Rock & Pop: What are some classic albums that you just don't get?

Pet Sounds by Beach boys, i just don't like it at all.

anything by queen is pretty trash to me as well.

bq sum 41 lol

bq2 rancid, tool, weezer, nirvana and black sabbath, bands that have been around me basically about my whole life and always enjoyed.

bq3 as a kid i listened to mostly pop and pop punk music, it was all i was really exposed to, when i was 10 i got big into metal and went thru a metal phase until i was like 13 and then i was up the punx until i was like 15 and listened to nothing but punk music then i started listening to a ton of underground rap and listened to mostly that for like a yr until i was like 16 and then went thru a similar phase with 90s post hardcore and 80s punk and then the phases kinda ended and my playlists are pretty random and my tastes are literally a bit of everything now.

bq4 dookie by green day, that album has been around me my whole life its a throwback

Tommy. being a rock opera, will make much more sense if you watch the movie.

"Pet Sounds" - The Beach Boys

"Wouldn't it Be Nice" and "Sloop John B" are both fantastic songs, but you have to judge any album as a whole, and there's just too many songs on Pet Sounds that do next to nothing for me. Just my opinion.

Hiya Brandon. Fun question, even though I'm pretty sure there will be a couple who view me askance for harboring these opinions.

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine

I've tried, I really have. I bought this CD oh, maybe eighteen months ago, fully hoping and expecting to enjoy it. I knew nothing about it other than how critically acclaimed it is. I want my money back. I'm too conventional in my tastes to be able to enjoy dissonance for its own sake, and to my ear that's all 'Loveless' is. Honestly, I'd rather listen to a lawnmower or a weed-whacker, at least what I'm hearing makes sense. If anyone wants a copy of that CD, gently used, email me your address.

Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band

Same reasoning with this album as with 'Loveless'; the only differences being that I never actually wasted my money on this one, and it's about five times as weird. It sounds like total nonsense to me: why it is so acclaimed completely eludes me.

Nevermind - Nirvana

This one is different. It's a decent enough album, what I don't get is why it is praised so highly and is considered by so many to be the grunge album to end all grunge albums. Nirvana's whole place in the history of grunge and alternative music is so wildly exaggerated as to boggle the mind. Every one of the major Seattle bands (and some of the minor ones) released albums superior to 'Nevermind', and some of those pre-dated it as well. Yet Nirvana gets the glory. Pfft.

BA: They don't make me cringe now, but I was a huge hair metal fan back in the 80s. Ratt, Motley Crue, Poison... loved em all. Now they seem ridiculously juvenile.

BA2: Heart, Robin Trower, Uriah Heep, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Alan Parsons

BA3: I've gone from being a classic rocker (though it was just called rock then), to hair metal, to alternative, to pop and back to classic rock again. Like a chicken come home to roost, I rediscovered the same bands I was in love with as a kid, the only difference being I've delved deeper into the antecedents of those bands and found more and more of what I've loved all along.

BA4: All of my favorite albums by the bands listed in BA2 have nostalgia for me, and I'll pull them out sometimes simply to be reminded of the times when I first discovered them. Dreamboat Annie, Bridge of Sighs, Demons and Wizards, Animals, Houses of the Holy and Tales of Mystery and Imagination are great for that. So is Gerry Rafferty's 'City to City'.

Pink Floyd "Dark Side Under The Moon." I don't get why they were so popular, they're basically a Pop band. Most of their songs are predominantly created by synthesizers through a computer. Their songs are all slow and boring with the exception of a select few. I don't understand why some people are so into them, I think it's just because they think it's stoner music and it makes them cool to like it.