Come Clean About Your Arty Pieces Of Sh*t
 

I was inspired to start this thread seeing the Trout Mask Replica / VU thread.

We all know that people get albums just to look cool, nobody can deny it and if you do you're a fucking liar.

Now it's time to come clean, which albums do you thing are a steaming pile of arty shit that's only in your music collection to make you look like you think you know what you're talking about. The kind of albums when people write words like Innovative, Groundbreaking, Complex, Idiosyncratic. Experimental or Daring because they can't find a single f*cking tune on the damn thing.

Don't be shy, come clean.

I've got a Captain Beefheart album. Safe as Milk I think.
I don't get it, but just keep it around coz a lot of forum members have a raging hard-on for the guy and maybe it'll pop up on a shuffle and it'll finally click.
I don't understand the hype or more likely it's just not my style of music considering I predominantly listen to hip-hop.

Ja, that's how I felt about Jandek when I first heard him, but I kept retrying him after hearing all of the hype amongst my friends. His electric era is crap but his solo acoustic stuff and Nancy Sings is pretty great.

Eh, I started getting into post punk just because of everybody going on about it, and it made **** all sense to me at first, but I've actually come to love a lot of it since, so, I don't know if that counts. The Fall still confuse me as to whether or not they're **** though.

Quite honestly, got nothing arty, at least nothing I don't listen to and enjoy. I take recommendations, but unless I like the music I don't buy/download/keep it. I'm not a poseur and don't buy albums to impress my friends, whether or not this is because I have no friends is beside the point. I believe music is meant to be listened to and enjoyed (or slagged off), not admired like a piece of art. You want art, go to a ****ing art gallery. I'm happy with all my music (that I've listened to, at any rate) and don't have any that's just for appearances.

Passion Pit's Manners. But I ended up selling it, because it really had no place in my collection at all.

Current 93 - Dogs Blood Rising

I just don't get it.

I wouldn't exactly classify Manners as "artsy crap"... although I guess whether you do or not sort of depends on what you listen to... maybe.

I'll freely admit that finding "arty pieces of ****" is one of the drives behind my desire to find new music. Out of everything in my library, there are two things that immediately jump to mind: this one musique concrète album consisting entirely of recordings of various models of copying machines, and... well, any zeuhl. Although I guess any of the musique concrète I have counts as well. But I genuinely like all of it, otherwise I wouldn't have it.

I like all the music i've acquired honestly. If I see an album that a person is talking about, i'll check it out and scrap it if I don't like it. My music collection has always been a process of elimination when new stuff is brought into it.

I wouldn't call Manners crap, either. Artsy and pretentious? Definitely.

That said, despite the fact the I liked it just fine, it wasn't worth owning. I like the new single, though.