mega thread Unpopular Music Related Opinions

[Woohoo 34,015]

I got the album Back in Black by AC/DC a long time ago, and I swear, at least half the album was EXTREMELY BORING. Isn't that album supposed to be like the second best selling album of all time or something???? Geez, talk about overrated.

Less Effort = More Success?... I dunno -_-

 

Popularity does not equal talent.

You shouldn't worship the dead.

Metal is better than punk.

Oh, and metal is better than sex

 

Death Magnetic is fucking awesome, but all their other newer stuff isn't very good.

Load and Reload were meh, St Anger was the worst metal album of all time, and Death Magnetic...  Though the sound quality could've been better

[Le Kvlt Dawn 2,364]

How do you kill a shorthand word for "emotion"? Speaking of genres pointlessly named for lyrics alone...

It's suppose to be short for "emotivecore" or emotional hardcore".

 

Blood Fire Death's a black metal album predominantly. Much different from Hammerheart, but they're still called viking metal. If they were viking metal, wouldn't you want them to sound similar?

Pretty much.

 

 

Oh, and metal is better than sex

Music is better than sex. Eeyup, I actually went that far.

[Xanatos 162]

you know making one minor change definitely does change the sound surely Nintendocore is just 8-bit thrown into hardcore, but it still does sounds drastically different from Grindcore or Metalcore.

 

Fine. Some get a pass. Mathcore still has about as much to do with math as a car has to do with a tomato. A "-core" just for Islam-based music is still all kinds of inane. And "ponycore" makes me want to nuke the fandom. My issue isn't that genres are named that way. My issue is when it's stupid. Like taqwacore. And mathcore. And ponycore. Really, any inane subdivision, including "viking metal".

 

@AtDawnTheySquee: Emotional hardcore...Okay, that right there. Being emotional doesn't transform it into a new thing. And sex with music is better than either alone.

[Moog the Kvlt 1,460]

Fine. Some get a pass. Mathcore still has about as much to do with math as a car has to do with a tomato. A "-core" just for Islam-based music is still all kinds of inane. And "ponycore" makes me want to nuke the fandom. My issue isn't that genres are named that way. My issue is when it's stupid. Like taqwacore. And mathcore. And ponycore. Really, any inane subdivision, including "viking metal".

 

Yeah I'll admit that I don't understand why it's called Mathcore, but I guess it sounds better than saying Progressivecore, as for a -core genre being based for Islam Hardcore makes me laugh as much as the name Christian Rock does.

[Le Kvlt Dawn 2,364]

Fine. Some get a pass. Mathcore still has about as much to do with math as a car has to do with a tomato. A "-core" just for Islam-based music is still all kinds of inane. And "ponycore" makes me want to nuke the fandom. My issue isn't that genres are named that way. My issue is when it's stupid. Like taqwacore. And mathcore. And ponycore. Really, any inane subdivision, including "viking metal".

 

@AtDawnTheySquee: Emotional hardcore...Okay, that right there. Being emotional doesn't transform it into a new thing. And sex with music is better than either alone.

Maybe you should listen to some emo/post-hardcore. Come on now, it's good stuff. And yes emotional hardcore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqsVc71Kqrk

 

Yeah I'll admit that I don't understand why it's called Mathcore, but I guess it sounds better than saying Progressivecore, as for a -core genre being based for Islam Hardcore makes me laugh as much as the name Christian Rock does.

Well progcore could work.

[Xanatos 162]

Maybe you should listen to some emo/post-hardcore. Come on now, it's good stuff. And yes emotional hardcore.

 

Listening...And listening...And replaying...And seriously trying to like it...And...No. That may just rank as one of the most...Bland, uninteresting things I have ever heard in my life. The vocals sound generic and possibly bored and the music's just...Guh. I'd say uninspired but the very word sounds pretentious.

 

I feel nothing hearing this. That's about all I can say for it, and that's bad. Even with some autotuned pop product, I can feel some vague resigned disgust for its soullessness...But this...This is somehow even emptier than that. If anything, I feel puzzled as to how that's possible.

 

To each their own, I suppose...

[Champion RD92 8,658]

Maybe you should listen to some emo/post-hardcore. Come on now, it's good stuff. And yes emotional hardcore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqsVc71Kqrk

 

 

I enjoyed that song. Post-hardcore is one of those genres that I know I would enjoy, but I can't get the motivation to get into it.

 

 

Well progcore could work.

 

To be honest, progcore makes more sense than mathcore...I seriously thought mathcore had something to do with math, I guess I was wrong lol

[Le Kvlt Dawn 2,364]

 

 

I enjoyed that song. Post-hardcore is one of those genres that I know I would enjoy, but I can't get the motivation to get into it.

Well that's great, now listen to the rest of the album. 

 

 

To be honest, progcore makes more sense than mathcore...I seriously thought mathcore had something to do with math, I guess I was wrong lol

Lol wut, I used to think it had something to with being a nerd. IDK, I was crazy. 

 

 

Listening...And listening...And replaying...And seriously trying to like it...And...No. That may just rank as one of the most...Bland, uninteresting things I have ever heard in my life. The vocals sound generic and possibly bored and the music's just...Guh. I'd say uninspired but the very word sounds pretentious.

You called Rites of Spring generic, bland and uninteresting? 

 

 

I feel nothing hearing this. That's about all I can say for it, and that's bad. Even with some autotuned pop product, I can feel some vague resigned disgust for its soullessness...But this...This is somehow even emptier than that. If anything, I feel puzzled as to how that's possible.

 

 

To each their own, I suppose...

What if I told you that Kurt Cobain liked this band? Yes, I'm serious. Kurt was a fan of Rites of Spring. 

[Champion RD92 8,658]

Lol wut, I used to think it had something to with being a nerd. IDK, I was crazy. 

 

One time, I was trying to explain to one of my friends what metalcore was cause he kept calling it "screamo" so I was like "It's not called screamo, the genre is called metalcore." And then he was like "lol, core? what is that, like the earth???? lololol"

 

I got so fucking annoyed by that, and he still keeps calling it screamo no matter how many times I correct him...uggggggh.............

[Le Kvlt Dawn 2,364]

One time, I was trying to explain to one of my friends what metalcore was cause he kept calling it "screamo" so I was like "It's not called screamo, the genre is called metalcore." And then he was like "lol, core? what is that, like the earth???? lololol"

 

I got so fucking annoyed by that, and he still keeps calling it screamo no matter how many times I correct him...uggggggh.............

I haven't listened to too much screamo since I just started getting into it, I've heard some very solid stuff so far actually. Here's some good screamo.

[Soundgarden 2,758]

Any genre that ends in "core" is terrible by virtue of its name alone. What the bloody hell is "mathcore" anyway? You don't need a new genre, just be a math nerd who plays music.

 

 

Have they ever tried "hardcore"? Because that's all it is half the time.

 

"Nintendocore" is just hardcore with 8-bit tunes thrown in. "Taqwacore" is just hardcore done by Muslims. "Emocore" is just hardcore with lyrics about sad shit. Why name them as if the artist's religion or the lyrics magically change the genre?

 

Eventually, someone will just take hardcore music, yell "BEEP BEEP" throughout the track and call it beepcore. There's even ponycore now. Sorry, that's just not a legitimate thing.

 

Black metal and death metal have legitimate significant differences between them. Half the "core" genres out there are just inane redundancy. I suppose that's the core (pun intended) of my problem. Not the music but the people behind it who think the tiniest difference requires a whole new bloody subgenre. Sub-subgenre, really, since hardcore is already a subgenre.

 

And "post-" genres bug me too, for the same reason (and also for poor naming in general). Post-rock? What's that, after rock? I didn't know rock had a shelf life. There are plenty of redundant post- "genres" too but far less than -core.

 

In addition to everything Moog already covered: Different genres have different "philosophies" and thought processes behind them. I feel like that is besides the instrumental part, the thing that separates all these genres apart. Take Emocore and a Metalcore band for example. Do you really think the Emocore band think the same way as the Metalcore one when making music? Emocore is about creating emotional music, and thus it appeals to a completely different types people while Metalcore is about blasting your face off with a wall of sounds and breakdowns. If that isn't enough to separate genres such as these apart, then what is? The heavy use of a completely different instrument? A different vocal delivery?

 

Same goes for say Nintendocore. Can you imagine a person who is out for emotional music to start avidly listen to Nintendocore because that "satisfies his needs"?

 

Also, people want to be associated with the music they like. If you remember what I said about "philosophies", this point should be pretty self-explanatory

 

And for the post music part: Post music is about incorporating the essential elements of said genre, while toning down the other "minor" elements and bringing in new ones to the table. This often creates more atmospheric and progressive music that distance itself from the original genre while appealing to a new type of people

Fine. Some get a pass. Mathcore still has about as much to do with math as a car has to do with a tomato. A "-core" just for Islam-based music is still all kinds of inane. And "ponycore" makes me want to nuke the fandom. My issue isn't that genres are named that way. My issue is when it's stupid. Like taqwacore. And mathcore. And ponycore. Really, any inane subdivision, including "viking metal".

 

@AtDawnTheySquee: Emotional hardcore...Okay, that right there. Being emotional doesn't transform it into a new thing. And sex with music is better than either alone.

 

 

Yeah I'll admit that I don't understand why it's called Mathcore, but I guess it sounds better than saying Progressivecore, as for a -core genre being based for Islam Hardcore makes me laugh as much as the name Christian Rock does.

 

To address this issue: Mathcore is basically hardcore with odd timings. While math has little to do with the genre itself, what should we call it? Odd time signature-core? Timecore? Oddcore? 

 

Math is usually associated with numbers and ultimately: time. Mathcore = Odd timings. Odd timings = Time. Time = Maths

 

Plus, who cares what it's called? It's just a name, whether it's relevant to the genres or not

Edited July 15, 2013 by Erio Touwa

[Le Kvlt Dawn 2,364]

I won't go as far as to say that alternative music as a whole is dead, but it's hit a low point. I honestly have no idea why anyone would listen to bands like Three Days Grace, Linkin Park or Skillet. 

[Champion RD92 8,658]

I won't go as far as to say that alternative music as a whole is dead, but it's hit a low point. I honestly have no idea why anyone would listen to bands like Three Days Grace, Linkin Park or Skillet. 

 

I didn't think those bands were alternative, I thought they were just rock :/

 

Anyway, I actually a few Three Days Grace and Linkin Park songs, sue me.

 

I never liked Skillet at all though.

[Le Kvlt Dawn 2,364]

I didn't think those bands were alternative, I thought they were just rock :/

 

Anyway, I actually a few Three Days Grace and Linkin Park songs, sue me.

 

I never liked Skillet at all though.

They seem to pass for alternative these days. I don't want to sound like some 40 year old who's stuck in the past but alternative was much better in the 80's and 90's. Okay, compare those newer bands to this and tell which one is better. (There's no right or wrong answer, just saying.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfsyDQ3a3VU

[Rainbow Dash 1,472]

Oh where do i begin?

Lil Wayne isnt rap...hes just a wanna be Roger Troutman
Rap ended in 2002 

I like songs about murder and gore

Dethklok introduced too many wannabe metal heads

Black Sabbath invented metal

Johnny Cash is better than Willie Nelson 

Tyler the Creator is Horrorcore

Lady Gaga,Nicki Minaj, and Rihanna all copied Marlyn Manson's in your face style

The eagles suck

If you dont own a Black Sabbath,Metallica,Pantera, or Rammstein Album you're not metal

Skrillex uses the same beat for too many songs

Kanye West is good as an artist...not a person

Tupac is/was better than the Notorious B.I.G.

[Le Kvlt Dawn 2,364]

Oh where do i begin?

 

If you dont own a Black Sabbath,Metallica,Pantera, or Rammstein Album you're not metal

 

What if I told you that I don't like Rammstein? Does that make me not metal? Lol, I never liked them, they have a weird sound that's not my cup of tea.

[Sylentmana 271]

People who only listen to one genre of music are seriously cheating themselves.

I like listening to folk music from other countries, especially Japan.

I like Metallica, but I think they are way overrated.

I think metal where all the lyrics are screamed is terrible.

I think Country music has lost its direction and is awful now.

The Beatles are overrated.

Classical has been and always will be the highest and most pure form of music.

[Capt. Snuggle Gruff 101]

I can't stand it when people beat down on me for listening to a song that came out 10 years ago.  They always say "that song is so old!".  Oh i'm sorry I didn't know music had expiration dates, I think that no matter what is popular whatever you like the best is the best for you.  I listen to a lot of older music such as Bach and Giuseppe Verdi, but I also do like some of the newer stuff.  When it comes to music people seem to have a closed mind:  They think that there is their music (which is the best) and thats all.  That is waht really burns me up.

[Treeboy 418]

Rap ended in 2002 

 

no

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll9rB0jUbFc

 

2004's "Madvillainy" by the eponymous Madvillain duo of Madlib on production and MF DOOM rapping is my favorite hip hop album of all time.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vAoPBY_D4E

 

"good kid, m.A.A.d. city" is Kendrick Lamar's heartfelt testament to his hometown of Compton, and was released last year.

 

There's plenty of reasons to keep coming back to hip hop once you realize there are more rappers today than your Lil Waynes and Tygas and MGKs.

 

With that out of the way, two minor gripes that came to mind.

 

Why do people call hip hop "rap?" "Rap" is a verb. "To rap." That would be like calling rock music "strum."

 

And also, genres never die, despite the fact that they may not be prominent. There's still plenty of influence in today's music from disco and punk rock, two genres people love to say are dead. Just look at "Random Access Memories" and any hardcore band to ever exist.

I think metal where all the lyrics are screamed is terrible.

 

Harsh vocals can carry more emotion than clean vocals much of the time, which is why I come back to them so often. Also, when you know what's being said, you can find a lot of great lyrical bits and pieces from a lot of great songs, and even learn to decipher the vocals without reading the lyrics along with them.

 

Here's a lyric video to demonstrate my point.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5wt2OOLOCg

 

The instrumentation can still be inaccessible, but at least you know some of what you're hearing.

Edited July 16, 2013 by ToBeATree

[Le Kvlt Dawn 2,364]

 

 

I think metal where all the lyrics are screamed is terrible.

*flips over table*

 

I can't stand it when people beat down on me for listening to a song that came out 10 years ago.  They always say "that song is so old!".  Oh i'm sorry I didn't know music had expiration dates, I think that no matter what is popular whatever you like the best is the best for you.  I listen to a lot of older music such as Bach and Giuseppe Verdi, but I also do like some of the newer stuff.  When it comes to music people seem to have a closed mind:  They think that there is their music (which is the best) and thats all.  That is waht really burns me up.

One group of people won't listen to anything because it's old, the other group of people won't touch anything made after 1990. I just don't understand...

[Away 2,077]

I've said this before but I hate it when people use the term 'overrated'. Instead of saying something or someone is overrated, why don't you just say why you don't like it as much as other people? And the term 'overrated' does not actually describe the actual content of the music but rather it's reputation.

Edited July 16, 2013 by LatinoChurro

[Gone Airbourne 21,977]

 

 

Since last night. And don't tell Gone Airbourne I said this, but...I think AC/DC is a little bit overrated. I also think that Airbourne band he likes is a complete AC/DC ripoff lel

 

 

Wow... to mention me is pretty silly and downright stupid to be honest... I don't care if you like or dislike them XD like whatever the fuck you want. 

 

I think the majority of black metal sounds like shit... big deal... everyone has opinions. 

[Champion RD92 8,658]

Wow... to mention me is pretty silly and downright stupid to be honest... I don't care if you like or dislike them XD like whatever the fuck you want.

 

But I like a lot of AC/DC songs, you silly billy. I never said I didn't like them xD

 

I just think they aren't that good aside from a handful of songs that are good.

[Le Kvlt Dawn 2,364]

I think the majority of black metal sounds like shit... big deal... everyone has opinions.

What are you trying do here, start a riot? Besides, I think the majority of AC/DC songs sound the same and are just really bland sounding. At least black metal is very diverse unlike, most hard rock.

Edited July 17, 2013 by AtDawnTheySquee

[Treeboy 418]

I think the majority of black metal sounds like shit... big deal... everyone has opinions. 

 

This album seems to be getting people into black metal.

 

 

And rightfully so. It feels like My Bloody Valentine with more distortion and blast beats, as well as influences from post-rock that are incorporated nicely.