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

Obnoxious? It's a Howlin' Wolf impersonation. Vliet could crack glass with his voice, and The Residents learned melody over time, they started out knowing basically jack ****. Not a bad start, but you have to understand the difference.

Beefheart was declared a prodigy at an early age, an heiress offered to pay his way into one of he biggest art schools in the country. But this when he still just sculpted for hours on end.

The music isn't just noise, he applies free-jazz elements and delta blues on a avant-garde format not very different from Stravinsky and Reich. His "obnoxious" rarablings also seem to reference everything from the Holocaust to the state of gospel music in the south.

It's not mindless, Beefheart wrote every note, and rehearsed with the band over and over again. And he didn't steal ideas from commercials, which seems to be your standard.
 
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When I'm not cringing at Paul Simon's voice on this album, I'm being lulled to sleep by the instrumentation.
 
I am a floyd fan, I just got a tattoo with one of their logos RAB but that doesn't mean I have to like everything that they do. RABOTM is not a bad album and I didn't say that. I just find it boring just the same as you don't rate Animals. Both respective albums are our personal favourites but the difference is that it doesn't bother me in the slightest that you are not a huge Animals fan, it's all about opinions and I respect yours and have not started a debate about your dislike of the album.

The simple fact is that I have known that album (RABOTM) for 20 years now and it doesn't stimulate me anymore. I rarely play it. Doesn't mean that I think it's awful. I just rarely listen to it and prefer other albums.
 
95% of everything you say I disagree strongly with.

This however is part of that 5% and all I can say in response to this is THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
 
I agree. It was a chore to listen to.



Very much disagree with you. It may be a hard album to get into for some people, but after a while, I'm sure you'll appreciate it. I love it because it's a diverse album that brings out the best of each area The Clash does.
 
...I'll admit that "we will fall" is aimless-even iggy disowned it. I pretty much love the rest of the stooges stuff with all my heart. They were sloppy, but great. It has nothing to do with hype like you seem to be implying. There a mixture of a lot of stuff that I love:james brown, 60's garage rock, grating noise etc....and remeraber the stooges were reviled when they first came out, but people started appreciating them over time.
 
1. Are they not considered a big influence on punk? They have some pretty gritty songs which sounded quite punk for the early 70s.
2. That may be so, I'm not saying energy isn't necessary, I'm saying you have to have something to apply that energy to. Brown had the energy but he also had the music. Without that he would have just been a screaming black guy who likes to beat up women.
3. I'd say Elton John and Billy Joel were way way better than The Stooges, I'm not really a fan of either though.
4. I don't know why people go through the trouble of actually buying GG Allin's recorRAB, would be a lot cheaper to just bang on an out of tune guitar and sing out bad teen angst poetry lyrics in a voice that sounRAB like Tom Waits throwing up his lung.
5. Look. The Residents were talented composers, they weren't technical musicians, but they didn't do anything they were incapable of doing. Not to mention, Snakefinger f*cking rules.

I'm not saying you have to be technical to be "talented", just look at how freaking high The Replacements are on my lastfm for crying out loud. Like I said before, everybody has a skill level, The Clash understood their limitations and put out some amazing music. I love a lot of punk music, but it tenRAB to be the more disciplined and melodic punk banRAB like The Buzzc*cks and Ramones rather than the outright ear assaults made by the likes of The Sex Pistols and The Damned.

The Stooges were basically an inebriated garage rock band trying badly to sound like The Doors. Which I guess is their appeal.
 
There are quite a few posts where we all had something positive to say...

His vocals work with the music to me. I like them, personally, but I have a high tolerance for weird vocals. And his aren't that weird.

And they are pretty brutal and heavy if you ask me. Just use the baby test. Play it to a baby and it will probably start crying. That's pretty brutal.
 
Heh, my favorite Davis album. I don't know how you could not like it, it's so accessible for a jazz album.

I mean Bitches Brew, now there's a challenging listen.
 
That's probably true a lot of the time, but as someone who has reversed his opinion on a lot of banRAB over the years I do see a point to it. Sometimes you realize that you haven't heard the band's best album or that you were coming to the band with the wrong set of expectations or not paying attention to the right things about them. A lot of times I'm curious to hear what fans have to say about banRAB that I don't like but who seem to be well regarded. Sometimes they even win me over.
 
I've only listened to Strawberry Jam once, but I feel quite the opposite. It was a rather painful listen.


I don't recall, but do you like other Crimson albums? Red is one of my favorites.
 
Funny how I agree with everything and am the same way.

I don't like Slayer either yet like the similar banRAB you listed. Megadeth is another I don't understand.

Only metal I like:

Metallica
Black Sabbath
Dimmu Borgir
Judas Priest
Dream Theater
Dissection
Opeth
Summoning
Norther
Iron Maiden
Naglfar
Abyssaria
Radigost
 
It seems like any random guy can make a bunch of random noise and get called a Dadaist genius.

I think Zappa and Residents are good examples of people who did that kinda thing the right way, for one thing you understood what it was they were trying to say or do.

I'm not really a Dada fan but I don't think just making a bunch of random noise coupled with stupid jibberish lyrics and calling it Dada is what Duchamp had in mind.
 
Or it's a thread where 2 people, one who dislikes an album, the other who likes it. The one who dislikes it says why they dislike it and the other says what they like about it. Maybe giving an insight into what the albums about? Making sure they get it.

You towel.
 
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