Unpopular Musical Opinions

[Gowienczyk]

Looking for ska bands. I started with Sublime but I know most fans don't consider them ska exactly.

Any ideas?

Eastern Standard Time
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
Rotterdam Ska-Jazz Foundation

also:

The Specials, The Beat, Madness, The Skatalites, The Selecter and anything related to Desmond Dekker.

[Gowienczyk]

Can you guys recc me some catchy, but good rap? Stuff like Kanye, Jay Z, Outkast, even Gambino. Preferably something with more meaningful lyrics at times like Outkast, but thats not a requirement.

K-OS
Pigeon John

both come to mind with that kind of Outkast swagger.

[SuperTigerMario]

Eastern Standard Time
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
Rotterdam Ska-Jazz Foundation

also:

The Specials, The Beat, Madness, The Skatalites, The Selecter and anything related to Desmond Dekker.

Much obliged.

[TheRollingBones]

K-OS
Pigeon John

both come to mind with that kind of Outkast swagger.

Cool, thanks. I've been trying to get into more hip hop lately, all I've really been into up to this point are the obv. classics Public Enemy, Nas, etc. and the popular modern ones.

I'm gonna guess that K-OS song came out around the late 90's or early 00's, because hearing that instantly brought back memories of hearing it a lot when I was a kid.

[Gowienczyk]

Cool, thanks. I've been trying to get into more hip hop lately, all I've really been into up to this point are the obv. classics Public Enemy, Nas, etc. and the popular modern ones.

I'm gonna guess that K-OS song came out around the late 90's or early 00's, because hearing that instantly brought back memories of hearing it a lot when I was a kid.

2004. Canadian radio must of been bliss outside of the Nickelback clones.

[TheRollingBones]

2004. Canadian radio must of been bliss outside of the Nickelback clones.

Yeah, I suppose. Can't say I was that concious of it, being eight years old and all, but there's a lot of songs I'm hearing lately remembering them being around back in the day.

[Onslaught_fei]

I feel like the "Big 4" got to be what they were because they all played a rather accessible brand of thrash metal. That's by no means a bad thing in its own right, but it does leave a bit to be desired when compared to some other thrash bands that were lesser-known but did a lot more.

Late to this party but big 4 are the big 4 because of distribution. That's right, the record labels.

Anthrax was on Megaforce (Sony) and then Island (Atlantic) in 1985.
Slayer was on Def Jam (Universal) in 1986.
Metallica started on Megaforce (Sony) then to Elektra in 1986 (Warner).
Megadeth was on Capital (EMI) by 1986.

So there's big 4 thrash because there was big 4 record labels. They were all American bands that were given the proper promotion and distribution during a golden era.

Coroner and Kreator were on Noise, an independent German label. Destruction and Sodom were on Steamhammer, another indy German label. Basically big 4 is just an awareness thing created by the industry at the time.

[darkwinterbeast8]

Sounds like the better thrash metal bands were on German Indie Labels. Not that it's much of a surprise for the elite bands of a metal sub-genre to be on Indie Metal Labels. Do Agree with the "Big Four" being a marketing construct for Thrash considering that there were many other US Thrash Metal bands still getting the shaft as far as record labels/marketing/media hype during Thrash Metal's hey day was concerned.

[seriousbusson]

UO: "The Perfect Kiss">Joy Division's entire discography

[Runesmith]

UO: "The Perfect Kiss">Joy Division's entire discography

Absolutely agreed. I think I actually posted the same thing many, many months ago.