slow burners........

bandit

having had Asleep at the back by elbow for a long while and only realising its true greatness recently I was wondering if anyone else out there has albums that took them a fair while to get into or albums they slated but grew on them in time?

my other two that spring to mind are berlin by lou reed and {a lot of my mates are the same on this one} Loveless by my bloody valentine.

scuzzy

Mundy - 24 Star Hotel
Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
Incubus - Morning View
The Frames - Fitzcarraldo

All took a while to grow on me, but now they're frickin' great:cool:

Kurdt

yeah the exact same thing happened to me with asleep at the back...i bought it in the Virgin closing down sale...and i bought so many others that it didnt really get a proper listen...but when it did i couldnt turn it off...its a really good 'start to finish' album....

another one is faith no more's king for a day fool for a lifetime...i bought it and only listened to the first 3 tracks for a good while...and then about 2 years after i bought it, i listened to the whole thing and i was just blown away...the last track is amazing and the title track as well...

johnnynolegs

sketches by jeff buckley is deffo one for me
everything else i pretty much liked straight away

polarbelly

doves- last broadcast

took me a while to get into it


probs cos i kept repeating pounding... what a class tune

threefour

The Frames - Fitzcarraldo
Longpigs - the sun is often out
Weezer - Pinkerton
The Crocketts - We may be skinny and wirey

oh and CD2 of Melon collie and the Infinite Sadness

ill post some more when i think of them

Kurdt

oh yeah...cd 2 on mellon collie....didnt listen to that for ages after buying it...maybe coz cd 1 was so good...but as soon as i listened right thru, i had to do it again and again...

Tom182

mmmmmmm Star by Belly,everyone else I know that has this has said the same thing,but an absolute gem when you do get into it!!!

anony

Recently it was probably Druqks by Aphex Twin.......was fairly dissapointed when I first heard it, too much hectic programming and not enough melody, but lately I have grown to appreciate the sharp contrast of the mellow child like innocence of some tracks and relentless violence of the others

other slow burners that I can think of over the years .............Bossanova by The Pixies..... my least favourite record of theirs.......but still plenty of great stuff on there.....beats the **** out of most of today's rock bands....

Sign O' the times By Prince would be another

anyone heard Captain Beefheart's Trout mask replica....that's one that's burning right now........very slowly.... made as **** but great fun

DerekD Goldfish

I agree with most some of the one's mentioned already but I also didnt like rockin the suburbs by ben folds when I first heard it but It realy grew on me and whipping boy is another one

knobbles

Originally posted by Kurdt
oh yeah...cd 2 on mellon collie....didnt listen to that for ages after buying it...maybe coz cd 1 was so good...but as soon as i listened right thru, i had to do it again and again...

i must say that i regarded 1979 as one to skip when listening to CD2 than a couple of months after the album's release, i saw the brilliant video and then suddenly the song was fantastic ....and still is

i hated massive attacks "unfinished sympathy" in its year(91?/92?) but a few years later it was class.

and the most extreme change of heart was finding a song by
my bloody valentine called sometimes at the end of a tape i used to record a dave fanning show one night about 5 years back. i thought the song was awful, eventually the tape was recorded over by songs i liked but the closing minute of
the song remained at the end of the tape and every time i heard
it i just got drugged more and more and its now one of
the most amazing songs i've ever heard.