What's the most difficult album you've listened to?
What's the most difficult album you've listened to?
Asher Myers
Sebastian White
Trout mask
Gabriel Perry
captain beefheart should have to respected his fans and added an easy mode to trout mask replica. id love to listen to the album without all the weird shit
Landon Jackson
Probably Sadness Will Prevail because of how long it is but i don't think any albums are very difficult to listen to desu.
Hudson Harris
This dude. Albums need an easy mode, or atleast cheat codes. Fuck this music elitism
Parker Bennett
probably a whitehouse album or metal machine music. i've never found twin infinitives to be anywhere near as difficult to listen to as those others but i love me some RTX
Lincoln Collins
the easy mode is the rest of the discography
Asher Johnson
buyer's market
Oliver Mitchell
Benjamin Price
For me, weird shit like in OP isnt difficult because its interesting throughout. Challenging shit for me is every Zappa album I've heard, just can't get into any of them.
Jordan Price
*blocks your path*
Ethan Morales
He did, right after. Lick My Decals Off Baby is Trout on easy mode. It's similar but shorter and more accessible.
Daniel Carter
Current 93 - all the pretty horses or whatever it's called
Chase Walker
One of the most disgusting things I've ever listened to. Up there with Asshole/Snail Dilemma when it comes to unpleasant listens.
Jackson Lewis
thunder perfect mind is a lot more accessible
Jack Garcia
never heard the other 3 but i dont get what was so hard about royal trux for you
id say difficult listen for music i really like now is swans because theyre shit is so fucking long, that or godspeed you! because their shit is also so fucking long
hard to listen to the same album for 2+ hours
Evan Young
If you like that, read Micheal's book, The Consumer. His recording on that is one of the stories in it. He's an incredible writer.
Evan Walker
I forgot he wrote books too. Thanks for the rec, I'll check it out.
Carson Miller
venereology
been dipping my toes into noise lately and it just blew my face off. total wtf moment but cool
James Collins
this monstrosity has no words to describe it
Blake Walker
the onkyo Sachiko M album. It unironically gives me a headache
Christopher Phillips
Pic related is insane
On an emotional level I’m inclined to say this or Smoke - Another Reason to Fast
Christian Walker
AMM - AMMusic (great) and Iannis Xenakis - Persepolis (meh)
John Perez
what's the bottom right?
Isaac Edwards
>hmm, I wonder what this is?
Nathaniel Rivera
Orthrelm - OV
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Sebastian Edwards
Scott Walker's trilogy (especially The Drift) is up there. Maybe Morton Feldman's Beckett adaption
Bentley Sanders
The most difficult but not in a bad way
Chase Wilson
lou reed mmm is annoying as fuck
Parker Torres
Borbetomagus - Barbed Wire Maggots
Jack Young
I can't stand this album. I listened to it twice, and I don't think I ever will again. This is the final boss that made me switch to another game.
Chase Reed
Listen to Deathpile by G.R. Then we'll speak again.
Cooper Wood
here you go
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Hilariously, they actually posted Scaruffi's review of this album on the bandcamp page. He gave it a 7/10.
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Jaxson Nelson
Same. A lot of people seem to really think it’s brilliant and I’m sure it is I just don’t really understand it fully yet
Benjamin Nelson
Honestly pretty enjoyable
Landon Rivera
>King Of Nothing, a rockabilly number that would make Elvis Presley commit suicide.
Scruffy does it again
Joshua Lee
Sometimes I listen to it while driving, it gets boring and I can't give it too much attention.
Nathaniel Thomas
well he did do an acoustic version of orange claw hammer that was great
Samuel Price
pretty much accessible noise and pe
now pic related felt like a torment the first timei listened to it
Evan Phillips
Surprised this hasn't been posted yet
James Carter
Caroliner Rainbow Grace Blocks Used in the Placement of the Personality - Rings on the Awkward Shadow
Ian Stewart
I'm surprised it has
Parker Murphy
I really enjoy ambient, drone and dark ambient but I don't see the appeal on Time Machines by Coil, it's just 10+ minute tracks with the same repetitive noise with some minor distinctions through a track, the third track gave me headaches btw.
Brody Powell
its one of those elaborative fiction things right? not so much music as just auditory storytelling?
Dominic Williams
god damn Mystery Language is a banger
Ayden Rodriguez
Trout Mask is a fucking meme
>let's make an album of utter site
>jokes on the people who have to suffer and pretend to 'get' it
>emperor's new clothing
>Captain Bee Fart (geddit?) is an art house joke.
And yet, here we are still discussing it like it's a real piece of music that we have to 'get' to show how cool we are.
It's shite, and Beefheart knew it was.
Anthony Anderson
Yes, something like that, Time Machines is an attempt to create "temporal slips" and "subliminal effects".
I admit that I listened to Time Machines blindly expecting something atmospheric like Nostromo by SleepResearch Facility but it's not even close, Nostromo does a excellent job recreating a auditory storytelling.
Samuel Peterson
it slips, flips, drips, and chips
Oliver Cox
you need to go back
Chase Ward
def gwips the powers dat bees
Ethan Edwards
the irony is that it's pure shit and no one in their right mind wants to suffer through that trash.
Alexander Robinson
Death Grips, like many other bands peaked with their first album and the only time they came close to matching it was with their second album
Landon Howard
bottomless pit>exmilitary and the money store
Jacob Turner
What the fuck is this shit? Who's behind all of this bullshit?
Carter Ramirez
Carter Lewis
can be said about them in general but
AIDS-A-Delic - Hanatarash
Dylan Lewis
Juan Foster
bottomless pit is just ideas from those two albums but done worse
Sebastian Ortiz
This is nostalgic as fuck
The first noise album I listened to
Justin Turner
When it clicks, you’ll know it’s better than Loveless. But it took 4 years to click
Levi Jones
based Scaruffi drone
Dominic Cox
All those albums have been well review unfortunately years later after scaruffi validating his point surface level drone.
Joshua Cox
his newest book The Egg is great too
and he read most of it too in an audiobook you can find online
Grayson Torres
this is a joke right, bottomless pit is their 2nd worst right after notm.
the proper order is : exmilitary>TMS>GP>NLDW>YOTS>JD>shit>eeverything else
Ryan Taylor
Twin Infinitives most definitely, like wtf is that album
Andrew Morris
>he measures albums in terms of difficulty
Colton Hernandez
Anthony Robinson
how to find this?
Jackson Ross
>>Captain Bee Fart (geddit?) is an art house joke.
where did you even pull this one from
James Perez
It's probably anything from Brian Ferneyhough for me. There's some level of structure and actual pattern to all his music. It's just that it's extremely difficult for most people (myself included) to fully grasp it without lots of intensive listening.
That being said, I enjoy his stuff mostly for how the oddly split rhythms make the music seem uneven yet kinda human because of it.
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That would just make the album a by the book and in my personal opinion boring bluesy album. Listen to each guitar riff individually, and you'll note that almost all of them are either unmemorable or corny as fuck. Drumbo's weird arrangement of the parts (which is partly directed by Beefheart) is what makes it work.
This is somewhat untrue as while it doesn't have the complex rhythmic interplay of Drumbo's arrangement, the melodic content is far more complex as there's more actual atonal bits, angular bits, more varied phrasing, etc. Which is not surprising as this album was arranged by Zoot Horn Rollo, their guitarist.
Jaxon Rogers
>Listen to each guitar riff individually, and you'll note that almost all of them are either unmemorable or corny as fuck.
They usually aren't complex when taken individually but they are still good guitar lines, especially on more instrumental songs like Hair Pie
Jonathan Baker
only a Scaruffi drone would post Diamanda Galas
Chase Ortiz
I feel most of the riffs lack the liveliness, individuality, and general catchiness of some of the more well made works from the big blues rock musicians of that time.