I HATE IT!!! Oh, oh wait, no- it's actually my favorite album.

If Chris says I'll like a band, I end up obsessing over them, listening to the album or a particular song over and over for up to weeks at a time, and it will become one of my favorite things.  Not before I dismiss them entirely, however.  Chris will say: "Hey baby - you'd really like so and so here" and pass me the headphones to the computer.  My response is usually like "It's annoying." or "I can't stand that guy's voice." or "It's boring."  Then, something magical happens.  Whatever backwards shitty snarl I have in my mind unwinds and dissipates, and I listen to the music again.  And, JEEZ, fuck, oh WEIRD- Chris was totally right.  And then I fucking obsess over this newly introduced music and put my Ipod on repeat for that band at the painting studio for about a month. 

It's gotta be so incredibly frustrating for Chris.  This happens once every couple of weeks.  We always collect music.  Nine years to take note of his recommendations and I still haven't been able to take pause to forestall my immediate dismissal by considering the probability that I am broken in some way here.  EVERY BAND or composer or whatever thing the recording is, like the freakish recordings of WWII Numbers Stations, I will take a quick listen and I will claim I do not like it.  Sadly, I can't think of a time he steered me wrong.  I end up liking it.   I not only end up liking it, I take up the mantel like a sick zealot.  I'm so fucking annoying. 

A few months back, Chris HAD to download Pet Sounds.  I was surprised that he'd want a Beach Boys album.   I hated them.  He advised me to give it a listen.  no WAY! I responded.  I continued on it forEVER, refusing to believe I'd like ANY Beach Boys, but also refusing to listen to it.   Months.  I lumped them in with the Eagles. 

But I'm converted.  Again.  

I've been obsessed with Okkerville River.  Chris downloaded an album of theirs recently, and, in line with my music dyslexia, I said I didn't like it at all.  I listen to it all the time now.  They did a song integrating John B Sails from Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys, and that led me to re-listen to them.  I might be the last person to notice that Pet Sounds great album, and the Beach Boys are a great band.

Here's a stripped down version of John B from the Beach Boys- It's eerie and beautiful: