The Who are awesome, but there's "Who's Next" isn't as fantastic as everyone seems to think. It has a few of their best songs, but as for the rest, utter crap.

Apart from a smattering of tracks, I feel exactly the same about both bands.

What other music like Of Montreal do you like?

i love Apples in The Stereo, The Unicorns, and if they count Primal Scream, just was never a fan of Of montreal except for a few tracks from Hissing Fauna.

The Apples In Stereo are so catchy...

Give Olivia Tremor Control a spin if you like those bands, that could help bridge the gap to Of Montreal.

I wasnt really into them when I was into the Elephant 6 bands either. If it helps, keep in mind theres 3 seperate 'eras' of of Montreal: Their twee pop (first two albums) 60's psych pop (The *** Parade through Adhils Aboratum) and their dance pop-punk (Satanic panic to the present) and listen to what genre's easiest to digest, and go from there.

And dac is right about Olivia Tremor Control. I listened to Black Foliage the other day and thought it might actually be better than Neutral Milk Hotel. They also sound alot like Grizzly Bear, I recently realized.

I honestly enjoy OTC's work as a whole more than Neutral Milk Hotel. Literally everything they put out is fantastic. Nothing quite as good as Aeroplane though.

If you like OTC, you should look into Circulatory System. They have a couple of albums...the song-writer is the same as that of OTC (Will Hart). They aren't as good as OTC's albums, but they are quite enjoyable.

That's so weird, I just got off the phone with one of my friend from back in the day and we talk music from time to time and he recommended that band to me... definitely checking them out now.

Can I absolutely adore The Olivia Tremor Control, while still thinking Circulatory System is incredibly boring? Because I do.

The only CS song I like is 'Yesterday's World', the rest of it is boring as hell, there's no hooks, its like if Olivia Tremor Control wasn't catchy or good at songcraft at all, which is a great deal of their appeal to me.

Ha, sure. Just surprises me. I thought Circulatory System's self-titled sounded like another OTC album, just not quite as good. Still had a number of catchy songs to me, it just wasn't genius.

I know I had problems getting into the Stones until I got over all that "greatest rock band in the world" crap. Forget about how good they're supposed to be. Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers might not be the greatest albums ever, but there's some great stuff between those two records. Can't You Hear Me Knocking is their hidden gem, and it's far better than the tired Stones stuff that everyone's heard a thousand times (Start Me Up, Satisfaction, Get Off Of My Cloud, Brown Sugar).

I have serious problems with any Bjork material.I've tried but i can't get past the fingernails on blackboard factor.

Makes my ears bleed

I've never got the idea that Bjork is unaccessible. There's a few moments like Medulla and Volta but even then it's not Cpt Beefheart territory or anything. Post is just an aural delight.

I'm a big fan of Homogenic and Selmasongs myself.

beck - odelay

Seriously? I just love the whole chuck it in a pot and see what comes out of the other side approach to the album. It's genre crossing yet still catchy and cohesive.

Sublime has two good songs. The rest are mediocre at best, yet I know so many people who revere them.

I wouldn't say I revere them but their self-titled album is pretty solid, IMHO.

**** me. You must just not like taht album dude, listening to it till your ears bleed won't change that.

Her voice isn't for everybody.

Really though, it's just the way she uses her voice, basically as if it was an instrument.

She's not the only vocalist that does this, but certainly one of the only ones that dosen't do it in a "they do my songs on American Idol" kind of way.

yea. the female vocals really annoy me. plus the boring music part too.

I'm going to bump this thread because I want to hear about this album.

http://bone87.files.wordpress.com/20...ey_grace_l.jpg

Never could like this one.

In before khfreek.

I second the Jeff Buckley album. Whiny and boring IMO, and I listen to Elliott Smith, so that's saying something.

Me too. Love Elliott Smith but couldn't say the same for Jeff Buckley.

That voice... oh my, that voice.

Funny, I was playing that album on a car ride just the other day.

I dunno how you can not like it. I certainly don't know how you can find it boring if you like all that sedated folk stuff that Ethan and Swim are so crazy about.

Buckley is an amazing singer, not just in a technical sense, he just has one of the best voices. He also comes up with these gorgeous little guitar parts that serve the songs just wonderfully. Grace just has a very heavenly etheral sound to it, by far one of the best albums of the 90s, and Buckley was probably the most promising singer/songwriter of that era.

Yeah that's right.

Jeff Buckley >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Elliott Smith

Ive listened through Grace atleast 3 times and cant see the big deal either, sure he has a good voice but everything else seems pretty boring for me. Maybe I have to listen to it AGAIN. And to Jackhammer: I'd rather bang Elliott Smith :D

That's tough. While I prefer Grace to any one of Smith's albums, Elliot Smith put out several quality albums. If only Jeff could swim...

Based off of Grace? Out of ten songs, only three were written by himself, the others were either co-written or covers. Not very impressive if you ask me. So I'm going to assume a lot of the love for this album is based off of voice? I could understand that. The songs bore me but I do like his voice.

3 are covers, 3 are songs he wrote by himself (though if you include Forget Her that's 4), and the rest are co-written with other band members.

Skethces for My Sweetheart features mostly songs written entirely by Buckley, which were recorded for what was gonna be his next studio album.

There's a reason I said promising, in that he died before he could show people what he was really capable of, but I feel he had a lot of talent that he'd still be putting out great music if he were alive today.

Can we do a band version of this thread?

'Cause I got some burners...

I'd just keep bringing up Nick Drake until I get banned.

which nick drake album are you thinking about?

Pink Snooze err I mean Pink Moon.

If you're implying that a kitten can play guitar better than Nick Drake then I can't say I disagree with you.

Silversun Pickups' Swoon

I bought it, thought I loved it, but two days I can't even bear to listen to the album.