Post an acclaimed album you don't "get", and other posters will explain why they enjoy them

Post an acclaimed album you don't "get", and other posters will explain why they enjoy them

I'll start

it's pretty and therapeutic

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The song writing and song structures are really uninteresting and unoriginal to my ears

It's very cinematic. I listen to it with my eyes closed; the swelling of the drones is like a gentle tide and it develops slowly across the record. I like the use of guitars and other strings to make each drone, rather than the computer-generated drone typically found in the genre - it feels more alive and vivid because of it.

I love that album because i can simply relax, lie down, close my eyes, shut down my brain for two hours and forget ther's a whole world outside my room or wtvr it is the location i'm listening to said album.

Acclaimed by who?

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it feels like being hung-over with dirty clothes, drenched in whisky but filled by a sudden sweep of passion. beautiful, unusual percussion. hilarious vocals.

Do you like anything off that album? I don't love it either, but When You Sleep and Come In Alone are great songs to me. The melodies are great.

My least favorite autechre album. I feel like it lost the organic feel of draft and confield, and a lot of it sounds really cheap and artificial to me.

RYM, Sup Forums, critics, etc.

>The song writing and song structures
if that is all you care about then Loveless isn't for you. Pay more attention to the guitar tones and textures.

it's beautiful and atmospheric and has some of the greatest songs of all time on it

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your probably just too old

It's less about the songs and more about the sounds. I love the cloak of distortion and fuzz, it makes the songs sound like hazy memories from long ago.

This is more for the gritty dark alleys of the city cinescape that it creates. In 1967 New York was THE place to be, and a lot of music reflected that; TVUN explores the dark underside. I enjoy the drones and violins to add the "muck" to the record, and it feels raw and twisted from all the rough experimentation it laces in with the foreign influences, the noise etc.

I do like really like the guitar sounds and can appreciate that that element is pretty novel, but it isn't enough to carry an album for me, and the actual songs are pretty mediocre honestly

Yeah I can dig bits of it, When You Sleep is probably my favourite, but see above

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Listen to it high or not at all

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It's just deep enough for artsy teenagers to latch onto before moving on to greater things. TOP are turning the masses patrician.

Can't help you with anything but Nico. I mean come on how can you listen to All Tomorrow's Parties and not see they were geniuses?

Ha, I was just posting an example of some charts. I like several of those albums.

*whom

I only really like the longer tracks on this album

The composition is fantastic, all of the musicians playing on this album REALLY knew how to play their instruments. This is definitely a feel album, you have to be in the right mood to enjoy it.

What mood would that be? Also what's the most accessible track?

Yo this is one of my fav albums of all time. Just gonna say, it's rly hypnotising, but the problem is you can't really judge stuff like drone, ambient, minimalism etc against the normal standards of music. It's all mood and atmosphere, so if that particular atmosphere doesn't appeal to you (or if that's just straight up not what you're looking for in music) then I don't think you'll have a good reaction to it.

Also I think you have to be very self-absorbed to be able to be truly engaged by 2 hours of ambient drone. Becuase really all there is to think about in that headspace is yourself. Just go to RYM and you will see pages and pages of some of the most cunty 5* reviews ever. If this music speaks to you, I reckon it generally speaks to you on a very personal level that doesn't translate well when describing it to others. In fact, I'm probably coming across as a cunt right now! Which is why even though I love it, I rarely discuss this album

theres nothing to get. that album is just shit

Blue in Green probably? I also think it's one of the best Jazz compositions ever

Don't worry about it, your writing is fine. My problem might just be going on Sup Forums while trying to listen to it, which probably breaks the flow of it. I have liked ambient before, like SAW Volume 2, but it's hard to get in the spirit for it.

I'll give it another try then, thanks.

So close to being trips...
I would say Blue in Green would be the most accessible track, being that it is short and is very straightforward in its structure.
Mood wise? I definitely think this is an album you would want to listen to after being out all day. Come home, kick off your shoes and relaxing.

> It's all mood and atmosphere, so if that particular atmosphere doesn't appeal to you (or if that's just straight up not what you're looking for in music) then I don't think you'll have a good reaction to it.

No shit Sherlock. That applies to all music out there.

Quads, fuck.

How much jazz do you actually listen to?

Don't be a dick, your mood affects enjoyment of slow and atmospheric music way more than it does for other genres.

It's well produced, has a cohesive sound, blends its influences really nicely, the best songs are really well-written pop and even the half-baked ones like Easily and Belly of the Beat sound pretty.

It suffers from having by far the 2 worst songs (California, Scream) shoved right after the intro, from being made by an established indie artist and thus being dubbed as a sellout, and from being made by a woman - always a no-no on Sup Forums

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Pro tip: it's not about song writing or song structures, it's about tone and texture

Bonus tip: most popular music follows unoriginal song structures and song writing styles

Loads

Try listening to "Avec Laudenum" from Stars of the lid. It has the same mood as "The Tired Sounds of", but it's much shorter.
Listen to it a couple of times, let it grow on you. If you enjoy it, you will be ready for the lenghty albums.

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It's shoegaze that doesn't forget to have fun or jam the fuck out

Rather than play pretend at beijg deep and mysterious like My Blody Hacks, it's just a jammer of an album with phenomenal musicianship

The Album isn't bad by any means. It is arranged very nicely, the bassist and drummer are very tight, and the guitar flourishes sound great. However, I just can't listen to it. I don't know why, but I can't.

I'm sure you do. You have such precise reasons for liking Kind of Blue.

I kinda like it but I feel like I should love it way more

>feel like killing myself, can't cope with life
>hmm, let's put on some bubblegum pop and enjoy it, because apparently mood doesn't affect this genre so much

What do you mean, "can't listen to it"? Have you heard the whole thing?

Do you know how pop music works, or what hooks are?

that's the problem...you were far too much hyped and had too much expectations. That's a recipe for disaster.

All the songs are connected; it's an album about separation from others and the darkness that follows isolation

Literally the entire album careens tiwards those final minutes of Good Morning Captain

I MISS YOU

add in the fact that it literally spawned genres, you've got perfection

That's understandable. If you value song structure and writing above textures and tones then you will probably never appreciate Loveless, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Of course all music has a mood and atmosphere, but lots of people don't look SOLELY for mood in music, they look for melodies, hooks, lyrics, varied or skilled instrumentation, and usually most importantly, songwriting (either progressive or poppy)

Tired Sounds of SotL really has none of this (well, of course there are some kind of melodies, but they are short and incredibly repetitive) - it's really 2 hours of looped noises. They're very beautiful, finely crafted and compiled noises, but they are still 'just' noises nonetheless, and as such the emphasis is almost entirely on the mood as opposed to any other aspect of songcraft. This is why many people would turn their nose up at it

I forced myself to listen to the whole album, but the whole time I just wanted to turn it off.

What are you talking about? I'm not the guy who mentioned the mood or whatever

Check out my chart bitch

>the list goes on: the chart

Defending myself here

Bennie Maupin, Keith Jarrett, Terje Rypdal, and Freddie Hubbard (kinda) are not 'list goes on Jazz artist'; I'd wager you haven't even heard them

I can't help you if that's all, it sounds like you expected instant gratification and got impatient. Alternatively, you could listen to a few select songs like Paranoid Android, Karma Police (the most accessible), or Lucky and see what it is you don't like.

>no Francis Bebey
>no Art Ensemble of Chicago
>no Amon Duul II
>no Silver Apples
Dropped

d/w I was just being mean because I can

I like a lot of those tbqh :^)

give it more listens

it's entry level for music

it's the perfect balance of progression and drone. the notes don't overstay their welcome and it's varied enough that I don't feel like I'm struggling to get through it. that being said, there's something more beautiful about drawing out those notes rather than playing them quicker in succession.

i never really pay attention to lyrics in general, but the vocals and their pacing works great in tandem with the layers of mild distortion. the sounds are imperfect but there's even more to listen to when you look through the holes

the album does get cumbersome after a while, so I can see why people might not like it. I think of the album as a more bitter side of folk. the drone isn't lively but rather dark and psychedlic like time machines, but then throughout the album there are sweeter more traditional folk music scattered throughout. it's bittersweet, and sometimes the album loses focus and kind of just fades, but it still loosely serves that purpose

That's actually what I was gonna post. I like drone a lot, but that feels so bland that I can't enjoy it.

Not heard enough Bebey, would I dig it?

Art Ensemble are pretty wicked but don't love love love everything they've done

Amon Duul II is Top 100

Silver Apples are great but not THAT great

i haven't listened to it yet, but I'm pretty sure this is the last autechre album I'm gonna check out. I think I've listened to one or two tracks before and it's incredibly alien to me

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I meant are Top 100, not is. I like Tanz der Lemminge over Yeti tho

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Arthur Russell is the white less talented Francis Bebey

Big words my friend

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Well, lets backtrack through some of my favorite albums. Early on in highschool I was listening to 70's - mid 80's Rush, Boston and the entire Yes library along with S.O.A.D and classic thrash metal. Junior and Senior year it was the Allman Bros, Jefferson Airplane, The Police, Municipal Waste, Deep Purple, The Stones, King Crimson, Cream, Crosby Stills and Nash, Simon and Garfunkel, and early Genesis. Nowadays I still listen to over half that list, and recently I discovered Jethro Tull, ELP, and The Monkees. There are many more, but those bands are the big ones that I can name off the top of my head. Radiohead REALLY deviates from this collection of sounds, so it makes sense that I can't get into it as fast as I could the others.

I was like that at first. Listen to it some more and hopefully it will click.

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The thing is, I and a lot of other people weaned themselves off of classic rock with Radiohead, and specifically OK Computer. You don't need a transitional band to enjoy them, but if you feel like it might help I guess you could try Pixies or Nirvana since they influenced Radiohead some.

I love the warmth and the progression on it. All songs flow like a river, constantly changing and evolving. Listen to it some more and really pay attention to the instruments.

I dig it's raw sound and the tension built by all these 'random' noises, the drummer etc.

And Book of saturday and exiles are pretty beautiful and easy to get into

I think that the textures on mood on the opening track are spacey and mellow, then when Fripp's guitar comes crashing in it's wonderful. Some nice ballads and rockers on here, also, along with crescendos on some of the songs that sort of anticipate post-rock, I think. This album is a little bit shapeless and sprawling in a way that stuff like Red, or In the Court of the Crimson King or Discipline aren't, and thus it may come off unfocused but this is what it makes it so compelling for me.

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I think to understand this record you have to have some appreciation/knowledge of what it represents for modal jazz. Rather than chord progressions and solos working off of those chord changes, this focuses upon a given mode (modes are not scales, exactly, but they can be understood in a similar way I believe) and the music is built around that sort of structure. Due to this it can be quite understated as the musicians are more laid back and are creating a mood or atmosphere throughout the songs, rather than fiery solos like you'll see on a Charlie Parker album.

As for the music, the melodies are so beautiful and welcoming in a relaxed sort of way. It's just interested in producing a different sort of content, really.

it's funky as shit

Oh god, the band that has been the butt of many musical jokes is considered patrician? I could never get into Nirvana. That was one phase that escaped me in early adolescence. Many of my friends were huge Nirvana fans, playing it in the car or at the house when we were hanging out. Can't stand it.

truuu

if you can't jam to side a you have no soul

side b is kinda bullshit tho

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I never got all the hubbub about Doolittle.

They get meme'd on a lot but Cobain was a great songwriter and their music is worth listening to. They aren't considered "patrician" but that's a meaningless label. I just suggest them because they're a common stepping stone for those who want to get into modern music. 90s mainstream rock just might not be for you, but there are plenty of other great bands (even rock) that you might enjoy from that time.

Those are what is known as fluff.

The hooks and vocal harmonies between Black Francis and Kim Deal. If you don't dig them it won't be your thing.

Incredible repetitive and spacey rhythms, Damo's vocals and improv brilliance caught on tape.

yeah. every krautrock album is required by law to have a puttering-around-in-the-studio track

maybe it just needs more relistens
Only Mushroom clicked for me so far

It's really easy to relate to if you're melancholy and young, and the lyrics are a big part of the appeal. Give "I Know It's Over" another listen.

If you haven't heard Meat Is Murder, though, listen to that. I think it's several times better than The Queen Is Dead.

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you should probably try Ege Bamyasi first if you haven't

This album is just straight up mediocre

Shit, called out

doom's rhymes are just jaw-dropping and he flows so uniquely on every beat, and madlib's sample choices and instrumentals are distinct and creative. The album also carries themes throughout and crafted its own sound and atmosphere.

alright, will do
thanks famalam

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Listen to it a few times, I started enjoying it more just due to familiarity. Also, pay more attention to the songs. Even in the more straightforward ones there's something neat going on you may be missing. Most accessible tracks are Venus and the title track, I would say.