Controversial music opinions

[tristan_geoff]

No music is "bad"

[Psy-Fi]

Sandanista! by the Clash, should've been trimmed down to a single LP. As it is, it's 1 LP's worth of great songs with 2 LP's worth of mediocre padding added.

[Lexi Darling]

Sandanista! by the Clash, should've been trimmed down to a single LP. As it is, it's 1 LP's worth of great songs with 2 LP's worth of mediocre padding added.

There are a lot of double/triple albums like that for me, one classic example being the Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. But really in this day and age it's mostly a non-issue since I can just make a custom playlist of only the songs I like from any given album.

[jadis]

A deeply boring record. They're such an anonymous band without Syd's magic charisma 

[Lexi Darling]

I like that album but I don't really love it. I would rank at least 3-4 other Pink Floyd albums above it easily. Though I'm also not a huge fan of the Syd era either.

Here's a potentially hot take: The Grateful Dead are really boring, and that includes their live performances. I'm not necessarily anti-noodling, but I need my noodling to be over interesting music and endless jammy solos over lukewarm bluegrassy rock just bores the tits off of me.

[Marie Monday]

I like Dark Side of the Moon more than most Pink Floyd albums but it's really overrated and the Syd Barrett era is much, much better

[Janszoon]

I like Dark Side of the Moon more than most Pink Floyd albums but it's really overrated and the Syd Barrett era is much, much better

This is such a commonly stated controversial opinion that I think it's actually the Syd era that's now overrated.

[Marie Monday]

fair enough!

[Lexi Darling]

In my experience Dark Side is overrated by boomer classic rock fans and the Syd era is overrated by hipsters.

[jimmy jazz]

DSOTM is great but you need to cut some shit off it. When the music gets going I love it but there's too much rubbish in there for the 'concept'.

[SGR]

DSOTM is a 10/10 and it's better than anything from the Syd era by far.

[jadis]

OK Computer has a few great songs but overall it's not that great. The sound and production are stunning but not the songwriting. Very overrated. Both The Bends and Kid A/Amnesiac have better material.

The Great British Late-90s Album is Blur's 13

[Guybrush]

They're boring, cookie cutter opinions and these albums don't need me to defend them, but for the sake of adding something to this, I like both DSOTM and Ok Computer.

Besides the fitter, happier monologue, Ok has no fillers. It's all great and quite the achievement to my ears.

My controversial opinion of the day: Blues is very boring!

[tristan_geoff]

Blues is fundamental to a lot of music but generally straight up blues is always the same song with little variation so I get that take, but another question is whether early jazz is boring?

[Lexi Darling]

Blues is fundamental to a lot of music but generally straight up blues is always the same song with little variation so I get that take, but another question is whether early jazz is boring?

Depends on how early. Like the really formative stuff from the 20s tends to be too old-timey for me even if it is a fascinating historical document. But big band and swing from the 30s and early 40s? That is very much my shit and I prefer it to the bebop and free jazz that came after.

And OK Computer is fine for what it is, I'm just not huge on Radiohead's sound or songwriting in general. They have their moments though.