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Thank you so much for supporting us this month! Now's that magical time when you hit us with your HOT TAKES, UNPOPULAR OPINIONS, and TOUGH QUESTIONS; drop em down in the comments RIGHT NOW OR WHENEVER YOU FEEL LIKE IT and we'll look through them all in a couple of weeks. LET'S GO!

In case you missed October's episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/lets-argue-is-143114147

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Trevor Young

Musician biopics have officially exhausted their potential. There have been good ones and bad ones, but at this point we don't need them anymore regardless of quality. Every theme or version of the musician "hero arc" has been told by now. Side note: having 4 biopic movies dedicated to the Beatles is a terrible idea.

Ian Kim

In this day and age, new rappers are no longer able to rise as huge global stars that push the hip hop culture forward. Think about it, when’s the last time a rapper achieved that status? You could argue Kendrick, Drake, Travis? But they all made music in the early 2010s, no rapper who emerged in the late 2010s and 2020s has been able to achieve such global fame

Ash

Kill, marry, smash: Niel Young, Tom waits, Nick Cave. Your fate awaits!

Zach Stolpa

When you say “gen z hates the Beatles” can you expound on that a bit more because as someone in that age range talking to people around my age (just turned 25) I’ve found discussing a lot of older music it’s kind of a mixed bag with it depending on what someone gravitated to that was played around them because it’s often both music that’s popular while they are growing up and also a lot of times what their parents/peers were playing around them growing up which can often be a rabbit hole to older music as it was for me

bressig

Sleep Token's Grammy nomination will only make their fan base more insufferable, as if the Grammys have ever been arbiters of what makes music good instead of what it's always been, which is a popularity contest

Griffin

Vetran JPEGMAFIA, Homogenic Bjork, and Ol dirty bastards second album are all S tier albums.

tune

I loved Scaring The Hoes! It changed me and my music taste forever, but i don't think it need's a follow up... It should stay a one liner, a one-time masterpiece. I think it could slightly ruin the legacy of the first one.

AllOverAgain

I feel like that just has more to do with how music is consumed than with the artists and the genre itself... like, pretty much all the huge artists these days come out of the pop/indie lane cause those don't have as many niches, and it's usually after they gain a lot of traction on social media as far as hip-hop goes, it's wayyyy more niches and different audiences involved

Herbieguy

What's the best cover art you've ever seen on an album you hate? And what's the worst cover art you've ever seen on an album you love?

Tuck

What’s the newest genre you can think of, that actually has a discernible sound and movement?

Chris

Cave World deserves a Redux

Leo

The Kendick hate is absolutely undeserved, I see opinions about GNX not winning a single Grammy This year. Its not his best, but it would easily be the best album of 80% of current Rappers catalog.

Uncle Jam

Artists who have their lyrics removed from Genius (Cocteau Twins, Mach-Hommy, etc) are fart faces. You might not think lyrics are important or whatever self-absorbed headass rationalization you thought of for why you don't want people to see your lyrics, but the fact of the matter is that you included them in your art, so like it or not, they matter. And it just comes off as dickish.

Chris

I don’t know how much of a hot take this is but I noticed whenever you talk about punk bass players, Joe Lally of Fugazi almost never gets mentioned with as much as it’s one of my favorite bands of all time and I’m pretty sure you can agree the baselines are one of the things that really makes Fugazi what it is Like the baseline on “shut the door” might be in my personal opinion, one of the greatest baselines ever

Dorian

Mike Patton’s influence on rock music will forever be understated

Skullring27

Jeff Rosenstock should be in the conversation for best singer songwriters of the decade so far. From his bands ASOB and BTMI to his solo stuff, he has consistently put out albums that touch the souls and hearts of many. In the fucked up world we live in now, it feels like Jeff is the only songwriter that fully gets the anger and anxiety that most of us feel today.

Ryan Gentry

The album of the year is LOS THUTHANAKA. Unfortunately Mr. Fantano has yet to review it 🙁

Zach Stolpa

Grunge was more of a scene/aesthetic than an actual defined sound

Zach Stolpa

People’s overall bar for expectations from an artist has been raised to high, from approach to output to saying an album is mid if it initially doesn’t sound like a previous project that is viewed as a “classic” etc

Josh Miles

While I understand that genres and styles of music are born of cultural events at the time, and a lot of external influences, as well as the idea that genres are often times amalgamations of older genres and styles put together, my question is, why are the locations of these waves of genres those places? Take for example, why was the death metal scene so prominent in Florida back in the late 80s and 90s? Why was there a big wave of hardcore punk acts from California back in the 80s? Delta blues from Mississippi? Jazz from New Orleans? Krautrock in Germany? What/why did these genres come from these specific places? I realize this is a bloated question, but any insight would be appreciated, including any book recommendations or websites for this specific topic would also be great

Skullring27

We got it 4 cheap vol 1 is on par (if not slightly better) than Let God Sort Em Out.

Kyle Cahill

The new Godspeed album is not just the best album they’ve put out since Allelujah, but I genuinely feel like messaging wise and compositionally, it could go toe to toe with any classic from the bands late 90s to early 2000s run (expect LYSF. that album remains unmatched)

Snow

Past Masters Volume Two is a better “white album” than The Beatles’ Self-Titled

Alec Moore

Do you think Drake will ever be able to recover from the copious amount of L's he's taken in the past 2 years, or is he just cooked? I mean in terms of respect within the music community, obviously he's still doing numbers.

Josh Brown

Fans of artists like Frank Ocean and AndrĂ© 3000 need to accept they have moved past the interest or desire to make music for the foreseeable future. People thought it was weird A3K didn’t perform at the R&RHOF and acted like he had some obligation to, but he’s made it clear for years now he doesn’t want to record or perform rap music. Frank still has to hop on twitter every year or so to debunk someone secret or unreleased album conspiracy theory because fans refuse to believe he isn’t recording something. Everyone needs to move on and stop questioning artists in their own intentions.

patrick

Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt by NIN is good but people need to acknowledge that the impact of the song lies more in Trent Reznor’s amazing and powerful songwriting. Whenever people say stuff like “It’s Johnny Cash’s song now” it feels a bit disrespectful, especially because of how emotionally devastating and personal the songwriting is and how it all tied into The Downward Spiral — an album that deals with the same/similarly serious topics. Discourse around a cover isn’t usually this deep but I truly believe this is the rare case where it is.

HolidayVostok

The hellp is the most overrated “electroclash” duo/artist/band. Nothing they’ve put out is worth while and they’ve just convinced fans they invented bloghouse so they are popular through that. There are very few genuine feeling modern electroclash artists right now bass victim being one of the few I can think of off the top of my head.

YSF

Which album you rated high before but now you think that it deserves less and the other way around?

Gilberto Blyde

hey anthony, can you do a review for the new album by Navy Blue, i really apreciate your opinion, i'm a fan of both.

Pedro paramo

Why didn’t u review the racing mount pleasent album???

qnkodickens

Spirit of the Beehive is one of the most exciting experimental acts at the moment. I know there's a lot to review for you every week, but missing last year's "You'll have to lose something" was a crime, Anthony.

qnkodickens

Eastern European music doesn't get the attention it deserves by media/critics. Bands like Shortparis (Russian art/synth punk) and Lalalar (Turkish psychadelia/alt-dance/indie rock) are one of the most e exciting left field bands of our generation and no one talks about them.

Soulsby Blue

Phantom Planet are one of the greatest bands of all time, and their frontman Alex Greenwald is an absolute genius. Songs like "By The Bed", "Leader", "Balisong" and "1st Things 1st" all deserved to be big rock radio staples. It's a shame they're only known for "California", the OC theme.

Kyle Cahill

Guilty pleasures aren’t a thing. If you enjoy a song, you enjoy a song. Case closed

#1 amo defender

It’ll make the haters even more insufferable frankly. I just enjoy the music.

Tiaan

FIOE is my favorite Strokes record for sure. Tbh I prefer the production as well. Julian's voice is clear and his screams feel more visceral on songs like Fear of Sleep. The "filler" songs such as Killing Lies or 15 Minutes are still great to me as well, and Red Light's an awesome closer. I think the album has merit beyond the hits such as YOLO and Juicebox.

Tiaan

Not the HOTTEST take, but Dude Ranch is a more enjoyable record than Enema of the State. Although Enema is more concise in vision and the production is much cleaner, they sort of lost some of the "homey" screw-it-all charm of their previous record. I think Dude Ranch is the balance between their silly skate punk sound and the eventual pop-punk sound they'd develop further into. Also worth mentioning Tom DeLonge's voice is preferable for me as it sounds scratchier and raw. (I think he had a cold while tracking the record?)

HolidayVostok

What if the song is by Kanye west or azealia banks or varg