Albums you do not get...a plea for help and understanding

I found that my interests expanded with exposure… but some stuff just does not appeal to me. I started with rock in the 60’s and 70’s… then jazz, classical, blues, electronic, world…

There is usually a gateway album… one that bridges the stuff I like with a new type. Then when “I get it”… and slowly a whole new genera opens up.

The biggest gateway for me was Michael Franks. I was mid twenties staying in a cabin on Lake Tahoe doing research (I was a geologist). I went to this tucked away high end cool restaurants hidden in an old growth forest. One of his albums was playing… it completely changed my world… opened it up.

I have run at opera many times… I am just not going to like it. Mozart… not happening… Shostakovich just sends me into a dream. Coltrane… not happening.

There is so much music… some you will just not like… it’s OK. Worth giving a try every once in a while, but life is too short to waste too much time on something that doesn’t appeal to you.

The biggest gateway for me was Michael Franks. I was mid twenties staying in a cabin on Lake Tahoe doing research (I was a geologist). I went to this tucked away high end cool restaurants hidden in an old growth forest. One of his albums was playing… it completely changed my world… opened it up

Sounds like it could have been “The Soule Domain.”
(But I am not sure that building had electricity?)

tds3371  I meant this album...   

There's a lot I don't "get".  The most puzzling is The Grateful Dead.  I mean they're  fine and there's a lot of it but I'd rather listen to Crosby Stills Nash and Young.

@russ69 

I felt the same way about Cassandra Wilson New moon daughter but after a while she's growing on me. How could you not like the crickets?

Disco, fast punk and Latin not happening. Dislike religious male country rock like Terry Allen. I used like Alan Parsons Project when I was 18 but it's a bit crap and silly to me now.