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I love Boredoms.
Wait, let me correct that. !!! I LOVE BOREDOMS!!!!!! I don't want you dudes thinking I'm not genuine.
While I like 'Super Ae' and 'Vision Creation Newsun,' it's their vastly different earlier albums like 'Chocolate Synthesizer,' 'Pop Tatari,' 'Soul Discharge,' and 'Onanie Bomb Meets Sex Pistols' that got me into them.
Like you, I once didn't like them. Everything I listened to just seemed like meaningless noise. I'd re-examine them from time to time, but never with any luck. I knew there was something of value there, but I could never uncover it. Then, on one of my revisits to them, it suddenly struck me. In an instant their music made perfect sense to me, I became washed over with joy, and I spent the remainder of the night feverishly downloading and listening to their songs over and over again, barely able to contain myself. By the time the sun came up I was sweaty and still energized. When I forced myself to go to sleep I was kicking under my sheets and smiling into my pillow. I was a happy dude.
I don't know what it took for me to crack them (or for them to crack me.) I think I just stopped trying to make sense of their music. When you listen to them expecting some kind of conventional song structure, you'll be sorely disappointed. Your brain expects something to logically follow, and it doesn't, and then you're put off. You're fighting against it. But as soon as you give up completely and just accept everything you're hearing it suddely makes perfect, natural sense.
Boredoms are brimming with endless creativity. Boredoms are perpetually estatic. You can sense their joy as they play, and it's fucking fun. They are a group of people that genuinely love music and just SOUND in general, and they don't weigh one as more important than the other, pulling equally from both. A burp, fart, yelp, or piercing tone weighs equally with a chord or groovy bass riff. So much so that they just blend it all together. Unlike other acts that try to mash together styles, it isn't oil and water... it becomes something new, and something perfectly organic. You can't quite tell what's pre-planned and what's improvised, but it doesn't really matter.
There's absolutely no pretension to it either. They don't take themselves too seriously, they don't broodingly ponder over their art... they do what's fun for them right then and there, and when it stops being fun they move on to their next impulse. Which is why they sound so different accross their career.
Also, Yoshimi is one of my all-time favorite drummers.
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