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It's not that I hate TS, I just don't get her. Her music lacks the 'musical maturity' I like to see, IMO. I do love Lana Del Ray, though....
I think Random Access Memories is one of the best-mixed albums in existence, the fact that it's heavy on synthesizers doesn't really take away from that IMO. But I guess I'm just taking the bait here, since it's an unpopular opinions thread...I never dislike the music, I just find the way some audio people declare something an audiophile benchmark... Pink Martini, Daft Punk, Miles' ancient "Kind of Blue" recording etc etc. All completely overrated even from a "recording reference" point of view. Daft Punk for example is the equivalent of a collage, with individual tracks mixed in... and who has a reference for Niles Rodgers' riffs? Come on. Acoustic instruments are something we can use as a reference, not electronica.
I like tracks in every possible genre here and there. And there's not a single artist that makes me think *everything* they have *ever* recorded is a reference I always enjoy.
Some of their melodies were catchy, capable of spawning earworms in listeners' ears.The Beatles.
I had no use for them in 1960 or ever after.
I never found very much of their music beyond mildly tolerable.
Don't see where any of the members musicianship was much to talk about.
Much of what they get credited for in the way of innovation in the studio, the credit really belongs to George Martin.
She loves you yea yea yea, yellow sub and all the rest.
No thanks, I just don't get it.
A lot of what the Beatles got credit for in the way of innovation in the studio was due to so many sonic innovations in so many studios by so many musicians. I used to collect Beatles records, but right now there's so much other music I'd rather hear. Interesting note: Thomas Pynchon thought that the Beach Boys were more musically innovative. Their work up to Good Vibrations became increasingly sophisticated. Pet Sounds is interesting, but it's really a Brian Wilson solo record.The Beatles.
I had no use for them in 1960 or ever after.
I never found very much of their music beyond mildly tolerable.
Don't see where any of the members musicianship was much to talk about.
Much of what they get credited for in the way of innovation in the studio, the credit really belongs to George Martin.
She loves you yea yea yea, yellow sub and all the rest.
No thanks, I just don't get it.
The antidote to Grunge is early Beck:My most unpopular opinion on music is no doubt my lifelong distaste for grunge and, especially, Nirvana. Given my age it should be my most favorite but no - singing off key in minor scales about juvenile / infantile complaints simply never did it for me (thankfully).
But, as I've said before, for all the wreckage grunge did at the time it at least had the courtesy to become completely irrelevant very quickly. Unless it is still being made somewhere, but I've insulated myself from that.
Edit: +1 on Pet Sounds. Never got it. Wish I did.
And they even have a song called Money Money Money that I just dislike so much in every way possible, it just goes against everything I believe!
Ok then: With the warmest regards; you are a stuffy old fogey ;-) and I resemble your remark.In general, anything termed "Modern music" gripes me. If it's atonal, polytonal, non-lyrical and non-melodic, I want nothing to do with it.
Just call me a stuffy old fogey.![]()
Jim