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Spinning off the chat about Trout Mask Replica, it struck me that there are albums that you only need to listen to once (only want to listen once?) (are only capable of listening to once? ). Undeniably towering and overwhelming aesthetic experiences, something everyone should submit themselves...

This is the only thing on Trout Mask I ever feel like playing Otherwise it's Clear Spot all the way. And "Booglarize You, Baby" Vocally Beefheart's whole thing is based in Howlin' Wolf. It's so much more enjoyable when the group, whether out of desire to make it or just avant exhaustion...

Streaming is unhealthy Literally - instead of getting up to get a CD or record I own from where it is stashed, I can select it from the infinity archive of Tidal or whatever while remaining seated. This miniscule-seeming-per-individual-instance reduction in physical effort adds up...

used to feel the same way - grown to love some of the tracks - but yeah it doesn't quite hang together, certainly not like Younger Than Yesterday

it's not really an "assessment", more like an unavoidable byproduct of having first heard all the Best Bits separately in a fantastic almost unbroken sequence of excellence on those particular compilations but Abbey Road.... feel the first side is fairly awesome and feels logically strung...

stupefied by Solid Air feelings. Inside Out is the one I can never get into. Agree re Surrealistic (except for "Today" and whichever single it is on that album - "White Rabbit"?) being markedly less compelling than Baxter's, from the cover to the Grace songs. And yes re. Ziggy. Just seems...

Yeah I suppose rather than saying I'm oddly unaffected by Music From Big Pink, it's more the truth that the only thing that affects me is the self-titled 'brown' one - everything else seems unmemorable and dispensable. Love the self-titled, esp. the tune "Whispering Pines". Also "King Harvest"...

yeah "1970" is great, and "Fun House" itself - oddly i never have a desire play the rest of the record after "Dirt", perhaps it's knowing that it's all heading towards "LA Blues" which is one of those "you only need to hear it once" jobs.

is that one canonic? (if that is the right word). i think it's considered a bit of an outlier in his discog, an odd little side foray i think it's one of those Prince albums of which they are many (most in fact) where there's the single or singles, and then one other fab track, and then it's...

I had a similar thing with Doors albums, having heard two different single-LP compilations of best bits, and then the double album Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine, long long before I ever heard an original Doors album all the way through. In fact I only heard the debut or Strange Days when the...

that's probably one of my three favorite things on the record. Mind you I also like "Peking O" which is faffing around in the studio It's the long, long James Brown-ish one where I glaze out a bit i think it could be a perfect 1-and-half album rather than a double. Like a three-sided LP...

here's one to appall Droid ...I Care Because You Do Apart from the sublime "Alberto Balsam" nothing from this Aphex album has ever managed to lodge itself in the memory or the heart, despite periodic attempts at "giving it another go"

consider me duly appalled...

Funhouse opinion is a MADNESS (side 1 = greatest rock album, or half the greatest rock album ever) but this is the point of this exercise, to appall each other I agree the second side is utterly deflated. Totally in accord re. Treasure. A couple of nice tunes but overall goes into the Zone of...

i can never remember the side 2 atmospheres on 'Heroes', whereas the Low side 2 is engraved in my heart actually prefer Lodger - or at least it's got 2 great singles Boys Keep Swinging, and DJ, and Repetition, which is unusual, and a few other bits Scary again it's the singles - Ashes...

Albums you grudgingly respect / dutifully acknowledge the objective eminence but when push comes to shove you never actually want to play / could happily never hear again - bar the aforementioned high point(s).

Velvet Underground - White Light, White Heat The Beatles - The Beatles aka White Album The Band - Music From Big Pink David Bowie - "Heroes" Can - Ege Bamyasi Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street (exceptions with these albums being The Obvious Singles e.g. "'Heroes'", "The Weight" - even...

not what I had in mind for "post-rock", not at all

"play" is the key word with flow - playing music, playing games, playing the fool child-games especially (chase, hide and seek, etc) are pure flow

i think that's why puzzle books are so popular, especially with middle aged and elderly folk - probably their equivalent of games actually solitaire also playing chess must be where thought and flow are the same thing - wouldn't know, supremely mediocre chess player - chinese checkers...