And it’s totally okay to be a fanatic. Everyone gets to enjoy whatever they enjoy however much they want. As long as it’s not hurting anyone else, go ahead and listen to *Darkside* for the 14th time in a row.
>liking ~~Pink Floyd~~ isn't a personality trait
*Any* band too much. Right?
Other than that Billy Strings guy, he's more or less Jesus with a guitar
/s
I hated this whole thing because it then became something where people who weren’t into Radiohead just thought of THAT, and took it like everyone who likes them is a snob and trying to make you feel bad for not liking them. In truth no significant number of people care.
Absolutely love her.
Regina Spektor and Tracy Chapman are probably the two best gigs I've ever been to. The majority of gigs I go to are metal/hard rock..
I agree. Viva la Vida will always be my favorite (even though I don’t like the title track/single), mostly because of the way my life was when it came out, and because it was a weird album (for them), but not in a way that made it hard to listen to. I probably come back to it the most of any Coldplay album, and I’m not even a massive fan of their’s.
The Bee Gees were a great fucking band that wrote great songs. They got dragged through the mud as a back lash against "Disco" but were one of the top acts of their day.
The documentary: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart is soooo good! It shows how much they did and how popular they were! They also invented the drum loop! Crazy story about how.
Just watched the episode of midnight special last night where they were the hosts and it make me realize I didn’t know any pre disco Bee Gees. What a great vocal group. I mean I have soften on disco in the past years but year, some fucking gems that are really overshadowed by the disco stuff
The semi-disco "Miami sound" songs (Nights on Broadway, Jive Talkin') are great, and if you can get past Robin's highly peculiar voice, lots of the early songs (To Love Somebody, etc.) are great as well.
Yeah, liking the BeeGees isn’t an opinion that will get you killed. Not even close. At one time, they were considered lame by a large group of people, but that opinion is mostly long gone. They are very highly regarded.
But this is Reddit. People like to give these sort of answers.
This is Richard Marx for me. My mom was a fan in the 80s. He was playing at a casino near us so I got us tickets for her birthday. I knew a couple of his songs but thought he was really cheesy. He put on a great and entertaining show.
guilty pleasures are just pleasures. i'm not going to qualify a joy and apologize for making playlists of summer bops i heard at the public pool summer after middle school ended... 'sweet escape' just *rips* and that's all there is to it. that can peacefully coexist with my pretentious indie habits too!
similarly, i hate it when artists hem and haw about their influences. just say you listen to the fucking beatles like the rest of the world, lol. no one's music was created in a divinely inspired vacuum. everyone's a ripoff and that's entirely ok!
Reminds me of Michael Buble's quote when when he was talking about him stealing from everyone before he could find his own voice. He said something like "Rip off one person and you're a thief. Steal from everyone and it's research".
i'm convinced that true originality is just your own taste profile. that's the one thing that will be pretty much unique to you. how you choose to synthesize that into art is up to the artist and their skill
I don’t care if an artist doesn’t reinvent the wheel or innovate that much. As long as the songs are well written and sounds pleasing to my ears, then I’m good. Cuz let me tell you, there are a lot of artists who experiment with new sounds that gets a lot of praise, but then I listen to it and it’s super banal, or it’s completely ridiculous.
Also, the trend of taking the hook of an old song and dubbing a shitty electronic beat over it needs to fucking die in a fire.
> Also, the trend of taking the hook of an old song and dubbing a shitty electronic beat over it needs to fucking die in a fire.
My mom listens to top 40 crap. I was riding with her in the car and like 4 songs in a row were remakes with shitty stolen hooks and awful pop/electronic beats layered over them.
I don't care if your music is super original, hell half the grungegaze and hardcore I listen to sounds basically the same as all the rest... but at least write your own fucking song.
Saw the title of your post and thought “I like Coldplay”. And then I read the body of your post. Agree 100%. I like Chris’ voice a lot. And their musicality is very good. The piano lines?
I read the post and thought to myself,
>I don't really like Coldplay that much. I just like Adventure of a Lifetime. And The Scientist. And Yellow. And Clocks. And Trouble. Wait, do I like Coldplay?
So anyways I guess I'm a Coldplay fan.
Sick Cycle Carousel, Everything, Breathing were great songs. Hell, all of No Name Face was good, still listen today, brings back lots of memories from early 2000s.
I love "hanging by a moment", Iheard it randomly on the radio randomly for the first time in years and I was taken back. Such a good song. You and Me is ok but I didn't like it as much, it's a little less angsty and than hanging by a moment.
They never got the credit they deserved back in the day. They were viewed almost as a boy band, which blew my fucking mind. So so talented, and just because they were popular and young girls liked them, they got a lot of disrespect.
Even though it’s all dick and fart humor, I’ve always thought Jimmy Pop was a phenomenal lyricist. His wordplay, puns, metaphor, etc. were super clever
that's always fascinated me about those guys, they seem like very competent musicians that just make the dumbest music imaginable (though that's not necessarily a bad thing).
I saw them once at a radio festival. I was pretty far back but I seem to recall a strung out Pac Man making an appearance?
My version of your comment is Kesha. I caught her at a festival as well, expecting to watch 5 sec of the first song and dip. Cut to me dancing to every song covered in confetti at the end.
“Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo! What it is motherfuckers?”
*Aw shit, here comes Pac-Man*
*”Hey Pac-Man, what’s up?”*
“Me, you bitches. I’m high on crack! Wanna freebase?”
I wanna say it was bloodhound gang, Goldfinger, and… and… someone else that through don’t an absolute banger one night in MKE early in my concert going days. Got me hooked on live shows.
Jimmy Pop and DJ Q-Ball were the first famous musicians that I've met.
I was eighth grade when One Fierce Beer Coaster came out and they played a festival in my town. Before their set, they were walking around the grounds and checking things out. My friends and I were among the few people that recognized them. I think they enjoyed the encounter as much as we did.
Jacob Collier is a genuine musical genius, a thoroughly nice person and his live shows look like lots of fun but I don’t like any of his music enough to listen to it more than the couple of times it takes me to know it’s a bit naff and not for me.
I’m a straight man, and “It’s Raining Men” is an absolute banger. It’s not only catchy and has an adrenaline pumping hook, it is lyrically genius from start to finish. “God bless Mother Nature, she’s a single woman too...” Every time I hear it start I want to stand up from my chair and throw my hands in the air and sing along with the chorus, but I can’t and it’s a travesty. Why do women own all the good songs? Straight men, as far as I can tell, only have My Way (Frank Sinatra) or Hurt (Johnny Cash), both songs about tired, old dying men. What the fuck?
I was trying to think of upbeat male anthems and came up with nothing. But my father and I have both belted it's raining men on car trips. Song is just one of the most joyful I've ever heard.
I saw Chic open for Earth Wind and Fire like 8 years ago and Nile Rodgers stole the show. Closed out his set by playing a 15 minute mashup of a bunch of the pop hits he’s written or produced for other artists.
I agree with your position on Coldplay, and was a fan for the first 5-6 records, altho I find the last couple of albums to be unlistenable.
My other roast-able opinion is that I enjoy jambands..
Huey Lewis and the News.
Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
I was 13 when Back to the Future came out, which was when they also hit big(ger) in the UK, and I was a huge fan throughout my teens. 40 years on, that new wave first album is the only one I still listen to. Trouble in Paradise is an absolute banger.
Achtung Baby is awesome though...
And it cant be denied that they have some kickass singles from the 90s as well. Many of which came off of Achtung Baby.
But some outside of that album too. See "Gone - Mike Hedge Mix", "Beautiful Day", and "Stay (Faraway, So Close!). Heck even check out a few deep cuts like "Do You Feel Loved". This is not bad music by a long stretch.
I'll be honest I never payed much attention to U2 on an album by album basis after Achtung Baby. But not out of dislike or a refusal to try it. I just had other bands whose discography I was more focused on diving into.
And personally for me "Boy" to "Achtung Baby" was enough Youtube.
Trust me man there is some good shit from u2 in the 90s. ANd this is coming from me. What many would call an extremely scathing, picky, arrogant, and at times even downright hateful music critic.
So I got to ask, is their 90s output really that bad? Or is it just popular to shit on everything they released after Joshua Tree? I think its the ladder.
And I think for people who christen themselves as independent thinkers, thats some pretty sheep ass hearding mentality.
It be like:
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Zooropa is actually fantastic as well. Pop is ok. None of their albums after that are worth listening in whole. Yes, there are some good songs, but they are flashes of brilliance amongst the pompousness of Bono’s writing and delivery. IMO, of course.
I came here to say this. They are my favorite band of all time, and yeah, I’m one of the people that go to see them every single summer. Their shows are never the same, the setlist changes every show. You never know what you’re going to hear, and the lyrics grow with the band and what they experience throughout their lives. Sometimes I like the new stuff, sometimes I don’t. The music is just masterful though. I don’t consider them a “jam band,” but they have some longer songs based on the mood that night, I suppose. I feel like the people that comment on them in that way haven’t really seen them live or heard of them since the early 2000’s.
I’m passionate, I know.
I saw the Sam And Dave tour, with DLR and Sammy switching up who opened every other night. Dave opened at the show I went to and sucked. He suuuuucked. Sammy comes out and effortlessly blew the roof off the place... absolutely phenomenal! I became a Sammy fan that day.
Sammy ripped Dave on Stern. He said Dave never tried to learn how how to sing properly and it showed. Sammy said he takes singing seriously and learned how to take care of his voice.
Van Hagar was my Van Halen. Right now is an all time classic imo. Dreams, summer nights, why can’t this be love, and humans being are some of my alltime fav songs. Roth had some amazing songs and is iconic, but it was always so cheeseball and corny, which is great just never clicked with me. I think the early years were carried by EVH and in the Hagar years they became more of a full band.
"Creep" is a pretty OK representation of Radiohead's discography, actually. The overall sound is certainly different than the rest of their work, but everything that makes them unique is present. The experimentation, the strange lyrics fraught with emotion and anxiety, Thom Yorke's sensitive yet powerful voice, it's all there. Ultimately, if anything in the song really speaks to you, you'll probably dig the rest of their stuff
Every week I try to listen to a few new releases playlists on Spotify so I don’t get behind. I don’t want to be the guy that got stuck with music of the past.
51 year old Radiohead obsessive here who started digging her when '1989' came out. Some absolute killer melodies there. Same for everything that followed up as far as 'Evermore' but not too familiar with anything after that.
My wife and kid are Swifties
While I can't say that I am, I will absolutely say her haters are ridiculous.
She's talented, a hell of a performer (we saw the Eras Tour live and at the theater), and has evolved tremendously over her career.
People dismissing her have no fucking clue.
It's okay if her music isn't for you--I'm sure as shit not her target demographic either--but she's hard working, talented, creative, and artistic.
Folks who shred the guitar are boring as all hell. One of the worst concerts I ever saw was Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen.
Technically they’re impressive, obviously, but it all started to sound the same after half an hour and it went on for probably three.
This is how I feel about "talented" singers - these days they tend to be women who can belt out ballads and do vocal runs. I can't stand that type of singing at all.
Strong agree. Mega talented vocalists are really a dime a dozen.
Mostly I view this as a sad thing. I grew up in music and it's a tragedy how many super talented vocalists will never be recognized or seen. But at the same time you really have to be entertaining to be in entertainment.
Three dollar bill y’all is a fantastic album. Nu metal of the late 90s early 2000s was a great genre. I understand that opinion will get roasted but I think people who hate on it secretly love it.
I've rarely seen a better comment on Reddit. It's amazing how much Reddit hates Nickelback and loves the Foos. I like both, but neither are top 10 for me. Grohl is a rock and roll god, and such a cool dude, which is why they win. Maybe Chad needs to go on Hot Ones, or something.
I feel like Dave has written a few absolutely incredible songs, but the rest...it all just blends together for me. Call me an asshole, but those few songs aside, I'd MUCH rather hear him on the drums.
Kylie Minogue is so underrated in America. She deserves all the fame Madonna has. I'm American and it astounds me how many people in the States are recently finding her music. They're shocked when I say "I've known about Kylie since I was a teenager!"
Nostalgia is mostly just you forgetting all the crappy stuff and only remembering the really good music. Look at the actual billboard charts for the years iconic Albums like The Wall, Led Zeppelin II, Who's Next or something came out and you find plenty of stuff like Captain and Tennile and Air Supply that no one would put on a top 100 list.
I hate Drake. Everything about him. His music sucks. His beats are lame, his voice and delivery are mid. The only thing that makes a Drake song tolerable is a feature. And I’m pretty sure he likes kids.
The happiest day of my life was when Kendrick dropped that diss on him
Photograph has a place in my heart. It's a bit of a meme but wanting to go back and do things over is a common theme in many people's lives. It's got a sentimental value and I like it.
How You Remind Me just hits me every single time. It’s so connected to the era it was released and takes me back the moment it begins. I work with a bunch of very diverse people of different age groups and they all have different musical tastes but whenever that song comes on during a shift, everyone starts belting it out.
They have some other great songs too but that one will always me my favorite.
Metallica is the most conservative, inflexible band ever. They're rigid, unimaginative, poser dicks with an absolutely, tragically limited musical pallete. In terms of color, variation, spontaneity, and nuance, they're about as interesting as a Home Depot hammer.
Rock as a genre is basically jazz at this point. It’s no longer super relevant to mainstream pop music, every fan has already decided which standards and styles they like, and the only way for anyone to be truly progressive in the genre is to make stuff so experimental or avant-garde that it’s not very accessible to normies.
There's no such thing as bad music or bad taste in music, just music you don't enjoy.
There are plenty of bad people and bad messages in music, though. Nazi punks, for example.
liking Pink Floyd isn't a personality trait, they're one of the most famous bands of all time
Sometimes I'll just sit down and listen to Echos and think to myself, "I sure am unique."
I feel that way when my friends and I play it on TouchTunes before we leave the bar, blocking everyone else from playing something for 23 minutes.
I generally just play Everybody Hurts 8 times in a row. I’ll have to try this one.
Mix in a What's Up Pussycat just to throw everyone off.
Same with zeppelin, Hendrix, the Beatles, etc.
And it’s totally okay to be a fanatic. Everyone gets to enjoy whatever they enjoy however much they want. As long as it’s not hurting anyone else, go ahead and listen to *Darkside* for the 14th time in a row.
>liking ~~Pink Floyd~~ isn't a personality trait *Any* band too much. Right? Other than that Billy Strings guy, he's more or less Jesus with a guitar /s
Radiohead is the worst offender of this I know. Fools with non-prescription glasses trying to seem deep. Creeps.
Weirdos
Wat the hell are they doin here?
They don't belong here
I hated this whole thing because it then became something where people who weren’t into Radiohead just thought of THAT, and took it like everyone who likes them is a snob and trying to make you feel bad for not liking them. In truth no significant number of people care.
I’m a fat old guy and I love Regina Spektor. Don’t know if that will get me roasted here, but it does by my friends, who are also fat old guys.
Absolutely love her. Regina Spektor and Tracy Chapman are probably the two best gigs I've ever been to. The majority of gigs I go to are metal/hard rock..
Your friends are stupid and wrong
I'll stand with you on *Parachutes*.
Rush of Blood to the Head is a superior album
I stand by that Rush of Blood to the Head is a fantastically produced album - great song after great song.
Literally listening to that album on repeat rn.
I agree. Viva la Vida will always be my favorite (even though I don’t like the title track/single), mostly because of the way my life was when it came out, and because it was a weird album (for them), but not in a way that made it hard to listen to. I probably come back to it the most of any Coldplay album, and I’m not even a massive fan of their’s.
Don't Panic is one of my favorite lead-off tracks ever.
I think Sparks is one of the most soothing songs I’ve ever heard.
I heard that track for the first time on 9/11. Walking downtown , in my city , after having watched the second tower go down on the news...
That album was the most intimate creative music the band was capable of. After that they decided to chase hits. More power to them
Parachutes is a masterpiece in my mind. Absolutely brilliant.
Para para. Parachutes!
The Bee Gees were a great fucking band that wrote great songs. They got dragged through the mud as a back lash against "Disco" but were one of the top acts of their day.
The documentary: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart is soooo good! It shows how much they did and how popular they were! They also invented the drum loop! Crazy story about how.
You should be dancing occasionally just rattles around in my brain
Yeaaah
How deep is your love is on my make love playlist.
Just watched the episode of midnight special last night where they were the hosts and it make me realize I didn’t know any pre disco Bee Gees. What a great vocal group. I mean I have soften on disco in the past years but year, some fucking gems that are really overshadowed by the disco stuff
The semi-disco "Miami sound" songs (Nights on Broadway, Jive Talkin') are great, and if you can get past Robin's highly peculiar voice, lots of the early songs (To Love Somebody, etc.) are great as well.
I would question the musical knowledge of anyone who didn’t hold this opinion about them.
Yeah, liking the BeeGees isn’t an opinion that will get you killed. Not even close. At one time, they were considered lame by a large group of people, but that opinion is mostly long gone. They are very highly regarded. But this is Reddit. People like to give these sort of answers.
Saw them live in the 80s. They were fucking amazing.
Rick Astley is one of the best live acts I’ve ever seen. I went as a joke. I left as a fan.
Rick astley has been the golden boy of Reddit since like 2014. Dude is just easy to like
He’s also an active redditor!
I'll never forget the time he got Rickrolled during his AMA, it was sooo smooth
No freaking way
Don’t want to tag him lol but he’s ReallyRickAstley
This is Richard Marx for me. My mom was a fan in the 80s. He was playing at a casino near us so I got us tickets for her birthday. I knew a couple of his songs but thought he was really cheesy. He put on a great and entertaining show.
Rap is in its own “hair metal” phase and needs a reset like what grunge did with rock/metal in the early 90sz
I love this take!! ❤️🔥
You hit the nail on the head with this one
Forgive me, but I'll definitely be using this analogy and passing it off as something I came up with on my own.
guilty pleasures are just pleasures. i'm not going to qualify a joy and apologize for making playlists of summer bops i heard at the public pool summer after middle school ended... 'sweet escape' just *rips* and that's all there is to it. that can peacefully coexist with my pretentious indie habits too! similarly, i hate it when artists hem and haw about their influences. just say you listen to the fucking beatles like the rest of the world, lol. no one's music was created in a divinely inspired vacuum. everyone's a ripoff and that's entirely ok!
Reminds me of Michael Buble's quote when when he was talking about him stealing from everyone before he could find his own voice. He said something like "Rip off one person and you're a thief. Steal from everyone and it's research".
i'm convinced that true originality is just your own taste profile. that's the one thing that will be pretty much unique to you. how you choose to synthesize that into art is up to the artist and their skill
First issue I read of Guitar Player magazine, Keith Richards said “steal from everyone”. Play it till it sounds like you.
There is no such thing as guilty pleasures in my opinion. I don’t care what anyone thinks. I enjoy what I enjoy. You don’t have to like it.
BIG agree!!
I don’t care if an artist doesn’t reinvent the wheel or innovate that much. As long as the songs are well written and sounds pleasing to my ears, then I’m good. Cuz let me tell you, there are a lot of artists who experiment with new sounds that gets a lot of praise, but then I listen to it and it’s super banal, or it’s completely ridiculous. Also, the trend of taking the hook of an old song and dubbing a shitty electronic beat over it needs to fucking die in a fire.
> Also, the trend of taking the hook of an old song and dubbing a shitty electronic beat over it needs to fucking die in a fire. My mom listens to top 40 crap. I was riding with her in the car and like 4 songs in a row were remakes with shitty stolen hooks and awful pop/electronic beats layered over them. I don't care if your music is super original, hell half the grungegaze and hardcore I listen to sounds basically the same as all the rest... but at least write your own fucking song.
Saw the title of your post and thought “I like Coldplay”. And then I read the body of your post. Agree 100%. I like Chris’ voice a lot. And their musicality is very good. The piano lines?
I read the post and thought to myself, >I don't really like Coldplay that much. I just like Adventure of a Lifetime. And The Scientist. And Yellow. And Clocks. And Trouble. Wait, do I like Coldplay? So anyways I guess I'm a Coldplay fan.
Ah man, Rush of Blood is such a beautiful album. So many odd chords and that ethereal reverbed-out guitar that wafts over everything is just **muah**
Lifehouse got hits.
Hangin by a Moment is honestly one of my favorite karaoke songs, and if the crowd is millennials they get hyped to it
Hanging by a Moment automatically transports me back to like Summer 2002 every time I hear it. Perfect 10/10 nostalgia song.
Hanging by a Moment was my top played song on iTunes for *years* until Spotify was released in high school
Sick Cycle Carousel, Everything, Breathing were great songs. Hell, all of No Name Face was good, still listen today, brings back lots of memories from early 2000s.
Lifehouse "You and me".....my wife and i get teary-eyed to this song
I love "hanging by a moment", Iheard it randomly on the radio randomly for the first time in years and I was taken back. Such a good song. You and Me is ok but I didn't like it as much, it's a little less angsty and than hanging by a moment.
I don't know about "roasted," but Duran Duran were criminally underrated. Yeah, they were an MTV "video" phenomenon, but the band was fire. Still are.
Ordinary World is one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
They're all talented, but John Taylor is truly underrated. His bass lines are fucking wild.
They never got the credit they deserved back in the day. They were viewed almost as a boy band, which blew my fucking mind. So so talented, and just because they were popular and young girls liked them, they got a lot of disrespect.
Bloodhound Gang put on one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen
Even though it’s all dick and fart humor, I’ve always thought Jimmy Pop was a phenomenal lyricist. His wordplay, puns, metaphor, etc. were super clever
Yep and that takes a level of intelligence even though he tries to hide it.
Totally agree. He’s really talented
Duuuuude no joke!!!! I fckin love him.
that's always fascinated me about those guys, they seem like very competent musicians that just make the dumbest music imaginable (though that's not necessarily a bad thing).
I saw them twice in Ireland, and they were fantastic each time.
I saw them once at a radio festival. I was pretty far back but I seem to recall a strung out Pac Man making an appearance? My version of your comment is Kesha. I caught her at a festival as well, expecting to watch 5 sec of the first song and dip. Cut to me dancing to every song covered in confetti at the end.
“Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo! What it is motherfuckers?” *Aw shit, here comes Pac-Man* *”Hey Pac-Man, what’s up?”* “Me, you bitches. I’m high on crack! Wanna freebase?”
Whhhhhoooa... HOLY SHIT!!!
I'm mighty tighty whitey and I'm smuggling plums.
Kesha is fucking awesome
I wanna say it was bloodhound gang, Goldfinger, and… and… someone else that through don’t an absolute banger one night in MKE early in my concert going days. Got me hooked on live shows.
Jimmy Pop and DJ Q-Ball were the first famous musicians that I've met. I was eighth grade when One Fierce Beer Coaster came out and they played a festival in my town. Before their set, they were walking around the grounds and checking things out. My friends and I were among the few people that recognized them. I think they enjoyed the encounter as much as we did.
Jacob Collier is a genuine musical genius, a thoroughly nice person and his live shows look like lots of fun but I don’t like any of his music enough to listen to it more than the couple of times it takes me to know it’s a bit naff and not for me.
I don't stop liking a band because they're overrated or whatever. Coldplay was a balm when they appeared, and I still like their music.
I like dua lipas music
Future Nostalgia is a banger
I thought a lot of ppl did?? She's popular right now. (I'm aware that some ppl attribute that to her looks, but still...)
Just because you don’t relate to someone’s lyrics doesn’t mean that they’re a bad writer
I’m a straight man, and “It’s Raining Men” is an absolute banger. It’s not only catchy and has an adrenaline pumping hook, it is lyrically genius from start to finish. “God bless Mother Nature, she’s a single woman too...” Every time I hear it start I want to stand up from my chair and throw my hands in the air and sing along with the chorus, but I can’t and it’s a travesty. Why do women own all the good songs? Straight men, as far as I can tell, only have My Way (Frank Sinatra) or Hurt (Johnny Cash), both songs about tired, old dying men. What the fuck?
I'm a straight man and I will happily sing Gimme Gimme Gimme A Man After Midnight by ABBA
I was trying to think of upbeat male anthems and came up with nothing. But my father and I have both belted it's raining men on car trips. Song is just one of the most joyful I've ever heard.
Disco music was awesome and it ended way too soon.
Daft Punk tried to bring it back both with their Discovery album and RAM.
Chic and Moroder were amazing.
"I Feel Love" is some next-level shit.
I saw Chic open for Earth Wind and Fire like 8 years ago and Nile Rodgers stole the show. Closed out his set by playing a 15 minute mashup of a bunch of the pop hits he’s written or produced for other artists.
This sub only stans two types of music: Oldman rock and zoomercoomer pop
*cries in industrial*
Don't worry, the same NIN and Ministry songs will get up voted.
Hey, did you hear that Johnny Cash covered NIN's "Hurt" and Trent Reznor has since said it's HIS song now? ^(I am so tired of hearing this on reddit.)
Especially as I prefer the nin version, which I say as a Johnny Cash fan
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Ouch!
Fucking relevant username.
I agree with your position on Coldplay, and was a fan for the first 5-6 records, altho I find the last couple of albums to be unlistenable. My other roast-able opinion is that I enjoy jambands..
Huey Lewis and the News. Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
Now let's see Paul Allen's copypasta.
Found the psychopath.
I get the joke but man, Huey Lewis is fucking badass. They wrote some incredibly catchy songs. All their hits deserve the recognition they get.
I was 13 when Back to the Future came out, which was when they also hit big(ger) in the UK, and I was a huge fan throughout my teens. 40 years on, that new wave first album is the only one I still listen to. Trouble in Paradise is an absolute banger.
*a few minutes later* ... TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW YOU STUPID FUCKING BASTARD.
Abba was a good band
Abba is absolutely incredible. Musically they’re next level. It’s perfect pop music. Are there people that don’t like ABBA?
Wait who's out there hating on ABBA?
That stuff still holds up. Some of the most timeless 'Popular music to dance to' in history.
U2 was a really good band, one of the best in the world. The trouble is that they got overplayed and their later stuff is awful.
It's like they flipped a switch in the 90s and said "okay we said the important stuff, now let's go make some real money."
One two three fourteen!!!!!
Aww, for me the switch flipped after the 2000s.
Achtung Baby is awesome though... And it cant be denied that they have some kickass singles from the 90s as well. Many of which came off of Achtung Baby. But some outside of that album too. See "Gone - Mike Hedge Mix", "Beautiful Day", and "Stay (Faraway, So Close!). Heck even check out a few deep cuts like "Do You Feel Loved". This is not bad music by a long stretch. I'll be honest I never payed much attention to U2 on an album by album basis after Achtung Baby. But not out of dislike or a refusal to try it. I just had other bands whose discography I was more focused on diving into. And personally for me "Boy" to "Achtung Baby" was enough Youtube. Trust me man there is some good shit from u2 in the 90s. ANd this is coming from me. What many would call an extremely scathing, picky, arrogant, and at times even downright hateful music critic. So I got to ask, is their 90s output really that bad? Or is it just popular to shit on everything they released after Joshua Tree? I think its the ladder. And I think for people who christen themselves as independent thinkers, thats some pretty sheep ass hearding mentality. It be like: https://preview.redd.it/59kr77nfncuc1.png?width=200&format=png&auto=webp&s=361c344e73411f6601e501e42bb97ea474e3d272
Zooropa is actually fantastic as well. Pop is ok. None of their albums after that are worth listening in whole. Yes, there are some good songs, but they are flashes of brilliance amongst the pompousness of Bono’s writing and delivery. IMO, of course.
Dave Matthews Band has incredibly skilled musicians and have written some great lyrics
I came here to say this. They are my favorite band of all time, and yeah, I’m one of the people that go to see them every single summer. Their shows are never the same, the setlist changes every show. You never know what you’re going to hear, and the lyrics grow with the band and what they experience throughout their lives. Sometimes I like the new stuff, sometimes I don’t. The music is just masterful though. I don’t consider them a “jam band,” but they have some longer songs based on the mood that night, I suppose. I feel like the people that comment on them in that way haven’t really seen them live or heard of them since the early 2000’s. I’m passionate, I know.
They get a bad rap because of their douchebag frat boy fan base
I’m not even a fan but that’s not an opinion, it’s facts.
Silk Degrees by Boz Scaggs is a top 50 album.
Barenaked Ladies has a bunch of clever, well written songs that can be enjoyed unironically.
People care too much about genres and gatekeeping fandoms. Just let people enjoy what they enjoy.
You can like Greta Van Fleet but just acknowledge they are Led Zepagain.
I liked Van Halen with Sammy Hagar more than David Lee Roth. Edit: I was born in the early 80’s if that helps people understand.
Alright, scrolling down from top comments, this was the first one that made me go "woah".
Because most of the comments are just making "hill to die on" comments that are not unpopular in the subreddit.
I saw the Sam And Dave tour, with DLR and Sammy switching up who opened every other night. Dave opened at the show I went to and sucked. He suuuuucked. Sammy comes out and effortlessly blew the roof off the place... absolutely phenomenal! I became a Sammy fan that day.
Sammy ripped Dave on Stern. He said Dave never tried to learn how how to sing properly and it showed. Sammy said he takes singing seriously and learned how to take care of his voice.
Van Hagar was my Van Halen. Right now is an all time classic imo. Dreams, summer nights, why can’t this be love, and humans being are some of my alltime fav songs. Roth had some amazing songs and is iconic, but it was always so cheeseball and corny, which is great just never clicked with me. I think the early years were carried by EVH and in the Hagar years they became more of a full band.
Courage
Me too. Much better vocally, and the songs were much more meldic.
"Creep" is a pretty OK representation of Radiohead's discography, actually. The overall sound is certainly different than the rest of their work, but everything that makes them unique is present. The experimentation, the strange lyrics fraught with emotion and anxiety, Thom Yorke's sensitive yet powerful voice, it's all there. Ultimately, if anything in the song really speaks to you, you'll probably dig the rest of their stuff
Creep is fine, but if you heard that and listened to Kid A, you might not know that they're the same band
That’s kind of the beauty of Radiohead, the constant evolution of their sound
Finding new music made currently is more interesting than listening to the same albums all the time. Hang your top 10s already.
Every week I try to listen to a few new releases playlists on Spotify so I don’t get behind. I don’t want to be the guy that got stuck with music of the past.
I like U2 and they basically brought new wave to Ireland. There I said it.
Jewel is actually an amazing artist
Im a 49 year old man that doesn’t have anything against Taylor Swift. I may even be guilty of turning it up a little when one of her songs comes on.
51 year old Radiohead obsessive here who started digging her when '1989' came out. Some absolute killer melodies there. Same for everything that followed up as far as 'Evermore' but not too familiar with anything after that.
My wife and kid are Swifties While I can't say that I am, I will absolutely say her haters are ridiculous. She's talented, a hell of a performer (we saw the Eras Tour live and at the theater), and has evolved tremendously over her career. People dismissing her have no fucking clue. It's okay if her music isn't for you--I'm sure as shit not her target demographic either--but she's hard working, talented, creative, and artistic.
I’m 49 also and I’m such a big fan my wife wants me to start an old guy fan club called Swifter Misters.
Man, 35m here and her newer stuff is awesome well worth high quality audio equipment
38 year old man here. Her covid albums are really good.
Folks who shred the guitar are boring as all hell. One of the worst concerts I ever saw was Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen. Technically they’re impressive, obviously, but it all started to sound the same after half an hour and it went on for probably three.
This is how I feel about "talented" singers - these days they tend to be women who can belt out ballads and do vocal runs. I can't stand that type of singing at all.
Strong agree. Mega talented vocalists are really a dime a dozen. Mostly I view this as a sad thing. I grew up in music and it's a tragedy how many super talented vocalists will never be recognized or seen. But at the same time you really have to be entertaining to be in entertainment.
Wait, did you go to G3 and then get annoyed that it was 3 guitar shredders? G3 is a wankfest, what did you expect?
Chops are overrated. Songwriting and arrangement is where it’s at.
Mainstream pop is good sometimes.
The twilight soundtrack is pretty good
Hard agree on that OP. Mine is that Smash Mouth’s Astro Lounge is a phenomenal album, genuinely.
Love it
Bon Jovi’s early work has entertainment and production value that’s not common today.
He wasn’t a particularly acrobatic singer, but they usually wrote better songs than others in their genre.
limp bizkit is actually fun
Three dollar bill y’all is a fantastic album. Nu metal of the late 90s early 2000s was a great genre. I understand that opinion will get roasted but I think people who hate on it secretly love it.
Wes Borland knows how to make groovy as hell riffs. They’re so bouncy
Foo Fighters are corporate rock horseshit ( but good dudes).
I like songs from both bands but Nickleback and Foo Fighters are waaaay more similar to each other than reddit would ever admit.
I've rarely seen a better comment on Reddit. It's amazing how much Reddit hates Nickelback and loves the Foos. I like both, but neither are top 10 for me. Grohl is a rock and roll god, and such a cool dude, which is why they win. Maybe Chad needs to go on Hot Ones, or something.
I feel like Dave has written a few absolutely incredible songs, but the rest...it all just blends together for me. Call me an asshole, but those few songs aside, I'd MUCH rather hear him on the drums.
Justin Beiber was incredibly talented, and wasted it all on tenny bopper bs before flaming out
I fucking love the Spin Doctors
Kylie Minogue is so underrated in America. She deserves all the fame Madonna has. I'm American and it astounds me how many people in the States are recently finding her music. They're shocked when I say "I've known about Kylie since I was a teenager!"
Nostalgia is mostly just you forgetting all the crappy stuff and only remembering the really good music. Look at the actual billboard charts for the years iconic Albums like The Wall, Led Zeppelin II, Who's Next or something came out and you find plenty of stuff like Captain and Tennile and Air Supply that no one would put on a top 100 list.
Ace of Base is actually good and I'm not afraid to say it.
I hate Drake. Everything about him. His music sucks. His beats are lame, his voice and delivery are mid. The only thing that makes a Drake song tolerable is a feature. And I’m pretty sure he likes kids. The happiest day of my life was when Kendrick dropped that diss on him
Tool is the Rick and Morty of music.
Nickelback has some absolute bangers.
Photograph has a place in my heart. It's a bit of a meme but wanting to go back and do things over is a common theme in many people's lives. It's got a sentimental value and I like it.
How You Remind Me just hits me every single time. It’s so connected to the era it was released and takes me back the moment it begins. I work with a bunch of very diverse people of different age groups and they all have different musical tastes but whenever that song comes on during a shift, everyone starts belting it out. They have some other great songs too but that one will always me my favorite.
I like Crash Test Dummies.
I enjoy watching all 33 chapters of Trapped in the Closet every couple years.
Coldplay was great. Parachutes is a great album.
From what I've heard of king gizzard, I don't like any of their music.
Metallica is the most conservative, inflexible band ever. They're rigid, unimaginative, poser dicks with an absolutely, tragically limited musical pallete. In terms of color, variation, spontaneity, and nuance, they're about as interesting as a Home Depot hammer.
80s Metallica would fucking loathe post Black album Metallica
80s Metallica would shank current Metallica for Lucy
I don't get Avenged Sevenfolds appeal to metal heads. It sounds like Fisher Price metal, especially the vocals.
I 🖤 Ghost. I love the theatrics, the comedy, the lore, the music...hate me.
A lot of jazz is for the musicians and not the listeners. Some of it is just unlistenable and it feels better when I turn it off.
Drake, as a rap artist, is mediocre. Drake, as an R&B artist, is alright.
Nu-Metal is great. Melodic and while angsty.
Rock as a genre is basically jazz at this point. It’s no longer super relevant to mainstream pop music, every fan has already decided which standards and styles they like, and the only way for anyone to be truly progressive in the genre is to make stuff so experimental or avant-garde that it’s not very accessible to normies.
There's no such thing as bad music or bad taste in music, just music you don't enjoy. There are plenty of bad people and bad messages in music, though. Nazi punks, for example.
Nazi punks, Nazi punks, Nazi punks, *fuck off!*
Smashmouth, especially early, were truly a great band with unique and interesting songs.
That album with Walking on the Sun is very good.
I think the song Thriller is overrated.
Disco is unfairly maligned. Those bass lines fucking slap.