The Wall by Pink Floyd has always been my least favourite album of theirs, it just never really clicked with me. Even though a couple of my favourite PF songs were on it, I found the album as a whole to be overlong and actually a little boring in parts.
However, today I decided to try once again to listen to it from start to finish and so far I think my opinion of it has changed a little. It's probably still my least favourite but I think I'm starting to enjoy it a bit more.
BQ: Favourite Pink Floyd album, excluding Dark Side Of The Moon? BQ2: What song in your music collection has the longest solo?
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Anonymous2010-08-06T14:39:55Z
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25 years later and I still can't get into The Wall, i still say Dark Side kills it in every conceivable way.
When I was young and stupid it too me forever to get into The Rolling Stones. For the first several years of my musical career (And before You are too harsh on me remember I was quite young and things were very different in the 80s and I've matured a lot since then) my opinion on the Stones was they were "Those twisty gay fruits from England" ....until I actually took the time to listen to a copy of Exile On Main Street, and that started a love affair with Blues Rock that's lasted 20 years.
Talking Pink Floyd, I had the same problem you had but a couple months later I got into all the greatness of The Wall and I love it! But the album that really took me longest to get into, overall, was Aerosmith's Rocks. It's SUCH an amazing album and again, some of my favorite songs are there but there's something about it that just doesn't seem to fit...
BQ: honestly I only have The Wall and Dark Side BQ2: Not sure, I have many long solos...
It depends on the album. Usually, anything from a couple of days to a week, and occasionally a month or so. I often saturate myself in a new album {mostly happens when I've only got the one to listen to ~ big backlog here at the moment!}, listening to it on repeat over and over. Sometimes I can tell within a couple of listens what songs I do and don't like, but other times I'll have to come back to it a few weeks later to re-asses {sp?}. It's common for me to take an instant dislike to a song ~ though I can't always pinpoint *why* I don't like one ~ but just recently I've found myself um-ing and ah-ing over some, and having them slowly grow on me until they actually become favourites!
smile [dontcha mess with cupid]2010-08-06T16:25:19Z
One I didn't like: The Wall by Pink Floyd for pretty much the same reason as you. I have managed to listen to it straight through, but it only ever got sliiiightly less boring, never really straight out interesting.
One I did end up liking: New York Dolls' s/t. It was insanely cacophonous to me, and I settled on just a few tracks, until a new one would get stuck in my head and eventually that happened for the whole album and now I love it.
Probably The Police's Zenyatta Mondatta. I liked a few songs but really disliked the others. Now, however, I'm content with pretty much all of it.
BA: Piper at the Gates of Dawn... such an incredible album! BA2: "Dazed and Confused" - Led Zeppelin (Song Remains the Same version. Solo was probably about 20 minutes) :)