Albums that grew on you over time

Bulldog · 04-10-2010, 12:37 AM

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica

^ Picked it up for about a fiver from the bargain bin in Virgin Megastore some time or other ago. I think I tried to listen to it that same day, didn't get past the first two or three tracks and abandoned it. Two or three years later, for whatever reason I thought I'd give it another go. Still wasn't so impressed by it, but something about the subtle intricacies and bizarre rhythms impressed me enough to give it another go, so I'd go back to it again, and then again, and then again and so on. Basically, if any of you know those optical illusion puzzles you'd have to stare at for a while to see the intended image, that's kinda how I see this album and how it grows on you over time. Some people just plain despise it, but I just see it as 28 tracks of beautiful madness now, as in one of my favourite albums.

sidewinder · 04-10-2010, 01:32 AM

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Originally Posted by JJJ567

I remember this taking a bit to sink in also. Which reminds me of another album that came out around the same time that also took a while to swallow...

Tool - Lateralus

Have loved them both for years now though.

TheCunningStunt · 04-10-2010, 02:49 AM

^

Tool are one band I just can't find the appeal. Am I missing something? They just seem a bit.. shit to me.

Mojo · 04-10-2010, 03:38 AM

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Originally Posted by JJJ567

I was addicted to The Bends and OK Computer before getting this as a gift one year for Christmas. I was expecting something different, but not this. I guess I just didn't really let it soak in until a few more listens. It's one of my favorite albums now.

It took seeing Radiohead years after this albums release for me to get this one. I bought it the day it came out and was so disappointed. I didn't just not get it, I HATED it.

jackhammer · 04-10-2010, 01:33 PM

Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

I think I was around 17/18 when I first heard this after getting into them through Meddle and Animals and it was just too odd and childlike for me. Now of course I love it. Bloody masterpiece.

Flyingpig437 · 04-10-2010, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

I think I was around 17/18 when I first heard this after getting into them through Meddle and Animals and it was just too odd and childlike for me. Now of course I love it. Bloody masterpiece.

a bit off topic but I saw this album in someone collection and they knew i was into floyd and said i could borrow it but i just thought it would be ****. When i actually listened to it about 10 yrs. later i loved it from the first hearing

Every album i've ever loved i've loved from the 3rd or 4th hearing. the ones i've tried to get into after the 4th hearing i haven't and just conclude are crap.
e.g's
Mercury REv-Snowflake midnight
Lambchop-Damaged

and i love other albums by those bands!!!

NSW · 04-10-2010, 02:27 PM

I'd mentioned this one in my "Top 10 most important albums" list, and that's because this one really took some time to grow on me, but once it did it really stuck. I'd heard a few songs from them off different albums...a friend of mine was obsessed with these guys...and obsessed with making me like them (which might be another reason I rejected the thought at first). I never thought I would. I hated the singer's voice, I wasn't used to the flow of the music, it seemed a little more offbeat and just plain different from what I was used to listening to. It's going to sound crazy, but it was the song "Wild Packs of Family Dogs" that finally hooked me. No, it's not the best song on the album musically or lyrically, now it sounds like filler really, but the lyrics were oddly amusing and charming (to me anyway) and I just thought, why not try to be a little more open minded here? And it finally worked it's way to being a favorite. Personal stand out tracks are "3rd Planet", "Tiny Cities Made of Ashes", and "What People Are Made of".

Violent & Funky · 04-10-2010, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by TheCunningStunt

^

Tool are one band I just can't find the appeal. Am I missing something? They just seem a bit.. shit to me.

I'm not sure which part of their package you dislike. It can't be the musicianship...

+81 · 04-10-2010, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by BTown787

I still have yet to "get" this album. So far all it is to me is redundant hardcore with the inclusion of the great song 'Start Today'.

**Janszoon** · 04-10-2010, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by +81

I still have yet to "get" this album. So far all it is to me is redundant hardcore with the inclusion of the great song 'Start Today'.

All I can say as far as "getting it" goes is that I've always loved it because of how relentlessly upbeat and positive it is. Never fails to put me in a good mood.

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TheCunningStunt love will tear you apart Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Manchester, UK. Posts: 5,107	^ Tool are one band I just can't find the appeal. Am I missing something? They just seem a bit.. shit to me. __________________ I don't feel and I feel great. Last FM

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn I think I was around 17/18 when I first heard this after getting into them through Meddle and Animals and it was just too odd and childlike for me. Now of course I love it. Bloody masterpiece. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

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NSW Bigger and Better Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Texas girl living in the UK Posts: 2,596	I'd mentioned this one in my "Top 10 most important albums" list, and that's because this one really took some time to grow on me, but once it did it really stuck. I'd heard a few songs from them off different albums...a friend of mine was obsessed with these guys...and obsessed with making me like them (which might be another reason I rejected the thought at first). I never thought I would. I hated the singer's voice, I wasn't used to the flow of the music, it seemed a little more offbeat and just plain different from what I was used to listening to. It's going to sound crazy, but it was the song "Wild Packs of Family Dogs" that finally hooked me. No, it's not the best song on the album musically or lyrically, now it sounds like filler really, but the lyrics were oddly amusing and charming (to me anyway) and I just thought, why not try to be a little more open minded here? And it finally worked it's way to being a favorite. Personal stand out tracks are "3rd Planet", "Tiny Cities Made of Ashes", and "What People Are Made of". __________________ Hi.

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04-10-2010, 12:37 AM	#21 (permalink)
Bulldog why bother? Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: UK Posts: 4,840	Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica ^ Picked it up for about a fiver from the bargain bin in Virgin Megastore some time or other ago. I think I tried to listen to it that same day, didn't get past the first two or three tracks and abandoned it. Two or three years later, for whatever reason I thought I'd give it another go. Still wasn't so impressed by it, but something about the subtle intricacies and bizarre rhythms impressed me enough to give it another go, so I'd go back to it again, and then again, and then again and so on. Basically, if any of you know those optical illusion puzzles you'd have to stare at for a while to see the intended image, that's kinda how I see this album and how it grows on you over time. Some people just plain despise it, but I just see it as 28 tracks of beautiful madness now, as in one of my favourite albums.