post albums that took you more than one listen to apreciate
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post albums that took you more than one listen to apreciate
spirit of eden and trout mask instantly come to mind
but it could probably be said of any challenging/experimental work worth its salt
Death Grips - Everything
the money store
barter 6
O.S.T
white girls make me do weird shit i wouldn't normally do like listen to iron & wine
>>61335576
YES TO SPIRIT OF EDEN!!!
The Dear Hunter acts I-IV, Symphony X the odyssy
![Trout_Mask_Replica[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/Pgp8FNh.png "Trout_Mask_Replica[1].png")
Pretty much all of them
definitely fugazi - repeater, i went into listening to it knowing about minor threat and expecting hardcore punk. then i listened to repeater and was so underwhelmed by turnover i didn't even get through the song
hilariously turnover is now one of my favourite fugazi songs
>>61335594
Death Grips really took a while for me to get into, but I found an appreciation for them after I got into Black Metal, Noise, and other more abrasive genres.
>>61335747
Memes
>>61335576
>>61335747
i've loved tmr since my first listen, however the more i listened the reasons for which i loved it changed.
at first i loved it because it was so rhythmically retarded and made no sense, i was laughing throughout the whole thing it was so ridiculous.
of course i listened more and the more i listened the more it weirdly seemed coherent, which is basically how it goes for everyone
>>61335850
It's not coherent, it's shit.
This album took a few listens to "click".
>>61335902
/nu/ to /mu/ detected
>>61335939
i knew this album was good the first time i heard it but i didn't realize how GOAT it was until Washer came on. ( and Good Morning Captain reinforced that realization)
>>61335902
Bit of a wild shot in the dark here but you don't spend too much time exploring high art in general, do you?
>>61335943
Idk man, if you want to pretend to like a Shiite cacophony of nonsense then that's on you. I think they did way too much Lucy and lost their touch with reality and good music.
>>61335607
>barter 6
Nigga what? Thats mindless pop rap. That dosent need more than one listen to appreciate, unless you are retarded
>>61336048
>what are polyrhythms
Dean Blunt - Babyfather
>>61336014
You're a pretentious fuck. Just because you like shiitily composed music doesn't make you well versed in the arts.
>>61335763
this
i've very rarely given an album 4/5 or higher on the first listen and usually give 4 or 5 before i feel really comfortable with a rating
>>61336087
>shitily composed music
>"lol what a dadaism xd"
>>61336065
A technique that's much better performed on other albums by other artists You guys overrate this album to a delusional level.
>>61336142
>"lol what is dadaism never herd of dat shit xd"
>>61336119
It is. The composition is sloppy, the only impressive aspect is that the band was able to play extremely sloppy but complex riffs to the t. Playing bad and fast music is impressive, but it still sounds like dick
>>61335514
Definitely, glad I went back. Loveless is an all time favorite. Didn't really enjoy it until I listened to Souvlaki.
>>61335747
I've tried this album a few times, just can't really enjoy it.
>>61336202
Jesus Christ you pretentious fuck. Just because a specific concept of avant garde art exists doesn't mean that everyone likes it or sees value in it.
KANYE WEST
YEEZUS
>>61336087
Don't throw the word "pretentious" around like some desperate self-assurance to yourself. It's a transparent crutch. I like both high and low art equally. I'm pretty temperate with my taste. But when you explore high art it helps you inform your ways of seeing and you are able to work with creative abstraction at far more nuanced levels than you were previously able. In fact exploring high art can give you tools to better read and resonate with low art too, so it's incredibly useful.
I'm not going to placate your intellectual misgivings. If you really want to be well-versed in the arts then you have to grind for it. Anything else is bullshit and quite literally pretense within itself.
>>61336286
this is actually true
>>61336293
And having an air of superiority because of a genre you appreciate that someone else doesn't is textbook pretentiousness. Just because I don't like it doesn't make me inferior, it means I don't like it.
>>61336391
nah man you've just got intellectual misgivings
>>61336014
damn...
>>61336446
You seriously couldn't be anymore of a self important faggot.
>>61336517
I was being sarcastic, I don't care for TMR at all.
>>61336391
>Just because I don't like it doesn't make me inferior, it means I don't like it.
You aren't inferior - just naive.
You are naive because you try to pass judgement on works of high art yet you cannot bring yourself to (rightly) admit that you barely invest any real time into high art to begin with.
>>61336569
>Ending a sentence with a preposition.
>>61336569
Let me get this straight fuckstick. You think that not liking TMR means that someone has no appreciation for high art? Really is that what you're sayin right now?
>>61336604
In the aero plane over the G
>>61336645
I am speaking about you personally.
I think this is all grandstanding for you and behind it all you barely if ever explore it, yes.
>>61336603
Wow you sound like a giant fag dude
>TMR
>high art
>>61336793
I always expect at least one triggered anon from a post like that. Anon here really don't like to be reminded that they are dilettantes. They'd much rather hate on normies and their "shit taste". It's all one big echo chamber joke.
>>61336906
This album is objectively shit
>>61336063
What if you just haven't listened to it enough times?
but seriously, I find that most albums take a few listens before my enjoyment and thematic understanding of the art plateaus. Most of Death in June's ouvre, despite being almost compositionally regressive, takes a few listens to really feel.
>>61336899
TMR is not high art you stupid faggot. The guy you just responded to wasn't me either.
I didn't really like this album at first. The only songs I liked were Money Shot and Grand Canyon, but then I grew to love Agostina, Smoke and Mirrors, Galileo, etc.
It's a pretty good album.
I didn't have the right mindset when I first heard it I guess
>>61337008
>objective
Reddit please
>>61337087
>TMR is not high art you stupid faggot.
Yes, but there is a level of creative abstraction going on in that work that you're going to have an easier time with if you've been exploring high art in general. And it's really only popular music by technicality. That work and others like it could be considered high art in their own regard. The line blurs depending on the person. Charlie Chaplin could be said to have only ever made low art but he was also one of the greatest humanist forces that cinema has ever known and raised the bar in his craft in many inimitable ways. Things are never completely set in stone.
Used to think Amnesiac was the worst Radiohead album aside from Pablo Honey and now it is my favorite.
>>61335620
iktf
at first I thought it was neat but after going through a hellish year long depression I listened to the album again, as well as the rest of their stuff, and it clicked perfectly. It captures *that* so well
>>61335939
still waiting for it to click. there are some nice guitar sounds but I feel like I'm totally missing something
>>61336906
So goddamn good.
>>61338841
"nice guitar sounds" raves anon, 2015
>>61337155
I can't get into this one, I don't know what it is.
>>61338905
Don't feel bad, Brand New is overrated as fuck on this board
>for years I would only listen to the first track
>and then Cop Shoot Cop... popped up on shuffle
that trumpet sound in the middle of the noise freakout is like something out of a Boschian hellscape
>>61335620
Hannibal is a musical messiah.
>>61339190
it doesn't help that the first track doesn't really start until minute 4 and the second track is just static for the first 10 seconds.
>>61336286
True. People who were used to kanyes pop rap were to quick to call it wack.
>>61339405
Well that's because it's a continuation of The Glow Part 2
Also it was 100% meant to be listened to with headphones
>>61338321
Tell Me More
>>61337225
This is my AOTY after Holter and Geyser Bastion. I fully support the notion that this album needs a few listens to click. Whilst I truly enjoyed it my first listen, nothing stood out. There's barey any repeating lines or chorus'.
It's just Earl's life rapped out in one massive verse and it's genius. My favourite rap album ever.
>>61338932
Kill yourself
>>61338905
Listen to it when you're manic and/or feeling nihilistic and it'll click.
I still remember the time You Won't Know finally clicked and made my life that much bleaker.
MBDTF
Unknown Pleasures
And from this year: Clarence Clarity - No Now. Seriously, I missed out on a ton of hooks even after two consecutive listens.
>>61339576
>Listen to it when you're manic and/or feeling nihilistic
>finally clicked and made my life that much bleaker.
Brand New is a highschool tier pop punk relic that doesn't belong on /mu/
It's just a shitty remnant of /mu/'s 5-years-too-late emo and awful >tfw no gf phase
You're a faggot
>>61335514
most AnCo
most Nico
...And the Ambulance Died in his Arms
>>61339666
Thank you
someone had to fucking say it
I didn't hate it the first listen, but damn did it take a while to settle into this.
>>61339666
please slit your wrists already your friends and family will thank you
The opening track especially pissed me off. It bored me. I got into Being There before I was able to get into this one. Guess I just had to ease myself into them. One day this album finally made sense to me and I love it. Solid 8/10 maybe even 9/10 in my opinion.
>>61337225
This is nice to see. I've only listened to it a couple of times and decided I didn't like it. I really wanted to like it. Seeing it here makes me want to listen to it a couple more times. I hope I end up liking it.
>>61339768
Just like every Brand New album this retort belongs in a dusty, edgy looking cardboard box in the back room of Hot Topic
>>61339555
Is Humble Cannons actually good? I thought it was a meme.
>>61339728
YES.
Really complex, too.
>>61339827
Holy shit this fucking burn
>>61339529
about what?
>>61339519
I just meant that it's not exactly the best album for someone starting out with Microphones
>>61339828
it is. the aussie is promoting his crap.
>>61336293
What is this fucking pretentious garbage you just typed.
>>61339933
TELL ME MORE
>>61339600
i used to HATE this album when i was younger, now its the only slayer album i care about lmao
>>61339828
Yeah I love it. Especially the last quater hate mt dedede though
>>61340589
Sick album
I love the cover art as well
>>61335514
I truly appreciate it until the third listening
>>61340135
It's the truth outside of this hipster hugbox.
That's why it's triggering you so violently.
>>61340802
Nigga, you literally wrote out a paragraph that sounded like it came straight from Piero Scaruffi's blog, and you expect people to take you seriously
That's why I'm triggered
>>61340855
>Nigga, you literally wrote out a paragraph
A few sentences that took no time at all? Come on.
And Pierro Scarrufi is so pretentious that he leaps through mental gymnastics to arrive at the critic being the ultimate artist. He's an ass.
Actually read that post again, it's pretty fair. How is the suggestion that it's useful to invest time in both low and high art pretentious? I think if you're really triggered it's an ego issue over the kind of erudition would like to think yourself as having vs. the real amount of grinding it would take to really warrant that feeling.
