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@Dooks-Fatberg
Just kidding. I understand being bewildered by the the sacred cows of critical consensus.
I've been in the same boat before with Elvis, Bowie, Johnny Cash, Nick Drake, John Coltrane and even the Stones. I "got it" at some point with all of those. That now reads like a list of some of my all time favorite musicians.
I still have a massive head-scratching lack of comprehension at the adulation heaped on Nick Cave and even to a large extent Leonard Cohen (yes I get that some lyrics are great but the music is often perfunctory and often totally horrible).
The odd thing is that when I finally clicked with a lot of these long misunderstood classic acts I very often went the other way and got totally absorbed and a bit obsessed.