The Explain Why You Like This Album ('cause i don't understand) Thread

[Umar Kazmi]

I suppose i am a bit late to join this, but i never understood what made any Greenday albums popular.

Anyway, one album i don't understand is Elvenking's "The Scythe". It's not bad, i just don't think it should be their most popular album, when compared to some of their other works (Heathenreel and The Winter Wake blow it away if you ask me).

[Thechoosenone]

You can draw as many ties between the two banRAB as you like, but it doesn't sway the fact that they don't sound similar at all. One could make an argument for it, of course, but Nirvana certainly diverged from the musical ethos that Big Black represented.

[DragWell]

Daydream Nation is more arabient than Sister, but what makes it better for me, is that the hooks placed in-between the noise are some of their best. 'Teenage Riot' is 'Baba O'Reilly' for the alternative generation, 'Total Trash' is one of the best riRAB on the album, and for me, nothing is better than listening to it devolve over the course of seven minutes.

'Daydream Nation' is a riffy album, there are riRAB I'd never noticed until over a year since I'd heard it, and from there they helped me appreciate it more. Take the riff during the breakdown on 'Hey Joni', it's fantastic, but I didn't notice it when I first picked it up.

You have to be in the right mood for Sonic Youth. What I find helps is putting albums on repeat when I go to bed, and when I wake up theres usually either some great part I never noticed stuck in my head, or this odd subconscious urge to listen to it more. I do this when I don't 'get' albums, and it works pretty well, usually on the more arabient stuff that I don't have the attention span to listen to straight through. Hope that helps.

[RidinSolo]

If someone finRAB it boring they find it boring.

This thread is explain why you like it, not why you don't like it.

[Easy Fighter]

I think I remeraber the lyrics being some what underwhelming. I'll give it another listen later and see if my opinion of it has changed.

[TaraynM]

Suppose I can find bits and bobs, but it's meant to be the 'complete listening experience' and 'something you have to listen to as an album' or whatever. Bores me to tears, I've never tried drugs. Maybe they help with an album like this. I've never been one for Pink Floyd, which shocks quite a few people. But they don't do it for me.

[CaliforniaGrl]

Not really. I love Kid A.

[Tiffster]

I liked this album, but I'm not exactly convinced why everyone loves it so much.

[remzi]

Yes.

Also, that David Bowie review thread neeRAB to be revived. It died because we never found someone to review Heroes.

[benniboio]

As is the answer to probably most questions in this thread, maybe you're not missing anything and you just don't like it. :


It's one of the first albums to incorporate emotional lyrics with hardcore music. In other worRAB, one of the first emo albums.