I only half like it, but the half I like is really freaking good

crazed · 07-18-2013, 02:24 PM

Two albums that come to mind as I listened to them recently.

Atoms For Peace Amok. This album builds slow for me. Starting with track 5, "Unless" through the final track, "Amok" is pure joy. But I have yet to cozy up to the first four songs. Well, I'm liking "Dropped" more than I have before now but still...

An oldie but favorite: Elton John's Madman Across the Water. Really love his early '70s stuff. Side 1 is brilliant: "Levon", "Tiny Dancer", "Razor Face" and the title track. But every time I try to get into side 2 I can't, except maybe for "Rotten Peaches".

Alfred · 07-18-2013, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by crazed

Two albums that come to mind as I listened to them recently.

Atoms For Peace Amok. This album builds slow for me. Starting with track 5, "Unless" through the final track, "Amok" is pure joy. But I have yet to cozy up to the first four songs. Well, I'm liking "Dropped" more than I have before now but still...

An oldie but favorite: Elton John's Madman Across the Water. Really love his early '70s stuff. Side 1 is brilliant: "Levon", "Tiny Dancer", "Razor Face" and the title track. But every time I try to get into side 2 I can't, except maybe for "Rotten Peaches".

Funny, I feel the exact opposite about Amok.

Isbjørn · 07-19-2013, 02:23 PM

The Wall by Pink Floyd has like, six good tracks, and the rest of it is crap.

musicchamberdubai · 07-22-2013, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Zer0

The first album that popped into my head when I saw the thread title was:

The four songs on side one are really, really good, up there with the best stuff on NEU! and NEU! 75. But the second side of this album is incredibly frustrating to listen to. What I understand is that they had run out of money to finish the album and so they decided to fill the second half with tape experiments and remixes of existing songs. The results are less than impressive.

I also get the same feeling after seeing this thread and was looking for if someone has already posted this or not and here I got it. Our choices are very similar and I hope so.

Guybrush · 07-22-2013, 12:16 AM

I feel this way about ELP's Tarkus. Side A with the title track, brilliant stuff! Side B .. not so much. At best, side B is good but not very much so. At worst it is atrocious.

Justthefacts · 07-22-2013, 12:20 AM

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I agree completely.

I find this is the case with all the later Mars Volta albums...Meccamputecture and the Bedlam in Goliath both start off really strong and then by the end of it, I just don't care. I also feel this way about early Pink Floyd...Meddle is really a crap album, but Echoes is so freaking good that I definitely rank the album highly. I guess the fact that it's over 20 minutes kind of makes up for it.

I thought Amputechture was a fantastic record straight through, but I agree with Bedlam in Goliath. It gets stale after the first five tracks.

Paul Smeenus · 07-22-2013, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by tore

I feel this way about ELP's Tarkus. Side A with the title track, brilliant stuff! Side B .. not so much. At best, side B is good but not very much so. At worst it is atrocious.

Forgive me for quoting myself, from the ELP thread in the Prog section

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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus

Speaking of Tarkus, I consider that a one side-one track album. Side two was totally tacked on to avoid putting out an album with a blank side two and/or breaking the title track in half. There's no earthly reason to turn that record over, and once I arrived at that conclusion after the first play (of side two) I never did again. I consider all the songs after the title track to be completely irrelevant to the album to such a degree that reading through this thread just now was the first time I'd even thought of them for decades.

Guybrush · 07-22-2013, 12:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus

Forgive me for quoting myself, from the ELP thread in the Prog section

Haha, yeah .. Seems we pretty much agree

The Batlord · 07-22-2013, 10:20 AM

Black Sabbath's debut is an obvious one. Side one is the best thing they ever did and makes it my fav Sabbath album all by itself, but side two is just a big sack of meh. I don't know who told them they knew how to jam, but that person is obviously a pathological liar.

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Steve Earle's "Copperhead Road". Starts off with a punch to the guts, continues on for all of side one, then side two wimps out and ends up pinching your arm and telling you you're not a nice person. Batlord knows what I mean. Such a dichotomy in one album. And it has such a badass cover too: first thing that attracted me to it!

God yes. I can only assume that the record label told him he had to fill the B-Side with B-Rate ballads.

Antmusic · 07-22-2013, 12:45 PM

I feel this way about "Appetite
for destruction" by guns n' roses.
I thought the album had a lot of
potential and guts. Unfortunately
also too much generic 80's commercial
metal.

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crazed Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Indiana Posts: 552	Two albums that come to mind as I listened to them recently. Atoms For Peace Amok. This album builds slow for me. Starting with track 5, "Unless" through the final track, "Amok" is pure joy. But I have yet to cozy up to the first four songs. Well, I'm liking "Dropped" more than I have before now but still... An oldie but favorite: Elton John's Madman Across the Water. Really love his early '70s stuff. Side 1 is brilliant: "Levon", "Tiny Dancer", "Razor Face" and the title track. But every time I try to get into side 2 I can't, except maybe for "Rotten Peaches".