CDs I only listened to once, despite rave reviews...

Excellent thread idea !

Janis Joplin's reissue of "Pearl"

cheers
Stefan

Blue Nile - can't remember the title of the CD

See recent thread "saint-saens 3rd symphony"!

Radiohead: Hail To The Thief

I'd made the jump to Kid A and Amnesiac so was anticipating the next step. Fell absolutely flat for me. Gutted.

Bruce

Andrew

Sorry, no intention to hijack your thread, pure coincidence. I was playing music last night, scanning the collection and the idea came.

Guy

Blue Nile for me also:- Peace at Last

Q magazine gave it 5 stars, hence the reason I bought it. Learned from the lesson though!

Steve D

Rickie Lee Jones - The Evening Of My Best Day

Got raving reviews on this forum. I just don't get it.

Peter

Peter

I thought it was pants on first listening and filed it away. Six months later I tried it again and loved it.

Nigel

The new Coldplay one and also Brian Wilson - Smile. I think I also have some CD's which I have never listened to (mostly freebies).

People raved about Sigur Ros - bought the CD in a white plastic outer, tried it once - not my taste at all.

Brad

Hi Guy, my intention was to nudge people laterally (if only briefly!).
The thought of thread hijack had not entered my head.
Cheers Andy.

Damien Rice 'O'

I'm starting to find that if an album has a sticker on the front that looks something like this.......
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"Fantastic" - Time Out
"Superb" - Mixmag
"This years best Album" - Select
"Magnificent" - NME
"Welcome to the future of Rock 'n' Roll" - Sunday Times
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....its usually shite.

Jonathan

Scissor Sisters.
Radiohead OK Computer.
Blue Nile A Walk Across the Rooftops (LP).

Just like equipment reviews, there's really no way of knowing until you've heard it for yourself.

Cheers

Harry

Kaki King's "Everybody Loves You"
Madeline Peyroux' "Careless Love"

I don't get what the bru-ha-ha is about either one, but that's just me.

Norman

I agree Harry

Music is like food or wine, people can describe it all they like, offer analagies and similes but until you've tested it yourself you don't know if the blend will work for you.

Guy

Once I don't listen to:-

Alan Lomax
Daimian Rice - 'O'
Van Lear Rose - Loretta Lynn & guy from white stripes

One's I do:-
Scissor Sisters (but even better live)
Antonny and the Johnsons
Goldfrap - Supernature
Sparks - Lil Beethoven

Ones rated crap that I like:-
Almost all Philip Glass

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Originally posted by Bruce Woodhouse:
Radiohead: Hail To The Thief

I'd made the jump to Kid A and Amnesiac so was anticipating the next step. Fell absolutely flat for me. Gutted.

Bruce

I have Kid A and Amnesiac which I like a lot, I have been trying to track down an old album of theirs I fell asleep to on my mates floor in a very drunken state
Thought it was OK Computer which I bought and didnt like even considering its supposed to be one of the best albums in the world, but sorry wasnt to my taste, got the Bends a couple of weeks later and was more impressed, still not the album though

John

Third vote for Smile.

About the tenth for Blue Nile.

Cant claim the Eno does a lot for me.

Most Classical music since about 1960!


Martin

I can't be doing with Shania Twain.

(As Patricia Routledge might have said)

Jeff Buckley - Grace, too whiny by half, and another vote for Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love, thought that was a godawful CD.

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I have been trying to track down an old album of theirs I fell asleep to on my mates floor in a very drunken state

Sicey, that will be Pablo Honey.

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Originally posted by bazz:
Jeff Buckley - Grace, too whiny by half

Seconded, the man has a voice that's less appealing that chalk on a blackboard (duck for cover ).

On a slightly different note, Simon Rattle's Beethoven symphony cycle (with the VPO). It slightly doesn't count because I listened to it twice before I sold it (it cost a lot and had such good reviews and turned out to be very boring).


regards,

Tam

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Originally posted by Bruce Woodhouse:

quote:

I have been trying to track down an old album of theirs I fell asleep to on my mates floor in a very drunken state

Sicey, that will be Pablo Honey.

Ta, Bruce

Jeff Buckley - Sacrilege only joking guys...each to their own

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Jeff Buckley - Grace

Absolutely - I fail to see what people get so excited about.

As for Tim Buckley however, total genius.

Nigel

I've had a similar debate on a completely unrelated (football) forum and one of the things that utterly bewildered me is why would anyone want to spend thousands on a system and then buy music that they only listen to once? I don't get that at all. Much of the stuff I have loved over the years is stuff I have grown to love rather than been won over by its immediacy. Indeed immediacy is now something of a warning sign to me in itself.

I can agree with plenty of the ones mentioned here like Smile, Grace, Peace At Last etc. On first listen I was non-plussed by all three but given time (and often a very big gap to play number two) I have learnt that the middle section of Smile is probably as flawless as modern music ever got; that Jeff Buckley is over-rated as a songwriter and awesome but uninvolving as a singer and that the Blue Nile will never again make an album as great as the first two but can still pen a great song.

Antony is but the latest manifestation of the "ugh, I don't like that" having listened to it once brigade.

We all have different tastes but surely we must somewhere along the line acknowledgement that our appreciation of great music is not necessarily so honed that we can make an instant judgement and be right every time? Surely if we could all do that we'd all be millionaires by now?

All IMHO of course.

Mike