Unpopular Musical Opinions

Snap

And Freddie Mercury wasn't the greatest showman ever.

Paul Rodgers has a better voice

guitarfishbay

Musical elitism smells of elderberries.

UnclePsychosis

Snap;686645" said:

Queen were shite.

Give this man wisdoms. I can only give one :-(

Cirrus

ICBM;686437" said:

and REM recorded Document - which contains possibly my favourite recorded guitar sound ever.

@ICBM any one track or the whole album in general? I like the guitar sounds too - Rick and AC30 by that point I think?

stickyfiddle

Ooh, I have a good one.

Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac were rubbish.

bluechargeboy

I like Slash's "World on Fire" better than "Appetite for Destruction".

I wanted to see how it looks written down. Will revisit in a few months and see if I think I was being an idiot.

 

In general, Myles Kennedy is amazing. Total man crush. >:D<

Skipped

Classical musicians who play repaired violins which change hands for astonishing sums are not deluded.

ICBM

Cirrus said:

ICBM said:

and REM recorded Document - which contains possibly my favourite recorded guitar sound ever.

@ICBM any one track or the whole album in general? I like the guitar sounds too - Rick and AC30 by that point I think?

The album in general, but The One I Love in particular. The really funny thing is that according to Buck, it *isn't* the Rick and the AC30 on that - he used a Les Paul and a Marshall! Because he wanted it to sound as 'rock' as possible… but funnily enough it sounds almost exactly like he does with the Rick, although I think you can tell it isn't on the very last two chords.

Cirrus

Interesting! Actually I have sometimes wondered why I couldn't get the low part of the riff sounding as tight and punchy as it is on the recording when I play it on my vox - the high notes always end up ringing louder than the low strings when I do it, I'd put it down to not having the right guitar but if it's a Marshall that kind of makes sense. Especially actually, listening to the breakup in the strummed chords in the second half of each verse - they're not as throaty as an ac30, more high end snarl.

Teetonetal

When it comes to tone/sound most guitarists say they can hear things they can't actually hear and then spend huge amounts of time worrying about it or spending money on it..

Snap

^, lmao!! Too true buddy, too true.

Rocker

Compared to guitarists endless search for the perfect sound/tone, the world of hi-fi is completely sane and logical.

GuyBoden

Rocker said:

Compared to guitarists endless search for the perfect sound/tone, the world of hi-fi is completely sane and logical.

Guitar amps have a deliberate Low-Hi sound, compared to Hi-Fi or a good P.A.

jpfamps

ICBM said:

A large amount of mainstream pop music is very well written, arranged, performed, recorded and produced. ie is "good".

(And a fair amount is complete crap too, of course.)

Before 1982.

mike_l

Shredders are musical.

 

p90fool

holnrew;682909" said:

Guitarists like shit music.

Guitarists' guitarists make awful music.

Most jazz guitarists have a horrible tone.

Hip-hop is more important than punk.

Creedance Clearwater Revival are better than Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Modern folk is much better than the old stuff.

Miles Davis is hard to listen to.

Oasis have some great songs.

Many older people are closed minded and ignorant, and miss out on some great music because they're too stubborn.

Les Pauls are really ugly.

Popular music can be really good.

@holnrew I pretty much agree with all of this.

At 50 I count my blessings that the music from my formative years was mainly shite - it means I have no real sense of musical nostalgia and have kept a relatively open mind.

Give me good hip hop over almost all Dad Rock any day.

Phil_aka_Pip

p90fool said:

Give me good hip hop over almost all Dad Rock any day.

We can't all be the same. I was going to reverse that sentence and say FTFY but then I questioned whether there was any GOOD hip hop ... or at least I've not come across any that I like. That might be a better way to put it. At least I could tolerate Dad Rock.

Sambostar

When I look back at '90's music it was all shit.  From Oasis to Lamb, not one of those CD's is a timeless classic that I will ever listen to again.  Ever since Evanescence came along most rock, metal and indy music is almost operatic in it's long winded, pompous, self important, ridiculousness, but not in a good, raw and exploratory way like Alice Cooper or Zappa.

Most people have lost all concept of tone and feel on guitar since low bitrate digital storage media and digital recording were invented.  Opinions these days are in 1's and 0's and mostly accuse tonally rich bands or players of being verbose, yet I think all these types are all a bunch of hypocrites as all they listen to is stuff that is more completely OTT than '70's rock ever was, yet lacks any tone what so ever.

If I had to choose music that as good these days and involved a semblance of talent, skill and tone it would probably be Rihanna,

Also, anyone who plays with a delay and scooped mids is a fag.  In fact, given the high incidence, I'm very surprised that as a species we have managed to procreate at all in a modern age.

REM were never about music.  They were about producing nursery rhymes.

French folk accordion players rock out more than most modern metal and alternative music.

Toneless 1 0 guitar is only something to aspire to IF you can create great new complicated rhythms.  The guitar is not a one dimensional instrument and people shouldn't aspire to play it as such.

ICBM

Rocker said:

Compared to guitarists endless search for the perfect sound/tone, the world of hi-fi is completely sane and logical.

Other way round…

You won't find guitarists believing that supporting the cables on little wooden blocks or drawing a green line on the edge of a CD improves the sound.

Other than Eric Johnson, possibly.

Teetonetal

Sambostar said:

When I look back at '90's music it was all shit.  From Oasis to Lamb, not one of those CD's is a timeless classic that I will ever listen to again.  Ever since Evanescence came along most rock, metal and indy music is almost operatic in it's long winded, pompous, self important, ridiculousness, but not in a good, raw and exploratory way like Alice Cooper or Zappa.

90's music wasn't that bad! RATM - Alice in Chains and Portishead all released cracking albums, but I have a ton of albums from the 90's that I listen to again and again and as far as guitar based music went, we had a huge amount to choose from...

The decade that I think produced some of the worst music was the 70's -  Led Zeppelin's stolen songs and nonsense breaks, Queen's OTT theatrical nonsense that ran through the 80's. Dressing up came in two forms: Glam Rock and  Punk (or the replacement of tone and feel with "energy and passion" or I can't be arsed to practice....) oh and whilst we are at Deep Purple and their pseudo classical nonsense...