😤 LET’S ARGUE! 😤 (FEBRUARY 2024 Thread)

I think it exposes a blatant sexism that whenever Swifties do some fuck shit there’s a thousand memes and podcasts about how they’re a cult but Kanye’s fans can throw your divorce in your face, shit on jews as a people, and defend white lives matter and we kinda accept it as “Oh that’s just Kanye’s fans.” To be clear, I am not a swiftie and actually enjoyed 1 song on Vultures but I cannot stand how as a culture music nerds seem to not give female fanbases the same treatment they give male fanbases, not excusing anything swifties have done mind you.

Lord of The Wasps

In terms of music, the recent skramz revival is so much better than the shoegaze revival going on. So many fire skramz releases recently that deserve more love

Stella Plowman

Why did you never review albums from any of the big pop artists of the late 2000s and early 2010s like Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Kesha, Bruno Mars in your earlier reviews? Do you regret not reviewing any of these artists records in particular today?

Jay

Red Vox featuring the one and only Vinny Vinesauce?

Matt Volk

I once looked up if you had ever commented or reacted to one of my favorite bands (Red Vox ftr), and apparently you only had once, on a live stream, and your immediate reaction was to turn it off and say it was an embarrassing recommendation. No hate, obviously if you didn't like it you didn't like it, and I doubt you even remember doing it. But I was wondering what you consider as "giving a fair shake" to an album. At what point is a reaction knee jerk, how do you know you don't need to listen to any more? FTR I recommend their album Another Light, quite enjoyable.

Lizstar

Just one more thing to add on: when Peggy mentioned the fact that what he was doing was hypocritical in the now deleted tweets he posted about the whole thing, instead of him acknowledging and holding himself accountable for it, he decided to shift the blame onto his own fans for being “too online” and “reading into it too deep” as if none of what Kanye has been doing mattered to him now, even though it obviously seemed like it did matter to Peggy in the past.

JPEGMAFIA completely tarnished his artistic integrity by collaborating with Kanye West. in multiple interviews in the past, Peggy acknowledged and understood how awful Kanye’s rhetoric has been in the past few years, and yet still decides to collaborate on and even endorse Vultures despite him knowing full well about Ye’s white supremacist and antisemitic rhetoric. Knowing what Peggy has rapped about, ranted and raved in the favor of in the past (I.e black empowerment, anti-fascism, etc.), he’s a hypocrite for associating with and endorsing someone like Kanye West.

Taylor Swift and Ye fanbases have become very similar- the parasocial relationship is very strong and unhealthy - lots of people afraid to criticize or soften criticisms(or don’t at all), dog piling on people who don’t like them, etc.

Taylor Byias

Helios deserves his props for pioneering the lofi study girl genre through the 2000s.

Alex Day

Ray William Johnson made two sequels to Orphan Tears which is great and all but its been 14 years without a sequel to "Doin' Your Mom" which is outrageous.

Zachary F Parker

Ska is the best genre. No argument.

Benjamin Lisboa

Separating the art from the artist, if the artist is alive is not only ignoring issues that shouldn't be ignored , it also is causing the music to actively become worse by taking away an important aspect. Albums like " good kid madd city " , " mbdtf " and " Baku WA doctor tony tony chopper " all are masterpieces because they explore the persona of the artist in an interesting way.

the original trans girl Sophie

Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah wipes Leonard Cohen’s

Justin Koonce

I can’t believe you did a whole segment about overrated guitarists without mentioning Kirk Hammett. Most of his solos are boring as hell compared to his contemporaries. James is the better guitarist by a mile.

Paul Prete

Roberta Flack’s OG Killing Me Softly is superior to the Fugees version (overproduced, some of Lauryn Hill’s vocal inflections/ornaments are over the top + annoying Wyclef ad libs)

Nixonsghost

DJ Drama hinders most projects he’s on. He just talks to talk with most times not making sense on really any song. I can’t listen to CMIYGL because DJ Drama just talks randomly about whatever’s on his mind and ruins it.

John Coffey

almighty so by chief keef is the best mixtape of all time

Albert Sain

Bandana over Piñata

There's been alot great and terrible albums this decade ...but do you think so far Spellling Is looking like she could have album of the decade and Ye could have the worst?

Caspa

Let's stop acting like American Water isn't one of the best albums of the '90s like at least in the top 15 Every song on it is just excellent

Chris Castillo

Albuquerque by weird al walked so sun kil moon could run

membertatooine

Tough question: do you think the medium of listening (AirPods, vinyl & open backs) really change the experience of an album or song?

Not sure this is the best place to put this, but to keep it brief, this is my first Patreon ever and just wanted to let you know you’ve enhanced and improved my life greatly with your content and music you’ve introduced me to. You really have helped me live a happier life. I figured the least I could do is this. Tough question(ish): Are/were you ever a big explosions in the sky fan? I’ve seen your reviews of their last 3, but with them being not so favorable, I was curious if you ever thought much of their 2000’s material? And if not why? (And the tattoo is legendary btw)

Josh Miles

School or college life are more important than music when you are getting to your finals.

the original trans girl Sophie

Pop legends from past eras like Elton John or Madonna have a large and exclusively mid album catalogue. They are perceived and assessed by their numerous hits over the years, but the albums these hist are on are noncohesive mediocrity. Has anyone ever listened 'Too low for zero' in its enterity? That shit bland as hell.

bruh truue I showed my friend 90s Squarepusher and Amon Tobin and he called it dubstep

Waffles!

Don't get me wrong I think both of those LCD Soundsystem records are fantastic, and I also really think Entertainment! sets the bar for dance-punk. You could also maybe argue that This Is Happening is less dance-punk and more alternative dance and indietronica, but I digress (there's still songs on there that are definitely dance-punk, or have dance-punk influences though)

Morgan

Love it but this is happening is so amazing

Chris Castillo

Prince is a top 3 guitar player

Noah Mendell

I think that’s mainly due to the way Brostep kinda overshadowed the more traditional style of Dubstep. And yeah Skrillex did play a huge part about that, but I also still see people to this day calling other forms of electronic dance music as “dubstep”. Like someone would listen to an electro house track and think “dubstep”.

EZGames69

I feel like people who say Vine was better than TikTok are looking at Vine with rose tinted glasses. While there are some absolute classic videos that came from Vine, it’s not like it didn’t have its fair share of cringeworthy content and creators just like Tiktok does.

EZGames69

Entertainment! by Gang of Four is THE dance-punk album. I have never heard a record in that genre more complete, consistent, fun, danceable, and progressive (politically speaking). I will say albums like This Is Happening/Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem, Playing With a Different Sex by Au Pairs, and Triunfo moral by Tus Amigos Nuevos come fairly close, but Entertainment! clears all of them.

Morgan

I'm looking for entry level audio and stage tech work. My step-mother, god bless her, looked for some positions she could find online to try and help as much as she could. She sent me a link this morning, I clicked on the link and the company was Newsmax. I don't even think she know what it is but like I feel like keeling over. Anyway, how are you doing buckaroo? Do you have any like DIY stuff your doing or something?

jackisfine

British rock music is arguably in the healthiest state it has been for a while, we have seen bands like Black Midi, Black Country, New Road and Squid bring something really exciting and original to the table this decade that I think future bands will cite as a key influence (especially the former two). Sam Fender has been the first indie-rock singer-songwriter to break through into the mainstream in the UK for a while and is now selling out stadiums and having top 10 singles. Liam Gallagher's and Arctic Monkeys' shows have also sold out stadiums and even other more established acts such as Thom Yorke (with the Smile and solo) and Noel Gallagher have recently come out with great records IMO.

Stephen

Black Country, New Road should do a film soundtrack soon. The track 'Mark's Theme' from the Ants From Up There record would sound amazing in a score and for me shows potential for them to really excel in that field

Stephen

You walk into a Target and you only have $20 cash on hand and the only thing you can buy is a Wu Tang emblem shirt or a Joy Division Unknown Pleasures shirt. What are you picking?

Kyle Cahill

If Raekwon was given the beats to Reasonable Doubt, he would have made a better album than Jay. Raekwon's beat selection was iffy with a lot of his albums, but his pen game was always on another level

Minyoung Kim

Is not being able to understand the lyrics in a song count as a valid critique?

Giancarla Rosales

MJ Lenderman was wrong. Honey does not taste just like it costs.

Burial is actually dubstep. A lot of people don't get this because it doesn't sound like Skrillex

Waffles!

Igor is the best breakup album of the 2010s

Jules Pearce

2010 rap isn't as nostalgic as 1990s rap

Benjamin Lisboa

i get where your coming from but eminem has never been anything but a average rapper to me

flynn lambert

A better take would be, “Eminem has more average or straight up dog-sh*t albums compared to good ones”

Nathan Zerihun

Should the rock and roll hall of fame re-brand to just being the music hall of fame given how much they are branching off to get candidates who are more notable outside of traditional rock music?

Zach S

Just looking at ability to sing the most notable person in recent memory to come close to MJ’s talent with singing is Bruno mars

Zach S

Eddie vedder’s singing style influenced mumble rap with his mumble singing

Zach S

Do you think mick Jenkins has reached his ceiling when it comes to noteriety? Could a project of his ever gain some level of main stream success?

Zach S

(In case it doesn’t make the main channel) Travis Scott isn’t only the most overrated feature (same flow/energy)- he often HURTS songs. Only fits on production similar to his own, so his features create this uniquely weird vacuum effect where the song temporarily becomes a Travis song we all feel like we’ve heard before

Alex Sim

Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) by David Bowie is sooo underrated. Also do a David Bowie tier list bro

Prince is one of, if not THE most expressive pop singer of all time

bressig

objectively false

Albert Sain

Industry plant is one of the most overused terms in the music industry for something that's really not a issue at all Especially with the new Last Dinner Party album get a lot of users on review sites calling number industry play and just dismissing it which is really annoying and pretentious.

Chris Castillo

Danny Brown is the best at writing dirty lyrics

his best album is the eminem show which is still a 6

flynn lambert

[I usually don't double sub takes but I'm especially proud of that one]

Herbieguy

Jazz Fusion is probably the greatest artistic movement in music history. Even the highest highs of other genres don't even come close to the peak of Fusion. The amount of amazing albums, legendary musicians, and just the general creative freedom and versatility that came from the genre is unlike anything else we will ever get out of the artform. [The mere existence of Heavy Weather proves this point perfectly]

Herbieguy

Laughs in relapse, Eminem show and MMLP

painkiller is the best metal intro of all time

Justin Koonce

UK drill is way better then the stuff coming out of America right now. Some Florida and New York artists are good but most make 1:30 tracks and all sound exactly the same. No ones on the level of UK drill right now.

John Coffey

eminem’s never had a album above 6/10

flynn lambert

chief keef is the greatest trap artist

Albert Sain