Blzebub said:
Agreed re rebarbative (which I had to look up). A wonderful word, seemingly purpose-designed for Yes, Genesis, Steely Dan, Mahler, Wagner, Coltrane, et al.
It's not a word one hears (sees) all that often. Applying reasonable deductive principles, it appears to mean "reminding one to regrow a beard", so could very well apply to OSM as well, potentially, as your examples above. Having looked it up myself, seems I wasn't far out, really.
I agree very strongly with parts of this thread (filaments?), but by no means all of it. I agree with Bub about Coltrane, and I can't logically back it up -- probably my loss, but there you go. "Sketches of Spain"? -- Yes, please, different thing entirely. This is good, though:
kasperhauser said:
Everything everybody else likes sucks. The more they like it, the suckier it sucks.
This is possibly quite true. I'll never forget being at one of those Naim Forum gatherings at the Bristol show some years ago where forum members surreptitiously attempt to recognise each other without asking, and try to get Doug to play the CD they've brought. I'm fairly certain to this day that, in a spirit of truely Dev(il)ish audio terrorism, all of them had brought deliberately ghastly stuff in an effort to out-ghastly the others. Never in all my days have I heard such a concentrated collection of lifeless, dirgy, over-produced drivel, in comparison with which IMHO, DSOTM comes out pretty well.