Hot Take/ Musical Confession Thread!

[Joe Mac]

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.

I mean I like R.E.M. but they’re not even close to being in the same sport as The Beatles, never mind the same league. No one is going to be debating how R.E.M. changed the face of popular music in 50 years time.

Here’s my R.E.M. hot take. Their major label career on Warners pales into insignificance when compared with their first five albums.

 

[Waitressboy]

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

I always say that the Nobel Prize should've gone to Leonard Cohen or Joni Mitchell instead of Bob Dylan.

 

[Nee Lewman]

I mean I like R.E.M. but they’re not even close to being in the same sport as The Beatles, never mind the same league. No one is going to be debating how R.E.M. changed the face of popular music in 50 years time.

Here’s my R.E.M. hot take. Their major label career on Warners pales into insignificance when compared with their first five albums.

Meh. Life’s Rich Pageant and Out of Time are the only essential albums.

 

[Joe Mac]

Meh. Life’s Rich Pageant and Out of Time are the only essential albums.

Murmour and Life’s Rich Pageant over here.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Here’s an actual Hot Take on REM. They should’ve made an entire album with KRS One.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Murmour and Life’s Rich Pageant over here.

I’ve never heard of that first one. Is it some weird British version of their debut album?

 

[Bohnjaggs]

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...

"Chasing Pavements" is a perfect song IMO... One of my all-time faves

 

[Bohnjaggs]

Florence & The Machine are pretty meh

You’re giving them more credit than they deserve. Not a fan of her vocals at all.

She's the worst ... I don't see why she's popular

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

Beyonce is also overrated

 

[Joe Mac]

I’ve never heard of that first one. Is it some weird British version of their debut album?

@Lee Newman behaviour!

 

[Joe Mac]

"Chasing Pavements" is a perfect song IMO... One of my all-time faves

Really? I think it’s one of the better songs of hers that have been inflicted on me but I consider that a very low bar...

Amy Winehouse had more talent than Adele in her little toe, Back to Black has at least 3 perfect songs...

 

[Hollywood]

Meh. Life’s Rich Pageant and Out of Time are the only essential albums.

Murmour and Life’s Rich Pageant over here.

Agreed on both counts but you're forgetting Reckoning and Automatic For The People.

 

[Sonicpharmacist]

Agreed on both counts but you're forgetting Reckoning and Automatic For The People.

Murmur, Reckoning, Lifes Rich Pageant, and Automatic For the People are the only essential REM albums. Green has some great tracks (Orange Crush, World Leader Pretend, Untitled) and some crap (Stand, Hairshirt). Out of Time is the same, but with fewer great tracks, and more crap.

Edit to add: Document belongs in the essential list.

 

[Teeeee]

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

She's the worst ... I don't see why she's popular



Beyonce is also overrated

Nah, I'm just kidding. But you are definitely on my "I've got my eye on you" list!

 

[Count_Vader]

Joni Mitchell

Nah

 

[dhodo]

Agreed on both counts but you're forgetting Reckoning and Automatic For The People.

And Chronic Town, which I'm assuming was intentionally left out because it is an EP. Any other reason is wrong.

 

[Viking Dan]

Murmur, Reckoning, Lifes Rich Pageant, and Automatic For the People are the only essential REM albums. Green has some great tracks (Orange Crush, World Leader Pretend, Untitled) and some crap (Stand, Hairshirt). Out of Time is the same, but with fewer great tracks, and more crap.

Edit to add: Document belongs in the essential list.

This thread always makes me ponder the age/exposure context of those voicing certain opinions.
#TeamHairshirt

 

[Sonicpharmacist]

This thread always makes me ponder the age/exposure context of those voicing certain opinions.
#TeamHairshirt

Lol, I bought it on release day, I’m in my late 40s

 

[Joe Mac]

#TeamHairshirt

I don’t know what that means...

And 36. I was 28 before I liked R.E.M. tbh because whilst their Warner stuff has moments it can be a bit overbearing, Ernest and at times dull. Someone gave me a copy of eponymous then and it was like discovering a whole new band that I liked an awful lot more....

 

[Count_Vader]

Pink Floyd's 1970's output is one of the most impeccable album runs of all time.

 

[Joe Mac]

Pink Floyd's 1970's output is one of the most impeccable album runs of all time.

Pink Floyd are the worst band of all time in the worst genre of all time