Hot Take/ Musical Confession Thread!

[Joe Mac]

She did a Dylan cover?

Yeah she covered Make You Feel My Love, was one of her bigger releases at that point in her career.

 

[Count_Vader]

Yeah she covered Make You Feel My Love, was one of her bigger releases at that point in her career.

It fucks with me to no end she had a greatest hits records after releasing two albums...

 

[Waitressboy]

She has impressive range, won't deny that. For me she lacks pitch control and can go a bit "screechy". I have the same problem with Adele, who unfortunately also hasn't written a good song in her career...

"Rolling in the deep" is a great song, but I don't know if she wrote it.
All her other songs are meh.

 

[Count_Vader]

This is where we diverge...

I LOVE Kate Bush...

Not gonna lie. I thought my friend was playing a prank on me when he played Wuthering Heights for me.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Maybe because she just writes the same song over and over?

Adele? Not only does she do that but she figures out how to remove a little bit of its soul and character each time. She is also the single most boring performer of all time.

 

[Count_Vader]

"Rolling in the deep" is a great song, but I don't know if she wrote it.
All her other songs are meh.

That song got played to death. A friend pointed out the back up singers sound like they're saying
"You're Gonna wish you
Never had bad Feet
Tears of Butter fall
Rolling in the deep"
during the chorus and I can't ever hear that song without cracking up

 

[Count_Vader]

Adele? Not only does she do that but she figures out how to remove a little bit of its soul and character each time. She is also the single most boring performer of all time.

As in stand there and just play it by the numbers?

 

[Nee Lewman]

As in stand there and just play it by the numbers?

Yeah, but with less oomph than your statement implies.

(Funny Thing is I like her Records.)

 

[ByersVinyl]

Florence & The Machine are pretty meh

I put all Florences tunes on a USB (on a whim) for a car journey about 9 yrs ago. Then me and wife drove 4 hrs with it playing. We didnt realise the entire stick could cover the journey or was looping who knows? All of a sudden we both looked each other (approx 2.5 hrs into journey) - GET FLORENCE OFF NOW!
Not listened to a tune since.
Shes probably ok for a one off radio play.

 

[Joe Mac]

Not gonna lie. I thought my friend was playing a prank on me when he played Wuthering Heights for me.

Yeah! That’s an extreme example from right at the start of her career and I can definitely see why that’d make you think that tbh! Her control improved significantly as she went on. She actually re-recorded that one for her greatest hits in the mid 80s and the vocals were much less, errr, extreme.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Yeah, but with less oomph than your statement implies.

(Funny Thing is I like her Records.)

Also, just cause this is the hot take thread and we need more @David A. around these parts, I feel the same about Tony Bennet.

 

[Joe Mac]

I put all Florences tunes on a USB (on a whim) for a car journey about 9 yrs ago. Then me and wife drove 4 hrs with it playing. We didnt realise the entire stick could cover the journey or was looping who knows? All of a sudden we both looked each other (approx 2.5 hrs into journey) - GET FLORENCE OFF NOW!
Not listened to a tune since.
Shes probably ok for a one off radio play.

Similarly I got Lungs when it first came out off the back of the cover of You’ve Got The Love. Really liked it the first play. Liked it less and less with each ensuing play and the cd hasnt been in the player since about a year after it came out.

 

[Waitressboy]

When it comes to Kate Bush's vocals, nothing beats "Violin". That song is dangerous.

 

[Count_Vader]

Yeah, but with less oomph than your statement implies.

(Funny Thing is I like her Records.)

I can't abide that. Have some energy on stage or don't perform.

 

[Count_Vader]

All Lined Up by SWANS is heavier than any metal song ever written

 

[Hollywood]

Bob Dylan is overrated, Beyonce can't sing and Alien Ant Farm Rules!

 

[Joe Mac]

Bob Dylan is overrated, Beyonce can't sing and Alien Ant Farm Rules!

Now you’re just trolling us because Florence loses pitch when she goes supersonic

 

[Hollywood]

Now you’re just trolling us because Florence loses pitch when she goes supersonic

Stole it off the internet so I could get a rise out of you but seriously Dylan is very overrated.

 

[Joe Mac]

Stole it off the internet so I could get a rise out of you but seriously Dylan is very overrated.

Yeah but you have in the past listed decried most of the biggest heritage acts so I mean, whatever man

 

[Hollywood]

Here's another for you @Joe Mac R.E.M.'s total body of work blow the Beattles away, and it's not even close.