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Wood Goblin wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 4:29 pm

Curry Pervert wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:56 pm Opera is painful to listen to and people who claim to like it are attempting to gentrify their frontal lobes to impress other people of a similar disposition. They would all be better off with a lobotomy performed with a cheese grater.

I’m not a huge fan of opera, but when it’s great, it’s really something.

I mean, this:

AAAAAGH!!! MY EARS!!!

penningtron wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 8:49 am If the Jesus Lizard's discography was deleted tomorrow I wouldn't miss it.

Krev wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 10:33 am Most of Neil Young's 4000 albums didn't need to be released.

dumbass wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 8:58 pm sonic youth is boring and overrated

Curry Pervert wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:56 pmKraftwerk are monstrously overrated, and didn't pioneer squat.

BeyondThePale wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 12:36 pm If Trout Mask Replica is a masterpiece, then so is taking lsd and listening to car alarms for an hour

enframed wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 8:24 pm The Clash have a few good songs but basically suck.

Geiginni wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 4:05 pmThe Velvet Underground is the most overrated pretentious bullshit music unleashed upon the world in the last 120 years.

Captain Beefheart sounds like an unimaginative person’s idea of ‘weird music’.

Rocky Rockbottom wrote: Wed Dec 08, 2021 4:49 pm

Krev wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 10:33 am Most of Neil Young's 4000 albums didn't need to be released.

Happened on a thread on Facebook years ago, in which a few Berklee College of Music sorts were going on about how Neil Young wasn't "that good of a guitarist" and was "more of a songwriter than a musician." That was good for a laugh.

Best post of the year by Rocky Rockbottom.

Frankie99 wrote: Wed Dec 08, 2021 11:29 am Fuckin’ dad rock forum.

New abbreviation: DRF!

Curry Pervert wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:56 pm
Doesn't matter when it was made, or who by, country music is moronic bollocks.

Yes

Curry Pervert wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:56 pm Kraftwerk are monstrously overrated, and didn't pioneer squat.

No.

I don't know about pioneering...but they are the most heavily sampled group in hip hop, or were for a while. In any case, they fucking rule. They were unique. One of my dreams is to drive the Autobahn listening to "Autobahn." Driving through the Sudtirol no soundtrack fit as well at Kraftwerk.

Curry Pervert wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:56 pm Prosecco is just pretentious Lambrini.

Curious why you think this.

Curry Pervert wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:56 pm Opera is painful to listen to and people who claim to like it are attempting to gentrify their frontal lobes to impress other people of a similar disposition. They would all be better off with a lobotomy performed with a cheese grater.

Listening, perhaps. Have you attended one? It's quite a different experience. I don't own any recordings of opera, but offered tickets I'll go every time. I'd even pay if it was more affordable. But alas...it's not.

enframed wrote: Wed Dec 08, 2021 8:13 pm

Curry Pervert wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:56 pm Opera is painful to listen to and people who claim to like it are attempting to gentrify their frontal lobes to impress other people of a similar disposition. They would all be better off with a lobotomy performed with a cheese grater.

Listening, perhaps. Have you attended one? It's quite a different experience. I don't own any recordings of opera, but offered tickets I'll go every time. I'd even pay if it was more affordable. But alas...it's not.

I feel similarly. Can't really stand opera, but the spectacle of seeing one performed live is a different experience. You need the to see it to appreciate the Gesamtkunstwerk, as Wagner put it.

It's a chore to listen to alone. Somebody took my wonderful, texturally, formally and harmonically rich, completely abstract, yet nuanced escape from reality and instead made it about jealous lovers, unfaithful wives, crusaders and other petty worldly bullshit. No thanks.

The Who's Quadrophenia is tedious.

Led Zeppelin are the second most over-rated “classic” rock band. But it’s not even a close race, because The Doors are lapping the field.

That said, while the Velvet Underground are a seminal musical influence for me, I have to admit that they may at least be in the running for the bronze. (And the rationale for their reputation as a live band is something that utterly eludes me. Even notwithstanding the somnambulant, 40-minute renditions of “Sister Ray,” the Velvets are the only band I know of who unfailingly played all their songs slower live than on the recordings.)