Unpopular Music Opinions

[Nunzio11]

[QUOTE=D. Bergin;2062022]Here's my hot take on two early to mid-90's bands with a tragic history and a similar trajectory.

No, not the big ones you're thinking of............


Blind Melon - Best known for "No Rain" (the bee girl music video). Lead singer Shannon Hoon died of an overdose in 1995. Retrospectively, critics and lots of hard core early 90's fans seem to loathe this band, that song in particular, and that entire first album.


I love it....LOL. Still do to this day. I've got their debut CD buried somewhere around here, and it got plenty of air play in my house back in the day. I thought the whole thing was pretty entertaining. Had that early 90's new music kind of feel, without being overwhelmingly depressing and overwrought (not that I didn't also like that kind of music to).


Sadly, it's made almost every worst album of the 90's list I've ever seen.


Love the Blind Melon shout out. “Soup” is a great album. A little darker than the first album. It was released weeks before Shannon Hoon’s OD. They still have a really loyal following.

[nolemmings]

Jon Bon Jovi sucks.
When I'm generous, I'd call his songs facile and trite.

[Jim65]

Originally Posted by nolemmings

Jon Bon Jovi sucks.
When I'm generous, I'd call his songs facile and trite.

He's Johnny Bravo from the Brady Bunch episode. Totally talentless who made it big because he fit the suit.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by nolemmings

Jon Bon Jovi sucks.
When I'm generous, I'd call his songs facile and trite.

100% agree, Def Leppard sucks too. Both are what your little brother would listen to instead of good rock. Any time a song of theirs creeps onto the playlist I switch.

Dylan and the Grateful Dead, both unlistenable trash unless you are stoned. My Chemical Romance's version of Desolation Row is a million times better than Dylan's.

Springsteen meant a lot to me as a teenager, as did Star Wars, not so much now. Simplistic and derivative. Everything Springsteen does sounds just like everything else he has done since 1981.

I hate Metallica and other bands of that genre; sounds like trash trucks dropping cans on cats.

Jazz is boring and the fans are pompous twats.

Classical is what elevators and dentists offices were made for.

Opera is like nails on a chalkboard.

I'd rather have another colonoscopy than sit through an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.

Hamilton sucked.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Nunzio11

Love the Blind Melon shout out. “Soup” is a great album. A little darker than the first album. It was released weeks before Shannon Hoon’s OD. They still have a really loyal following.

Yeah, I probably still have that one around here somewhere to, but it's probably been a couple decades since I listened to it. Gotta dig it out one of these days.

[D. Bergin]

It's easy to name popular bands, artists you don't like for a thread such as this.

It's much harder to name something you DO like, that isn't necessarily the popular choice among the masses/critics/etc..

I see Duran Duran mentioned a lot in this thread.............but they've seemed to gain more retrospective support through the years, then a lot of people seem to realize. So it's really not as "unpopular" as you might think, to declare you think they were pretty great.

For example, who here likes "Nickleback"? I don't. I don't think I ever did, but then my daughter accused me of owning a couple of "Nickleback" CD's. I denied it. Then she dug through my old collection of CD's and found two of them. I promptly blamed it on my wife, LOL! Then I thought.......maybe I DID like "Nickleback" at one time.....and I repressed it, deep deep down.

Also have a couple "CREED" Cd's, I'm not particularly proud of.




In addition to my previous actual support of "Blind Melon", let me add "Stone Temple Pilots". Of the West Coast "grunge" type bands of the early 90's, they are generally accused of being "pretenders" of the era nowadays. I don't know if it's simply because they are a California band and not a Seattle area band, or if people simply don't like them anymore.



"The Big Empty" (from The Crow soundtrack), is still one of my favorite songs of all time, and I thought they had several solid albums throughout the years. Generally considered sacrilege, but I preferred them, to other more highly revered contemporaries of the era, such as "Soundgarden" and "Alice In Chains".