The Explain Why You Like This Album ('cause i don't understand) Thread (albums, pink floyd)

[CanwllCorfe]

Originally Posted by Zer0

Lift Your Skinny Fists is good enough but christ is it an exhaustive album to listen to. I rarely listen to it in one sitting and I find it more enjoyable to listen in two halves. I'd definitely rather listen to F#A#oo over it any day.

I'm also one of those who just doesn't get the appeal of In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. For such a lauded album it just sounds so... average. I'm a fan of 90's lo-fi indie rock but there are definitely plenty of better indie albums in that decade than this.

Agreed. Lift Your Skinny Fists was one of those albums I finally got because I saw it so much. I enjoy it, but I was expecting more considering all the fanfare. I definitely, definitely don't get In The Aeroplane Over the Sea. If lyrics are part of why it's so highly lauded, then that doesn't do much for me since I don't pay all that much attention to them (probably because I listen to so much instrumental music). I'd also have to enjoy the music going along with them, of course, and I just... don't.

[Zer0]

Originally Posted by Pedestrian

I think most of the people enamoured with it are looking at the lyrical content. Something to do with a series of erotic dreams about Anne Frank or god know what.

Originally Posted by CanwllCorfe

I definitely, definitely don't get In The Aeroplane Over the Sea. If lyrics are part of why it's so highly lauded, then that doesn't do much for me since I don't pay all that much attention to them (probably because I listen to so much instrumental music). I'd also have to enjoy the music going along with them, of course, and I just... don't.

Their lyrics are good alright, I can acknowledge that. But If I wanted to admire their lyrics I would just read them on their own without the music. It's the music itself that disappoints me and falls way short of the album's reputation as an indie essential.