Albums that grew on you

Shadow

Shadow

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I looked through my music collection earlier today and realised that many of the albums I enjoy the most now are ones that I didn't think very highly of when I first heard them. Take these three albums for example:

Blind Guardian - Tales from the Twilight World

This album has grown on me incredibly much during the last couple of months. When I first heard it I thought it wasn't very good at all, so I shelved it and didn't listen to it until about last December. And by now I think it's their best album ever. It's a real shame it's so overlooked.

Bruce Dickinson - Skunkworks

As so many others, when I first heard this one I dismissed it and though that it was just a low point in Bruce's solo career. However, I gave it another chance a few weeks later and it blew me away. Not a weak song on the entire album.

Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy

I don't expect any of you to have heard this album but it consists of pieces of music skillfully edited together with vocal collages, spoken dialogues and weird noises. First I thought it was too weird for me, but it wasn't long before the strength of the music and the quite funny spoken parts got me. Brilliant album, and one of Zappa's own favourites as well.


I guess that's the way some albums are, you have to listen to them many times to fully appreciate them, but I just wonder if any of you have albums you feel similar about.
 
Rhapsody the band as a whole grew on me, I guess i'd say it was Legendary Tales that was the main album I was listening to to begin with. I always thought they sounded a bit gay, I still think they do, but just because this is so it doesn't mean that they cant be f'ing awesome.
 
[!--QuoteBegin-Shadow+Apr 16 2005, 03:52 AM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Shadow @ Apr 16 2005, 03:52 AM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy

I don't expect any of you to have heard this album...
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You're not the only Zappa fan on this forum. [!--emo&:D--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/biggrin.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'biggrin.gif\' /][!--endemo--]

Lumpy Gravy (title underlined just for PH [!--emo&:P--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/tongue.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'tongue.gif\' /][!--endemo--] ) is indeed a great record. It's really avant-garde music more than a rock record. Among Zappa albums, the one that took time for me to really like was Roxy & Elsewhere.

Much of Rush's 80s stuff took time for me. Albums like Power Windows or Hold Your Fire were good, but it took me years to appreciate them.
 
[!--QuoteBegin-The_7th_Son+Apr 16 2005, 05:47 PM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(The_7th_Son @ Apr 16 2005, 05:47 PM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]Rhapsody the band as a whole grew on me, I guess i'd say it was Legendary Tales that was the main album I was listening to to begin with. I always thought they sounded a bit gay, I still think they do, but just because this is so it doesn't mean that they cant be f'ing awesome.
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I agree, Rhapsody does rock despite their... rainbowness.
Opeth's Deliverance too a while to grow on me, I shelved that mofo for a year before giving it another try. I don't get very discouraged when a cd doesn't grab me the first time around. I just put them away for a LONG time (6 months to a year) pick them up again and BAM! good stuff.

Amorphis' Far From the Sun was the same way, didn't like it AT ALL the first time around, now i'm fucking obssessed with it, AWESOME record.
 
[!--QuoteBegin-SinisterMinisterX+Apr 16 2005, 08:55 PM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(SinisterMinisterX @ Apr 16 2005, 08:55 PM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]You're not the only Zappa fan on this forum. [!--emo&:D--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/biggrin.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'biggrin.gif\' /][!--endemo--]

Lumpy Gravy (title underlined just for PH [!--emo&:P--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/tongue.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'tongue.gif\' /][!--endemo--] ) is indeed a great record. It's really avant-garde music more than a rock record. Among Zappa albums, the one that took time for me to really like was Roxy & Elsewhere.

Much of Rush's 80s stuff took time for me. Albums like Power Windows or Hold Your Fire were good, but it took me years to appreciate them.
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Roxy and Elsewhere is one of my favourites, along with his other mid-seventies albums (One Size Fits All and Bongo Fury in particular). The early Mothers of Invention material was the stuff that took me longest to appreciate, but once it got me I really loved it. Very influenced by Varese and Stravinsky, but very unique all the same.

Haven't got all Rush's eighties albums, but I really like what I've heard from them.

Notice how I skipped the disgraceful underlines in this post [!--emo&;)--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/wink.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'wink.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
Skunkworks took me some to time, but finally i loved it.

So it happened with Pink Floyd's Darkside of the moon, their first album I heard. THe first time I heard it i was like "what's up with this??!". Now it's one of my favourite albums ever
 
[!--QuoteBegin-Black Ace+Apr 17 2005, 09:08 PM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Black Ace @ Apr 17 2005, 09:08 PM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]So it happened with Pink Floyd's Darkside of the moon, their first album I heard. THe first time I heard it i was like "what's up with this??!". Now it's one of my favourite albums ever
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I first heard that album when I was about three, my parents used to listen to it a lot. I loved it even then and now it probably is my favourite album of all time.

Albums that grew on me...

Skunkworks by Bruce Dickinson

First time I heard it I thought it was alright but nothing special. Now it's my fave Bruce album along with Chemical Wedding.

Selected Ambient Works Vol. II by Aphex Twin

I bought this for £16.99 on the strength of his other material. First play it sounded like being stuck in a torture chamber of noise; dissonant, atonal, beatless, orchestral, repetitive to the extreme and very disturbing. I put it away and didn't think anything of it. Played it again a few months later and loved it. Once I knew what to expect it became very haunting and almost melodic. Along with Dark Side... by Floyd this might be one of my favourite albums of all time.

Killababylonkutz by Shitmat

Drum 'n' bass, yes, so most people here would probably hate it. Thing with it is that it's the same rap song remixed ten times. The first time the rap really grated on me but over a few listens it became really good and I got a lot of the humour (the last track being Eye Of The Tiger mixed with The Benny Hill Theme which turns into the Rainbow theme tune with the rap song over it...)
 
Dream Theater's Images and Words did it for me. When I first listened to it I thoght it was kind of boring. Then after I kept listening to it, I realized how complex, deep, and great it really was. [!--emo&:bow:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/bowdown.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'bowdown.gif\' /][!--endemo--]

Also Maiden's X-Factor grew on me after a while. Now it's one of my favs!
 
[!--QuoteBegin-Maiden Madness+Apr 22 2005, 12:05 PM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Maiden Madness @ Apr 22 2005, 12:05 PM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]Dream Theater's Images and Words did it for me. When I first listened to it I thoght it was kind of boring. Then after I kept listening to it, I realized how complex, deep, and great it really was. [!--emo&:bow:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/bowdown.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'bowdown.gif\' /][!--endemo--]

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I couldn't agree more! I got it after I got Scenes from a memory and it is vastly different. But giving it time... WOW.... WoW. Sometimes that doesnt work though. Helloween's Rabbit don't come easy? I gave it time... sucked the first time and still does.
 
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