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    Potentially unpopular opinions that you hold true

    'Comedy' singer and Tea Party supporting berk Ray Stevens recorded the best version of Misty.

    #2
    Potentially unpopular opinions that you hold true

    too much red wine meant i read that as 'rachel stevens'.

    freudian ?

    oh yes indeed.

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      #3
      Potentially unpopular opinions that you hold true

      Ray Stevens didn't even record the second-best version. Any opinion that does not hold Mathis' to be the best thoroughly deserves to be not only unpopular, but despised as anathema. But Donny Hathaway's cover comes a close second.

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        #4
        Potentially unpopular opinions that you hold true



        "Ray Stevens!"

        "No, Johnny Mathis!"

        "You love Ray Stevens, Dave, why are you pretending like this?"

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          Potentially unpopular opinions that you hold true

          I don't think the idea is to debate George's point. He's already stated that the opinion is 'potentially unpopular'.

          Anyway, here's another: 'Teenage Dirtbag' is and remains a great pop record.

          Now watch this drive.

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            #6
            Potentially unpopular opinions that you hold true

            It's a good song.

            Barry Manilow was a first class arranger of pop songs, many of which would command much greater respect were it not for Bazza's reputation as a Richard Clayderman of popular music.

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              #7
              Potentially unpopular opinions that you hold true

              The greatest band of all time is Rush.

              Okay, not really.

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                #8
                Potentially unpopular opinions that you hold true

                The Beatles really weren't very good.

                "What's Going On?" is actually a bit boring.

                The Style Council was Weller's best work.

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                  #9
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                  Zooropa was a better album than anything U2 have released since and a more interesting listen than much of their early stuff.

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                    #10
                    Potentially unpopular opinions that you hold true

                    The best band from the 1970s was Sweet.

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                      #11
                      Potentially unpopular opinions that you hold true

                      Everyone's already heard enough Motown 'classics' for a lifetime.

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                        #12
                        Potentially unpopular opinions that you hold true

                        R&B is basically a huge put on.

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                          #13
                          Potentially unpopular opinions that you hold true

                          G.Man wrote:
                          It's a good song.

                          Barry Manilow was a first class arranger of pop songs, many of which would command much greater respect were it not for Bazza's reputation as a Richard Clayderman of popular music.
                          This thread is too easy for you, G-Man.

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                            #14
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                            Pink fucking Floyd.

                            Any music which unites both dreary stoners and middle aged stockbrokers hammering down the M40 in an Audi B7 RS4 wearing too tight jeans deserves to disappear in a Stalinist reign of terror.

                            And you can add Bob Marley and the Doors to that list as well.

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                              #15
                              Potentially unpopular opinions that you hold true

                              That the Beautiful South were actually a good band - an opinion that seems particularly unpopular on here.

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                                Geoffrey de Ste. Croix wrote:
                                Pink fucking Floyd.

                                Any music which unites both dreary stoners and middle aged stockbrokers hammering down the M40 in an Audi B7 RS4 wearing too tight jeans deserves to disappear in a Stalinist reign of terror.

                                And you can add Bob Marley and the Doors to that list as well.
                                Not potentially unpopular opinions in this forum, Geoffrey. You'll need to find a high profile band like Pink Floyd or The Doors or similar that you like for this thread.

                                For example:- Dire Straits were a much better band the the OTF hive-mind would have one believe. Recently heard Tunnel of Love by them for the first time in years; the melancholy in the delivery of the lyrics in that song is aching. Rooted in a particularly local nostalgia as well, which is a good form of the type as opposed to bland generalised nostalgia. You can tell Knopfler is talking about stuff personally important to him.

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                                  #17
                                  Potentially unpopular opinions that you hold true

                                  Mykolai on Earth wrote:
                                  G.Man wrote:
                                  It's a good song.

                                  Barry Manilow was a first class arranger of pop songs, many of which would command much greater respect were it not for Bazza's reputation as a Richard Clayderman of popular music.
                                  This thread is too easy for you, G-Man.
                                  If wouldn't be if everybody shared my good taste and subscribed to my searing insights.

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                                    #18
                                    Potentially unpopular opinions that you hold true

                                    That Donny Hathaway version of Misty is doing nothing for me I'm afraid G.Man. I will doff my cap to Mathis's early material though, which is some of the eeriest music I've ever heard.

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                                      #19
                                      Potentially unpopular opinions that you hold true

                                      a more interesting listen
                                      I have an opinion about that sort of thing.

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                                        #20
                                        Potentially unpopular opinions that you hold true

                                        There Are Things Known, and Things Unknown, and In Between Are the Doors. And then the Stranglers. Ye can't beata good organ riff

                                        (Aldous Huxley, after William Blake)

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                                          #21
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                                          Pretty much no band needs keyboards

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                                            #22
                                            Potentially unpopular opinions that you hold true

                                            "Ace Of Spades" is a perfect pop record

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                                              #23
                                              Potentially unpopular opinions that you hold true

                                              Who whould argue with that?

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                                                #24
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                                                Green Day have fantastic melodies.

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                                                  #25
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                                                  The Ramones were vastly over-rated.

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