though I liked it on initial exposure, every subsequent thing I encountered just made it seem weaker and less inspired and just overall terrible

I liked it at first listen, but then I played it again and with familiarity I lost interest.

i.e. I've been looking so long at these albums by you and I almost believed they were real.

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.

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".

Sigur Ros.

Nope, that was almost a good line.

Recently, Deer Tick, unfortunately

Palace Brothers

M Ward (who I have grown to despise)

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.

^ haven't listened since "Vincent", still love the guylalalalalala

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

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.

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.

Sigur Ros.

― 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

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

Holy Crap, this is amazing! Actually, no hold on.. it's shite!

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.

Yeah, but you'll dance to ANYTHING. (Sorry, had to do it.)