Albums You're Not Digging

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MEH.
 
Also, I hold no biases against folk whatsoever. I quite dig folk rock like Neil Young, The BirRAB, Jefferson Airplane and CSN. Bob Dylan while overrated has some genius songs as well.

Woodie Guthrie and Peter Singer are American icons who have my respect even though I don't really listen to them.

I have to admit though that I'm more into english folk. Bert Jansch and Roy Harper are terrific. And a lot of english folk rock/prog folk like Comus, Jethro Tull, The Strawbs and Fairport Convention.

I do hate most indie folk with a burning passion though.



Hey, this isn't half bad. I still don't like his vocals, but at least this shows actual effort.

I guess I should let it be known that I have ONLY heard Pink Moon, and yeah calling him a terrible guitarist for that work alone is pretty silly of me and I admit that I'm just very spiteful because people constantly tell me this is the best album ever made, I really do think it's a terrible record, but I admit I shouldn't completely write off the rest of his work, I only assumed it was all trash because it's his most acclaimed work.

But I should know better than to trust the opinions of indie fans. And now that I know this guy actually IS capable of making music that just makes me more angry over the abortion that is Pink Moon, did he swallow whole bottles of barbiturates or something?
 
Young Americans is a great album, especially if you take into account some of the songs that got left off it (After Today, It's Gonna Be Me etc). Couldn't agree more that Ziggy's pretty overrated too - it's a good album, but the production makes it sound bit flat for my liking, and I only really listen to it for two or three songs these days. Could be because I've heard every song on it sound much better live though.

As for his later stuff, more people need to listen to the Buddha Of Suburbia soundtrack. Easily among his finest work for me.
 
uhhh i'm going to ignore the thread battle for now and go ahead and post this...

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Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

i'm sure many are going to argue with me on my decision...but i've listened to it 5 times trying to give it an honest chance, but it is just not working for me. i really tried...
 
I've always had trouble with why people dislike it. The album is so fun and upbeat, one of the few fun and "happy" albums I actually enjoy. It's a little ironic in a way, most of the "happy" jangly indie pop albums people go on about do nothing for me, but nearly everyone dislikes Midnight Vultures.
 
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Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon

Decided I'll try the album out after reading LoathsomePete's review on it, seeing as the only other Dimmu album I had was In Sorte Diaboli.

The only songs on the album which I seem to enjoy is 'Blood Hunger Doctrine' and 'Unorthodox Manifesto'. The rest seems bland, and a struggle to not hit the 'Next' button.
 
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Having never heard of this band or really much of this kind of music I downloaded it based off of the overwhelmingly positive feedback it was getting from literally everyone.

Bloody hell it's boring. It's so dull. It drags on and on and on in such a morbid way it's like torture. The worst part is? I can't even call it bad, because it really isn't as shi‎t as "bad" music is, it just puts me to sleep. I'm almost convinced that if I give it another listen sometime it may sound better, but I'm not up for that right now.




But those are awesome..



yeah Tin Machine is pretty bad. Not as horrifyingly awful as people like to say, but definitely not up to par.

though Diamond Dogs is alright.
 
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Took it as a personal insult. Someone please talk to this man, he neeRAB to be back with Albert and whatshisfacce before this turns into another Morrissey/Marr deal
 
I have On the Mouth and No Pocky for Kitty and they're both excellent. That Superchunk may have come up short but their early 90s material is by far what seems to be most representative of their collective sound. ReminRAB me a lot of early Archers of Loaf, another Chapel Hill band worth investigating.
 
To me, the best things about it were the events that happened to Bowie, Stevie Ray, and Iggy Pop as they were better noticed, pretty much making it beyond being criticized by me. Although it's a fine album to my ears, especially as it's hits were good for the radio of the time (The opening of the title track is quite iconic of the first MTV Generation), a nuraber of people who experienced legendary and innovate works like Heroes and Station to Station who are into the more innovative sides of Bowie possibly view the album as a bit of a lame out. Still, looking at things from a performer's point of view, you're on a new label who's taking a mega-chance (Bowie was certainly not that much of a household name in The States) and knowing it's make it or break it time, you have to pull out your Entertainer card and play it for all that it was worth. Being seriously smart, Bowie at least earns a bit of respect for actually pulling it off even it the results were not as challenging or edgy as his best work, and thankfully things did go to a point where he kept some kind of name through a series of lesser albums (and Tin Machine) enough for those wishing to have an artistic comeback have their wishes fulfilled in the Late 90's. Not a bad after-effect for a OK album.

Tonight (highlights - Loving the Alien >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Blue Jean) and Never Let Me Down (highlight - NLMD), however are the 80's albums that saw him still in the spotlight but with lesser returns and deserved criticism with many copies winding up in Goodwills and used record stores later bought up by those wanting to complete their album collections or possibly curious about how neutered New Pop Music in The Late 80's got without diving into the real litter (at least the voice was there)...then there was Tin Machine, but the concept for at least the first album was a bit amusing. Things would get better, with the occasional highlight, until the full comeback with his Late 90's albums.
 
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GoRABpeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to a Pretentiously Long Album Title

This definitely won't make me popular with people around here, but as I already only seem to evoke a minuscule amount of musical interest in the merabers here, fuck it.

This album is booooooooring. Just like every Sigur Ros, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, This Will Destroy You, and Mono album I have listened to. Sure it is well orchestrated music, but it sounRAB more like a soundtrack to a movie than an actual album. In fact while listening to Lift Your Skinny Fists... I actually forgot there was music going. If the listener actually forgets that music is playing then something has gone horribly wrong.

The album reminRAB me of garnish, it has its place, but you're not going to eat an entire plate of it. If this accompanied a video or something then perhaps I'd be more interested in it, but as it stanRAB right now the album just doesn't have what it takes to keep me interested.
 
Richard Ashcroft - Alone With Everybody
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Tried to give this one a fair chance again, seeing as it's been hanging around my music collection for a few years now with no real purpose. Just as before, I struggled through about 4 or 5 tracks before turning it off out of sheer boredom. It's far too long, tries a bit too hard for my liking to be anthemic and borabastic and, the excellent Song For the Lovers aside, it's all very uninteresting.

Anyone who's thinking about giving this a go, just listen to this song and don't bother with the album...

[YOUTUBE]KNnh8nszFU0[/YOUTUBE]
 
I think a lot of dislike for Animal Collective comes from the same human need to fit in that caused so much praise for them. Not saying this applies to any of you, but I think that a lot of people say that MPP is overrated simply because the coolest thing of all is to dislike what the hipsters like. Somehow that makes said person even more of a hipster :rolleyes:

And if anyone's wondering, I thought it was great. And when I first realized how great it was I didn't know how much Pitchfork praised it, nor did I read the review if that matters at all.
 
Check it out ASAP, that album's a masterpeice. And yeah Acrobatic Tenemant is really lame. The first song is decent but the rest is just Cap'n Jazz rip off ****.
 
contrary to my post in the "Albums You're Digging" thread....

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in general it was overblown and too drawn out for me. imo, these guys do much better with quick, crazy bursts of creativity than trying to cater to an "Epic" kind of sound


after the 5th track i switched to their other album On The Land and Sea
 
You're not alone duga, my first few listens to it didn't do much for me and the way I felt about the instrumentation mirrored your feelings exactly. However after another couple of listens I finally started to enjoy it.
 
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