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I found a thread along these sort of lines on another forum (albeit for something completely different) and I thought it might be interesting to see where our musical opinions differ from those of friends, relatives, critics etc.
I would suggest two guidelines:
1) Keep this thread strictly to music (it doesn't necessarily have to be rock, but I suspect most here will have particularly strong opinions about rock).
2) Keep things at a reasonably mature level, i.e. not 'Everyone likes The Beatles/Led Zeppelin/whoever, but really they're terrible' type arguments.
Here's a few of my more unpopular opinions to get things started:
- Tusk by Fleetwood Mac is generally either underrated - by people who dismiss it due to the more experimental tracks, there's plenty of strong songs (all of Stevie Nicks' songs and Lindsey Buckingham's more focused tunes) - or overrated - I don't consider it to be a masterpiece as there is too much weak material, also most of Christine McVie's songs are dull and plodding and Lindsey Buckingham's production only highlights their weaknesses. I think it's a good album but not as strong as either the White Album or Rumours.
- Stairway To Heaven is not overrated, but Kashmir is. Both are good songs but I find that the former gets better as it goes along leading to the climax whereas the latter starts well but then begins to drag. I wish Page's guitar was a bit more prominent in Kashmir too, whereas I think his solo in Stairway is just the ticket.
- I like Pink Floyd's The Division Bell, but I don't rate A Momentary Lapse Of Reason very highly. I think the main instrumental tracks on the respective albums sum my feelings about them to a certain extent - I think Marooned is great and Gilmour's guitar really soars, whereas Terminal Frost never gets going and hasn't aged well (it sounds very 'Nineteen eighties' to me).
I think it should be interesting to see what we can come up with.
I would suggest two guidelines:
1) Keep this thread strictly to music (it doesn't necessarily have to be rock, but I suspect most here will have particularly strong opinions about rock).
2) Keep things at a reasonably mature level, i.e. not 'Everyone likes The Beatles/Led Zeppelin/whoever, but really they're terrible' type arguments.
Here's a few of my more unpopular opinions to get things started:
- Tusk by Fleetwood Mac is generally either underrated - by people who dismiss it due to the more experimental tracks, there's plenty of strong songs (all of Stevie Nicks' songs and Lindsey Buckingham's more focused tunes) - or overrated - I don't consider it to be a masterpiece as there is too much weak material, also most of Christine McVie's songs are dull and plodding and Lindsey Buckingham's production only highlights their weaknesses. I think it's a good album but not as strong as either the White Album or Rumours.
- Stairway To Heaven is not overrated, but Kashmir is. Both are good songs but I find that the former gets better as it goes along leading to the climax whereas the latter starts well but then begins to drag. I wish Page's guitar was a bit more prominent in Kashmir too, whereas I think his solo in Stairway is just the ticket.
- I like Pink Floyd's The Division Bell, but I don't rate A Momentary Lapse Of Reason very highly. I think the main instrumental tracks on the respective albums sum my feelings about them to a certain extent - I think Marooned is great and Gilmour's guitar really soars, whereas Terminal Frost never gets going and hasn't aged well (it sounds very 'Nineteen eighties' to me).
I think it should be interesting to see what we can come up with.
