[Applerill]

As I go forward in life, I realize one fact more and more. To paraphrase the great Quentin Tarantino, I've learned to "never hate an album". The classics are obviously beautiful, the bad ones engaging in their unique "missteps", and even the mediocre ones like Creed can be enjoyed at a superficial level.

Unless they are taking part in unethical business practices (see: Crazy Hits, or Supernatural), or other things that you frown upon in real life (ie: Hate speech), there's little reason to hate an album.

But nonetheless, there are times when it seems to everyone else that I loathe a certain record, especially if it gets a lot of critical acclaim.. I wanted to explain this.

When I listen to an album, I want something magical to happen; if I don't think I'm going to like something, why would I listen to it? But when I don't like something, I can still see all the other people that enjoy it. And with all due respect to them, that makes my blood boil.

THEY HAVE SOMETHING I WANT!!! THEY "GET" THIS ALBUM!!!! THEY'RE SMARTER THAN ME!!!! HULK SMASH!!!!

And that's why, when I listen to something like Joni Mitchell's Blue, I literally get angry. If it's something that everyone already hates, like Crazy Frog, it doesn't bug me at all. But just the thought that I'm denied this enjoyment because I don't "get" an album bugs the heck out of me.

Do you see what I'm saying? When I hate an album, I don't want to hate it. I want to LOVE IT TO DEATH!!!! But I don't know how, and that makes me sad.

Do you guys feel this way?[/u]

[Happymeal]

I don't know what you're talking bout bro, I love crazy frog, catchy as heck, fun, and the best part is that the lyrics are so dumb that they don't even matter. As far as Santana's album supernatural goes, what do you mean by unethical buisness practices?

And no, I never feel this way, but I'm sure some people do.

As far as "hating" an album goes, the only reason I would say that is if the music is so displeasing to my ears that i could never get into it (U2, early Beatles, Good kid m.A.A.d city, and etc.)

[GeevyDallas]

I fucks with this,I feels the same way,hombre

[RoundTheBend]

It is frustrating to know an album is quality, but you just can't get into it. But luckily with time, if it truly is an amazing album... it just clicks. Give it time.... but please kill Tarantino.

That guy just gets on my nerves.... and I have given it time. Although talented with characters and film contexts, he drives me crazy with his teenage mentality of stuff like... wouldn't it be cool if this guy just sat there waiting for people to come get him and while killing him with a gigantic revolver, the whole time while he is killing and waiting to kill, he is getting a blow job? LAME 15 year old thinking, and I hate it. Sorry to digress, but that man must die in his next film.

[pearljammer13]

I get what your saying. I hate listening to classics that are so revered and thinking they suck. Feels like I'm missing something. I don't quite get angry though, I just shrug my shoulders and move on.

[Guest]

I like Tarantino's simpler, perhaps childish "because it's fun" way of thinking.


Anyway,

I don't hate albums, if I hate it's more towards the popularity because I personally deem it undeserved. The feelings towards the sounds themselves is more associated with words like "boring", "uninventive", or lacking... anything out of the ordinary... generally "uninteresting". I'll give albums second chances for its own sake, since sometimes upon first impression I'm unable to imagine how I'll ever like it but the second or third time around I turn out loving it.

I hope the internet someday puts the music industry out of business - and maybe this is unrealistic - but I hope the current ways the majority of people discover music (which is that they let the radio, itunes, TV, and youtube tell them what to listen to) will get overtaken by the more organic person-to-person sharing system that exists on BEA and RYM, and they (as well as sites that branch from them) grow to become the more popular way of discovering music throughout the world. In that kind of world, perhaps the most popular albums would also be much closer to the actual best (blah blah subjective I know whatever).

Maybe it's not realistic or whatever... exceptional is the exception I suppose... but the internet is new. Websites are new. iTunes has had a head start... but what will happen when BEA and RYM are 50 years old... 100 years old... when websites are passed down through generations? Is the potential for these places that big or am I wishful thinking?


Now I'm rambling.

[Puncture Repair]

I really want to enjoy Daydream Nation, because everyone hails it as a masterpiece and it's even been put in the National Recording Registry because of it's "culturally significant".

To me it's just a bunch of guitar chords because played in a certain order, and someone occasionally singing over the top. Nothing clever is done and the sound never shifts to anything new. All that for 70 minutes? I just can't do it. All of the songs just go on for way too long. Like the first song effectively relies entirely on one, very nice, melody line - which is someone sustained for 7 minutes.

I love the name, I love the image, the album cover and it's place in musical history - but to me it's just nothing I think I could really get into.

[alelsupreme]

doesn't really bother me, if I don't like it then that's that.
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[Jasonconfused]

Doesn't bother me in the least bit. There is WAY too much music that I enjoy to worry about trying to get into something that just doesn't resonate with me.

[lightmyway]

It's not really something I think about. There are many classic albums that don't strike a chord with me, nobody likes them all.