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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?

bancsee
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rettrussell
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After The Bends, Radiohead left me behind.

John Coltrane, A Love Supreme...couldn't connect.

Loved them at the time, saw the Speaking in Tongues tour, but Talking Heads is too twitchy for me to enjoy now.

Maybe that's the point, but U2's The Joshua Tree never gets off the ground.

Marquee Moon, Television, Todd Rundgren, Bjork.... and most everything by Pavement ...I'm just not/wasn't hip enough....

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Well that didn’t work right! It was supposed to say, All the albums William Shatner ever made!

bancsee OP
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I can Waite a lifetime before I hear Tom Waits again.  Never got the big deal made about him.

rockadanny
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Beach Boys "Pet Sounds". Artists I don't get who are universally praised: Grateful Dead (although I love Gerry Garcia with other projects and believe he is supremely talented), Frank Sinatra, Elvis.

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