Viking Dan
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New Hot Take: 2021 is a spectacularly "meh" year for music.
Hot Take/ Musical Confession Thread!
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I'll echo that hot take. I looked through the AotY listings and there's plenty of albums I enjoyed but looking at 2020 I think there's 5+ albums I'd put at #1 over my current 2021 #1 (Lucy Dacus' Home Video, which I unabashedly loved). Maybe the best music of this year is just genres I don't care for, but it's underwhelming for albums.
Viking Dan
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Here's another 1/2 baked idea/Hot take: The modern Alt/Indie Female Singer/Songwriter sound is the Hair Metal of today.
The question is who is going to end up being the Warrant in this scenario?
Van Halen
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Cinderella
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Whitesnake
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Ratt
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Scorpions
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Dokken
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Twisted Sister
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Quiet Riot
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Faster Pussycat
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LA Guns
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Skid Row
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Kix
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Winger
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Van Halen
Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift
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Def Leppard
Phoebe Bridgers
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Motley Crue
Lorde
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Guns & Roses
Billie Eilish
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Bon Jovi
Lucy Dacus
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Cinderella
Julien Baker
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Whitesnake
Hayley Williams
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Ratt
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Scorpions
Faye Webster
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Dokken
Julia Jacklin
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Twisted Sister
Lana Del Rey
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Quiet Riot
Waxahatchee
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Mitski
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LA Guns
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Skid Row
Soccer Mommy
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Kix
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W.A.S.P.
Skullcrusher (16)
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Y&T
Caroline Rose
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Europe
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Dtknuckles
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Here's another 1/2 baked idea/Hot take: The modern Alt/Indie Female Singer/Songwriter sound is the Hair Metal of today.
The question is who is going to end up being the Warrant in this scenario?
Van Halen
Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift
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Def Leppard
Phoebe Bridgers
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Motley Crue
Lorde
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Guns & Roses
Billie Eilish
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Bon Jovi
Lucy Dacus
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Cinderella
Julien Baker
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Whitesnake
Hayley Williams
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Ratt
Courtney Barnett
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Scorpions
Faye Webster
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Dokken
Julia Jacklin
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Twisted Sister
Lana Del Rey
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Quiet Riot
Waxahatchee
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Faster Pussycat
Mitski
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LA Guns
Jay Som
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Skid Row
Soccer Mommy
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Kix
Snail Mail (2)
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W.A.S.P.
Skullcrusher (16)
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Y&T
Caroline Rose
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Europe
Black Belt Eagle Scout
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Winger
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This take is so thorough it can’t be qualified as hot.
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Viking Dan
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The power of procrastination is very strong.
dansomeone
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Who is Stryper?Here's another 1/2 baked idea/Hot take: The modern Alt/Indie Female Singer/Songwriter sound is the Hair Metal of today.
The question is who is going to end up being the Warrant in this scenario?
Van Halen
Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift
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Def Leppard
Phoebe Bridgers
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Motley Crue
Lorde
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Guns & Roses
Billie Eilish
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Bon Jovi
Lucy Dacus
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Cinderella
Julien Baker
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Whitesnake
Hayley Williams
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Ratt
Courtney Barnett
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Scorpions
Faye Webster
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Dokken
Julia Jacklin
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Twisted Sister
Lana Del Rey
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Quiet Riot
Waxahatchee
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Faster Pussycat
Mitski
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LA Guns
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Skid Row
Soccer Mommy
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Kix
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W.A.S.P.
Skullcrusher (16)
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Y&T
Caroline Rose
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Diaper Baby Escape Plan
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It's not music but it's tangential in so much that it's on MTV, but....I've been doing a set up on one of my guitars and had the TV idling in the background. I guess I was aware that I was listening to the insipid chatter of knobs, but I also wasn't very discerning....
Anyway, my confession is that I've spent the last hour with Jersey Shore Family Vacation on.
These are the type of confessions we're doing here, right? Cause I'm just gonna need someone to tell me how many hail Marys I need to do or whatever people do when they need to wash the sweet, icky sin off.
Anyway, my confession is that I've spent the last hour with Jersey Shore Family Vacation on.
These are the type of confessions we're doing here, right? Cause I'm just gonna need someone to tell me how many hail Marys I need to do or whatever people do when they need to wash the sweet, icky sin off.
Viking Dan
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Probably should have been Haley Williams, but I like her new solo stuff enough not to stick her with that obvious comparison. I went with Whitesnake b/c of Coverdale’s early band (Deep Purple) and subsequent solo career and reinvention with Whitesnake (Kind of like Paramore on After Laughter).
Stryper was my 1st concert though.
TheThinWhiteDuke
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Hot take: these Phoebe Bridgers "features" where she just provides faint background vocals on the chorus is not a "collaboration" or worthy of a feature tag.
TenderLovingKiller®
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LOL, Something about Phoebe just grinds your gears doesn’t it?
TheThinWhiteDuke
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Lol yep, my cynical rock and roll bullshit detector just goes off. It sounds like one side tries to get attached to every product they can, and the other says sure to make them seem "newer". But there is never any relevant contribution
LiamGallaghersBucketHat
Go on, geezer.
Is this about the Killers song?
TheThinWhiteDuke
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Yes lol
Fleetwood-Matt
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Idk how hot of a take this is but I couldnt help thinking about it last night
Cage the Elephant > The Killers in every conceivable way and should really take over their headlining spots at festivals
Cage the Elephant > The Killers in every conceivable way and should really take over their headlining spots at festivals
TenderLovingKiller®
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Probably because I am likely at least 10 years old than you I would tend to disagree. Cage The Elephant have never done anything for me and while I can’t say that Brandon Flowers and Co. are still releasing headlining worthy (though better than I had expected) albums, I still much prefer anything off of Hot Fuss or Sam’s Town to every CTE song l’ve ever heard. For the record, I don’t necessarily even dislike Cage The Elephant, They just fail to elicit much emotion from me either way.
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Hollywood
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I've seen Cage live a couple of times and they were great. They really put on a good show.
That being said, they are not bigger or better than the Killers hence why they do not have the headlining gig at festivals.
Hollywood
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I think Brandon Flowers
and Co. are still very much headlining material even if their latter releases are not on par with their debut and sophomore albums necessarily. They have the stage presence, and enough hit singles to get an entire arena or stadium going. Plus Brandon knows how to command a crowd. They are still a big draw in a lot of countries and very much relevant today.
TenderLovingKiller®
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I don’t doubt any of these points. Weezer and Foo Fighters still packs them in too. I guess it depends on the festival. My point was more that The Killers are more relevant to people my age than they would be for people 5 to 10 years younger than I. That is fine. I would rather see The Killers play a greatest hits State Fair type set than a set of mostly new music.I think Brandon Flowers
Fleetwood-Matt
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@TenderLovingKiller® @Hollywood Its probably my biases dominy into play here but atleast last night it seemed like Cage had total control over the crowd and whether they were playing their hits or album cuts the crowd was totally in it. On the other had when the killers were playing anything other than "brightside" "all these things" and "somebody told me" then the crowd seemed bored. For the majority of the set my section of the crowd seemed to just be chit chatting or playing on their phones (me included)
Hollywood
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As we are roughly the same age I would have to agree with that.