Innovation or masterpiece?

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Are your favorite albums actually masterpieces or do you respect them because they were so innovative for their time?

― Stoner Guy, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

ur a butt and guff is off the cuff

― Esteban Buttez (Esteban Buttez), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

ur name reminds me of Einsturzende Neubauten.

― Stoner Guy, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

depends on how many coctails i've had before the conversation begins

― b b, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

A lot of my favorite albums are by no means "innovative" OR "masterpieces"!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Good question; I've often thought about that myself. As in, do i really like Loveless more than A Storm in Heaven? Or do I just respect it much more for what it was, while I find myself spinning A Storm in Heaven MUCH more?

Then again, Siamese Dream was hardly innovative, but I still consider it a masterpiece...and can Laughing Stock be considered innovative if it was too brilliant to spawn any imitations?

― PB, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

I hear the following argument in my head:

Guy one: "That sound is SO played out!"

Guy two: "They INVENTED that sound!"

Guy one: "Still..."

Guy two:"Still nothing, it wasn't 'played out' when they INVENTED it!"

Guy one: "No, I meant 'still, I hate that sound, so how can I consider it a masterpiece?'"

Guy two: "You said it was 'played out.'"

Guy one: "Yeah, well I'm sick of it. I was sick of it the first time I heard it!"

― Stoner Guy, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone base their love for an album on its supposed innovation? I doubt it. If you love it, you'll find ways to defend it, most of which are based on the assumtion that an album must be doing something a little different from the competition for you to endorse it.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

I just listen to stuff I like. But I like most things.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

kidding aside, i don't think innovative is ever a necessity for mastery. i can enjoy or respect music for either or both. and i think most of my favorites aren't truely either...my favorites tend to have more to do with me.

― b b, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

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