Unpopular Musical Opinions

[Rocket2Russia]

Wish You Were Here just seems like a totally new direction that expanded on their previous commercial success - think if you took "Money" and made a whole album out of it.

[a21schizoidman]

WYWH was released after a few years by PF when DSoTM ended up being MUCH more successful than they'd ever imagined, and didn't know what to do to follow it up, originally they were making an album called Household Objects, which consisted of rubber bands, machine noises, etc. that would be used to make an album, but then the commercial success rolled in and they had to scrap the idea to make something that people would like because people would actually be expecting something good out of them for the new album


also, The Division Bell is awesome

[TheCoolGuy]

Animals >> Dark Side of the Moon > Wish You Were Here.


UO: White Light/White Heat is my least favorite Velvet Underground album, and I'm not overly fond of Loaded to begin with.

[ROCKBANDFANATIC7526]

UO: I'm really sick of "White Room" to be perfectly honest. Surprisingly I don't get sick of "Sunshine of Your Love" even with it's immense overplaying.

[instantdeath999]

The parts of Plastic Ono Band that were personal instead of pushing the fake hippie image he had cultivated for so long felt kind of stuck in The Beatles era, where I might as well just listen to the later stuff from them as a group when he and Paul inspired one another more intimately.



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I thought "Mother", "Well Well Well", and "Love" were all fantastic songs, regardless of the image they were trying to convey. Really, having read a few biographies on him, I get the sense that John Lennon definitely loved attention, but I don't really feel his whole hippy image was the result of that attention hunger, nor was it any kind of false pretense. He really just felt like he was doing something good, and while it was usually just protests, it actually would occasionally lead to something good (the John Sinclair concert, for instance, which arguably got him out of jail).

[a21schizoidman]

i always felt Lennon's solo work to be pretentious

[afterstasis]

i like a lot of the solo lennon stuff, but preferred george's. never liked any solo paul or ringo.

[instantdeath999]

i always felt Lennon's solo work to be pretentious

He definitely did have a "agree with me or you're stupid" attitude, but I think it's made out to be a lot worse than it really was.

i like a lot of the solo lennon stuff, but preferred george's. never liked any solo paul or ringo.

Does that include Wings? I like Wings, though I still believe I prefer John and George solo stuff. I don't like Ringo solo, although I did see him a few months back, and his band put on a great show.

[afterstasis]

yeah, never liked wings. they're inoffensive and have a few catchy tunes but nothing i ever want to listen to on my own.

[Rockbandfan23467]

WYWH was released after a few years by PF when DSoTM ended up being MUCH more successful than they'd ever imagined, and didn't know what to do to follow it up, originally they were making an album called Household Objects, which consisted of rubber bands, machine noises, etc. that would be used to make an album, but then the commercial success rolled in and they had to scrap the idea to make something that people would like because people would actually be expecting something good out of them for the new album


also, The Division Bell is awesome

You forgot that it took them a long time to record just a single song.

Also, the "David Gilmour solo albums with the Pink Floyd name" are underrated.