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Albums that took more than one listen to'get'

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭mehfesto


    Kid A and For Emma for me too. Other than that:

    Husker Du - Zen Arcade
    Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
    Lullabies to Paralyze - QOTSA
    Return To Cookie Mountain - TV On The Radio
    This is the Second Album From a Band Called Adebisi Shank - Adebisi Shank


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭osnola ibax


    Kid V wrote: »
    Headphones definitely help!

    Also....

    Burial - 'Untrue'
    Spiritualized - 'Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating in Space'
    Portishead - 'Third'
    Panda Bear - 'Person Pitch'
    Flying Lotus - 'Los Angeles'
    Grizzly Bear - 'Yellow House'


    Very rewarding albums that i'm glad i persevered through repeated listens to get into.

    Portishead 3 was too difficult for me even and I like my difficult music. Tough going that one, must check it out again.


  • Subscribers Posts: 8,325 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    Kid V wrote: »
    Headphones definitely help!

    Also....

    Burial - 'Untrue'
    Spiritualized - 'Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating in Space'
    Portishead - 'Third'
    Panda Bear - 'Person Pitch'
    Flying Lotus - 'Los Angeles'
    Grizzly Bear - 'Yellow House'


    Very rewarding albums that i'm glad i persevered through repeated listens to get into.

    Yeah agreed on Flying Lotus, found the same with his latest one too - actually stopped it half way through, love it now though.

    I must go back to 'Untrue', listened probably 2 or 3 times but just didn't happen for me - couldn't get past the vocals, love his first album though.

    Kid A as has been mentioned took a bit for me, I was never a Radiohead fan anyway but a couple of people suggested a while back that I take a stab at Kid A, love it now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,704 ✭✭✭G.K.


    R.E.M. - 'Reveal'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24 mark86


    too many. but if there's an album i have failed to 'get' after 3 listens max or thereabouts well i don't believe in a 'grower' - wouldn't force anything on anyone, let alone myself


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 611 ✭✭✭Can'tseeme


    Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation and 22 Dreams

    Couldn't understand the hype around both albums at first. Thought they were pretty boring besides one or two tracks. Put them away for a while and went back a few months later and it started to sink in. Love them now.:)

    Exile in Main St. -The Stones

    Couldn't get into it and that has grown on me somethinig shockin over the last few years. Bought the album years ago and like about 4 or 5 tracks. Now I don't think there's a bad track on it. Up there in my top 5 albums of all time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 611 ✭✭✭Can'tseeme


    mark86 wrote: »
    too many. but if there's an album i have failed to 'get' after 3 listens max or thereabouts well i don't believe in a 'grower' - wouldn't force anything on anyone, let alone myself

    You're best to leave it and go back a few months later. I've done that with quite a few albums. Sometimes the hype around an album nearly puts you off as the expectation is too high.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Can'tseeme wrote: »
    Your best to leave it and go back a few months later. I've done that with quite a few albums. Sometimes the hype around an album nearly puts you off as the expectation is too high.

    Agree completely with this. As PE said don't believe the hype


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,433 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    One album I hated when I first got it was OK Computer by Radiohead. Couldnt stand it. What had happened to my Radiohead I was asking myself. But the question I should have been asking was "wtf just happened to music"

    Well by christ a few hours later I was hooked. Still am. Without a doubt my favorite release of the past 15 years


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭rcaz


    Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
    Christian Fennesz - Endless Summer
    Iannis Xenakis - well a lot of his stuff, I've got a few CDs of different collections, all pretty difficult. I started with Metastasis and Rebonds
    Gyorgi Ligeti - also a lot of his stuff, I started with Atmospheres and his string quartets
    Autechre - Confield, Draft 7:30, Quarisitice
    Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica

    A few that spring to mind immediately... All things that I didn't expect (because of what I'd heard) to jump right into and love, and took a lot of listening to get into, but completely opened me up to different ways of thinking and different things to expect from music.

    For me, forcing new and different things on myself is a really important part of listening to music.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭me-skywalker


    A Momentary Lapse of Reason, because took me twice to realise he was actually serious!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭komodosp


    Pretty much every Radiohead album other than Pablo Honey
    The Dandy Warhols Come Down
    The Avalanches - Since I Left You
    Mogwai - Come On Die Young

    Have to agree, the headphones are a definite help there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    Every Bell X1 album I've ever heard I've thought meh at first.


  • Subscribers Posts: 8,325 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    El Pr0n wrote: »
    Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
    Christian Fennesz - Endless Summer
    Iannis Xenakis - well a lot of his stuff, I've got a few CDs of different collections, all pretty difficult. I started with Metastasis and Rebonds
    Gyorgi Ligeti - also a lot of his stuff, I started with Atmospheres and his string quartets
    Autechre - Confield, Draft 7:30, Quarisitice
    Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica

    A few that spring to mind immediately... All things that I didn't expect (because of what I'd heard) to jump right into and love, and took a lot of listening to get into, but completely opened me up to different ways of thinking and different things to expect from music.

    For me, forcing new and different things on myself is a really important part of listening to music.

    Now there's an album I've to still go back for another attempt.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭Kid V


    Portishead 3 was too difficult for me even and I like my difficult music. Tough going that one, must check it out again.

    It took me ages. If i didn't like 'Machine Gun' and 'The Rip' so much i probably wouldn't have bothered. Its one of my favorite records of all time now so i'm glad i kept at it.
    Yeah agreed on Flying Lotus, found the same with his latest one too - actually stopped it half way through, love it now though.

    I must go back to 'Untrue', listened probably 2 or 3 times but just didn't happen for me - couldn't get past the vocals, love his first album though.

    Kid A as has been mentioned took a bit for me, I was never a Radiohead fan anyway but a couple of people suggested a while back that I take a stab at Kid A, love it now.

    Radiohead are the reason i'm into lots of different kinds of music. I got The Bends and straight away i knew they were my favorite band. I gradually grew into the rest of their albums one at a time. I learnt to be quite patient and attentive whilst exploring their influences. I now NEVER judged an album on 1st or even 2nd listen because i know from experience all the good stuff takes a while to get into.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    Takes me a minimum 10 listens to get nost albums. Albums that require less usually don't get played much.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭osnola ibax


    Takes me a minimum 10 listens to get nost albums. Albums that require less usually don't get played much.

    Yeah, for me the likes of Vampire Weekend, Mumford and Sons, and Artic Monkeys, whilst of a good quality, are almost instantly likable and just don't stay the distance. Would compare it to radio pop music really


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭osnola ibax


    @ Kid V re. Portishead. I loved the Rip and the first song but found some of the melodies (or lack thereof) and instrumentation really jarring and grating. The female vocal at times is frightening. Really admire them for daring to do it though, ill make it a mission to go back to it. Do they have anything else planned do you know?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭rcaz


    Now there's an album I've to still go back for another attempt.

    It was a mistake to have that as my first Autechre album... But after hearing Incunabula and Amber, it's way more of a progression from those, and compared to Confield and all, way more accessible. Still weird as **** though :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭Kid V


    @ Kid V re. Portishead. I loved the Rip and the first song but found some of the melodies (or lack thereof) and instrumentation really jarring and grating. The female vocal at times is frightening. Really admire them for daring to do it though, ill make it a mission to go back to it. Do they have anything else planned do you know?

    Its just so surprising. 'Silence' ends suddenly, the ukelele on 'Deep Water', the groaning, struggling horns on 'Magic Door', the merciless beat on 'Machine Gun'. Its just a mad album really and Beth is one of my favorite vocalists ever

    They're doing a few festivals this summer and they're also curating ATP. No irish dates yet unfortunately.

    Hopefully they'll be straight back into the studio after their tour. 3 albums in 18 years isn't very prolific!

    They released this as a charity single for Amnesty International sometime in 2009 and its their latest release.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭osnola ibax


    Thanks very much Kid V, gonna throw the CD in the car this morning. :-)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    Kid V wrote: »
    Its just so surprising. 'Silence' ends suddenly, the ukelele on 'Deep Water', the groaning, struggling horns on 'Magic Door', the merciless beat on 'Machine Gun'. Its just a mad album really and Beth is one of my favorite vocalists ever.

    I used to edit a music show and got in a bit of trouble for cutting down other videos/interviews in one episode so I could play the Machine Gun video in its entirety.

    Heh heh. :)

    It is quite relentless.


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