albums that took you forever to appreciate

[DarkAxel]

I would also like to add Mr. Bungle to my list.

seconded. took me a looooonnnggg time to get into Disco Volante, but now i love it.

totally

[retinal orbita]

Took me like a year of listening to really wrap my head around the idea that YES were the greatest fucking band in the world...

[retinal orbita]

Aside from Deep Purple but that's a fucking given amirite fellas

[TroySanders]

yes is the bes'

[Chankgeez]

yes is the bes'

I was hoping you were gonna say Bad Girls by Donna Summer.

[TroySanders]

donna summer > deep purple

[lank81]

RadioHead - Kid A album
Frusciante - Solo Material
Soul Coughing
Flaming Lips

That's all I can think of at the moment

[dase]

The Afghan Whigs 'gentlemen'.

When it came out I was a teenager into pretty much only hardcore and noise rock stuff, and the obvious affectations and the drugs n sex vibe of it really, really made me hate it. It wasn't some political hardcore record on ebullition so, you know, major label crap maaaaaaaaaaan.

About six or seven years ago I realised how genius the album really is, one of the best breakup records ever made.

[hazelwould]

Sonic Youth

I listened to them years ago with Washing Machine... It wasn't until Sonic Nurse came out that I really GOT it. Now their one of my favorites.

[D.o.S.]

Kid A is the first one--an album I liked the idea of before I really got around to appreciating the record and liking the songs.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, now, I've always appreciated, but I can't listen to it all the way through.

[madmax1012]

Kid A is the first one--an album I liked the idea of before I really got around to appreciating the record and liking the songs.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, now, I've always appreciated, but I can't listen to it all the way through.

speaking of Wilco, one of my professors is a grad student who had a Jeff Tweedy quote at the top of the syllabus. After class we had a quick conversation about Wilco, music, etc. i feel like I'm gonna enjoy this class

[Bassus Sanguinis]

In the early nineties I got Carlos Santana Abraxas album from my brother who misread it and thought it was Carlos Satan something. Stupid fuck got his heart in the right place place:lol: I always thought the album wasn't bad, and listened to the Black Magic Woman sometimes. But it still took me twenty years to get into it so that I get past the first songs - that I find actually more interesting - and want to jam the songs.

Sleep. I remember well when the Jerusalem came out (as Jerusalem), it was supposed to be an occasion and it came with a hype about a reeeeeeeeeally slow doom metal band with a whole fucking album length song! And heavier than even Cathedral! So it was supposed to be akin to the early funeral doom camp bands AND groovy AND progressive like nothing else.Oh yeah? Speaking of Label marketing guys not playing their cards right.

But I sure liked the album. Still do, even if it's not that big for me. It was just so overly hyped I had to shrug and ask WHERE is the part that is half as cool as Cathedral, huh? And for a decade or so it turned into a joke: NOTHING is as cool as Cathedral and Lee Dorrian, that can evoke even Doom Metal back from the early grave. The thing is, Sleep is just so different style that it should have got a fair chance from the to present itself without comparisons the labels and distributors made all the time.

[retinal orbita]

Sonic Youth

I listened to them years ago with Washing Machine... It wasn't until Sonic Nurse came out that I really GOT it. Now their one of my favorites.

They've got a ton of great albums, but some of their 80's/90''s stuff like Bad Moon Rising/Sister/etc is aging really poorly for me - but Washing Machine/Nurse/Murray/Eternal/Ripped and the SYRs are all great.

[Chankgeez]

Sonic Youth

I listened to them years ago with Washing Machine... It wasn't until Sonic Nurse came out that I really GOT it. Now their one of my favorites.

They've got a ton of great albums, but some of their 80's/90''s stuff like Bad Moon Rising/Sister/etc is aging really poorly for me - but Washing Machine/Nurse/Murray/Eternal/Ripped and the SYRs are all great.

Wot? Careful or you gonna have a teenage riot on your hands.

[D.o.S.]

Generally I put SY's pre-Daydream stuff into a novelty cloud, kinda up there with early White Zombie and some of those other NY No Wave-y bands. Cool idea, great historical footnote, but I'd rather listen to, you know, Eric's Trip.