Albums that grew on you

[morgansterne]

Sebadohs album bakesale. It's quite lo Fi. I wasn't impressed but something about it made me listen to it everyday for about 2 weeks.
By the end of that, I loved it.

Edit: no, autocorrect! I didn't mean "seadogs album namesake."

 

[SuperTbass]

Led Zeppelin III is the first that comes to mind.

Also used to HATE AC/DC, but I actually dig them a little now.

The Doors' L.A. Woman took some warming up to. Now it's one of my favorites of theirs.

 

[joebar]

I was familiar with John Sykes from his previous Whitesnake gig and I saw them open for Bon Jovi way back in the beloved 80's. Came home from the concert, bought the CASSETTE and listened to it briefly. The more I listened to it, the more I loved it.

great album but I am not a fan of carmine appice-

 

[Jay Parker]

"the Kings are here." On vinyl of course. Cool mix of pop and rock. Still fresh to me. Some great guitar licks.

 

[Spectrum]

The Mars Volta album Nocturniquet took me a while to warm up to. Like the band itself, I didn't quite get it at first, but now I dig it.

 

[Ampig]

Alan White- Ramshackled. Nothing like Yes, but an incredible diverse record. To me, the best of all Yes member's solo recordings.

 

[40Hz]

Another I found interesting in places but not all that great at first was Julee Cruise's album Floating into the Night which became famous for the song Falling which was used as the main theme for the TV series Twin Peaks. It took a while for me to get my head around it, but now it's one of my favorite albums.

This is a very dark album. But with a weird and oddly 50s (to my ears) vibe that slowly unfolds like a lovely but poisonous and evil flower.

Here's what I mean:





Scary Metal bands have nothing on this lady. She's like a satanic Enya with this album.

 

[Eric_Allard]

NoMeansNo One took some time to grow on me. It's just so dark and depressing at first, but after a few listens, i became convinced it was their best album.

 

[bassstrangler]

Doolittle by Pixies. I hated that album, hated them. Even saw them in concert on that tour by accident. They warmed up for The Cure and Love and Rockets. Rolled my eyes the whole time as I sat there in agony.

A few years back I started warming up to it. Now I love that album and Love them. Weird.

 

[PWRL]

Reckoning by REM. To me, it used to sound just like the cover looks, but now I like it a lot better. I found a good old promo copy on vinyl and I dig it.

 

[tangentmusic]

This one.
It wasn't their first with keyboards, but the first one to use them pretty extensively.
I had been really into their Prog era of Caress through Hemispheres. Permanent Waves took a bit of getting use to and Moving Pictures was easy to love.

Signals took some time to grow on me.

 

[bmax]

My Aim is True. Elvis Costello's debut album.

Thought it was ok the first few times I heard it. I later came to realize just how good an album it actually was.

AWESOME album.

 

[Misfit Wookiee]

It took me several spins before Cake's "Fashion Nugget" was no longer considered a bad purchase... I ended up becoming a huge fan of theirs.

Also, I totally HATED Nirvana when "Smells Like Teen Spirit" came out. Just didn't get it. I did, eventually, but not initially.

On a side note, it took me a few years before I figured out the Rush song I kept hearing on KNAC and KLOS was "Subdivisions". REALLY love that one!

 

[BrianVengeance]

Had to listen to this one several times on repeat for its mysteries to unfold.



Early Alkaline Trio was kinda the same way. They opened for a couple of bands I liked and its was miserable during their sets. Would love to go back and get a second viewing.

 

[fnordlyone]

uhm… Ashamed to admit when I first plugged into Metallica's Master's of Puppets it was a little too cacophony for me…I loved Van Halen at the time. Also, Queensryche's Rage for Order… And it took awhile for Maiden's Powerslave to convince me it was their best yet. Recently, Ghost's Meliora for silly vocal harmony….
f!

 

[elgecko]

Pink Floyd - Animals

Made me go when I first heard it. I found the opening tune dry and disconcerting...the album it took a while for its subtle genius to strike me but now I like it more than Dark Side!

 

[ptensioned]

Whoooeeee, where to start?

An entire genre, 90's 'alternative'. Hated the name, hated 'grunge' even more. Was into so-called 'classic rock', dismissed newer stuff as corporate pap. Little did I know that it was the death rattle of rock as music for the masses, and that the subsequent 20 years of popular music would make it seem positively brilliant by comparison. Have learned to love bands like Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots. Still not sold on Nirvana, even if I love Dave Grohl as a drummer.

Dire Straits. Always dismissed them as 'Dad music'. Now that I'm a dad, well, I guess it's for me...

Led Zeppelin, Presence. I should preface this by saying I'm a massive Zeppelin fan, and have argued at various times that JPJ is far and away the greatest rock bassist of all time. But I'd always kind of lumped Presence in with In Through the Out Door as weak later era Zep, with Plant having blown his voice to a thin approximation of his old power, and Page losing his creative force to a heroin addiction. It may be less ambitious than prior albums, but the power and majesty is still there in spades. Achilles' Last Stand is so good, I've had to put it on while I type this...

 

[Spectrum]

uhm… Ashamed to admit when I first plugged into Metallica's Master's of Puppets it was a little too cacophony for me…I loved Van Halen at the time. Also, Queensryche's Rage for Order… And it took awhile for Maiden's Powerslave to convince me it was their best yet. Recently, Ghost's Meliora for silly vocal harmony….
f!

I got Powerslave when it came out when I was in high school. I wasn't yet a full on metalhead, but my best friend was and talked me into it, plus I loved the album art. Wow, still one of the best metal albums of all time IMO, and in a tie with Holy Diver for best metal album of the 80s in my book.

Pink Floyd - Animals

Made me go when I first heard it. I found the opening tune dry and disconcerting...the album it took a while for its subtle genius to strike me but now I like it more than Dark Side!

My issue with it was that it was kind of depressing, but yes, it is just so damn good. Gilmour's guitar work on Dogs alone puts it in the pantheon.

Whoooeeee, where to start?

An entire genre, 90's 'alternative'. Hated the name, hated 'grunge' even more. Was into so-called 'classic rock', dismissed newer stuff as corporate pap. Little did I know that it was the death rattle of rock as music for the masses, and that the subsequent 20 years of popular music would make it seem positively brilliant by comparison. Have learned to love bands like Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots. Still not sold on Nirvana, even if I love Dave Grohl as a drummer.

I was overseas when the whole grunge thing hit and I came home to a new landscape of radio where everything I grew up with is now "classic rock". I was only like 22 and they were making me feel old already, so I was a little resentful at first. Then I got tired of hearing the same Nirvana songs played to death on the radio. So it took a while for me to fully appreciate it as well. Nirvana's firs album Bleach is less famous but it had some good heavy punkish stuff on it. And yes, Alice in Chains is awesome, I liked the from the first moment I heard them.

Led Zeppelin, Presence. I should preface this by saying I'm a massive Zeppelin fan, and have argued at various times that JPJ is far and away the greatest rock bassist of all time. But I'd always kind of lumped Presence in with In Through the Out Door as weak later era Zep, with Plant having blown his voice to a thin approximation of his old power, and Page losing his creative force to a heroin addiction. It may be less ambitious than prior albums, but the power and majesty is still there in spades. Achilles' Last Stand is so good, I've had to put it on while I type this...

I didn't get into Zep until after Bonham was gone, of course, so I didn't differentiate between eras. I always loved Presence. To me it's the closest Zep ever came to prog rock, and I couldn't get enough of JPJ's clanky metal bass tone in Achilles and Nobody's Fault. It was probably the second Zep album I bought after Zoso (which everyone bought).

 

[Misfit Wookiee]

uhm… Ashamed to admit when I first plugged into Metallica's Master's of Puppets it was a little too cacophony for me…I loved Van Halen at the time. Also, Queensryche's Rage for Order… And it took awhile for Maiden's Powerslave to convince me it was their best yet. Recently, Ghost's Meliora for silly vocal harmony….
f!

Oh man, there are three albums that got me away from the Fat Boys/Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff/Beastie Boys stuff I was listening to. Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet, GN'R Appetite For Destruction, and Metallica Master Of Puppets (in that order). Changed me completely. After that, I got Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son on cassette, but it didn't do too much for me at the time. Got Live After Death on VHS and immediately re-assessed my opinion of Metallica over Iron Maiden. First two CDs I bought were Powerslave and Piece Of Mind, and I didn't even own a CD player yet! My buddy and I obsessed over Maiden (and he was far deeper into Queensryche than I was and Rage for Order is probably still his fave). In fact, I just finished playing along with "Losfer Words" before coming on here.

Pink Floyd - Animals

Made me go when I first heard it. I found the opening tune dry and disconcerting...the album it took a while for its subtle genius to strike me but now I like it more than Dark Side!

I fell in love with this as soon as I heard it. When people ask me what I think of as the most underrated album ever, that one's usually first out of my mouth. And I wonder how much bass playing Gilmour did on there as well.

 

[fnordlyone]

I learned something very important when I was 13 years old by repeatedly playing music that I wasn't sure I liked… My ears liked it; my notion of what I thought I liked wasn't being met… so it intrigued me. And tonight I learned something else, metal heads are some of the most "have to grow on me" types… which makes us cool
fnord!