Albums You Don't Like That You Should

Dayvenkirq wrote: ^ Sorry to hear that.  My top 40 albums.

I should clarify that I don't necessarily consider myself a fan of Soft Machine or Popol Vuh, but they are bands that I probably would like with the right entry point. I think Third and Hosianna Mantra were just simply the wrong albums to start with. 

Wait for it....Close To The Edge. I'm sick of it but it's my own damn fault.

Mirror Image wrote: JediJoker7169 wrote: I love Gentle Giant, but don't love In A Glass House, which, by all rhyme and reason, I should. I love the four albums that came before it and the three that came after. Very interesting, especially since In A Glass House is one of my favorite GG albums. I prefer it to Octopus, but, for me, Three Friends is still my absolute favorite GG album.

Xonty wrote: Does anyone else have this, where a highly rated album by a band you really like ends up being bad?

Pink Floyd - The Wall (I think the 4 notes of ABITW throughout the album are annoying and side D is weak)
Mike Oldfield - Incantations (the definition of repetition)
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (I can barely listen to the whole album)
King Crimson - In The Wake of Poseidon (it's so similar to the first album that it bothers me)
The Beatles - s/t (there's not a song that I particularly like in it)

Laterlaus by Tool. A Crim freak recommended me to them at around the time both bands toured together. Honestly I tried really hard and I wanted to like the album but:

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=174773

Horizons wrote: Mantra is actually Kennans cat being squeezed and then slowed down.

So why do Tool reject the approbation of pussies so reluctantly?


Edited by ExittheLemming - July 12 2014 at 08:09

richardh wrote: Meltdowner wrote: Xonty wrote: Does anyone else have this, where a highly rated album by a band you really like ends up being bad? Mike Oldfield - Incantations (the definition of repetition) It was meant to be of course although you are perfectly entitled to not like it. It would be my MO desert album album pick. Part 3 is one of the best prog tracks I've heard save for the poor mixing of Pierre Moerlen's drums (they need to be much higher in the mix) but there are so many high points to make up for it.

I would certainly like it if it was compressed to one disc. I like some parts of it but he repeats them to the point of exhaustion.

Meltdowner wrote: richardh wrote: Meltdowner wrote: Xonty wrote: Does anyone else have this, where a highly rated album by a band you really like ends up being bad? Mike Oldfield - Incantations (the definition of repetition) It was meant to be of course although you are perfectly entitled to not like it. It would be my MO desert album album pick. Part 3 is one of the best prog tracks I've heard save for the poor mixing of Pierre Moerlen's drums (they need to be much higher in the mix) but there are so many high points to make up for it. I would certainly like it if it was compressed to one disc. I like some parts of it but he repeats them to the point of exhaustion.

Edited by richardh - July 13 2014 at 03:04

A couple spring to mind:

Guru Guru's debut UFO should for all purposes be right down my alley with the musicians playing raw lsd fuelled Krautrock, but I don't get it. The album sounds like it's description: three cats completely off their heads trying to achieve some form of sonic 'harmony' through the gelatinous veil of acid. The concept of talented musicians jamming together on acid works for me on the two first Cosmic Jokers releases, but here it doesn't. No siree.

Malicorne 2: I thought I'd love this judging by what I'd read beforehand. i love folk - especially progressive folk.........but when I hear this group my mind instantly flies straight through hundreds of kitsch Robin Hood images, all marred by light green tights and jolly men dancing the jig around the bonfire.
Too....ermm...original! for my tastes methinks. Like trying to intellectualise a Monty Python skit by playing genuine French barok folk inside a pink watercloset.

Edited by Guldbamsen - July 13 2014 at 05:08

Have you tried mid 70s Can Sagi? Things like Soon over Babaloma and Landed are something I think you'd appreciate. Especially Landed. Try on the track Vernal Equinox for size;-)