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Originally Posted by ToeAndno
There seems to be three albums that teenagers rate very highly in their life, and usually, after reading their accounts, it turns out that before they listened to either of them they listened to chart crap. And then they discovered 'this' album and it changed their perception of music forever, what an album could achieve etc etc. They hold this album dear to them for the rest of their lives, never quite liking any other album above it.
'this' album is always one of the following:
OK Computer
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
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My goodness, two of those (Aeroplane and Yankee Hotel) are two of my favourite albums of all time.
I've listened to A LOT of music, from all kinds of genres, and I find those two albums stand out not because they were the first albums I listened to in my transition from MTV/MuchMusic to, say, Pitchfork, but because they are actually dense enough to stand the test of time.
Aeroplane, for example, will still sound as surreal decades from now as it did in 98, and Yankee Hotel is graced by timeless production.
I think that the older gents that you know are just turned off by the overwhelming hype caused by mags like Pitchfork, which in turn created the ridiculous hipster fanbase, and so when they listen to the album they think of the kids that love those albums, and the last thing they want is to be associated with these kids.