Well, how about an album you start off liking on track 1, then by the last track you are glad that it's over?
― Mark G, Monday, 31 October 2011 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, in recent years I've gotten better at separating dross from awesome.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 October 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
I really can't understand/fathom viewing Disintegration that way, especially in the face of some of the later Cure albums (looking at WMS especially) (which actually would have been a good candidate for this thread, only in that case it was the more I listened to it, the less I liked it).
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Monday, 31 October 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
As the first Cure album I owned, it sounded less and less interesting with each subsequent purchase, and its reputation now is one of those facts with which we gotta deal, like the continued existence of Taco Bell. Both have this in common: they're discovered and frequented by college students.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 October 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
The Kaiser Chiefs singles off their first album
― Peas, Ants, Pigs & Astronauts (PaulTMA), Monday, 31 October 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/SiteNewAnswersControllerServlet
― Mayne of Fules (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 October 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
(sorry)
Both have this in common: they're discovered and frequented by college students.
I've been picking so longAt these nachos of yoursThat I almost believeThat they're real
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 31 October 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
Anyway how dare you impugn the memory of something that came out in spring of 1989 when I was in the final quarter of my freshman year at UCLA and oh wait.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 31 October 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
no one believes Taco Bell food is real, only that it it DELICIOUS
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Monday, 31 October 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
Robert should have given the rights to the song to them instead of H-P, he'd still be getting money today.
There is nothing left but beans
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 31 October 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
I liked some Cranberries song the first time I heard it, does that count?
― Mayne of Fules (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 October 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
In the dormsThis meat is greyIn the dormsThe salsa coats my tongue...
Etc etc ANYWAY
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 31 October 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
It's in your head.
I think Disintegration was the 4th Cure album I owned (after KMKMKM, Boys Don't Cry and Japanese Whispers) so I had a sense of their range well before I heard that album.
xp: lol Cranberries! They should be everyone's answer to thread, except "Linger" was terrible from the get-go and "Zombie" exists in a zone of pure hilarity for me now.
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Monday, 31 October 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
The Crans charmed with their songs full of naivety. Eventually we worked it it wasn't faux-naivety, it was that they actually thought themselves profound.
evidence:1)You got me wrapped around your finger, do you have to let it linger.Crap/obvious rhyme.
2) Oh my dreams, are never quite as it seemsAlso crap/obvious rhyme
Then came the bad ones...
― Mark G, Monday, 31 October 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
Can someone clarify the premise here? Is it that you liked a thing at the time but then it and everything associated with it become horrible over time? Or that you liked a thing then realized it was the worst example of that thing and all the other things were much better. It seems to be: "I liked Everclear at the time, but now realize they are crap" but the Strangeways example is throwing me - you liked Strangeways, but now think it's the least successful Smiths LP? Or you liked Strangeways and found all the other Smiths material crap and now dislike Strangeways as well?
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Monday, 31 October 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
Surfer Blood's LP.
― skip, Monday, 31 October 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
you liked Strangeways, but now think it's the least successful Smiths LP
This is my position, only it is understated; I think Strangeways is a terrible misconception/miscalculation of what made The Smiths appealing to me in the first place. Literally everything else The Smiths released towers above it.
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Monday, 31 October 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
muse's absolution
let me tell you about a band that doesn't withstand relistening, even if you like them at the time
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Monday, 31 October 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
Okay because this seems to have gone in the direction of...I loved [x] but everything else they did was crap so now I can't listen to it. Which is not your original intention. I was just confused because "I really liked Strangeways but couldn't get into any other Smiths" would be, like, the most minority opinion about something musical ever.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Monday, 31 October 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
lol once again Cranberries ruined something
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Monday, 31 October 2011 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
I think its:
I liked it at first listen, but then I played it again and with familiarity I lost interest.
― Mark G, Monday, 31 October 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
familiarity and/or exposure to other items in the back catalog
also sometimes you lose interest in the entire band rather than that one album/song
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Monday, 31 October 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
As an example of:
Well, how about an album you start off liking on track 1, then by the last track you are glad that it's over?― Mark G, Monday, 31 October 2011 14:26 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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I quite liked the Fiery Furnaces' "Ep" Cd, lots of tracks. Track 1 I liked, but by the time I got 3/4 way through, I was like Nooh Stoppp!
― Mark G, Monday, 31 October 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
The Audio Bullys album sort of did that to me.
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Monday, 31 October 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
i.e. I've been looking so long at these albums by you and I almost believed they were real.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 October 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
This could not be more OTM, and I think their third album was the point where it became extremely obvious. 'Salvation' has to be the most pointless anti-drug song ever written. "To all those kids doing lines/don't do it". Really, Delores? It's really that simple? For EVERYBODY? It's like if someone wrote a song with the lyric "It's easy to quit smoking/you just don't put a cigarette in your mouth/and light it".
― Turrican, Monday, 31 October 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
Sigur Ros.
― Mum-Ra Gaddafi the Ever-Living (dog latin), Monday, 31 October 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
Nope, that was almost a good line.
― Mark G, Monday, 31 October 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
Recently, Deer Tick, unfortunately
Palace Brothers
M Ward (who I have grown to despise)
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 31 October 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
I said it on another thread - M. Ward has gone from God to tool in my eyes. It actually makes me angry how lousy his most recent stuff sounds.
― Mum-Ra Gaddafi the Ever-Living (dog latin), Monday, 31 October 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
^ haven't listened since "Vincent", still love the guylalalalalala
― ...options. (Ówen P.), Monday, 31 October 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
Mike Joyce says the he can state unequivocally that the favorite album of ever member of the band was Strangeways on the radio show linked here: The Miracle of the Smiths
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 November 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
Definitely the Palace brothers stuff! Yikes. And Mogwai too.
After reading the doom metal thread I remembered that both Boris and Pelican both worked like this for me. How I (now) hate those bands, let me count the ways... well, Boris isn't all bad but I totally don't have time for them.
― liam fennell, Sunday, 13 November 2011 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
Almost liked a Florence and the Machine song I heard on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve but then it felt like The Cranberries all over again.
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
― Mum-Ra Gaddafi the Ever-Living (dog latin), Monday, October 31, 2011 1:04 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
absolutely 1,000% OTMFM
― wad of baloney (Eisbaer), Saturday, 28 January 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
What albums have worked like this for you? The first one that springs to mind for me is Dead Milkmen's Bucky Fellini. I'm sure there are more.
kinda like the films of that record's namesake ... but that discussion's for another ILX board i suppose
― wad of baloney (Eisbaer), Saturday, 28 January 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
Holy Crap, this is amazing! Actually, no hold on.. it's shite!
― nostormo, Saturday, 28 January 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
WTF? Bucky Fellini is a fantastic album. It's probably the best Dead Milkmen album, and when I listen to it, I''m stunned by how great and unrecognized it is.
― Poliopolice, Saturday, 28 January 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, but you'll dance to ANYTHING. (Sorry, had to do it.)
― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 28 January 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link