Unpopular Musical Opinions

ICBM

A big amp turned down sounds better than a small amp turned up.

A big amp turned up sounds better than anything.

Rowby1

The average pub gig punter can't tell the difference between an R9 and a banjo.

xSkarloey

Smacking a cow on the arse with a banjo produces a more musical effect than the same act performed with an R9.

Rowby1

Skarloey said:

Smacking a cow on the arse with a banjo produces a more musical effect than the same act performed with an R9.

Not sure about the use of the word "musical" in the same sentence as banjo.

ICBM

Rowby1 said:

The average pub gig punter can't tell the difference between an R9 and a banjo.

Nor could whoever did this.

http://www.joetheguitarman.com/Les Paul Banjo.jpg

Flink_Poyd

If you disagree with my taste in music then you will always be wrong

holnrew

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.

Nunogilberto

Okay...

The Beatles are overrated.

Paul McCartney should retire now...

Mick Jagger is a preening twat and his singing voice is awful.

Most US rock these days consists of detuned, chugging riffage with iron pumping, muscle bound Eddie Vedder clones on the mic... Crap in other words.

The art of the guitar solo is dead.

Royal Blood are shite - music for hipsters.

Kasabian are shite - music for 'lads'.

Glastonbury has become a joke.

Nirvana are massively overrated and SMTS is the most over played record of all time.

I hate 60s white boy blues - John Mayall etc.

Joe Bonamassa's tone is muddy and wooly.

Jimmy Page's tone is also shocking - scratchy as hell considering the LP he used most of the time.

Having 2/3 guitarists in the Foo Fighters is a waste of time when they don't play anything remotely melodic.

I hate singer/songwriters with Deputy Dawg style whiney, drawling voices - Passenger, Maverick Sabre, James Bay etc...

If you have a ukelele on your record, you're a trendy and you suck.

There.

Maynehead

Metallica's Load album is better than Master of Puppets. And Justice for All doesn't need any more bass.

Megii

I find Frank Zappa's guitar soloing to be tedious, self-indulgent, unstructured rambling... oops, did I just say that out loud?   :-SS

Snap

Kanye West belongs at Glastonbury

bingefeller

Snap;682924" said:

Kanye West belongs at Glastonbury

true. He's white people accessible rap music, plus he has a celebrity wife with a big massive fake arse which, oddly enough, symbolises the Glastonbury festival perfectly.

ICBM

Snap said:

Kanye West belongs at Glastonbury

Looking after the cows.

bingefeller said:

he has a celebrity wife with a big massive fake arse

No, he's quite genuine.

Teetonetal

Maynehead;682920" said:

Metallica's Load album is better than Master of Puppets. And Justice for All doesn't need any more bass.

st anger is a masterclass in snare drum recording.

Kirk doesn't use his wah pedal often enough.

Poor metallica.

bingefeller

Megii;682923" said:

I find Frank Zappa's guitar soloing to be tedious, self-indulgent, unstructured rambling... oops, did I just say that out loud?   :-SS

Bit like his music.

Toto are boring as hell. Steve Luke is a good guitarist but is a really shitty songwriter.

hobbio

For every 1 brilliant solo Guthrie Govan busts out, he plays 9 that are boring displays of his technique and technical wankery. It's also quite painful to listen to him speak, once you got over the similarity to Alan Partridge.

TonyR

Axe_meister said:

Rory Gallagher really wasn't very good.

Neither are his two brothers Noel and Liam

Bucket

Jimmy Page is actually pretty fucking rubbish at guitar.

Blueingreen

There's no such thing as "good taste".  People under the illusion they possess it are just being narcissistic.

bingefeller

hobbio said:

For every 1 brilliant solo Guthrie Govan busts out, he plays 9 that are boring displays of his technique and technical wankery. It's also quite painful to listen to him speak, once you got over the similarity to Alan Partridge.

He's like Alan Partridge with lots of big words isn't he?