Albums that you could listen to 100 times and still not be able to tell any of the songs apart...

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Interestingly enough, I often like these albums MORE than the kind where I can recognize each song after two listens.

I know there's a shitload of these, but for me:

1. Stereolab - Dots and Loops
2. Eyehategod - Take As Needed for Pain
3. Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments

More to come later.

― Lee is Free (Lee is Free), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

any Anal Cunt album

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

you could listen to anal cunt 100 times?

― ss sleepingbag (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/80/06/f37ed250fca030c7d1114010._AA240_.L.jpg

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Lee do you like Sadé?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Music For Airports to thread.

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Except that the first track is totally different (and way better) than the others.

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Assuck - Misery Index (??)

well...i used to be able to listen to it 100x.

― youth problem (YouthProblem), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Selected Ambient Works II
Global Chillage

― crazy (brother loves dub), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Except that the first track is totally different (and way better) than the others.

Really? It's been a while, but I always remembered it as being practically the same each track...

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

First one is just piano, second one is vocals, other two mix it up a bit.

Here is where I destroy my credibility by admitting I only listened to it for the first time ever earlier this year... after hearing track one used in an Orange advert.

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Shit. I really don't remember that at all.

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Scum - Napalm Death

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

Though I like it, Painkiller. Hard to tell just which grinding wailing tune is which. I'd listen to it 100 times, but am scared of losing hearing.

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
(though I know nothing about jazz, so it might just be me)
Konono No. 1 - Congotronics
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place
Fennesz - Endless Summer

― jackl (jackl), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
(though I know nothing about jazz, so it might just be me)
Konono No. 1 - Congotronics
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place
Fennesz - Endless Summer
-- jackl (jackluca...), October 4th, 2006.

OTM about Konono No. 1, but Miles and EitS pack some great hooks.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

The Forms - Icarus

― youth problem (YouthProblem), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

The Strokes - Is This It

― musically (musically), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

any red house painters album

― a.b. (alanbanana), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I was making exactly this thread this morning, only in my head and it wasn't a thread. And it was triggered by listening to:

Stereo - Pavement

― barafundle (barafundle), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Brian Eno - Music for Films

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

I listened to the first two Butterfly Child albums many, many times back in the day, and I'll be damned if I could whistle you a tune from either one of them now...now there's an example of a band I really wanted to like, but just didn't have it in me...

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Loveless

― Adam S S (Zephery), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Most Minutemen albums.

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Buckethead Funnel Weaver

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Wednesday, 4 October 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Grizzly Bear "Yellow House" - everything runs together except for the last track.

― Jena (JenaP), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Konono No. 1 OTM
Red House Painters way way off TM

― Wax Cat (Wax Cat), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

i have this satie compilation, and i didn't know it had 40+ tracks until a few months after i had been listenign to it incessantly.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005S22.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000007292.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

first records of Curve, Sun Kil Moon, Music AM

― deekew (deekew), Thursday, 5 October 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

"you could listen to anal cunt 100 times?"

hell yeah

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 5 October 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

Pole: 1

(It's one of my favourite LPs too.)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 5 October 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

Metal Machine Music

― Cunga (Cunga), Thursday, 5 October 2006 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf200/f249/f24901pcnc9.jpg

Naked City - Torture Garden

John Zorn (Alto Sax)
Yamatsuka Eye (Vocals)
Bill Frisell (Guitar)
Wayne Horvitz (Keyboards)
Fred Frith (Bass)
Joey Baron (Drums)

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Thursday, 5 October 2006 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

What's that cover Curt1s posted upthread?

Countless albums are like this for me. Most Stereolab, 'Loveless', 'Sonic Nurse' and one of my faves 'Hissing of Summer Lawns'

― Baaderonixx in the year of the locusts (baaderonixx), Thursday, 5 October 2006 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

as much as i love Curve, i still do have trouble with most of 'Doppelganger'. it's one big, wonderful sound, but it's just one sound.

julee cruise - 'the voice of love'
blonde redhead - 'misery is a butterfly'

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 5 October 2006 07:21 (nineteen years ago)

Fennesz's albums.

― cws (cws), Thursday, 5 October 2006 07:29 (nineteen years ago)

Orthrelm - OV

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Thursday, 5 October 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

i love 'misery is a butterfly' and can tell all the tracks apart, and have my particular favourites etc. :)

lacuna coil's karmacode is like a dan brown novel - palatable, but ultimately thin and unmemorable in the extreme

the first couple of tim buckley records have songs that sort of meld together, but that's in the best possible way, because i like listening to his records all the way through.

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 5 October 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

Orthrelm - OV

wrong thread. unless you mean Asristir Vieldriox.

re: Naked City, 'Torture Garden's individual tracks are pretty distinct from one another, I reckon. 'Heretic', on the other hand...

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 5 October 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Loveless

O c'mon n'admit it, dude - you never've listened to it 100 times.

― tiit (tiit), Thursday, 5 October 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Some E.S.G. All Vladislav Delay.

― Jubalique (Jubalique), Thursday, 5 October 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

What's that cover Curt1s posted upthread?

Ha! I was a-gonna ask that very question yesterday. And then recalled that I have asked it already a coupla years ago - and I still don't remember what Curt1s answered.

("Albums the cover of which you could see 100 times and still not be able to tell their title...", yes)

― tiit (tiit), Thursday, 5 October 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

That mark hollis solo album

I've played it at least twice and I can't remember *anything* about it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 5 October 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

mark,gee - you anly played it twice?!?

― tiit (tiit), Thursday, 5 October 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

I remember the 17-second gap at the beginning of track one.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 5 October 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

It was a promo in a plastic wallet thingy. Once I put it down, I could not pick it up.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 5 October 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Cocteau Twins to thread...

― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Friday, 6 October 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000020YW.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― SaladinBiscuits (Proselytitties), Friday, 6 October 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

that new Timberlake thing

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 6 October 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

Yo La Tengo - Nuclear War EP

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Friday, 6 October 2006 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

Any Coachwhips albums

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Friday, 6 October 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

The first Evanescence album.

― Rowlando for the kidz (Sam Rowlands), Friday, 6 October 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

I love Bohren und der Club of Gore, but all their records fit this bill.

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Curt1s's album cover is the first Jandek, Ready for the House.

I can't say I can't tell any of the songs apart, but AMM's Generative Themes and Suicide's S/T both use an almost dogmatic consistency of approach to achieve pretty great results. I guess the same could be said for popular music in its entirety and most great albums, so I'll just shut up.

― Wilhelm Dilthey (Hungry Turtle In an Orange Box), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Burial (except for the Spaceape track) - this is a GOOD thing , as far as I'm concerned - see also Mark Hollis

― bham (bham), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

between the ages of ten and twelve, i listened to pearl jam's first two albums about a hundred times. other than "jeremy" and "daughter," i never could tell any of those songs apart.

― Godfrzej Ljang (godfrzej), Saturday, 7 October 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

Interpol's "Antics"

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Saturday, 7 October 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

Cocteau Twins and "Hissing of Summer Lawns" OTM

I mix up all the non-instrumentals on "Lick My Decals Off, Baby"... also I had to listen to "Court and Spark" over and over until I could seperate the songs in my head.

Also, a lot of Fela Kuti releases.

― Rat Nasty (ratnasty), Sunday, 8 October 2006 06:38 (nineteen years ago)

Music For Airports to thread.

wow. really? they're pretty different. it's not like it's some Schnitzler b-sides or something ... maybe the easiest ambient record?

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Sunday, 8 October 2006 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

gary numan exile or pure

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Sunday, 8 October 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.musicmerchant.com/sp4302.jpg

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 9 October 2006 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

i think i have trouble picking apart some of the new pornographers' tracks :/

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

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