Acclaimed recs that you're "just not that into"

Knights Who Say Neve · Post by **Knights Who Say Neve** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 8:07 pm

Almost every CD reviewed in Tape OP.

I guess my taste is very, very different than Mr. Crane's...

I even went out of my way to buy an East River Pipe album - on vinyl-, put it on, and thought, so what?

;ivlunsdystf · Post by **;ivlunsdystf** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 9:15 pm

Knights-

I must agree with you there. 'Tis a taste thing.

I think hammertime must be avoiding me. How else to explain his absence from this thread?

John Jeffers · Post by **John Jeffers** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:06 pm

mjau wrote:I also think Sammy Hagar beats David Lee Roth

does not compute

JGriffin · Post by **JGriffin** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:24 pm

I always get flamed on threads like this. But here we go.

I never enjoyed Smashing Pumpkins. The Pixies do nothing for me.

Metallica I can totally do without.

I haven't really been blown away by "Smile."

Elliot Smith leaves me kind of cold.

r0ck1r0ck2 · Post by **r0ck1r0ck2** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 11:56 pm

what critics do you pay attention to?

i usually pass on kool keith...fugees
quite a lot of alternative hop...

though i still try

disco sucks...
no really
bright eyes makes me puke
merle haggard=pass

someone on myspace dissed the MinuteMen
that drove me pissed off like nothing else..
don't shit can the minutemen..
thats nuts... thats why we have the clash

curtiswyant · Post by **curtiswyant** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:41 am

Yeah the singer's voice in bright eyes is like nails on a chalkboard to me!

;ivlunsdystf · Post by **;ivlunsdystf** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:27 am

Okay, does anybody actually like Bright Eyes/Conor Oberst (I mean besides the thousands of screaming fourteen-year-old girls)? He certainly qualifies for mention in this thread because the press went nuts over his last two albums and his gloomy, sullen mug was everywhere for about two months a year ago.

I think Mr. Oberst is the exact opposite of a "musician's musician".

lyman · Post by **lyman** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:59 am

Tatertot wrote:Okay, does anybody actually like Bright Eyes/Conor Oberst (I mean besides the thousands of screaming fourteen-year-old girls)? He certainly qualifies for mention in this thread because the press went nuts over his last two albums and his gloomy, sullen mug was everywhere for about two months a year ago.

I think Mr. Oberst is the exact opposite of a "musician's musician".

it's an acquired taste.

JGriffin · Post by **JGriffin** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:30 am

lyman wrote:
Tatertot wrote:Okay, does anybody actually like Bright Eyes/Conor Oberst (I mean besides the thousands of screaming fourteen-year-old girls)? He certainly qualifies for mention in this thread because the press went nuts over his last two albums and his gloomy, sullen mug was everywhere for about two months a year ago.

I think Mr. Oberst is the exact opposite of a "musician's musician".
it's an acquired taste.

They say that about cigarettes as well...isn't it usually shorthand for "totally awful until you're used to it enough that it doesn't bother you anymore?"

jv · Post by jv » Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:51 am

"London Calling" by the Clash.
Actually, I like it, but I thought at the time it came out (and I still think) that it was kind of weak compared to their previous output. My theory is that it was the the first Clash album that the mainstream critics who were into Springsteen and stuff like that could get into, so they heaped tons of praise on it.

Rufer · Post by **Rufer** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:10 am

I'll second MBV's Loveless.

I bought it and keep trying.

agauchede · Post by **agauchede** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:12 am

Okay - I know I'm gonna' get it. . .

Steely Dan.

I like the recording and can listen based on production merits alone, but does anybody really get into the music?

Jackson Browne and James Taylor. In fact, I suspect they are the same person. When was the last time you saw them in a room together?

Here we go again. . . I've never been able to get into the Stones. I guess I'm just a Beatles guy!

mjau · Post by **mjau** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:22 am

Tatertot wrote:Okay, does anybody actually like Bright Eyes/Conor Oberst (I mean besides the thousands of screaming fourteen-year-old girls)?

Some of it I look beyond, but I do like the album he did that features Emmylou Harris on a few tunes. I don't know who else played on that album, but it sounds fantastic to me. His brother's band, Sorry About Dresden, is much better IMO.

kayagum · Post by **kayagum** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:26 am

Rufer wrote:I'll second MBV's Loveless.

I bought it and keep trying.

If you haven't yet, listen to it really loud, otherwise it sounds pretty weak and thin.

I had a similar experience with Husker Du's Zen Arcade. It only made sense when it was over 120dB.

centurymantra · Post by **centurymantra** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:27 am

There's a few on here that I'll side with.

Metallica bore me and are the aural equivalent of muzak for me. Also, the original poster mentioned Giant Steps and I'll have to 'fess up and say that, in spite of my adoration and love for much of Coltrane's music (Village Vanguard sessions being some of the greatest music ever made...IMHO of course), I don't enjoy Giant Steps...at all. Don't hate it. It just bores me. This always kind of surprised me. Maybe I should re-visit it. I do own it.

I also really, really wanted to love Marquee Moon but, yeah, that one bores me too. I've got that double live disc and actually dig that a ton as well as some of Verlaine's later solo stuff.

Not sure if Seger is actually acclaimed, but yeah that shit makes my brain actually shut down. If "Like a Rock" never enters my consciousness again, the world's a better place for it. HOWEVER...his first record, The Bob Seger System, is actually pretty awesome. I've thrown that on the turntable on occasion just to surprise some folks. It pretty much ROCKS out...seriously.

Oh yeah, I'm gonna add Cream to my list. Then there's the stuff done by that guy who played guitar for them...

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