"Sleepers" (Hated now love)

I have never really understood Zappa.  I have played several albums that are considered "genius" over and over and over again and I still don't "get it".

Do you have an album or band that you had to force yourself to like/ listen to and then finally one day you just "got it" in a major way? 

1st listen:  (Paranoid psychosis)

2nd listen:

i like 50% of this record: i hated 99% of it before:

This may be amusing, but I didn't like "Supper's Ready" for the longest time. Now it's one of my favorite Genesis songs.

Breakfast in America, 1979. At first it seemed too "light" and compressed, but after about 3 months I was sitting around drunk and just heard these amazing harmonies. just wanted to cry really

I am now torturing myself by Can and Holger Czuckay....

Let's just hope their oeuvres will turn out to be "sleepers" for me sometime in future, as now they are just "stinkers" (if you excuse me this word).

Octopus (Gentle Giant) was the most surprising grower on me.

I still haven't fallen in love with Supper's Ready.

I'm doing everything I can to "get" something out of VdGG, but so far...nothing.  I'll keep trying though.

For the longest time I could never get into rush. But once I gave them a little more of a chance, their musical virtuosity and uniqueness shone through quickly and kept me hooked.

For me, it's Frank Zappa as well. I first got Hot Rats which I liked after a listen or two. Next was The Best Of (a trimmed down version of Strictly Commerical) which was easy to get into as well. Two albums I liked straight away. What could ever stop me from loving Zappa?

The third Zappa album I got was Uncle Meat, and I'm having great troubles getting into that one It's getting better every listen, though.

VdGG was such a band for me. I immediately liked the music, but that voice! The first album I heard by them was "Godbluff"; I bought it as a present for the 16th birthday of my brother, who is almost 10 years older than I am and collected a lot of music. I had no idea what Van der Graaf Generator were like, and neither did my brother; I just liked the pics of the four guys on the cover and the Escher logo of the band, so I bought it for him. We started listening to it, the intro of "Undercover Man" sounded promising, then someone started singing in a hoarse whisper that soon became a scream, and we both thought it was horrible. Instrumentally great music, but "No thanks!" for the voice!
Well, as most people here know meanwhile, I am one of the biggest Hammill fans on this site. It took me a while, but suddeny it made click, and I really loved that voice. My brother got accustomed to the voice too, and he started buying all the other records of VdGG, and I had the opportunity to hear them with him. "Pawn Hearts" was the first he bought after his initiation with "Godbluff", and I loved that album immediately. When there were no more VdGG abums to buy, he started on the solo albums of Hammill. And the little kid that was I followed him on his journey into the wonderland of Peter Hammill and VdGG.