Albums you didnt like at first and now love

[bt88]

We've all got em, albums that upon first listen you didnt like and now they're some of your favorites. Im not talking about ones that you grew to accept or be ok with, Im talking about doing a 180 on an album.

This was inspired as I listen to "Angel Dust" by Faith No More, an album I didnt like at all but now consider it to be in my top 5 of all time. Some albums are just like that, theres a lot to digest or you didnt listen to it in the right context the first time. Anyways, here is my short list and Ill add more as I think of them but Im interested to see what you guys have for this.

Faith No More- "King For A Day Fool For a Lifetime" (I went through this with all their albums)

Alice In Chains- "Self Titled"

Meshuggah- "Catch 33"

Tom Waits- "Alice"

Wilco- "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"

STP- "Tiny Music From the Vatican Gift Shop"

Mastodon- "Blood Mountain"

Edited December 30, 2009 by bt88

[LightningBolt]

Muse - Absolution

Everything from Radiohead

Guns N' Roses - "The Spaghetti Incident?"

Everything from Metallica (I don't "love" anything from them, but I used to despise them and now I think they're alright).

[Snake Eyes]

Off the top of my head...

The Eternal - Sonic Youth

Humbug - Arctic Monkeys

Time The Conqueror - Jackson Browne

Is This It? - The Strokes (don't love it though, just see the appeal now)

Fame - Lady Gaga

We'll Live And Die In These Towns - The Enemy

Baby 81 - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Ballbreaker - AC/DC

[Revolver]

Buckethead - Population Override

Nirvana - In Utero

Guns N' Roses - Live like a suicide (GN'R Lies' first half)

Aerosmith - Just Push Play

Sigur Rós - Takk [icelandic]

Slash's Snakepit - It's Five O'clock Somewhere

Quarashi - Guerilla Disco [icelandic]

and more that I can't really think of right now

[FuddMckagan]

Velvet Revolver-Libertad

System Of A Down-System Of A Down

Muse-Black Holes And Revelations

Megadeth-The System Has Failed

Metallica-Load

[-Sephiroth-]

My Dying Bride - 34,788% Complete

Anathema - A Natural Disaster

[st0n3r]

Tool - 10.000 Days

Rammstein - Reise Reise

All Faith No More

Monster Magnet - God Says No

Woven Hand - Consider The Birds

I like all of them now.

[chevelle]

The only one that immediately springs to mind is Radiohead's Kid A. I fucking loathed it at first, but for some reason it still drew me back, and now it's one of my favorite albums, period.

[Dead Flower]

Toxicity - System of a Down

first listen was all like

then slowly it became all like B):

true story, bro.

[st0n3r]

Toxicity - System of a Down

first listen was all like

then slowly it became all like B):

true story, bro.

I have that with all music by SOD. I really don't know why people like them. A lot of people do, so it's probably me.

[inthisriver]

[FuddMckagan]

Toxicity - System of a Down

first listen was all like

then slowly it became all like B):

true story, bro.

Same thing happened with me with Toxicity. At first I didn't get all the hype over it, but now I think it rocks. Songs like Deer Dance, Needles and Psycho took a while to grow on me. Steal This Album is still my favourite album by SOAD though.

[LightningBolt]

System of a Down has yet to grow on me. I've despised them for a good while now, so I figure it's just not meant to be.

[Marky]

Arctic Monkeys-Humbug

Kasabian-Kasabian

RHCP-By The Way

Verve-Urban Hymns

Oasis-Definately Maybe

[Pico]

Blur - Parklife

David Bowie - Hunky Dory

Eels - Electro-Shock Blues

My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything

Primal Scream - Screamadelica

All 5/5 albums imo.

[sweetness]

Any System of a Down album, part of me still hates their retarded pseudo intellectual lyrics

Any Converge Album

10,000 Days - Tool

Moving Pictures - Rush

Effloresce - Oceansize

Waking the Fallen - Avenged Sevenfold

Kid A - Radiohead

Odd How People Shake - Fear Before The March of Flames

As The Eternal Cowboy - Against Me!

Chaosphere - Meshuggah

Bleach - Nirvana

The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse

Found in the Flood - The Bled

[nugdafied]

Blind Melon - Nico

[Powerage5]

Tiny Music...Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop - Stone Temple Pilots

Powerage - AC/DC

From The Inside - Alice Cooper

Somewhere In Time - Iron Maiden

Milo Goes To College - The Descendents

Eh, probably some more I forgot.

[rocker rockstar]

Foo Fighters first album, Alice in Chains Jar of Flies are a few that come to mind. Chinese Democracy was one that I did not like much at first. I like it some now but no near as much as the older music by GNR.

I agree Tiny Music by STP was on first listen weird because STP changed their sound a lot. But after listening more it has become one of the great albums. Matter of fact it is a fan favorite on the STP official forum. I did not like Shang La much at first eaither.

Edited January 15, 2010 by rocker rockstar

[Spuffy78]

EVOL by Sonic Youth

[James Bond]

I love the first album from The Killers but I wasn't immediately impressed with Sam's Town. Now I've grown to love it and think it's a really strong effort. Many great songs on there. Day & Age was the perfect follow-up and I loved that from the first time I heard it. There's plenty of other albums that I feel the same way about, but that was the first one that came to mind.

[Street_Of_Dreams]

The Killers-Sam's Town

Radiohead- OK Computer and Kid A

Velvet Revolver- Contraband

Nirvana- Bleach

and probably tons more but these spring to mind

[NightProwler]

Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen. Just an absolutely fantastic album

[Getizzyback]

Def Leppard - Slang

Britny Fox - Springhead Motorshark

Velvet Revolver - Contraband

[Spoon87]

Pearl Jam's No Code and Mad Season's Above. I still hate myself for ever doubting them one second.