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    Posted: 18 hours 54 minutes ago at 13:47
Over the past 18 years on PA I've tried out many albums that are HIGHLY rated by the PA community which I just can't get into. Many I've been able to learn to enjoy with repeated listens, but some have remained inaccessible or unenjoyable to me despite very high ratings/rankings by the PA average.

Can you come up with a list of ten (10) albums that you've never connected with--despite repeated efforts--that are VERY highly here on PA?

Mine would have to include (from the most highly rated albums in PA's database):
King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic
PFM Storia di un minuto
Museo Rosenbach Zarathustra
Rush Permanent Waves
Mike Oldfield Ommadawn
Bacamarte Depois de Fim
Marillion Misplaced Childhood
Porcupine Tree In Absentia
Gong Radio Gnome Invisible Vol. 3 - You
IQ The Road of Bones

Though I'd also have to report:
Edge of Sanity Crimson *
Le Orme Felona e Sorona
Marillion Script for a Jester's Tear
Kansas Leftoverture
Gorguts Obscura
Eloy The Ocean
Dün Eros
Riverside Anno Domini High Definition *
Modry Efekt Svët Hledacu
Haken The Mountain
Birds and Buildings Bantam to Behemoth
Ayreon The Human Equation *
Marillion Clutching at Straws *
Arena Contagion *
Miles Davis Bitches Brew
Deep Purple Machine Head
Can Ege Bemyasi

* Denotes albums I feel deserving of 2 star ratings



Edited by BrufordFreak - 18 hours 50 minutes ago at 13:51
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Agree from your list …
Ommadawn
Gong
Bitches brew
Leftoverture
Permanent waves and the PFM

But LTiA is one of my all time highs
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Seems like we had a similar thread recently, but.

Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Soft Machine - Third (Facelift is horrid but Moon in June is good)
King Crimson - In the Court...(The first and last songs are good, the others meh and Moonchild is bad)
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Tool - Lateralus
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
IQ - All releases (Nichols voice is like nails on a chalkboard)
Art Zoyd - HÄXAN
Magma - All releases

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Oh yeah Lateralus. Mars Volta doesn’t turn my stomach but irritates my nervous system. So many more… solo Peter Hammill, Not a huge fan of magma or marillion but they are at least ‘bearable’.
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Lateralus

Edited by ThyroidGlands - 14 hours 3 minutes ago at 18:38
Non mi svegliate ve ne prego
ma lasciate che io dorma questo sonno,
c'è ancora tempo per il giorno
quando gli occhi si imbevono di pianto,
i miei occhi... di pianto.
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1) Radiohead: OK Computer
2) Radiohead: Kid A
3) Radiohead: The Bends
4) The Mars Volta: De-loused in the Comatorium
5) The Mars Volta: Frances the Mute
6) Magma: Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
7) Magma: 1001 Centigrades
8) Cardiacs: Sing to God
9) Opeth: Blackwater Park
10) Marillion: Misplaced Childhood

Radiohead, the techno/ electronica, whiny vocals, etc, etc. I've listened to these three albums and there is not a track I can say I really like. Not my cup of tea.

Magma and Cardiacs, despite some attempts, Zeuhl and RIO subcategories of Prog just don't appeal to me.

Marillion, not that I can't stomach them, I just have always found them to be boring. Which may be a worst fate.

Opeth, The growls just spoil it. Which is a shame. There's actually good music here. I do try to ignore the growls for the music, but the growls are nails on a chalkboard.

The Mars Volta, I refer you to Valdez's post above.



Edited by Big Sky - 8 hours 10 minutes ago at 00:31
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Originally posted by Big Sky Big Sky wrote:


Opeth, The growls just spoil it. Which is a shame. There's actually good music here. I do try to ignore the growls for the music, but the growls are nails on a chalkboard.
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Opeth has released 5 album with no growls. What about those?! Smile
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Originally posted by Big Sky Big Sky wrote:

1) Radiohead: OK Computer
2) Radiohead: Kid A
3) Radiohead: The Bends
4) The Mars Volta: De-loused in the Comatorium
5) The Mars Volta: Frances the Mute
6) Magma: Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
7) Magma: 1001 Centigrades
8) Cardiacs: Sing to God
9) Opeth: Blackwater Park
10) Marillion: Misplaced Childhood

Radiohead, the techno/ electronica, whiny vocals, etc, etc. I've listened to these three albums and there is not a track I can say I really like. Not my cup of tea.

Magma and Cardiacs, despite some attempts, Zeuhl and RIO subcategories of Prog just don't appeal to me.

Marillion, not that I can't stomach them, I just have always found them to be boring. Which may be a worst fate.

Opeth, The growls just spoil it. Which is a shame. There's actually good music here. I do try to ignore the growls for the music, but the growls are nails on a chalkboard.

The Mars Volta, I refer you to Valdez's post above.

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Do you know what mate..... that is a flippin good list; it chimes almost perfectly with my feelings...
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I can get to about the fourth track. Just horrible. Belew + arty minimalism + angular  = Shoot me now.
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I don't think I can manage ten, but two highly regarded albums I've never managed to appreciate are Relayer and ITCOTCK. I also think Fragile is overated, there are a couple of tracks I like but a lot of filler

I have recently come to appreciated Selling England By The Pound, having previously failed to get into it.

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"Great" Albums that You Can't Stomach



You should chew them up a bit before stomaching them... It's easier for digestion TongueLOL



Kidding aside, most of those in those lists, I can't agree with


But Misplaced Chilhood I will agree on... very boring and unbearably chatty/garrulous/talkative, leaving no spce for the instruments


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Edited by Sean Trane - 6 hours 15 minutes ago at 02:26
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Every Opeth album that features honey monster growls
Anything by Art Zoyd
Anything by Radiohead after OK Computer
Anything by King Crimson after In the Wake of Poseidon
Anything by Robert Wyatt
Anything by Henry Cow
Anything by Magma
Anything by the Cardiacs
Anything by The Mars Volta
Anything by Voivod
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Edited by Psychedelic Paul - 4 hours 58 minutes ago at 03:43
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Hi,

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King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic
PFM Storia di un minuto
Mike Oldfield Ommadawn
Gong Radio Gnome Invisible Vol. 3 - You

Le Orme Felona e Sorona
Marillion Script for a Jester's Tear
Miles Davis Bitches Brew
Can Ege Bemyasi

Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Soft Machine - Third (Facelift is horrid but Moon in June is good)
King Crimson - In the Court...(The first and last songs are good, the others meh and Moonchild is bad)
...


I have never really had that issue beyond the first time, when TD's Mysterious Semblance At The Strand of Nightmares scared me senseless, though I'm not sure that the title made a strong difference, and sent me on an internal excursion that was harsh and similar to a Dennis Wheatley novel.

All in all, already being aware of the arts (house with over 40K books of Literature, many of them Portuguese, Brazilian and Spanish writers ... ), I knew that unlike don Juan's comments, a lot of this paper was not ____ ... and thus, after that first time, I no longer had any reactions that harsh to any music, though I have to admit that things like In Camera was a bit on the ... yeah ... side!!!!

To me, a lot of these things were ... just another artist ... just another painting ... just another novel ... just another piece of music ... and thus, the individuality, is the part that brought me to all of them ... and to me, this STILL is, what "progressive" meant and is all about, despite the bizarre numbers used here and there, which is a part of the time and place, but not the original music and where it came from!
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What's with the strange cloudfare insertions appearing in some of the posts on this thread?
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

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I can get to about the fourth track. Just horrible. Belew + arty minimalism + angular  = Shoot me now.

Oh boy, Fripp disciplines and Belew INdisciplines, that's the name of the game.
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