Sacred cows to the slaughter.
Mine was Odessey and Oracle, bought a few weeks back. I played it all day for a day or two and then it started sounded a little threadbare.... it's good and all, but I really don't see that its up there with even the first few Bee Gees records, never mind the run of 4 Kinks records from Face to Face -> I guess if I'd chanced on it untrumpeted I'd be bigging it up, but from being forgotten, I reckon it's gone to overrated....
*hides*
― sonofstan, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 01:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh God this happens to me all the time. Most recently, Zappa's Freak Out!
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 01:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm gonna get a slap for this, but Pet Sounds just left me cold. None of my favourite Beach Boys songs are on it, and there are heaps better albums from the same year.
― ecuador_with_a_c, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 01:58 (fifteen years ago) link
lcd soundsystem - sound of silver
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 02:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Odessy and Oracle is one of the greatest albums of all time. I agree about Pet Sounds, possibly most overrated 'classic' album this side of Layla.
My contribution here is If I Could Only Remember My Name - aside from that "Cowboy Movie" song, pretty bland, and nowhere near as good as the first Nash / Crosby album.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 02:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh and that Dennis Wilson album too - Zzzzzzzzzzzz and not in a good way
joni mitchell - blue
― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 03:40 (fifteen years ago) link
You know, the Mandy Moore/Michael Stipe version of "God Only Knows" came up on the iPod today, and I realized that I wasn't minding it so much since it didn't have freakin' Mike Love coming in after the bridge going "bah-buh-bah-buh bah BAH" on it.
So yeah. I love Pet Sounds, but I don't defend it as much as other records.
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 04:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Mine was Odessey and Oracle, bought a few weeks back. I played it all day for a day or two and then it started sounded a little threadbare.... it's good and all, but I really don't see that its up there with even the first few Bee Gees records
Ouch, and I like those Bee Gees records.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 04:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Village Green Preservation Society
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 09:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeh, Pacific Ocean Blue - what the fuck? This is just really shit 70s AOR, right?
Still don't get Steely Dan. They manage to both annoy me AND bore me, which is quite a trick.
I was lied to about Orbs Adventures in the Underworld orwhatever. Ambient != monotonous.
― NotEnough, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 12:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh God this happens to me all the time.
Ditto. Most of my record-buying these days is trying to sort out all of the canonical shit that I missed when I was growing up.
The most recent of these was This Nation's Saving Grace. I agree with O&O and Pacific Ocean Blue (both of which were in this year's haul).
― she is living in an auto tune (kingkongvsgodzilla), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 13:29 (fifteen years ago) link
The Boredoms, Super Ae. People keep telling me it's funny but I don't get the joke!
― rjberry, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
It was a compilation rather than a proper album, but I finally caught up with Syd Barrett this year and his stuff left me stone cold.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Anything by the Animal Collective. I'm trying, I really am. But besides a few songs, they just don't do anything for me at all.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, Pacific Ocean Blue is some vile shit. If you're going to create seventies studio-rock, make sure you can sing first.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Terry Riley's Reed Streams (1966). AFAIK, the first album released by minimalist composer. Its just not very palatable compared to Poppy Nogood (1968) or A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969).
I could mention the Bowie/Eno Berlin trilogy (Heroes, Low, & Lodger), not because they're not great, but because I got to them after a decade of listening to the bands these were a central inspiration for. So they didn't carry the astonishment at art music interacting with glam, as they must have to people who heard them upon release.
Bunches of New Wave/New Romantic albums that really are just as well dissected for the singles...
― derelict, Thursday, 1 January 2009 00:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Fairport Convention's Liege and Lief. Lumpen, muddy, makes me think of soggy roll-ups, split ends, sour beer, smelly feet.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 9 January 2009 11:03 (fifteen years ago) link
The Slits - Cut
― ilxor, Friday, 9 January 2009 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
never even saw this thread until now, but yeah Pacific Ocean Blue should have stayed unreleased.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i like everything mentioned on this thread. except animal collective. i mean i really like everything except that.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i tried again with mission of burma a couple weeks ago. i try every few years. just can't hang with them! i like fight song/revolver and that's about it. did like them live though when i saw them a few years back. meanwhile i played some gang of four for the first time in a long time and it sounded awesome!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
The Who: Tommy and Sell Out.
― we wanted lime (mike a), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i heard the raincoats s/t for the first time today, it didn't do much for me.
― Mosquepanik at Ground Zero (abanana), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 05:05 (thirteen years ago) link
This thread makes me sad. This in particular
made me cringe. I think I have appreciated all the albums listed here on some level, although some hit me on a gut level more than others. I recently listened to Afghan Whigs Gentleman and found it abhorrent. I know it's not a universally regarded classic like Pet Sounds but people have been telling me I should get into Greg Dulli for years, and now I know I never will. The entire tone of the album was both misogynistic and wimpy. I just did. not. get. it.
― FRESH MEAT (MFB), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 09:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Odessey and Oracle
cosign on both of these, especially the second. maybe you had to be there? like, getting high on pot for the first time ever?
i heard some other kinks tunes the other day and i liked them WAY better than vgps
― messiahwannabe, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 09:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Agree with posters above that Pacific Ocen Blue by Dennis Wilson is dull dull dull.
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 10:07 (thirteen years ago) link
The XX album - it's really bland!
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 10:11 (thirteen years ago) link
A recent one for me is Sad Wings of Destiny. Itmostly just sounds more like plodding post blues rock to me. I can see how some elements on their could be hugely influential on modern metal, and maybe that's interesting historically, but it wasn't very fun to listen to.
― meat by mistake (kkvgz), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 10:19 (thirteen years ago) link
people nominating Pacific Ocean Blue in this thread are getting fecal treats in their stocking come Christmas time this year
― funky brewster (San Te), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 11:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean rilly I have to be in the right mood for it but what other Beach Boy would we have gotten such a gloomy and dark album from? I think his unreleased album was even better.
― funky brewster (San Te), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 11:44 (thirteen years ago) link
BLACKsummersnight
― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 11:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I prefer even things like Brian's '88 solo album to POB. It doesn't sound dark to me - just like a really boring JJ Cale album. I keep trying to get into it but it just washes over me and I forget I'm listening to it.
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 11:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i really dislike pacific ocean blue. boring songs and dennis' voice isn't great.
― Efraqueen Juárez (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 12:03 (thirteen years ago) link
his voice is perfect for the music, raw and rough around the edges. he was never the shimmering smooth-voiced member of the band.
― funky brewster (San Te), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 12:09 (thirteen years ago) link
The entire tone of the album was both misogynistic and wimpy. I just did. not. get. it.
its not to everyone's tastes, but i'd argue the album hardly celebrates misogyny, and is focused instead upon dissecting/presenting fucked up male sexuality, with criticism of said sexuality implied.
― Stevie is a bit lame, if you hate fun (stevie), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 12:12 (thirteen years ago) link
i tried again with mission of burma a couple weeks ago. i try every few years. just can't hang with them! i like fight song/revolver and that's about it.
Have you listened to Vs.? It's their masterpiece, and much more interesting than Signals, Calls and Marches. Probably my favorite album from that early 80's post-punk/art-rock era.
― 'ello govna, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 13:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Workingman's Dead - aside from the singles it's just kind of a sleepy, mopey album that doesn't stay with me.
― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link
gotta say Michael Jackson's Thriller. My father threw it at me but he missed.
― funky brewster (San Te), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link
its not to everyone's tastes,
Obviously not
― It dreamed to Tom D. of the Caucasus (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost the album's awesome tho
― funky brewster (San Te), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a pretty good album, it's not awesome. It's like "Tusk", it couldn't possibly live up to the hyperbole it receives on ILM and in other quarters, and that annoys people so much they dismiss out of hand.
― It dreamed to Tom D. of the Caucasus (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
lol that was an xpost to my MJ's Thriller post, sorry
― funky brewster (San Te), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, ha ha. Now that album is awesome!
― It dreamed to Tom D. of the Caucasus (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 13:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I keep giving Trout Mask Replica a chance, but every time I do I dislike it. I like a lot of noisy/experimental music, so I feel like this should be right up my alley. For whatever reason, it's not.
― 'ello govna, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
The Slits - Cut― ilxor, Friday, January 9, 2009 7:52 AM (1 year ago)
― ilxor, Friday, January 9, 2009 7:52 AM (1 year ago)
A year and a half later I've come around v. nicely to this album, it's great!
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Hotel California. Always loved the title track and wanted to hear the rest of the album to see if it matched up. Boy was I mistaken, what a load of crud.
― margana (anagram), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link
wasted time is worth a listen just to hear were i believe i can fly comes from.
― Efraqueen Juárez (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
where
I hate the Eagles.
― funky brewster (San Te), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
defending led zep is like defending pizza. or oral sex. there's just no point. the goodness is right there in front of you.
tusk though! man, just keep on trying. try for 20 years if you have too. it will be worth it in the end.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, I got one from Fopp for a fiver.
Haven't played it yet, so.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Astral Weeks is ultra-classic for the bass playing alone, Morrison was backed by jazz Titans on that record
― Mangrove Earthshoe (herb albert), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah idk how peeps can't love astral weeks, so beautiful and spiritual imo
― dj plain ole m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i love all these musics, scott and van jimmy somewhere out there in "heaven" on their journey to the end of time
― enfuque (Matt P), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
except theyre all still alive
― enfuque (Matt P), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
:(
ilm used to despise van. or the brits on ilm did anyway. they were rebelling against their stepmums or something. if you check old van threads.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I just ~got~ Tusk yesterday! I love the Mac & loved its singles but the album is long & at least superficially disjointed, so I could never see how to get inside the album. & now I do.
― Euler, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
vinyl helps. cuz when i play the vinyl i just play one side over and over and over. you sink into one side at a time.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
^ this is a good point. and if one side seems markedly better than the other(s), you can just stick with what's working. turn it over a few years down the line and get a surprise (for better or worse)
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
How can you not like Album X? It obviously deserves its classic status? I beg you to listen to it again and you will surely learn to appreciate its many charms.
On the other hand, I must add anything by The Spacemen 3 into this list. These guys are just not my cup of musical tea, it would seem.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
cecil taylor - silent tongues
haven't given up, but cecil is a tough nut
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm always surprised how boring Can albums are.
― Darin, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
contenderizer you made me dig out my copy of silent tongues and it sounds p amazing to me, what's not to like/get - incredible speed of thought/deed, rhythmic intensity, beautiful moments, moments when he's taking the piss, jazzy bits, classical bits, all cecilized for yr pleasure - just so exciting! better than punk rock!
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah actually, out of all the jazz legends, i've found cecil taylor the hardest to get into. love ornette, ayler, other free jazz bros, but I haven't had that moment with cecil. i kind of expect it'll happen sooner or later.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
this thread is terrible
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I tried to get into Hounds of Love after the last big 80s poll and came up totally blank. I agree with Tuomas on Maggot Brain.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
there are tons of albums i didn't get at first but gradually grew into, and tons of them are among my favorites now -- the fall, 'astral weeks,' 'in a silent way,' 'village green preservation society.' i even like some mid-70s floyd now, which i never thought i'd come around to. i'm a lot less quick to dismiss anything than i used to be. i spent years dismissing zappa (with embarrassingly little exposure to his music), but finally hearing 'we're only in it for the money' was eye-opening.
don't think i will ever come around to jeff buckley, but do enjoy the albums of his dad's that i've heard.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
what's not to like/get - incredible speed of thought/deed, rhythmic intensity, beautiful moments, moments when he's taking the piss, jazzy bits, classical bits, all cecilized for yr pleasure - just so exciting! better than punk rock!
lol yeah, i get all that and do take a certain dizzied pleasure from the record, but most of the appeal is intellectual. i'm impressed by the speed, dexterity, density, etc., but i also struggle with a kind of harried frustration. suspect that this music is simply too hyper and fractured to grant the simple rewards i most appreciate: sustained and pleasing tune, beat, tone or mood. i have the same problem with arty spazz music like zorn & projects involving mike patton, most of your more "extreme" metal and punk, even some of the giants of spiritual free jazz (a genre i do often enjoy).
― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 04:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
I WANTED WANTED WANTED to like this but I find the actual melody of every song/the guitar & drum-work so utterly boring that it makes what joy I derive from at least the lyrics unbearable. I honestly listened to this 6-7 times hoping it would just "happen" (like it did with that new AC album after at least 12 full-on listenings b/c I kept being reminded by the collective press that they were such a great band) but so far it hasn't happened yet. Maybe it will, or maybe it really just is literate but boring music.
― The previous message has been brought to you by (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
The Moles - Untune the sky
Damn this is so great. CUUUUUUUUUUUUURDDDDDLLLLLLE
― yuoowemeone, Friday, 5 August 2011 09:49 (twelve years ago) link
it says "weren't". I was intrigued by the Moles as they were compared to the Boo Radleys (I think?) but they didn't sound anything like them so I instinctly switched em off. Should try it out again.
― Why'd You Wanna Tweet Me So Bad? (dog latin), Friday, 5 August 2011 09:53 (twelve years ago) link
uggh oops. yeah it's a killer album
― yuoowemeone, Friday, 5 August 2011 10:18 (twelve years ago) link
Mary Margaret O'Hara, Miss America. Just not getting it at the moment.
― heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 23 June 2016 17:54 (seven years ago) link
luomo- vocalcity
i have such a hard time with house. the repetition grates on me. pure hypocrisy on my part because i can listen to, like, the stooges all day long, but for some reason when house does it i get really bored really quickly. :(
― hypnic jerk (rushomancy), Thursday, 23 June 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
Annette Peacock - The Aura Years. It sounds like it was leftover from earlier in the seventies.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 24 June 2016 00:57 (seven years ago) link
I wonder if the Groove is in the Heart band did anything else? *puts on World Clique* that's what I'm talking about...
― Closed Beta (NotEnough), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 13:40 (five years ago) link
but did it knock you out?
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 13:44 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3gTLXpXxtk
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
― Darin, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 2:22 PM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
Deee-Lite sorta petered out but Towa Tei's had a pretty extensive career since then. Check out "GBI" which sounds like his own attempt to make a "Groove is in the Heart" type single, but with Kylie Minogue instead.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
Cheap Trick "Dream Police" rn
title track is like Sparks via Queen. "Gonna Raise Hell" is the lost Iron "No New York" track.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 20 July 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
lost Iron Maiden.
or Judas Priest
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 20 July 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link
oh fuck this is the wrong thread
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 20 July 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
this album rules. definitely not not knocked out by this
Not so much album since this was a standout track on a compilation surrounded by decent music but nothing that stood out as much to me. I heard the guitar on Skinhead Moonstomp by Symarip which is really surprising. I must have heard it before so surprised i is hitting me as a surprise but it isn't what I would have expected, though not sure what that is. It's noisy , quasi psychedelic possibly and more about creating distortion with a clean guitar without pedals though possibly with a slide. I think it may sound like guitar of its time in 1970 when I think I might be expecting something more linear or rhythm oriented. I haven't listened to the lp in a while so not sure if there is more of this style elsewhere. Also not checked if this is the standard version or not. But really struck me as a bit other for the song it was a part of.
Had me thinking of Syd Barret or Blixa Bargeld or something . Though more compressed timewise and fitting within the music played but still like totally abstract.
― Stevo, Monday, 10 July 2023 09:43 (eight months ago) link
yeah seeing somebody else mentioning they posted to the wrong thread further up the thread I thought this was were knocked out by but its weren't.Only noticed when it said that four years pass since last message.
― Stevo, Monday, 10 July 2023 09:45 (eight months ago) link
Most disappointing "classic" albums I first heard in 2023:
Aerosmith Honky Tonk Masquerade, Joe ElyYoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Flaming LipsNext, Sensational Alex Harvey Band Terry Melcher Too Fast for Love, Mötley CrüeSommerabend, NovalisTen Years After
Maybe one good song apiece on each of these, at best.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 03:41 (two months ago) link
maybe I should be paying about dsotm here?
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 21:00 (two months ago) link
...posting about...
I love DSOTM but don't care for 'Wish You Were Here'.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Thursday, 18 January 2024 19:48 (two months ago) link
I just recently found a CD of Animals on the curb and listened to that for the first time, and think I prefer it to Wish, maybe even Dark Side. But I guess that's for the other thread.
― henry s, Thursday, 18 January 2024 20:37 (two months ago) link
Speaking of long crawls: daaamn that guitar in "Europe is Our Playground"
(I gotta get home and blast it)
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 January 2024 20:40 (two months ago) link
wrong thread alfred
― ivy., Thursday, 18 January 2024 20:41 (two months ago) link
oddly wish is the only one that does it for me
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Thursday, 18 January 2024 20:55 (two months ago) link
wish you weren't here, last classic album that i got and wasn't knocked out by!!!
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 18 January 2024 21:04 (two months ago) link
The concept-era Pink Floyd records are all very different in terms of pacing and structure, and if that doesn't appeal to the listener they can feel torpid. I got bored of Dark Side for that reason, but Wish You Were Here and Animals especially build in very satisfying ways for me.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 19 January 2024 22:00 (two months ago) link
"Animals" is my pick for this thread tbh
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Friday, 19 January 2024 22:04 (two months ago) link