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

yeah that sux

but i guess i always figure -- to a point -- if ppl whose opinions i respect like stuff there must be something to it...even like non-canon stuff like the goons on ilx have made me check out way more no-nyc rap than i ever would have and a lot of it has been great

for sure there's a few like that for me as well, but sometimes an album just won't ever click with me, too. I just dislike that someone won't accept that someone disliking an album is an invalid opinion!

xxpost -- lol dammit

well rap IS a good example of where that has happened for me, 3 years ago I couldn't stand slow southern club rap, but it's more or less because I'd barely heard any of it and hadn't listened real closely.

compared with like the eagles, whom I know I'll never like, regardless of what you put in my baloney sandwich

I didn't like so many of my favorite albums on first listen (Aeroplane included for same reasons, Magnum's whiny nasal yawlp was the worst). by now I figure if something really affects me it's at least worth further exploration.

but everyone's different

Pitchfork put in Aeroplane in the top ten of their Top Albums of the 1990s feature that they compiled in 2003. I have heard that Pitchfork are quite the tastemakers so maybe that had an impact in its seeming canoniztion in the 2000s? Along with Bee Thousand and I See a Darkness, it was one of the three albums in their 1990s top ten that I never really "got".

bee thousand is just awesome catchy garage pop tunes, what's to get?

yeah was gonna say I was like 30 when that album came out and it was immediately taken to by the indiesphere of the day.

oh wait I was 28, how the time flies

Ummm, Night Beat by Sam Cooke.

I LOVE Live at the Harlem Square Club, and I by no means think Night Beat is in any way 'bad' - but aside from the killer guitar playing and "Lost and Lookin,'" this just sounds like a pretty good soul album - not the life changing 40 minutes I was told it would be.

also, Slowdive in general. I like 'em just OK. What's the big deal?

i'm usually always knocked out by classic records when i hear them

i respect the canon more than anyone i think

I'm pretty into the canon too, but the more expanded view--where there's like 100 canonical albums from 1972 and you're not required to love all of them.

bee thousand is just awesome catchy garage pop tunes, what's to get?

I guess it weren't that catchy to me. Chacun à son goût and all that.

Bee Thousand is much easier to grasp as a bunch of catchy mini-songs, than as a work of genius of whatever.

Jeff Buckley's Grace. I still think, to this day, that a large part of the album's success is purely because of the guy's ravishing good looks.

i think jeff buckley had a beautiful voice and people forgive him for having never ever written an interesting song because there was always the potential that he might have done something great eventually just because of his voice. and also maybe he has that martyr's aura surrounding him, though i suppose classic rock types were enthralled even when he was alive so maybe i am wrong.

Grace is amazing. idk hwo one can think he didn't write anything interesting, the songs are gorgeous!

Bonnie Raitt - Give It Up

Live at Leeds.

Yeah, WTF at Jeff Buckley criticism - there are some fantastic self-penned songs on Grace; "Last Goodbye" being a good example. The only reason I could see people hating on it is because of its ostensible "classic-rockness", which is a foregone dismissal as there's quite more to the record than AOR hoariness. And yes, his voice is pretty special.

i feel like woody allen in manhattan, and you are all diane keaton after the trip to the museum, talking about yr academy of the overrated.

oh, bloody Astral Weeks. don't get it.

stevie: isn't that the point?

This thread is just a ruse to isolate those who are not one with the canon and ridicule them...I'm onto it!

Roni Size - New Forms — Don't get it at all.

this is the only jeff buckley song i know. but i don't know his version. i've always liked it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BThMWI25qg

i figure if he's okay with katatonia he's okay with me.

alf: i'm guessing, but that's still my response. i guess i feel that way about other records too. i just find that whole "can't believe the TASTEMAKERS and HIPSTERS think this is cool lol" undercurrent to, say, kids building a cult around ITAOTS.

i find it tiresome, is what i mean. i am horrifically jetlagged right now.

but tbh i probs feel the same way about radiohead, etc. narcicism of small differences, etc.

Scott - look up Everybody Here Wants You! That's one of my favs of his

i like plenty of 'classic rock' canon fodder - van morrison, the band, bob dylan, scott walker blahdiblah - and have always thought that jeff buckley was the most ghastly rub - pretentious, overwrought, ugly-sounding. his dad ain't all that, either.

i like pretentious music. i'm a big beethoven fan. scott walker is classic rock can fodder?

er, "canon"

Scott 4 is canon, definitely.

Live at Leeds.

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Wow. Hard to see that and Maggot Brain on here, but each to his/her own.

maybe in the u.k. or japan, i guess.

x-post

99.3% of the u.s.a. has never heard a note of scott walker. and only 5% remember the walker brothers. if that.

yeah scott walker prob isn't v 'rock' tho he is def canonical (maybe esp in britain/europe?) was just kinda reaching for someone good w a big voice and big ideas.

i like pretentious music too, maybe i just don't like the things that jeff buckley is pretending to be, or wanted to be, or was.

x-post!!

"Wow. Hard to see that and Maggot Brain on here, but each to his/her own."

says the guy who hates led zeppelin.

wait you are the guy that hates led zep right?

oh, bloody Astral Weeks. don't get it.

I don't if it hits as immediately hard as some of Van's other albums, but "Madame George", the title track, "Sweet Thing" and "Cyprus Avenue" have a smoldering intensity to them that grows on repeated listens for me.

i couldn't stand bitches brew by miles when i heard it in college, just didn't get it at all

Yeah, this is such a good example of something that took me some time to grow into. I checked it out from the local library in high school because I'd been reading about how innovative Miles was, and I completely hated it. Just despised it. Came back to it about 8 years later and now I can't imagine living without it. Its one of the few albums that is ALWAYS on my iPod, no matter how much I reshuffle whats on it.

I've never actually listened to Astral Weeks, but I do like Sweet Thing (only know it from Best Of)

I've listened to that album (AW) 20 times, and I couldn't tell you which of those songs are which.

All I hear is "BRAAA- LA LAA LAAA LA". I mean, it's beautiful in its own way, but that's it.

You better not be a Scott Walker fan, then...

Who's he?

:-D

He's this lounge singer from Las Vegas who went to England and got crazy famous.

Then forgot to go home, and now punches beef.

"pretentious" implies undeserved — i wouldn't say that about scott walker

Black Monk Time

the thing that irritates me about jeff buckley is that his dad is 10X more amazing and no one really rates him