re: What are your unpopular opinions on music?

If there isn't ONE single instrument on stage (guitar,bass,drums,keyboard)............they why why why can the "come see my laptop" performers" actually put on a concert???? You are watching a laptop!!

And Beyonce is terrible. She is the most over rated artist (if you can call her lip synching self an artist.)

Hair metal wasnt the only thing in the 80's with big hair.........everyone had big hair.

Very interesting to see how peoples taste in music can vary, just like food, beer, etc.

Living in TX, I find Willie Nelson quite enjoyable. "You Were Always on My Mind" is a great country song. I also think Tina Turner is one of the top 3 female R&R voices of all time.

Now that being said, I wouldn't give you two cents for anything by :

Nirvana
U2
Duran Duran
Tim McGraw
Bruce Springsteen
Al Stewart

and quite a few others. But that's just me

1. I'm not even sure it's unpopular to say that the Beatles are overrated. I actually believe that the majority of this board believes that to be the case, but the minority is just quite vocal in their defensiveness. Insufferably so.

The fact that this topic comes up so much and that a minority defend the Beatles with such zeal is almost dispositive on the subject in and of itself. And the nature of the defenses is definitely dispositive. Why is it that reference is always always made to how influential they are? Well, it's because the statement of "they made great songs that still hold up" isn't one that anybody can say and really believe it. Because if you could say it, you'd just say that, and wouldn't mention that they were "influential".

Case in point: my dad told me to listen to Sgt. Peppers. My dad has never once in his life played a Beatles song in my presence. Basically, the Beatles are to music listeners as the gym is to me. I don't like going to the gym at all. But I like having gone to the gym.

2. Ironically, LZ is actually more influential than the Beatles. You just don't need to talk about it because you can talk about their awesome songs instead.

3. Greg Dulli is the most underrated rock artist on planet earth.

4. Pop music is probably the highest form of music

5. Bach is better than Mozart and Beethoven.

6. Grimes is the best musician on planet earth.

7. Female vocalists are better

8. Music s just as good now as it's ever been

9. People who don't listen to new music have given up on life

10. One who has no music training is a better judge of what's good and what isn't good than someone who has lots.

The Eagles are the Nickelback of my dad's generation

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Old school rap and artists like Macklemore is the best kind of rap.

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These 2 are definitely not the same. Macklemore is more pop than Hip Hop. But I do give him credit for actually rapping about stuff.

Conscious/Lyrical Hip Hop is better than mainstream all day everyday. But negativity sells. That's why the genre is so popular. Not because of the value of the music, but simply because the music is negative.

Lastly, there is no true 1 best genre or worst genre. It all has to deal with what you grew up on/resonates to you the most personally. Everything is subjective.

Terry Allen is better than Willie, Waylon, Jerry Jeff, etc. He came up with those guys, he is about the same age as those guys and about to put out another LP and has art works in all the big galleries and smithsonian. The reason most people haven't heard of him is he pursued visual art and was a professor at Texas Tech.

Metallica's St Anger is their best album.

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Greg Dulli is the most underrated rock artist on planet earth.

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I dunno about being the most underrated but he definitely doesn’t get his amount of due as he should

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I never heard Brad Delp live, but the guy absolutely sang his arse off on the recordings

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Brad Delp singing The Abbey Road Bealtes Medley LIVE

I don’t hate Chris Stapleton but I hate his TN Whiskey song, and believe it got faux fanfare. It’s boring about like him, and the other couple versions are way better.

I hate Train ( hey soul sista.... makes my skin crawl)

I’m also in the hate led zep camp and I think it’s either due to classic rock stations playing them over and over or Plants voice.

Blake Shelton hasn’t had a good song ever, if it wasn’t for his media ambition he’d be washed up with Trace Adkins and Brantley Gilbert by now.