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....I know a lot of people love the talking heads, so I'll try to be respectful. This album has some solid grooves(crosseyed and painless for one)....the difference between this and parliament though is parliament sounds like they're actually having fun.Yeah the main culprit in my heavy dislike of the heads is david byrne...it's like having to listen robin williams or a mad scientist front a funk band....It's like your listening to a solid afro-beat album but having your anthropology prof talk over it.

...Yeah I'll admit that the music is kind of interesting and they're pretty innovative...there's just such a heavy prescence of art-school pretension...courtesy of david byrne, that drives me away.

"once in a lifetime" is the most cringe inducing song ever.

Heh, you pretty much described the reason they appeal to me right there.

...what's with the early 80's and people that sing like mad scientists?:thomas dolby, devo, b-52's...etc..to give him credit thomas dolby actually was a scientist.

Albums that people seem to love, that you don't.
 

Apologies if this has already been done, and it probably has been but I couldn't find a thread.

But..

What are them albums that everyone seemed to love that you either can't stand/hate/dislike or never 'got'?

Mine..

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My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

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Velvet Underground & Nico - Andy Warhol

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Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible (although, I like this a lot more these days. Still not crazy over it though.)

anything by Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, or The Smiths.

Ok you are not starting a thread like this and your first post for it is Loveless????

Now, I know to each his own...but damn, man.

And I know I am now proving your point. But, for shame...

:( This makes me sad.

I just don't like it, distorted guitar riffs, where you can't hear the singer or the lyrics. No drums either. It's more a matter of not getting it than hate..

What's the big deal with it? Mediocre at best for me.

but i love Loveless so we're even hahaha

That's just ONE album. You hate 3 brilliant Smiths albums!

3-1, I will find 2 other albums you love, and hate on them. Just to spite you.

I can see where you are coming from...but I still to this day consider Loveless to be the ultimate "I get it!!!" album. I hated it first time I heard it...I heard tiny hints of amazing melodies that I just wanted to be more clear, and nothing was ever as defined as I wanted it to be. But then I got it, I guess. I could all the sudden hear those melodies and loved that he could create them in such a mess of guitars. The music is meant to be heard as a big amorphous sound...the songs are entities within themselves.

Well, you get the idea...I doubt it will change your mind. At least you like the Smiths. You saved yourself on that one.