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jalas 
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Posted: November 02 2006 at 13:06 |
Roger Water-Radio K.A.O.S.. It's too much of a departure from what was Roger Waters.
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Posted: November 02 2006 at 09:53 |
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Faust's first.
Really obscure and inaccessible stuff, but I like it, very much too! |
You're right about that one. Mostly noise, but it has it's moments. 
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Posted: November 02 2006 at 09:50 |
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Since when were henry co and hawkwind krautrock?????? |
Don't know about Henry Cow but Hawkwind were a Krautrock band from when they started in 1969 until the mid 70s... they just happened not to be German (although Dave Anderson had played in Amon Duul II)!
Most of the old "unlistenable" favourites have been trotted out in this discussion: Trout Mask Replica, Metal Machine Music etc. With the notable exception of Mike Pattion's stuff, most of these albums are among my favourites.
Minimalism, noise, weird instrumentation or unusual time signatures don't make an album "difficult". Cheesy, unimaginative music is much more difficult to listen to!
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Posted: November 01 2006 at 21:57 |
We are talking prog here, right? For, off course, there are more difficult thing to listen to... like reggaetton or 2000's hip hop (for the inability of the brain to process so much crap at once...) or in the COMPLETE OPPOSITE side of the spectrum, Gyorgy Ligety, John Cage (well, at times there's hardly music here), or even Anton Webern (11 second classicsal pieces? man you have to know about music to get that!!).
And , off course, some jazz.
But let's focus in prog, i say.
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Posted: November 01 2006 at 21:54 |
Glass Hammer's Inconsolable secret....
Without the lyrics and when you listen to it for the first couple of times, it's actually sure to get you lost. There's no much song-making there, decent music but poor song-crafting abilities.
Zero Hour.... try to remember something..
Spiral Architect, Focus,.... better than the one above (and actually more technical) but still a pain in a certain part to get to GET them.
Agalloch's The MANTLE....at least if you are not 100% awake (and some coffee would help)...it's great for insomniacs the first couple of times you listen to it..
Evergrey's Monday Morning Apocalypse, or Evergrey's apocalypse, actually.... it's difficult if you've listen to their previous, excellent efforts, to hear this bullsh*t and say "man, what the f**k were these idiots thinking! This is mtv-angry-teen music!"
Bozzio and Shehhan Nine short films.....actually, trying to answer the question about the birth of mankind is easier than listening to this collection of utter masturbatory playing by two amazing, unearthly talented but worst song writers in the history of the universe (at least together.... apart they know how to... but please don't let them get together ever again!! That's why Magna carta is going down....Bozzio is the worst singer ever, even worse than Ray Alder).
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Posted: November 01 2006 at 21:24 |
I like it, but sitting through the entire Paradox Hotel requires quite some patience 
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Posted: November 01 2006 at 21:22 |
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King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Curiously, Pawn Hearts I instantly liked.
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Posted: November 01 2006 at 19:12 |
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For me it is Yes' "Close To The Edge". It seems like when I listen to this album, I am constantly waiting for the "magic" that everyone speaks so highly of in it. I never find it and I've listened to the album at least 8 times, hoping it will click. I think those guys are a hell of a group of musicians (Squire, Wakeman, Howe, and Bruford, specifically), but their songwriting doesn't appeal to me on this album.
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Posted: November 01 2006 at 17:13 |
Ozric Tentacle's Strangeitude (my only OT experience so far). It's not bad, but it's hard to sit all the way through.
In fact, I'm listening to the title track right now. Weird stuff.
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Posted: November 01 2006 at 14:31 |
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i would have to say Brian Eno's voice on albums such as Taking Tiger Mountnain (by strategy) and Another Green World, though both are great albums, he just cant quite sing in tune
most post-rock bores me to death also.
Edited by Atomic_Rooster - November 01 2006 at 14:33
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Posted: November 01 2006 at 14:30 |
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Anythinng minimalistic and droney is a difficult listen to me, I also have to be in a particular mood for such music.
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Posted: November 01 2006 at 14:24 |
Faust's first.
Really obscure and inaccessible stuff, but I like it, very much too!
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Posted: November 01 2006 at 10:45 |
anything by Celine Dion ! 
I actually don't have any problem with difficult music... the more challenging, the better...
Well, I have to admit some Zorn-noise (aka Weird Little Boy with Mike Patton) is not the easiest listening experience I had...  |
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Posted: November 01 2006 at 10:39 |
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I like Trout Mask Replica, and don't see any problems with that one.
The most inacessible would be Fantômas.
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Posted: July 08 2005 at 18:17 |
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Since when were henry co and hawkwind krautrock?????????............most female singers are bloody hard to listen to, especially are they are usually about baby's love and spewy things like that.
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Posted: July 08 2005 at 03:17 |
1. The second side of 666 by Aphrodite's Children - it seems total mess to me.
2. Thrakkatack (or how does it spell right?) - you may get a mental disorder listening to this.
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Posted: July 08 2005 at 02:09 |
I have a few jazz albums that I've had difficulty listening to.
Get up with it - Miles Davis
Sextant - Herbie Hancock
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Posted: July 07 2005 at 23:40 |
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Is it weird that I have grown so much to Captain Beefheart that sometimes I will have "Moonlight on vermont's" lyrics stuck in my head?
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Posted: July 07 2005 at 23:27 |
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most Krautrock, albums specially can can't listen to no more that 10 minutes henry cow faust hawkwind!!!!!
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Posted: July 07 2005 at 23:13 |
the dragon wrote:
[IMG]height=150 alt=Ummagumma src="http://www.progressiverock.com/covers/44.jpg" width=150 border=1> |
Ah, Ummagumma, very crazy! 
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