I suppose my choice won’t be a surprise 
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Honestly - my challenging/impossibles are virtually any of the big stadium rock or prog bands/musicians - not because the music itself is difficult: it just tends to be boring, or toe-curlingly trite.
Give me Ayler any day.
A minority view lol.
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Completely agree, although it maybe also effort justification bias….
I think their best album..
I’d go with Ok Computer which gives me more pleasure than Kid A & Amnesiac.
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hi peakman - i suspect 4’33 works better as a live performance 
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i included an albert ayler piece on my demo playlist - the dealer described it as ‘complete rubbish - just noise’
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I find that totally inaccessible.
Later works, such as Broken Gargoyles, are far more “musical” and I do listen now and again (whilst still being extremely challenging).
Clearly the correct dealer response should have been along the lines of - I normally find Ayler a difficult listen but on this new Naim xyz system I’m seeing inside the music for the first time and whatever you decide on the system I’ll be buying a copy of the Ayler to enjoy at home!
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Time to try again then! Try the second version first - I think it’s more accessible.
Will do - when my wife is out.
I find that listening to the news on the radio every morning is a challenging listen.
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I was amazed to discover at least a dozen recordings, and at least one on the guitar!
For anyone who has no idea what we’re talking about, Cage’s piece was “written” for solo piano and essentially consists of 4 minutes 33 seconds of the pianist playing nothing.
Roger
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Anything Coldplay or Telemann drives me up the wall. Simply lacks substance.
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Great thread idea. I attempted to slog through Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged concert a couple weeks ago. Just couldn’t get into it.
I could never connect with Coltrane’s A Love Supreme either. Nor much of Miles Davis’s later catalogue.
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‘A Love Supreme’ is sublime to my mind. Might just have to play it now.
G
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I couldn’t agree more!
This is a reply about John Cage’s s silent piece
4mins 33secs ..
Someone worked out its 4*60+33=273 and that is the absolute zero of temperature..
Probably a coinincidence
Some of his works are quite nice .. try Preludes and Interludes.
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