PwoperNaughtyButNot
3:30 Fri Aug 26
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I’ve never understood the legendary status given to Joy Division and New Order. I just don’t like it but I know they are loved.
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PwoperNaughtyButNot
3:28 Fri Aug 26
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cholo 1:13 Fri Aug 26
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Pearl Jam - Ten
Bon Jovi with angst. Vedder had a distinctive voice but the music always left me cold.
31 yrs old tomorrow - love this album
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Side of Ham
3:00 Fri Aug 26
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Never into albums, always find most I do try to listen to were full of fillers apart from their obvious 'hits' they were sold on.....
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WHU(Exeter)
2:46 Fri Aug 26
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R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
Much prefer the albums they made prior to it.
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Eerie Descent
2:43 Fri Aug 26
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Another one for Pet Sounds. Load of shit from start to finish, as is anything by the Beach Boys to my earoles.
Never got Neil Young, had a go but the cat weasel vocals are never a good place to start.
Dummy by Portishead.
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MrTrentReznor
2:26 Fri Aug 26
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Some very good shouts here that I agree with.
Red Hot Chili Peppers - just don't get it.
Prince - not for me.
Beatles & The Beach Boys were well before my time so maybe it's an age thing.
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - apart from "BWBW" & (possibly) a few other tracks it's a pretty diabolical effort.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
2:24 Fri Aug 26
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Pet Sounds
An interesting one and some good comments on here.
Brian Wilson was going for psychedelic and mostly didn't succeed.
Some very good songs, which are undoubtedly surfy - Wouldn't It Be Nice and Sloop John B. I know There's An Answer - good song that isn't surfy but is only lyrically psychedelic, not musically. A song that you either love or hate - Caroline No. The greatest love song ever - God Only Knows (maybe a bit surfy?). And a load of shit filler.
They left off Good Vibrations, which is great, surfy and psychedelic.
Go figure.
I play it sometimes but increasingly fast forward the shit bits. I'll tell you what, though, those lads could sing a bit.
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Vexed
2:20 Fri Aug 26
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yngwies Cat 10:40 Fri Aug 26
Even BloodSugarSexMagik? That is a genuine classic. Rest of their albums are pretty ordinary.
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eusebiovic
1:54 Fri Aug 26
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I find stuff like ELO and Yes a bit boring and chin strokey
As for Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield - jeez, what a tedious 50 minutes that is to endure...
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zebthecat
1:39 Fri Aug 26
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yngwies Cat 10:40 Fri Aug 26
Quite - never got the fuss about this lot.
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cholo
1:13 Fri Aug 26
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Pearl Jam - Ten
Bon Jovi with angst. Vedder had a distinctive voice but the music always left me cold.
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WHU(Exeter)
1:08 Fri Aug 26
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"King tubby meets rockers uptown"
Ditto, think there's one stand out track on it that I love, but for the main part it's decent, but not markedly better than a lot of contemporary stuff.
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Bungo
10:52 Fri Aug 26
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Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Allegedly a 'classic'? Not for me.
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yngwies Cat
10:40 Fri Aug 26
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Anything by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers...
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Vexed
9:40 Fri Aug 26
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Any Massive Attack album. Just doesn't work for me.
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joe royal
8:44 Fri Aug 26
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dm, have to agree with unknown pleasures, played it a few times when it came out and re played it a couple of years ago (even started a thread on it) just ‘don’t get it’
I’m guessing it’s sold more T shirts than albums and that’s why it is still in the public conciseness.
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Mike Oxsaw
3:12 Fri Aug 26
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Never got the adoration the music of Oasis or Blur got - but that may just be an "age" thing for me; no interest in pretending I was of a younger generation.
What may come across as sacrilegious was that I felt the very same about Prince from the moment I heard his first album; I could tell he was technically proficient, but, for me, everything he did just didn't click - it still doesn't.
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BRANDED
1:36 Fri Aug 26
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TWICM 33
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dm
1:33 Fri Aug 26
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I can think of a few. I would like to stress that no offence is intended to anyone who likes these albums. And I absolutely acknowledge the skill, creativity and effort that went into their creation. As much as I like music, I wouldn't know how to begin to actually compose or create any myself.
All of these albums I have made an effort to listen to to see if I'd like them. Most, at least two or three times. And these are albums that I failed to get into.
In other words, this is purely subjective on my part that I couldn't get into the albums. Please don't take any offence.
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Joni Mitchell - Hissing of Summer Lawns
Carole King - Tapestry
The Beatles - Let it Be
Faith no More - Angel Dust
David Gilmour - any solo album
Neil Young - Harvest
Camel - Moonmadness
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Transatlantic - all albums
Dream Theatre- Metropolis: Scenes From a Memory
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Genesis - Nursery Crime
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Rush - Power Windows
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Coldplay - all albums, (at least I did try)
Black Sabbath - all albums. (I did try so much to get into them)
David Bowie - all albums between Diamond Dogs and Scary Monsters, although I do like a lot of his singles from that period.
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bruuuno
1:23 Fri Aug 26
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King tubby meets rockers uptown, I mean it’s ok but people go on like it’s a masterpiece
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Leeshere
1:10 Fri Aug 26
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Never understood the hype for the Arctic Monkeys.
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