Unpopular Music Opinions

Anteater · 05-18-2020, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

You were pouring on the attitude prettay, prettay, prettay thick with the Larry David meme.

I don't know where the equation "more sales = higher quality"comes from. I wasn't putting those words in your mouth. I was saying implicitly in the sense that if you want to understand my pov, where I'm coming from, I am not looking at album sales, I'm not relying on music critics. So I don't understand why you were so shocked that I listen to music I like and rebutting what I said with a Larry David meme.

Eh, it's just a funny meme to express incredulity. I don't think anyone expects you to suddenly become a MJ or Tom Waits fan if that's how you really feel about 'em.

zikanes · 05-20-2020, 03:30 AM

It's really unfair and just feels wrong to call such innovators the same as radio now: filled with label puppets that go with the current wave of whatever it is going on. Prince is someone who could walk into a Jazz club and compete with Miles Davis then go into a shack and do Blues with the best of them. Really different level of songwriting, talent and nuts.

**Marie Monday** · 05-20-2020, 06:30 AM

I've never liked MJ, I always wondered if I was missing something but honestly it really seems to me that he's just very overrated

**Frownland** · 05-20-2020, 07:37 AM

Prince defined his time more than the other way around. Don't know much about Michael Jordan's music career.

Lisnaholic · 05-20-2020, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Elektryk Bestia

Patrick Moraz was better in Yes than Rick Wakeman....not that Wakeman isn't amazing....but Moraz is great on the album Relayer

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

idk but relayer is a great record

^ I bought Relayer, but never liked it. That was the album with which I fell out of love with Yes. The album with which I fell in love? Time And A Word, which sounds like nothing else in their discography. This track has a decent amount of the combination that made it a special album: strings and Tony Kaye on keyboards:-

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Originally Posted by MarieMarie

I've never liked MJ, I always wondered if I was missing something but honestly it really seems to me that he's just very overrated

^ Yes, I thought he was an incredible dancer, but I was somehow instantly bored by every MJ song I ever heard.

OccultHawk · 05-20-2020, 10:38 AM

Never Can Say Goodbye is as perfect a pop song as they come and what he did with that lead vocal role still floors me every time.

Neapolitan · 05-20-2020, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ I bought Relayer, but never liked it. That was the album with which I fell out of love with Yes. The album with which I fell in love? Time And A Word, which sounds like nothing else in their discography. This track has a decent amount of the combination that made it a special album: strings and Tony Kaye on keyboards:-

I liked Relayer. Some elements of it leaned in the Jazzy direction. I thought it was slightly ahead of the curve. It was released in '74, and around then Jazz Fusion started to appear more & more and by end of the 70s it kinda dominated. Jazz sorta became a thing again in the pop charts. Chuck Mangione had a big Jazz crossover Pop hit in '77.

Oriphiel · 05-20-2020, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by MarieMarie

I've never liked MJ, I always wondered if I was missing something but honestly it really seems to me that he's just very overrated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDdcA0IPxXg

zikanes · 05-20-2020, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

I don't know how true that is, but his music sounds hilarious to me, it sounds so much a product of its time

Miles Davis thought Prince was the baddest man on the planet, their concert together is on youtube & so is Miles describing Prince as an amalgamation of James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix & Charlie Chaplin.

Maybe his music isn't your type of thing, but that's one of the greatest musicians who ever lived. It's moreso the "time" sounds like Prince.

**Marie Monday** · 05-20-2020, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Oriphiel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDdcA0IPxXg

ok this is so bad it's almost good

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Originally Posted by zikanes

Miles Davis thought Prince was the baddest man on the planet, their concert together is on youtube & so is Miles describing Prince as an amalgamation of James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix & Charlie Chaplin.

Maybe his music isn't your type of thing, but that's one of the greatest musicians who ever lived. It's moreso the "time" sounds like Prince.

Prince is one of those musicians I respect even though I'm not really into them

05-20-2020, 07:37 AM	#16974 (permalink)
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05-20-2020, 03:30 AM	#16972 (permalink)
zikanes Groupie Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 14	It's really unfair and just feels wrong to call such innovators the same as radio now: filled with label puppets that go with the current wave of whatever it is going on. Prince is someone who could walk into a Jazz club and compete with Miles Davis then go into a shack and do Blues with the best of them. Really different level of songwriting, talent and nuts.