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Lark the Starless 
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 Posted: September 09 2011 at 16:12 |
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I've dismissed these albums (not too long, though) and lately, I've really come to appreciate them more.
A few to list:
Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Islands - King Crimson
Liquid Tension Experiment 2 - LTE
Monolith - Kansas
Masque - Kansas (I especially love this one now.)
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Posted: September 09 2011 at 16:19 |
A lot of Dream Theater.
Right now Awake is the album that fits the thread's description best though.
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Hercules
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Posted: September 09 2011 at 16:34 |
All Gentle Giant. I missed over 20 years of enjoyment after first hearing them until I met a new partner who loved them - and they finally clicked with me.
Same goes for Strawbs, except that I just listened to a very unrepresentative sample which didn't attract me to listen to more.
Now I love both bands.
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Posted: September 09 2011 at 16:41 |
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It took quite a few listens for me to begin to enjoy Kraftwerk. At first I just thought they were boringly repetitive, but then it just clicked.
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infocat
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Posted: September 09 2011 at 20:58 |
 ExittheLemming wrote:
Porcupine Tree's the Incident fits this category for me. I loathed it on the first few listens and abandoned it to the rack where it sat unmolested until completely unbidden, the main theme of Time Flies popped into my head several months later and took up squatter's rights. It's certainly not an album that lived up to its ridiculous pre release hype, but a solid 4 star effort in the Lemming household all said and done.
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Hope that happens to me! I still find everything leading up to "Time Flies" to be rather unimpressive.
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infocat
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Posted: September 09 2011 at 20:59 |
yanch wrote:
In a Glass House. I love GG, but on first listen I didn't get this album at all. Then gave it a second chance months later and realized what I'd been missing. Now one of my favorites. |
Interesting! Another one I don't quite get. It's OK, but possibly my least favorite GG. So all it takes is time? 
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rogerthat
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Posted: September 09 2011 at 22:03 |
ExittheLemming wrote:
moshkito wrote:
Hi,
None really.
I tend to give time and effort to each and every listen, and I might see different things later in it, but rarely do I think that it was not that good then and it is better now.
But it is easy to think/feel that ... because so much of the music was cross grain to the popular stuff that you are used to, and in those days, many of us didn't give a darn for some of the hits, and would gladly look for and listen to, the oddest of things ... let's say that we had a more open mind about music ... and I don't think that many of us that did that, ever lost that ability ... which when compared to today's listeners is very different.
We simply did not judge the music that much then and (generally) were more receptive to it ... specially to the fact that we did not use the music labels as much as people are using them today, which tends to restrict and limit your listening abilities.
Nobody would have remembered half of the bands in the prog lists, if it weren't for that ability to turn on, tune in and so forth. |
Perceptive post. It should be borne in mind that the opposite can apply also i.e. when I was in my 20's I was a real snob about the music I loved and dismissed anything simple, catchy or immediately accessible as disposable trash. It was only when I was much older and listened again to say, Fleetwood Mac, Abba, Dylan, Eagles or Elton John etc that I could appreciate how brilliant these artists were at creating enduring popular music that can be enjoyed by (gulp) adults.
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Yes, unfortunately opening one's horizons more for the deliberate, left brained stuff also makes one more dismissive of pop music. I was fortunately too firmly rooted in Beatles-love and such to become a prog/art snob.
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Posted: September 10 2011 at 00:19 |
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Book of Knots took me a hell of a while to appreciate, like months, but now I can't stop listening to them. Also Magma took me quite a lot of time...
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There be dragons
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ClemofNazareth
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Posted: September 10 2011 at 10:35 |
How about a band's entire discography? Cerberus Shoal (R.I.P.  ) surprised me with everything they ever released, and I can only recall one album (their last 'The Land We All Believe In') that I even found tolerable with the first spin.
Some of them never did click, especially some of their collaborations, but over time I've come to appreciate just about all of their studio albums and a few have become quite cherished (their self-titled debut, 'Chaiming the Knoblessone', 'Crash My Moon Yacht', 'An Ongoing Ding', 'The Land We All Believe In').
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Posted: September 10 2011 at 15:38 |
I did not like bands like Magnum and Queensryche when I was into Venom (total opposite now)
I did not like Gentle Giant then either, but like them now, except In a Glass House (overrated in my book), where their real ecletic records like Three Friends and Interview are much preferable to me.
Used to like ELP then, but not as much today. Could not understand Yes Relayer then, but now it is my favorite recording of Yes
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Posted: September 10 2011 at 16:19 |
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When I first heard Pain of Salvation's Remedy Lane (my first PoS album), I dismissed it as sub-par and incoherent. Oh how times have changed....
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OT Räihälä
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Posted: September 10 2011 at 16:27 |
I very seldom "miss-read" an album. I had some trouble in really appreciating In A Glass House, but only compared to other GG's works between 1971-76 (and wouldn't have hesitated in saying that it is a masterpiece right away). Recently there's only been one album that I first thought wasn't any good, that I later realized was a masterpiece: Radiohead's In Rainbows, and that's nearly four years ago now.
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