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There was a thread about unpopular political opinions, so I figured "why not do one about music? I have plenty of unpopular opinions on that."

Anyway, to kick things off, I must be one of the only people on Earth who like the production on Metallica's seminal album "...And Justice For All". Yes, there's virtually no bass guitar on it, yes it's quite cold and compressed sounding, and yes, the drums are probably a bit louder than they should be. However, the overall audio quality is actually quite crisp and clear to my ears, and the cold, clinical sound they gave it suits the bleak subject matter well. This isn't an album about banging your head or partying all night. No, it's about political corruption, the horror of war, nuclear winter, loss, and childhood trauma. It is a very dark album that touches on a number of sad things. A lot of people don't care for this kind of music, but I do. Why? Because it's real. If more people listened to this and took its subject matter to heart, maybe we would work harder at making the world a better place, and not making the same mistakes as our forefathers.

Just listen to this and tell me it's not beautiful.

I think the American 1980's synthpop band Berlin was as, if not better then thier British and European synthpop peers.

OMD's "If you Leave Me" is utter sludge.

"The Dreaming" is Kate Bush's best album

Fleetwood Mack's "Rumours" album is crap. Boring soft pop about thier failed hippie relationships. How dare they call it Classic Rock.

A lot of Billy Joel's 1970's era lyrics are quite punk.

Lily Allen is quite good

I believe that there is no objectively good or bad music, just personal taste. I prefer music with lyrics to instrumental music. I like songs with a catchy chorus and/or meaningful, relatable lyrics. Guitar solos and repetitive choruses bore me. I like pop such as One Direction and old-fashioned folk. I like some sentimentality in music.

Taylor Swift should have kept herself to the country music genre.

Music prior to 1990 sucked. I know influences all had to come from somewhere, but outside of that I hate all of it.

I wouldn't really consider Tool to be nu-metal either tbh, but they're often lumped in with the nu-metal scene for some obscure reason. I just wish they would get back together and release another album.

Speaking of Maynard James Keenan, what would be REALLY cool is if Tapeworm reformed and actually released some material, even just some demos or a single or something. The closest we ever got to a Tapeworm release was Puscifer's version of "Potions", which may or may not be a remake. There's some controversy surrounding this because supposedly Trent Reznor had a hand in creating it, but nobody really knows other than Maynard if the version that was released was a solo effort by Maynard (and therefore Puscifer, his personal project), or if it was done by Tapeworm, which means Trent Reznor would've worked on it too. It certainly has some Reznor-esque production on it though, that's for sure.


Anyway, I'll have to give LD 50 another listen some time. The last time I listened to it I didn't really care for it because it had way too many tracks and I didn't like the production either, but I was also listening to the 2010 remaster. I might like the original 2000 version better, I'll just have to track down a copy.

I can't stand the Beatles the doors or a majority of 60s rock.
I can't stand grunge. I thinks it poor mans heavy metal.

Oh, I remember listening to To Live is to Die, 11 years old, feeling vaguely suicidal. It's easily one of their better songs in my opinion. Still like it, though I haven't been a fan of Metallica since age 12 or 13.

I have lots of unpopular opinions on music, but most probably pertain to how much of what I like is awful in most people's ears.
I love this, for example: