What are your unpopular opinions? (Vol. 2)

[Lucas CAV]

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.

I went to my first festival in 2005. I remember other festival goers scowling at me for using my phone to make a call. Someone actually told me to put it away.

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.

Tonnes of people and lots of the music press talked about Oasis's dullness right from the first singles

[President Merkin]

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]

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.

[Strangely Brown]

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.

[President Merkin]

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.

[Notch 8]

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 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.

[Wheel Turned Out]

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.

[Countdown]

I quite like airline food.

[Forester1965]

I find it a bit plane.

[captain_cynic]

Countdown said:

I quite like airline food.

Depends on the airline.

Some are great but some are shocking.

KLM and Singapore are consistently good.

American and Lufthansa were amongst the worst meals I've ever had.

[bodhi]

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.

Oh and another one - Bob Dylan was a great songwriter but a terrible singer, and most of his songs are far better as covers.

[boyse7en]

bodhi said:

Oh and another one - Bob Dylan was a great songwriter but a terrible singer, and most of his songs are far better as covers.

Everybody thinks that! It would be controversial to say Dylan can hold a decent tune

[Stan the Bat]

Countdown said:

I quite like airline food.

[paulguitar]

Stan the Bat said:

Countdown said:

I quite like airline food.

I think that one very much depends on which end of the plane you're in.

[Stan the Bat]

paulguitar said:

Stan the Bat said:

Countdown said:

I quite like airline food.

I think that one very much depends on which end of the plane you're in.

Cattle class mate, cant afford your end .

[nuyorican]

Seeing as Glastonbury has been mentioned. Another one of my unpopular opinions -

Music festivals are awful.

I’ve tried. Went to numerous ones. I like camping. And I am literally obsessed with music. But mixing the two? No. Especially when booze and drugs are thrown into the mix. Just become a test of endurance. Used to love the old raves as they were generally over the next day. Plus they just did the one style of music, the music YOU liked if you were attending. Festivals do the whole, something for everyone, jack of all trades… which is reflected in the ticket price.

Towards the end of my festival going years I noticed more and more straight-edge families, super organised dad types who start moaning about noise etc in their area. I get the feeling that that’s who festivals are aimed at these days. A kind of instagram friendly camping trip.

[LankyFreak]

I won free TRNSMT tickets off the Rockstar Energy competition, so now I'm going. Lineup is ste (IMO) but I'm still looking forward to it. Gonna be a lot of drinking getting done.

I do agree that it's a test of endurance though, my feet will be fkED after the second day.

[Blown2CV]

djc206 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.

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.

Glastonbury is one of the least diverse places imaginable.

[mickythefish]

nuyorican said:

Seeing as Glastonbury has been mentioned. Another one of my unpopular opinions -

Music festivals are awful.

I’ve tried. Went to numerous ones. I like camping. And I am literally obsessed with music. But mixing the two? No. Especially when booze and drugs are thrown into the mix. Just become a test of endurance. Used to love the old raves as they were generally over the next day. Plus they just did the one style of music, the music YOU liked if you were attending. Festivals do the whole, something for everyone, jack of all trades… which is reflected in the ticket price.

Towards the end of my festival going years I noticed more and more straight-edge families, super organised dad types who start moaning about noise etc in their area. I get the feeling that that’s who festivals are aimed at these days. A kind of instagram friendly camping trip.

folk festivals, or cover band ones, are brilliant. luckily the idiots stay away, not Instagram friendly.

[JuniorD]

That "Skyfall" place where people go to replicate the James Bond scene in their cars. I've never seen a picture that is anything other than underwhelming. Even in the movie it was underwhelming.