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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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lloydc
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Tangerine Dream.  Soulless. 
 

Bebop. Lost the swing, don’t mean a thing. Post bebop (Coleman et al), even worse.

12-tone.  The experiment needed to be tried, but it failed,

 

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falconquest
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I don’t care for trumpet at all. It’s just too “blary” for me. Not really a word but best way to describe it. Most of my dislikes are genres as opposed to specific artists. Opera, Country, Rap, Death Metal, just don’t do it for me. Otherwise I’m pretty open minded, oh, and any pan flute artist!

edcyn
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I essentially like any genre. The only thing I insist on is that the music be delivered with passion, commitment and skill.  Invention is always nice, too, but it isn't crucial.

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painter24
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Lots I just don't get, am indifferent to, or actively dislike. 

Oasis are in the latter category. They were unavoidable here in the UK back in the 90s, and for me utterly insufferable. Everytime you turned the radio on, the TV, everywhere. The whole "Brit-pop" thing was excrutiating.

Don't get - Springsteen; yep, don't get it at all, and I've tried. I did some promoting work for a band in the early 2000s, and their manager for some reason, made it his life's work to convert me. Everytime we met he would go on and on, waxing lyrical over some album or other. I did try to get it, but nope, not happening. At one point he questioned my sanity. I think in the end his pathological need to get me to like Springsteen had the opposite effect. Bizarre individual. 

One band I didn't get at the time but became appreciative of after the fact was The Clash. Never a Punk fan as such, but there was something about The Clash that resonated with me, especially the songs Mick Jones penned. 

Love Crosby Stills & Nash (& Young) but there's a fly in the ointment there in the form of Graham Nash. Don't get him, and I understand what an integral part of the CSN machine he was, but could never take to him. Crosby and Stills were the better writers for m personally. 

 

 

 

bubba_buoy
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Jazz after about ’64. Rush, Steely Dan, Radiohead, rap after 2002, I don’t get anything from them. They just don’t do it for me, but I don’t denigrate anything except christian rock (and I’m a preacher’s kid, so take it with a boulder of salt)...infinite awfulness that transcends time, space and dimensions. ...to me.

No offense. ✌️

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