Unpopular music opinions

[Blackjack]

[video=youtube;5Trp95loXAw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Trp95loXAw&feature=related[/video]

 

[eveready]

Back on Earth

[video=youtube;iZLNPyXSHNQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZLNPyXSHNQ[/video] Ozzy Osbourne's music may not appeal to the "Old Fogey" sensibilities of some people on this thread.......but this "Nosferatu" inspired video might. Turn the volume down if it offends your ear drums.

 

[Wire9Vintage]

Glad to see I'm not the only one who doesn't like Sinatra... don't get his appeal at all. I also have never understood the appeal of Judy Garland or Liza Minneli. Or Sammy Davis Jr. (seems to be a trend here... but Dean Martin is on the "love!" list, soo...)

Also hate the Grateful Dead.

Don't know that this is unpopular so much... but I have always adored Johnny Horton. What a voice. He's is very few "top tens," but certainly in mine!

 

[eveready]

Glad to see I'm not the only one who doesn't like Sinatra... don't get his appeal at all. I also have never understood the appeal of Judy Garland or Liza Minneli. Or Sammy Davis Jr. (seems to be a trend here... but Dean Martin is on the "love!" list, soo...)

Also hate the Grateful Dead.

Don't know that this is unpopular so much... but I have always adored Johnny Horton. What a voice. He's is very few "top tens," but certainly in mine!

Agreed...Sinatra is overrated...I also have no use for Judy Garland, her daughter, or Sammy Davis. I can listen to Dean Martin.... the Dead had a few good songs, like this one[video=youtube;XacvydVrhuI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XacvydVrhuI[/video]....but Johnny Horton? Never heard of 'em!

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Also hate the Grateful Dead.

ME TOO! When I was in high school (early 90s) all the hippie "alternative" people LOVED them just for the sake of coolness. It made me queasy! I was the only one with the guts enough to say I thought they were garbage. Of course, they all called me a a "poser." lol Dumb high school kids lol

I like Johnny Horton, too! I didn't know there was such a dislike of him?

 

[Kahuna]

Q: What does a deadhead say when he runs out of drugs?
A: This music sucks, man!

 

[Wire9Vintage]

I like Johnny Horton, too! I didn't know there was such a dislike of him?

Not so much dislike as "never heard of"ness... (see: eveready above!)

Kahuna, that? ... is hysterical!

 

[Chasseur]

This is not going to be too unpopular here on the Lounge, but I really do not like most "classic rock" from the 1970s (can expand this to late 1960s and early 1980s as well). I grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska and I worked all through college in restaurants. The one thing that was always played in restaurant kitchens in Fairbanks was 'the classic rock station.' Of course this was a some generic national station owned by Clearchannel or what have you so they essentially played "the canon of rock" on a 2 hour loop. It used to amuse me when the guys who loved the channel would say something like, "Man, those commercial pop radio stations over play songs, man Alanis Morisette is on all the time. Hey is that "Smoke on the Water" man, turn it up!" I guess irony was lost on these guys, but why do we need to play songs like "Radar Love" every two hours for over 30 years? Why?

 

[MissMittens]

[video=youtube;uXi8QKId5g0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXi8QKId5g0[/video] Any opinions on this song?

Crap

 

[MissMittens]

I love the neo-swing revival of 1998 and that is what got me into vintage in the first place!!

Agreed, I liked the swing revival, but I was listening to original swing before then, it just made it "cool" for a moment in time

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I love Johnny Horton, I heard Johnny Reb today on old AM900. My favorite Johnny Horton tune!

 

[eveready]

Crap

True...empty calories. Just like chocolate ice cream.....good in small doses, but it will make you sick if you eat the whole gallon.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Agreed, I liked the swing revival, but I was listening to original swing before then, it just made it "cool" for a moment in time

I just dabbled in real 30s/40s swing before this silly revival. After it, though, I was changed. Hence why I laugh when people cry about vintage being "trendy." Yes, it will attract a lot of sheep who will discard it next season, but it will also bring in people who are going to stick with it and build the vintage community!

RE: REO Speedwagon. I love them! I love Styx, too. Geez -- there's not a whole lot I DON'T like! I pride myself on my music collection/taste. I'm one of those dorks lol

 

[martinsantos]

Exactly what was this "swing revival" in 90s? Never heard about. Is it the same that happened in 70s?

 

[LizzieMaine]

I think the big difference between the 70s and the 90s was that there were still a lot of the original Swing Era performers around and active in the 70s, and there was much more interest in the original recordings -- you had major reissue programs going, a lot of rare stuff coming out on LP, and a lot more awareness of the original music. The 90s had some of that, but I don't think there was much of it as there was the first time -- the emphasis seemed be more on putting "a modern twist" on swing than on the original performers.

The 70s revival was also part of a much larger-scale interest in thirties culture in general -- movies, radio, literature, art -- while the 90s didn't seem to have a whole lot of interest in the greater context of the era beyond dancing and clothes.

 

[Fletch]

Some of this can be explained by 30s-generation demographics:

70s - young elderly
90s - dead

 

[martinsantos]

Thanks for explaining.

The 70s revival was very strong here - I got tons of LPs with records from 30s - and some with new records, some with the old personel. (my own interest started with a "newly recorded with original members").

But this new revival didn't come here. Never saw anyone talking about anything about 30s and 40s except myself; and the same about vintage clothes. If some clothes are "inspired", probably the owners don't know it.

 

[Lincsong]

I'd rather listen to Frankie Abalone than John Lennon, The Dead, Stones,

[video=youtube;SSyMxJDaK90]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSyMxJDaK90&feature=player_detailpage[/video]

 

[Amy Jeanne]

The summer of 1998 was when the swing revival hit here. In 1997 I was really into the Squirrel Nut Zippers so it was just a natural transition for me to get into the other modern bands that came out.

The Squirrel Nut Zippers were and are excellent. The very best of the "revival." All the other bands, though, were kinda awful lol I mean, at the time I liked them a lot, but if I listen to it now (which I do if it comes on my iPod!) I just think "Ugh! This is horrible, but hilariously loveable at the same time."

But it was this "movement" that got me into the vintage I love today. I remember going to a Big bad Voodoo Daddy concert in the summer of '98 and saw all these people dressed up in 30s and 40s clothes. I fell in love. I began to go backwards because, seriously, the late 90s was pretty awful musically. I began to like rockabilly and I did the 50s thing for a bit because I found it most accessible.

Then I discovered the 20s and I've been firmly planted in the time period between the two Wars ever since. So the 90s swing revival did all kinds of good for me I can't imagine myself without my vintage identity and passion.

 

[martinsantos]

Sometimes a silly introduction is good because bring people for other things, as you said. And making possible the existence of a group of similar interests. Nobody stay with the copy when the true thing is still around.

I became introduced to Glenn Miller with a horrible LP with a carbon copy band. But good enough to make me ask for the original recordings! (my only problem was my two sister's laughs about, as I were 10 y.o., and they were fans of 70s/80s pop music ...)