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Originally Posted by Ian E Coleman
I find this album is like a snowball that someone gently let off the side of Mt. Everest. You start off maybe a little bit bored with it and you can live with it but you'd rather be listening to Able. After forcing yourself to listen to it again and again, it starts to grow on you until it's all you can listen to. Suddenly some poor Tibetan has been crushed by a ball of snow the size of the moon.
At least that was my experience the first time I listened to it. Probably others liked it right off the start.
And it's a good album too.
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Good thread.
And I wholeheartedly agree with above post. I actually listened to this around the time that it first came out. A big fan of Boxer, I bought it straightaway. At the time, however, I found the increased slow pacing to be offputting. It was moodier than any record I'd ever heard, and hence I found it 'difficult' to really like.
I returned to this album a couple of days ago, as it was an album that I had actually bought and so it felt as if I ought to try to make the most of it rather than discard it entirely. To my surprise, this time round the songs all felt eerily familiar. Some of them are truly brilliant, my favourite being Anyone's Ghost which I feel is a stroke of genius. The feelings, as expressed by the lyrics and perfectly complemented by the music, are so visceral you can almost touch them. The overall result is an impressive feat of songwriting by any standards.
I can understand somebody finding this difficult to get into, but once it 'clicks' so to speak, you feel baffled over why you never loved it to begin with.