Albums you do not get...a plea for help and understanding


So like most of you (I bet), I listen to tons of music.  But there are just some albums I never learned to appreciate.  I hope this thread can serve as a teaching tool.  I did not get Mingus at first but now he is one of my favorites.

Perhaps ending each post with, "What am I missing?" would be a good idea.

I will start with Graceland by Paul Simon.  Most of my friends call me crazy (still after all these years...OUCH that was bad) but I never desire to listen to this record.  I get the African influence and rhythm but it just does not impress me.  Alternatively when Peter Gabriel did the African influence thing I found it stunningly good. Paul Simon as a musician impresses me in his other works.  What am I missing?

bancsee

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@audioguy85 Really???The Captain and Tennille? Greatest band in history!!

OK, laughing can stop. I must say, that in 1964 when my "very cool" fellow-freshman college roommate played the first Bob Dylan album for me I was kind of wondering what the fuss was all about. At the time, I was busy learning to play guitar with a book of Beatles songs, and had been to Dick Clark’s Caravan of Stars in Raleigh that summer--The Supremes, The Shirelles, Gene Pitney, The Coasters--you get it. After growing up, things changed, of course, but we all go through periods of growth and changes...as we used to say at the huge computer company I worked at, "Change is the only constant in life."

And the B-52’s? Come on, now. "Love Shack" is a new wave classic! Reminds me of this little shack way out in the sticks near Hilton Head that we used to drive to from Savannah in the ’60s (if you could find it!) where the music was LOUD and the dancing was non-stop, along with the beer. GREAT TIMES!