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post #31 of 270
10/22/09 at 2:00am
Radiohead is waaayyy overated IMO. They are Okay at best. My favorite albums of this decade are New Orders Waiting for the Sirens Call, Echo and the Bunnymens albums of this decade, Morrisseys you are the quarry, Embrace "Out Of Nothing" and Duran Durans astronaut just off the top of my head. Oh and I like so many smooth jazz albums over a lot of the indie stuff that are coming out these days. There are a few songs here and there that I like from spoon, modest mouse, the shins but nothing really memorable.

Oh, and Coldplay is Great! especially the first three albums
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post #32 of 270
10/22/09 at 2:02am
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Originally Posted by muxenle View Post
on slightly related, non-thread, dream theater note can anybody give me a good, easy to get behind/understandable concept/"story line" album? Slower paced stuff is fine, but would slightly prefer more of a heavy/death metal speed/sound.
Mastodon - Crack the Skye (Disabled fellow astral projects to escape his grim reality. The leash holding him to this universe breaks, his soul flies back to some other time/universe, and possesses Rasputin)

Opeth - Still Life (A man that loses his faith in god is kicked out of his ultra-religious village/convent. He returns years later so he can be with his lover. The religious authority don't want him back in town and his lover has been pledged to another man. All hell proceeds to break loose)
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post #33 of 270
10/22/09 at 2:06am
Donunus, that's a series of albums from previous decades that happened to come out recently. Time to move on
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post #34 of 270
10/22/09 at 2:11am
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Originally Posted by Dublo7 View Post
Mastodon - Crack the Skye (Disabled fellow astral projects to escape his grim reality. The leash holding him to this universe breaks, his soul flies back to some other time/universe, and possesses Rasputin)

Opeth - Still Life (A man that loses his faith in god is kicked out of his ultra-religious village/convent. He returns years later so he can be with his lover. The religious authority don't want him back in town and his lover has been pledged to another man. All hell proceeds to break loose)
hhmm...both those sound really interesting *adds to the rhapsody que to transger to his mp3 player*

Edit: epic lolz rhapsody has studioforce(aka dragonforce) under prog metal, in the top 10 bands for prog metal.....

earlier today I came across a epic folk/celtic metal type of band(the band that has the album Sagas, Equlibram I think, or prehaps it was a different band, same general catogry) listed under trance/hip-hop/dance music...

I mean, wtf is up with that and where the hell did they even get a notion of putting music like that under those generes... I mean it isn't even agurable that they belong there...
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post #35 of 270
10/22/09 at 2:18am
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Gawd... How could I forget to contribute this to the thread:

2000s > 90's/70's > 60's > 80's

(Haven't heard enough from before the 60's to make a decent musical assessment of those decades)

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Originally Posted by catachresis View Post
That's not true: the current generation of post-rock artists are truly gifted instrumentalists with a sound ear for the musical hook. But 99% can't write a lyric worth listening to, and beyond the fact that most of them can't read [--bragging that you're the heir of Charles Bukowski at a coffee shop when you're sixteen doesn't qualify as reading--] they are limited to emoting incoherent surrealism and facile allegories because most of them don't have anything worth saying.

But they're damn fine musicians--I'll give 'em that.
I'm a huge post-rock fan, but you might be onto something here. And I think that this might have something to do with why post-rock is dominantly instrumental. Most of the concepts that post-rock artists want to convey - I think - are done in an abstract manner: Through instrumentation, sampling and creating an atmosphere rather than using lyrics.

Although I'd hold back on agreeing with "they are limited to emoting incoherent surrealism and facile allegories because most of them don't have anything worth saying." I just think that they don't directly/explicitly put into words what they want to express.

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Oh, and Coldplay is Great! especially the first three albums
Yeah, I think Coldplay get shat on much more than they deserve... And although my two favorite songs of theirs came from the first two albums, I think "Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends" is hands down their best record.
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post #36 of 270
10/22/09 at 2:30am
i think most of this "new" rap is ****, like lil wayne **** lil wayne he can't rap nor do i see why he's famous, and all those damn dance songs "stanky leg", Soulja Boy(**** him and lil wayne the most, and this autotune ****(like Jay-z's song but he's album sucks to) not all of it horrible, they're still some good out there
i hate Mastodons new album(don't see how it got critical acclaim), only like oblivion(which is the opening song), like how i only like blood mountains opening song
i don't like metallica, i like N.E.R.D. and MGMT
annd i like every time i die
also i think i'm the only one of my friends who listen to metal
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post #37 of 270
10/22/09 at 2:32am
Ringo was the best singer in the Beatles :-) hahahaha
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post #38 of 270
10/22/09 at 2:34am
ok here's an unpopular opinion i have..........

KISS ARE AWFUL!!!!! AND I'VE NEVER BEEN ACTUALLY ABLE TO MAINTAIN A FRIENDSHIP WITH ANYONE WHO ADORED KISS. OUR PERSONALITY CLASHED. KISS HAVE HARDLY ANYTHING TO DO WITH MUSIC AND THE BANDS WHICH WERE HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY THEM DON'T EITHER.
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post #39 of 270
10/22/09 at 2:41am
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Ringo was the best singer in the Beatles :-) hahahaha
Seriously?
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post #40 of 270
10/22/09 at 2:48am
Although I do consider myself a fan of Radiohead, I agree that they are overrated, but not to the point that some people would suggest. I actually think OK Computer is rather average. I much prefer their later albums (even though Kid A should not have received 'Album of the Decade,' IMO).
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post #41 of 270
10/22/09 at 2:52am
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Originally Posted by Sherwood View Post
For my part, I hate the music of my youth, by and large.
Give it some time, my friend, a few more years.

First, I came full circle with the country my parents played for us. I hated the genre for years, but listen regularly today. I've also come around on the 80's New Wave I used to listen to. So give it some time. It might come back around to making you happy some day.

Speaking of unpopular opinions, I love country. Not much of contemporary country, but classic country and alt.county/y'allternative/No Depression. Criminally underrated and overlooked by almost everyone. It is an excellent body of work - and deeply American, for whatever that's worth today - that only a few listen to.

DavidMahler, I entirely agree about Kiss. I've always found Simmons a vile money grubber and have never had a twinge of desire to buy one of their albums.

Finally, Rush sets me on edge. It may be the only band that rubs me the wrong way from alpha to omega. Nothing they've recorded sits well with me.
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post #42 of 270
10/22/09 at 3:42am
Ok here's an unpopular opinion:

Music sucks, and headphones are garbage

Didn't say it was my opinion, just an unpopular one :-D
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post #43 of 270
10/22/09 at 3:55am
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i HATE 10,000 Days by Tool. Lateralus is genius, Aenima is ok.
I am literally stunned that I have found one other person with my same exact feelings about those three albums. I have been a fan of theirs since I saw them open for Rollins Band shortly after Opiate was released, and I think their latest work is deeply disappointing, but unlike virtually every other "true"' Tool fan, I never thought AEnima was especially good, at least compared to Undertow. Undertow loses steam towards the end, but it is a very focused, angry, young record, before Tool began to experiment with more prog tendencies and meandered too much with AEnima. Then it all culminated in the brilliant Lateralus, and they flushed it all away with 10000 Days.

Sad.
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post #44 of 270
10/22/09 at 4:02am
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Originally Posted by DavidMahler View Post
Ok here's an unpopular opinion:

Music sucks, and headphones are garbage

Didn't say it was my opinion, just an unpopular one :-D
I'm guessing it helps to contribute one's own unpopular opinion instead of what sounds like an unpopular opinion because in the event that someone gets back at what you posted, you can back it up.
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post #45 of 270
10/22/09 at 4:06am
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Originally Posted by fuseboxx View Post
I'm guessing it helps to contribute one's own unpopular opinion instead of what sounds like an unpopular opinion because in the event that someone gets back at what you posted, you can back it up.
hahaha i was just trying to be funny..........the ringo one was just me being funny too......


I don't know if this opinion is so unpopular but I think The Soft Parade is a terrible album.
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