Controversial music opinions

[Guybrush]

The first two Genesis albums with Collins on vocals slap honestly.

And The Battle of Epping Forest is so interestingly divisive. I've always loved it but prog discourse online seems very split on it.

It sometimes slaps for me, but I don't love PG's vocals in Genesis. It's weird because on songs like Steam or Solsbury Hill, I do.

I also struggle with Van Der Graaf Generator for similar reasons 🤔

[SGR]

I do not like, and have never liked Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". One of the goofiest songs I've ever heard, despite liking other Queen songs and thinking that Mercury is a great frontman, I just don't get it. 

Galileo, Galileo! Mama mia, Mama mia!

[jimmy jazz]

I did used to like it when I was about 12. But I agree with you. It's just utter nonsense.

Radio Gaga is probably my favourite song of theirs.

[Toy Revolver]

I do not like, and have never liked Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". One of the goofiest songs I've ever heard, despite liking other Queen songs and thinking that Mercury is a great frontman, I just don't get it. 

Galileo, Galileo! Mama mia, Mama mia!

it is kind of ass clown bullshit

best friend is my JAM though

[Janszoon]

Radio Gaga is probably my favourite song of theirs.

This 100%.

[Lexi Darling]

I don't dislike it, but any kind of power or artistry it may have once held has been dulled considerably by how overplayed, venerated and memed-on it has become. It's hard to think of it as just a song to be judged on its own merits; it's almost like an institution at this point.

The best thing to come out of that song is this, for my internet OGs out there:

[Toy Revolver]

This 100%.

have yall ever heard the neil young record "trans"

[Lexi Darling]

have yall ever heard the neil young record "trans"

Yeah, I love that album. One of the best "boomer rocker discovers synthesizers" albums of that era.

[Toy Revolver]

Yeah, I love that album. One of the best "boomer rocker discovers synthesizers" albums of that era.

locust abortion technician is the best gen-x rocker discovers synthesizers record

[SGR]

Yeah, I love that album. One of the best "boomer rocker discovers synthesizers" albums of that era.

I mean, what about Killing Joke's Brighter Than a Thousand Sons? Technically, Jaz Coleman is a boomer (I think)

[Lexi Darling]

I mean Killing Joke are great of course but I guess what I had in mind when I said "boomer rock" was more the generation of rock that came pre-new wave and synthpop, like Woodstock era.

A few examples of the "boomer rock + synths" category I was thinking about would be Queen's The Works, Jethro Tull's Broadsword and the Beast, all of Rush's material from Signals through Hold Your Fire, Springsteen's Born in the USA, to some extent ZZ Top's Eliminator, and one of my favorite 80s guilty pleasures, Bob Dylan's Empire Burlesque.

Edit: Oh and Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door and possibly Bowie's Low could count as early examples.

[SGR]

In Through the Out Door is massively underrated.

[Lexi Darling]

In Through the Out Door is massively underrated.

Agreed. It also always makes me wonder what direction they would have gone in the 80s.

[Toy Revolver]

Empire Burlesque

tight connection and dark eyes are both good enough to be on nashville skyline

Killing Joke

they say age is just a number, maybe maybe not but KJ are culturally very gen-x, of course

[Lexi Darling]

tight connection and dark eyes are both good enough to be on nashville skyline

Yeah that album has some good songwriting but the production is just so ridiculous sounding, I do genuinely like it though.