Albums You Disliked Previously But Has Grown On You?

[Riff Raff]

Something I have wanted to know from you lot is what albums are ones that when you listened to once or twice you thought meh or flat out disliked it but over time eventually grew to actually enjoy?
The most famous one for me was Judas Priest Nostradamus. This one took me a fair time to get into but now that I understand its a concept album and overall the music just got better as I listened more.


Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events is another one. I didn't like a lot of the material inititally. Took 3 listens at least for me to really start enjoying the material on it.

 

[Sox]

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I reckon there's a few for me Riff, but this one ...



I bought as a young teen and it kind of went over my head, a few years and many plays later it became a favourite.

 

[That 70s Guy]

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"The Wall"-Pink Floyd

 

[Riff Raff]

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Ummagumma by Pink Floyd was another. That one was really different and took a bit of time to enjoy it as a listener. Something about experimental albums that has me thrown lately lol

 

[LG]

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This is a hard one for me...it has to be a pretty shoddy effort for me Not to give an album at least 3+ plays or more over a two week period, if by that time I don't enjoy it it's more than likely to end up moldering on the shelf for eternity.

Also...I have well over 7,000+ albums now and it can get mind boggling at times trying to remember every album by every band you have picked up over the years, so that also affects how I perceive a record now. That's why I give it a fair/prolonged/objective listen when I buy it,,,it Has to make an imprint on me or I won't play it again.

 

[Khor1255]

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This is a hard one for me...it has to be a pretty shoddy effort for me Not to give an album at least 3+ plays or more over a two week period, if by that time I don't enjoy it it's more than likely to end up moldering on the shelf for eternity.

Also...I have well over 7,000+ albums now and it can get mind boggling at times trying to remember every album by every band you have picked up over the years, so that also affects how I perceive a record now. That's why I give it a fair/prolonged/objective listen when I buy it,,,it Has to make an imprint on me or I won't play it again.

I'm on the absolute opposite side of that spectrum. I refuse to force myself to listen to anything I don't like. As a result it sometimes takes me quite a bit of time to get into an album or even a band. The real exceptions for me are albums/bands I like the first time I heard them.

Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Screaming Trees and Mindfunk are bands I liked the very first time I heard them. Other than classical music and a few tracks from other pop artits this is the exception rather than the rule.

 

[ILoveJimmyPage]

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I guess it would take me awhile to think about this but the first one that popped into my head was Physical Graffiti. It took me a good while to warm up to that album. There are still a couple of tracks like "Boogie with Stu" that I never warmed to but as a whole I appreciate the album a lot more than I did initially.

I'd say another was Nirvana's In Utero, but Nevermind is really hard to follow now isn't it?

 

[Death on Credit]

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For me, it's usually a case of albums that are so emotionally dense that it takes several listens to really penetrate. These albums packed a punch, but it took a while for the blow to be really felt:

Marquee Moon by Television. A year ago, if you had asked me, I would have said that I didn't like Television, or that they were "ok" at best. Now, this is one of my top 5 albums of all time. There so much here, so much poetry and beauty. The guitar work is far more complicated than most punk albums, and there's a lot going on in the background that it takes a long time to hear. The lyrics are minimalistic, but when combined with the music, create swirling whirlpools and other worlds.

Bob Dylan's "Latter-Day Trilogy;" Time Out of Mind, "Love and Theft", and Modern Times. When most people think of Dylan at his best, they tend to point directly at his electric years, from 1965 to 1966. And I used to agree. These three albums seemed like footnotes on a long career. Nowadays, I've realized that this is the kind of music that Dylan's always wanted to make, but it took him an entire lifetime to get there. They provide a tour of 20th Century American music, spanning genres ranging from rock 'n roll, to blues, to rockabilly, to swing/jazz to country. The lyrics compose a vast philosophy touching upon a great many facets of life, with a world weariness that only the aging songwriter could manage.

Exile on Main St. by the Rolling Stones. I used to think it was too long, I never felt like bothering with it. As my attention span has grown over the years, I've had an easier time listening to these sorts of albums from beginning to end. This is groundbreaking and powerful in so many ways that have been chronicled so many times that there's not much I can add. It's not only a culmination of everything the Stones had been trying to do up to this point, it's a culmination of rock 'n roll as a whole. To my ears, it stands unequaled as the single greatest example of the musical movement. It's fun, it's smart, it drags you through the mud, it pulls you back up, and then it kicks off the dust and throws you back down.

 

[Vehicle]

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This is a hard one for me...it has to be a pretty shoddy effort for me Not to give an album at least 3+ plays or more over a two week period, if by that time I don't enjoy it it's more than likely to end up moldering on the shelf for eternity.

I'm on the absolute opposite side of that spectrum. I refuse to force myself to listen to anything I don't like.

I'm in between these two methods. I'm pretty open minded about music I haven't heard, and I'll give it a fair shake and see if I absorb any of it. If there are 1-2 tracks I like, I more often than not will stay with it a bit longer.

If a cd gets no reaction from me, I may stick with it a few days. Again, to see if it sticks. Indifference is almost as bad as irritation when it comes to music.

Take jazz, for instance. I have really tried over the years to find some sort of affinity for it, but I just can't get into it. It doesn't bother me at all. It's just something on in the background I can listen and ignore at the same time.

However, I have no tolerance for stuff that annoys or distracts me. If it's irritating, I toss it. Music is for my own enjoyment.


As far as the question asked for this thread, the 'Saturday Night Fever' soundtrack horrendously bad when it came out.

Of course, it was 1977, I was 13, long haired and listened to KISS, Ted Nugent, Zep, etc, etc, and everything else SUCKED!!

Then, somewhere in my 30s, 'Saturday Night Fever' morphed into a really well crafted, entertaining album.

Go figure.

 

[Lynch]

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Of course, it was 1977, I was 13, long haired and listened to KISS, Ted Nugent, Zep, etc, etc, and everything else SUCKED!!

Then, somewhere in my 30s, 'Saturday Night Fever' morphed into a really well crafted, entertaining album.

Go figure.

Fantastic album worthy of being one of the biggest selling albums of all time.