Unpopular Opinions

[tonyh29]

6 hours ago, mjmooney said:

We should all enjoy what we enjoy, and don't waste valuable time trying in vain to like what others tell us we should. 

agreed 

 

but you are still wrong and the 80's was the greatest decade for music  

 

[lapal_fan]

Honestly, I'm going to go get the wrestling topic dorks in here in a second, seems to be the only way to dissipate the vinyl satchel wearing dweebs.

Popular opinion; music talk should stop, right now. 

[tonyh29]

3 minutes ago, lapal_fan said:

Honestly, I'm going to go get the wrestling topic dorks in here in a second, seems to be the only way to dissipate the vinyl satchel wearing dweebs.

Popular opinion; music talk should stop, right now. 

This is the unpopular opinion thread so you and your popular opinion can jog off to another thread 

 

[Wainy316]

37 minutes ago, lapal_fan said:

Honestly, I'm going to go get the wrestling topic dorks in here in a second

You called?

 

[Rugeley Villa]

1 hour ago, MakemineVanilla said:

I found that when reading rock biographies, there is always a page or two about how the subject was influenced by their parents' or sibling's record collection, which is always surprising because they all too often don't conform with the genre the artist in question is associated with.

So presumably, if we end up with good or bad taste in music, we can apportion praise or blame, where appropriate.

Yes especially going back to the 60s and 70s . A lot of the rock bands from that era drew influence from a wide range of music . Maybe that’s the case for later decades too.

[mjmooney]

13 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said:

Yes especially going back to the 60s and 70s . A lot of the rock bands from that era drew influence from a wide range of music . Maybe that’s the case for later decades too.

Music thread.

[Straggler]

8 hours ago, bickster said:

Oh look the same person talking bollocks again (The Snobs® never started it.) In fact a self confessed non-music person started it 

Yes I did. And now the thread is dead to me. Its history. Now there are no limits to the talk about pop music, so yes regrets, I have a few. Where have all the good times gone?

[mjmooney]

11 hours ago, Straggler said:

Yes I did. And now the thread is dead to me. Its history. Now there are no limits to the talk about pop music, so yes regrets, I have a few. Where have all the good times gone?

If you tolerate this your children will be next. 

[GarethRDR]

16 hours ago, lapal_fan said:

Honestly, I'm going to go get the wrestling topic dorks in here in a second, seems to be the only way to dissipate the vinyl satchel wearing dweebs.

Pfft, I happily operate in both spheres.

Hang on.

 

[chrisp65]

54 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

If you tolerate this your children will be next. 

For a while, I bought my bread and cheese in the same shop as James Dean and top cyclist Geraint Thomas, but man, it was just too expensive for me and I had to stop.

It’s a lovely idea, supporting a local artisan start up, but £4 for what was really pretty average bread, I just couldn’t sustain it.

Thomas left his carbon fibre bike outside the shop without a lock, I was looking at it, thinking now that’s a mad expensive bike, when he came out with a bag of rolls stuck them on the handle bars and rode off. Popping down the shops on yer bike, having won the Tour. 

True story that.

[Amsterdam_Neil_D]

On 29/10/2021 at 12:16, Straggler said:

It has come to my attention that I do have an unpopular opinion.  I think all music is boring.  I don't listen to it.  I don't ban it or anything, I don't hate it, I just can't be bothered about it.  The idea of actually listening to an album as an activity is very alien to me, I can't really imagine music as anything other than background whilst something else is happening.  Concert going is rubbish, I may as well stick my TV at the other end of my garden and squint at it as I blast my ears at an unpleasant level with my headphones on to replicate the experience.  I think I've given the whole thing a fair crack, I've been to all sorts of events from Glastonbury to the Gypsy Kings and the main thing I took away from them is that I don't want to do any of those things again.  It's a very expensive way of hearing the same music you have already heard, but not produced at the same standard as the carefully crafted studio album (which I'm also not going to listen to).

My wife loves music, so It's around me all the time and I do find some of it better than other bits, but if I'm home alone I'd much rather listen to a podcast than stick music on.

 

I am the same but for different reasons.  I can't have music in the background and do something else (Eg read / study / Ps4) or anything (ADHD).

But I can't just have music on and nothing else as I don't know what to do with myself if that makes sense.

Oddly enough,  my memory for music is impressive even though I am not that into it.  If I have heard it once I never forget a tune.  

Funnily enough the track that is taking The Netherlands by storm at the moment is one of my favorited songs (Only becasue I can actually remember it playing down the Villa in 1983 and the chorus used to echo in the stand and it made it sound better for some reason).

It also has a brilliant and amazing video with it.  Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita (Its on an advert but it seems not many people heard it before KPN Broadband advert which is pretty good also).

 

[tonyh29]

18 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

For a while, I bought my bread and cheese in the same shop as James Dean and top cyclist Geraint Thomas, but man, it was just too expensive for me and I had to stop.

It’s a lovely idea, supporting a local artisan start up, but £4 for what was really pretty average bread, I just couldn’t sustain it.

Thomas left his carbon fibre bike outside the shop without a lock, I was looking at it, thinking now that’s a mad expensive bike, when he came out with a bag of rolls stuck them on the handle bars and rode off. Popping down the shops on yer bike, having won the Tour. 

True story that.

If he did that in Chertsey his bike would have been stripped down into 47 pieces by the local toe rags before he’d even removed his cycle clips 

few year back an Audi A5 got stuck in some flood water here  , it was stripped to a shell in a time that would make a Formula one team look on with envy 

[chrisp65]

1 minute ago, tonyh29 said:

If he did that in Chertsey his bike would have been stripped down into 47 pieces by the local toe rags before he’d even removed his cycle clips 

few year back an Audi A5 got stuck in some flood water here  , it was stripped to a shell in a time that would make a Formula one team look on with envy 

Ah this was in Pontcanna, the world’s poshest ghetto.

It’s like Stella Street for the Taffia. 

I threw a stick in the park once, it hit newsreader Huw Edwards, OneShow darling Alex Jones, Gareth Bale’s mum, and two super furry animals.

 

 

 

[MakemineVanilla]

2 hours ago, chrisp65 said:

For a while, I bought my bread and cheese in the same shop as James Dean and top cyclist Geraint Thomas, but man, it was just too expensive for me and I had to stop.

It’s a lovely idea, supporting a local artisan start up, but £4 for what was really pretty average bread, I just couldn’t sustain it.

Thomas left his carbon fibre bike outside the shop without a lock, I was looking at it, thinking now that’s a mad expensive bike, when he came out with a bag of rolls stuck them on the handle bars and rode off. Popping down the shops on yer bike, having won the Tour. 

True story that.

This seems to substantiate Thorstein Veblen's concept of 'conspicuous consumption' in his book The Theory of the Leisure Class.

Something which is considered repugnant by socialists but is considered a duty in a capitalist consumer society.

 

[chrisp65]

4 hours ago, MakemineVanilla said:

This seems to substantiate Thorstein Veblen's concept of 'conspicuous consumption' in his book The Theory of the Leisure Class.

Something which is considered repugnant by socialists but is considered a duty in a capitalist consumer society.

 

Personally, I wasn’t repulsed by it, I couldn’t afford it.

It would be interesting to see if ‘lefty’ singer songwriters such as James or Gruf Rhys would be there out of socialist principles, or because they can afford the finer things. Sat there with artisan ciabatta, across the road from a leafy park, writing another song about the struggle of the international brigade in 1930’s Spain.

[OutByEaster?]

Roast dinners are rubbish.

Beans or tomatoes ruin a full breakfast.

 

[bickster]

2 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

Roast dinners are rubbish.

[Sam-AVFC]

4 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

Roast dinners are rubbish.

Ok, this is a good one.

I can't believe you're not posting for effect, but still good.

[theboyangel]

28 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

Roast dinners are rubbish.

Beans or tomatoes ruin a full breakfast.

 

First bit - utter utter bobbins 

but concur with the second sentence

[Rugeley Villa]

Roast dinners depress me on a Sunday. Prefer them in the week . 
 

Beans I have on a fry up but must eat them first before I can really enjoy the rest of the food. Don’t like tomatoes .