What classic album can you not appreciate?

[stand_tall]

We all know those albums, the ones that everyone says is the classic work by a band, but for whatever reason you cannot appreciate. Whenever you say you're not a fan, you catch some flack for it. Maybe you haven't listened to it enough, or maybe you gave it a couple of spins but decided you like one of the other albums better. What is that album for you?

For me that album is Clarity by Jimmy Eat World. It's not that I dislike the album, but it seems like whenever I feel like listening to JEW I pick Bleed American or Futures.

Any thoughts?

[ThisIsNotDan]

Tommy by The Who. I listened once, did not really enjoy much though

[zeropunk16]

Sgt. Pepper's.

I just can't get into it at all.

[Kid B]

If modern classics are included;
Funeral - Arcade Fire
Homogenic - Bjork
YHF - Wilco (well, I like it, but it seems so overrated that I kill myself listening to it because I wish so much that I could get out of it what so many people do)

[absolutecrunk]

I will forever hate Pinkerton

[PoisonInMyVeins]

i don't understand the big deal with the dark side of the moon. and quite frankly i'm sick of everyone's obsession with it.

[absolutecrunk]

i don't understand the big deal with the dark side of the moon. and quite frankly i'm sick of everyone's obsession with it.
Presteej?

[x togepi x]

all pink floyd except piper
nevermind the bullocks, here's the sex pistols
all arcade fire

[Chris Fallon]

Neutral Milk Hotel. Don't really get the praise it receives. Sounds like a lot of other indie-alternative shit I've heard ten times over.

[SanePsychotic]

I can't get into Dark Side of the Moon either. It kind of makes me gag a little whenever I hear it.

[ambiguous.dude]

Can't get into The Velvet Underground.

[mattmatumbo]

99% of music that is pre-1980, with the exceptions of; jethro tull, the misfits, david bowie, and eric clapton. there are probably more but i dont remember right now.

[Troggy]

If modern classics are included;Funeral - Arcade Fire

Yeah same here, I gave it a few listens but meh didn't see the magic happening...

[SLoT]

Michael Jackson - Thriller. I like certain songs, but overall I don't appreciate the supposed greatness of the album. I also hate the fucking video for Thriller. It's god awful in my opinion.

[xEmlehx]

anything by bob dylan. sorry, i just cant stand his voice. also, i never got into elvis costello. idk y, just never liked him.

[thespearkid]

Tommy by The Who. I listened once, did not really enjoy much though
I did not like the album the first time I listened to it but then I saw the movie. The film successfully got me to appreciate the album.

I will forever hate Pinkerton
Haha, I'm listening to that right now.

Neutral Milk Hotel. Don't really get the praise it receives. Sounds like a lot of other indie-alternative shit I've heard ten times over.
For me, NMH is all about the imagery he uses when he goes into Anne Frank mode. It's really amazing.

For me, I've tried my hardest to get into The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd but I'm just not feeling it.

[voncorn]

OK Computer - Radiohead

Paranoid Android, Karma Police, and Let Down are very good tracks. The rest of the album is OK (pun intended) but I personally don't think it's one of the best albums ever created of all time.

[Jet Set Paul]

I'd have to go with The Sex Pistols.

While I respect their contribution to punk rock (they're probably responsible for 80% of the bands I listen to, now) I can't stand their music...

at all.

[HangsLikeHeaven]

Pinkerton

There's a few gems I enjoy but as a whole it's not really my thing.

[TheOtherAndrew]

90% of Pink Floyd's discography

[PopPunkKid]

Aside from a few songs, I really don't dig Deja Entendu...

[PopPunkKid]

90% of Pink Floyd's discography



This as well.

[Troggy]

For me, NMH is all about the imagery he uses when he goes into Anne Frank mode. It's really amazing.

"Holland, 1945" is money. This is true.

[thespearkid]

"Holland, 1945" is money. This is true.
Pretty much every song on that record but "Communist Daughter" has the ability to make images play in my head, even the instrumentals.

[boykosaurus]

i don't understand the big deal with the dark side of the moon. and quite frankly i'm sick of everyone's obsession with it.

About time you got prestigious

[thespearkid]

Communist Daughter is good. Carrot Flowers 2+3 is pretty weak by comparison. and the title track is overrated too.
Carrot Flowers 2&3 is probably my least favorite track, besides Communist Daughter. Nothing beat Oh Comely though.

[PoisonInMyVeins]

About time you got prestigious

yeah, it only took four years.

[ProfessorForbes]

anything by bob dylan. sorry, i just cant stand his voice. also, i never got into elvis costello. idk y, just never liked him.

Agree completely. I dig the Cos though

[Troggy]

Communist Daughter is good. Carrot Flowers 2+3 is pretty weak by comparison. and the title track is overrated too.

I agree about Carrot Flowers 2&3, but Carrot Flowers I is one of my favorites, I love that one.

[aoftbsten]

all pink floyd except piper
nevermind the bullocks, here's the sex pistols
all arcade fire

i honestly think the sex pistols are awful, could never get into them

Neutral Milk Hotel. Don't really get the praise it receives. Sounds like a lot of other indie-alternative shit I've heard ten times over.

100% agreed

[boykosaurus]

yeah, it only took four years.

Four Year Strong?

[PoisonInMyVeins]

Four Year Strong?

yeah now there's a GOOD band.

[alice+interiors]

Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends

Not really a 'classic', but around here it has so much unnecessary respect for the boring failfest it is. So lifeless it is unreal.

[Melkor]

Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends

Not really a 'classic', but around here it has so much unnecessary respect for the boring failfest it is. So lifeless it is unreal.

You rogue element.

Mine is probably The Clash - London Calling for which most of my family has disowned me.

[micahistheballs]

the Blue Album
Kind of Blue
Pink Floyd

[Troggy]

the Blue Album
Kind of Blue
Pink Floyd

Not a fan of colors, eh?

[stand_tall]

Since when is Clarity or Deja Entendu remotely classic?

I was speaking mostly in respect to the current music scene, or the modern classics. Clarity is the definitive JEW album for many people. Same thing with Deja for Brand New.

[Jake's got woe]

Slint - Spiderland

I tried and tried to hear what a lot of other people seem to hear in this album, and I just can't. I don't get it.

[xAnti-Violentx]

Nirvana. I'm sorry, but I just don't feel it. I don't see a genius in Kurt Cobain.

[Nourez]

i don't understand the big deal with the dark side of the moon. and quite frankly i'm sick of everyone's obsession with it.

I agree. It's not a bad album, but a lot of it's popularity simply comes from the fact that it's "cool" to like it.

[Nourez]

i honestly think the sex pistols are awful, could never get into them

Really. The Sex Pistols were great. I mean, how many bands can continue to tour for 30 years on 1 album?

[Jake's got woe]

Really. The Sex Pistols were great. I mean, how many bands can continue to tour for 30 years on 1 album?

The Pistols broke up in 1978 and didn't reunite until 1996, and ever since then, it's been off and on.

Way to try and sound like you know what you're talking about, though.

[Kid B]

Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends

Not really a 'classic', but around here it has so much unnecessary respect for the boring failfest it is. So lifeless it is unreal.
Absolutely agreed. The only song I like is Cute without the E, and that's just okay. That brand of pop-punk has never been my thing though. But still, so many people just praise the shit out of it.

[Machu505]

Never been a big fan of The Blue Album.

[micahistheballs]

Not a fan of colors, eh?
Whoa! Did not notice that.

[Daftendirekt]

Brian Wilson - Smile
Probably one of the worst albums I have ever heard, wouldn't be out of place in a lift, and even then I'd take the stairs. Yet the critics lapped it up -.-

[Kid B]

Brian Wilson - Smile
Probably one of the worst albums I have ever heard, wouldn't be out of place in a lift, and even then I'd take the stairs. Yet the critics lapped it up -.-
First of all, Smile is too good. Second, what?

[Troggy]

Whoa! Did not notice that.

haha cool coincidence that's for sure. there are a lot of records with colors in them...

[checkered.stars]

Any Iron and Wine

[Troggy]

Any Iron and Wine

But you like hipster music??? Fail :(

[checkered.stars]

But you like hipster music??? Fail :(
Haha. I don't know, I tried to listen to The Creek Drank the Cradle but I just can't get through the album.

[Kid B]

You shouldn't start with Creek. Start with the Shepherd's Dog.

[Troggy]

Haha. I don't know, I tried to listen to The Creek Drank the Cradle but I just can't get through the album.

Oh hahaha I'm sure you will someday...TBH that record is the hardest to get into out of his stuff for me too, but it is also the most beautifully simple. You should try Shepherds Dog instead, it's has much more going on in it, more instruments, more upbeat, that kind of thing.

Edit: Kid B, you quick typing SOB haha

[Kid B]

;-)

[c_rob2700]

Well it's not really a classic, but i really cannot get into Brand New/TDAG
i think it gets so much praise because they were a pop punk pand who "evolved" and made a very typical alternative album

[checkered.stars]

Oh hahaha I'm sure you will someday...TBH that record is the hardest to get into out of his stuff for me too, but it is also the most beautifully simple. You should try Shepherds Dog instead, it's has much more going on in it, more instruments, more upbeat, that kind of thing.

Edit: Kid B, you quick typing SOB haha
Oh okay. I was recommended The Creek... by someone and was disappointed when I couldn't enjoy it as much as that person said I would, but I'll give that other one a try. Thanks. :-)

[Troggy]

Oh okay. I was recommended The Creek... by someone and was disappointed when I couldn't enjoy it as much as that person said I would, but I'll give that other one a try. Thanks. :-)

Good stuff, let us know if you like it!

[checkered.stars]

Haha I doubt it was either but I didn't really ask for a started record, I just asked for some new music. Oh well, I'll give The Shepherd's Dog a try.

[Dr. Acula]

Anything by The Rolling Stones.

[Chromefox]

I can't get into a lot of scene classics, like Is a Real Boy or Tell All Your Friends.

[Troggy]

I can't get into a lot of scene classics, like Is a Real Boy or Tell All Your Friends.

You're not alone there ;)

[Chromefox]

You're not alone there ;) I also can't get into a lot of classics outside the scene, come to think of it. And not just classic albums, but classic artists.

[Jet Set Paul]

Brian Wilson - Smile
Probably one of the worst albums I have ever heard, wouldn't be out of place in a lift, and even then I'd take the stairs. Yet the critics lapped it up -.-

YOU SOUND LIKE YOU'RE FROM LONDON!!!

[El_Jeffe]

so many, from older albums to the modern classics, pet sounds to pinkerton. it's not even worth tallying up how many i don't seem to "get" haha

[Jumpoff]

Anything considered a classic by:

Weezer
Taking Back Sunday
Thrice
Gatsby's American Dream

I simply don't understand at all. If you're talking about albums much older than those, then I don't really have an answer because for the most part I understand why those older artists are liked.. even Pink Floyd.

Oh, and Radiohead's Kid A.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, I don't understand Graceland by Paul Simon. I know it's almost unanimously loved, and Simon and Garfunkel are one of my favorite bands, but Graceland really does nothing for me... the only way I can describe it is it sounds almost too.. "80s" for my taste.

[Kid B]

Graceland is so good. I don't understand how it could sound 80s, though.

[the secret wars]

i don't understand the big deal with the dark side of the moon. and quite frankly i'm sick of everyone's obsession with it.

I'm with you on this one.

[PoisonInMyVeins]

Anything by The Rolling Stones.

yeah, i find it extremely difficult to get into them. the only album i kind of enjoy is "their satanic majesties request"

[PoisonInMyVeins]

I'm with you on this one.

woo!

[PoisonInMyVeins]

Graceland is so good. I don't understand how it could sound 80s, though.

you can kind of hear it in the production, i guess. other than that i don't see it. incredible record.

[the secret wars]

woo!

Hey you live near me.
Except not right now, because I'm at school.

[PoisonInMyVeins]

Hey you live near me.
Except not right now, because I'm at school.

where do you live??

[the secret wars]

where do you live??

I'm from Point Pleasant

[ForeverDelayed]

"Classic" eh? Okay.....

Sgt. Pepper's - probably my least favorite Beatles album. That's still saying a lot because it's better than 95% of recorded music... but it's definitely not worth the hype it gets. Sure it was influential, but all you have to do is go a year forward or a year backward in their discography to hear something way better.

Just about all Bruce Springsteen except Born To Run and Nebraska. There, I said it.

Most Rolling Stones albums. I love their singles, Let It Bleed, and Exile On Main Street, and most of Sticky Fingers. Everything else seems like a few good tracks and a ton of boring and repetitive filler.

And to the people who said Dark Side of the Moon... I can relate. I like it, but it's definitely not their best, they have at least 5 other albums I'd rather listen to. But the album I fuckin' can't stand is The Wall. What a bloated piece of shit.

[duhpunk]

Pretty much anything by the Beatles. I can fully respect their influence and what they've done, but their music has never appealed to me.

[El_Jeffe]

EDIT: Now that I think about it, I don't understand Graceland by Paul Simon. I know it's almost unanimously loved, and Simon and Garfunkel are one of my favorite bands, but Graceland really does nothing for me... the only way I can describe it is it sounds almost too.. "80s" for my taste.

that album is adored by the western rock music crowds & somewhat disregarded by foreign world music fans. it's a strange trend

are you still after good blues music mate? i remember you asking after you checked out tinariwen. if so, i rediscovered the perfect album for you from my cd collection, ali farka toure with ry cooder - talking timbuktu. this album is some of the best blues music i've ever come across, sensational

[Paulb-182]

anything by Pink Flloyd and The Who

[Kid B]

I feel bad for all of these people not liking Pink Floyd.

[Osto]

Definately Slint's Spiderland. I don't not like the album, I just don't see how it's supposed to be so amazing. Oh yeah, and Bonnie Prince Billy's I See A Darkness. Same issue there.

[SLoT]

I feel bad for all of these people not liking Pink Floyd.
Yeah there's definitely a lot more Pink Floyd haters than I expected. Oh well I guess you either love them or hate them. I'm on the love side of things.

[Throwback]

"Classic" eh? Okay.....

Sgt. Pepper's - probably my least favorite Beatles album. That's still saying a lot because it's better than 95% of recorded music... but it's definitely not worth the hype it gets. Sure it was influential, but all you have to do is go a year forward or a year backward in their discography to hear something way better.

Just about all Bruce Springsteen except Born To Run and Nebraska. There, I said it.

Most Rolling Stones albums. I love their singles, Let It Bleed, and Exile On Main Street, and most of Sticky Fingers. Everything else seems like a few good tracks and a ton of boring and repetitive filler.

And to the people who said Dark Side of the Moon... I can relate. I like it, but it's definitely not their best, they have at least 5 other albums I'd rather listen to. But the album I fuckin' can't stand is The Wall. What a bloated piece of shit.
Our opinions are identical on all of this.

[Jumpoff]

that album is adored by the western rock music crowds & somewhat disregarded by foreign world music fans. it's a strange trend

are you still after good blues music mate? i remember you asking after you checked out tinariwen. if so, i rediscovered the perfect album for you from my cd collection, ali farka toure with ry cooder - talking timbuktu. this album is some of the best blues music i've ever come across, sensational

Always on the search for new music, thanks for the heads up :-d

[Kid B]

Definately Slint's Spiderland. I don't not like the album, I just don't see how it's supposed to be so amazing. Oh yeah, and Bonnie Prince Billy's I See A Darkness. Same issue there.
Bummerx1000

[Jumpoff]

Definately Slint's Spiderland. I don't not like the album, I just don't see how it's supposed to be so amazing. Oh yeah, and Bonnie Prince Billy's I See A Darkness. Same issue there.

Probably just need to hear it at the right time. It has happened a lot to me where albums I hated on first listen I listened to later and became instant favorites (REM, Pavement, Silver Jews, Descendents, Lawrence Arms, Propagandhi, Neutral Milk Hotel, etc etc)

[IWasaCamera]

Anything by Nirvana
Anything by The Doors
Anything by Prince
Any Bruce other than Nebraska, The Ghost Of Tom Joad, and some of The River
Most "classic" punk rock albums
Rumours
Forever Changes
etc.

[chipdip18]

anything by Pink Flloyd and The Who

Pink Floyd really just takes some time, then it really clicks. Well, that's at least what it did for me. While your music taste keeps growing and expanding, keep coming back to it and try it out. I do that with "classic" artists or albums, and sooner or later i'll appreciate it and find out why it's good, or why it's important or etc.

[Praetor]

The Wallx100000