Deleting Everything - Music - Forums : Best Ever Albums

Xygni1

Gender: Male

Age: 34

Location: Arizona

CellarDoor wrote:

No, but there are some albums I would definitely NOT want to listen again for the first time (???? yes that totally makes sense) :

Noisy s**t I didn't like (and that I didn't manage to finish on first listen), but are now top 50 classic s**t status :

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine ("I've purchased a bad copy - I can't even hear the lyrics")

Psychocandy - The Jesus and Mary Chain ("Are my ears bleeding ?")

Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth (total trash)

Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band (not much of a surprise to anyone, but god was I feeling nauseus after sitting through the whole thing)

Ege Bamyasi - Can (first krautrock album - I bought it the same day as the Trout Mask - bad idea !)

Why don't you like noise rock? Sad

CellarDoor

Shoe-Punk Loner

Gender: Male

Age: 40

Location: Marseille

Xygni1 wrote:

CellarDoor wrote:

No, but there are some albums I would definitely NOT want to listen again for the first time (???? yes that totally makes sense) :

Noisy s**t I didn't like (and that I didn't manage to finish on first listen), but are now top 50 classic s**t status :

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine ("I've purchased a bad copy - I can't even hear the lyrics")

Psychocandy - The Jesus and Mary Chain ("Are my ears bleeding ?")

Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth (total trash)

Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band (not much of a surprise to anyone, but god was I feeling nauseus after sitting through the whole thing)

Ege Bamyasi - Can (first krautrock album - I bought it the same day as the Trout Mask - bad idea !)

Why don't you like noise rock? Sad

Ha ha - so that really didn't make much sense then after all Smile

All the albums listed above appear on my top 50 best ever albums chart.

With time I've come to understand them, but would not want to experience Trout Mask again like I did on first listen (with headache and all).
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SquishypuffDave

Gender: Male

Age: 34

For me, that would be a much longer list - albums I did not enjoy the first time, and therefore would not like to erase from my memory for fear that I would not learn to enjoy them again.

(The main one: Embryonic - The Flaming Lips)

thomas697

Gender: Male

Location: Melbourne

SquishypuffDave wrote:

For me, that would be a much longer list - albums I did not enjoy the first time, and therefore would not like to erase from my memory for fear that I would not learn to enjoy them again.

(The main one: Embryonic - The Flaming Lips)

Using this train of thought I would add

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The sea

Bjork - Homogenic

Big Brother & Holding Camp - Cheap Thrills

I think I got lucky with all of these albums.
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Bork

Executive Hillbilly

Location: Vinson Mountain, GA

Well, very very hypothetically I would not mind hearing Born in the U.S.A. again for the first time, or rather, to experience the totally mindblowing experience I remember that as being. On the other hand, I was 10 years old at that point and did not have anywhere near the knowledge and experience of music that I do today, plus music has evolved quite a bit since that time, so chances are very high that hearing it for the first time wouldn't give the same experience now as it did then. So, I guess the answer, all things considered, is no.

Facetious

Gender: Male

Age: 25

Location: Somewhere you've never been

CellarDoor wrote:

No, but there are some albums I would definitely NOT want to listen again for the first time (???? yes that totally makes sense) :

Noisy s**t I didn't like (and that I didn't manage to finish on first listen), but are now top 50 classic s**t status :

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine ("I've purchased a bad copy - I can't even hear the lyrics")

Psychocandy - The Jesus and Mary Chain ("Are my ears bleeding ?")

Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth (total trash)

Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band (not much of a surprise to anyone, but god was I feeling nauseus after sitting through the whole thing)

Ege Bamyasi - Can (first krautrock album - I bought it the same day as the Trout Mask - bad idea !)

Haha, when I was listening to the album for the first time, I kept thinking, "When is somebody gonna start singing? I'm pretty sure this is not an instrumental." before I realized that, in fact, the singing HAD started. (BTW, Only Shallow reminds me of the Beatles' song Free as a Bird).

pearljammer13

Young Pilgrim

Gender: Male

Age: 38

Location: Massachusetts

This is a great question, I've always wanted to go back to many of the albums I love and be able to hear them again for the first time.

I would definitely like to erase my entire memory of Ten by Pearl Jam and hear it for the first time again. By the time I was old enough to listen to it, it was already the mid 90's and they had skyrocketed to superstardom. I would love to hear the whole album start to finish never having heard any of the hits or having any idea how big they would get.

Also Siamese Dream. It's such a massive album, I would love to experience that sonic blast for the first time again.

hairymarx1

Gender: Male

Location: London

an_outlaw wrote:

Are there any albums in your collection you would want to delete all prior knowledge of (hit singles, albums tracks, music, notes, cover, everything else) inside your head if you had the chance. I'm talking of erasing every memory of that album from your head. I'm being hypothetical here Smile

And would you leave yourself a post-it note on the album, sent to yourself? What would you write?

I often wish I had never heard some of the jingle-jangle indie pop of the 80s that were a significant part of my youth, particularly the Smiths that I enjoyed the first time I heard them but retrospectively think haven't stood the test of time very well. Conversely, I didn't enjoy the the more 'difficult' artists highlighted by Cellar Door the first time I heard them but do now and realize that they HAVE stood the test of time. Musical tastes and approaches to music change with age and increased knowledge.

jhuik

BOSS

Gender: Male

Age: 60

Location: K-Dubz, just west of the 6ix, ON

Great question but of course the answer is no.

When I was an extremely naive kid with too much money from my paper route I bought albums like Bat Out of Hell by Meatloaf (my first purchase, in fact) and Even Now by Barry Manilow. (Yup.) But I still have fond memories of them. I still have a weak spot for the absurdly schlockiness of Leavin in the Morning or You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth. Catch me in the right mood and I might even play them again and sing along at the top of my lungs.
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gussteivi

There's only one album I'd like to experience listening to for the first time again:
Oddesey and Oracle, which I see has already been mentioned.

I still remember thinking during the first listen: "But the next song can't be as good".
But it always was, every single song blew me away immediately.

Besised that, there are plenty of albums I'd like to relive listening to for the 4th or 5th time