What are your unpopular opinions? (Vol. 2)
Discussion
nonsequitur said:
Nerdherder said:
To me cult & underground electronic music (early 80's and onward) is the 'real' music. Not the band and singer/songwriter stuff the rest of humanity seems to view as the real thing.
To say one genre is the 'real' music from the dozens available highlights a lack of vision and understanding. If you love music Nerdo, an appreciation of all types would be a rational thought.
anonymous said:
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I still don't care enough to acquire the additional knowledge to appreciate it. For me it is simple, If I stick Deezer flow on, if I like a track I listen to it, If I really like, I add it to a playlist, if I don't, I hit the skip button.To use a different sporting analogy, I like F1, and my friend loves it, he could happily discuss the finer points of tyre compounds, power units, drivers, aero packages and tactics all day long in infinite detail, I realised some time ago that I don't need to watch a full race any more, by just watching the overtakes and crashes on youtube is more than enough to satisfy my F1 needs.
I don't need a comprehensive knowledge of physics to appreciate a good crash or overtake.
anonymous said:
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I do wonder how close you are to modern education, as music currently is compulsory up to age 14 and all of the above is covered.I would violently disagree however that knowing the theory of music has anything whatsoever to do with enjoying listening to it, and - if anything - I often find it gets in the way. I am a semi-decent pianist (not pro by any means, but achieved grade 8 when I was at school and have kept up since) and play keyboard in a couple of covers bands. I find that when I'm in 'analysis mode' and trying to understand how any given piece is put together, it becomes much more like work and I lose any impact that the music might have. By contrast by 'experiencing' the piece as a whole, the emotional response is much higher and I enjoy it a lot more.
Put it this way: do you think that composers think ah yes, I'll modulate to the minor third here because that'll make people smile inside as they appreciate the cleverness of what I've done - or, do they do that because it sounds good and the end result matches what they have inside their head?
Dr Jekyll said:
Drama on the radio doesn't work (for me). It's impossible to visualise anything other than characters blundering around in the dark. I don't have this problem with books for some reason, perhaps it's hearing the voices on radio that's the issue, too much like TV with no picture.
Funnily enough the only radio drama that's ever grabbed me was about someone trapped in the walls of their house in the dark. I love radio documentaries. Drama is always an instant off.
bloomen said:
Dr Jekyll said:
Drama on the radio doesn't work (for me). It's impossible to visualise anything other than characters blundering around in the dark. I don't have this problem with books for some reason, perhaps it's hearing the voices on radio that's the issue, too much like TV with no picture.
Funnily enough the only radio drama that's ever grabbed me was about someone trapped in the walls of their house in the dark. I love radio documentaries. Drama is always an instant off.
t out of me - to me it just sounds like terrible fake acting. Blown2CV said:
yep. I hate hate hate the way they use extremes of over-emphasis in speech and weird incidental vocal noises because it's audio-only. I get the reasoning it just annoys the st out of me - to me it just sounds like terrible fake acting.
The weirdest thing is you can tell it's a drama before anyone's actually spoken. It's that dead studio sound. It's usually off before anyone says anything. t out of me - to me it just sounds like terrible fake acting. This opinion might be unpopular, purely because she “played for the other side”, but as a young man who emerged from puberty in the mid to late 50s, I would have moved heaven and earth to take a crack at Dusty Springfield.
My wanton attention zig-zagged around the musical and movie spectrum after that, most notably settling on Linda Ronstadt in the late 70s, and stayed there until Pat Benatar came to my attention.
Pat would never win a beauty contest, but she is one sexy chick.
I could have died happy I thought, if only Ms Benatar had quit the business, and moved to the south of France with me, but then, with a shake and shimmer of a dozen scarves and petticoats, Stevie Nicks burst into my consciousness.
Realising that I’ve got no chance now, and I had a good run until I married, I’ll wait for the grim reaper to come get me.
Oh death, where is thy sting?
ETA, I really MUST add more ice cubes to my Grey Goose at this hour, or consider tonic water.
My wanton attention zig-zagged around the musical and movie spectrum after that, most notably settling on Linda Ronstadt in the late 70s, and stayed there until Pat Benatar came to my attention.
Pat would never win a beauty contest, but she is one sexy chick.
I could have died happy I thought, if only Ms Benatar had quit the business, and moved to the south of France with me, but then, with a shake and shimmer of a dozen scarves and petticoats, Stevie Nicks burst into my consciousness.
Realising that I’ve got no chance now, and I had a good run until I married, I’ll wait for the grim reaper to come get me.
Oh death, where is thy sting?
ETA, I really MUST add more ice cubes to my Grey Goose at this hour, or consider tonic water.
Frank7 said:
This opinion might be unpopular, purely because she “played for the other side”, but as a young man who emerged from puberty in the mid to late 50s, I would have moved heaven and earth to take a crack at Dusty Springfield.
My wanton attention zig-zagged around the musical and movie spectrum after that, most notably settling on Linda Ronstadt in the late 70s, and stayed there until Pat Benatar came to my attention.
Pat would never win a beauty contest, but she is one sexy chick.
I could have died happy I thought, if only Ms Benatar had quit the business, and moved to the south of France with me, but then, with a shake and shimmer of a dozen scarves and petticoats, Stevie Nicks burst into my consciousness.
Realising that I’ve got no chance now, and I had a good run until I married, I’ll wait for the grim reaper to come get me.
Oh death, where is thy sting?
ETA, I really MUST add more ice cubes to my Grey Goose at this hour, or consider tonic water.
My wanton attention zig-zagged around the musical and movie spectrum after that, most notably settling on Linda Ronstadt in the late 70s, and stayed there until Pat Benatar came to my attention.
Pat would never win a beauty contest, but she is one sexy chick.
I could have died happy I thought, if only Ms Benatar had quit the business, and moved to the south of France with me, but then, with a shake and shimmer of a dozen scarves and petticoats, Stevie Nicks burst into my consciousness.
Realising that I’ve got no chance now, and I had a good run until I married, I’ll wait for the grim reaper to come get me.
Oh death, where is thy sting?
ETA, I really MUST add more ice cubes to my Grey Goose at this hour, or consider tonic water.
Vandenberg said:
I don't want an understanding of it, to me its a very simple thing, either my ears like the music they dont.
I couldn't care less about how its composed, what the inspired the musician to pick which notes go where, how its mixed.
I don't ever want to cross into beard territory in music, as music beards like most beards are tedious especially the pretentious Pink floyd fans, mutually masturbating in a drugged haze about dave gilmour's guitar leads spouting that they came from the era when music was listened to in the dark, with headphones, drunk and/or high, "It was experienced man."
Nah man, you're not experiencing it unless you can see it. I couldn't care less about how its composed, what the inspired the musician to pick which notes go where, how its mixed.
I don't ever want to cross into beard territory in music, as music beards like most beards are tedious especially the pretentious Pink floyd fans, mutually masturbating in a drugged haze about dave gilmour's guitar leads spouting that they came from the era when music was listened to in the dark, with headphones, drunk and/or high, "It was experienced man."
I don't doubt that this will be unpopular but everyone's entitled to his/her opinion.
I was reading the P&O 'mass brawl' story and it set me thinking.
Witness accounts from on board the Britannia included statements about, "...apparently drunken passengers..."
and, "... the antics of a few “drunken idiots” had spoiled an otherwise enjoyable cruise."
I find it interesting that this causal factor almost seem to be accepted as explanatory for
unbelievably crass behaviour.
I used to enjoy a drink but chose to abandon alcohol 31 years ago. I didn't ever have a drink
problem and have never really missed alcohol.
However, during all the 17 years before I went teeotal, I never..
Drove drunk.
Started a fight or became involved in one.
Vandalised anything.
Damaged anything (or myself) through being drunk.
Upset anybody or anything by causing fear, pain or crying by being drunk.
Yet for 12 years, I've been scapegoat, forced into it by the smoking ban.
I don't worry about what I have/may yet cost the NHS. God knows, I've paid
the punitive taxes over the years and my Hawker Harrier never showed up.
Given all the costs I haven't incured through not drinking, in terms of hospital treatment,
physical and psychological damage, I fail to see the logic.
I was reading the P&O 'mass brawl' story and it set me thinking.
Witness accounts from on board the Britannia included statements about, "...apparently drunken passengers..."
and, "... the antics of a few “drunken idiots” had spoiled an otherwise enjoyable cruise."
I find it interesting that this causal factor almost seem to be accepted as explanatory for
unbelievably crass behaviour.
I used to enjoy a drink but chose to abandon alcohol 31 years ago. I didn't ever have a drink
problem and have never really missed alcohol.
However, during all the 17 years before I went teeotal, I never..
Drove drunk.
Started a fight or became involved in one.
Vandalised anything.
Damaged anything (or myself) through being drunk.
Upset anybody or anything by causing fear, pain or crying by being drunk.
Yet for 12 years, I've been scapegoat, forced into it by the smoking ban.
I don't worry about what I have/may yet cost the NHS. God knows, I've paid
the punitive taxes over the years and my Hawker Harrier never showed up.
Given all the costs I haven't incured through not drinking, in terms of hospital treatment,
physical and psychological damage, I fail to see the logic.
Edited by davhill on Sunday 28th July 01:03
davhill said:
I find it interesting that this causal factor almost seem to be accepted as explanatory for unbelievably crass behaviour.
Because the truth is unpalatable.Edited by davhill on Sunday 28th July 01:03
Y'know how everyone thinks about Irish Travellers?
The British are the Travellers of Europe/RTW. An uncouth, violent, arrogant bunch of dicks.
How's that for unpopular?
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