😤 LET’S ARGUE! 😤 (MARCH 2024 Thread)
Added 2024-03-04 17:32:38 +0000 UTCThank you so much for all your support this month! Now's that magical time when you hit us with your HOT TAKES, UNPOPULAR OPINIONS, and TOUGH QUESTIONS; drop them down in the comments IMMEDIATELY and we'll look through them all in a couple of weeks. Let's go!
In case you missed last month's episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/lets-argue-scott-99644370
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what are your feelings about J Cole’s early mixtapes? I feel like you’ve only talked about his studio albums, but mixtapes like Friday Night Lights are some of his best works in my opinion
Drake Parker
2024-03-30 08:39:04 +0000 UTCplease elaborate on your terrible experience at the Cat Power live show you attended in that big church
korakuen
2024-03-23 06:46:52 +0000 UTCI’ve always had an interest in reviewing music myself, however, I’m concerned that I won’t have something to set me apart from other more established music reviewers. When you started, I’m assuming music reviewing on YouTube was more unique than it is now (I was not on YouTube at that point so maybe I’m wrong). Now in 2024 with how saturated it is, I don’t feel I’d have any distinct quality about my own reviews to set me apart from everyone else. I know the obvious answer is simply “you have to find your own niche” and only I can discover that, but do you have any tips as to how one could go about discovering said niche? Or would you say it’s futile to this point?
Josh Miles
2024-03-22 23:38:04 +0000 UTCshorter albums where there’s more killer no filler will always be better than a long album, even if every song on the long album is pretty good, it’s hard for me to listen to albums that are over an hour let alone an hour and 20 minutes (except TPAB) but that just might be a me problem
vvo
2024-03-19 03:22:15 +0000 UTCWhy did you describe the vibes so perfectly 💀
Zach S
2024-03-18 10:48:41 +0000 UTCWhy does third wave ska sound like eating mozzarella sticks at local bowling alley for 13 year old birthday party
Chris Hickson
2024-03-17 01:30:20 +0000 UTCI hate whenever artists have like 20 minute long tracks only to have like half of the song be silence just to incorporate a "secret track." I understand on vinyl, you gotta use up as much wax as possible, but on streaming it is pointless. Either make the "secret track" its own song or make a physical exclusive track
Kyle Cahill
2024-03-14 18:11:01 +0000 UTCCorey Feldman is the closest we will ever get to a real life Spinal Tap (in terms of how unaware he is of what he's doing and the amount of things that hilariously go wrong on his recordings and in live shows)
Stephen
2024-03-13 03:35:08 +0000 UTCAgreed!
Nick
2024-03-12 12:44:21 +0000 UTCI truly think that alot of 2000s R&B was mostly about the singles because the albums from that era were really safe and bland but I do want to know your opinion on Prince Musicology
Caspa
2024-03-11 01:12:26 +0000 UTCPink Lady, Cosmic Crisp and Granny Smith are the best types of apple
Cory P
2024-03-08 13:06:04 +0000 UTCIf Liam Howlett, Daft Punk, Fatboy Slim etc. were coming up in 2024, they'd be sampling from Splice. Or does sampling professional records just incentivise rights holders/labels to push product? Or does it just make better music? Discuss
Idlusr
2024-03-08 12:12:51 +0000 UTCKing Gizzard and the Lizard Wizzard are the band I'd recommend the most to people that think Greta Van Fleet is 'bringing rock back'. They borrow a lot of stuff from the 60s, 70s and 80s but are able to do it in a much more creative way than GVF, which makes them more unique
Stephen
2024-03-08 11:05:24 +0000 UTCLiterally facts
Chris Castillo
2024-03-07 12:12:36 +0000 UTCJeff Rosenstock is far better as a solo artist than he was as part of BTMI
Verdana
2024-03-07 07:38:44 +0000 UTCTbh not a hot take like if you step outside of people you know not that many people have Eminem in their top 10
Chris Castillo
2024-03-07 04:12:45 +0000 UTCSonic the Hedgehog is the Weezer of video games, whilst DreamWorks is the Weezer of animation. What all three have in common within their albums, films, and games, is that they are so consistently inconsistent that it is quite an achievement on its own. With Weezer, one day you might get a Blue Album or a White Album from them, but then the next you may get a Raditude. With Sonic, one day it can be the classics on Genesis, and the next you may get Sonic '06. And with DreamWorks, you may get a Prince of Egypt or Shrek or How to Train Your Dragon, but you may also get a Megamind 2.
ToadMan101
2024-03-05 22:11:01 +0000 UTCDavid Bowie's more groovier albums like Station To Station have aged a lot better than the Glam Rock era stuff even with how amazing Ziggy Stardust is
Chris Castillo
2024-03-05 21:38:10 +0000 UTCToo many great albums have been lost by one of the artist entering into the wrong part of the spotlight. Separating art from the artist isn't does as much in music and it sucks.
DogzoneK9
2024-03-05 15:29:58 +0000 UTCthoughts on maudlin of the well?
Waffles!
2024-03-05 14:29:14 +0000 UTCa question off the back your pushing 40 vid: have you had any hearing complications resulting from listening to music for prolonged periods of time, and do you have any advice on how to protect your hearing as you get older as a music fan? bonus question: do you think that as you age and your hearing gets worse you might not catch exactly everything more 'layered' genres (e.g., classical or prog music) might offer?
A
2024-03-05 09:09:28 +0000 UTCMore rappers need to do Haikus.
man door hand hook car door
2024-03-04 23:16:01 +0000 UTCKrautrock is more of a movement than an actual genre.
BlueZones
2024-03-04 20:17:49 +0000 UTCBro covering both bases 😭
rice
2024-03-04 19:56:11 +0000 UTCIsaac Hayes is the hottest bald person
rice
2024-03-04 19:52:46 +0000 UTCHot Buttered Soul is one of the most influential albums of all time in terms of both soul and hip hop and rap as we know it wouldn’t exist in the same way today without it
rice
2024-03-04 19:52:40 +0000 UTCI’ve been saying this! Going off just quality of albums alone, he just hasn’t been there In soooo long. MMLP2 was good but kind of safe tbh. Relapse is a cult classic that I think was the least safe album he put out, and gets more hate than it deserves. But really outside of those first three, he just ain’t touching anything other folks are doing or have done
Shalom Guy
2024-03-04 18:36:24 +0000 UTCI prefer Origin of Symmetry, but BH&R is the last great muse album at least
Shalom Guy
2024-03-04 18:32:22 +0000 UTCI get that The cure is a great, important, well-respected band responsible for a lot of cool stuff. But how does Robert smith expect me to get my friends on board when he sounds like that all the way up to at least Wild Mood Swings?
Shalom Guy
2024-03-04 18:31:40 +0000 UTCMuse's Black Holes and Revelation's is a classic album
Benjamin Lisboa
2024-03-04 18:12:34 +0000 UTCA few rappers from the soundcloud era like Rich The Kid and Famous Dex are making music again that’s gaining some traction. Do you feel that they can successfully get back to their biggest points of popularity?
John Coffey
2024-03-04 18:11:40 +0000 UTCWhat are your thoughts on Madison beers music
Griffin
2024-03-04 18:08:37 +0000 UTCI wanna know the opposite too. What song do you ALWAYS wanna hear at the function but rarely ever gets played?
Tuck
2024-03-04 17:57:48 +0000 UTCJames Ferraro deserves more recognition as the ACTUAL person to invent vaporwave, not Oneohtrix Point Never/Daniel Lopatin. James's early vaporwave stuff came out in mid-2009, almost 11 months before Daniel used the Chuck Person alias with Eccojams. It's no mistake Daniel revolutionized vaporwave by incorporating actual catchy sampled loops and making vaporwave less of a lo-fi ambient/noise sound that James's 2009 stuff had. But James came up with the anti-consumerist philosophy and used sound to envoke nostalgia in a negative "It wasn't good, even back then" way meanwhile post 2011 Eccojams/Floral Shoppe vaporwave glorifies it to the point where people not experienced with the genre just boil vaporwave down to "le 80s song but slowed down" and is treated more of a meme/joke genre instead of anti-consumerist art that warns people of the dangers of nostalgia. Listening to James's 2009 stuff is definitely uncomfortable, eerie and genuinely terrifying at points meanwhile modern vaporwave is a "vibe" more than anything else.
Trait
2024-03-04 17:57:33 +0000 UTCClassical music is gonna have a big resurgence the way vinyl / Y2K fashion did
Trevor Young
2024-03-04 17:45:38 +0000 UTCLet's get philosophical for a minute: Why does 'bad' music get popular? There's been so many times throughout music history where songs or artists chart highly and get tons of success, but in hindsight, they end up critically panned and are considered some of the 'worst of all time'. You'd figure this kind of thing would eventually stop after how much it's happened, but it hasn't. If anything it's a more prominent trend than ever. Why do you think is such a common phenomenon in the landscape of pop music?
Herbieguy
2024-03-04 17:44:06 +0000 UTCThere’s been a lot of yellow flannels in just a couple months! Do you think it’s going to be a front-loaded year for music? Or are you just in a great mood this year?
Tuck
2024-03-04 17:44:02 +0000 UTCYou claim not to be a movie guy, yet your handful of movie reviews last year were really good!
Reid Sweatt
2024-03-04 17:40:48 +0000 UTCsynthpop sounds like a delicious frozen treat to be enjoyed on a hot summer day
bressig
2024-03-04 17:39:19 +0000 UTCEminem is not a top 10 rapper of all time
Zach S
2024-03-04 17:35:46 +0000 UTCHip hop will eventually reach a point like rock music was in the early 2010’s where its popularity will plummet considerably because of how long the genre has been consumed at the level it has been. It’ll still take a bit of years and be a gradual process but the day will eventually come.
Zach S
2024-03-04 17:35:26 +0000 UTCtv shows > movies
Justin Koonce
2024-03-04 17:34:25 +0000 UTCmovies > tv shows
Justin Koonce
2024-03-04 17:34:15 +0000 UTCwhat song do you NEVER want to hear at the function but will, without fail, be played at the function?
Alex Sim
2024-03-04 17:34:08 +0000 UTC
