Hot Take/ Musical Confession Thread!

Joe Mac said:
Feral and Good Morning Mr Magpie are both so bad to me that I try to forget they exist...

Side C is the strongest for me, Lotus Flower is great and Codex is beautiful.
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I can agree with you on Magpie. I also didn't like that song for a while, it managed to grow on me but it was the last holdout for me on the record. But I've always liked "Feral" personally.

Also, as someone who has only ever had the 33RPM version of TKOL, I found it funny that you referred to "Lotus Flower" and "Codex" as being on side C lol
 
gaporter said:
I can agree with you on Magpie. I also didn't like that song for a while, it managed to grow on me but it was the last holdout for me on the record. But I've always liked "Feral" personally.

Also, as someone who has only ever had the 33RPM version of TKOL, I found it funny that you referred to "Lotus Flower" and "Codex" as being on side C lol
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Haha yeah I have the newspaper edition, it’s on 2 10” clear 45s!
 
AudioAce said:
As this is a musical confessional thread as well i will say this.

Nickelback isnt that bad. Heck some of their singles back in the day were alright. That song of the spider man movies is really good.

Imagine Dragons on the other hand. Yuck
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I'd go as far as saying that Nickelback is arguably the best post-grunge band. Which is a bit like being the tastiest gallon of gasoline, sure, but at least Nickelback was catchy and didn't take itself TOO seriously in a genre notorious for being so melodramatic

CrazyDiamond84 said:
My name tells my opinion on long songs, also...

Prince is an amazingly talented musician, but very few of his songs do anything for me...
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I can get behind this. Prince is inarguably a musical genius, but I've never really been able to get into much of his music at all. I love a lot of the musicians Prince influenced and worked with, but I never get in the mood to put a Prince album on

ghostdorado said:
I think Fleet Foxes are an incredibly overlooked band with a perfect discography and unique sound that will be in the GOAT conversation 20 years from now.View attachment 9060
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They're certainly one of the best bands of the 2010s. Every release from them has pushed the boundaries of their sound into exciting and beautiful directions, and their lyricism is awe-inspiring. Plus, Robin Pecknold's IG stories are some of the most hilarious things I've seen on Instagram so I'm inclined to give him as much credit as possible at any given time. I don't know if I'd put them in the overall GOAT conversation, but if we're talking this decade, I'll certainly take that stance

Clint Howard said:
Also, almost all reggae sounds the same.
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Agreed, though this is a lukewarm take at best. It's not even that I can't get into reggae-adjacent genres; I dig dub, rocksteady, ska, etc. and can find a decent bit of diversity there. Reggae will just always remain a blind spot for me

Waitressboy said:
Oh, I love this kind of threads because i can say all my unpopular opinions and get roasted!

-Yoko Ono's discography is better than the discography of any Beatle.
-Amy Winehouse is admired just because she passed away.
-In 30 years, we will think about Taylor Swift as we do about Joni Mitchell now.
-Emotion is better than 1989.
-Spice Girls were the most influential band in the last twenty years.
-Hanson are actually VERY GOOD. (well, that's not a hot take, just listen to their last albums without prejudices)
-Bob Dylan is overrated.
-Seal makes good albums.
-PJ Harvey has been doing crap in the last ten years. I guess she's bored or tired.
-Robyn is incredibly overrated.
-Madonna and Marilyn Manson can retire now.
-As much as I hate living in Argentina, I am grateful because we don't listen to any rap or hip-hop here. in exchange we get a lot of trap and reggaeton, which is a fucking cancer to music.
-Weezer is a great band.
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Now these... THESE are some hot takes alright. I'll ride for pre-Reputation Taylor Swift any day of the week; Speak Now - Red - 1989 was a great run of pop albums, and songs like All Too Well really showcase her knack for writing personable emotional songs that break away from her traditional pop mold. But if we look at her the way we look at Joni Mitchell now, then our future is doomed :p and that PJ Harvey take is certainly controversial, given her best album was released just 8 years ago

Woob_woob said:
Atlanta and Community are the two best things hes ever been a part of
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I know we're slowly venturing away from the musical side of things here but I'd argue that Community is one of the all-time greatest sit-coms. The emotion, personality, and depth in the writing is nearly unparalleled.
 
I'm not really sure if this is a "hot take", but when I'm feeling especially argumentative, I like to propose that grunge, at least in its heyday, was hardly a real genre at all. If you look at the big four of the genre, the similarities had more to do with geography than with the music itself, and the similarities in the music are minute at best: Nirvana was taking way more from Albini-led noise rock than Pearl Jam, and Alice In Chains's best work had far more in common with sludge metal than whatever else was going on in Seattle at the time. The "genre" term was built around superficial similarities that, when reduced to their lowest common denominator and lumped in together, led to post-grunge forming as one of the most unbearable genres in music history. Sure, you had members of the big four collaborating with each other (both before they found fame in their main bands, and while it was happening) in bands like Mad Season, Temple Of The Dog, and Mother Love Bone, but those three have far more in common sonically than the big four, and if we're going to try to argue grunge as an actual cohesive style of music, I'm pointing to those three way before I try to argue that Nirvana, Alice In Chains, and Pearl Jam are all similar enough to be the same subgenre
 
chrb98 said:
I'll definitely give KRIT a lot more credit than Joey. 4Eva Is A Mighty Long Time is a good album, and a bit more adventurous sonically, but hoo boy could it do with some serious paring down - most hip-hop double albums suffer very similar fates, and that one is no different. As far as Denzel, he's far from my favorite modern artist, but I do appreciate the way he pays homage to, and incorporates influences from, his predecessors in the Florida and Memphis scenes - for as much as people like to talk about how much of an influence those scenes had on modern "soundcloud rap"/trap, I very much doubt most of those rappers out nowadays could even name a Three 6 Mafia song. I like that Denzel takes that influence a step further and blends it in with modern trap leanings. Is it the most experimental or noteworthy thing in the world? Hell no, but I'd rather him do decently in that lane than try to aim for some "deep meaning" that he either can't articulate or can't fully realize without coming off as trying WAY too hard.

As far as the "trust fund kiddies" go, I can't really speak on anyone else in that scene because I don't know much about their whole financial situation and I can't really find it in me to care THAT much, but I think LCD Soundsystem gets a pass BECAUSE they're so upfront. I mean, James Murphy was running a label for years before LCD Soundsystem even put out their first single, and that first single was basically launched off the relative notoriety of said label. Murphy has always come across as an older dude who spent his 20s listening to esoteric rock/electronic records and kicking around in the music industry, and then went on to start making music when he had enough of a platform to do so and basically be guaranteed either success or a fool-proof backup plan. I totally get why people may not dig it, but there's really nothing to be revealed about his whole situation that he's not already acknowledging in his songs
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Anyone who thinks the Beasties are trust fund kids does not know their story.
 
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