What's that band or album, critically acclaimed, that supposedly everyone loves but you just don't seem to care?
To me it's Pink Floyd's the wall
I've listened a handful of times and none of the songs stuck.... Also, were they doing the bassist a favor by letting him "sing"?
I used to not care, but currently I might actually hate this album
Yep, Pink Floyd. Also The Who, Led Zepplin, and Black Sabbath.
I never liked any of them.
RUSH - I really can't stand Rush, mostly due to the singing.
I really dig you Bro but I feel like I don’t know you anymore.
I’m going to stand on the beach and stare at the ocean, wondering
where it all went so wrong😭
I liked 80s rock and metal, 70s didn't vibe with me for reasons I can't entirely explain.
shareI’m just joking with you buddy, I love all of that stuff,…punk, hair metal, soft rock, you name it! I could jam to the Police or Maiden or Depeche Mode. I dig all of that stuff!
70s-90s was my music.
I know you're joking lol.
I'll take this opportunity to fess up......I owned Brittany Foxes first album.
WHO THE FUCK IS BRITNEY FOXE?...I OWN BRITNEY SPEARS FIRST ALBUM...DRIVE ME CRAZY IS A JAMMER.
shareLOL Britny Fox was like the epitome of 80s Hair Metal. They made Poison look like Metallica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fAi8Jc2hrw
I KNOW LITA FORD...I OWN A COUPLE LITA FORD ALBUMS...I DON'T KNOW IF I EVER MENTIONED...I OWN FOUR OR FIVR THOUSAND CDS TO GO ALONG WITH THE MASSIVE MOVIE COLLECTION.
shareIf you’ve never heard of Britney Fox, give Long way to love a listen.
https://youtu.be/qbEIi46NAno?si=BoYJCmSbwUU7Msco
Awesome Song!
shareFor such a bright fellow, you taste is in your ass. But I do agree about Rush - the singing was always nails on blackboard for me, their theatricality cloying.
share🤷♂️ What can I say, the thread's titled "Unpopular opinions" and so far I seem to have hit the nail on the head lol
shareLol ! You're all right, my man. Enjoy your contributions here.
shareI SECOND THAT...VINCE IS GOOD PEOPLE...EVEN WHEN HIS OPINIONS STINK LIKE THE samoanjoke's BALLS.
share🤣😂
shareWHAT ARE SOME BANDS THAT YOU LOVE?
shareI actually don't listen to music with lyrics much anymore. I mostly listen to synthwave and filmscores. But growing up I went through a 80 Hair Metal and 80s rap phase, and then just Hard rock and metal in general in the 90s and 2000s.
Motley Crue
Billy Idol
Aerosmith
Rolling Stones
AC/DC
Bon Jovi (yes lol)
White Zombie
Nine Inch Nails
Garbage
RunDMC
Beastie Boys
Prince
Bananrama (yes lol)
But like I said, nowadays I listen to instrumental synthwave like:
Lost Years
Mitch Murder
Miami Nights 1884
WHITE ZOMBIE...GARBAGE...BEASTIE BOYS...SEE?...REDEMPTION IN THE EYES OF KOWALSKI™️....WELCOME BACK...LOVE YA,BUDDY.
THE STUFF YOU LISTEN TO NOW I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT IS...SOUNDS SMART THOUGH...SO YOU GET NERD POINTS TO BOOT...
GOOD DAY TO BE VINCE!
Damn, Vince. Is today "Hate on Awesome British Bands Day"?
shareI didn't even notice that damn lol.
I love the Rolling Stones so that makes it all ok.
try watching The wall, ON ACID then you'll understand
shareDude, recommending LSD to someone you've never even met is pretty irresponsible.
At least give the guy a fair chance to dip his toe into the psychedelic pool with a nice, gentle, heroic dose of shrooms.
Thanks man I was about to do it
shareit's really the only way to watch or even listen to the album/movie. others say if you start Darkside & Wizard of Oz at the same time while High on a "heroic dose of shrooms" you'll forever be changed
shareI was actually half-joking there. I have nothing against psychedelics and do consider shrooms to be much more forgiving than acid, but if you've never done either, I wouldn't recommend starting out with a "heroic dose".
shareI'm very curious about psychedelics, especially dmt
Haven't found the courage to engage, I've had previous bad experiences with hash weed and other smokeables
DMT is a pretty fascinating compound. I'm hesitant to advocate any drug use, but if you're interested in the subject, there's a book called "The Spirit Molecule" you may find worth reading. (There's also a watered down documentary version with Joe Rogan, though I found it somewhat disappointing after reading the book.)
Of course Joe Rogan was the one that made me aware of it hehe
shareVan Halen, KISS, The Beach Boys, Queen, The Grateful Dead and The Ramones are all shit.
shareYou don't like Van Halen?!?! Not even the stuff with Roth??
I think that's even more unpopular than my picks above.
I'm with you on Grateful Dead though.
Pretty much agree with all of these apart from The Grateful Dead, which is actually one of my favorite bands.
Out of curiosity, what would be some of your top picks for music?
I did some research to find out which albums fans considered their best, so I downloaded 3 of them. There wasn't a single song that was at least above average for me. I absolutely hated it.
I like all the picks VinceD wrote on his post in this thread of bands he hated.
Some good picks there. I’m not a big fan of Rush or Black Sabbath but like the others. Pink Floyd is my fav.
If you haven’t seen it, you should check out the YouTube link I posted below—it’s the conclusion of Kubrick’s 2001 set to Pink Floyd’s Echoes. Very cool stuff.
I've seen it before.
shareThe Grateful Dead were all about the live shows, even their best albums pale in comparison...
shareI like VH but will admit a lot of the Roth era is just Ed riffing, check out Hot for Teacher for example. Songwriting improves when Hagar joins. Which can be an unpopular opinion to some.
Kiss you just have to not take them seriously.
I think the whole point of Ramones was they were supposed to be a garage band.
Most of Queens stuff is awful, their better stuff is when they play it straight (heh heh), and drop the campiness. Never heard enough Grateful Dead to have an opinion.
The thing with The Ramones is that they could be decent if their songs didn't all sound the same.
shareMight be preaching to the choir here, but with few exceptions, I find most genres of EDM (electronic dance music), e.g. goa, trance, house, acid, techno, etc. repetitive and derivative thus boring. If I can "drop the needle" in three random places in the track and it sounds exactly the same at each spot, why bother?
I do love many electronic artists that I feel aren't afraid to break the mold, however. e.g. The Avalanches, The Books, Flying Lotus, Igorrr, Venetian Snares, Cornelius, Yeasayer, The Cinematic Orchestra, etc.
SOMETIMES WORKS FOR SOUNDTRACKS...SOUNDS LIKE NOISE OTHERWISE.
shareI respect Pink Floyd but never was a fan. "Another Brick in the Wall" Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone, I always considered that juvenile and annoying.
I hate Queen. Gay camp doesn't work well in rock.
The Who are bland and generic.
Phil Collins' solo stuff is crap.
David Lee Roth was a raging queen.
A college roommate I had for a year or so listened to *nothing but Pink Floyd.* I don't *hate* them or anything, but all I can say is I'm glad we always had weed and acid on hand. "Favorite" album: Atom Heart Mother. Haven't listened to them in decades. Like another old roommate used to work at Dominoes pizza and would bring home a stack of free pizzas every night. We'd scarf 'em down, but I haven't eaten Dominoes in decades, either.
And in RE: The Who, I get it, but if you haven't tried their album Live at Leeds, it's by far my favorite of their stuff and surprising they didn't release more live material, because they *smoke" live. Or, at least they did at the time. Try "My Generation" from that album if you ever get an inkling.
Don't strongly disagree with any of your other statements.
Even some 20-somethings I know revere Pink Floyd. I'm in LA and it's a surfer stoner thing. Plus yeah, the band is supposed to be great on acid. That's why I have respect for them to a degree. Though myself I never could listen to them.
The Who, I'll pass. I've heard their live albums. I like their contemporaries like Cream and Led Zeppelin. But I'm basically a punk and The Who are the antithesis of my music.
Hey babe, far be it from me to get pushy about one band when there's so many great bands/genres out there and growing every day.
LA punk, huh? We ever talk Minutemen? I consider their Double Nickels on the Dime "the Sgt. Peppers of punk" and it's one of my GoATs.
Oh yeah, Minutemen are a local band here, from San Pedro. I grew up in the next town over.
shareDT Pedro is pretty cool the few times I've been. One time was to see the Minutemen documentary at the cool old Pedro theater with Watt and Hurley on stage talking and doing Q&A. Me & two MM fan buddies were dead center second row. Was so stoked until a 6'6" Thurston Moore sits right in front of me! Nothing I could do but have a blast and get a decent story out of it.
share👍
shareWhen Queen drop the camp they weren’t too bad, I want it all, One Vision, Hammer to fall are good rock songs. But WTF with Bohemian Rhapsody, Bicycle song, We are the champions?!
shareThe first two Queen albums are good solid hard rock. Even though gay Freddie can't help but camp it up, it didn't overwhelm.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" OMG, what a horrible song complete with cheap operatic trilling and pretension. But yeah, it's like heresy to say that. People love that song.
What do you think of Queens Highlander Soundtrack "A Kind of Magic?" -- That album has some great tunes.
shareHonestly I'd have to check it out.
shareHaven't heard the whole soundtrack except what is in the film. I like Kind of Magic and Princes of the Universe which uses the dramatic flair well.
shareThere is always some campiness in metal and hard rock anyway, Iron Maiden with their dramatic lead singer and their lyrics lend to it anyway. I do like some over the top theatrics but with Queen it can just be too obvious, too silly as per songs mentioned above.
I say I have Rhapsody anyway it is a polarizing song, people love it or hate it. I think Brian May was wasted in that band.
I hated it from the moment it dropped. Animals was the last ablum I payed attention to from Floyd.
shareI'm struggling to come up with an answer here, as I rarely even think about bands I don't like.
I'm sad to hear you hate The Wall, though. Pink Floyd is my probably my favorite band. Do you like any of their albums?
My personal favorite is 'Animals', although that one isn't the most popular choice for their best work. 'Meddle' is brilliant as well but you kind of have be in the right mood for it. Echoes is such an epic song, though--if you have 20 minutes to spare and are interested in taking a journey through the outer reaches of the universe, there's a pretty wild sync-up of the song with footage from the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's really neat how well they fit together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSOnYrF_Qgo
Yes! I really do like Pink Floyd, wish you were here, dark side of the moon and saucerful of secrets are my favs.
It is the kind of band that requires you to be in the right mind set, no one goes to PF for a quick kick. When I do, I want to go through the whole album
Good choices there. And now that I think about it, I might agree that The Wall is their most "overrated" album, even though I still consider it a classic.
If you haven't already heard it, consider checking out the 3rd disc of the 'The Wall - Experience Edition', which contains different versions of the songs. It's pretty great and I actually prefer many of the alternate versions to the originals.
Hmm never heard about it, will played it during my next work load, thanks!
shareRe: The Wall; When it came out, I listened to it a lot & thought it was one of their best albums. 44 years later though, I rarely listen to it & except for a few songs like Brick 2, & Comfortably Numb it hasn't aged well. The whole "concept" of the album is a bit over-indulgent.
Here's my own "un-popular" opinion: Black Sabbath's Never Say Die is one of their best albums, even though most people (& the band themselves) dump on it as a disaster.
Given the contentious circumstances surrounding the making of it (Ozzy leaves, Dave Walker comes in, Walker leaves, Ozzy comes back & doesn't want to do any of the songs they started with Walker, they go to Canada & rewrite the whole album during the day & record at night fueled by drugs & dysfunction) it's amazing it turned out as well as it did.