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Concensus Of Opinion...

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by papa_smurf
Just wondering is there one band that everyone can agree is good and they like on this site? May be a bit of a naive post but every band that seems ot be mentioned here tends to have mass lovers and haters "voicing their opinion" on them in various ways... which is what its all about and i love it but yeh hmmm blah o tosh.... = P
papa_smurf | 24 Jul '05, 00:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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No. Never will be either...

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Lots of bands we all hate though...

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Just notice im wrong

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One of the DiS database people should be able to look and see who's got the highest overall rating, discounting any act with under, say, 20 ratings (because there's probably a load of bands with one or two five star ratings).

I guess that's as scientific as it gets. But let's face it, there probably aren't any Metallica fans that also like Belle and Sebastian. Apart from me.

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I like metallica and belle and sebastian

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One consensus seems to be that everyone here spells the word wrong. Is this an "in-joke" or something, whatever its always annoyed me a bit.

Anyways, I reckon that when these threads start someone might say bands like Arcade Fire, Pixies, Sonic Youth. But then there's always someone willing to step forward and in true alternative style claim they HATE them, or are bovered about them. I personally don't think this counts so much. When you specifically ask the question 'do you like x' you're always gonna have some saying yes and some saying no especially the bigger the band is commercially/critically. (I didn't think consensus meant everyone agreeing anyway). What I think can count as bands there is a consensus over are those bands you rarely see mauled (apart from those being awkward/trollish) and mostly see praised. I was thinking about this earlier - no one ever seems to lay into Part Chimp. There are obviously other examples, but I can't really think of any right now.

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All DiSers have played air-guitar at least once in their life. No two DiSers will admit playing air-guitar to the same song.

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air guitar - nah, that is so sad. tennis/badminton racket guitar is where its at. and you play along to your own feckin song - DiSers are creative, no?

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With a tennis racket! yes! Just like pugwall! I did..

And air guitar.. I confess. to The Hives.

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no one seems to have the same hatred of Mogwai as i do.
and that kasabian post wasnt about likin em.

i think i started the trend of using the word consensus when it wasnt supposed to be. ive made an impact.

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I don't like Mogwai. Boring. I think the Pixies are the nearest you'll get to a band everyone likes, but there are still some dissenters....

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I don't like Mogwai either.
(And I think the Pixies are a bit dull ;) )

Good point on the Kasabian thing, I was confused (read: pished) last night. Maybe we are all agreed on Kasabian being shit then?

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if you say you do not like arcade fire, 65 days of static, ymss you are a troll if they say they hate kasabian, razorlight etc they are merely voicing an opinion...strange that

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Yeah, the calling people trolls thing got a bit out of control for a while. As did feeding them. I think it's all in check now though.

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Everyone likes the Sex Pistols. Even if you don't own any of their records you can still appreciate how important they were. Same with the Velvet Underground and Bowie.

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I can't stand the sound of the velvet underground.

And I dont really like the sex pistols either.

But Bowie, yes, Bowie is brilliant. A genius.

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I don't get how you could call the Sex Pistols important. Good rekkid though.

Every time i've seen David Bowie play new stuff it's been boring. But same goes for Frank Black so i'll let him off.

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Joy Division... everyone except TimtheEnchanterer.

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And I don't like Joy Division.


Wow, i'm, like, totally against the consensus. I feel such an individual all of a sudden.

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I've never heard anyone say they dont like The Beatles, or at least appreciate thier brilliance (and rightly so)
Any haters? (boo, hiss)

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Yes, people love to slag the Beatles off. It shows they're different and they don't care if they about it.

Grockle's a regular Beatles hater. As is the pouting one.

You can't really say they were shit or deny the impact they had on music. They argue with things like: 'What a silly lyric "I am the Eggman" is'.

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I love the beatles, but they do have a point with the eggman thing...

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So what? They were drugged up to heaven when they wrote it. The fact is, that song, along with hundreds of others, is absolutely fantastic.

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Yeah, they are brilliant.

I listened to nothing else for about 6 years. Come to think of it, I havent listen to the beatles in a while. I may have to go and find some now... I think i'm probably in a white album mood...

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Same here. From being about 7, till I was about 10, I just listened to them non stop.

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Yeah, and so many people have the same story, it has to prove how good they were.

On balance I probably prefer their earlier stuff to their later albums though. The red tape to the blue tape, as was the case when I was listening.

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For me, it was the fact I loved the pop, the younger I was. When I first heard Helter Skelter and Lucy in the Sky, I kept clear. I prefer it now, though. Really interesting to listen to. I still don't think any band can match the Beatles in terms of having album consistency. Apart from Yello Submarine of course... but Hey Bulldog is brilliant.

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Beatles really aren't all that interesting in my opinion, you can't say people who don't like them are just disliking them to be different. That's not true at all.

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oh yes it is ;-)

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ok, maybe so, and some people may dislike them, but u cant really argue the impact they had on music

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Haha, about the only Beatles I can really bear is actually their earliest pop stuff - some of those live perfomances with the crowds going batshit & them belting out their earliest stuff furiously is absolutely incredible, its impact never lessens: in fact they sound more & more thrilling to me the older I get now. Hey Jude, Day In The Life and the like can fuck off and die :รพ (along with all those bores who reckon them forever to be music's pinnacle zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...)

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Anybody hate Les Savy Fav?

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Durka Durka! Mohammed Jihad!

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I hate any les savy fav hater.

One of the best things about this site is that you can name any band and people's opinions will be completely divided. I would have thought radiohead came closest, since over 900 people have rated them and they have an average of 4 and half circle things. Even still, there's plenty who don't like them.

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Mclusky, possibly

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Don't like 'em.

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The Arcade Fire and Patrick Wolf are DiS' most beloved bands du jour...

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That should say artists I guess...

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While Kasbian are generic tripe, the lead singers recently aquired minge, upon his smug face , does give them a comical edge.

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Hahahaha brilliant.

I'd say the Smiths and Joy Division are almost universally accepted on here as greats. But I hate them. With an unbelievable passion. I suppose you can't really get a band that everyone likes. With these new bands, people will rant for months about how great they are and then as soon as they achieve a bit of fame, they become hated e.g. Maximo Park or The Arctic Monkeys. Agree?

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Most people seem to like Radiohead, Pixies, Joy Division and more recently YMSS

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EvilTwin say:

"Concensus is bad. It indicates the least challenging alternative. That said we agree with Super t83 - apart from YMSS, who suck."

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Seymour Glass say: "The Smiths are perhaps the greatest living example of allegorical hamstring succulence ever recorded using the ancient technique of solambulasonkitasisectulance, whereby the horns of a cow are powdered down to a fine paste and then wafted at six mph over the skin of a baby. A baby's skin is perfectly taut, enough for its latent electrical impulses to catch soundwaves and transmit them to the mouth of its mother. Joy Division, meanwhile, were recorded using the native American medium of pisscatch, whereby an old man is forced at arrowpoint to piss into a bag. When the piss separates, the heavier elements will pick up bass frequencies, whilst the lighter elements which rise to the top of the bag will pick up the higher frequencies. The bag of piss was then taken by Tony Wilson, who used it to twat Martin Hannett over the head until he squealed like a bitch. The resulting sounds were then played through Peter Hook's bass amp and thrown into the sea.

Fact."