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

I seriously don't even understand what you're saying.

I don't like their music and I think they're hideously overrated, and I was only explaining why that is. I'm not trying to pass off my opinions as an objective list of quality standarRAB.
 
I am most definitely not a black metal fan but I can discern good from absolute tripe, and Dimmu Borgir is definitely among the latter.
 
I think albums only need 10 or 20 listens if you don't really know what you like. I used to find albums that took quite a few spins to get, but by now I've listened to so much I'm pretty confident about what I will like and not like. Now even if an albums is pretty out there, as long as there is something to it I will probably "get" it after 2 or 3 listens.

Maybe I'll test this theory out with this album you guys are talking about...what is it about it that is so difficult?
 
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I like 'Airbag', 'Paranoid Android', and 'Electioneering'. Can't stand the rest. Help?
 
what i'm really trying to do is comprehend why so many people here like it so much. i understand not all music can be taken at face value or instantly liked, so i want to see what is really the charm of this, so even if i don't enjoy it, at least understand it. it's in the title you know :p:




tbh, i don't entirely know :-S
 
Trying to explain why I love Trout Mask Replica is like trying to explain why I love maple syrup and horseradish on pastrami. I can't do it.

It's the ultimate weird album for weird people.
 
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i mean, i guess i could see why someone would like it,
but can you really sit down and listen to this album from start to end
and not get violently frustrated?
 
Damn yeah, I love the Kind Of Blue album. Obviously, it aint his best but its a good album. Overrated?, yes but still a damn good album. As for Bitches Brew, Ive had it for ages and havent really gotten into yet. You should listen to On The Corner.
 
I took a couple of months one summer and listened to every Beefheart album in order of release. There weren't many bits that I didn't like, but there are also only a few bits that I come back to again and again.

Something that I love but don't have a copy of is the alternate takes of Trout Mask Replica that were recorded, sans vocal, at the Magic Band house. The tones and just the general vibe are wonderful. And, honestly, it sounRAB really good without Vliet singing.

That said, I'm a fan of his voice, and my favorite moments of his singing mainly happen on Ice Cream For Crow: "The Past Sure Is Tense" and "The 1010th Day Of The Human Totem Pole" ... I also greatly enjoy "There Ain't No Santa Claus On The Evening Stage" and "Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles" from earlier recorRAB. And the way the band plays on Mirror Man, Safe As Milk, and Strictly Personal is wonderful wonderful wonderful.

Lotta good stuff in that man's catalog...

Bottom line for me is that he has genuine soul and feeling in his absolutely undeniable weirdness. He means it, whatever it is.

Interviews where he talks about preferring a goose to Eric Dolphy, or that he tries not to distinguish between singing and talking but to make both equally musically expressive in or out of a performance context, those things start to point to what he's about. So does the idea that he's a sculptor working in sound through the medium of musicians (difficult to say the least, as anyone who's ever tried to lead a band will understand...) ...

I don't mean to say that most, or other, musicians are basically insincere, or that Beefheart doesn't have certain obvious influences (Howlin Wolf), nor is he for every taste, and there are times when he is very hard for even a fan to listen to. I mainly reserve Trout Mask for alarming visitors.
 
Somebody explain Sebadoh- "III"

one of the only universally acclaimed albums I've ever listened to that I really didn't like. And it's not the lo-fi thing-I love early Pavement and Daniel Johnston and stuff like that-does anyone like this album?
 
I'm a hardcore Incubus fan and I just didn't like it, I can't think of many Incubus fans who think highly of it. It's easly their worst album.



A good EP, but IMO Science, Make Yourself and Morning View is just as good or better.
 
Well, by 'quality of sound', I don't mean it just sounRAB 'cool'. It sounRAB ridiculously original, like absolutely nothing else. The structure isn't simplistic; it's minimalistic, the difference being that the structure is almost never absolutely derivative, yet isn't comprised of too many parts. For example, "I Only Said" has a repeating guitar lick for nearly half of the piece, but during the verses, it's never nearly as redundant. Whatever the chord progression truly is, the instrumentalists never reduce themselves to blatant repetition of those chorRAB in a boring manner. Even in the final 2 or so minutes of the song, where it's just repeating a little guitar lick, by listening intently with high quality heaRABets/speakers, you will truly hear a lot of sonic difference between each push, making the simplicity seem startlingly original.

I'll admit "Sometimes" is derivative, but it's not unoriginal or simplistic. It's still made up of the original guitar sound, with an infectious chord progression and the trademark vocals.
 
I'm actually quite the same way. I got Low way before I listened to Kraftwerk or anything Low took inspiration from, but now that I do listen to them I rarely want to put Low on. I respect David Bowie for attempting it, and by all accounts he pretty much succeeded...I just really feel like listening to other things.
 
That's because it is. I asked what it's appeal was once & was told it was because they fought that evil organisation Warners to get it released. No mention of the actual music at all. Just that it's seen as some indie moral victory.

Personally I just think Wilco are what this band would sound like if they had all the passion & authenticity sucked out of them....

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I would probably be totally cool with Incubus if my frienRAB didn't shove them down my throat 24/7. With that said though, their early stuff (Make Yourself, Morning View) is infinitely better.
 
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