Hot Take/ Musical Confession Thread!

Count_Vader said:
I also kinda disagree with their classification as "Rock"
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I think this is kind of revisionist. I feel like you are looking at it through your lens of knowledge of later forms of rock and it sounds poppier or wimpier or more tame to you, but they were definitely pop rock n' roll and moved to pysch rock/pop. This is the band that because of their popularity, forced a bunch of old fogies to realize that rock n' roll was a thing that their kids were into and completely freak out about how "crude" and "unmusical" it was.

I'm with @Joe Mac though. I can't intellectually argue why it is good. I just know it is to me. The only albums I'd really hold up as great albums start with Rubber Soul and end with Abbey Road, but I don't think that is a hot take either.
 
wokeupnew said:
It seems that people either love Beach House or hate them. There’s no in between.
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my post earlier in this thread probably made it sound like I don't like them, but that was more negative towards their imitators and influence on indie music than Beach House themselves. I like quite a few BH songs but I do find it a bit difficult to sit through an entire album of their stuff.
 
Most post-punk made past the year 2000 is imitative garbage made by people who seem to be begging you to believe that Unknown Pleasures is the only album they've ever listened to in their life. Joy Division were popular because they were the most accessible post-punk band, not because they were the end-all be-all of the genre's possibilities, and the fact that ripping them off is still a multi-million-dollar industry decades later is the direct antithesis of what made the genre interesting in the first place
 
dhodo said:
I think this is kind of revisionist. I feel like you are looking at it through your lens of knowledge of later forms of rock and it sounds poppier or wimpier or more tame to you, but they were definitely pop rock n' roll and moved to pysch rock/pop. This is the band that because of their popularity, forced a bunch of old fogies to realize that rock n' roll was a thing that their kids were into and completely freak out about how "crude" and "unmusical" it was.

I'm with @Joe Mac though. I can't intellectually argue why it is good. I just know it is to me. The only albums I'd really hold up as great albums start with Rubber Soul and end with Abbey Road, but I don't think that is a hot take either.
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Well I mean I also take issue with people saying early Johnny Cash is country when it clearly wasn't at the time.
 
Count_Vader said:
I'll never forgive Paul McCartney for "Wonderful Christmastime"
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One of my favorite Christmas songs. I'll never understand the strong hatred for it.

wokeupnew said:
It seems that people either love Beach House or hate them. There’s no in between.
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But speaking of hatred, there aren't too many bands that I actually *HATE* but Beach House is one of them. I hate them so much.
 
Joe Mac said:
I don’t agree but that’s just because that was the album that finally made me sign up to them haha! Now the fact that it was as crackly as hell, that was shit!
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I have tried multiple times to listen to that album (stream and vinyl) and can’t get through it. Hell, I haven’t even found any decent singles off of it. I am finding tracks off of their other albums that I really like. Bloom especially is a strong showing.
 
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