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Songs Which Took You a Long Time to "Get"
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Tiberious aka Sparkles



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!

PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:58 am    Post subject: Songs Which Took You a Long Time to "Get" Reply with quote

Back in the day, I could never understand why "Incarcerated Scarfaces," from Raekwon's 1995 classic, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, was so highly regarded by my peers. I felt it was an above-average song on an album chock full of musical and lyrical genius. A few years later, it finally dawned on me that the song's sublimity lies within its hypnotic break beat and the low-key organ tone that runs, imperceptible to my ears at the time, underneath the track.

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Bulsajo



Joined: 16 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lola's a dude, dude!
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eamo



Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm merciless with music. It had better sound great first time or I'm somewhere else.

The only thing that has grown on me is classical music. Hated it at 17. Love it at 37. Not all of it though.
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Qinella



Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib

PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

All the classic rock. As a youngster, I hated it, probably out of the knee-jerk reaction teenagers often have of hating anything their parents like. My dad still has his old Who and Zeppelin albums, etc., so I didn't even give it a chance until I was about 18. Couldn't get enough of it at that point.

It was year 22 or 23 when I began to appreciate (certain) country music. I still don't like the sappy pop stuff, but as far as sincere country goes, I can really dig it now.
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ForceOne



Joined: 25 Aug 2005

PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
"Incarcerated Scarfaces,"


Great song, great memories...I can't believe this isn't on my Ipod right now...Good lookin' out...
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VanIslander



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!

PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

U2

I didn't get them in the eighties. Ugh. Just hurt my ears. Then a decade later they clicked somehow and I liked their eighties stuff (still don't like their nineties pop turn).
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Benicio



Joined: 25 May 2006
Location: Down South- where it's hot & wet

PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Village People!

When I was a kid, I was a big fan because they had all these cool characters- police man, biker, army dude, indian, etc.
They were easy to sing along with.

I had absolutely no idea they were gay and singing about places for guys to score with each other.

"Not that there's anything wrong with that!"- Jerry Seinfeld

I even made my parents buy me the album. I can only imagine what they were thinking.
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Bulsajo



Joined: 16 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

VanIslander wrote:
(still don't like their nineties pop turn).

We'll ask you again in 10 years.
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VanIslander



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!

PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bulsajo wrote:
VanIslander wrote:
(still don't like their nineties pop turn).

We'll ask you again in 10 years.

It's been nine years since Pop (1997). But yeah, maybe another decade might be needed.
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seoulsucker



Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff

PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

On the Wu tip, "The Killing Fields" from Meth's Tical 2000 is one that has consistently grown on me over the years. The droning bass with the strings at the end of the bars is hypnotic.

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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pretty much Prince's whole catalog it took me a while.
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happeningthang



Joined: 26 Apr 2003

PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Everything the Flaming Lips have ever done... keep hearing random songs, but I still can't put the hype to the music. What's so great about these guys?
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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

happeningthang wrote:
Everything the Flaming Lips have ever done... keep hearing random songs, but I still can't put the hype to the music. What's so great about these guys?


Yeah. I still don't get those guys. Or Radio Head.
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captain planet



Joined: 18 Jul 2006

PostPosted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

they're not cliche, yet not horrible at their instruments or painfully "intellectual".

a lot of music takes me a while to get. i really don't listen that closely a lot of the time.
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Woland



Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll throw in my usual weird (since I listen to stuff nobody else listens to) two cents:

Sam Phillips' Fan Dance - the whole CD. I tried listening to it when I first got it and it was so different from her earlier work, stripped down and less hook-y, that I was frustrated and annoyed by it. Put it away, took it out six months later, gave it a couple plays and gradually it grew on me.
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