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Originally Posted by Frownland
So you genuinely don't understand how revisiting challenging records can make them more accessible. Got it.
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Replace "challenging" with "boring" or "music I don't want to waste my time trying to "get"", and you've got it.
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I can respect that but to be fair, what I heard was absolutely terrible.
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EXACTLY how I felt when listening to TMR, or one of your albums. I'm not saying it's wrong, for you, not by any means. But it shows how sometimes, music one of us thinks is great is just not going to be accessible or enjoyable to the other of us. Musically, we should probably avoid each other, and see each other only at weddings and funerals.
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LIKE WHAT?
I'm asking you because you have a entirely different perspective on the record than I do and I find that interesting because you probably noticed things about the record that I didn't. Talking about music is a great way to waste your time, let's try it out.
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Well all right, but it's hard to explain how I like something you haven't bothered to hear, and won't be listening to, but I'll try. I like the different themes in the lyrics: some are reflections from McAloon's childhood (real or imagined, I don't know, but to me he makes them sound like genuine memories, like in "We Let the Stars Go" where he sings about a girl he used to know who teased him by calling him Paddy-Jo. Is that real? I don't know, but it sounds like the kind of thing that could have happened, and it makes him, for me, more human and ordinary) and the heartbreaking "Doo-Wop in Harlem", some are totally out-of-left-field imaginings, like the "Jesse James Suite". The idea of taking the persona, first of God, then of the Devil, in "One of the Broken" and "Michael" respectively, show me that this guy knows how to write not only good songs, but really different ones.
I'll admit the music is nothing out of the ordinary, but he does use blues, sort of Samba/Latin rhythms, a tango/bolero thing: it's not all just sappy pop love songs. I could just refer you to my original review in my journal, but no doubt you'd call that lazy, and maybe it would be. I can't say why I love this album; I did not expect to, and it took me by surprise how good I found it to be. Maybe I'm just more open to this kind of pop/rock music, and you never will be. Who knows? But I see things here that you obviously don't, and never will. That's okay; I don't have a problem with that. Your opinion of the album won't change mine, but it's sad to hear you dismiss it so quickly and so glibly.