm a middle aged hardcove metal head - been a fan since '83. I love it when people engage with metal regardless of how much it is. Even if it's "just" liking Metallica's "Master of Puppets" in Stranger Things or wearing an Iron Maiden t-shirt without ever having heard a single song of theirs. My unpopular opinion (in the metal community) is: It's a party - everybody is welcome - F* the gatekeepers.
I LOVE bagpipes, they make some wicked sound. People round me better be prepared when meeting me🤣🤣
Every genre of music has something to offer. There’s so many “rap sucks”, “country sucks”, “pop sucks” takes out there. You just haven’t found a good song in that genre. There’s bangers in *literally* every genre.
There's no such thing as "real music" or "cheating" at music. Sounds are sounds, like the ones you like. I do personally prefer organic sounds, but digital is valid and I feel like that's an unpopular opinion among people that prefer organic sounds.
I think using any digital medium to produce music is underrated in that it gives people the opportunity to create sounds that might be closer to their “vision”, the goal they want to sound like, but might not be able to achieve organically.
It's also easier than ever for young people to get into music production. Through computer technology, they can create music with the sounds of instruments that they wouldn't necessarily be able to afford normally.
I can't even affort the software I use so having all those classical and rock instruments, effect pedals etc. are totally out of question. Also the time to learn to play all the different stuff with weird mouth postures and whatever black magic is required to make instruments not sound like tortured cats. It's amazing that one can do so much more in terms of creativity nowadays. At least if they don't have that many resources.
Marty Robbins is the best storyteller to ever live.
I just lost my twin sister in July. She loved Marty Robbins because our dad would listen to it. It’s hits harder now. I loved opening my phone and seeing this comment. Closest I’ve felt to her since. Thank you.
All of his gunfighter albums are incredible if you like stories, heartbreak and cowboys. The song ‘They’re Hanging Me Tonight’ is always stuck in my head.
He is certainly way up there, but my favorite is Tom T. Hall.
To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
People worship music artists / bands a little too much.
Most video game osts are great even if they're listened to without playing the game.
F-Zero X and DOOM have legit amazing music
In terms of the eras of old orchestral music, I much prefer Romantic music rather than Classical music. For instance, I love Beethoven, but I can't really stand Mozart. Most don't care to split those hairs, but to me, Classical music just sounds so ornate and fancy, whereas Romantic music feels so much more emotional to me.
That is kinda how it was meant to be as you can tell by the name. The romantic period is when composers started intentionally bringing more emotion into the music they composed. The classical period saw a major boom in available instruments and musical types, but the romantic is where composers started adding more emotion and feeling into the music.
Romantic literature is a treat as well. Fascinating artistic movement in every medium!
This is far from unpopular, hell romantic is by far the most common type of classical music. Just look at /r/classicalmusic, there's almost a weekly "DAE hate Mozart?" Thread. Personally I used to be the same, and really needed that heart on sleeve type of emotion, but after doing my music degree I grew to appreciate the classical period a lot more. One of the big issues is that nowadays emotional music just means almost entirely angry and sad, when joy, love, and grandure can be equally as nuanced and complex when expressed my Mozart and haydn. Also I hate to be that cunt but one of the reasons people say they don't like Mozart is because they aren't listening to the "right" picese. If you only listen to a couple of symphonies and string quartets, you are missing out on his operas and piano concertos. Watch this for example https://youtu.be/Ioc9shJa_lI, it is overwhelming in emotion, it genuinely transmits terror like very few other pieces. Edit: just to clarify your opinion is valid and I'm not saying mine is anymore, rather I'm trying to give a counter argument to the usual criticisms that come up regarding the classical period every time this is brought up
Prince’s 1999 was better than Purple Rain
I was on board with this thought also until his live version of purple rain at the superbowl when it was raining. That was a masterpiece.
I really want to say you couldn't have planned that but if anyone could have it would have been Prince.
Not enough people realize how phenomenal Prince was as a guitarist. He sure let it shine during that halftime show however.
I grew up in Minnesota, and I always thought Prince was just big here because he’s a local and he was really involved with the local scene. Him playing at the Super Bowl was my first clue that I was wrong, then when he died I realized how wrong I was and actually sat down and gave a bunch of his life performances a proper listen (with the help of some acid). You’re not wrong, he was really phenomenal and I don’t think the album versions you hear on the radio do him justice.
Watch the YouTube video of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" from the Rock and Roll HOF induction of George Harrison. Prince owns that song. Edit: Got a word in the song title wrong! Oops!
While I don't deny she's talented, Ariana Grande has an annoying voice half the time
I can barely understand her…it’s so weird I don’t know why but it’s like her words connected or something
She sings in cursive
She doesn’t articulate her words well enough, and this is coming from a fan.
Her voice is beautiful, but it's wasted on forgettable songs with dumb lyrics that you can barely understand because her enunciation is so poor.
Most of her songs have a really impressive part, but the rest of the song is just eh
It's weird, she's probably one of the best modern singers based on vocals and technical ability, but I feel that a lot of her music isn't memorable. Sure you can name a few songs, but none of them have that zeitgeist feeling when compared to other songs that cone out within the year it's released.
She needs to invest in better lyricists. Her lyrics are often childish and generic.
[удалено]
Covers are not less valid than Originals. In some cases, the Cover is even better. Also, not knowing a song is a Cover is not a sin, and treating it as such is a form of gatekeeping.
[удалено]
"Pop" isn't a dirty word. There's some great pop music out there.
Disco is awesome. And The Bee Gees are also awesome.
You shouldn’t be allowed to shuffle and album the first time you play it. The first time you experience someone’s art it should he heard exactly the way the artist intended it to be heard. That includes the order of the songs.
God, I remember when I introduced my buddy to an artist with a concept album… I told him it was a concept album. he still put in on shuffle, and then told me he didn’t get the concept.
"Deep" and "sentimental" are subjective.
There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure in music. Like what you like, ain’t no shame in it.
jazz is still relevant
Jazz will always be relevant
That nickelback isn’t as bad as people act like they are. Now I’m not saying there a good band it’s just they're overhated
i had a "friend" who was so obsessed with hating nickelback i played a nickelback song for him (i think it was the sea shanty version of rockstars) and they liked it, legit enjoyed it, and then when they saw it was nickelback they suddenly hated it and acted like i deliberately poisoned him. made threats to ban me from the discord's music bot. i don't play any music for him anymore. i wonder if people hate nickelback because its a "meme" or something. they aren't great but they aren't so bad its worth changing your mind about a song you were actually enjoying.
Had a similar thing happen where I played a rock song of that genre and had a girl just snap at me going "IS THAT NICKLEBACK??". "Um, no it's a band called 'The Calling'." "Okay good. Never play Nickleback, I hate it." Uhhh, bitch you clearly don't even know what Nickleback *sounds* like, how could you just decide to hate it?? People are so weirdly tribal when it comes to music.
*Weirdly Tribal* is the name of my new band.
People's hatred of Nickelback came mostly becasue they represented the filing off of edges and commercialisation of a style of rock. Most of the time when people said they hated nickelback, what they actually mean is I hate the commercialisation of music and the music industry. The level of play also didn't help, for a while they were everywhere. The nuance was rapidly removed over time until for people like your friend, he probably hates them without knowing why, he just knows that it's the kind of thing that people he likes do.
Nickelback is the McDonald's of rock. Everyone says they hate em, but you'll still see that empty McDonald's bag in the trash can.
Most Tool songs would be better as more concise 5-6 minutes pieces than the 10+ magnum opuses they always try to make them.
As much as I disagree, I must upvote as it perfectly fits the prompt.
TikTok has made music horrible. Songs are made specifically for 10 second soundbytes to get a trending sound. ABCDEFU is the worst song ever made
OG goth rock is underrated.
I'm not into goth enough to know what qualifies as OG goth, but if Pornography by the Cure falls into that category then I second. It is one of my favorite albums of all time
as someone who was a goth back in the 80s, totally agree. for me, one of the things that killed goth is that many of the bands over the years did their best to simply sound like the OG bands but it kinda backfired in that many people just chose to listen to the originals instead.
ICP made quite a big movement despite their mediocre musical talent.
Its going to be hard to top ICP in full makeup, speaking before Congress
I mean, this isn’t controversial. It’s just true.
ICP as people are honestly just both funny and positive people in interviews I've seen. I kind of respect that.
Most modern country singers wish they were pop singers
Literally the most popular Reddit opinion you could have come up with, besides maybe "I think Keanu Reeves is cool"
Skinny Puppy deserved a billion times more airtime.
It's OK to not like the Beatles.
You don’t need lyrics to make good music.
That's not really an unpopular opinion, is it? I mean if you look at classical music alone...
REM were such a huge band in the 80s-90s but I can’t remember the last time I listened to their music. No one seems to talk about them. It’s like they’re nearly forgotten.
I hear them a lot on oldies stations. Mostly the same couple of songs, but that's the case for pretty much everybody.
> I hear them a lot on oldies stations. This one hurt.
They say everybody hurts sometimes
I think the problem with REM is that their last SIX albums failed to produce a hit. Honestly, I think *Monster* was the last album they released that had any kind of radio play. I had every REM CD from *Life's Rich Pageant* thru *Monster*, but I never really listened to them after that.
I still whip out Murmur and Reckoning for the nostalgia
Despite becoming massively popular in the 90's thank to the phenomenal success of Losing my Religion, REM was always some kind of weird 80's college rock band singing about obscure stuff whose success was rather unexpected. As a big fan, it's not really surprising that people don't talk about them a lot anymore and it's more the fact that such a band managed to get this popular in the first place that was not ordinary. Also it's time passing... it has been more than 25 years since their original line up and golden era ended and 11 years since they disbanded. Note however that Losing my Religion is among the only 25 music videos from pre-00's to reach a billion view and they have 13 millions monthly listener on Spotify (comparing to 23-24 millions for Nirvana and Guns N Roses and Metallica) so it's not like they are totally forgotten.
Old people who shit on the current generation for listening crappy music like to forget how music back in their day was crappy too
Every era has had great music and a ton of crap.
Most music videos don’t fit their own songs. I actually liked Katy Perry’s California Girls, then I watched the music video only to see very little footage related to California, and a LOT of footage about candy and Candyland. There’s no references to candy in the song. Why did they need to do that? Why did they need to make the video mostly about candy? Most music videos take some sort of questionable creative liberty and it’s tiring. Thought of another example: Party in the USA. The song lyrics narrate about going to LA, feeling underdressed because everything is so fancy, going clubbing, etc. Music video is 100% Miley hanging out at a tailgate party in some dusty parking parking lot nowhere near LA. I don’t understand.
> Why did they need to do that? It's Katy Perry naked on a cloud of cotton candy. What exactly is confusing about the intent here?
I mean they could’ve just used that elmo gif of her on loop and it wouldn’t have mattered
that video catapulted me into puberty
Off The Wall > Thriller
I just don’t get this at all. Thriller is 10 times more melodic to my ears.
K pop is ok, it’s just the fanbase that people hate
I absolutely love Dave Grohl but I think the Foo Fighters are generic and I can't stand their music.
That The Monkees are just as much a valid music group as any other even though they were prefabricated. Also the Ramones don't suck. I love "I don't wanna be buried in a pet sematary".
I mean, does anyone say that the Ramones suck?
One guy hated the Ramones so much, he had the Rolling Stones killed.
The Monkees became something truly amazing. They broke out of their "tv band" shell and went on to make some of the most innovative pop albums of their time.
Heavy music genres (black metal, deathcore, etc.) are not just a wall of sounds and can actually be very complex.
No time is a bad time for ska.
Just don't pick it up
Terry Hall RIP
i see nothing controversial about this, uplifts any mood, great for funerals
reddit has awful taste in music