What are your unpopular opinions? (Vol. 2)

[Legacywr]

droopsnoot said:

Antony Moxey said:

Strangely Brown said:

In a similar vein, I think Adele is massively overrated and 'Skyfall' is probably the worst JB theme ever.

Indeed. Never thought I’d hear Skyfall pronounced to rhyme with trifle.

Wasn't it "crumble"? I can't remember all the lyrics, maybe it was both forms of pudding.

I'm hungry now.

[Blown2CV]

unpopular opinion (it appears) after my 5 year old son got into a fight with some 8-9 year olds at school this week.... apparently one of their lot started it, not sure why, but my son is quite big for his age.

The opinion is that if someone wants to fight you, and kicks things off, you should be absolutely defend yourself.

Doesn't matter if they are girls, boys, whatever, you don't back down, and you make them regret it.

My wife disagrees, shall we say...

[Bill]

Legacywr said:

However IMO Skyfall is a great, old school, Bond theme.

[DodgyGeezer]

21st Century Man said:

I reckon a lot of the great acts of the past would be getting a pretty rapid XXXX from the likes of Simon Cowell and the rest of the panel on modern talent shows.

Go further back to Gracie Fields, Flanagan & Allen, Arthur Askey, George Formby, Will Hay etc, just utter garbage.

'Talent' shows... what a joke. Cowell is et al might know what sells (or at least how to market a product) but those programmes do not showcase talent.

[nickfrog]

Nethybridge said:

Still better than the Stones, an average pub band on a good night.

Must be massively subjective as I can't stand the Beatles yet really like the Stones.

[droopsnoot]

Bill said:

However IMO Skyfall is a great, old school, Bond theme.

I think I agree - quite a lot of the recent Bond themes aren't great in themselves, but are clearly Bond themes so have met the brief in that regard. I'm not sure whether that's down to who wrote them, or whether Eon have a department that adds all the extra bits that make it a Bond theme. The Sam Smith one, for example, which he claims to have written in five minutes, sounds very Bond-y to me.

[nuyorican]

98elise said:

And Micheal Jackson. He was neither a good singer, or dancer. Popular doesn't mean talented.

Oh come on. You're entitled to your unpopular opinion of course. Even if it's wrong.

If we're drifting into musical unpopular opinions, here's mine.

That if most of the whiny pretentious presenters on 6 Music gushing about 90's club culture and the rave scene were actually there at the time, they'd be the ones moaning that it's 'not real music' and still listening to The Smiths.

[Stick Legs]

nuyorican said:

Oh come on. You're entitled to your unpopular opinion of course. Even if it's wrong.

If we're drifting into musical unpopular opinions, here's mine.

That if most of the whiny pretentious presenters on 6 Music gushing about 90's club culture and the rave scene were actually there at the time, they'd be the ones moaning that it's 'not real music' and still listening to The Smiths.

100%

[21st Century Man]

That killing 90,000 people in one go is not significantly and easily worse than killing 380,000 people over a couple of days. I seem to be the only person that thinks this.

[e-honda]

21st Century Man said:

That killing 90,000 people in one go is not significantly and easily worse than killing 380,000 people over a couple of days. I seem to be the only person that thinks this.

Is there some context to this? Did anyone do or threaten to do either?

[Randy Winkman]

Mine is that people who cant spell the very common name "Michael" should get a severe telling off and be made to write it out 100 times properly.

[Randy Winkman]

e-honda said:

21st Century Man said:

That killing 90,000 people in one go is not significantly and easily worse than killing 380,000 people over a couple of days. I seem to be the only person that thinks this.

Is there some context to this? Did anyone do or threaten to do either?

Perhaps that water problem in Devon is getting out of hand?

[lord trumpton]

Strangely Brown said:

In a similar vein, I think Adele is massively overrated and 'Skyfall' is probably the worst JB theme ever.

A fat gobby cow

[hidetheelephants]

lord trumpton said:

Strangely Brown said:

In a similar vein, I think Adele is massively overrated and 'Skyfall' is probably the worst JB theme ever.

A fat gobby cow

EFA

[anonymoususer]

Randy wkmin said:

Mine is that people who cant spell the very common name "Michael" should get a severe telling off and be made to write it out 100 times properly.

It grinds my geers too mate

[President Merkin]

Amy WInehouse had a great voice. Pity it was deployed on Motown pastiche.

Michael Jackson would have got nowhere without Quincy Jones.

I cannot bear the Beatles but they were definitely not an average band.

Keith Richards made a living out of more or less one chord shape from 1968 on.

[Blown2CV]

President Merkin said:

Amy WInehouse had a great voice. Pity it was deployed on Motown pastiche.

Michael Jackson would have got nowhere without Quincy Jones.

I cannot bear the Beatles but they were definitely not an average band.

Keith Richards made a living out of more or less one chord shape from 1968 on.

agree very much on amy winehouse. Not timeless music just a retro fashion fad which now looks a bit cringe.

[President Merkin]

I reckon she would have been a jazz heroine had she gone that way.

[Blown2CV]

i'd imagine in those days it was really about what record company scouted you and what they fancy marketing you as to squeeze as much money out in a short space of time.

[ntiz]

Money can 100% make you happy.