Unpopular Music Opinions

~~MicShazam~~ · 03-03-2018, 02:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Blank.

I love slipknot. Especially their first album. It's just loud and angry. A zero shits given type of album.

Don't think I ever actually gave them a full album listen? I'm not sure I feel like doing so either. I'm not really the biggest fan of straight up aggressive records.

Lucem Ferre · 03-21-2018, 01:43 AM

I love Slipknot too. But to be fair, my rock vocabulary isn't very large, so it could be because I just don't know better if that makes sense. Like, they could be good until I've heard other artists flesh out the ideas and concepts they explore but better.

Unpopular opinion is that there are a lot of critiques of sound cloud rappers, like XXXTentacion, for having short songs. They claim that they aren't creative enough to flesh out the ideas or that the songs sound half assed. I like when XXX and JPEGMAFIA do shorter songs like this so they just quickly hit you with the point then move on rather than forcing themselves to expand a song that doesn't need to be expanded. I think it's a stupid critique.

Norman Foster · 03-22-2018, 07:28 AM

Andre 3000 is good but not....

Oh no, I can see the stares.

Uggghhhhhh....nothing.

OccultHawk · 03-22-2018, 09:23 AM

Billy Woods hasn’t brought anything new to the table. I respect him as a traditionalist but I respect Future and his trap/mumble rap spin offs like lil yachty more as artists because they’re original, interesting, and fun (fresh). Future pioneered a genre. Billy Woods mimicked a genre.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 03-22-2018, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Norman Foster

Andre 3000 is good but not....

Oh no, I can see the stares.

Uggghhhhhh....nothing.

Why not? Discography is as good as anyone's (part of a duo admittedly) and he's one of the most unique and interesting rappers ever.

Absolute legend of Hip-Hop and arguably the best rapper of all time.

**Frownland** · 03-22-2018, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Billy Woods hasn’t brought anything new to the table. I respect him as a traditionalist but I respect Future and his trap/mumble rap spin offs like lil yachty more as artists because they’re original, interesting, and fun (fresh). Future pioneered a genre. Billy Woods mimicked a genre.

He's pretty upfront with his traditionalism, sure. I'll take recs for artists with similar stream-of-consciousness lyrics though.

As for modern day innovation, I'd say that the Odd Future crowd is progressing the genre in a way that I think will have a more sustainable impact on hip hop. Future's influence is definitely there, but I'm pretty sure that trap is going to become a cringily dated sound like 80s synth presets. Maybe there will be some serious game changers in the genre that can keep it from being stale that I'm not foreseeing though.

OccultHawk · 03-22-2018, 10:03 AM

A genre doesn’t necessarily have to be a good seed. That 80’s synth stuff was fun when it happened and laid dormant for a long time but now some artists have started to revisit that sound. Some great music isn’t influential and that’s ok.

OccultHawk · 03-22-2018, 10:05 AM

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Odd Future

I wonder what Earl’s up to. I love his last record. Better than Tyler’s.

**Frownland** · 03-22-2018, 10:13 AM

He's supposed to be dropping a record this year. If it's half as good as I Don't Like **** then it'll be AOTY material. Hopefully the radio silence is a sign that he's putting a lot of work into it.

Norman Foster · 03-22-2018, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey

Why not? Discography is as good as anyone's (part of a duo admittedly) and he's one of the most unique and interesting rappers ever.

Absolute legend of Hip-Hop and arguably the best rapper of all time.

It's a hard one to explain. I've always respected his discography and ability, but I just never found the full OutKast package that engaging. I loved the work of every universally-agreed legend(s) in hip-hop when I first discovered the genre but OutKast was the one that I just couldn't get into no matter how many albums my neighbour threw at me. That said, he has some verses that I could listen to all day. Albums though, not quite.

03-22-2018, 09:23 AM	#14854 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Billy Woods hasn’t brought anything new to the table. I respect him as a traditionalist but I respect Future and his trap/mumble rap spin offs like lil yachty more as artists because they’re original, interesting, and fun (fresh). Future pioneered a genre. Billy Woods mimicked a genre. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

03-22-2018, 10:03 AM	#14857 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	A genre doesn’t necessarily have to be a good seed. That 80’s synth stuff was fun when it happened and laid dormant for a long time but now some artists have started to revisit that sound. Some great music isn’t influential and that’s ok. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

03-22-2018, 10:13 AM	#14859 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	He's supposed to be dropping a record this year. If it's half as good as I Don't Like **** then it'll be AOTY material. Hopefully the radio silence is a sign that he's putting a lot of work into it. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

03-22-2018, 07:28 AM	#14853 (permalink)
Norman Foster Groupie Join Date: Mar 2018 Posts: 25	Andre 3000 is good but not.... Oh no, I can see the stares. Uggghhhhhh....nothing.