Can someone help me like the Pinegrove album? I feel like I should like it, but I've tried it 5 times or so and can't even get half way through. My tastes generally line up with a lot of folks in here and I have seen this album receive so much praise, yet I just can't seem to like it. Or even not dislike it.
I really couldn't get into it upon its initial praise but gave it a shot a few months later and it really clicked. I should add that "Size of the Moon" was the only song that I really *liked* at first listen (now I love it). Definitely a grower!
My favorite song is New Friends which is last, and it's only like 8 songs just get through it and maybe don't like it if you dont
If the "I should call my parents when I think of them, should tell my friends when I love them..." verse in Old Friends isn't drawing you in, the album might not be for you.
Trying it again now while reading along with the lyrics. Hoping for a change of heart. I really want to like it!
yeah sure this is fine 1. Pinegrove - Cardinal 2. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial 3. The Hotelier - Goodness 4. Chairlift - Moth 5. Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo 6. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book 7. LVL Up - Return To Love 8. Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp 9. Jeff Rosenstock - Worry 10. Owel - Dear Me 11. Bellows - Fist and Palm 12. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years 13. Angel Olsen - My Woman 14. Frank Ocean - Blonde 15. Bon Iver - 22, A Million 16. Flock of Dimes - If You See Me, Say Yes 17. John K Samson - Winter Wheat 18. Posture And The Grizzly - I Am Satan 19. White Lung - Paradise 20. Young Thug - Slime Season 3/Jeffery 21. Anderson Paak - Malibu 22. For Everest - We Are At Home In The Body 23. YG - Still Brazy 24. Future - EVOL 25. Anohni - Hopelessness 26. Crying - Beyond The Fleeting Gates 27. Solange - A Seat At The Table 28. Blood Orange - Freetown Sound 29. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition 30. I Love Your Lifestyle - We Go Way Back 31. From Indian Lakes - Everything Feels Better Now 32. Daughter - Not To Disappear 33. Nicolas Jaar - Sirens 34. Balance and Composure - Light We Made 35. Mitski - Puberty 2 36. Chris Farren - Can’t Die 37. Joyce Manor - Cody 38. Kevin Gates - Islah 39. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep 40. Johnny Foreigner - Mono No Aware 41. Nao - For All We Know 42. Joey Purp - iiiDrops 43. Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman 44. Florist - The Birds Outside Sang 45. Oathbreaker - Rheia 46. The Range - Potential 47. Happy Diving - Electric Soul Unity 48. DJDS - Stand Up And Speak 49. 21 Savage & Metro Boomin - Savage Mode 50. Luh - Spiritual Songs For Lovers To Sing
people cant just flip a switch and make you like an album. if you dont like it you dont like it, i dont think you need help
But people can point out what they like about an album that someone else might not have picked up on. I feel it's a fair thing to ask, especially when you feel like you're missing out on something considered so major.
idk when it comes to a majorly hyped album that has already had so much said about it throughout the course of a year idk what new perspective someone could add that isnt already out there. i just dont get trying to force yourself to like something just because other people do, if after 5 listens i dislike something im not gonna keep trying. i might return to it later down the road. i get what youre saying but at the same time its not something i really do
Yeah, it's totally situational, by person and by the piece of art. For me, when certain circles really praise something and I don't get it, I want to know what or where that disconnect is coming from. But again, totally different approaches for different people. I think my approach largely comes from watching movies though, where I feel like there is a lot more chance for that lack of connection between a person and a work, and reading/finding other positions actually lend greatly to understanding.
Gonna have to agree with you on this one. It's a decent release, but I just don't see why it's so hyped. Just feels like another serviceable release from Run for Cover to me.
But forreal, there's tons of stuff which are critically acclaimed which I just can't really get into. Radiohead for example.
My 12 favorite albums of the year, couldn't bring myself to rank them: Bellows - Fist & Palm Deer Leap - Impermanence Dikembe - Hail Something Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked For Death Hello Shark - Delicate Hotelier - Goodness Human Hands - Morning Sun Mothers - When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired Signals Midwest - At This Age Told Slant - Going By Tyler Daniel Bean - On Days Soon To Pass TW Walsh - Fruitless Research
actually just turned on hello shark for the first time. right before reading this haha. it's pretty good. forgot about a new human hands release
My top 10 list revised. The Hotelier - Goodness Pinegrove - Cardinal Bon Iver - 22, A Million LVL UP - Return To Love John K Samson - Winter Wheat Joyce Manor - Cody Jeff Rosenstock - Worry. Touché Amore - Stage Four O' Brother - Endless Light Into It. Over It. - Standards
That's where I am coming from with Cardinal. Some of the biggest releases of the year within this website--Hotelier, Thrice, Jimmy Eat World...I loved. It seemed a foregone conclusion I'd at least like Pinegrove, but on the first couple listens I wasn't really drawn in. Listening while reading the lyrics definitely gave me a different appreciation for it. I don't know if I'll ever be nuts about it, but I can definitely see where the praise is coming from.
Here it is: 1. Mitski - Puberty 2 2. Beyonce - Lemonade 3. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It 4. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book 5. Future - Evol 6. Young Thug - Jeffery 7. Pinegrove - Cardinal 8. Daughter - Not To Disappear 9. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo 10. Rihanna - Anti 11. Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman 12. Frank Ocean - Blonde 13. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service 14. Tinashe - Night Ride 15. Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp 16. Solange Knowles - A Seat At the Table 17. Camp Cope - Camp Cope 18. DJDS - Stand Up and Speak 19. The Range - Potential 20. Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife 2
Seeing 1975 show up quite a bit. That album had 0 pull for me to return to it more than like 5 times. Shame cause I really enjoyed it that first week or two it was released.
It wasn't really a constant listen for me. It was more sparingly, but whenever I did I loved it. I had to give it one last listen before I could properly rank it, though I already want to rearrange the order.
I don't listen to the 1975 record nearly as much as a lot of the ones on my list that it beat out. Placing it so high on my list came from it being such a wonderfully constructed and well executed album. It's more than just collection of songs to me -- it's like an experience, as cheesy as that sounds haha. That's not to say a lot of the songs don't stand out individually or anything, but the ebbs and flows of the album are just really perfect and makes the whole thing so unique. PLUS UGH IS SUCH A BANGER