Albums that changed your view about the band

^ I like all Cardiacs albums, but On Land and in the Sea is the most special to me now. I found it less accessible than some others, but when it clicked, wow! It was actually your first post that made me really obsess over it -- not sure if I should thank you, but I will. ;) I would have pegged it a little lower than some others before reading that, and I was going to say so in this topic, but thought, so as not to regret saying anything later, that I should put the album on again before posting, and was immediately blown away and kept on loving the whole thing (it is an album that I had been playing of late off-and-on, but I had over obsessions to contend with). I love it when a post makes me put on an album and I hear it in a fresh light (maybe I'm quite suggestible, but sometimes that forces me to really listen and take in the music, much as writing reviews would for many people). I have a very obsessive personality (that comes through in my posting too often). I can play the same album over and over and over again. Over the last few days I have listened to it so many times, and even when I'm listening to it it keeps playing over and over in my head (massive album earworm). Sometimes I listen to a band or album so much that unfortunately I burn out on it.

Can is another that I also should have mentioned. My experience was different, I started with Future Days, and while I din't dislike it, it left me cold. I then got Ege Bamyasi and liked that one. Then Tago Mago. I think Soundtracks made me a big fan, especially with the song "Mother Sky" which really hooked me. Often it's one track or one passage in a track -- it could even be a few notes or one sound -- that hooks me and opens up my appreciation for a band or artist. Unlike Moshkito, as I think I have understood it over the years (my memory is not what I was three years ago though it's improving somewhat), I can be a fan of tracks outside of the context of a greater work, and I don't necessarily need to listen to a whole album any more than I can't enjoy a particular episode of an anthology series (Twilight Zone for instance) without binging the whole thing. A piece of music/ song/ track/ can stand alone and be appreciated outside of the context of an album/ greater composition, and indeed the greater oeuvre of an artist. When I put on Beethoven's 7th, I will often only listen to the second movement. If I loved only that by Beethoven, it would be enough for me to say that I love Beethoven (the 9th is what turned me onto Beethoven, which has a little something to do with Clockwork Orange -- associations matter).

I do now love Future Days, but it just didn't suit me at the time (my tastes shifted and expanded a lot over a few years as I discovered more and different things -- this was not that long before joining PA). I'm sure at another time had I started with it, it would have hooked me immediately (I was furiously collecting and consuming music back then). I do try to be more careful about passing judgement on a band after only hearing a limited portion of the discography now, but Can was something that struck me as something worth pursuing from the beginning (as with Tangerine Dream). I got the sense from the beginning that I "should" like Can more than I did, and I was intrigued enough to want to delve into more material. I'm glad I did, but being a part of this forum, I was bound to get into Can since so many with similar tastes to mine love Can and would have played their part in turning me onto the music.

Edited by Logan - January 24 2019 at 10:58

^ I already loved so much Bowie stuff (my brother introduced me to Bowie when I was very small), but over the last decade my appreciation has grown much more still (the album that made me a really big fan was Hunky Dory).

I can get that, Blackstar is a very good album methinks, and what an amazing send-off for the man. I've heard it said here that people were overrating it because of the circumstances, but I don't buy that. That said, that does make it all the more poignant to me.   Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom is more poignant still because of Wyatt's circumstances, but I loved the album before I even knew the story around it.

Blackstar was and remains my favourite album of 2016, and is one of my favourite modern albums period (I return to it often).

Edited by Logan - January 24 2019 at 17:13

The only album that I can think of at the moment that changed my view of the band is Mirage (Camel). Prior to first hearing this album, descriptions and initial tastings of their music suggested to me that their music is too light for my tastes. But I found Mirage to rock. Although I haven't explored Camel further, I do like Mirage a lot.

 

 

 

Well going in the reverse.Early Journey before Steve Perry
Loved the early Journey as more progressive rock..
Santana has changed so many times so that has been a back and forth thing.
But a real change from when the original band broke up after Caravansari.
Chicago same thing as they morphed into balladry and soft rock