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Originally Posted by Johnny American
In any case, I think Sonic Youth's music is always hiding something. If you don't like an album by them, put it on and play it to death with the idea that you want it to be your favorite record by them by the time you're done with it.
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I think this time their music is just bad. There is no way around "bad."
If you have to convince yourself to like an album, you're only doing it for the artist's sake. You don't want them to feel like failures, and you don't want to feel like they have failed you. Well, what if they have? Life goes on. They have other albums. They may have more in the future. If you really are disappointed by Rather Ripped, the disappointment does not stem from anything deeper than the music itself. Anything more, and you're just over-analyzing. It's just a record. And it's awful, but what can you do about it.
EDIT: And anyway, I think your problem is that you are mistaking familiarity for a genuine liking of the album. Just because you listen to an album hundreds of times, it doesn't mean it gets better with every listen. Surely you've heard that the definition of insanity is performing the same task over and over again, and expecting different results.