CDs/albums that get better after repeated listens

[mvd]

I'll start with these, though there are more:

R.E.M. - Around The Sun: The beauty starts to unravel. Many critics bashed it unnecessarily IMO (no surprise there,) but the Village Voice critic liked it. I now think it's their best since New Adventures In Hi-Fi.

Tift Merritt - Bramble Rose: Went from promising to a fave

Radiohead - Kid A: I bet this will be mentioned by others

PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?: A bit fuzzed-up, but those sounds start fitting in

[freedom_to_read]

1. a few more

shins -- chutes too narrow

smog -- dongs of sevotion (listenin to it right now!)

pavement -- crooked rain, crooked rain

[phaseolus]

2. Mahler

Symphonies 2, 3, 5

It took much effort & many repeatead listenings before I 'got' these.

[Chichiri]

3. Dream Theater -- Train of Thought (n/t)

[Wat_Tyler]

4. Satanchrist - Black Death of the Children of Mankind.

Fabulous record.

[Beware the Beast Man]

5. "Peruvian Clown Car" by the Transcendental Fruit Basket

Classic 60's garage/psych :thumbsup:

[Wat_Tyler]

6. Man, I can't believe someone else likes that.

Thumbs up, fella. Arturo Malchich rocks!

[Beware the Beast Man]

8. He was it town recently

Really had it together, considering at one time he thought he was a tangerine and tried to peel himself.

[Wat_Tyler]

14. Still. Halfar Hafnignogssen tried to murder and eat the singer of Crunt.

Sensitive types, musos.

[Beware the Beast Man]

15. What the fuck is up with Norway?

:shrug:

[Wat_Tyler]

24. Hafnignogssen grew up in Hammerfest, north of the Arctic Circle.

In winter, it is pitch black for months. I think we know where he gets it from.

[rot0r_head]

7. The 4-CD work "Zaireeka" by the Flaming Lips

It's intended for all four disks to be played simultaneously, so no two plays can ever be the same. Amazing what you comes out just from experimenting.

[the Princess]

9. Um let's see

The Who - Quadrophenia

Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna

Amy Grant - Behind the Eyes

Elton John - Goodbye Yellowbrick Road

Trisha Yearwood - Greatest Hits

Dwight Yoakum - Hillbilly Delux

Basia - Time and Tide

Rod Stewart - Anything that has Maggie May on it(lol)

Bruce Sprignsteen - Greeting From Asbury Park

Oh there are more but my mind just went blank...............

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

11. Completely agree on Time and Tide and asbury park

and the first one by SwingOut Sister

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

10. Pilgrim - Marty Stuart

I'll bet you still don't own it :-)

[mvd]

13. Sorry about that

You're right. I could make excuses, but I'll take my :spank: :hi:

[sharp_stick]

12. Ministry: Houses of the Mole

Not to everyones taste but the sampling in one song with shrub saying

"I have a message for the Iraqi people... Go home and die"

is one of the most eerie things I've heard in a long time.

[mrbassman03]

16. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun

Amazing... a lights off, headphones on album.

[Jean Louise Finch]

33. I totally agree!

You can't say enough good things about this album for me. The first time I heard it, I was unimpressed, but then I thought I should give it another try and popped it in one late evening with the lights down low, and almost passed out from the genius of it.

[Wat_Tyler]

34. It is a classic.

[maveric]

17. Blind Faith from 1969

Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Rich Grech. Nuff said!

[Nag Champa]

18. Phish

Junta
Rift
The Story of the Ghost

All three are outstanding and get better with time.

[Carla in Ca]

19. Pink Floyd's 'Comfortably Numb'

n/t

[Fenris]

20. Erik Nordquist - A Tribute to Dio

All the beast's greatest hits performed by an 80-piece orchestra and a man screaming in Norwegian.

[Wat_Tyler]

25. Cool. Can you burn it for me?

[Paul Lazzaro]

21. anything by Tony Bennett

man that cat just keeps on getting better all the time!

[eyesroll]

22. "Plant Serenade."

The tones just get better and better.

[Wat_Tyler]

26. How about 'Jazz Wolf'?

Even Halfar Hafnignogssen can chill out to Jazz Wolf.

[catzies]

23. mvd, I'm with you on the new R.E.M.!!

It DOES get better with multiple listenings. "Boy in the Well" has been stuck in my head all day today.

[mvd]

30. Yep, I now think it's close to Automatic For The People

It really went up with me!

[democracy eh]

27. agree with the R.E.M. ATS

very reminiscent of Automatic for the People, in fact I play ATS when I am bummed, just like AFTP


I can say that William Shatner's new album Has Been does not improve with age

[Donkeyboy75]

28. A great album by an obscure 80s punk band:

"Chocolate Milkmaid" - Poop Chute Propaganda

Haven't heard them mentioned in years.

[Wat_Tyler]

29. Weren't they on the same label as Half Man Half Biscuit?

[Donkeyboy75]

35. Yep.

But I didn't like Half Man Half Biscuit much. They were almost a crappy (and that's saying a lot) Australian version of the Federals.

[derbstyron]

31. Mary Chapin Carpenter

Time*Sex*Love
I'm a big fan but this one didn't really sink in until after a few listens. Same thing with her "A Place in the World" to a lesser extent.

[gmoney]

32. It's a cliche, but Weezer's "Pinkerton"

when it first came out, I gave it a couple spins, read some bad reviews, and set it aside. Then I stumbled onto an interview in AP in which Cuomo outlines the autobiographical aspects of it and discussed the structure and all, and then it CLICKED big time. Now it's one of my favorites, and I almost have to listen to the whole thing if I'm going to listen at all.

I say it's a cliche because there seemed to be a lot of "Weezer come lately" support for this album that's grown up around the album during the drought between Pinkerton and the Green album.

[bloodyjack]

36. it is a great album

easily one of my favorites.

and, uh, I think the reason "pinkerton" has finally received the esteem, the appreciation, the adulation it long-ago deserved is because all the stuff Weezer churned out afterward has been pure unadulterated crap

in the interest of full disclosure though, I havent had the energy to listen to Maladroit.