re: McLaren - the idea was, by many accounts, theived from Throbbing Gristle/ COUM transmissions' music and aesthetic, but with this idea of making it more like Hell/ the Ramones. And failed on both parts, although I quite like some Pistols. Whatever, the Pistols' music is little more than borrowed Faces riffs.

They may have been covered already (I ain't wading through fifteen pages to find out) but I think Radiohead are a bunch of whining, po-faced, joyless fucktards.

A funnier title for this thread would've been 'Tipping the Sacred Cows'.

The Birthday Party are a lot better than Nick Cave solo.
Bob Dylan ripped off Woody Guthrie (it might be a fact though)

Bad moon rising sucks

Michael Bolton is a really sexy guy.

Too bad his music stinks...

on the bob dylan one i have to agree somewhat on the earlier stuff. given his lyrics were way better but the basic concept was basically guthries.

My Unpopular music opinion: There are way better Sonic Youth albums than Daydream Nation. I'm more into their early 80's music over the stuff you hear in the DDN/Dirty/Goo era.

i think Bad Moon Rising is slowly becoming my favorite SY album, lol

I think "How Am I suppose To Live Without You?" is slowly becoming my favorite Michael Bolton song, lol

I never got King Crimson.

Then go to the store and buy some

After the goldrush is much better than Harvest.

Sergeant Pepper's is not the best Beatles album at all.

the beatle barkers are much better than the beatles.

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/0...he_beatle.html

West european and American music (from Beatles to Cardigans, from Elvis to Nirvana) would sound all the same to an alien from outerspace.

The alien would say: "The songstructures are all the same, the singers all sound alike, the instruments are all equal, the studios that produced them are all the same, and bands all look alike."

"So whats the big deal with music? Why does anyone care?"

beat happening are GROSS.
i like gravy train.
"hounds of love" by the futureheads is better than the original.
i love cream classics. all hail early 90's dance music!
hip hop is the fucking shizzle. tupac shakur is a god.
architecture in helsinki are SHIT as are the magic numbers.
the ramones bore me.

I adore all things Gershwin.

Ouch.
That was like a punch in the face.
No one should ever say that sentence.
Exceptions granted for Manhattanites over 65.

whats unpopular about that? rhapsody in blue is a masterpiece

now, porgy and bess... well, that, eh, hm.. not so popular with me...

(& that's my own unpopular opinion)

oh yeah, i hate queen.

Notorious BIG is 700 times better than Tupac

and
WOLF EYES RULE!!!!!!!!!

nothing unpopular at all about that. gershwin was incredible.

other (potentially) unpopular opinions (and apologies if these have already been said -- i'm just getting to this thread):

--classical music is, overall, better and more well-thought out than other genres.

--incesticide is extraordinarily underrated.

--pearl jam are gifted songwriters.

--musicians who play pure noise are psychological cases, not artists.

--i never really liked the beatles, with the exception of within you without you.

--most music that explicitly falls under the label "indie" is nonsense.

--(this one's going to kill me) stone temple pilots had their moments.

--gregorian chant is hauntingly beautiful, even if it is religious music.

--very few electronica artists can pull off sounding original.

--"free jazz" is a travesty.

--most of the syr's are unlistenable garbage.

Yep, it was.

Yep plenty of them. It might be hard for some people to comprehend this, but rock music is pretty swell.

I don't listen to any classical music, I just cant relate to it as it seems so elitist and out of my reach. People can't get some friends together and make an orchestra score, but they can get some guitars/drums/bass/kazoo/flute/sax or whatever they want and start a band.

Also

Fuck learning music, I dont want to know scales or even what note I'm playing. I hate an ear and a brain I can tell what sounds good and so many people who could be good musicians are so limited by what they have learnt.

You say "lets Jam" they say "In what key?".

I'm the best musician ever.

hahahaha

w00t w00t I've been qouted! and I like a couple linkin park songs.

Prince is the Shit.

Floyd after darkside of the moon eat giant cock

Darkside of the Moon eats giant cock

emo is overrated nonsense..
what's with all the hype, anyway?

yes, dark side or whathaveyou -- pink floyd sucks big time, all the time..

no. david hasslehoff is.

somebody posted a nude pic of mr. hasselhoof with some puppies recently.. demonstrating his incredible talents as a musician, he held one of them between his legs...

yeah, that was the the dom that posted that. it's in the "i stepped on glass" thread

Unpopular respondingopinion #1: People who think classical music is elitist are in fact merely incapable of turning on a radio.

Unpopular respondingopinion #2: The instances of Western popular music proceeding entirely intuitively and originally are fewer and farther between than is often realised.

Unpopular respondingopinion #3: If you can play an instrument, you can and should learn the concepts and ideas behind what you are doing. No matter how many times an American punk band tries to be original, they will still be musically derivative until they have a better understanding of music in its totality.

Unpopular respondingopinion #4: Popular Western Rock music is largely shit, idiotic music bolstered by idiotic consumers.

Popularandcorrect opinion #1: I am always right.

Popularandcorrect opinion #2: This is always the case.

Popularandcorrect opinion #3: Any attempt to argue with this is merely an enactment of Hegelian dialectics, Ie I am the master and you are commited to my slavery.

^^^ ha ha ha ha

OUCH! :D

That must be a nice position to be in.

don't you just love intimidation?

Does it still count as intimidation in the context of a thread entitled 'unpopular musical opinions'?

I neglected to mention that, while people sticking to a set key is annoying, the majority of non-learned musicians do that regardless of whether they're conscious of it. Masayuki Takayanagi was notoriously one of the quickest sight-readers in 60's Japanese Jazz, which is how he manages to sustain his non-tonal free-improvisation, not because he doesn't know his way around a fretboard. I personally find that, without at least a little technical understanding, improvisers nearly always go back to tired rock structures.