Stuff you think is overrated - top 3

atypical_boro said:
Yeah. I mean its highly subjective what is 'good', but I wouldn't question Radiohead being more 'high brow'. Complex doesn't mean 'good' however. I've listened to almost all their albums as I was a fan of The Bends and, to a much lesser extent, OK Computer, and I've found absolutely nothing that stirs the same sort of emotions that Definitely Maybe did (certainly not since the Bends). Just my opinion. Music doesn't have to always be about using complex chords and singing in falsetto about historical figure no one has heard of.

Put it this way, if someone asks me to put a track on at a party I'm not going for Paranoid Android or Jigsaw Falling Into Place. It depends what you actually want to get from music, or life in general. And for me, Radiohead is not it.
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As you say it’s subjective and oasis and Radiohead serve different purposes. Oasis for me gives me a bit of nostalgia of that early 90s, but it hasn’t got the depth to move me anymore. Radiohead is a different beast, alone, listening to all the different layers through a decent pair of earphones, hearing all those details, the tension building then release of resolution that just isn’t there in oasis. Getting my head in tune with scales and modes that are above the basics of pop rock music, feeling the rhythm of complex timing rather than just 4:4 again.

Oasis speaks to the 20% extrovert side of me, that will dance about and get drunk and be a geezer. But those days are less as I get older. Radiohead speaks to the introverted, deeply analytical person that wonders how the world works, that sees the beauty in the complexity of life. I’d be bored trying to listen to depth in oasis on my own with my earphones, looking for something that isn’t there. Horses for courses.
 
BoroMart said:
I’ve really gone off wine the last 10 years and only ever drink it if someone else has opened a bottle. Weird as I used to drink it a lot. I think we are told we should like it, but most of it is horrible
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I agree, even when people are drinking it it never looks like they are enjoying it to me. Just a good drink to get you smashed.

It’s not for me.

Lagers and Spirits are only things I really enjoy drinking. And the odd cheeky cocktail 😂
 
atypical_boro said:
Yeah. I mean its highly subjective what is 'good', but I wouldn't question Radiohead being more 'high brow'. Complex doesn't mean 'good' however. I've listened to almost all their albums as I was a fan of The Bends and, to a much lesser extent, OK Computer, and I've found absolutely nothing that stirs the same sort of emotions that Definitely Maybe did (certainly not since the Bends). Just my opinion. Music doesn't have to always be about using complex chords and singing in falsetto about historical figure no one has heard of.

Put it this way, if someone asks me to put a track on at a party I'm not going for Paranoid Android or Jigsaw Falling Into Place. It depends what you actually want to get from music, or life in general. And for me, Radiohead is not it.
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In Rainbows is an absolutely masterpiece, in my very humble opinion.

An album that blew me away when I first heard it and still does to this day.
 
Brian Marwood said:
In Rainbows is an absolutely masterpiece, in my very humble opinion.

An album that blew me away when I first heard it and still does to this day.
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It certainly is and just gets better with age. You can listen to it for 10 years and suddenly find something new, like that videotape is not played at funeral march speed but is in fact a whopping 154 beats per minute and for a decade you’ve listened to it all wrong!
 
TeaCider said:
Five Guys
Ted Lasso
Tomahawk
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Never understood the wrapping in foil malarkey, all it does is guarantee a soggy burger and boiled salad.

Sure, it may keep it marginally warmer for the 2 minutes it takes to get to you and you open it, but the temperature saving isn't worth it for a soggy bun/ salad.

Ted Lasso is good, but it is overrated.

Tomahawk is good, but the steaks etc are simple to replicate at home with a half-decent pan and a good cut of meat, and for better value, so what they actually do is overrated. Same as why I never order steak, it's always way over priced for the effort the chef is putting in, compared to some other dishes anyway.
 
Dishwashers - dirty buggers. Just because you can close the door on your dirty dishes doesn`t make it right......get'em washed up man
Ingleby Barwick - Surprised no-one has mentioned it ;)
Supermarket Curry - About 20 spice levels lower than it indicates. More spice in a tin of beans than a supermarket Korma
 
boroboy6872 said:
Dishwashers - dirty buggers. Just because you can close the door on your dirty dishes doesn`t make it right......get'em washed up man
Ingleby Barwick - Surprised no-one has mentioned it ;)
Supermarket Curry - About 20 spice levels lower than it indicates. More spice in a tin of beans than a supermarket Korma
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Iceland do those Carolina Reaper curries. I thought I could take any spice until I tried one of those, it was proposterous. I think you’d revise your choices if you tried one!
 
I love Radiohead and oasis for very different reasons.

Choosing one or the other would be nearly impossible. Radiohead probably edge it because they've made me question things in life more or expressed the human condition in a way that's resonated with me.

Oasis got me out of bed every morning during one of the lowest parts of my life though, for that I'll always love them. I'm in need of a mini resurgence at the moment, they could be just the tonic.
 
BoroMart said:
Radiohead is more high brow. No way could any member of oasis have been capable of writing any of the parts of Airbag let alone some of the more complicated pieces they wrote later like Videotape, Sail To The Moon or Pyramid Song. Regardless if you like them or not, the musicality of what they do is phenomenal which is why loads of other artists name check their work.

Oasis (certainly earlier) were good at what they did, but musically it wasn’t complex, 5-chords that any guitarist already knew, a simple riff from the pentatonic scale and off you go. They didn’t play with time signatures or jazz chords or a funk groove, or complex guitars that create dissonance and then interweave to resolve. Oasis just aren’t knowledgeable enough or probably motivated enough to experiment and write something like that. Their early stuff is still enjoyable and yeah the later albums have a banger or two on it amongst some cocaine fuelled drivel but compared to Radiohead and some other artists it’s a bit ‘basic’, enjoyable enough but they didn’t challenge themselves.

If you look at the people Noel aspires to, people like Johnny Marr and Paul Weller, they have a far broader musical taste, like to work in other genres learn, experiment and listen and aren’t concerned that someone would think it pretentious. This is where oasis and Noel in particular fail, they became obsessed with doing the same things but better, rather than learn and grow and experiment.
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Great post.. 👍🏼
 
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