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Old 01-28-2021, 04:49 PM
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We've had a lot of fun lately with music threads. Here's a different one. Let's call it unpopular music opinions. What's that music opinion you are totally convinced of that other people shake their heads in absolute disgust. I have many of these. Here's my No. 1:

The Rolling Stones are vastly overrated and just not very interesting musically.

(God, that one pisses off a lot of 55+ year old white dudes.)
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Ha, your first response to this is...I agree. That was going to be my Unpopular Music Opinion. Now I'll have to come up with another one.
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The Eagles songs are meh.

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The Rolling Stones are vastly overrated and just not very interesting musically.
I have to admit to being in that camp as well, then I got a hold of a CD called "Stripped" where they basically do some songs with minimal accompaniment and managed to find some appreciation...

That said, I'll contribute:

"Eddie Van Halen was NOT a great guitar player."

He certainly mastered the fretboard and played fast but wasn't particularly innovative.
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I have to admit to being in that camp as well, then I got a hold of a CD called "Stripped" where they basically do some songs with minimal accompaniment and managed to find some appreciation...

That said, I'll contribute:

"Eddie Van Halen was NOT a great guitar player."

He certainly mastered the fretboard and played fast but wasn't particularly innovative.
I wouldn't necessarily disagree. I think his impact in terms of popularizing tapping was very large, but he wasn't the most skilled player we've seen.

I'll also contribute. I think Pink Floyd is good but I have a very difficult time listening to them. I don't doubt their artistry, but I feel like I might need to be on an acid trip to truly enjoy them

I don't particularly like the Grateful Dead Either.
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Eric Clapton stinks
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Journey and Police/Sting are bands I can't stand.
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Police and U2 are both annoying.
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Duran Duran was 100x better than most people want to believe.
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Duran Duran was 100x better than most people want to believe.
Granted my knowledge of their catalogue is limited, but Hungry Like the Wolf is such a great song.
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We were about to rattle off a dozen hugely popular singers and/or bands we consider somewhere between
overrated and outright awful, but there are already more than enough people here who think we're idiots.
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Tried to listen to some country music a handful of times and it never gets any better.
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Bruce Springsteen. Who decided he was "the boss" anyway? His songs sound better when other people sing them. Think "Blinded By The Light".
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U2 - stinks
Eric Clapton - blech
Grateful Dead - horrible
Country music - all sounds the same
Radiohead - overrated

Duran Duran - underrated! Great band.

I’ll go a bit further here: The B-52’s , that first album, that is a KILLER album. “Dance This Mess Around” is a banger.

The music scene post grunge (not that I was “into” grunge that much) took such a nosedive from 1995 to 2002. System of the Down? Linkin Park? Any of that late 90s BS? Un-f’ing-listenable. I was actually listening to a lot of salsa, bachata (just becoming BIG in NYC after being relegated to Sunday morning’s from 7am-9am on 97.9 FM) and cumbia from 95-02 because music really just died.

It really wasn’t until Yeah Yeah Yeahs , The Strokes, TV on the Radio, Vampire Weekend and other NYC bands came about in early 2000s that music came alive again. You can say something good about hipsters: their music was really good.
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Bruce Springsteen. Who decided he was "the boss" anyway? His songs sound better when other people sing them. Think "Blinded By The Light".
Hot Chip’s version of “Dancing in the Dark” is a case in point:


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Pink Floyd without Roger Waters, became a total shit Pop band.

Brian Johnson ruined AC/DC.

PHISH is quite possibly the stupidest band ever.

I would rather pierce my testicles with rusty railroad spikes than listen to Bob Dylan.

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It feels sometimes like there is a new Dylan movie documentary that comes out every 15 days. What could they possibly be saying about him that hasn't been said 50,000 times at this point? I don't get it.


QUOTE=Jim65;2061723]Pink Floyd without Roger Waters, became a total shit Pop band.

Brian Johnson ruined AC/DC.

PHISH is quite possibly the stupidest band ever.

I would rather pierce my testicles with rusty railroad spikes than listen to Bob Dylan.[/QUOTE]
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1. Grateful Dead is the worst band of all time.
2. Agree that Eddie Van Halen is vastly overrated. Non melodic tapping doesn't really do it for me.
3. Pink Floyd is not a great band.
4. Quiet Riot's version of C'mon Feel the Noise is one of the worst versions of that song I've ever heard. Slade should have sued them.
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Tried to listen to some country music a handful of times and it never gets any better.
Have you listened to Eric Church? I know individuals who like his music, but not much else country. "Smoke a little smoke" is a song I would recommend, and "Drink in my hand," and possibly "Springsteen." He's supposed to be the best live country act in the business right now.

Personally, I'm more for Waylon Jennings, but he got his start in early rock n roll w/ Buddy Holly.
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David Bowie was far more innovative and influential than the Beatles.
Alice Cooper is one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
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Queen is the most overrated band of all time. There were never very popular. Then their singer dies and people start pushing them as a good band.
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Literally ANY rap/hip-hop music.
The talentless "artists", the insecurity that masquerades as bravado, the low brow lyrics and the overall negativity of the whole genre keeps me from having any respect for it.
In fact, my intelligence precludes it
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Seen the Big Lebowski? "I hate the fuckin' Eagles man". I thought I was the only one.

I'm from Detroit and you can't say you don't like Bob Seger, but I don't like any Bob Seger after about 1972.

And here's the biggies that always get me in trouble:

Led Zeppelin sucks and most of their songs were stolen. I don't get them. Never did, never will.

and Neil Pert was nothing special.

There. I said it. Sorry. Please don't egg my house.
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The Beatles would’ve been fine without John Lennon.
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We've had a lot of fun lately with music threads. Here's a different one. Let's call it unpopular music opinions. What's that music opinion you are totally convinced of that other people shake their heads in absolute disgust. I have many of these. Here's my No. 1:

The Rolling Stones are vastly overrated and just not very interesting musically.

(God, that one pisses off a lot of 55+ year old white dudes.)
While I was reading Keith Richards autobiography, I was so much more entertained reading about how the songs were developed than I have ever been actually listening to the songs he was talking about. Maybe that is just a credit to him as a storyteller.

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Queen is the most overrated band of all time. There were never very popular. Then their singer dies and people start pushing them as a good band.
Agreed, to a point. Once you stray from the greatest hits, there aren't a lot of great album cuts. But then very few bands have ever been able to release album after album of wall to wall great songs.

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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.




Sublime - Best known for "Santeria", "What I Got", "Wrong Way" and others. Lead singer Bradley Nowell died of an overdose in 1996. Retrospectively, critics and alternative radio stations seem to love this band. Credited with being innovators of the California beach, reggae, ska scene of the 1990's. Didn't become popular at all until after their lead singer died..............and then..........became............HUGE. To this day you can't avoid their music for more then a couple hours on certain types of radio stations.


They are like fingernails on a chalk board to me, LOL. Comes across as a cheap Bob Marley wannabe beach bar band. Repetitious, droning, and full of itself. All of the songs in their limited library sounds the same to me. Lots of people still like them. I can't seem to avoid an episode of PTSD every time I hear snippet of one of their songs, and flash back to driving a UPS truck, listening to one of the 3 stations I can get on my little radio, and "What I Got" comes on for the 27th time (or was it one of the other songs, and I just couldn't tell the difference), during that long day of delivering packages.


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Another quick hot take:




Oasis - Didn't like them. Hated their sound. Annoyed me to almost anger.




The Verve - An Oasis like band. Known best for "Bittersweet Symphony". I found them about 1000% easier to listen to for some reason.
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-The Who. Nope, just nope
-The Eagles. Agree with all above
-Oasis. Shack was much better, just poorly marketed
-Dylan. Except for Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts. You can even add Jakob to that list
-The Doors. Except for The End and Peace Frog
-Journey

And the Kinks are better than the Stones
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Saw the title and some thoughts popped into my head, thought I'd be a pariah. Then it turns out many of you feel like I do!

Stones: doing the same boring thing for 50 years.
U2: Started off cool, now their songs just drone on and on and on.
Duran Duran: liked them in the 80's, and a lot of their stuff still holds up
Police: couple cool songs, most just annoying.
Dylan: don't get him at all.
Eagles: meh

Also do not get: Velvet Underground, The Smiths, James Taylor.

Ozzy should have quit years ago.

Dick Dale should be way more famous.

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You had me until Neil Peart lol.

[QUOTE=SAllen2556;2061959]Seen the Big Lebowski? "I hate the fuckin' Eagles man". I thought I was the only one.

I'm from Detroit and you can't say you don't like Bob Seger, but I don't like any Bob Seger after about 1972.

And here's the biggies that always get me in trouble:

Led Zeppelin sucks and most of their songs were stolen. I don't get them. Never did, never will.

and Neil Pert was nothing special.

There. I said it. Sorry. Please don't egg my house.[/QUOT
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Seem to be in agreement with most on here...

I'm 35 and Duran Duran is one of my favorite bands. Some cheesy 80's songs but most were great... Save a Prayer is one of the most underrated songs of all time in my opinion... Also, love Phil Collins and Huey Lewis from that era.

Classic Rock- Despise it all! So overrated and I'll probably be shouted down for some of this but The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin, et cetera tops my list for the worst of all time. Seems just so whiny and/or dorky.

90's rap- Meh, but it was the preferred genre for youngsters in my youth so I'm okay with some of it.

Country- Not a huge fan but do like quite a few songs from the 80's-90's... I don't think country music exists today

Early 2000's rock- Pretty bad but listened to it non stop in high school and still like some of it. Still enjoy hearing a Chevelle or Breaking Benjamin song occasionally.

2010- Present- All Genres- Pure Garbage Haha.

Classical (Concert?) Music- Really like the impressionists like Ravel, Debussy, and Satie. Oddly enough the music goes well when looking at tobacco cards.
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Speaking of The Eagles, "Try And Love Again" is their best song by far. Randy Meisner kills it!
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Early 2000's rock- Pretty bad but listened to it non stop in high school and still like some of it. Still enjoy hearing a Chevelle or Breaking Benjamin song occasionally.

2010- Present- All Genres- Pure Garbage Haha.
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Again, I’ll counter with The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Strokes, TV on the Radio, The National.

2010 - the best album of the 2010s came out in 2010 LCD Soundsystem’s “This Is It”. Then, a few years later, Arcade Fire came out with a very sonic sounding “Reflektor”.

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Huey Lewis defines everything that sucked about the 80's.

Metallica became just another shitty Pop-Metal band.

Patti Smith wasn't and will never be Punk.

Bob Dylan still sucks.

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If you think Dylan sucks on vinyl, you should pay a few hundred bucks and see him live some day. Will stand with his back to the audience and sing incomprehensible through his nose for a few hours. People around you will tell you how great the last song was, but honestly you'll have no effin' clue what he's mumbling about.



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Metallica became just another shitty Pop-Metal band.

Patti Smith wasn't and will never be Punk.

Bob Dylan still sucks.
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Springsteen I'll never understand, YUCk!
Clapton, I can't say he's bad, I just don't like his music
Eagles, I like a lot of their music but Hotel California has got to be one of if not the most over rated album of all time.

Count me as another Duran Duran fan.

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[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.
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Jon Bon Jovi sucks.
When I'm generous, I'd call his songs facile and trite.
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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.
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Eagles, I like a lot of their music but Hotel California has got to be one of if not the most over rated album of all time.
Completely respect your opinion but if you are of a certain age and grew up or lived in California in the 1960s and 1970s you might better understand the appeal of the album beyond just the tunes.
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Taylor Swift and Beyonce.......I just don't get it......Radio could be so much better without either of those clowns on there.
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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.
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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".
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Sublime - Best known for "Santeria", "What I Got", "Wrong Way" and others. Lead singer Bradley Nowell died of an overdose in 1996. Retrospectively, critics and alternative radio stations seem to love this band. Credited with being innovators of the California beach, reggae, ska scene of the 1990's. Didn't become popular at all until after their lead singer died..............and then..........became............HUGE. To this day you can't avoid their music for more then a couple hours on certain types of radio stations.


They are like fingernails on a chalk board to me, LOL. Comes across as a cheap Bob Marley wannabe beach bar band. Repetitious, droning, and full of itself. All of the songs in their limited library sounds the same to me. Lots of people still like them. I can't seem to avoid an episode of PTSD every time I hear snippet of one of their songs, and flash back to driving a UPS truck, listening to one of the 3 stations I can get on my little radio, and "What I Got" comes on for the 27th time (or was it one of the other songs, and I just couldn't tell the difference), during that long day of delivering packages.


Their version of "smoke two joints " has always seemed unrealistically fast paced to me. And I don't even smoke.
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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.
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Surprised at all the like for Duran Duran. I never liked them, and unlike some other overplayed pop bands I've never found I like them much hearing them only once a year or so.

The Stones, I like some old stuff, but my HS friend was really into their as I called it disco album. Since then they've become like the guy that tore up the league for 5-7 years, but has settled in as a .250 hitter and just won't retire.

Unpopular here, but I like Clapton. Not like really like his stuff, but I don't hate it.

Pretty much every hard rock or metal band once they decide they're "artists" That's pretty much code for "I can't come up with anything but I'll mess around with synthesizers and hope it sells. "
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Dean Martin is criminally underappreciated. Dino could sing anything well.

My wife insists on putting on the Sinatra XM channel all the time. Anyone who thinks Frank didn't sing a bad song hasn't listened to this station. He has a million bad songs. Or a million songs he ruined with schtick. Dino is as genuine as it comes.
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