Music whose awesomeness you don't see straightaway

finchy
finchy Posts: 6,686
edited July 2010 in The bottom bracket
Do you ever buy an album, think it's a big pile of poo, put it away for a year or so, play it again and suddenly realise what a great record it is?

I experienced this with China Drum's Goosefair and Julian Cope's Peggy Suicide.
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  • White Line
    White Line Posts: 887
    Katy Perry. :oops:
    Emiliana the CAAD9
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Yeah, its weird that. I've found that julian copes stuff when listened to side by side is better than the stuff he's had as singles.

    It depends as well on when you catch a band. Theres a band Ilike called Zion TRain, they do reggae dancey dub, and theyve done 3 cracking lps that should be more well known but if you listen to any of the albums in between you'd think they were a pile of ricco.

    Maclolm Middletons last album has grown on me as has THe XX, and the first Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.

    One album I bought, hated and just cant get into is Throbbing Gristle's DOA, possibly Genesis P Orridges worst moment.
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Interpol.

    Thought they were overrated, then liked them a lot.


    Grown a little tired of it since though.
    _
  • 1footedninja
    1footedninja Posts: 269
    edited July 2010
    sphongle albums ,initially dubios thinking it was just gonna be bad GOA style pysche trance, and now it just gets better everytime I listen to any of his stuff. The range of his instrumentation within a tune is just simply brilliant.

    FSOL - lifeforms, I forget about it for awhile then dig it out and remember how good it is. Amazing to think how quickly it came together as an album for them, its just seamless.

    Larry Grayson - shut that door - great tape I found ages ago, I put it on, get the feather duster out and put my yellow gloves on and all my cares are taken away

    CAN - wasnt too keen on them at first but they just grow on you and grow on you.

    Anything Mogwai / Shellac / And you will know us by the trail of dead / Palace Brothers / Ween.

    Solar Fields - Movements - the more I play it the better it gets especially on a good stereo system or travelling on my bike or on a train.
    'since the flaming telly's been taken away, we don't even know if the Queen of Englands gone off with the dustman'.
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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    No.

    The albums I buy are always excellent choices 8)
    "A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"

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  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    Theres groups that I didn't get at the time that have grown on me as I've got older, Eurythmics and The Smiths spring to mind.

    I loved Florence's Kiss with a fist when I heard it 18 Odd months ago but was quite dubious about her other stuff when I heard her Glastonbury set last year. Lungs is still pretty much on constant play on my MP3.

    I thought U2 were s**t back in the day and still do now :wink:
  • andy162
    andy162 Posts: 634
    British Sea Power. Wasn't having any of it. Liked the name couldn't get on with the music. My group supported 'em a few times & even at that stage I reckoned they were babba. Went to see them a few years ago & was blown away. Listened to their early albums again & heard them in a different light(eh??).

    QOTSA too, took a while to get an angle on them. Love them now, clever bloke Josh Homme....

    ...at the opposite end are Muse, thought they were the bee's knees, thumbs down now.
  • CyclingBantam
    CyclingBantam Posts: 1,299
    Moby. Not bought an album before but heard stuff and not thought muc about it but am now really getting in to it.
  • guilliano
    guilliano Posts: 5,495
    Wasn't keen on The Beatles or Rolling Stones when I was a wee lad......

    How stupid was I????
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    shouldbeinbed wrote:
    I thought U2 were s**t back in the day and still do now :wink:

    The world's least divisive statement. :wink:
  • wiffachip
    wiffachip Posts: 861
    beatles, stones, smiths, u2, oasis, led zep

    thing is, i still don't see it,

    i'll get there eventually, bit like me cycling
  • balthazar
    balthazar Posts: 1,565
    It took me a while with Bonnie Prince Billy. Now I bore everybody about him (everybody who's unfortunate enough to ask me about music). Much the same story with Tortoise, and in pleasing symmetry they made an album together: one of my very faves.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Interpol.

    Thought they were overrated, then liked them a lot.


    Grown a little tired of it since though.

    Just checked them out. Good call, Rick.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    balthazar wrote:
    It took me a while with Bonnie Prince Billy. Now I bore everybody about him (everybody who's unfortunate enough to ask me about music). Much the same story with Tortoise, and in pleasing symmetry they made an album together: one of my very faves.

    He did a film a wee while back called Old Joy, its sometimes on film 4, brilliant, just like his music. Checkout a song called barcelona which he did as plain old will oldham. If he was here now i'd tug his beard.
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • tebbit
    tebbit Posts: 604
    Goldfrapp Felt Mountain, bought Black Cherry when it came out after seeing them on Jools Holland, the bought Felt Mountain, didn't get it, listened to it six months later fantastic.
  • JohnCleland
    JohnCleland Posts: 172
    Anvil,

    missed them the first time around ( I am now 40 ).

    Saw their film "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" on sky as I was skipping through.

    Googled them, and they were on tour and saw them in the 02 Bristol a week or so ago.

    One hell of a show, beats all this recorded/miming trash thats out now.
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    Wolf Mother, 10CC, Kate Bush, Lilly Allen....the list goes on.
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    Actually, Brian Eno is someone who it's taken me a disgracefully long time to get properly into since I've owned the albums for so long. I'm a huge Bowie fan, so naturally bought some Eno. Just revisited some of his albums, and instead of liking one or two tracks I'm absolutely loving entire albums.

    Currently addicted to:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh9VdRQO2i4

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yai4bier ... re=related
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    White Stripes, Elephant. Bought it because of Seven Nation Army, but didn't really get the rest of the album. Certainly do now, even remember listening to it when it "clicked".
  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    Big BIG fan of Eno here..

    ..but there was an album by Aqualung that I really loved. Had bought the cd because of an advert but didnt get the album for a while. then it just clicked. :)
  • mattbass789
    mattbass789 Posts: 355
    For some reason I love Johhny Cash... There was a documentary on him on BBC4 last night. The live album from folsom prison. He's far too underrated, sad people only know ring of fire... there's so much better.
    “If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.”

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  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    mattbass789 wrote:
    For some reason I love Johhny Cash... There was a documentary on him on BBC4 last night. The live album from folsom prison. He's far too underrated, sad people only know ring of fire... there's so much better.

    Cash is well enough known. He's also revered as a musician and song writer outside the country circuit. A few Grungers really got into him in the early 90s.
  • Pretre
    Pretre Posts: 355
    mattbass789 wrote:
    For some reason I love Johhny Cash... There was a documentary on him on BBC4 last night. The live album from folsom prison. He's far too underrated, sad people only know ring of fire... there's so much better.

    +1 . Good documentary & Live at Folsom is a fantastic album - you feel that a riot is about to kick off when he sings "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die"
  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    downfader wrote:
    Big BIG fan of Eno here..

    Don't think I know any Brian Eno stuff, but I'm a big fan of the stuff he produced for Devo.
    To err is human, but to make a real balls up takes a super computer.
  • rake
    rake Posts: 3,204
    johnfinch wrote:
    shouldbeinbed wrote:
    I thought U2 were s**t back in the day and still do now :wink:

    The world's least divisive statement. :wink:

    i find them a bit jekyll and hyde depending on volume, pretty mundane turned down but turned up to 11 is pretty foot tapping.
  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    Sirius631 wrote:
    downfader wrote:
    Big BIG fan of Eno here..

    Don't think I know any Brian Eno stuff, but I'm a big fan of the stuff he produced for Devo.

    Eno is one of those guys you dont realised that you've heard half the time. His stuff has been used in flims, tv, ads and sampled by other artists.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOgQyIMX_XU
    Probably his most recognisable peice
  • balthazar
    balthazar Posts: 1,565
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    He did a film a wee while back called Old Joy, its sometimes on film 4, brilliant, just like his music. Checkout a song called barcelona which he did as plain old will oldham. If he was here now i'd tug his beard.
    Thanks for reminding me about the film: I remember him doing it and then forgot all about it. I look forward to it– I just read the Imdb page on it and it's right up my street (nothing happens!) I've never been quite as keen on his pre BPB work, but it's still right up there: I'll look for Barcelona, thanks!
  • Bobbinogs
    Bobbinogs Posts: 4,841
    Pavement. Saw the threads on here when their "best of" got released and went out and took a punt on it. Really didn't like it the first few plays, erm, and I can safely report it hasn't got any better since then :)

    The Nick Cave stuff went passed me the first time round but really dig him now. Fantastic writer to boot.
  • rapid_uphill
    rapid_uphill Posts: 841
    Vienna -(Ultravox)
    my dad bought it and i was blown away.
  • PaulS77
    PaulS77 Posts: 48
    Tom Waits. The first album I bought was Rain Dogs and I thought it was some sort of joke.

    It sat unplayed in my CD collection for a couple of years till I heard Mark Lamarr play New Coat of Paint on Radio 2. Went out and bought the Heart of Saturday Night and loved it, listening to his sound evolve I now 'get' Rain Dogs and think the man's a musical genius.

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