# Bands you don't really care for ... except that one album **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [July 9, 2024, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957 "2024-07-09T18:48:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/21 "2024-07-09T22:00:05Z")
Ministry. I thought that “The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste” was a wonderful record. I was familiar with their earlier “Old Style commercial” work, and was not moved. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/22 "2024-07-10T00:08:15Z")
oh… 'nother one … Opeth - Damnation … > **[Opeth - Damnation (Full Album)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9ukH21ut-I%2F)** hard to describe: tranquil and spacey (somewhat) prog/alt-rock, fairly easy to digest - but really good and different … and worlds apart from the “screaming into the mike like you stepped onto a lego at 3 a.m.” - as their earlier/other work I havent found any other album from them that i (remotely) like. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/23 "2024-07-10T00:42:21Z")
I’ve heard that _Desire_ is an album for music fans who don’t generally like Dylan, and it holds true for me. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/24 "2024-07-10T01:37:46Z")
Daft Punk’s Homework is groundbreaking and awesome. Everything else is meh at best. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/25 "2024-07-10T01:43:51Z")
Everything went downhill for the Beatles after _Please Please Me_. Their take on “A Taste of Honey” and “Anna” were sheer genius, but succeeding singles have been a major disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/26 "2024-07-10T02:33:11Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > What, no love for _Beelzebubba_? You infidel! I listened to it. The bass lines were a lot more complex. I couldn’t figure them out, and hence I lost interest. Yes, that’s a really poor reason to not like the album. But I had so much fun figuring out the bass lines on BLIMBY that I lost interest in the (more complex) Beelzebubba. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/27 "2024-07-10T02:38:56Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > **Lou Reed’s** album _Transformer_ is awesome. His other solo stuff? Ugh. (And many music critics say that the success of _Transformer_ was primarily due to the talents of Mick Ronson, not Lou Reed. I can buy that.) I consider his “New York” to be one of the best albums of the eighties/nineties. I like Transformer, but overall I think New York is a lot stronger. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/28 "2024-07-10T02:40:36Z")
What did **Yes** ever do besides “I’ve Seen All Good People”? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/29 "2024-07-10T02:42:36Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > > [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > > > But… I _love_ their first album [The Piper at the Gates of Dawn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Piper_at_the_Gates_of_Dawn). It’s awesome. (In all fairness, I really ought to check out _A Saucerful of Secrets_. I haven’t heard it yet.) > > I love almost all Floyd, but TPATGOD really is a different beast than any of their other stuff. It’s the only album that’s dominated by Syd Barrett and showcases his quirky way of writing and performing songs. Later Floyd was also great, but always much too serious and humorless. It already began with “A Saucerful Of Secrets”, so I can’t really recommend it to you with the exception of “Jugband Blues”, which is Barrett’s only contribution for that album. Would be a shame, as Remember a Day is one of the best things that they ever did, but by contrast I simply cannot get into any Syd-era song at all (he does play on said cut, a Richard Wright composition). But yeah in the end their 4 album 70’s peak (as much as I love most of that material) is like comparing apples to orangutans. [BTW the only Floyd songs you will ever hear on commercial radio are Money and Brick in the Wall, two of the worst or at least atypical things they ever recorded] ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/30 "2024-07-10T02:43:25Z")
> [@P-man](#): > > I consider his “New York” to be one of the best albums of the eighties/nineties. I like Transformer, but overall I think New York is a lot stronger. Of course, one should always keep a copy of _Metal Machine Music_ on hand in case your houseguests have overstayed their welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/31 "2024-07-10T03:09:09Z")
I know this is heresy because Al Kooper’s first Blood, Sweat & Tears album _Child Is Father to the Man_ is beloved by critics. But not by me. It’s their second album titled _Blood, Sweat & Tears_ that is the fantastic one. Better sound, better arrangements, better choice of songs, and, obviously, better vocalist for that one album, ignoring David Clayton-Thomas’ increasing bombast later on. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/32 "2024-07-10T14:21:27Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Of course, one should always keep a copy of _Metal Machine Music_ on hand in case your houseguests have overstayed their welcome. That goes without saying. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/33 "2024-07-10T15:30:25Z")
Agree. For me: John Cougar Mellencamp isn’t terrible, but I can take him or leave him — except for the _American Fool_ album, which is just one good song after another. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/34 "2024-07-10T20:59:32Z")
Well, “China Girl” (on Cougar’s _American Fool_) doesn’t hold up so well (see also: David Bowie’s near-contemporary, unrelated song of the same name; Rush’s slightly earlier “Passage to Bangkok,” etc.) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/35 "2024-07-10T21:15:30Z")
The only Dylan album I like is “Planet Waves”, which he made with The Band. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/36 "2024-07-10T22:23:43Z")
**Queens of the Stone Age**. I love every song on _Lullabies to Paralyze_, yet haven’t managed to find another song on any other of their albums that garners more than mild interest. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/37 "2024-07-10T23:47:08Z")
Besides a few songs on **Tormato** , **Fragile** is the only album of theirs I like. ---
**Author:** ![MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/38 "2024-07-11T00:22:17Z")
I find Weezer talented, and I respect them as a band. However, I wouldn’t consider myself as a FAN. Just not my cup of tea. I really enjoy _Pacific Daydream_ though. The album has a dancey vibe that I like. The music lives up to its title name. Very California-ish. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/39 "2024-07-11T00:43:57Z")
I’ve always liked _Boston_ by Boston, and still listen to it frequently. Never much cared for anything after that. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957/40 "2024-07-11T00:57:56Z")
**Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo**. Great album. I’m not a fan of anything Status Quo did after that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-dont-really-care-for-except-that-one-album/1003957.md?page=3)