Best Ever Albums

Re: Most Challenging Albums to Listen to?

RoundTheBend — Sun, 5 Nov 2017 14:29:39 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 11/05/2017 19:29

Skinny wrote:

Buyer's Market.

I think I'm too dense for you mate... haha

Is this a joke?

Who is the artist?

Re: Most Challenging Albums to Listen to?

AAL2014 — Sun, 5 Nov 2017 12:18:48 GMT

Author: AAL2014

Posted: 11/05/2017 17:18

Miles' Bitches Brew was really tough for me on the first 2-3 listens with how long and detailed it is. It's worth giving that album its due though, fucking timeless.

Re: Most Challenging Albums to Listen to?

Tha1ChiefRocka — Sun, 5 Nov 2017 12:03:43 GMT

Author: Tha1ChiefRocka

Posted: 11/05/2017 17:03

Skinny wrote:

Buyer's Market.

I think we have a winner. As someone who is currently working to be a schoolteacher, the whole concept of that just makes me feel sick to my stomach. Yeah, I'm never going to be able to listen to that.

Re: Most Challenging Albums to Listen to?

saltysurprise — Sun, 5 Nov 2017 11:28:48 GMT

Author: saltysurprise

Posted: 11/05/2017 16:28

The Powers That B by Death Grips comes to mind. That album is long, dense, and harsh. It's particularly weird (especially for a Death Grips album) with backing vocals by Bjork thrown in.

Re: Most Challenging Albums to Listen to?

Skinny — Sun, 5 Nov 2017 06:25:09 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 11/05/2017 11:25

Buyer's Market.

Re: Most Challenging Albums to Listen to?

MetaKoopa99 — Sun, 5 Nov 2017 01:06:34 GMT

Author: MetaKoopa99

Posted: 11/05/2017 05:06

Ummagumma by Pink Floyd. It doesn't help that I'm not really into the strange, ambient stuff like Piper's Interstellar Overdrive. I honestly just listen to Grantchester Meadows and The Narrow Way Part 3 and skip the rest of the studio stuff.

Re: Most Challenging Albums to Listen to?

RoundTheBend — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 22:27:56 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 10/27/2017 02:27

Tap wrote:

Agreed. I have no time to listen to musical exercises and elaborations of theories.

I sat through 20 minutes of the first part of Disintegration Loops the other day. It was quite beautiful actually, but I have a life and shit to do and my day can't allow another 40 minutes of essentially the same thing.

There are probably a few people on here studying or working in music in some capacity whose life's work is to come to an understanding with the very edges of experimental and avant-garde music. I'm envious to some degree because there's a lot of music fatally beyond my reach, but we can't be and do everything.

I love music, I listen to it as much as time allows, but it has to have some degree of entertainment value because the assimilation of music knowledge has no intrinsic value to me.

I listen because I find the experiences compelling and I think they offer a lot more than just a heartless, single-minded pursuit of boundary pushing. Acquisition of knowledge is not a concern at all.

also I find Disintegration Loops to be very boring as well, there's more interesting processes out there, like I Am Sitting In A Room[/quote]

Yes.

Re: Most Challenging Albums to Listen to?

Tap — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:19:52 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 10/26/2017 17:19

boyd94 wrote:

Quote:

It's like eating healthy... cinnamon toast crunch vs shredded wheat. Shredded wheat is perfectly good... but is tough to digest to be frank. Sometimes shredded wheat isn't liked, much like challenging music, because it is too healthy, hard to eat sometimes, etc. Music, in my opinion, should at least be 50% aesthetically pleasing. If it is JUST challenging just to mess with you, I give the finger to that guy cause I think he's an asshat. I'm not listening to your mixolydian 13th chords with a time signature change every 30 seconds just so you can show off.

Re: Most Challenging Albums to Listen to?

Lastings — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:02:03 GMT

Author: Lastings

Posted: 10/26/2017 17:02

A Crow Looked at Me - Mount Eerie

Re: Most Challenging Albums to Listen to?

Fischman — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 11:41:40 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 10/26/2017 15:41

Porcupine Tree -- Fear of a Blank Planet

Not doubt it's an impressive musical statement, but gawd, it's relentlessly depressing.

Re: Most Challenging Albums to Listen to?

Temporary33 — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 08:54:37 GMT

Author: Temporary33

Posted: 10/26/2017 12:54

Tha1ChiefRocka wrote:

Was there an America's Got Talent contestant called that? What was the act?

No, my last name is Mirocke, pronounced like myrrh-rock. So, growing up I had a lot of nicknames revolving around "rock".

A "Chief Rocka" is "The main man, the head honcho, the number one guy." based on this song by the hip hop group Lords of The Underground. So, it's a pun and a nickname in one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFbLRZCExBk

Cool, here's the agt contestant:

Link

Edit: It's always funny to me whenever a group or musician with underground or a way to denote obscurity in their name has a hit single or album (Lords of the Underground in this case)

Re: Most Challenging Albums to Listen to?

Daydreamer — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 06:26:53 GMT

Author: Daydreamer

Posted: 10/25/2017 10:26

By far this one

To Be Kind by Swans

Re: Most Challenging Albums to Listen to?

boyd94 — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 05:02:19 GMT

Author: boyd94

Posted: 10/25/2017 09:02

Quote:

Re: Most Challenging Albums to Listen to?

indieshins — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 01:06:34 GMT

Author: indieshins

Posted: 10/25/2017 05:06

bobbyb5 wrote:

Alll of these are albums that made me say "I don't know if I could sit through this entire album without committing suicide and/ or going on a shooting spree". These albums are the very definition of the word TEDIOUS. They qualify as torture devices.

Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed

69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields

Ys by Joanna Newsom

Its already been dealt with, but with the exception of Metal Machine Music, I couldn't disagree more. I loved both Ys and 69 Love Songs from first listen. Can understand disliking Joanna's voice though - its certainly not conventional. I'd like to hear why you don't like 69, however.

Re: Most Challenging Albums to Listen to?

RoundTheBend — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:07:05 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 10/25/2017 04:07

By the way... I find it interesting most responses have been music which has no real heart to it.

It's a math problem or something.

Re: Most Challenging Albums to Listen to?

SleepDealer — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:16:45 GMT

Author: SleepDealer

Posted: 10/24/2017 20:16

craola wrote:

i'm responding to the ratings here. it's got a really low score, so i'm assuming the average person found it very challenging to listen to. melon didn't like it cause of the ASMR stuff. but it's a very rewarding album.... even the ASMR stuff starts to shine after a few listens, which i found challenging at first. obviously, Chorus is an easy track to listen to, but the album as a whole has some difficult spots.

i think that when something is "challenging", there's an implication that there are characteristics that you don't necessarily like (at first), which make it difficult to appreciate at first.

so yeah, i stand by what i said.

No problem - I get the reason for Platform being here, I agree it deserves more of a chance given the low ratings - I gave it 85 and it is in my top 10 for 2015.

My comments were more directed at this:

Stover75 wrote:

Couldn't agree more about Joana Newsom album. Her voice should be used as a torture device. I actually listened to the whole album, as I have been determined to listen to the Top 1000 of BEA's Overall Chart. It was excruciating. I did other things with it on quietly in the background and though I didn't wat to commit a mass murder, like you, I felt like jumping out the window lol. It was painful. Why am I so OCD that I didn't turn it off? I had to tick off that I listened to it.

Incidentally, New York Tendaberry is a great shout. I love Laura Nyro but this album was hard work... Got there in the end though.

Re: Most Challenging Albums to Listen to?

RoundTheBend — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 15:40:50 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 10/24/2017 19:40

craola wrote:

Yup - I think both apply. Often challenging means you can't understand/appreciate it completely, so therefore it is difficult to like.

It's like eating healthy... cinnamon toast crunch vs shredded wheat. Shredded wheat is perfectly good... but is tough to digest to be frank. Sometimes shredded wheat isn't liked, much like challenging music, because it is too healthy, hard to eat sometimes, etc. Music, in my opinion, should at least be 50% aesthetically pleasing. If it is JUST challenging just to mess with you, I give the finger to that guy cause I think he's an asshat. I'm not listening to your mixolydian 13th chords with a time signature change every 30 seconds just so you can show off.

Re: Most Challenging Albums to Listen to?

craola — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 14:08:59 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 10/24/2017 18:08

SleepDealer wrote:

I liked [i]Platform on first listen. I think some people are confusing 'challenging' for 'I just don't like this'.

Re: Most Challenging Albums to Listen to?

Hayden — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 14:05:59 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 10/24/2017 18:05

Ys by Joanna Newsom

bobbyb5 wrote:

Quote:

Hayden circa youngin' days wrote:

This is an album that I could say some days is amazing, and some days I couldn't even listen to it. Really weird. I might need to listen to it 3-4 times before I understand it, but for now, it's 65/100.

Re: Most Challenging Albums to Listen to?

Mercury — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 14:02:50 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 10/24/2017 18:02

Ascension by John Coltrane

Flowers Of Romance by Public Image Ltd.

And this one kills me for some reason...

New York Tendaberry by Laura Nyro