Popular music opinions
 

Or sacred truths about certain musicians or bands that seem to get a bashing for either the wrong reasons or unfairly. You start first because I have to dash off to see someone.

Originally put in the unpopular thread, but it fits here better:

Soft Bulletin is easily the most overrated alternative album of the last 10 years. Flaming Lips are overrated and are only famous for their live shows.

Appealing to public opinion is a wrong reason. Try again.

Sonic Youth are really good.

I can't come up with any. This kind of question makes my head hurt.

There is nothing sacred, only the ever-present constuction and destruction of paradigms.

So, you're saying there is no truth?

That's a swa(y) worthy idea there, pbradley.

Your opinion is overrated.

That too.

We could go on like this for a while or we could have a nice cup of tea.

... in creative expression. Tautologies like "music is sound and silence over time" exist. The only limits to artistic expression are the artist and the medium. You can say it is true that the guitars in this song are distorted in this way, but you can't say that it is true that the guitars are beautiful/ugly/boring/etc.

Perhaps I'm misreading the question because I thought the subjectivity of taste was a commonly held notion here.

"Exile On Main Street" was the first Grunge album.

the velvet underground are the greatest rock band of all time.
the velvet underground and nico is the greatest rock album ever recorded.
fun house is the second greatest rock album ever recorded

Abba gold is a brilliant album.
VU & Nico is a great album.
The Carpenters were great.
Nevermind was good.
Dirty is a good album.
I will survive is a great song.
Karaoke is fun.

I'm finding more and more fleshworld people these days - I know at least 6 - who'll admit that MCR are a guilty pleasure.

Are you talking about My CHemical Romance Glice?

Grunge rocks big time...

Both Lennon & McCartney were genius in different ways

Myess.

Throbbing Gristle ruled.

according to the crazy world of indie:

a. black music is only of any real value when highlighting the plight of the black man.

b. three chords are better than four

c. music in the seventies only really started with punk

d. synthesisers are the spawn of the devil.

e. if it doesn't happen in new york or london, it doesn't happen

CCR are great, and CPR is therefore the greatest medical procedure ever to be performed.

Little Feat don't exist.

If you can't dig Minutemen's "Shit From An Old Notebook," you don't dig.

I like two or three songs from them.

this should be in the unpopular thread...:D

Funny how you say there are sacred things but go and post one of most disageed opinions in the thread.

Yeah, but I think it's generally accepted that VU aren't the best rock band. They are certainly good, but not the best.

Ok Computer really is that good

And when the critics got on at Kid A at the time it was released they were so fecking wrong (this made me mistrust music critics from a young age - a skill many should learn) and now everyone has re-evaluated it as a work of genius which they should have realised at the time.

Amen.

Popular opinion: The Clash are the classic UK punk band.
My opinion: The Clash are a big bunch of meh.

Television, especially Marquee Moon, is an obvious influence on Rather Ripped.

Pussy Galore is the best driving music.

Silver is the worst Pixies song and it appears on the best Pixies album.
Gigantic is the best Pixies song w/ Kim on vocals.

Jim O' Rourke is much better as a solo artist, than as a member of Sonic Youth.

I think that one has been said a bit in this thread haha. Having Jim in SY didn't hurt though.

word.

Yes, they're seen as the most influential rock band (in the sense of prompting band formations), not as the best.

Marquee Moon is really great (and one of the best NY and 70s albums).


Ditto.

I wholeheartedly agree with this.

That's disputable. I don't think that the best music comes necessarily from people who come from shitholes, especially because certain fringes of the creative working classes take it almost for granted that their suffering is going to automatically make them better artists, or artists who know better about their plight than someone from a more privileged background. Shitholes also produce a great amount of shit music.

I don't believe that creativity can be put into a formula, no matter how many "more likelys" you stick in there.