What was the last classic album you got and weren't knocked out by?

If that's the one with Trampled, I have that single.

Oh that's phys as well, innit?

just checked the track listing, Crunge and Jamaica etc.

Yeah, someone played it to me back when.

I should say I like parts of III, pretty much all of that except that excruciating blues workout they do on it. God I hate that.

I'm trying to think of a canonical album I really really don't like, but then I find I like most (what is generally considered) "good" music if I give it a chance.

forever changes by love

i really really want to like it but i just don't.

I could never see what everyone else sees in

nah, can't think of one.

I still like "Wow" more than "Moby Grape" the first one, but hey, that's just me...

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.

Oh, I got one from Fopp for a fiver.

Haven't played it yet, so.

Astral Weeks is ultra-classic for the bass playing alone, Morrison was backed by jazz Titans on that record

yeah idk how peeps can't love astral weeks, so beautiful and spiritual imo

i love all these musics, scott and van jimmy somewhere out there in "heaven" on their journey to the end of time

except theyre all still alive

:(

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.

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.

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.

^ 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)

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.

cecil taylor - silent tongues

haven't given up, but cecil is a tough nut

I'm always surprised how boring Can albums are.

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!

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.

this thread is terrible

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.

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.

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).

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 Moles - Untune the sky

Damn this is so great. CUUUUUUUUUUUUURDDDDDLLLLLLE

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.

uggh oops. yeah it's a killer album

Mary Margaret O'Hara, Miss America. Just not getting it at the moment.

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. :(

Annette Peacock - The Aura Years. It sounds like it was leftover from earlier in the seventies.

I wonder if the Groove is in the Heart band did anything else? *puts on World Clique* that's what I'm talking about...

but did it knock you out?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3gTLXpXxtk

I'm always surprised how boring Can albums are.

― Darin, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 2:22 PM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^

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.

Cheap Trick "Dream Police" rn

title track is like Sparks via Queen. "Gonna Raise Hell" is the lost Iron "No New York" track.

lost Iron Maiden.

or Judas Priest

oh fuck this is the wrong thread

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.

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.

Most disappointing "classic" albums I first heard in 2023:

Aerosmith
Honky Tonk Masquerade, Joe Ely
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Flaming Lips
Next, Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Terry Melcher
Too Fast for Love, Mötley Crüe
Sommerabend, Novalis
Ten Years After

Maybe one good song apiece on each of these, at best.

maybe I should be paying about dsotm here?

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