albums that took you forever to appreciate

[snipelfritz]

Joy Division in general took me a bit to really get into. I knew I liked them when I first heard them I just really wasn't sure why. Their sound is soooo difficult sometimes, but in the best possible way.

[jrmy]

Some of my favorite albums took me a long time to get into. For example, I know I didn't get Loveless on the first, third or fifth listens. On the SIXTH listen, my head exploded, the world turned upside down, and I got it.

[Chankgeez]

Some of my favorite albums took me a long time to get into. For example, I know I didn't get Loveless on the first, third or fifth listens. On the SIXTH listen, my head exploded, the world turned upside down, and I got it.

... and on the seventh day he rested.

[retinal orbita]

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.

Daydream and Dirty are great too, but yeah, I'm on board here (except for the Eric's Trip )

[D.o.S.]

The big questions:
What is the meaning of life?
Are we alone in the solar system?
How does anyone not love Eric's Trip?

Also: At The Drive-In's relationship of command. Always loved Enfliade, but it took me a hot minute to like the rest of the album.

[hazelwould]

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.

Yea I can see that. Alot of their older stuff is really hit or miss. But there is still alot of great shit in it. Sometimes I do force myself to cut through some of the novelty noise to see what their trying to accomplish.

[snipelfritz]

The big questions:
What is the meaning of life?
Are we alone in the solar system?
How does anyone not love Eric's Trip?

Also: At The Drive-In's relationship of command. Always loved Enfliade, but it took me a hot minute to like the rest of the album.

Eric's Trip = Good, not my favorite track, but good.
Relationship of Command = Great fucking album. One Armed Scissor got me into ATDI.

[retinal orbita]

Oh I thought you were talking about THE BAND Eric's Trip. Yeah, the song is great....

[DallasLemonade]

MY friend played this for me about two years ago and I hated it. About 8 months later I asked to borrow it for some reason (I really don't remember why) and now it never leaves my cd rotation in my car. Definitely one of my favorites.

[spacelordmother]

MY friend played this for me about two years ago and I hated it. About 8 months later I asked to borrow it for some reason (I really don't remember why) and now it never leaves my cd rotation in my car. Definitely one of my favorites.

Went to the toobs and the first song that came up was "Fatalist Palmistry" - Love it!

In other news, I might have just flipped the switch in terms of getting into EITS. I was watching a bunch of reverb and delay pedal demos and playing with my Ableton VST toanz and got a sound I really liked. Super dreamy... Thennn I stumbled upon the album "The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place" in the related videos and our dreamtoanz went together like woah. AWESOME. This album is so good.

[nuclearfamily]

Skinny Puppy
I bought
Ain't it Dead Yet? and on first listen was like WTF is this noise shit!?
years later I put it on again and it clicked (in fact all their albums have taken multiple listens for me to get into) and I have been hooked ever since

It is so nice to see that someone else appreciates this band! Last Rights is an amazing album too. It seems they are mostly tied in with the whole shitty goth music thing what with them being the South Park goth kids favorite band and all. People hear their more commercial stuff and write them off. In their early and middle years they were extremely experimental and innovative. They are most definitely the band that got me into noise music.

Anyways, The first Radiohead album I heard was The Bends. I just didn't get it. My friend said "just listen to it five times". So I decided spent a good chunk of my day listening to that shitty album five times because I trusted my friends taste. However around the third listen I started to get it. When I had finally listened to it five times I put it on for a sixth time.

[Chankgeez]

I still can't think of any. It's taking forever.

[mrmtzion]

dark side of the moon. someone showed me pink floyd in high school when I was into rap and it just didn't make sense to me at the time

Dark side for sure. It was punk instead of rap for me though.

[spacelordmother]

Some of my favorite albums took me a long time to get into. For example, I know I didn't get Loveless on the first, third or fifth listens. On the SIXTH listen, my head exploded, the world turned upside down, and I got it.

I still don't get it...

Anyways, The first Radiohead album I heard was The Bends. I just didn't get it. My friend said "just listen to it five times". So I decided spent a good chunk of my day listening to that shitty album five times because I trusted my friends taste. However around the third listen I started to get it. When I had finally listened to it five times I put it on for a sixth time.

[Derelict78]

Skinny Puppy
I bought
Ain't it Dead Yet? and on first listen was like WTF is this noise shit!?
years later I put it on again and it clicked (in fact all their albums have taken multiple listens for me to get into) and I have been hooked ever since

It is so nice to see that someone else appreciates this band! Last Rights is an amazing album too. It seems they are mostly tied in with the whole shitty goth music thing what with them being the South Park goth kids favorite band and all. People hear their more commercial stuff and write them off. In their early and middle years they were extremely experimental and innovative. They are most definitely the band that got me into noise music.

Anyways, The first Radiohead album I heard was The Bends. I just didn't get it. My friend said "just listen to it five times". So I decided spent a good chunk of my day listening to that shitty album five times because I trusted my friends taste. However around the third listen I started to get it. When I had finally listened to it five times I put it on for a sixth time.

All their albums hold a special place in my heart.
I have been really digging handover lately, agin it took a couple listens.
plus dude is the MASTER of vocal effects
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0ZpVwshBz4[/youtube]
What is there not to love
sick beats and ogre covers himself with blood and mud live