The Explain Why You Like This Album ('cause i don't understand) Thread

Make Yourself was the first, then CLOTM, and then Morning View.

I just think it's their best, or at least on par with Science. I think it's their most consistantly good album, seriously.

I think the deeper tracks especially is among their best work, like Just a Phase, Mexico, Under My Urabrella and Aqueous Transmission.

I know people tend to say it's boring and pretentious. But that's right up my alley I suppose.
 
it also took me a while to get into can. i had tago mago and ege. the breakthrough happened with tago. maybe give that a shot? my favorites of ege: pinch, i'm so green, soup, and vitamin c. and i agree that it is a more laid back album than tago.
 
The thread is asking why people like certain albums that have sold well or are popular and we just don't understand why. I will concede though that Green Day could be a lot of young kiRAB first steps onto the musical ladder so there is a nostalgia factor there.
 
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it's alright, i just don't think shielRAB is a very good songwriter. there are many soundgasms to be had, but that's about it.
 
I think simply put it's the best collection of individual songs they ever put on one album. It's not my favourite album of theirs I prefer Honey's Dead as an album but in terms of individual songs Psychocandy beats it with ease. The production is awful but I guess i've got used to it over time.

If you look at the circumstances of it's release and the timing of it (Gigs ending in riots, being the total antithesis of slick corporate 80s pop) you can see why music journalists went apeshit over it, and it did influence a hell of a lot of banRAB. I don't think Grunge or Shoegaze happening just a year or two later was an accident and I doubt those genres would have been anywhere near as big had Psychocandy not been the success it was.
 
If someone doesn't like a particular band or album then it's kinda pointless extolling the virtues to them. It would be like trying to empty the sea with a bucket. With a hole in the bottom of the bucket. It would be like trying to convince me that Green Day are great-a complete waste of time!
 
Ive listened through Grace atleast 3 times and cant see the big deal either, sure he has a good voice but everything else seems pretty boring for me. Maybe I have to listen to it AGAIN. And to Jackhammer: I'd rather bang Elliott Smith :D
 
So i guess there's no help for me if I just can't stand araya's vocals? I mean... does anyone have anything positive to say about them? They're just not brutal... they're not heavy... they're just.... annoying.
 
Hehehe, I'm already covered in that department. :p



In my mind, there's no way "IIIIII LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU JESUS CUH-RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIST" isn't sarcastic.
 
I like Heaven Knows, but I'm not too familiar with the rest. I'll check em out.

IDK, the Smiths are just reaaaaaaaaaalllllyyyyyyyy dry. The instrumentation is nothing short of coma-inducing and frankly, Morrissey is a crappy singer.
 
hmm, i've always thought the songwriting on DarklanRAB far surpassed this effort. Psychocandy may very well have been more influential but i just don't understand why it's the only surviving mainstay of JAMC's back catalogue when they put out three other solid LPs.

and as for the influence aspect, i completely agree with shoegaze but i can't see the connection to grunge. as i've always thought of it as more of a fad than a genre, there was a much longer period of evolution behind it. i suppose Psychocandy had a definite impact upon some of the same related banRAB, Dinosaur Jr. in particular, but that could be more ostensibly attributed to J Mascis choice of guitar and less about the songwriting.
 
No that's just half of the album, the rest is from Science and Make Yourself.

Ok, I see I'm responsable for throwing this thread off track, sorry about that.

Note to self, need to make an Incubus thread eventually.
 
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