List Your Unpopular Musical Opinions

[Purpleibby]

-chris poland owns and is god,but works as the manager of a huge rehearsal studio to pay the bills-FUCK the MUSIC INDUSTRY

This. 1000x

Agreed!

 

[Starman22]

- Having rhetorical banter and golly-gee replies to the posts in this thread proves that down syndrome afflicted kids love guitar gear forums
- The fact every post on this thread lists out similar if not the exact same topics as the prior posts proves that monkeys really do smell their asshole scratching finger
- Heroin does make you a better musician
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[Mr. Willy]

Have you heard King's X live in person?

The singer from Nickelback said you can't say his band sucks if you haven't seen them live.

The reason I asked this is because my buddy was the same way. I played Gretchen Goes to Nebraska for him, and he didn't like it at all. We went and saw them about a month later, and he said they were one of the best live bands he's ever seen. He's been a fan since. I love King's X, but I see why other people might not. They are an acquired taste.

 

[Crunchtime]

Messugah is boring and not heavier than Far Beyond Driven.

Bee Gees were a great band.

 

[godgrinder]

Fuck fucking kiss, and the 80's hair bands were gross as fuck with a few exceptions being iron maiden, priest, and Dio.

...Because those 3 bands were not "hair metal"?

 

[HilltopExplosion]

Sex with 50's music in the background is awesome!

 

[NeubyWanKaneuby]

Have you heard King's X live in person?

The singer from Nickelback said you can't say his band sucks if you haven't seen them live.

The reason I asked this is because my buddy was the same way. I played Gretchen Goes to Nebraska for him, and he didn't like it at all. We went and saw them about a month later, and he said they were one of the best live bands he's ever seen. He's been a fan since. I love King's X, but I see why other people might not. They are an acquired taste.

I know. I just have a problem with a band sounding completely different when they play live vs. recordings, and vice versa. If I hear a song on the radio I really like, then go see the band live, and it sounds completely different, it drives me insane.

I just threw the Nickelback in there, because I doubt if I saw them live, I'd like them any more than I don't now.

 

[Dave Rocks]

Messugah is boring and not heavier than Far Beyond Driven.

Bee Gees were a great band.

Uh, I see I'm not alone

 

[mchn13]

Fuck fucking kiss, and the 80's hair bands were gross as fuck with a few exceptions being iron maiden, priest, and Dio.

...Because those 3 bands were not "hair metal"?[/quote

Probably shoulda said glam instead, but yes. Even the thrash dudes had long hair, it was more the posturing and douchebaggery I was referring to. And the candy ass songwriting.

 

[Alex_S]

Best thread ever!

Oh guys, some of you are seriously screwed, but so am I:

- VanHagar is better then the Roth version, 5150 is an amazing record and f.u.c.k. the best they did
- SymphonyX eats Dream Theater and they are probably the best band out there today
- Dream Evil is a classic
- The Ozzy / Jake records are amazing as is No Rest
- It is totally ok to be a untalented bad musician (as I am) and have costly gear
- In the 80s: Hair Metal sucks, Today: Hair Metal was cool compared to 99,999% what came after
- good music died with Grunge/Techno (the 90s) and hasn't been resurrected since
- everybody wants to sound like somebody (me too) and almost nothing is original today. All good/bad copies but nothing creative anymore (same for movies btw). That leads to the point above
- Digital killed music (business model, omnipresence and availability, everyone thinks he can produce and mix, damned even the sound quality is worse today)
- Yngwie rocked (too bad he thinks he is God and can write songs alone, play all instruments, sing and produce; he can't' such a waste of talent)
- the new trend to country music sucks badly and I hope it will not take off
....

 

[billboogie]

Great thread.

Pentagram should have been given the 'metal fathers' designation over Sabbath.
EVH is always full of shit when describing what gear he used early on.
Jimmy Page's production values hold up just as strong today as they ever have.
Dwayne Allman is still a far more interesting player than just about all the 80's shredders.
Shredding is completely boring to my ears and is a waste of notes.
Pete Willis was Def Leppard and the rest of the boys have Mutt Lang to thank for creating their superstardom. It was the albums production values not song craft that made it a huge hit.
Scott Holiday's guitar tones are exciting and serve Rival Sons songs well.
Les Pauls are the shit with 50's wiring and low output pickups.
High output pickups do not represent your guitars tone well.
Practicing with an acoustic instead of a gained out amp will improve your playing immensely.

When is the next session? This should be a weekly meeting.

 

[godgrinder]

Pentagram should have been given the 'metal fathers' designation over Sabbath.

The 70's demos with original lineup weren't as "metal" as Black Sabbath. The 80's albums were heavy as hell but that was an entirely different backing band and all of them were like one generation younger than Bobby.

 

[Racerxrated]

If you don't like Rage Against the Machine it's because you're a RACIST!

Fuck you I won't do what you tell me.....

 

[agbiggs]

SRV is extremely overrated

As a guitarist, sure. My theory: often the best guitarists - SRV, EVH, Gilmore - are in bands with great songs, and the song is doing a ton of the legwork. Put SRV playing straight blues like every other player and it's kind of underwhelming. But put him playing Couldn't Stand the Weather or some other good song and he sounds great. Or play along yourself with Comfortably Numb. Guess what? You sound fantastic. The song matters more than the player.

 

[Racerxrated]

SRV is extremely overrated

As a guitarist, sure. My theory: often the best guitarists - SRV, EVH, Gilmore - are in bands with great songs, and the song is doing a ton of the legwork. Put SRV playing straight blues like every other player and it's kind of underwhelming. But put him playing Couldn't Stand the Weather or some other good song and he sounds great. Or play along yourself with Comfortably Numb. Guess what? You sound fantastic. The song matters more than the player.

Aaand your next stop is crazytown.....

 

[Badronald]

SRV is extremely overrated

As a guitarist, sure. My theory: often the best guitarists - SRV, EVH, Gilmore - are in bands with great songs, and the song is doing a ton of the legwork. Put SRV playing straight blues like every other player and it's kind of underwhelming. But put him playing Couldn't Stand the Weather or some other good song and he sounds great. Or play along yourself with Comfortably Numb. Guess what? You sound fantastic. The song matters more than the player.

Oh man, someone needs to get out of the house and go to every corner bar in the country with crappy cover bands and then get back to us.

 

[Racerxrated]

SRV is extremely overrated

As a guitarist, sure. My theory: often the best guitarists - SRV, EVH, Gilmore - are in bands with great songs, and the song is doing a ton of the legwork. Put SRV playing straight blues like every other player and it's kind of underwhelming. But put him playing Couldn't Stand the Weather or some other good song and he sounds great. Or play along yourself with Comfortably Numb. Guess what? You sound fantastic. The song matters more than the player.

Aaand your next stop is crazytown.....

JUDGEMENT FREE ZONE!!!

No judging! Just sayin........

 

[psychodave]

Have you heard King's X live in person?

The singer from Nickelback said you can't say his band sucks if you haven't seen them live.

I saw King X live a few years back. I left after the 3rd or 4th song.

 

[NewWorldMan]

I'll have to disagree with Dave here. I love King's X... Played a show with them some years back. Chatted up Ty for a while before the gig, really great guys all around. He was using Orange amps at the time and sounded great.

Speaking of, a band I'm not as fond of, but are really great folks are Life of Agony. Played with them a while back in 2004-ish or so, they were completely awesome. Their tour bus at the time was supposedly one that was previously used by Metallica on TBA tour, so it was cool to grab a drink in there and ponder what sort of debauchery had likely transpired in years gone by...

Let's see, unpopular opinions...

BANDS:

KISS are a great band. I grew up on that music and still know every note to old albums.
It's no "Strangers in the Night", but KISS "Alive" is one of my all-time favorite live albums.
Metallica "Load/Reload" are damn good albums...well, more so "Load".
"The Outlaw Torn" and "Bleeding Me" are Top 10 quality Metallica tracks.
Speaking of, the tone on "Load/Reload" is fantastic, just not metal.

GEAR:

No, your damn (insert amp modeler here) does not sound and feel like the amps it models.
No, I don't care if you run it through a tube power amp.
The Duncan JB is a terrible sounding pickup.
In fact, I really dislike Alnico V in general because of the odd low end and squawking highs.
I think 99% of "modded Marshall" tone can be had with a stock JMP/JCM 800 + pedals...
No, I don't care who's doing the modding.
I know you have 62 amps, but you sound 95% identical through EVERY.SINGLE.ONE.
Me too...

 

[sixstringking713]

List your musical opinions you know make people salty because it isn't their opinion.

- Dimebag was good, nothing amazing, shot to god status by dying, shredding pentatonics and doing divebombs isn't godly
- Most modern metal/rock recordings today sound the same, the singing usually is the indicator of what band you are listening to, not tone etc
- Mordern digital recording techniques save money and time but rarely produce legendary rock albums
- My favorite album by Rush is Power Windows
- Iron Maiden haven't produced a good album since Brave New World
- EVH makes alot of mistakes live and I never liked his tone
- Most revived rock bands from back in the day make crap music now a days
- Too many people buy thousands of dollars on studio equipment and boutique amps... talk about how amazing their gear is... but never have any recordings
- I like gated and verby drums
- My best sounding guitar is a 250$ Les Paul copy with JBs, sounds better than the 1k+ LPs I've played and my friends own

That goes for just about every hobby... cars, golf, etc..