Hot Take/ Musical Confession Thread!

[Clint Howard]

The Beach Boys and by extension, surf rock, is some of the corniest music ever committed to tape.

God Only Knows is god tier status though.

 

[Joe Mac]

Up The Junction is my favorite Squeeze song

I do love cool for cats too

 

[ohcalebbeck]

This is a genuine question: what makes the Arctic Monkeys' music terrible for people?

Yeah curious about your opinion @Woob_woob and others. they’re one of my all time favourites so I might just see most of the stuff they do through rose coloured glasses

 

[Clint Howard]

This is a genuine question: what makes the Arctic Monkeys' music terrible for people?

I think terrible might be a bit of an overstatement but they're just so generic. Nothing about them stands out. I've heard a bunch of their songs but I couldn't tell you the name of one, let alone the melody of any of them. They're fluff.

 

[TransformerMan]

Try as a might, I just can't get into the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen but I think I would like to. What am I doing wrong? I mean I like Sympathy For The Devil, Gimme Shelter, and You Can't Always Get What You Want but the rest just isn't approachable for me. And Bruce, maybe Born In The USA and Dancing In The Dark painted him badly in my eyes as a youth.

Yes, this. I am constantly baffled at how over rated they both are.

 

[Woob_woob]

This is a genuine question: what makes the Arctic Monkeys' music terrible for people?

All of it? There isnt a single redeeming quality imo. They were terrible live and there are at least a dozen bands that do what they do but better

 

[Bohnjaggs]

I do love cool for cats too

Goodbye Girl is good too ... Squeeze is a top 10 band for me

 

[AudioAce]

Beasties Boys are one of the best rap groups of all time dont @ me.

 

[Chucktshoes]

Pure Conedy is probably my least favorite (partially due to its overall length) but my own hot take is that his first album Fear Fun is still his best.

 

[Clint Howard]

Beasties Boys are one of the best rap groups of all time dont @ me.

I mean, they're not.. but that's not a very hot take either is it?

It's like I was gonna say that TV On The Radio are by far the best band to appear out of all those 00 bands but I don't think that's a hot take either.

 

[Chucktshoes]

Beasties Boys are one of the best rap groups of all time dont @ me.

This isn’t a hot take.

 

[Woob_woob]

Beasties Boys are one of the best rap groups of all time dont @ me.

Beastie Boys rule and are extremely important, but there are a bunch of rap groups I'd take before them.

 

[Endtro]

If the Beastie Boys are your favorite rap group you’re probably uncomfortable around black people.

Most rap music made before the 90’s, although clearly groundbreaking and influential, is so boring to listen to now.

 

[GritNGlitter]

This thread is moving too fast for me, but I'm with all the "FJM is bad and boring" takes.

 

[AudioAce]

If the Beastie Boys are your favorite rap group you’re probably uncomfortable around black people.

This sure is something.

 

[Woob_woob]

If the Beastie Boys are your favorite rap group you’re probably uncomfortable around black people.

I think the same thing when people say Eminem is their favorite rapper

 

[Clint Howard]

I think the same thing when people say Eminem is their favorite rapper

Funny, I think the same when people tell me Childish Gambino is their favorite rapper.

 

[Woob_woob]

Funny, I think the same when people tell me Childish Gambino is their favorite rapper.

Awaken My Love is his best album, and that's mainly because it's his only non rap album.

 

[Endtro]

This sure is something.

 

[noelledemort]

This thread is hilarious. Also, I am taking all of the Radiohead and Thom Yorke hot takes 100% personally, and you're all out of my will.

My own:

Nirvana had some iconic, seminal hits, however Kurt Cobain's suicide artificially catapulted the band into the upper echelons of grunge history that is otherwise undeserved and overall, their music is not that impressive.