1. Vee Vee - Archers of Loaf 2. Manfred Mann's Earth Band (1972 album) 3. Of Human Feelings - Ornette Coleman 4. Lick My Decals Off, Baby - Captain Beefheart 5. Manic Pop Thrill - That Petrol Emotion
Anyone have any other suggestions?
― Scott Bassett, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― alex in nyc, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― scott, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
I think the first time, the album didn't meet my expectations--it wasn't what it was 'supposed' to be in my mind. However, listening to it blindly (without context), I was able to hear it 'fresh.'
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Ally C, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Your first sentence on Before Hollywood seemed reasonably accurate, though maybe just a *bit* harsh.
Answer: why not The Wayward Bus? People like me have to get through all that noisy stuff before really appreciating it.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Guy, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Johnathan, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Andy, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
It is only rock bands though - Chic and NWW and Public Enemy I loved from the outset and still do. This is one reason perhaps that I'm so cagey about writing on indie ;)
― Tom, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Nurse With Wound?
― Stevie Nixed, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― chris, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Herbert - 100pounds - Not as ridiculous as it first sounds
― K-reg, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Tom, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
There's some interesting (recent) Keith Levine interviews on the Perfect Sound Forever website. Apparently Keith invented everything.
― Steven James, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
My friend Pete moved to Australia shortly afterwards.
― mark s, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― ali g, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― DG, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Stevie Nixed, Friday, 4 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
But then, the first time I played Psychocandy for a bandmate, she turned to my best friend and whispered "Does Kate know her stereo is broken?")
Weirdly, in a bizarre 180 to other threads, the album that took the longest to grow on me was probably the Third Velvets album. I missed the noise and feedback and sturm and drang of the first two albums, and it just sounded like a load of wibbling ballads, and decided that they Commenced To Suck Bigtime once Cale left.
It took several years for it to grow on me. Now I think it's sheer genius.
― kate the saint, Friday, 4 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Ali: Metal Box was by Public Image and literally came in a metal box- it was a film cannister type thing with three 12 inch 45's. I bought mine in high school (1983) for the princely sum of 20 dollars. Those were different times... *gets faraway look in eyes*
― Steven James, Friday, 4 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Johnathan, Saturday, 5 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
anyway, it lasted about 45 seconds before being replaced by buggles. i never took any tapes to any school ever again.
― gareth, Sunday, 6 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Sure, Ministry turned into an embarassingly juvenile cartoon (as they remain today), but for that one brief, fleeting moment, it was an absolutely classic piece of cathartic, mechanized noise.
― alex in nyc, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
(Minimum five years: since I find it easier to imagine someone coming on the Buttholes long ages later, and liking what they heard...)
(Ditto Buggles, sorta, but not a whole GROUP of people...)
― mark s, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Francis Heaney, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dave225, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
A totally oddball record that to these ears, still occasionally has the marks of a forgotten classic.
― Mark, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Sorry to bother! Keep on with yr lives, people!
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)
"13", now, that's another story though....
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 09:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ben Dot, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)
When I first heard it I thought is was weird and squibbley. Now I think it is insanely good genius-wise.
― Mike Taylor (mjt), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)
Record you started off hating but learned to love
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 25 September 2003 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 September 2003 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 25 September 2003 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 September 2003 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Thursday, 25 September 2003 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 25 September 2003 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Sunday, 17 September 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago)
I also hold onto the hope that Rehearsing My Choir will wind up like this, but it's not the biggest hope I have.
Also, having languished a long way behind, Yerself Is Steam is relentlessly catching up with Boces. Relentlessly and dazzlingly, may I add.
Finally, I've found that Soundgarden has had this sort of effect on me as well. "Meh grunge" suddenly became "WOW OH ROCK!" at some undefined moment, probably halfway through 'Limo Wreck'.
― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Sunday, 17 September 2006 22:56 (eighteen years ago)
Really? Weird! I loved this from the first listen!
I can't think of any of these because I have a pretty short memory.
― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 18 September 2006 00:54 (eighteen years ago)
Conversely, I was so wrong about Radiohead, initially. I despised _OK Computer_, which went on to become one of my most beloved albums. I always slept on Tom Waits, Randy Newman and Will Oldham for an insanely long time.
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 18 September 2006 01:04 (eighteen years ago)
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 18 September 2006 01:06 (eighteen years ago)
'burn, piano island, burn'...again didn't start off being terrible per se, but knowing the song structures really does help with this one. once you know the tracks well and can pre-empt the changes, the record is stupidly addictive.
'kill the moonlight'... sounded really restricted and underpowered in all the wrong ways at first, but there turned out to be surprising depth and versatility here, not to mention a shitload of infectious tunes.
sounds great at first, turns out to be a dud: too many to mention, but a few prominent examples include about half of beck's catalogue (ok...if i have to name names, 'midnite vultures' and 'guero'), the cure's 'bloodflowers' (really thought this was a stunning return to form, but it epitomises the whole notion of thin, padded-out songs and a general lack of forward-thingking creative energy), godspeed's 'lift your skinny fists..." (far from a complete dud in fairness, but also light years away from the masterpiece i proclaimed it to be upon the first handful of listens).
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:17 (eighteen years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:21 (eighteen years ago)
Guero was always a horrible disappointment for me.
― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:29 (eighteen years ago)
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:34 (eighteen years ago)
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago)
In the Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel didn't do much for me the first bunch of times either.
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago)