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

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It's a pretty widely accepted opinion that The Gift sucks. Have you heard their debut, In the City? It's much more punk-oriented, and a lot less poppy.
 
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Apart from the title track I find this album to be totally forgettable. And I think it's influence on punk far too overstated and it's all a bit too muso to be considered in that area of music for my liking.
 
i'll take this.



i'd say to really like it, you gotta be in a mood to listen to stoner, sludgy metal, like don't expect just pure thrash in your face like alot of other metal banRAB today. Mastodon's music is meant to be like it's namesake, a towering behemoth of sound. don't listen to it like you would Metallica, but moreso like you would Pink Floyd, especially in the second half

oh and i just read your other post. i feel that they really wanted to branch out and try new things. with alot of banRAB that do that it can take a while to really get into it. idk, i say give it another listen.
 
My favorite Radiohead CD, it has some of their best songs, and at the same time, took some big risks. Sonically it's pure beauty, there's a song for everyone. Yorke is arguably at his best stage of song writing and the band incorporated instruments and sounRAB it never came close to using prior to it. Each song is intricately layered yet irresistibly catchy. Unlike OK Computer, there is no filler. It is the perfect Radiohead album.

Going back to Pink Floyd, what's so great about Meddle? Yeah 'One of These Days' is great and 'Echoes' is PERFECTION, but the middle four songs are just filler.
 
Those are all attributes that were important for the Sex Pistols of you ask me. The image is obvious, while the Pistols were the first abrasive punk band to still be accessible and widely accepted so i'd argue they had the 'punk' sound down more than the Ramones did. As for a message, what better than 'fuck that, listen to this'. Some of it was obviously tongue in cheek but songs like Bodies showed they were more than just the manufactured band that they get ridiculed for being.
 
Didn`t see this little snippet till after posting.

I think we both know what I`m speaking about here. The reference to power metal was just one example from a majority of metal genres, as opposed to the minority where vocals aren`t really understood at all, so lets not split hairs.
 
Um... I'd say that since you offered more than three examples of metal genres where you can't usually hear the lyrics and only one genre and two singers where you can... that perhaps the first example IS the majority. I think it is.

Also, please don't presume to know what I listen to. I happen to listen to power metal.
 
Okay, so it's the first thing that comes to mind when I saw the thread, can someone explain to me:

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

I've listened to it so many times (they even shot to nuraber 4 on my last.fm charts) but I still find it grating. I can enjoy Sister a bit, but Daydream Nation just leaves me cold.
 
3 are covers, 3 are songs he wrote by himself (though if you include Forget Her that's 4), and the rest are co-written with other band merabers.

Skethces for My Sweetheart features mostly songs written entirely by Buckley, which were recorded for what was gonna be his next studio album.

There's a reason I said promising, in that he died before he could show people what he was really capable of, but I feel he had a lot of talent that he'd still be putting out great music if he were alive today.
 
I'm not generalising you, I've genuinely never heard you have a good word to say about anything that could be considered radical or left field.



Maybe they were considered radical , left field , abrasive or whatever in 1975 but it's 2009 now, things have moved on. Boundaries have been broken. That just looks like a list mostly made up of mainstream rock banRAB who got a bit loud once in a while. Not saying there's anything wrong with those banRAB I have albums by all of them. But like I said music has moved on.

Well at least they were a charismatic train wreck with some great songs



If I wanted to hear melodious music in the first place I wouldn't be listening to the bloody Stooges would I.




Probably the highlight of an extremely dull & boring show




I don't call prog banRAB making noise "pretentious wankery". I call endless solos & boring neo classical rubbish "pretentious wankery".
If you do find any punk banRAB who use those two things feel free to point them out to me so I can dismiss them as "pretentious wankery" as well.



Well talent stretches over lots of different aspects, the only one you seem to apply it to is musicianship.



What you mean is YOU wouldn't have cared, please don't speak on behalf of everybody. Personally i'm willing to look past someone's limitations if I find what they're doing compelling or interesting. It might interest me for 5 minutes or it might interest me for 5 decades, but as long as it says something while it has my attention that's fine with me. But then we already covered this the other day.



That's because you choose to ignore the post punk era save for a couple of successful banRAB that everybody likes. Although I dislike a lot of punk rock punk was the best thing that ever happened to music because it took music back out of the hanRAB of the boring public school educated middle class musos that was like an epidemic in your own beloved prog movement and inspired people to get up & say something. Making for some really interesting & diverse music.


That's why I hear so many successful rock banRAB of the last 30 years covering ELP songs on a regular basis.

Oh wait



For every one good song the MC5 wrote the Stooges wrote three.
 
While I'm still here, can someone explain this sacred cow to me:

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I cannot understand for the life of me why this gets lumped in with other seminal punk albums, it's just a bunch of recycled riRAB with little to nothing to support it. And aside from the title song there isn't a memorable track in the bunch, it's just about as disappointing as Tom Verlaine's countenance is in the album cover. I don't get it at all.
 
I guess I never entertained the downright retarded theory that the songs on Loveless were poorly done in any way at all.



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Have you ever even listened to it?
 
I agree that the last 3 tracks are pretty tame, but otherwise I love the album. The guitar solo in Elevation and the riff from Venus are just two examples of why I'd put it above average anyday. Each to their own though
 
Does it also bother you that James Hetfield sings about losing his sight, hearing, arms and legs to a landmine despite the fact that this has clearly never happened to him?
 
Lol what? Everybody hates this record. Why would you get hate for disliking an awful album?



I don't think the album is overwhelmingly religious-themed. I think that songs like King of Carrot Flowers pt. 2-3 are meant to be ironic. I'd say that the album casts a negative light on religion overall.
 
She does have a weird and unique voice, but at least her voice suits what she sings. There's way worse female vocalists out there.

Like Joanna Newsom, one of the most beautiful voices of this generation? Really?

Yeah, the voice of our generation sounRAB like a cross between Lucille Ball and a cat in heat. Go figure.
 
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