I felt the same way about Riot for the longest time... The only tracks I could relate to the first time I heard the album was "Family Affair" and "You Caught Me Smilin"

It grew on me, though. And I love it. But it IS a mess of monotony and "boredom"... maybe purposefully so.

>I think okayplayer prefers boring music in general though.

Yeah, I think OKP tends towards "soundscapes"... Music that is more about texture than melody and harmony, where the background functions as the foreground.

Sort of like the musical equivalent of a Terrence Malick film.