Unpopular album opinions

[Blackened Soul]

I would rather cut off my own dick and eat it than listen to the motherfucking Beatles, Kinks, Led Zeppelin, or AC/DC.

really tho?

Yeah. I'm tired of being bashed over the head with Boomer nostalgia. Fuck'em.

The problem is modern country and pop and clear channel "indie" suck so hard that a lot of stuff that is beyond over played is still just not that bad if you have to be subjected...

[flanagan0718]

Can someone PLEASE inform the band CHON that they collectively suck.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxZuPLPERbk&t=817s[/youtube]

Punchability is off the charts.

Seriously tho! individually they are all great musicians but together...PUNCH EVERYONE OF THOSE HIPSTER BASTARDS!

[More_Divebombs]

Speaking of good musicians creating a shit band, how horrid are the Chili Peppers?

I can't stomach a single song by them, but can still recognise that's Frusciante is a solid and inventive guitar player, and the rhythm section is banging. Somehow, they collectively create some sort of disco funk for the moderately angry teen who has nothing to be angry about. Fugazi-lite for people who don't like music.

Every song is mince without any redeemable feature. What a waste of guys who can totally rip.

No idea what the consensus of RHCP is here, but in the real outside world, they are crazy popular. People would pay money - big money - to stand and watch them.

[Lurker13]

Speaking of good musicians creating a shit band, how horrid are the Chili Peppers?

I can't stomach a single song by them, but can still recognise that's Frusciante is a solid and inventive guitar player, and the rhythm section is banging. Somehow, they collectively create some sort of disco funk for the moderately angry teen who has nothing to be angry about. Fugazi-lite for people who don't like music.

Every song is mince without any redeemable feature. What a waste of guys who can totally rip.

No idea what the consensus of RHCP is here, but in the real outside world, they are crazy popular. People would pay money - big money - to stand and watch them.

Dani California is a great song. Other than that, I really can't stand them. RHCP is to real funk what soulless tasty-licks blues guys like Bonamassa are to real blues - a commercial abomination of the real art.

JMO, YMMV and all that.

[Olin]

Townes Van Zandt was better than Dylan and this was cemented with him dying before he was able to record a fucking Christmas album.

[MechaGodzilla]

Dani California is a great song.

[Invisible Man]

Speaking of good musicians creating a shit band, how horrid are the Chili Peppers?

I can't stomach a single song by them, but can still recognise that's Frusciante is a solid and inventive guitar player, and the rhythm section is banging. Somehow, they collectively create some sort of disco funk for the moderately angry teen who has nothing to be angry about. Fugazi-lite for people who don't like music.

Every song is mince without any redeemable feature. What a waste of guys who can totally rip.

No idea what the consensus of RHCP is here, but in the real outside world, they are crazy popular. People would pay money - big money - to stand and watch them.

Frusciante is one of the most important musicians in my life. Check out some of his moment recent solo stuff (PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone, Letur Lefr, Enclosure, Foregrow, Trickfinger). He's done much more interesting stuff with hip-hop, worked with Aaron Funke, gotten into modular synths and programming, and abandoned blues idiom since quitting his band. So: ILF.

RHCP tunes make me wince, though. Actually not a huge fan of Flea or Chad's playing, though they are hecka chopsy.

[D.o.S.]

Speaking of unpopular opinions, Ataxia is the best band Fruciante has ever been in.

[Invisible Man]

I agree with that. Joe Lally makes pretty much everything better...lost my mind to some Fugazi demos on my way to work today.

But Amputechture is interesting, even if it's not as good as Deloused (or even Frances the Mute, which I didn't like too much). And check out Speed Dealer Moms.

[chuckjaywalk]

I would rather cut off my own dick and eat it than listen to the motherfucking Beatles, Kinks, Led Zeppelin, or AC/DC.

really tho?

Yeah. I'm tired of being bashed over the head with Boomer nostalgia. Fuck'em.

The problem is modern country and pop and clear channel "indie" suck so hard that a lot of stuff that is beyond over played is still just not that bad if you have to be subjected...

I avoid the radio. I fell into music sideways, so bear with me. My first musical memory is the Talking Heads and the Clash on Saturday Night Live reruns. Devo. Then lots of 50's and 60's country music via my grandma. My Uncle Scott exposed me to Madonna and Prince and Michael Jackson and George Michael. Then I heard the Cure and Paul Westerberg. Then Grunge. Then punk rock. Then college rock. R.E.M.'s Monster lead me backwards through their catalog. Pavement. Sugar. Husker Du. The Replacements. Then I saw Billy Zoom playing a Gretsch Sparkle Jet and decided I wanted to play guitar. Then I found Gary Numan and Nine Inch Nails and KMFDM. Then Orange Juice. Back to Bob Mould. I know the Beatles et al laid the groundwork for what I like, but it doesn't say anything to me. I don't connect with it. I hear Trent Reznor sing '26 years on my way to Hell' and I get it. 'Losing My Religion' talks to me. I get 'Lost In The Supermarket' all the time. Even Ben Folds' 'Rockin the Suburbs' speaks my language.

[Blackened Soul]

Back to Bob Mould.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9vCuxqBro4

[chuckjaywalk]

Back to Bob Mould.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9vCuxqBro4

Exactly. As long as I don't have to hear Lennon and McCartney, their songs don't bother me.

[Lurker13]

Dani California is a great song.

Seriously, the lyrics, the dynamics, Frusciante's fuzzed-out solo at the end, what's not to love? I can listen to it over and over again.

[MechaGodzilla]

It's like listening to a really bad Hendrix tribute/cover? It's a desperate attempt to put together a single from an album with zero interesting tracks? RHCP are completely awful and everything they've done is a crime against good music?

I'm in the wrong thread, please show me to the "Completely true and sensible music opinion thread" so I can post my RHCP disdain there.

[Muff_Diver]

How can one consider it a desperate attempt at a single when it was a a top 20 billboard hit for 4 months straight?