I reckon DSOTM is the album I have listened to in it’s entirety more often than any other album.
Yes, that's the best
Oh man, that's a hard position to support..... DARK Side..and Wish You Were Here are just iconic, surely?!... anyone over 50 would surely have those tracks in their heart somewhere.
I can relate to that....I listen to a track as an entity, a thing composed of several parts...each part being a lesser thing on their own...lyrics mean little to me, its the whole that gets me emotional about a track....I reckon DSOTM is the album I have listened to in it’s entirety more often than any other album.
I’m not sure sitting down and actually listening to a complete album is a thing these days? I have a mate who has, imo, a decent taste in music but he admits to only listening to the “tune” and has no interest in listening to the lyrics. I find that plain weird
He HATES Dylan obviously.
Well I agree with you. I can remember the first time I heard DSOTM. Sometime around 1976/77 ish, I was round a mates house listening to music (we'd have been maybe 15/16). My mate was a big Ritchie Blackmore fan and that style of music ... so we'd have probably been listening to Rainbow or Deep Purple on the lounge record player. But I could also hear something else playing from his older sister's bedroom. Asked what it was and it was DSOTM ... which I went out and bought the following week. I need to listen to the whole thing from start to finish. It's not an album where I'd put individual tracks into a playlist ... same with Wish You Were Here ... Animals ...The Wall.
Definition of overrated? Rock and Pop albums I don't like.
I bought 'Aja' on cassette cheap in Woolworths because of the sample of 'Peg' on 'Eye Know' by De La Soul. Had little idea who they were. I've never been glamping or skiing, but must admit @Nitram, that I do very much like jazz, so am probably just a different type of w@nker).
If you like jazz, the sound they make is fairly irresistible. I get all the cocaine, chauvinist, self indulgent, antithesis of punk's DIY attitude critique. I agree with a lot of it. It's just that, on some days, when I'm in a certain mood, I think they might make a sound that no other band has ever beaten.
actually nothing to do with Jazz just my first thought about the pointless ‘my taste is better than yours pseudo bollocks’ that’s showing up in this thread.
Does it depend on where you were and who you were with. DSOTM is a personal favourite and it came out during my first year at University with a great group of friends on the quad I was living on.
For me personally, Led Zeppelin are vastly overrated, full stop!
Modern Jazz to me is generally a bunch of guys in a band all playing different tunes but at the same time. It not only does nothing for me, it actually irritates me. I will take being called a heathen!
This is what it turned into pretty quickly.
What I genuinely don’t get is people writing the Beatles off as the original boy band. Do boy bands play a range of instruments, innovate and write their own songs and lyrics then? Care to name them?This is what it turned into pretty quickly.
