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

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*

Oh God this happens to me all the time. Most recently, Zappa's Freak Out!

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.

lcd soundsystem - sound of silver

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.

Oh and that Dennis Wilson album too - Zzzzzzzzzzzz and not in a good way

joni mitchell - blue

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.

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.

Village Green Preservation Society

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.

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).

The Boredoms, Super Ae. People keep telling me it's funny but I don't get the joke!

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.

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.

Yeah, Pacific Ocean Blue is some vile shit. If you're going to create seventies studio-rock, make sure you can sing first.

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...

Fairport Convention's Liege and Lief. Lumpen, muddy, makes me think of soggy roll-ups, split ends, sour beer, smelly feet.

The Slits - Cut

never even saw this thread until now, but yeah Pacific Ocean Blue should have stayed unreleased.

i like everything mentioned on this thread. except animal collective. i mean i really like everything except that.

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!

The Who: Tommy and Sell Out.

i heard the raincoats s/t for the first time today, it didn't do much for me.

This thread makes me sad. This in particular

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.

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.

Odessey and Oracle

Village Green Preservation Society

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

Agree with posters above that Pacific Ocen Blue by Dennis Wilson is dull dull dull.

The XX album - it's really bland!

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.

people nominating Pacific Ocean Blue in this thread are getting fecal treats in their stocking come Christmas time this year

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.

BLACKsummersnight

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.

i really dislike pacific ocean blue. boring songs and dennis' voice isn't great.

his voice is perfect for the music, raw and rough around the edges. he was never the shimmering smooth-voiced member of the band.

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.

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.

Workingman's Dead - aside from the singles it's just kind of a sleepy, mopey album that doesn't stay with me.

gotta say Michael Jackson's Thriller. My father threw it at me but he missed.

its not to everyone's tastes,

Obviously not

xpost the album's awesome tho

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.

lol that was an xpost to my MJ's Thriller post, sorry

Oh, ha ha. Now that album is awesome!

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.

The Slits - Cut

― 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!

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.

wasted time is worth a listen just to hear were i believe i can fly comes from.

where

I hate the Eagles.

Here's my current addition to this thread (sorry, Gary):

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BR-l63C-2iA/R-ZYBRjA4GI/AAAAAAAAB2k/SDsMhTmIRJ4/s320/Gary+Numan+ThePleasurePrinciple1.jpg

I love "Hotel California" and "Take It To The Limit" but otherwise I'm with you on that one.

xp

You've gotta be kidding ilxor, TPP is a masterpiece.

Trans-Europe Express. I love Kraftwerk lots, but this is the opposite of Radioactivity in that all the songs are long and lumpen.

LOL, it's uncanny how we don't agree about anything.

Going back a bit now, but "What Goes On", always struck me as a bit prissy and pretentious.

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.

I would second that. Scott, iirc you're a Throwing Muses fan - have a listen to 'Mica' cos it's sort of a blueprint for their early stuff as far as my ears can tell.

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.

I didn't read it as an endorsement of misogyny, I just thought it was a very trite treatment of the subject. In some ways it's certainly a subjective/taste thing as lyrics that deal directly with sex/sexual frustration never really do much for me, except for, like, Prince. I was really surprised how whiny Dulli's voice was considering he's spawned his own subgenre/cottage industry. There is some nice, moody guitar work, etc. going on but the whole thing comes off as a humorless bore of self-loathing. I'm sure the exact same criticism, with a few modifications, could be made of Mark Kozelek's work, but I adore the man. So yeah, subjectivity.

As far as classic albums: anything by Pink Floyd except Piper. I don't even know where to begin. This is a piece of the classic rock canon I will never understand.

I was really surprised how whiny Dulli's voice was considering he's spawned his own subgenre/cottage industry. There is some nice, moody guitar work, etc. going on but the whole thing comes off as a humorless bore of self-loathing.

Really? I'd describe Dulli's work as a lot of things but "humorless" is definitely NOT one of them!

the whole thing comes off as a humorless bore of self-loathing.

Oh man, seriously Dulli can be the funniest fucker in the world sometimes imo. xp

Well like I said, I'm not getting it. Keep in mind Gentlemen is my only exposure.

i dunno how anyone can hear "what jail is like" and not hear a dumptruck-sized dose of self-loathing. i'm not saying dulli's *not* a misogynist -- getting a woman to sing the album's most self-debasing song? -- but he is more complex than being *just* a misogynist.

I wouldn't say Dulli's a misogynist at all. There's a mean humorous streak running through a ton of his work. Everything from "Be Sweet" to "John the Baptist" to his cover of Mary J. Blige's "Real Love" is filled with it.

He does do a lot of the obnoxious tough-guy asshole act, but underneath you can tell that he's really secretly an obnoxious weak-guy asshole. I do love him though.

http://www.kalamu.com/bol/wp-content/content/images/maggot%20brain%20cover.jpg

I have to confess I never understood why "Maggot Brain" was considered such a classic. It starts with a nice enough guitar solo, and ends with a decent groove and some funny sound effects, and between them are several vignettes of funk songs which haven't got the time to develop properly, and which have some bland group vocals. Didn't this band a have proper vocalist, or why does it sound like the whole band is shouting (pretty discordantly) on every tune with vocals?

Okay, I do understand why the guitar solo is considered great by those people who care a lot about guitar solos, but is one solo plus the funny noises enough to make an album classic?

one solo plus the funny noises

Most hilarious reduction of an entire album I've ever read.

Well, that's pretty much all I remember of the album (I haven't listened to it since I bought it). Nothing else on it was that memorable.

i'm not like hugely crazy about the album but "can you get to that" is top ten songs ever.

joni mitchell
tom waits

there must be an obvious classic album for each of these but the stuff ive heard is distinctly not knocking me out one jot.
i like some tom waits but a whole album? oyyyy.

I would agree with you on Joni Mitchell's Blue but it clicked recently after 10 years of trying.

if at first you don't succeed...

i'm not like hugely crazy about the album but "can you get to that" is top ten songs ever.

― difficult listening hour, Monday, January 17, 2011 11:34 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark

^yes.

Tom Waits though. Still haven't managed to get to that.

I don't want to derail the thread (as mentioning this album often does) but I don't see what seperates In the Aeroplane over the Sea from like a dozen other indie/folk/pop/whatever albums. To me it's a solid album with some great tracks ("Holland 1945", "Ghost", and "Untitled") but as a whole I don't get the whole aethestic of acoustic guitar over VERY LOUD SINGING.

dude i know aerosmith is banned but have a heart

i don't get My Bloody Valentine, Neutral Milk Hotel, or Pavement -- basically the 90s indie canon is totally unremarkable to me

Whoa, aerosmith is banned? How come?

The Geffen Records years

self-banned iirc

Ah.

And major lolz at that x-post.

You can add me to the NMH-not-getters tbh. I even like a few other E6 bands, but not them.

is there a 'What happened to ________?' thread?

Count me in the not getting the NMH cult camp too. I mean, both albums are pretty solid (though I think the first one is slightly better), but I don't understand how especially that second record garners all this "OMG Jeff Mangum is a GENIUS and AEROPLANE is the BEST RECORD EVER" gushing.

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

i respect the canon more than anyone i think

xpost in my experience, once you accept the love for Jesus K.Rist it's all gold

and Tom Waits - Rain Dogs ftw imo

PS im Nick Canon too. totally respect the context/history along with the sound and feel like it's a personal challenge to expand my taste if I don't 'get' something that's considered classic. not so much w/ other mediums but def music

what I hate is the moment you admit you don't like an album in the canon to someone who is a huge fan, and they go "wtf? you need to listen to it again!"

thanks, never considered that was the problem all along, not listening to an album I don't like enough.

I like NMH but I am curious as to how Aeroplane took off into this massive cult classic 5+ years after release - I know it was pretty well thought of among US indie fans in the late 90s but they were never even the most known E6 band in my gang of UK indie friends (Olivia Tremor Control and Apples In Stereo got a lot more press over here, by which I mean "still not that much really")

so I was pretty baffled in around 2006 when I was at a festival and they played it over the PA in one of the smaller tents and a big group of people younger than me were making a big show of singing and swaying along, because I had apparently totally missed it becoming canonised while OTC were gently forgotten about

there's shit i totally love that took me, jeez, probably 10 years to like...

i couldn't stand bitches brew by miles when i heard it in college, just didn't get it at all, tons of stuff i love now...actually jazz in general, so glad i have some sorta weird sense of obligation cuz i would have just given up and missed so much beauty

I just don't like it when people take it as a personal challenge to MAKE you like their canonical favorite.
Because if history is any indicator, I'll come around to liking it on my own, eventually. Or not.

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.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, January 18, 2011 12:03 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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

i rate him. plenty of people like him.

but, no, he hasn't sold as many records as his son.

Often remarked upon, that they died at the same age.

Not so often, that Tim had made a load of albums and had laid off of the prevarication...

didn't he hire an elderly man to hit the meat for him?

say what?

wait you are the guy that hates led zep right?

― scott seward, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 10:03 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yes. With qualifications, i like some of their stuff, like some of the funkier parts of Physical Graffiti and most of In Through the Out Door. The rest I cant stand.

I got a couple of theirs recently.

2 was dull, zoso was alright if you skip Stairway.

As I'm with you on Phys, I'll have to checkout InThru at some point.

Anyway, back to being meh about "Tusk" etc.

you might dig houses of the holy if u like physical graffiti

all led zep rules and pwns

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?

...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