Axver

Ask and ye shall receive. To follow on from the "unpopular U2 opinions" thread over on EYKIW, here is pretty much a blatant rip-off of a rather enduring and lengthy thread on RateYourMusic's forum. Whether it's love for something generally derided, overlooked, or simply considered unremarkable, or hatred for something generally held in high regard, this is the place to go nuts listing it.

To get things started:

- I may have long since moved on from U2 fandom and think pretty lowly of a lot of the band's work nowadays, but I can't move on from one thing: the performance of One Tree Hill on 26 December 1989 is quite simply the best five or so minutes of music I have ever heard.
- The definitive shoegaze album is Ride's Nowhere, not MBV's Loveless.
- Woodface is Crowded House's worst, not best, album. Together Alone was the band's pinnacle.
- There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanky, technical, overblown, pompous progressive rock. It is, in and of itself, a good thing.
- Though Genesis sucked. Especially The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. Some bands are just boring.
- Speaking of bad seventies double albums by prog bands, The Wall is Pink Floyd's second worst album. (The Final Cut is the worst.)
- A Momentary Lapse Of Reason isn't too bad. Sorrow is one of my two favourite Floyd tracks.
- And my very favourite Pink Floyd track is Summer '68. Yes, Summer '68.
- I don't like the Beatles.
- I may be a metal fan, but thrash metal (e.g. Metallica) and NWOBHM (e.g. Iron Maiden) are just ... boring. In fact, I don't find much of interest in metal prior to about 1990.

Knock yourselves out.

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Alisaura

I rather enjoyed Parachutes. And chunks of Coldplay's next two albums. (Don't have the latest one.)

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last unicorn

I love U2 and their music.

Now, that's unpopular.

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Ava79

I was thinking the same.

And in my opinion Keane is anything but bland or boring.

intedomine

- Gin Blossoms and Hootie & the Blowfish should be recognised as important musical and cultural institutions, not merely lightweight pieces of mid-90's nostalgia.

- Travis might be recognised as the bridge between 90's BritPoP and the British "very heavy soft rock" of the noughties (Keane, Coldplay, Snow Patrol), yet are actually overwhelmingly better than any of the bands from either scene.

- The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society > any Beatles album

- Eurodance (Real McCoy, La Bouche) is timeless, brilliant and beautiful.

- Morrissey is hands-down the greatest lyricist of all time

- White Stripes are shit, and Jack White is a wanker.

- Stone Roses and Happy Mondays would have been ridiculously massive had they not all been drug fucked.

toscano

The Beatles and Radiohead are sorely overrated

October is a great album

Nirvana made one OK album, although it was mostly speeded up recycled Black Sabbath riffs

What's wrong exactly with the Black Album and Load, they sound fine to me.

Jimi Hendrix is mostly unlistenable.

u2popmofo

-Alligator > Boxer
-In regards to At the Drive-In spinoffs, Sparta is considerably better than the Mars Volta
-Hail to the Thief is a good album
-Wild Mood Swings, Bloodflowers, and The Cure are not bad albums

mad1

YMCA is a highly overrated daft song.

Dogstar actually were a good band.

Basshead's music (Now You're Gone, etc) - is stupid.

Leona Lewis is highly overrated.

Christina sings way way better than Britney.

there are many bands out there way overrated because of success, and thats what kills the best thing about them.

Zootlesque

Keane is awesome! Hopes & Fears is one of the, if not THE best album of this decade.

Pearl Jam is one of the top bands of all-time. I think they're somewhat underrated here cos they're clubbed in with grunge. In reality they moved on from grunge in the mid 90's and have released one stellar album after another!

Metallica's Load and Reload are great!

REM's Monster is very enjoyable.

Oasis don't really sound like the Beatles half the time. They do have their own sound.

mad1

now Zoots, are you sayin you dance to it, a LOT?

elevated_u2_fan

I'm putting it on my top 100 list, half becuase I like it so much and half to piss off Mel

ETA: oh and I don't like Wilco... at all.

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mad1

Mariah Carey is going downhill.

elevated_u2_fan

unpopular opinions love, unpopular

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I can't stand Bob Dylan's voice so I therefore cannot listen to his music.

I like Rush.

As was said earlier, October is a good album.

Catherine Wheel were incredible.

Kid A is wildly overrated.

I like a lot of disco tunes.

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Zootlesque

Haven't you seen my disco pimp costume???