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Thank you so much for all your support this month! Now let's get down to brass tacks. Your HOT TAKES, UNPOPULAR OPINIONS, and TOUGH QUESTIONS: we want them. Throw em down in the comments at your earliest convenience and we'll look through them all in a coupla weeks. LET'S GO!

ICYMI here's the previous episode: https://www.patreon.com/theneedledrop/posts/lets-argue-is-d-173648133

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Jake Bell

Lenny Kravitz has great instrumentation but might have some of the worst lyrics of all time

bressig

"Friday I'm in Love" is the original lovebombing anthem: Robert Smith doesn't care at all about any other day of the week, but Friday rolls around and he's just head over heels, then it's right back to not caring

Machine Gun Philly

A take you will NOT attack me for: Frank Zappa is the greatest overall guitarist of all time. Beyond his undeniable talent and skill, his creative and perversely visionary use of the instrument inspired every “weird” musical act and guitar virtuoso after him. Nobody will be able to top the combination of skill, inventiveness and prolific nature of his peak through the late 60’s-70’s.

Dalton Krause

Love and Rockets might be the most underrated 80s/90s rock band there is, it's a shame they arent talked about more. Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven is an all timer album of course but other albums in their discography are severely underlooked, especially Sweet F.A

Herbieguy

With the wave of a magic wand you can instantly have the full studio discography of any band / artist added to your vinyl collection, completely for free, even if they're hard to find or out of print. But there's a catch: This includes ALL of their bad albums and you're not allowed to get rid of them. You have to keep them all. Who do you pick?

Byrd

If Yeat doesn't break out of this cycle of retreating towards older less developed sounds whenever his audience doesn't like his more effortful projects, he's never going to make an album as awe inspiring as 2093 again. I didnt even really care for ADL but it feels like Yeat with Cocoon and the recent leaks compilation is making the same mistake he made with LYFESTYLE and it's going to be tough for him to progress artistically if he keeps losing confidence as soon as his terminally online fanbase dislikes his higher concept stuff.

Machine Gun Philly (edited)

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2026-11-05 04:00 Forget Rolling Stone These are the ACTUAL top 10 rock songs of the 21st century: 10. Fall Out Boy - Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet 9. The Killers - When You Were Young 8. Brand New - Degausser 7. LINKIN PARK - Crawling 6. At The Drive-In - One Armed Scissor 5. The White Stripes - Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground 4. Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows 3. Radiohead - There, There 2. The Strokes - Hard to Explain 1. System of a Down - Chop Suey
2026-10-28 16:01 FORGET Rolling Stone These are the ACTUAL top 10 rock songs of the 21st century: 10. Fall Out Boy - Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet 9. The Killers - When You Were Young 8. Brand New - Degausser 7. LINKIN PARK - Crawling 6. At The Drive-In - One Armed Scissor 5. The White Stripes - Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground 4. Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows 3. Radiohead - There, There 2. The Strokes - Hard to Explain 1. System of a Down - Chop Suey

FORGET Rolling Stone These are the ACTUAL top 10 rock songs of the 21st century: 10. Fall Out Boy - Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet 9. The Killers - When You Were Young 8. Brand New - Degausser 7. LINKIN PARK - Crawling 6. At The Drive-In - One Armed Scissor 5. The White Stripes - Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground 4. Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows 3. Radiohead - There, There 2. The Strokes - Hard to Explain 1. System of a Down - Chop Suey

Aleksandar Vukajlovic

Yeat is overhated, there is a good reason he has a large and strong fan base

Cody Fitzgerald

(saw something similar on a comment on the song, but I’m going to steal it and bring it here) brand new chanel$ by Slayyyter is one of the best pop songs released this decade. It gives me a similar euphoric feeling that I got when listening to Run Away with Me or Dancing On My Own

Caleb Hilston

Nothing's Shocking by Jane's Addiction is a better album than 80% of RHCP's discography, and in general Jane's Addiction's discography is blows RHCP out of the water. Their use of funk, hard rock, and psychedelic influence is utilized way better and just overall their songs and album-craft are way better as well. It's no wonder that RHCP's best album is the one with Dave Navarro on it.

Nika Potskhishvili

Talking Heads is the best band of the 80s. I understand that they began their journey in the 70s, but their best albums such as Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light, as well as Stop Making Sense, came out in that decade, and that run is fucking impeccable. I would also argue that they were the best thing happening in the whole music industry at the time, based on their influence, style, etc., but I might be a bit biased about that one. Although I'm pretty sure about the first statement.

Young Machete (edited)

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2026-10-31 00:00 The most annoying response to a review is "it's at least a [insert rating here]. It is completely counterproductive and just translates to "this is the lowest possible score you can give that I won't be mad at.
2026-10-28 22:16 The most annoying response to a review is "it's at least a [insert rating here]". It is completely counterproductive and just translates to "this is the lowest possible score you can give that I won't be mad at".

The most annoying response to a review is "it's at least a [insert rating here]". It is completely counterproductive and just translates to "this is the lowest possible score you can give that I won't be mad at".

Uncle Jam

Take any of the more aggressive Limp Bizkit songs. Swap out Fred Durst for someone who's better at rapping and singing and doesn't have an annoying voice. Swap out all the "I'm going to beat you up" and/or "I'm breaking up with you X NEBULOUS GIRLFRIEND" lyrics for, say, "Let's go beat ICE agents" lyrics or some other shit Brian Ennals would say. You know what we'd have? A great time! Nu-metal can be really fun in a dumb smooth-brained kind of way (I mean that as a compliment), but I still feel an impulse to treat it like a punchline because of all the performative masculinity, and the above is a version of nu-metal I'd love to hear in 2026. (Sidenote: I know Rage and System of a Down are examples to some people, and maybe you can argue they are by the letter of the law. But I'd argue that they're not by the spirit of the law, and they're not what I'm talking about when I saw "nu-metal.")

Skullring27

Niandra LeDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt is more interesting than anything John Frusciante did with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Even if quality wise… it isn’t the best.

Kyle Cahill

As amazing as the album is, Rain Dogs is not a top 5 tom waits album. Bone machine is his magnum opus and won’t be outdone in terms of songwriting, vision, and overall consistency of songs. Real Gone is easily his wildest album and that unhinged energy makes it a hell of a lot of fun to listen to. Probably his most fun album yet. Mule Variations contains my favorite batch of ballads he’s ever done (hold on is a contender for my favorite song of his ever). Orphans while it is VERY long, I think 95% it is great and for it being a B sides/leftover project it shouldn’t be as good as it is. And it’s a toss up between Alice and blood money for the fifth spot because both are equally beautiful and unnerving. Plus they’re probably his best mixed/mastered projects. This isn’t to take anything away from rain dogs as again I think it’s a great album. I just think elements that were toyed with on that album were improved in the releases he did from the 90s and 2000s

Josh Brown

I think we need to stop getting so upset at all these bad AI music takes from popular music celebs or when they show support for it in some way. I understand how disappointing hearing those takes can be from names we respect (i.e. Rick Rubin) l, but we always complain about mainstream musicians being out of touch and then act shocked when they something out of touch. Chances are these people are only being shown the upside potential to AI being used as a music-making tool and shielded from the all the negative impacts it will have on smaller artists downstream. They see it as an investment to stay relevant/rich and we can’t change that. Instead we should be focusing our collective energy on steering music fans away from AI media and encourage engagement with real, independent, human-made art.

Josh Brown

Yes I am posting the same take from the last thread because I like it and really want to hear Anthony’s response. Unless of course he hates it and therefore hates me then my take is “music is good.”

Zach Stolpa

Nirvana unplugged > in utero, no taking away In Utero being a very remarkably raw album and meeting the bar set by Nevermind but front to back unplugged does really well at still being able to give some of that raw energy and much else in such a great juxtaposition from their usual sound in its acoustic performance from the band with some of the best performances of tracks like About a Girl, the Man who sold the world, in the pines, Pennyroyal tea and all apologies among others, if not the best live album ever still easily one of the very best which would maybe be another interesting deep dive.

Zach Stolpa

Tbh I think it depends on the context but I get what you are alluding to

Ibrahim Azam

Nebraska is COMFORTABLY Bruce Springsteen’s best album. The haunting vocals work cohesively with the album’s sparse instrumentation and its themes of isolation and a broken American Dream. It’s raw, honest, heartfelt. It’s a masterpiece.

Tuck

You were able to articulate the trends and movements of the 2010s so early and accurately. Now that we are the second half of the decade, what do you see as sort of defining the 2020s in terms of music?

Machine Gun Philly

FAIR take: Liking only mainstream music may be a little bit of a red flag, but not listening to ANY mainstream music is WAY worse on balance.

Lumi of the Grouse

Do you enjoy being the prominent music critic of the internet era or would you prefer it if you had more competition and more variety of influential voices in online music criticism? And also would you say you being the biggest music critic without much competition is a big reason to why you have so many haters who obsess over your takes needlessly?

Lumi of the Grouse

I genuinely think The Turning Wheel is the best album you’ve given a 10 to. Maybe not a hot take to you because well you did give it a 10 but it does relatively have the lowest reception of any of your 10s