The following video is not exactly safe for work.
Close watchers of the occasional function of the RTH Poll had to know this one was coming. The poll question I’m referring to will change soon enough, but here’s your chance to specify the album or artist you did or did not hear in a new and improved way depending on how you answered the following statement:
I have been convinced that an album I previously did not like was actually great only after hearing it again in an altered state.
If you’ve had an altered state conversion, do tell the album or artist. You are not obligated to share details of the altering substance(s), but there are those in the Halls of Rock who desire living vicariously through your tales, so there’s no need to hold back.
If your exquisite powers of taste withstood the influence of an otherwise altered state, you are similarly encouraged to share details.
My apologies in advance for those of you who do not have a stomach for the fictional splattering of fictional multi-eyed ram’s blood.
The following video is safe for work but contains potentially disturbing images of mimed jump roping.
Helped: Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, Yes, Black Sabbath
Did not help whatsoever: Genesis, Van Dyke Parks’ Song Cycle
Did not help: getting shit-faced drunk in the hopes that sharing the Replacements’ sense of alcohol-fueled abandon would make their shitty live show any better.
Helped: getting shit-faced drunk at one of the greatest live shows I’ve ever seen, Hank Williams III. Bourbon and Hank III is a *winning* combination. (Note: I don’t think I needed the booze to like the show, it just made it better.)
HVB
Well, drinking at that Hold Steady show way back when had me briefly thinking that they didn’t suck ass. Once I sobered up, I never liked them again.
Mr. Mod, next time, use a clip from the last ten minutes of Cronenberg’s The Fly.
I want to recall being converted in such a situation, but I can’t really recall any thing like that. I’ve liked a record better, or seen it differently, but I can’t remember being turned on to something under those conditions that before I hadn’t liked. I’m throwing this out here in case one of you guys can remember something about my own life that I can’t. That’s happened before around here.
That almost sounds like a cry for help.
I think on topic, I turned the corner and began the process of accepting Neil Young into my life partly as a result of realizing that early ’70s Neil Young is the most fun to sing along to while half in the bag.
Hey mwall – I remember trying to convert you to “Abbey Road” during one hot DC summer ‘s “exploration into one’s mind”. Kiley was there too
As much as I love The Beatles and agree that Young Mwall needed such conversioni attempts, I hope your attempt to convert him to that album FAILED! He’s got no business loving that album. It’s too much fluff for even a relative sweet tooth like myself.
I don’t remember that, andyr, so thanks. No, I don’t love that album, although I can respect the second side without being really drawn in. The first side has its moments but suffers overall from excessive cuteness.
I wonder if there’s an offshoot here of being convinced by a song while cranking it in the car. I’ve never been a fan of Stevie Ray Vaughn, but I heard “Lover Man” the other day and turned the sound up and kind of dug it. Bad sign, I know, but there it is.
About a year ago, I heard “Lonely Old Night” by Mellencamp on a car radio. I had heard many times before, but it really seemed to jump out of the speakers that time and it made me think — possibly erroneously — that the song is really something.