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AlmostHearYouSigh
London Calling - always on greatest album ever lists. I bought it 15 years ago, played it and never opened the CD case ever again. Not sure why this is considered a great album. Was it something unique at the time - like punk?
This is just one man's opinion
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Elmo Lewis
I know this blasphemy to some, but I just can't listen to Van's Astral Weeks.
I love most of his other albums.
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Elmo Lewis
I know this blasphemy to some, but I just can't listen to Van's Astral Weeks.
I love most of his other albums.
I had exactly the same feeling about Astral Weeks.
I thought it was everybody at random the first time I heard it (what it also is), but after many repeated listens, all of a sudden, I heard the brilliance.
This album was an enigma to me, I had to know what all the fuss was about.
I think you really need to know the album (nearly by heart) to enjoy it. Well, for me anyway.
But still, it’s no Moondance.
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AlmostHearYouSigh
London Calling - always on greatest album ever lists. I bought it 15 years ago, played it and never opened the CD case ever again. Not sure why this is considered a great album. Was it something unique at the time - like punk?
This is just one man's opinion
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GasLightStreet
PET SOUNDS. Didn't even make it to a second spin - out the window.
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GasLightStreet
PET SOUNDS. Didn't even make it to a second spin - out the window.
Glad someone shares my experience...
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achtung baby
maybe theyre not classics, but i was well into them and then i lost interest as i did with u2 altogether, apart from the early stuff and live at redrocks. dont dig them much these days, they just lost everything that made them great, they retained none of it unlike other bands.
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AlmostHearYouSigh
London Calling - always on greatest album ever lists. I bought it 15 years ago, played it and never opened the CD case ever again. Not sure why this is considered a great album. Was it something unique at the time - like punk?
This is just one man's opinion
What a pity.
It´s great because it´s not punk.
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Hairball
Blue and Lonesome. Wouldn't say it's 'Blue and Boring' or 'Boring and Lonesome' as others have called it, but it didn't have any staying power - after all they were standard/simplistic covers.
Liked the first a couple of singles prior to full release and still do (especially live) but once I heard the whole album it was quite anticlimactic. After a week or two, shelved...the thrill was gone.
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Hairball
Blue and Lonesome. Wouldn't say it's 'Blue and Boring' or 'Boring and Lonesome' as others have called it, but it didn't have any staying power - after all they were standard/simplistic covers.
Liked the first a couple of singles prior to full release and still do (especially live) but once I heard the whole album it was quite anticlimactic. After a week or two, shelved...the thrill was gone.
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WorriedAboutYou
Hate Neil Young's voice.
Everything by Pink Floyd.
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WorriedAboutYou
Hate Neil Young's voice.
Everything by Pink Floyd.
I have never heard of either of these classic albums.