Lord Lucan
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Re: Records that everyone else seems to love, but you don't get.
Nov 29, 2006, 17:38
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I agree with that. Meddle is also Gilmour's favourite, I believe. Waters probably prefers The Wall because it's (interminably) all about him and how hard his miserable bloody life is. Wanker!
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Lord Lucan
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Re: Records that everyone else seems to love, but you don't get.
Nov 29, 2006, 17:42
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Yep, I'd go along with all your selections there, Master Clarkson.
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Sootickle
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Re: Records that everyone else seems to love, but you don't get.
Nov 29, 2006, 18:08
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Adman wrote:
("Meddle" IMO is far superior to DSOTM).
Absolutely
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hedlite
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Re: Records that everyone else seems to love, but you don't get.
Nov 29, 2006, 18:11
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i listen to it for pleasure :-/
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TheLustyGhost
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Re: Records that everyone else seems to love, but you don't get.
Nov 29, 2006, 18:24
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Most recent, for me, is Van Dyke Parks' "Song Cycle."
I'd heard about it off and on for a long time, and it seemed like it would be right up my alley, but to be honest I couldn't even make it through the first side when it finally showed up at the record store I work at. I'll probably give it another chance in a week or tow, but as it stands now I'm utterly disappointed.
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Adman
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Re: Records that everyone else seems to love, but you don't get.
Nov 29, 2006, 18:31
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TheLustyGhost wrote: Most recent, for me, is Van Dyke Parks' "Song Cycle."
I'd heard about it off and on for a long time, and it seemed like it would be right up my alley, but to be honest I couldn't even make it through the first side when it finally showed up at the record store I work at. I'll probably give it another chance in a week or tow, but as it stands now I'm utterly disappointed.
Yeah definately - I tried that one with high expectations - bloody awful!!
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dave clarkson
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Re: Records that everyone else seems to love, but you don't get.
Nov 29, 2006, 18:32
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yeah - I'd have to agree with some of the other comments here as say I've never had the patience for Trout Mask Replica which sends me into a state of stress.
Also
1, Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years album onwards.
2, The Clash - London Calling
3, Soft Machine albums past number 3
4, Beck - most albums
5, Love - first album
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TheLustyGhost
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Re: Records that everyone else seems to love, but you don't get.
Nov 29, 2006, 18:37
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hedlite wrote: i listen to it for pleasure :-/
I absolutely love the album, but I don't listen to it all that often these days simply because it is a commitment - it is too involving for me to enjoy if I don't listen to it intently from beginning to end, preferably alone. It does not work as "background" music - which is, I suppose, what he intended.
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Tangerine Pete
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Re: Records that everyone else seems to love, but you don't get.
Nov 29, 2006, 18:50
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Lord Lucan wrote:
Television - Marquee Moon
(Listened to this loads of times and I just don't get what all the fuss is about. Supposedly punk in some way this just sounds like guitar wankery prog with a MOR production. The voicce grates and some of the songs are just bloody endless. Yawn!)
yeah. Television were unbelievably boring. Talking Heads as well. that whole era gave a platform to some of the most boring bands in the history of bands -- all that post punk shite...never understood why anyone would want to listen to all that. Even the Clash sound vaguely ridiculous to me now (except for that White Man in Hammersmith Palais 45, which is ace).
I also think bands like Comets on Fire and Secret Machines are quite boring as well -- mystified as to why they're so well regarded. Ditto on the White Stripes...just tedious to me. But what I really really don't get is Wilco. They've elevated this guy to near divinity status here in the states, and his songs are like black holes...smashing all light to the width of one electron. oh and the Flaming Lips, which I'm sorry to have to tell you all, are in fact shit. Why are they popular? Good live show apparently. I suppose it's like prostitution...noone condones it, but if you're good at it, the punters keep coming back for more, regardless of the lack of taste.
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Daminxa
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Re: Records that everyone else seems to love, but you don't get.
Nov 29, 2006, 19:01
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Get where you're coming from with Pet Sounds. I do really like The Beach Boys and it's not a bad old album at all but exactly why it's SO revered is a bit beyond me.
Also agree with the others on here who have said Bob Dylan. Don't like much of his stuff at all and I really have tried, honest...
Coldplay - enough said.
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