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yonderhillside
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Re: Albums You Tried Really Hard to Like
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Reply #25 on:
January 31, 2016, 06:56:49 PM »
Quote from: Alan Smith on January 30, 2016, 11:31:36 PM
"In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel is a hallowed album I struggle with.
King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. One - as brief as it, is on my all time top X. Additionally, Two Headed Boy is pretty amazing stuff. The rest tho', is a challenge.
This shakes me, cold. I'm one of those who believes this the modern classic it deserves to be. The over-all tone of the album, including the brilliant songs you listed, have an old-worldly, almost other-worldly, primordial, feel to them. Appalachian folksong meets neo-classical, post-modern alienation and boredom. Supposedly, as well as seemingly, thought up in a dream-state a la spiritual possession via an, albeit unconfirmed, survivor of the Holocaust. Haunting, yet simultaneously joyful and life-affirming. 'Tis a good listen, indeed.
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Re: Albums You Tried Really Hard to Like
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February 23, 2016, 07:18:56 PM »
Kiss / Hot In The Shade. Still hate it.
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JK
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Maybe I put too much faith in atmosphere
Re: Albums You Tried Really Hard to Like
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February 24, 2016, 04:07:30 AM »
Quote from: the captain on January 29, 2016, 10:16:37 AM
Pink Floyd,
Piper at the Gates of Dawn
. As I kid, I was mostly aware of Pink Floyd from
The Wall
, which was recent enough in my formative musical years that my nine-years-older sister liked it contemporaneously, I saw the movie and heard the album, etc. I liked that (and still kind-of do). I got older and learned
Dark Side
. I was there for the late '80 MTV-era stuff. Eventually I wanted to dig into the catalogue, and did so with
Piper
, among others.
I was not impressed.
Later I got into the mythology around "the crazy genius" type, regardless of genre. Thelonious Monk, Captain Beefheart, Brian Wilson, whatever. It's a powerful myth that I think still drives a kind of listener. So I heard about Barrett and revisited
Piper
(and checked out
The Madcap Laughs
). Still nothing.
Every few years--including right now, as I'm typing--I check it out again. After all, opinions change. If I were a political candidate, my opponents would call me a flip-flopper and debate moderators would confront me with my earlier self to shame me. But I'm shameless, damnit. However, I still just don't like
Piper
Or Syd Barrett in general. Or, frankly, Pink Floyd, for the most part.
I'm sure a lot depends on when you jump into a band's career. I was aware of Pink Floyd from late 1966 onwards, and the Barrett era means a lot to me. The period immediately following Syd's departure has a sadness to it that later listeners most probably miss. (This same sadness returns on
Wish You Were Here
.)
These days I'm battling my aversion to Roger Waters and discovering the brilliance of many of the later tracks. That said,
The Wall
for me is just that----a wall.
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Re: Albums You Tried Really Hard to Like
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February 26, 2016, 10:13:24 AM »
Tubular Bells. Had three copies over the years and have given it many a try, but apart from the Exorcist bit, it does nothing for me.
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Re: Albums You Tried Really Hard to Like
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July 09, 2018, 09:29:02 AM »
I don't rmbr trying to like album. Trends, universal positive reviews don't influence to re-listen to album to like it.
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May 28, 2019, 12:59:03 PM »
Just a Poke,
recorded in Germany by the New York band Sweet Smoke, is high on my friend's list of "Keepers" (
here
) but it's the first in that list that I can't warm to. Perhaps it's because I already have another favourite one-track-a-side LP recorded on German soil, the stunning
In Den Gärten Pharaos
by Popol Vuh.
I tried, I really did. It's here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_k4GKhslK4
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Re: Albums You Tried Really Hard to Like
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May 30, 2019, 04:27:42 AM »
Quote from: Ovi on January 29, 2016, 12:15:25 PM
I must've listened to Van Halen's
debut
about 10-15 times. Still think only 2 songs are really great.
Also, AC/DC's
Back in Black
and
Highway to Hell
, Joni Mitchell's
Blue
, Beck's
Sea Change
, Bob Dylan's
Blood on the Tracks
(except for 3-4 songs that I think really are masterpieces), Yes'
Fragile
(I acknowledge the talent, just not my thing) and all Smiths albums.
Damn, I love Van Halen now. And Blue, Blood on the Tracks, and Fragile. Sea Change is all right.
I saw Trout Mask Replica mentioned in this topic, and I gotta say I loved that album right from the first listen. I think it's beautiful in its craziness, it always makes me smile. And has helped me through dark times.
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I frankly, being different language speaker perhaps, don't get the phrase "dark times". People use it frequently everywhere, it puzzles what precisely they mean by it. Anyhoo, smb. (bubbly waves?) in this board asked me few yrs back to listen & review Trout Mask Replica. Didn't get to it yet. Curious to hear it.
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Quote from: RangeRoverA1 on May 30, 2019, 04:51:30 AM
I frankly, being different language speaker perhaps, don't get the phrase "dark times". People use it frequently everywhere, it puzzles what precisely they mean by it.
A period when things are not going so good.
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May 30, 2019, 08:10:58 PM »
Quadrophenia - The Who
I bought it long ago because I loved Tommy, but I just could not get engrossed in Quad's story. I remember thinking, that's it? Gosh, I feel guilty even now admitting it!
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