Tonight I am quite bored.

Trout Mask takes it for me every time... Hex is genius, but I'd be taking TMR on to my desert island with me. ^_^

Hex for me.

I used to like Trout but have gotten tired of it over the years. And while I sometimes get tired of parts of Hex, I never tire of the whole thing at once.

For me it's exactly the opposite.

Hex Enduction Hour is in thrall to Trout Mask Replica. Vote wisely, vote bulbous!

Would Hex exist without Trout Mask Replica?

Hex!!
I tried TMR, didn't like it...................

mik:

Use your ears like a man why dontcha

Tricky one that...

Come to think of it, should this thread be in Fall Polls rather than Other Polls? :confused:

It can be moved if you like.

Hey come on, that's a little harsh don't you think :cry2: . I'm not saying anything bad about TMR or those who like it - it just wasn't for me that's all.

Which silly sod put this poll in the Other Polls section anyway? :whistle:

Oh, this is easy. It's— [head explodes]

mik

Yeah it was a little harsh, I can get much harsher than that-tongue in cheek so it was...you are not supposed to try TMR you are supposed to listen to it over and over again going "what the fuck is this" and then suddenly you go "aha this is the best album ever made in entire history of the world that's what the fuck this is". Which it is, even if you don't like it. From thence you derive decades of pleasure. Take a look at the reviews on Amazon USA if you want a laugh...(this is not the case with me though I loved it straightaway).

I know what you mean though, I tried it and didn't like it with Bob Dylan, and now with the current Bob revival I a getting it in the neck from Bobfans because I have a measly two or three (I'm not even sure which) Bob Dylan albums. "Tried it didn't like it" I say and they look at me puzzled. This from people who have 2 Miles Davis albums...unlike myself who has the fucking lot.

The greatest R'n'R album produced by Western civilization vs.....novelty music fit only for the Dr. Demento radio show, alongside such frivolity as "Fish Heads" and "They're Coming to Take Me Away."

For interest to Beefheart fans, the new mojo has one of those buyers guide things for him.

BTW, is TMR really that hard at first? This is obviously someone asking who thinks that Hex is very commercial!

You are correct, I most likely didn't give it the chance it deserved. I checked it out from the local library and I listened to it in bits and pieces over the course of a few days. I will attempt to check it out again and give it a proper listen from start to finish.

I'm not much of a Dylan fan either...................

My Balloon:

On initial release it got to #21 in the album charts, and it turns up on those top 100 albums of all time things with alarming regularity. even in surveys done in high street shops as per that cartoon somebody cited.

mik:

I would urge you so to do. Seriously, it is endlessly rewarding. I have never known anything quite like it, with the exception of "Under Milk Wood".

What is "Under Milk Wood"? I'm intrigued... <_<

Hex for me.

Gimme Safe As Milk, Lick my Decals Off Baby, or even Doc At The Radar Station and it might have been a challenge.

A "play for radio" by Dylan Thomas (the 1950s recording with Richard Burton is favored round here).

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Here is my pet theory: "Trout Mask Replica" is America's "Under Milk Wood". England's "Under Milk Wood" is "Sir Henry At Rawlinson End" by Vivian Stanshall.

:P

more to the point in this post-modern society, would Trout Mask Replica exist withot Hex?
Time is no longer linear, you know
B)

hex for me also

would have been harder for me to choose between this and strictley personal

still like trout mask replica though

In my terms there is no comparison.

I'll have a good strong coffee whilst listening to Hex and use TMR as the coaster.

uh-oh, looks like you're next....................

These are my top 2 favorite albums as well. I'd have to plump for Hex though, as it's less draining (not by much). After that it would be Doolittle by the Pixies for me, please.

I stopped by the library today and although I didn't sign out TMR, I did pick up Safe as Milk. I like it! Much better than TMR, IMO. Just seems much more "cohesive".
Still not better than Hex, however..................

I had to vote Hex. TMR I absolutely love, but there's something about Hex. It's really sentimentality - the time I got into it, the things I was doing, the people I was hanging around with, listening to it on E in about 1990 and half the room being blown away, the other half demanding that "that shite" be turned off! Thinking about that then made me smile! TMR is as good, if not better, but it's a "me" thing. There's no mates / happy times etc to tie it in with. I got into it on my own just dossing around my bedroom.

'Hex', but both are overrated. If it were 'Safe as Milk' vs 'Dragnet' I'd have a lot more difficulty.

This would be like choosing between children (if I actually had children, and didn't find them entirely repellant).

I don't think I could exist without either of these raucous collections of 'music'.