OT – What is your greatest musical hot take?
It’s a Friday deep in the heart of OT season so I thought I’d ask, what is your greatest musical hot take? Someone must believe that “Major Tom” is better than “Space Oddity” or that Chris Gaines is superior to Garth Brooks
For me it is that George Harrison was the greatest Beatle. He wrote the single greatest Beatles song “While my guitar gently weeps” and had the best solo career. I will go to my grave believing that “My Sweet Lord” Is infinitely better than “Imagine”. There can also be no argument that The Travelling Wilburys were better than Wings (it’s not a fair comparison, I know).
is an all time great.
Okay but seriously, in undergrad we had a friend who adored Kesha and had gorgeous, beautiful roommates. Everytime we went to her house for a party the playlist heavily featured Kesha, and I would hear the songs before they got on the radio. This host girl was the ~little~ of the girl I was dating, but when we broke up, Kesha girl crossed party lines and kissed me, telling me it wasn't my fault and I'm a good guy...while Kesha was playing.
I now like Kesha, because I associate her with the glory days of hopping parties, beautiful rich girls (they lived in Zaragon senior year), and winning the breakup.
I feel you dude. Ke$ha will always be special to me because it immediately brings me back to junior and senior year. Right before the start of welcome week senior year, my buddies and I all decided to see her perform at DTE. Well, this snowballed into a 30 person party bus and was just an amazing night. I am not lying when I say it is one of the biggest highlights of my undergraduate years.
Hamilton should be longer.
You're probably going to hate me, but I've seen it twice in NYC, once for free...
Amazing show.
Insane jealousy? Yes.
Most of the bands that I thought were all dead are still touring.
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll are good for you.
Told you, Mom.
And Queen is the greatest band of all time.
Levon Helm...hands down.
Vocals, keyboards and the bass, and he would have played lead guitar but he wanted his best friend to have something to do.
Actually, Prince is the correct answer to this. I understand he composed all his music, did the vocals, played most if not all the instruments on some records, and wrote hit songs for other artists. He was a true musical genius.
I suggest this: "Paul McCartney is better because he did all of those things first."
Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles would both have to be in the conversation. Jimi Hendrix too, despite his only average singing voice.
are way to hard on Dave Matthews. He stayed around for way too long and should have stopped touring over ten years ago, but some of the live performances in the mid 90s are all time great live shows and should not be denegrated.
All Eyes on Me was a bloated album with a lot of filler. It was a couple of good songs surrounder by a bunch of rushed and rambling stuff. Me Against the World and the Don Kalluminati were both better albums.
Rihanna's voice is kind of nasally. I understand she is a really good singer but her voice gets hard on the ears pretty quickly.
My assertion is that about 80% of the hate they get is because of their obnoxious fans that no one wants to be associated with.
90's to present is better than anything that came before.
WHOA! That is a hot take. Almost timely - with all the "IS LEBRON BETTER THAN MJ" blather rattling around sports talk.
that people are really having to twist and contort to make the Michael v. Lebron thing an actual debate. It should be considered like this - you get first pick in Gym class and you really want to win the game, who are you taking? The answer is MJ and it is not close, at all.
Team of MJ's vs team of LBJ's. In that game I think you take the team of LBJ's. Physically and tools-wise, there's more that five LBJ's can do to score more/defend more than a team of MJ's.
But I think a game of MJ and avg dudes vs LBJ and avg dudes is won by MJ. Because..[hot take coming]...MJ really fucking hated to lose. Whereas, LBJ really hates being disliked. I will ride and die with that hot take.
Hell Yeah! Lyndon Baines Johnson was a true baller!
Here is something that will set most people off.
When I said 90s to present is better than anything that came before, I don't count grunge in that. Grunge is overrated.
I'd say "Singin' in the Rain" but partly because the song & dance numbers actually made some sense in context instead of coming out of nowhere. Though "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut" had way more musical quality packed into it than it could possibly be entitled to.
Everything about it was amazing, especially all the empty seats that suddenly emerged during intermission, left by those who could not deal with the cutting humor and absurd reality of Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
Absolutely hystercial. I knew it'd be edgy but it even blew away my expectations in offensive material. Bravo!
have never understood the Tool thing. I think there are at least three or four bands from the Nu-Metal prime that I think were better.
Limp Biskit ruined it for everyone. Which is too bad because sometimes I want raw, stupid noise that isn't pretending to be deep.
Iggy/Stooges is stupid and acclaimed ("Hello Stoopid") but Korn is universally considered to be, well, stupid. I want justice.
Biskit was pretty terrible, I will give you that.
However, their performance of Break Stuff at Woodstock '99 was an iconic moment, if only for all of the wrong reasons.
I actually like their hits. But somewhere along the line, we were told to stop listening to Limp Biskit. Why is that? I mean, beach/shag music is pretty dumb. But watch the old folks turn out for one of those local shows.
Because Fred Durst quickly became the most annoying and unbearable frontman in all of music.
He left after they had already released that "Chocolate Starfish" album. You can't get much lower than that.
But you gotta respect a guy who can say, with first-hand knowledge, that Britany Spears had a better body than Carmen Electra.
They're certainly not super-deep, but they are considerably more creative and adventurous than the vast majority of schlock machines. The lyrics of "Lateralus" follow the Fibonacci sequence, "Sober" has a 3-3-2 beat (8/4 time). . . is it mind-blowing? No, and personally I'm kind of meh about them, but at least this is a level of experimentation that the entire collective pop-tart, riff rap and corporate country industries wouldn't cobble together in two decades' worth of albums. Which is more a statement about the extremely low bar for risk-taking that is pop music, but hey, as long as that's the world we live in and people keep complaining about sameless and lameness, love 'em or hate 'em, give Tool credit for at least being genuinely different.
I'm also meh on Tool. They have had longevity but a lot of their music runs together for me. If you like crazy ass rhythms, Meshuggah is pretty cool. They are pretty heavy and not everyone's cup of tea but cool nonetheless.
A really cool thing about Tool is that the singer lived a good portion of his early life in small town Michigan.
Maynard attended my alma mater, Mason County Central. He comes back once in a while, and I know he has helped work with/coach the wrestling team.