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| Poll: Do critics' reviews influence your opinion about an album, song or artist? |
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uninformdopinion
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- #1
- Posted: 06/04/2014 20:58
- Post subject: Favorite Albums Hated By Critics and Music Nerds
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What albums do you love but are embarrassed to let your snobbish friends know?
Here are mine:
Pink Floyd: The Division Bell
I enjoyed The Division Bell very much. The lyrics are nowhere near Roger Waters', but I love David Gilmour's guitar playing. And the lyrics are not bad.
Coldplay: X&Y
It may be because I was a child and this was the first CD I owned, but there's something magical about X&Y.
U2: No Line on the Horizon
I seriously don't understand what people don't like about this album. Bono's singing is great, and it's their most experimental album since the 90s. I really like it.
Radiohead: Pablo Honey
Sure it's not great, but it's most certainly not bad. And there are some great songs, namely You and Blow Out.
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Anti
I Dream of Drone
Age: 28
Location: Somewhere in Ohio
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Precedent
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- #3
- Posted: 06/04/2014 21:02
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| BurningBright wrote: | 
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Take Care by Drake
Haha, a lot of people dislike this being so high on my chart! |
This is my #1!
So this, although Pitchfork loves it!
I'm not ashamed or afraid to have anyone know/tell anyone, I'm proud to love it.
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Dingerbell
Gender: Male
Age: 27
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- #4
- Posted: 06/04/2014 21:08
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Well, it depends; some of the bands I love- such as Muse, Kasabian or The Cribs- may appear to get critical panning by American critics, but English critics are much more generous to them, so I'm not really sure. I guess outside of those I love Foo Fighters, Kaiser Chiefs and the Pigeon Detectives who you could say aren't really well loved by critics.
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Kiki
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- #5
- Posted: 06/04/2014 21:17
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If you're reading critics' reviews it's almost inevitable they will influence if you like or dislike an album. While you are not going to find someone here who copies any critic or publishers views on music albums completely, it takes a great deal of effort to remove your bias down to a minimal level.
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Antonio-Pedro
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Age: 24
Location: Rain forest Kingdom
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- #6
- Posted: 06/04/2014 21:24
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Sometimes yes, and sometimes not, hardly yes... Well most people I know hates American Idiot, But I still liking it, and most people hated Reflektor last year, and that's may be why I didn't like it so much, sometimes the problem is our subconcious that say for us you can't like because X or Y, but Our mind doesn't tell us on the right way this code and almost everything "sounds" bad, That's why I like to listen to the album before seeing people's review or critics for it. Yeah it may influence someone, at least me
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RockyRaccoon
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- #7
- Posted: 06/04/2014 22:15
- Post subject: Re: Favorite Albums Hated By Critics and Music Nerds
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| uninformdopinion wrote: | What albums do you love but are embarrassed to let your snobbish friends know?
Here are mine:
Pink Floyd: The Division Bell
I enjoyed The Division Bell very much. The lyrics are nowhere near Roger Waters', but I love David Gilmour's guitar playing. And the lyrics are not bad.
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Dude, yes. Thank you. I enjoy The Division Bell too, "Marooned" is definitely one of my favorite Floyd pieces.
Along the same lines, I actually really liked The Final Cut as well, despite a lot of people hating that. As of now, it's #30 on my top-100 of the 80s chart.
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Happymeal
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- #8
- Posted: 06/04/2014 22:24
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The most recent BVB album, Hanson albums, Everclear albums after So much for the afterglow, any Hot Hot Heat album, Juanes, Aqua, Mana, Barenaked Ladies' discography, Crash Test Dummies, Goo Goo Dolls, Rednex, etc.
EDIT: Not embarrassed to like these (or any albums), but they're commonly disdained by many within the more informed music community, but I love them for different reasons.
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revolver94
professional dilettante
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Location: DC suburb
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- #9
- Posted: 06/04/2014 22:38
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My Tastes Align Perfectly With The Critics So This Question Is Not Relevant To Me !!
You Could Even Say I Am A Tastemaker !!
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- #10
- Posted: 06/04/2014 22:45
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| an_outlaw wrote: | | If you're reading critics' reviews it's almost inevitable they will influence if you like or dislike an album. While you are not going to find someone here who copies any critic or publishers views on music albums completely, it takes a great deal of effort to remove your bias down to a minimal level. |
This, totally. I think it's really hard to remove any bias in general, whether they are positive or negative, and the critics' (whoever they are) opinion is no exception. I'm not saying it'll radically change your vision of a record, but someone can definitely get more indulgent or severe with something after reading an article or an opinion.
About the thread question, I'm not sure. Does Supertramp count? They are kinda uncool, but at the same time they're still pretty acclaimed. They are amazing anyway. I'm sure there are others, but this was the first band that came to mind.
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