Most difficult album to listen to

 

In fact, I'm listening to the title track right now.  Weird stuff.

 

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).

 

 

 

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!