[cryptowonderdruginvogue]

Originally Posted by luxinterior

I quite obviously don't agree with your assessment of the 40 Licks package, but I do have to say that their greatest hits don't do them justice. Most people have heard every song about 10 billion times, and not by choice. I don't consider it trash, I just think it's overplayed, which may be just as bad as trash. So how could it possibly be enjoyable for you to sit down and listen to 40 Licks? You're just asking to be disappointed, and you know it.

I mean every popular rock band that has been around long enough has had their same big hits repackaged in various forms. I really don't know why people gravitate toward these. They're boring. Basically I think Bruce McCulloch was right when he said, "Greatest hits albums are for housewives and little girls."

Concerning the Rolling Stones in particular, I also don't understand how their longevity can irritate so many people to such a great degree. When's the last time anyone has been forced to listen to any of their output from the past 20 years or so? Or attend an overpriced concert? Yet this is what people choose to complain about--usually people who don't even like the band, period, so go figure. Is it the fans? I can sort of understand that. They're all a bunch of raging alcoholics.

It doesn't bother me when people say they don't like the Rolling Stones, given that they've actually listened to the band beyond 40 Licks. I mean it's no substitute for Beggar's Banquet or Exile, is all I'm saying. And if you don't like either of those records or any of the others, that's fine, at least you have something to base your opinion on. An opinion I don't agree with, I might add, but at least one that is informed. I think my overall point is that I consider myself to be a fan of theirs, however none of my most favorite songs can be found on 40 Licks. It's just been exhausted, kind of like the talk of the albums from Beggar's through Exile has been exhausted. Still, I don't think that the little songs that I like have ever really gotten their due, even though a lot of them are on Exile, and people can't seem to shut up about Exile. Those songs are why I like them. You can have 40 Licks for all I care.

I know it sounds silly to defend them, of all bands, because they are rich and have everything they could ever want, but they also seem to attract so many opinions (good and bad) from people who really don't know what they're talking about.

i really like the stones
i love satanic majasties, flowers, between the buttons, aftermath.
i dig let it bleed, beggars banquet, and sticky fingers
but i just cant seem to get into Exile
i dont know why

[demonrail666]

I have a friend who rates the Stones, but who also doesn't like Exile much. Tis a perverse world we live in.

[luxinterior]

Originally Posted by cryptowonderdruginvogue

i really like the stones
i love satanic majasties, flowers, between the buttons, aftermath.
i dig let it bleed, beggars banquet, and sticky fingers
but i just cant seem to get into Exile
i dont know why

Exile may be my favorite...it has a bunch of the little songs that I like, as opposed to the Brown Sugar sort of stuff. For me it's hard to get tired of. Beggar's is sort of that way too, only shorter. Both just stand out to me, even though there are plenty of little songs on all the others. I'm not going to try to convince you or anyone else to like Exile. When I first bought it, I didn't listen to it much. And when I did, I skipped a lot of tracks. All the other albums I liked immediately. Years later, Exile is the one that I like to play all the way through every time. I don't know why/how that happened. I wasn't trying to get myself to like it more. One day I just listened to the albums of theirs that I owned, because it felt like I hadn't in quite a while, and Exile was the one I kept in the player. There are plenty of non-Rolling Stones albums that has happened with also.

[ZEROpumpkins]

Originally Posted by HECKLER SPRAY

Psychocandy by Jesus And Mary Chain : I like noise but this album bores me. I find the big reverb very crapy, and the whole sound recording of this album is worst than the firsts Pavement EP's recordings, or Lou Barlow's Lofi tracks, which I love.

Whoah how did I forget Psychocandy? It's too hard to hear anything except the bass.

[hotbutterknives]

anything from Led Zeppelin, i can't stand it

[LittlePuppetBoy]

Sgt Peppers didn't really interest me (then again, I only listened to it once). I don't understand why people think it's a "super psychedelic" album.

[badgercorn]

Sgt Peppers is nowhere near as good as Revolver or The White Album in my opinion, I like it but don't think it deserves as much praise.

I might get some hassle for this: The Boatman's Call by Nick Cave.

I don't know what it is about it, I love most of the other albums, and three or four songs on The Boatman's Call are utter genius, but I can't get into it as a whole...

[k-krack]

Originally Posted by LittlePuppetBoy

Sgt Peppers didn't really interest me (then again, I only listened to it once). I don't understand why people think it's a "super psychedelic" album.

Shit album. There's like, one good song. (Within You Without You).

[Green Magnesium]

Almost anything from The Beatles, Nirvana, Weezer and Radiohead. Not just albums, but their entire back catalogues of music. Although I can tolerate The Beatles to a degree.

[kingcoffee]

Man, you guys are boring! How can you not like Nirvana or Radiohead? I can understand Weezer, they suck. But Nirvana was great and so were Radiohead.
I guess to each his own and all, but damn. Oh well. Whatever.

And there is more than one good song on Sgt. Peppers. The whole thing is pretty good. We got the title track, With A Little Help from My Friends, Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds, When Im 64, A Day In the Life. All excellent Beatles songs.

ANd like I said before, it's not my fave album by the Beatles and it's not their best album, but it sure is a great listen.

[ZEROpumpkins]

Originally Posted by k-krack

Shit album. There's like, one good song. (Within You Without You).

A Day in the Life?

[Onani Nic]

Originally Posted by kingcoffee

I can understand Weezer, they suck. But Nirvana was great and so were Radiohead.

Weezer's Pinkerton is a fantastic album. I'd rate it over any Nirvana or Radiohead album.

[HaydenAsche]

Let's see...

Darkside of the Moon
Most things by Bob Dylan
Most things by the Beatles
Most things by the Beach Boys
Anything by the Rolling Stones

[sun city girl]

Originally Posted by screamingskull

i LOVE everything else they have ever done, i am in love with Wayne and Steven, and their shows are complete bliss .

I just don't like the soft bulletin. Ive tried, believe me.

yeah, same here. for some strange reason that album sucks.

[HaydenAsche]

Oh, and add the following:
Loveless

And I wasn't aware anyone was supposed to like that fucking trash by Dinosaur Jr.

[Danny Himself]

People tell me I should like The Beatles. I don't.

[LittlePuppetBoy]

Originally Posted by HaydenAsche

And I wasn't aware anyone was supposed to like that fucking trash by Dinosaur Jr.

well, you'd be surprised,

[k-krack]

Originally Posted by Danny Himself

People tell me I should like The Beatles. I don't.

I like one album, (the obvious, The White Album) and even some songs on it bore the crap out of me. Not worth the hype.

[k-krack]

Originally Posted by swa(y)

explain "should like"...im confused.

It's rather simple. Something that you SHOULD like, based on yr musical preferences, but don't for some reason.

Another one; Sufjan Stevens. Soo fucking boring... (wait, that's not a 'classic album'...)

[Rob Instigator]

The Beatles opened the door to bands using their fucking brains and not just their cocks to rock. Sgt Pepper's blew my mind when I was 12 and first heard it! shit!


the one I can think of is Nevermind the Bollocks. I just do not enjoy it.