The Cure’s first album was in '79, though according to everyone in the scene, punk’s death can be traced to just after they got into it.
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The Cure isn’t punk.
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I have never liked Dave Matthews and find his fans dreadfully insufferable.
Every car I ride in has a ban on Rod Stewart.
Steely Dan should fall off a cliff.
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Drop some They Might Be Giants in there with one of their kids albums, they’re great.
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I also like They Might Be Giants, although I haven’t listened to as much of their recent work as I would prefer.
I don’t know if that’s an unpopular opinion or not.
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I was bummed that the last two recent TMBG shows here though all ages it was basically 16+ and I couldn’t bring my kid. I did go to the Nanobots show though.
I don’t have their kids album, but honestly half of their songs are great for 4-year-olds anyway. Some of the themes are not exactly kid friendly, but a huge amount of that will go over their heads anyway.
(ETA: If you aren’t familiar Mono Puff is a side project from one of the TMBG Johns - not that great, but Unsupervised was a real winner)
You say that as if it’s a bad thing? -_-
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You are some kind of ninja.
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That’s AlbumS… plural! And they are really great even for adults. At the very least get No!.
And if you get Here Come The ABC’s get the CD/DVD combo, seriously.
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Oh, you are brave!
The first time I heard Tom Waits at a friend’s house while they raved, I thought they were playing some kind of practical joke. Still unlistenable for me.
The Grateful Dead are only popular because their fans developed a pavlovian response.
I like Steely Dan
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There was some kind of circle graph a few months ago, not sure if it was on Boing Boing or Facebook (or both) showing how people stop listening to new music the older they get. What I said then, is that there’s always something new to me. Luis Russell recorded around 86 years ago but, until a few months ago it was new to me. And there’s always something else to be unearthed.
But I mostly quit giving a shit about new rock/pop when I was in college. The exception was around 2000, when I heard new (or still reasonably new) albums by The Roots, Common, D’Angelo, Jazzyfatnastees, Adriana Evans, Davina and Ambersunshower.
“Yeah, well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.”
I like just about anything of his up until around '65 and then I like one song out of every third album. I like the more folkish and poetic songs.
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My least popular musical opinion: Django Reinhardt is the greatest guitarist of all time and always will be.
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I’m bummed they never do their kids work anymore either.
I saw them once at an X-Games event. Closing act. Everyone left mid-set.
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It’s not easy being me, but I do make it look good.
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I thought this was supposed to be unpopular music opinions.
