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        I’m really into some artists that cite him as a major inspiration and influence. So it baffles me too.

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          I find with stuff like this it’s important to understand the context of when it first came out. Had a neighbor say he didn’t get the appeal of the Ramones because a lot of bands sound similar. I told him when the Ramones came out NOBODY sounded like that. Another is David Letterman. By the time he retired he was nothing special but when he first started it was groundbreaking.

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      I can understand, stylistically he’s a chameleon and I only like his work from certain periods.

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      How can you say something so controversial, yet so true?!

      Bowie isn’t fantastic. Neither is Bill Murrey or Betty White. They are just people that have been grasped onto by social media and exemplified. It helps if they’ve died and get a “martyr” image too.

      I mean some Bowie stuff is good, Life on Mars, Lets dance… But he’s just a British Melloncamp.

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    Villains by Queens of the Stone Age.

    …like clockwork (the previous album) is top 3 for me and may be my all time favorite at any given moment. But the follow-up was just not what I was looking for.

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      Every other queens of the stone age record is an instant classic. They’re probably my favorite band and I genuinely dislike half their stuff.

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      Yes!! Exactly this one for me too. I love Clockwork so much, this was weird.

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        So glad to not be alone on this. It felt unfocused. I think working with Mark Ronson gave Homme a bit too much leeway to make an album that tried to hard to be cool.

        It somehow went over the ironic/unironic line that Queens has always danced around.

        Like Clockwork has moments that veered towards camp and cheese but never felt insincere or cloying.

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      I only like the albums they did with dave grohl on drums, the rest just don’t seem to hit for me.

      I’m pretty sure that’s only songs for the deaf and a few songs on like clockwork. I can’t get into any of their other stuff.

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    The latest Tool album.

    I can’t even remember the name, but it felt like a lot of noise from an alley full of garbage cans. I don’t know if I finished listening to it.

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      I’ve grown in the same direction and think it’s their best work but I can also totally see how people who liked the earlier stuff might fall off hard.

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    Pink Floyd - Animals

    I like everything else by Pink Floyd quite a bit, just not the album Animals.

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      I’m the opposite, Animals and Piper at the Gates of Dawn are the only Pink Floyd albums I like.

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        Piper at the Gates of Dawn?

        Hell, I’ve got 12 Pink Floyd albums archived, but I don’t have that one. Honestly I don’t think I’ve even heard of it before.

        My favorite Pink Floyd album is The Division Bell. Strangely enough, not long after that became my favorite album, I actually found a pristine copy of it on CD in the ditch on a bicycle ride. No case, just the CD, but very luckily no scratches either.

        You better bet your ass I ripped that album that evening, to raw uncompressed WAV audio. And yes, I stuck it somewhere on the Internet Archive…

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      As far as I’m concerned, there is literally one song in Animals and that one song kicks all other Pink Floyd songs out of the water

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      The only album I’ve ever owned as a 12” vinyl, cassette tape, 8 track ceramic cartridge and CD. I now have it stored as flac files on a hardrive.

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    Not a specific album, but 90% of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s releases. They always sound intriguing at first but end up being mediocre.

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      Yeah, I really like Polygondwanaland and Flying Microtonal Banana. The rest, save for one other album (don’t recall which one) I just can’t get into. They have cranked out so many albums exploring, but not mastering, so many genres that it’s not surprising to be underwater on the K/D ratio.

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      Same here. I really enjoy Nonagon Infinity but haven’t been able to get into any other album of theirs.

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    I heard “Through Glass” by Stone Sour, and I liked it so much that I bought the full album. That ended up being the only song of theirs I liked.

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    Similar answer to a different question.

    Something that I liked at first but now dislike.

    Decades ago (stone cold sober no less) I really liked Pink Floyd.

    Now I just find it difficult to sit through. I want something a bit faster pace.

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      Oh yeah, I get that.

      They’re def a band for a bar with old (souled) people that want time dilation.

      But sometimes you want to live 2 seconds for every second. That’s not pink floyd.

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    Joe’s Garage by Frank Zappa

    Ok Computer by Radiohead

    I’m still not sure if I liked Tommy by The Who or not.

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      Joe’s Garage, damn. One of my favorites. What didn’t you like about it? Does any other Zappa resonate with you?

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        I actually haven’t listened to any other Zappa albums, but probably will at some point.

        I love the titular track, so I was excited to listen to the whole thing, but I think I found it 30 years too late. I get he was trying to go Reefer Madness style with his Central Scrutinizer telling a parable of how rock music leads to self-destruction, but the jokes just fell flat for me.

        Obviously the nice girl who ended up having to do wet t-shirt contests to get home, the gay prison sex, the robot sex, saying Africans don’t have record players, etc. were all supposed to be absurd, but it’s very 70s humor that nowadays feels more denigrating than biting satire. I also didn’t really get him corpsing in the voiceovers: I’m guessing it was supposed to be a reminder not to take the story seriously, but I personally found it distracting.

        I did find it cool that he mixed solos from his live shows into his songs, but it wasn’t enough to save it for me. It’s like when you go back and watch older movies or tv shows, and suddenly something just blatantly racist or sexist just pops up and immediately dates it way more than the technical aspects do.

        In short, it feels like Zappa is trying way too hard to be edgy, and it sucked the life out of the album for me. The opening song still slaps, though.

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          I did find it cool that he mixed solos from his live shows into his songs

          IIRC all songs on Joe’s Garage except one have the solos recorded separately (xenochrony). You gotta give Watermelon in Easter Hay a second chance, that’s possibly my favorite Zappa song ever.

          Apostrophe is a good one to check out next.

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    The Mars Volta in general. Tons of friends have recommended them to me after hearing some of what I listen to, and it’s just not my jam. On paper I should, but alas.

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    This is not exactly answering the question asked, but I loved the album What It Is to Burn by Finch. If you could wear out CDs by playing them, I would have worn that one out. I bought their second album as soon as it came out without ever hearing a single song. I assumed I would love every song on the second album the same as the first. They had completely changed their style. It was maybe not awful, but it definitely wasn’t my style. I literally ended up using it under the leg of a wobbly table.

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    My War by Black Flag.

    “I must hear this album that singlehandedly inspired entire swathes of the punk and later grunge movements!”

    It’s bad. No, not unlikeable, but it’s an album full of songs that you and your friends could probably come up with after a single night of drinking in a shitty basement. There isn’t anything that screams genius or promise or talent.

    I’ve listened to it a few times and I just don’t get what our early grunge ancestors were vibing to all those millennia ago.