Most difficult album to listen to

A few that have been mentioned here already ...

Can - Tago Mago
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory

plus two borderline recordings by non-prog artists

Pat Metheny - Zero Tolerance For Silence
Neil Young - Arc (35 mins of feedback)

and my new favourite ... a disc I bought last week

The Enid - Aerie Faerie Nonsense ... at the moment I need little convincing about the nonsense part ...

boo boo wrote: i once did some scientific research for a project, my discovery?, pink floyd's the final cut is phisicaly impossible for any creature to listen to in its entirety....scientific fact.

What are you talking about, I love this album, its one of the best Water's album after the wall the only one better is Amused to Death. This album is so touching and beatifull, sometimes makes me want to cry, and it's the only album that does. This is one of those albums that you either love it or you hate it.

I say so what if Nick and Dave are hardly in it. When they are, they come in like a cannon and just explode and really make the album feel even more emotional. So what if Rick is absent, he didn't want to make anymore material for Roger and if he was still in the band he would have hated it and not made up any new ideas for the album justike on the wall. Not saying Rick's bad but he is easily replaced (only on this album, any others would have been very aparent, and I beleive any album before this one needed him.) and anyways, anything he made for that album would have been refused by Waters, so it's not like he could contribute. Waters wanted a slow, somber, subtle album that didn't heavily require atmosphere that Rick was good at putting on a song or album. This is a perfect album and yes it is hard the first 1-5listens, but if you really appreciate Waters then you will know it's was he has to say when he writes a song, not what he has to play, and that being said it takes someone who appreciates Waters for that to like this album.

Once you discover that there is more to this man than music you will see that he has something important to say and that's why you should like him and this album that is 100% him. It's not supposed to be Pink Floyd even though the others are in it so the best way to learn to like it is to finnally forget about what's not there and see and feel what is there. Appreciate Dave's perfect solo's, and Nick's excellent drumming that is a little rare in album's after Darkside.

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.