Unpopular Music Opinions

ziggywas · 11-08-2019, 07:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elphenor

doubt it, they made baaankk

whether you like pearl jam or not, once upon a time, when they were one of the 2-3 best selling acts in popular music, they fought a long legal fight (eventually lost) with ticketmaster to lower concert ticket prices for the fans.
it was a very diferrent time, the music industry was earning BIG money and they could just keep going to the bank like so many other rebelious indie rockers of the same generation did.
the businesses involved in the music industry were also pretty big and powerful back then, so there was big risk involved, but they did it anyway

as for the music of pearl jam, yea it probably ddidnt age good, i havent listened to an album of them for many years..

**Marie Monday** · 11-08-2019, 08:33 AM

And they took Sleater-Kinney on tour once <3
Symphathetic band, it's a pity that they didn't make good music

**Frownland** · 11-08-2019, 08:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ziggywas

whether you like pearl jam or not, once upon a time, when they were one of the 2-3 best selling acts in popular music, they fought a long legal fight (eventually lost) with ticketmaster to lower concert ticket prices for the fans.

They were cool with charging top dollar for their tickets, they just went after Ticketmaster for tacking on fees that usually amount to an extra 5 dollars on the ticket with some fees being as high as 15 dollars. If it wasn't a legitimate legal battle I'd call it a publicity stunt to everymanify Pearl Jam to the public.

OccultHawk · 11-08-2019, 09:08 AM

Fugazi kept it 100% I think

$5 iirc

Chula Vista · 11-08-2019, 09:51 AM

FF to 10:00 - this is a 14 year old kid. Stunning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVZQQO1qTss

**Frownland** · 11-08-2019, 10:21 AM

"Dream Theater"
"Cover"

What a waste.

grindy · 11-08-2019, 10:21 AM

Liking anything having to do with dream theater is indeed quite an unpopular opinion.

OccultHawk · 11-08-2019, 10:34 AM

That kid is just a stupid circus act and 14 isn’t that young.

If you know what I’m sayin

Chula Vista · 11-08-2019, 11:23 AM

You say circus act. I say mad, almost savant like skills.
Petrucci, Portnoy, Myung, and Rudess are all pretty bad ass on their respective instruments from a technical standpoint.

disclaimer: if technical proficiency is meaningless to you, read no further

They are all held in the highest regard among their peers.
That section after the 10:00 mark is all 4 of them running the 100 yard dash to the extreme of their chops.

disclaimer: 'ditto'

The fact that ANY single person is able to play all 4 parts as tightly and cleanly as this kid does is mind blowing.

Kicker for me? Dude's right hand picking is INSANE as seen in the guitar parts. He could have easily picked all of the bass parts. Instead he does it finger style like Myung.

I can't emphasize how hard it is to play extremely difficult bass parts at blazing speed that way. The size of the strings and length of scale make it much more of a physical exercise along with the precision.

Hate the music. Hate technique. Hate kids.
This is mind blowing. And not in a spinning 8 plates at a time way.

**Frownland** · 11-08-2019, 11:28 AM

I wouldn't be surprised if they were mathematical or "left-brained" savants because they can't write a compelling bar of music to save their lives. Pretty cool if you approach music like a sport I guess.

11-08-2019, 09:08 AM	#16464 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Fugazi kept it 100% I think $5 iirc __________________ 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

11-08-2019, 09:51 AM	#16465 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	FF to 10:00 - this is a 14 year old kid. Stunning! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVZQQO1qTss __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

11-08-2019, 10:21 AM	#16466 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	"Dream Theater" "Cover" What a waste. __________________ 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

11-08-2019, 10:21 AM	#16467 (permalink)
grindy . Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: . Posts: 7,201	Liking anything having to do with dream theater is indeed quite an unpopular opinion. __________________ *A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.*

11-08-2019, 10:34 AM	#16468 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	That kid is just a stupid circus act and 14 isn’t that young. If you know what I’m sayin __________________ 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

11-08-2019, 11:23 AM	#16469 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	You say circus act. I say mad, almost savant like skills. Petrucci, Portnoy, Myung, and Rudess are all pretty bad ass on their respective instruments from a technical standpoint. disclaimer: if technical proficiency is meaningless to you, read no further They are all held in the highest regard among their peers. That section after the 10:00 mark is all 4 of them running the 100 yard dash to the extreme of their chops. disclaimer: 'ditto' The fact that ANY single person is able to play all 4 parts as tightly and cleanly as this kid does is mind blowing. Kicker for me? Dude's right hand picking is INSANE as seen in the guitar parts. He could have easily picked all of the bass parts. Instead he does it finger style like Myung. I can't emphasize how hard it is to play extremely difficult bass parts at blazing speed that way. The size of the strings and length of scale make it much more of a physical exercise along with the precision. Hate the music. Hate technique. Hate kids. This is mind blowing. And not in a spinning 8 plates at a time way. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

11-08-2019, 11:28 AM	#16470 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I wouldn't be surprised if they were mathematical or "left-brained" savants because they can't write a compelling bar of music to save their lives. Pretty cool if you approach music like a sport I guess. __________________ 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