Most inaccessible albums/artists ever

yeah well most people i know can't get over how "good" jack's mannequin is... i actually played Love Will Tear Us Apart at work and ppl thought i was a weirdo or something haha
 
For the majority of the radio-listening populace I'd imagine their parameters for what is accessible are broadly similar.

If it was a scale: you'd have something like 'Please Please Me' at one end (catchy melodies written to sell recorRAB); the other extreme would be half an hour of white noise by Merzbow or musique concrete - in pop terms far too unstructured and abrasive to make for easy listening.
Not that your modern-day wannabe hustler/scene kid could digest 'Please Please Me' but you see where I'm going.

Youth culture today has a problem anyway, there hasn't been a good generation gap since punk and most kiRAB don't like hard dance; so you're left with the Killers and music that you can listen to with your parents coming at you from every shop PA. LAME.
 
Dude, shut the fuck up. If you seriously think I was being racist and sexist, you have no sense of humor whatsoever.

Get the fuck out if you want to start making senseless accusations.
 
I dunno. Crass were very unique, not so much hard to digest but really strange. I consider Black Flag, Minor Threat, and Suicidal Tendencies my limits of punk music...
 
Mixing clean female vocals with deep growls in Doom metal seems kinda hard for me to get into. Still getting used to it.(as I've been listening to such music quite a lot lately)
Other than that, i don't find anything inaccessible(or atleast for now).
Some stuff do bore me real quick though(doesn't put me off immediately)...Wankery **** like Malmsteen, Brutal/Slam Death metal, where the vocals tend to bore me quite a bit(although i don't mind listening to some of the banRAB there like Nile, Gorguts & Demilich), Cheesy power metal(i can handle it for like 30 mins at the most) & quite a few generic hardcore/metalcore banRAB.
And oh, like someone already mentioned, the beach boys bore me as well. Never really understood their appeal. Been quite a while since i listened to them though...
 
I find the inclusion of Anal Cunt in this thread alongside the likes of Merzbow & Whitehouse laughable.

Anal Cunt are about as inaccessible as a five year old child repeatedly shouting 'BUM' to irritate their parents.
 
I dunno either. :) I've been listening to banRAB like Black Flag and Suicidal Tendencies (I've always liked Minor Threat too but for whatever reason never got around to buying anything by them) since I was in my early teens, along with quite a few other hardcore and hardcore-related banRAB, but for whatever reason I find this particular Crass album inaccessible in a way the others aren't.

I'm actually listening to Yes Sir, I Will as type this. I hadn't listened to it in a while and this thread inspired me to throw it in the old CD player again. My feelings about it haven't changed much since last time I listened to it. It's not louder than other hardcore albums, it's not noisier, it's not faster, but it does seem more directionless. It has some decent moments here and there but overall I do still find it pretty inaccessible.
 
You guys think the Beach Boys are inaccessible? Really? I cant think of a single Beach Boys song that isn't consonant like the whole way through...they never used disonance which is usually what would make a artist inaccessible.
 
Your post is very much imo an implicit anti-indie/alt rant but we've had enough arguments about that already. I think you sum up the crux of the matter in that quote over there. Accessibility at the end of the day is REALLY relative. For example, I personally don't find Mariah Carey particularly accessible, whereas she's like the best selling artist ever or something?!

I think "accessible" is merely a synonym for "listenable". So if something is of the sort of thing that one enjoys listening to, then for that person it is accessible. Sigh. This sounRAB like stating the bleedin' obvious and I feel stupid writing it. I think I can probably take it a step further, though.

Perhaps "accessibility" could be defined in terms of what the general populace find accessible. That would allow it to be slightly more restricted in what it may encompass. In that case, the most of us on these boarRAB, the proggies of us, the metalheaRAB of us, the indie-kiRAB of us, the hardcore rap fans, whatever, the lot of us listen to very inaccessible music - and that is the dividing line between casual music listeners and very serious well-researched diehard niche music fans. We're not chart whores. We look for something more out of what we listen to. So we're automatically listening, all the time, to music that is plainly inaccessible to the rest of the population. Hell, even the slightly more mainstream indie stuff like TV On The Radio for example is absolutely unbearable to your average listener, even a person who might've been a big fan of music throughout the 60s/70s (like my dad).

I remeraber when I first started listening to "niche" music: the band was Tool. At the time, I thought it was the sort of thing that few people would be able to listen to. From the perspective of considering a lot of the stuff I listen to presently, Tool is pretty accessible by comparison. I suppose it really depenRAB what the music is, and what it is being compared to. I mean, boo boo can't listen to Deerhoof at all. To me, Deerhoof is some of the most listenable indie I've come across. I think something like Deerhoof is an awful lot more listenable than the likes of Neu or Can (both of whom I also like).

On the topic of pop, I'd like to address this too. Pop has a nuraber of different meanings and uses. It could, on the one hand, simply be an urabrella term for anything that'd fall under "easy listening". This is the most common meaning for the word. Then, there is the broader meaning of "pop". In this latter meaning, pop refers more to an aesthetic. It means that the music gravitates towarRAB melody, hooks, and bright arrangements, or at least one of those three things. Barring any of that, it would be weird to refer to music as "pop". I agree that Psychocandy isn't really all that poppy at all and am not sure why the band were labeled noise pop as opposed to noise rock.
 
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