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

So like most of you (I bet), I listen to tons of music.  But there are just some albums I never learned to appreciate.  I hope this thread can serve as a teaching tool.  I did not get Mingus at first but now he is one of my favorites.

Perhaps ending each post with, "What am I missing?" would be a good idea.

I will start with Graceland by Paul Simon.  Most of my friends call me crazy (still after all these years...OUCH that was bad) but I never desire to listen to this record.  I get the African influence and rhythm but it just does not impress me.  Alternatively when Peter Gabriel did the African influence thing I found it stunningly good. Paul Simon as a musician impresses me in his other works.  What am I missing?

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dekay
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edcyn
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This thread has forced me to dig into my past, as anything I did not like has pretty much disappeared from both my record/cd shelves and my memory. But yeah, anything from "ain't  I cool" hippie bands and acts really tested my patience.  "Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young" did this. Delaney and Bonnie sounded generic and bland. The proverbial pasted-on smile. I loved David Crosby when he was in the Byrds but nowhere else. I truly enjoyed the Grateful Dead the two times I saw them in concert but, not to sound like a broken record(!) their recordings were distressingly lacking in energy and burdened with 'tude.

edcyn
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@DeKay -- Wow!! Maybe the most unintentionally hilarious album cover I've ever seen.

tablejockey
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dekay wins the internet.

dadork
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When I first discovered old Pink Floyd, you know, before DSOM and The Wall I thought it was self-gratuitous overindulgence and bizarre. Today I can't get enough of it. With the discovery of streaming, I have been opened up to a lot of things I never would have known about. I'm too old to be "hip" so streaming is opening me up to a lot of new things. I still don't like 99% of rap, don't get it. Don't like thrash metal where the vocals are all screaming. I don't need more reasons to be angry. And perhaps my most unpopular opinion and last but not least... Bruce Springsteen. It behooves me why people are so enthralled.

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