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    Posted: September 22 2005 at 01:27
There are a couple that took a while for me to come around to, but Soft Machine's Third took over a year to appreciate...I wouldn't quite call it a masterpiece though.

My most recent "Grower" has been Strands Of The Future by Pulsar...a great album!

One recent purchase, the self-titled Et Cetera album has left me underwhelmed so far...I guess I'll have to keep plugging away for awhile longer, but at this point I think it is a dud.


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Most recently ... World Record from VdGG.  I bought it at the same time as Still Life and Godbluff and it just didn't compare, so I thought it was crap.  Couldn't listen to it for months.  But dusted it off recently and have been playing it quite a bit.

Overall ... I would say Gentle Giant.  I tried to get into them as a teen, but it literally took me years to "get it". 

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Frances The Mute (The Mars Volta): It took me a while to appreciate it, but now I love it.

Selling England By The Pound (Genesis): It was one of the first albums I had ever bought when I first got into progressive rock. I didn't really think it was all that great for a while, but as I listened to it more and more, I have grown to find it a fascinating album. I've found that most of the best albums take a while to "get," IMHO.

Tales From Topographic Oceans (Yes): I probably didn't like it at first due to the fact it's Tales From Topographic Oceans- I mean, come on! But now it's one of my all-time favourites. 

 

 

 
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Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Genesis - Lamb Lies Down
The Church - Heyday
Beatles - The White Album
Yes - Going For The One

All these were loaned to me in high school by an older friend of mine, all of which I listened to once and said "meh" (at the time, I was subsisting on a steady diet of Rush, Van Halen, BOC, Ozzy, etc...). He just smiled and said, "Ahh, you'll get around to these sooner or later". Man, he was right. Over the next few years I got really into these, and now all are easy picks for my top 100 list.


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a Van der Graaf Generator recompilaion...its not about the album, but about the band...cant believe I didnt liked it for about 7 or 8 mounths

Now...GENIUS!!!
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This: To all those who started to grow on PoS
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Much of Pink Floyd.  I was a kid when a lot of their stuff came out and just didn't like it, but can really get into it now.
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patrick moraz - timecode

my appreciation raised by about 2 stars, certainly my highest ranking difference for an album.

however, timecode is still a very ordinary album: i would say 50% is good and 50% is bad



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  • Supertramp - Some Things Never Change (From 2 to 4 stars)
  • Supertramp - Slow Motion (2.5-3.5)
  • Pink Floyd - The Wall (3-4)
  • Steve Hackett - Cured (2-3)
  • Gentle Giant - Interview (3.5-4.5)
  • Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage (3-4)

 
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Pawn Hearts. I hated it. 

Great was my ignorance.
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For me it was Nursery Cryme. I thought it was decent with a few standout
tracks when I first got it. Now I love it. I can't even believe I didn't think it
was a masterpiece at first.
One likes to believe
In the freedom of music
But glittering prizes
And endless Compromises
Shatter the illusion
Of integrity
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JADE WARRIOR "Released"

When I first listened this ten years ago, I was interested about YES and GENESIS. The jazz, etnhic and rock elements of this were too confusing to  me then, but now it feels like totally great album. A true five-starer!  

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SB- Snow

First one that i can think of
Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Yes - Tales from a topografic ocean, and still i dont quite "get" the second disk..
We want... a shrubbery!
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King Crimson - Islands (still hasn't quite grown on me yet...)
Henry Cow - Western Culture (still hasn't quite grown on me yet either...)
Univers Zero - 1313
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
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Henry Cow - Unrest
Faust - Faust IV
Can - Tago Mago
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn

I like them all a bunch now.
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  • "Aqualung" - Jethro Tull
  • "Awake" - Dream Theater
  • "A momentary lapse of reason"- Pink Floyd
  • "The Sentinel" - Pallas
  • "Lizard" - King Crimson

 
break the circle

reset my head

wake the sleepwalker

and i'll wake the dead
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I've said it once before. When I got King crimson's "Staless & bible black" I was very dissapointed. After few listens I just left it. And I was a crimson lover then (and now). After 20 years (no mistake - twenty years) I said to myself let's check it again and fell in love with it immediately. I think this is kind of a world record (not a very positive one though).

I agree with the claim every complex album needs time and for me it took a while with Yess' "Close to the edge" and "Fragile" which I realy love now.

I strongly support Sigod that one should review an album only after he felt he knows and understands the album very well.
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  • Genesis -  The Lamb Lies down on Broadway
  • Yes - Tales From The Topographic Oceans
  •       - Going For The One

and... the list would be infinite...

Just BE!
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Happened to me with Jethro Tull - TAAB, had the album for a good while but only recently discovered its brilliance! Mahavishnu Orchestra - inner Mounting Flame also took a while to fully appreciate, but now its one of my favourite albums.
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