What are your unpopular opinions? (Vol. 2)
Discussion
mickythefish said:
djc206 said:
Glastonbury is full of every kind of person, that’s the beauty of it. It’s not too hard to avoid the political stuff if you don’t want to get involved with it such is the size and diversity of the place.
"Worthy Farm festival saw political statements ring out from main stages as Coldplay, Dua Lipa and SZA headlined"https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/m...
te Noel Gallagher.President Merkin said:
I guess you must have been too busy being virtue signalled at Glastonbury to have noticed it spent decades being a defacto CND benefit with Michelle Shocked playing annually. Noticing Glastonbury is political is clearly some hard hitting realisation for you & that Gobste Noel Gallagher.
It's not the fact it's political they have a problem with... The issue is that it's politics they disagree with. te Noel Gallagher.As you've said, it's always been this way.
Glastonbury might have been good decades ago when it was largely underground but popularity has ruined it. I firmly believe most people go there just to say they were there. It's gone from counter culture to consumer culture. See also: Burning Man.
I honestly think either of them will be a fart in a hurricane when it comes to people's political views these days.
President Merkin said:
I guess you must have been too busy being virtue signalled at Glastonbury to have noticed it spent decades being a defacto CND benefit with Michelle Shocked playing annually. Noticing Glastonbury is political is clearly some hard hitting realisation for you & that Gobste Noel Gallagher.
ermm it was in reply to the comment thought that was obvious, you can't really escape political commentary when it is the main stage, thought that was obvious.te Noel Gallagher.Notch 8 said:
andySC said:
mickythefish said:
Glastonbury is full of people I wouldn't want to be around, too much preaching, virtue signalling and has become what it was supposed to be against.
If mobile phones were banned from the site 2/3rds of the punters wouldn’t go. Insta feed obvs.
Around the Same time, someone I was talking to who had been to Glastonbury for years, said she was going off it, because ‘there were more and more people there with mobile phones’.
How times change!
My unpopular opinion? Oasis were extremely average. You risked being lynched if you expressed that opinion at their height.
I'm an ersthwile musician & my unpopular opinion is that Noel Gallagher can barely play the guitar. Never could really but he had an ear for what the kids wanted at the time. He's also highly derivative, bordering on straight plagiarism. Shakermaker was a rip off I'd like to teach the world to sing. step out ripped off Stevie Wonder to the point he was sued & settled & there's loads more. Half the time I think he got lucky, the other half he had very good timing but he's never been more than a very basic guitarist.
Technical skill on an instrument can be meaningless though. Satriani, Vai, Malmsteen etc. amazing guitarists who cannot write a song
President Merkin said:
I'm an ersthwile musician & my unpopular opinion is that Noel Gallagher can barely play the guitar. Never could really but he had an ear for what the kids wanted at the time. He's also highly derivative, bordering on straight plagiarism. Shakermaker was a rip off I'd like to teach the world to sing. step out ripped off Stevie Wonder to the point he was sued & settled & there's loads more. Half the time I think he got lucky, the other half he had very good timing but he's never been more than a very basic guitarist.
Lucas CAV said:
Technical skill on an instrument can be meaningless though. Satriani, Vai, Malmsteen etc. amazing guitarists who cannot write a song
That is also true. All the guys you mention dazzle me for five minutes, then bore the arse off me. There is a sweet spot but as ever with subjective matters, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.Strangely Brown said:
Lucas CAV said:
Tonnes of people and lots of the music press talked about Oasis's dullness right from the first singles
Sure did.Add to that the complete waste of blood and organs up front and I never had any interest in them.
I got into bands that I wouldn’t have even known about if it wasn’t for them. They all seemed to have one failing though, and that was a fondness for Oasis, as they got more and more bland.
When ‘Be Here Now’ was released, it was reviewed by FHM I think, and their verdict was ‘Buy it Now!’
Listening to that was like swimming through treacle though.
President Merkin said:
I'm an ersthwile musician & my unpopular opinion is that Noel Gallagher can barely play the guitar. Never could really but he had an ear for what the kids wanted at the time. He's also highly derivative, bordering on straight plagiarism. Shakermaker was a rip off I'd like to teach the world to sing. step out ripped off Stevie Wonder to the point he was sued & settled & there's loads more. Half the time I think he got lucky, the other half he had very good timing but he's never been more than a very basic guitarist.
Don't think it's an unpopular opinion - pretty sure he'd be the first to agree with you. Just goes to show the old saying "there ain't no money past the fifth fret" will always ring true.
Notch 8 said:
I was made redundant in ‘96, and ended up in another job where there were a few ‘lad’s mags’ (Loaded/FHM etc.) lying around. It was a new thing to me, and I enjoyed the ‘latest album release’ reviews in them.
I got into bands that I wouldn’t have even known about if it wasn’t for them. They all seemed to have one failing though, and that was a fondness for Oasis, as they got more and more bland.
When ‘Be Here Now’ was released, it was reviewed by FHM I think, and their verdict was ‘Buy it Now!’
Listening to that was like swimming through treacle though.
My unpopular opinion would be that Be Here Now actually had some of their best tunes on it, they just went on for far too long. Most would have been improved be being half as long as they were. That's what too much success and cocaine does for a band I guess. I got into bands that I wouldn’t have even known about if it wasn’t for them. They all seemed to have one failing though, and that was a fondness for Oasis, as they got more and more bland.
When ‘Be Here Now’ was released, it was reviewed by FHM I think, and their verdict was ‘Buy it Now!’
Listening to that was like swimming through treacle though.
Oh and another one - Bob Dylan was a great songwriter but a terrible singer, and most of his songs are far better as covers.
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