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

Even though you're wrong and you should sit there in your wrongness, I really do admire the commitment of going through the conversation, quoting it and then bolding the bits you wanted.
 
As far as ac/dc and the ramones go, they each have one trick but they're awesome tricks.

AC/DC make music about their ****s but they don't have any pretensions about being anything more. It's very good music about sex. **** rock that's played with passion is 10 times better than bland cerebral music anyday.

I think the Ramones have really clever lyrics that come across as durab. I like how all their songs run together and are really short. They did so much with so little.

I still think the pistols rock pretty hard.

rumours and anthem are decent but cheesy.
 
Well it's your typical Ziggy Stardust glam rock era Bowie album but with all his American influences thrown in, like Jazz, Doo wop & 50s Rock n Roll.

I guess you could compare it to Young Americans is some ways but to me this sounRAB much more natural & a lot less forced than that album.

In fact to me it sounRAB a lot like a Roxy Music album in some ways, A lot of the same influences & elements are used.

Of all the Ziggy era stuff I probably listen to this album the most.
 
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First off, I do actually like Can. Monster Movie and Ege Bamyasi are excellent albums.

But this one... well I don't hate it, actually it would be a fairly consistant album if it was a single LP. But for some reason, the band really thought Pekin O and Aumgn were important enough to warrant a double album.

Double albums get a lot of slack for their filler and what not, but I can think of at least 30 great double albums that come to mind and this isn't f*cking one of them.

Now, yes Urban, I'm gonna start using the word hipster.

Hipsters and critics alike hate on progressive rock for making really long songs full of "noodling", and yet this is hailed as a masterpiece? May I remind everyone that the first 30 minutes of the second half of this album is just random, aimless f*cking noise? And not the cool Glenn Branca kind, it's just racket. WTF.

Even the actual songs aren't THAT great. Songs like Mushroom are kinda ruined by Damo Sazaki's abrubt indie c*nt snarling.

I guess prog is only cool when it's full of sloppy as f*ck musicianship and a complete disregard for tonality.
 
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Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Well, I've only listened to this about 3 times and I'm the type of person who could call an album shit/overrated/*insert appropriate insult here* (see Loveless and The Velvet Underground & Nico as prime examples) however I heard this album was brilliant, and Indie is my taste but I didn't get this album.. What am I missing?
 
They surely aren't god's gift to indie...I just find their music enjoyable is all. I share your confusion about how people run around saying their music is pure genius...but I still like it.
 
I don't know if anyone here likes it but...

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Someone recommended it to me claiming, "It's seriously a musical masterpiece. Only Moby could create it". I listened to the whole album (two disks) and I could not get into it the least bit. If there's someone on here who likes this album or Moby at all, please tell me.
 
Skeletal Lamping(and pretty much the entire discography of) Of Montreal
I've tried hard to get into them, but to no avail, they just bore me honestly I like othe rmusic like Of Montreal, just no them.
 
Finally, some fucking insight into Dark Side Of The Moon. Much appreciated, since this is what the thread is about all I've had is questions as to why I dislike rather than why others like it. However I didn't enjoy Piper At The Gates Of Dawn much either, maybe it's just one of them things. But I sometimes get the impression to not like this band it's a massive deal, but oh well. IMO Pink Floyd are shit. Feels good to get that off my chest. :D
 
I had trouble with this one, too, until I played it for my girlfriend on a road trip. It took me years to get into, tho has been rewarding since and now I play it often as it is less demanding than the superior TAGO MAGO. Background CAN.



LIVE DEAD, Workingman's Dead, American Beauty

BLUE CHEER - Vincebus Eruptum

"Bless It's Pointed Little Head" by Jefferson Airplane

"Easter Everywhere" by the 13th Floor Elevators

(I'm digging for 'em, I know)



Amazing record... the tones are unbelievable, analog mess at it's gloriousest... It sounRAB like it was recorded at home on a 4-track, twenty years before that was in vogue... no compression, all the levels pegged, no gratuitous displays of musicianship... just minimalist groove, raw semi-conscious slurred melody, and attitude so thick you can smell it (real attitude DOESN'T get right in your face... because it doesn't care about your face)
 
Dunno...I can't get into Husker Du so I haven't heard much of their stuff. Maybe Husker Du was more punk and Rites of Spring was more hardcore. Maybe it's on the basis taht emo = emotional hardcore, not emotional punk?


It's better.
 
I just gave a few of the tracks a listen as well and I think I was probably a bit harsh, I forgot how much I liked the riRAB in Welcome to the Jungle and Paradise City.
 
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