Unpopular music opinions

[Northendzone]

Justin Bieber is a lyrical genius

[polak]

Electronic music has revolutionized every genre of music and heavily analog instrumental music has been stale and stagnant since the early 90s. People joke that the mainstream, big room EDM of today all sounds the same (lately, I'd totally agrre with this) yet most of the rock and country that has come out since the early 90s that hasn't embraced electronic music is dated and generic.

You could play any guitar, drum, piano based song from the last 20 years and you wouldn't be able to tell what year it came from.

Another unpopular opinion is that vocals are unnecessary and often distract from the potential musical genius that takes place behind them (Im looking at you, Kanye).

Seriously though, I'd kill for Kanye West to put out an instrumental album.

[Hockey_Ninja]

Originally Posted by polak

Seriously though, I'd kill for Kanye West to put out an instrumental album.

I could actually get behind this.

[AcGold]

Well I agree with all of that Polak. Music has become largely stagnant especially traditional country and rock bands. Very few classic songs come out of the industry, there's a a balance between using all the tech for creativity and using it for profit.

Too much for creativity and it can be unstructured avant garde nonsense that isn't worth listening to. Too much for profit and it's incredibly derivative with a very limited sonic range.

[Traditional_Ale]

Reggae is the most boring music ever. No virtuosity in any element of it at all.

[Finger Cookin]

Originally Posted by Hockey_Ninja

90's hip hop is clearly the best era, but people make this era of hip hop seem like it's complete trash which it isn't. It's radio hip pop that has pretty much ruined the culture but there have been a lot of great underground acts and (shocker) mainstream artist that have been out since 2000-now if you look hard enough. The people who say that hip hop died in the 90's are seriously closed minded.

While we are on this subject, here's another unpopular opinion: 80's hip hop hasn't aged very well.

I think it's a case of a flood of material being released now across many platforms that just makes it hard to sift through to find the quality stuff. People get frustrated and throw their hands up, because it's easier to just dismiss all of it than to take on the task of curating it all.

As opposed to the late 80s and a lot of the 90s, when a few labels were signing groundbreaking artists that were releasing amazing material pretty consistently. For a time in the late 80s to early 90s, it seemed to be much easier to just try a new artist without having heard them and getting a very good to classic release in the bargain.

[Cuz]

Jay-Z isn't that good...

[Derek Sutton]

I cannot stand Bruce Springsteen

[Matata]

I can't stand Bob Dylan's voice. I don't understand how someone can hear Bob's voice and think to themselves "Oh yes, more of that please."

[opendoor]

Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

Nirvana isn't even close to the best band to come out of Seattle during the 'grunge' scene.

My probably unpopular opinion is the opposite. Nirvana is the only good band to come out of that scene. Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, etc. have aged horribly. Pearl Jam at least has continued as a good live band, but their albums (especially their early '90s ones) are pretty forgettable.

[Machiavelli]

Nicki Minaj is an amazing rapper.

[Hockey_Ninja]

Originally Posted by Machiavelli

Nicki Minaj is an amazing rapper.

She truthfully does have SOME MC skills, especially before she got discovered (the same with Drake). She just had to sign with young money. That record label turns you into a soft bubblegum pop rapper.

[Yasa]

Originally Posted by AcGold

Music has become largely stagnant especially traditional country and rock bands.

I'm not sure what you mean by that quote. There's more accessible and available music now than there ever has been. It's not stagnant, unless you specifically mean on the radio. Even then, trends come and go.

[Matata]

If Mozart was alive today, he would be a DJ.

[neo45]

If Tupac and Biggie were still alive, they would be washed up

[Senator Clay Davis]

Tupac isn't even a top 20 all-time rapper, and Biggie is better by a decent margin.

[DownhillGoat]

I absolutely cannot stand the Tragically Hip, and have no idea how they're so popular (CanCon regs aside...). Gord Downie's voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by polak

You could play any guitar, drum, piano based song from the last 20 years and you wouldn't be able to tell what year it came from.

Oh really?

[J pold]

Led Zeppelin is easily the most overrated rock bands of 1970's.

The Foo Fighters are terrible and Dave Grohl is the most overrated contemporary musician.

I'm sure there is some talent involved in making EDM music but I don't understand or recognize it.

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by J pold

Led Zeppelin is easily the most overrated rock bands of 1970's.

Except they're technically a "blues" band. They just played really loud.

The Foo Fighters are terrible and Dave Grohl is the most overrated contemporary musician.

They're like a bowl of plain oatmeal.

I'm sure there is some talent involved in making EDM music but I don't understand or recognize it.

Electronic music production is an incredible art-form that requires as much technical knowledge of the tools to produce it as it does musical instinct and taste. However, the most popular formats of electronic music have become quite bland sounding, imo. This has more to do with the switch to working entirely "in the box" (all software) rather than having to use actual synthesizers, drum machines, rack gear, mixing consoles, etc. The interchangeability of those components helped lend producers their own "sound." Now everyone uses the same software, plugins, etc, so there has been somewhat of a homogenization of the sound.

This will correct itself soon enough, but if you're interested, compare the sound of 1997's "The Fat Of The Land" by The Prodigy to a Skrillex recording. The former will sound much more warm and lush, with the later having so much high-end clarity that the shine is almost unbearable.