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

^ 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?

...posting about...

I love DSOTM but don't care for 'Wish You Were Here'.

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.

Speaking of long crawls: daaamn that guitar in "Europe is Our Playground"

(I gotta get home and blast it)

wrong thread alfred

oddly wish is the only one that does it for me

wish you weren't here, last classic album that i got and wasn't knocked out by!!!

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.

"Animals" is my pick for this thread tbh