Albums You Don't Like That You Should

Sagichim wrote: I love all the krautrock obscurities but for some reson can't click with the big names - Can, Ash Ra Tempel, Guru Guru, Faust etc. It's not that I don't like it, I do but I'm not blown away at all.

People love certain brands of the Krautrock sound for their own reasons. Popol Vuh? That's like (mostly) acoustic ambient to me, and I'm big on soft atmospheres. Faust? These guys just want to scream, but they scream on their instruments.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - July 13 2014 at 06:34

Dayvenkirq wrote: Sagichim wrote: I love all the krautrock obscurities but for some reson can't click with the big names - Can, Ash Ra Tempel, Guru Guru, Faust etc. It's not that I don't like it, I do but I'm not blown away at all. People love certain brands of the Krautrock sound for their own reasons. Popol Vuh? That's like (mostly) acoustic ambient to me, and I'm big on soft atmospheres. Faust? These guys just want to scream, but they scream on their instruments. Why do you love specifically obscurities?

I don't really know, it's not the fact that they are obscure, it just turned out like this for some reason.
I had a problem getting into Popol Vuh as well but that's sorted out now. Hosianna Mantra (the only one I have) is beautiful.

richardh wrote: There was a single disc version which chopped Part 3 down to 13 minutes (sacrilege!) but I guess that's not what you are looking for! Have you tried the live version from Exposed? This is more or less an edited version.

I just finished listening to Exposed: I really liked it, he didn't over repeat at all, although I still found the sang parts annoying (I think it's the main reason why I don't like Incantations). The funky flute and drums Tubular Bells was also great. Thank you for the suggestion

Anything by Curved Air. Also, the entire Hawkwind catalog.

Horizons wrote: I thought this thread was about album you could like or should like? Meaning there are things you typically look out for in their music but for some reason they don't click. If you find a band awful in all points then i guess it's shouldn't be on a list titled "An Album I Should Like, But Don't"

That being the case, I should like Kansas, "Point of Know Return," but I do not.  The four albums they did before that one showed me that they could be an American progressive-style band to be reckoned with.  But, then, they gave in too much to the record-label's cry for "more hits, more hits," and put out the sadly disappointing PoKR...

Horizons wrote: I thought this thread was about album you could like or should like? Meaning there are things you typically look out for in their music but for some reason they don't click. If you find a band awful in all points then i guess it's shouldn't be on a list titled "An Album I Should Like, But Don't"

If that really was the case, I would have to add ... VdGG's Godbluff. I don't hate the album, but I don't really like it that much either. They don't sound as ballsy as they did in '70-'71. It just sounds like they are trying really hard to rock, to blow me away with something big, but there isn't such moment on that album. Ten minutes of "The Sleepwalkers" - not a single explosion.

Kahn and everything by Syd... also the Giles album, Trout Mask Replica...

Actually I don't really think there is a reason I should like any of those.


Edited by Slartibartfast - July 27 2014 at 07:59

Hawkwind. Anything with Michael Moocock's influence. I love the Elric stories, but Hawkwind always sounded like punk rock thrashing to me. I can't digest them as Prog.

Edited by HackettFan - July 31 2014 at 17:05

Oh, sweet, what a marvelous place to vent :)

CTTE - half of it is uninteresting
TAAB - no idea how one could listen to it more than twice