ITT:Albums that are really challenging to listen to

pleb

>>73155226
Try Public Castration then get back to us

Filth becomes easy to listen to after a few times.

Public Castration can still put me on the edge of a massive stroke every time.

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how is this one of the best albums of the decade again?

>>73155369
incredibly accessible, unless you mean it's just bad or something

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>listening to any album, whatsoever
>challenging
I want to fucking purge you and your DNA from the earth

>>73155226
b8 thread

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This is a hard listen desu, but worth it. It's one of the few Anarcho-Punk releases I can think of that seems Anarchist in structure as well as lyrical theme.

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posting the obvious

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desu

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Obvious answer

>>73155360
Is it just me or the album is a bit bad recorded?
I hear a lot of static noise from the recording and that really turns me off. Flith still holds more energy than their other albums desu.

>>73155448
how is this challenging? This is my favorite ween album after listening to all of weens discography I finally listened to this and it instantly became my favorite

>>73155354
not even public castration is challenging after a while

try the body lovers/the body haters

>>73155486
public castration is a live album, what do you expect

>>73155603
Audible recording?

>>73155603
There are a lot of live albums from that time very well recorded and produced, Public Castration is just badly recorded and in my opinion that is enough to trurn me off from the album

>listens mostly to skronk
>challenged by skronk

>>73155389
sounds interesting gonna check this out. should be interesting based off structure alone considering almost every punk bands forgets about that aspect of songwriting in a conventional genre with probably the most amount of wiggle room ideologically

>>73155486
>>73156143
imo the production adds to the atmosphere

music is only challenging if you're mentally challenged.

>>73155425
>>73155448
These two are in my Top 10 of all time.

>>73156301
also my vote would go to any run of the mill black metal or death metal albums, or run of the mill anything. it just becomes so boring to me so fast, cant make it through any album like that when i have to its one of the very few things with music that turns me into a prick

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The second track Clara makes you feel like Mussolini's corpse getting kicked, spat and urinated on.

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>listening to shitty music on purpose and rationalizing why you didn't waste your time

>>73156690
>Music should consist of nothing but jolly pop songs and easy listening

>>73156719
>acting is if no people are disturbed, annoyed, or """""challenged""""" by jolly pop songs or easy listening

>>73156785
You certainly don't seem like you are annoyed by that.

>>73156785
>challenging easy listening
literally a contradiction

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Obvious

>>73155585
Do you really mean to say that those are both difficult to listen to? TBL may as well be Soundtracks For The Blind - version 2. It's probably the easiest thing to listen to that Gira has ever created. The Body Haters is certainly stranger. I would concede that it could be difficult to listen to.

>>73155226

One time I came home drunk off my tits and angry (for some reason), and just played Filth and Cop loudly before passing out alone

It was a great evening really

>>73158073
i think you've just got a really twisted endurance scale desu, TBL/DESU is generally regarded as endurancecore last i checked

>>73158286
People talk about PCIAGI and Filth a lot, but I still have never made it through Cop. I've listened to nearly everything Gira has created, and that, as well as the Skin releases are, in my opinion, the most difficult to get through. World Of Skin is tormentingly slow.

>>73158487
man cop is easy as fuck mate, what are you on about

>>73158106
what is this?
I want to look it up but I'm afraid
hopefully it's just a meme breakcore album with a really edgy cover inspired by goreshit/lolishit

>>73155226
I feel you OP. The only Swans album I can say I properly like is Public Castration. It's the only one that feels visceral enough. I've even gone through one of those "How to into Swans" charts, and I just can't. Filth in particular. I can't listen to Michael Gira yelling "Flex your muscles" over and over without pissing myself. I appreciate how important Swans are, and if I was there to listen to their early stuff at the time I'd probably like it, but it just feels dated and uninteresting to me now.

>>73155226
That one clicked pretty easily for me desu

>>73158286
>TBL/DESU
lel

>>73158286
>TBL/DESU
I will never criticise the filter again

>>73158588

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EkEbfPCu5Q

A death industrial album I made in 2013 when I was super depressed and obsessed with Atrax Morgue.

>>73158818
>>73158906
i was tempted to correct it afterwards but decided it was far too amusing to correct

>>73158286
>TBL/DESU
o man o man

>>73155226
one day i had to bike home from work and it started raining and i put filth on. that's the story of how i got into this album

ITAOTS

I love you Jesus Christ meme too challenging for me.

>>73159446
Lol,this is fucked up

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This unironically

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Legit scares me

>>73159567
HE SAID IT DID NOT COST ME ANYTHING

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unless you're one of those disgusting people that only skips to the catchy bits

>>73155585
'10:00' and '3:53' are amazing

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Shit's 2 and a half hours long

>>73159840

It isn't at all challenging to listen to IMO. Fantastic album as well.

t. listen to long ambient pieces on a regular basis these days and edited the wiki for that album

>>73159538
wtf its literally just pop with distorted guitars

>>73158562
oh shit, it's almost like people have different tastes and tolerances for different kinds of music.

keep jerking off to how hardcore you are for being able to sit through Swans tho

>>73158286
Body Lovers/Haters is fucking boring.

>>73159989
dude it's literally 40 mins long. If you can't sit through that then you should probably see someone.

>>73160011
The post you just replied to was not submitted by myself; also, I did listen through Cop after your post. I still believe that it is more difficult to listen through than PCIAGI and Filth are. PCIAGI is engaging, and the time goes by quickly. Filth is less agreeable, but not to the degree that Cop is.

>>73160726
hey man as long as you listened to it it's all good

>>73160011
>dude it's literally 40 mins long. If you can't sit through that then you should probably see someone.
You misunderstood my post. I can and have "sat through" Cop many times. I enjoy that album, it is not a chore for me to listen to it.

My post was making fun of you because you were bragging that you can get through Cop no problem while the anon you were quoting has trouble listening to it himself. I was pointing out that you should understand that different people have different tastes, and what might be hard for one person to listen to, is easy for another person to listen to, and the reverse, as well. I thought that was fairly obvious but since you asked that anon "what are you on about" evidently you hadn't heard of that idea before.

To sincerely contribute to the thread; the music I struggle to listen to the most are pisscore artists. The more "talented" the pisscore artist is directly proportional to the amount of time I am able can listen to one of their albums before shutting it off.

>>73159567
DONTWORRYMOMDONTWORRYMOMDONTWORRYMOMDONTWORRYMOM

>>73155226
nigga that was my first swans album

>>73155405
This is the only album I've ever actually felt challenged by.

>>73159945

You people these days are so hung up about technicalities that you stopped listening with your ears and now can only hear music through the lense of your jewish professor.

Just because something has melody and structure doesn't reduce it to pop.
The overall sound is what matters.

But I agree that it's not challenging.
None of the albums so far in this thread except for >>73157241 and >>73158106 make the mark.

I'd say something challenging for me to this day is the cutup stuff from Tofubeats.
It's not interesting, it's really obnoxious and sounds pretty much like a cd skipping for four minutes straight.

https://tofubeats.bandcamp.com/track/work-shit

like seriously
I love discordant noisy music but that song annoys the hell out of me.

>>73155405
Hair Pie, Bake 1 was so hard to get through upon first listen.

>>73155405
Idk it sounds so accesible to me these days and my friends like it
we sing Ice Cream for Crow all the time because beefheart rules

>>73158210
I do this a lot but instead of being angry I am sad and instead of putting on early swans I put on my father will guide me up a rope. And then I feel sad yet hopeful before passing out on the sofa.

>>73155226
clicked easier than To Be Kind. this and My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky

>>73159989
I agree cop is probably the most unsettling of swans studio albums. Drainland gets an honourable mention from me because of the recording of gira and jarboe's arguments which made me feel sad.

>>73162456
My father... is the one of the most accessible swans album i feel. I think it's my favourite album of all time.

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pretty much the only album that's been challenging to me, love it though.