Unpopular opinions.

[vikingTON]

7 hours ago, renton said:

Muse peaked early with Origins of Symmetry, their last good album was Black Holes and Revelations.

Drones was up there with BHaR, the two either side of that were horrendous though.

Music peaked in my book around 2005-07 and the last decade has been a solid march into the abyss. Indie in particular is now fatally irrelevant as a genre and won't be back.

[renton]

17 minutes ago, virginton said:

Drones was up there with BHaR, the two either side of that were horrendous though.

Music peaked in my book around 2005-07 and the last decade has been a solid march into the abyss. Indie in particular is now fatally irrelevant as a genre and won't be back.

Yeah, it was a good time, I practically lived In Liquid Rooms during that period. indie night on the Friday...

Edited July 4, 2020 by renton

[Bert Raccoon]

Probably not that unpopular an opinion but Rockness In it's first few years was a far superior festival to T In The Park.

[NotThePars]

1 minute ago, Bert Raccoon said:

Probably not that unpopular an opinion but Rockness In it's first few years was a far superior festival to T In The Park.

Don't think anyone who went to both would disagree. Far better and chiller vibe. Even when it went TITP lite it was still much more relaxed with a sounder crowd and the heavier dance focus meant you could just be pleasantly swedgered the entire time.

[effeffsee_the2nd]

Don't think anyone who went to both would disagree. Far better and chiller vibe. Even when it went TITP lite it was still much more relaxed with a sounder crowd and the heavier dance focus meant you could just be pleasantly swedgered the entire time.

Why did the plug get pulled, wasn’t it selling out most years and attracting older TITP crowds that didn’t fancy it after it became full of neds in its later years

[Miguel Sanchez]

1 hour ago, virginton said:

Drones was up there with BHaR, the two either side of that were horrendous though.

Music peaked in my book around 2005-07 and the last decade has been a solid march into the abyss. Indie in particular is now fatally irrelevant as a genre and won't be back.

You know you don't need to keep listening to the same bands and genre from 2006, yes?

[Miguel Sanchez]

I'm listening to The Enemy's second album

 

Common People has turned up in the suggested videos at the side. I can't imagine why.

[tongue_tied_danny]

10 minutes ago, throbber said:

I think lots of people just have their era of music that was their favourite and no matter what you try then nothing else quite does it for you. 

I grew up with indie music from the late 80s to mid 90s.

I seldom listen to it now though and I would never entertain any landfill indie shite from the 00s.

These days I mostly listen to old soul, reggae, funk, hip hop, krautrock and other genres that weren't really available  in the pre internet era.

[Derry Alli]

1 hour ago, NotThePars said:

Don't think anyone who went to both would disagree. Far better and chiller vibe. Even when it went TITP lite it was still much more relaxed with a sounder crowd and the heavier dance focus meant you could just be pleasantly swedgered the entire time.

And you were able to make a fucking fortune renting out your shower. 

[D.A.F.C]

The early 90s to me just seemed like an explosion of new talent and creativity.

There was so much good music of all genres coming out. Hip hop was still decent with uk stuff as well.
Clubs played a variety of stuff as well and attracted people of all races and upbringing and pretty much stopped the casual culture.
Now you've got nothing, no creative breakthroughs just shit like mumble rap, trap music or generic edm watered down nonsense.
I know that you tend to align to the music of your youth but since mid 90s its really fallen off a cliff. I think this is partly to the download and mp3 culture. It really devalues music and its all too throwaway and forgettable.
Young folk just wouldn't have the patience or attention span to appreciate a show like John peel these days. Just dull watered down vacuous false pish.

This is a total yer da post but compare any genre from now to twenty years ago. Hard to see any progression.

[BFTD]

14 minutes ago, D.A.F.C said:

This is a total yer da post but compare any genre from now to twenty years ago. Hard to see any progression.

I remember many middle-aged fuds in the early '90s complaining about modern music being recycled pish. Nirvana ripping off Cheap Trick (whoever they were) seemed to be quite a common opinion. Presumably mid-18th century Salzburg was awash with auld fuds rattling on about this upstart Mozart and this generic plinky-plonk stuff he keeps rattling out.

From this, I think we can gather that middle-aged folk from all periods in history should just f**k off and realise their time is done. You're Yer Da now. Accept it.

Edit: it was always OK to slag Coldplay, however, as nobody under the age of 30 ever bought one of their albums. Same goes for any of that copycat shite, like Snow Patrol. Absolute gash purchased by Yer Maw because the Rolling Stones might have upset her heart condition.

Edited July 4, 2020 by BigFatTabbyDave

[D.A.F.C]

1 minute ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

I remember many middle-aged fuds in the early '90s complaining about modern music being recycled pish. Nirvana ripping off Cheap Trick (whoever they were) seemed to be quite a common opinion. Presumably mid-18th century Salzburg was awash with auld fuds rattling on about this upstart Mozart and this generic plinky-plonk stuff he keeps rattling out.

From this, I think we can gather that middle-aged folk from all periods in history should just f**k off and realise their time is done. You're Yer Da now. Accept it.

Watch your lip sunny jim

[BFTD]

Nicki Minaj can f**k off, though. I'm convinced she only got popular as some kind of sick joke.

[BawWatchin]

BLM seems to have it's own racist agenda now.

There, said it.

[D.A.F.C]

7 minutes ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

Nicki Minaj can f**k off, though. I'm convinced she only got popular as some kind of sick joke.

Nice bum though

[tongue_tied_danny]

9 minutes ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

Nicki Minaj can f**k off, though. I'm convinced she only got popular as some kind of sick joke.

Wid

[Derry Alli]

9 minutes ago, BawWatchin said:

BLM seems to have it's own racist agenda now.

Now? 

[Cosmic Joe]

9 minutes ago, BawWatchin said:

BLM seems to have it's own racist agenda now.

There, said it.

Any race in particular? 

[BFTD]

23 minutes ago, D.A.F.C said:

Nice bum though

She's done remarkably well not ending up in porn, considering she has no discernible musical talent. I remember liking one of her songs, only to find it was written by somebody else, and their demo version of it was notably better than hers.

But presumably that lassie doesn't look like a plastic sex doll, so nobody kens who she is.

[vikingTON]

1 hour ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

You know you don't need to keep listening to the same bands and genre from 2006, yes?

I sort of do because any new band within that preferred genre of music has been universally abysmal since at least 2010. And even those that do emerge have been punted from the spotlight by other categories of God-awful racket: see 'grime artists' headlinging Gastonbury undet that clown Emily Eavis' watch. The game's a bogey then for my engagement with mainstream music.