Albums that grew on you over time

Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped

It's quite strange, because their sound always had this magnetic drawing power for me. It was always easy to me to fully absorb their music even at its most experimental (especially then). This new tendency of being harder and harder for me to get into their albums started with Murray Street, ironically when they adopted more conventional and poppy sound. When I heard Rather Ripped it was just meh, heard it all before. But it gradually started growing on me to the point of it becoming my favorite SY's album of the 00's. I am now amazed how can that album after 25 years of band's career sound so fresh while bringing nothing new.

But, now I have a problem with "Eternal". I just can't get into it. I actually think it's not a very good SY album.
 
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Sonic Youth - Goo

I just didn't get it at first, especially the singing style.. then it just grew on me from nowhere and now I love it.
 
Urban Outfitters is a shop here yeah, it's 'target audience' is generally the indie twee nation. Some of the clothes are pretty nice but ridiculously overpriced to be fair. I see a lot of people round town wearing the Goo shirt. Also Led Zeppelin, Joy Division, The Beatles, The Clash, Ramones and Iron Maiden shirts.

I'm gonna listen to Goo on my lunch break now. I'm craving it. Disappear and Mildred Pierce are my favourites.
 
a bit off topic but I saw this album in someone collection and they knew i was into floyd and said i could borrow it but i just thought it would be ****. When i actually listened to it about 10 yrs. later i loved it from the first hearing

Every album i've ever loved i've loved from the 3rd or 4th hearing. the ones i've tried to get into after the 4th hearing i haven't and just conclude are crap.
e.g's
Mercury REv-Snowflake midnight
Larabchop-Damaged

and i love other albums by those banRAB!!!
 
NMH - Aeroplane Over The Sea was instant love for me, I had no idea the hype surrounding it as well, which made it much sweeter.



They apparently have Urban Outfitters in europe as well but I've never seen them, we have similar type shops round here though, I've seen The Beatles Joy Division The Clash GNR and Ramones round here. Never seen any Zeppelin, shame on these people.

Have a nice lunch break :D
 
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I'd mentioned this one in my "Top 10 most important albums" list, and that's because this one really took some time to grow on me, but once it did it really stuck. I'd heard a few songs from them off different albums...a friend of mine was obsessed with these guys...and obsessed with making me like them (which might be another reason I rejected the thought at first). I never thought I would. I hated the singer's voice, I wasn't used to the flow of the music, it seemed a little more offbeat and just plain different from what I was used to listening to. It's going to sound crazy, but it was the song "Wild Packs of Family Dogs" that finally hooked me. No, it's not the best song on the album musically or lyrically, now it sounRAB like filler really, but the lyrics were oddly amusing and charming (to me anyway) and I just thought, why not try to be a little more open minded here? And it finally worked it's way to being a favorite. Personal stand out tracks are "3rd Planet", "Tiny Cities Made of Ashes", and "What People Are Made of".
 
OK, the FIRST thing I think of:
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^^ went from a complete piece of crap to being awesome. biggest change through growth in my entire collection

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^^I remeraber first hearing it and liking it, but I didn't see the MASTERPIECE it was...
 
Well I might not have hated it, but I didn't get the hype.

Now I do, but I'm not gonna write a really pretentious review about it, that's Pitchfork's job.
 
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the first of many posts i'm sure to make in this thread. Whereas the equally amazing, yet more overlooked Alien Lanes immediately appealed to me, Bee Thousand had me thinking GBV were a one trick pony. Luckily for me it opened up after a few listens, and now I see it in all it's glory.
 
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I was addicted to The BenRAB and OK Computer before getting this as a gift one year for Christmas. I was expecting something different, but not this. I guess I just didn't really let it soak in until a few more listens. It's one of my favorite albums now.

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Did not "get it" at first. It took me a while to warm up to their less melodic material.

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Found it kind of boring upon the first couple of listens. Ignored it for a very long time afterward. Upon hearing it again I think it's a really underrated album when compared to some of their other Warner releases.
 
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

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This album experienced immense growth for me. I hadn't heard their previous work, but heard the single 'Two Weeks' a few times on the local indie station before the album came out, and it caught my attention. Upon listening to the entire album, I was bored to tears. No improvement on second listen...nothing stood out to me except the previously heard single. It's like they were asleep for the rest of the album. On the third listen, something happened. It was slight, but it was something. On the fourth, it was a completely unrecognizable album...I actually started to love some of the songs. At this point I couldn't imagine how it sounded so boring and meaningless the first few times. Not that it was exciting and loud, mind you. The songs I love are subtle indeed...but incredible in their beauty. Sadly, a few of the songs still fail to rate any higher than 3/5 on my scale, but a good half of them are 5/5. The album basically became the soundtrack to my lonely summer 2009. Laying by the lake in the evenings watching the sun set, walking around the city, etc. It would have been easy to dismiss it after one listen but I'm glad I didn't.
 
I just thought it was a perfect album, and no one I knew at the time knew it existed. They still haven't heard it a lot of people I know, except one. So I thought it was a little gem. Then I came on here and realised a lot of people actually loved it.. and then I read reviews praising it to the high heavens :(

Why's Pitchforks review pretentious?
 
Great album, first listen I liked it. The religious theme running through it was great as well as the hooks.



I think most would've gone through the not getting it with this album. I didn't initially get it either, then one day I found myself enjoying it. :D
 
:thurab: I still have no idea how that's my favourite Sonic Youth album. I feel violated, in a good way. But it was like rape. I think I'm gonna listen to Goo now
 
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It was an album that I thought was "pretty decent" on first couple of listens, though the only songs that stuck out were the title track, "Things Don't Look Good", and "Endless Teeth". Now it's among my all time favorite albums. It really has to sink in to do its job.
 
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