"Sleepers" (Hated now love)
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Topic: "Sleepers" (Hated now love)
Posted By: TOD KREMER
Subject: "Sleepers" (Hated now love)
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 20:55
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I have never really understood Zappa. I have played several albums that are considered "genius" over and over and over again and I still don't "get it". Do you have an album or band that you had to force yourself to like/ listen to and then finally one day you just "got it" in a major way? |
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 00:04
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This album gave me trouble at first, but now I absolutely adore it: 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 00:07
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1st listen: 2nd listen: ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
(Paranoid psychosis)
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 00:10
I'm still in between those two emoticons. -------------
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stonebeard wrote:
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 01:04
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i like 50% of this record: i hated 99% of it before:
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Posted By: SirPsycho388
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 01:05
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Honestly...
I only really like "One of These Days"... i thought everything else was just depressing and boring noise. Wow, i can't believe i thought that!!! ------------- Strangers passing in the street by chance two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand and lead you through the land and help me understand the best I can |
Posted By: Thyme Traveler
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 02:26
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This may be amusing, but I didn't like "Supper's Ready" for the longest time. Now it's one of my favorite Genesis songs. ------------- Fire up the flux capacitor ! We're taking this Delorean through all four dimensions. What is the future of prog ? Genesis reunion ? I'm not telling!That could upset the thyme/space continuum. |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 14:27
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Van der Graaf is probalby the band I had more problems to get into...now I find them fanatastic!!! Hatfield and the North is still a "can´t swallow" for me ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: 70sSoundquality
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 14:44
| Breakfast in America, 1979. At first it seemed too "light" and compressed, but after about 3 months I was sitting around drunk and just heard these amazing harmonies. just wanted to cry really |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 14:53
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I didnt like Snow by Spock's beard the first time i heard it. I waited about four-six months, tired it again and i now i love it. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: eugene
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 14:59
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I am now torturing myself by Can and Holger Czuckay.... Let's just hope their oeuvres will turn out to be "sleepers" for me sometime in future, as now they are just "stinkers" (if you excuse me this word). ------------- carefulwiththataxe |
Posted By: eugene
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 15:01
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And, yeah, Magma took a while for me to like their works (not all of them but good part of it) ------------- carefulwiththataxe |
Posted By: Lofcaudio
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 15:04
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Octopus (Gentle Giant) was the most surprising grower on me. I still haven't fallen in love with Supper's Ready. I'm doing everything I can to "get" something out of VdGG, but so far...nothing. I'll keep trying though. |
Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 15:07
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The only prog album I'm still having trouble with is 'Misplaced Childhood' by Marillion. I had trouble getting into Van Der Graaf Generator in general but now I'm fascinated by them. Took me a while to fully appreciate 'Third' by Soft Machine, And 'Tales..' But after a while I seen the light. ------------- My computer's broke |
Posted By: Tenth Chaffinch
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 00:15
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For the longest time I could never get into rush. But once I gave them a little more of a chance, their musical virtuosity and uniqueness shone through quickly and kept me hooked. ------------- www.myspace.com/fatherunderground |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 06:49
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Unfortunately, there are albums that I just never "got" - which means that, after the first listen, I had to force myself to listen for a second time, and in many cases never listened to ever again. This has nothing to do with the album being bad: it's just a question of me being a "love at first listen" type of person.
Even so, there have been a couple of "sleepers" in my experience - records which didn't impress me too much at first, but then grew on me and even became favourites. This is the case of UK's magnificent debut album.
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Posted By: retuow
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 06:57
For me, it's Frank Zappa as well. I first got Hot Rats which I liked after a listen or two. Next was The Best Of (a trimmed down version of Strictly Commerical) which was easy to get into as well. Two albums I liked straight away. What could ever stop me from loving Zappa? 
The third Zappa album I got was Uncle Meat, and I'm having great troubles getting into that one  It's getting better every listen, though. ------------- Human beings were created by water to carry it uphill. |
Posted By: ozzy_tom
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 07:34
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For some time VDGG was such a band for me. And King Crimson, too. Now I like them both. -------------  
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 07:53
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VdGG was such a band for me. I immediately liked the music, but that
voice! The first album I heard by them was "Godbluff"; I bought it as a
present for the 16th birthday of my brother, who is almost 10 years
older than I am and collected a lot of music. I had no idea what Van
der Graaf Generator were like, and neither did my brother; I just liked
the pics of the four guys on the cover and the Escher logo of the band,
so I bought it for him. We started listening to it, the intro of
"Undercover Man" sounded promising, then someone started singing in a
hoarse whisper that soon became a scream, and we both thought it was
horrible. Instrumentally great music, but "No thanks!" for the voice! Well, as most people here know meanwhile, I am one of the biggest Hammill fans on this site. It took me a while, but suddeny it made click, and I really loved that voice. My brother got accustomed to the voice too, and he started buying all the other records of VdGG, and I had the opportunity to hear them with him. "Pawn Hearts" was the first he bought after his initiation with "Godbluff", and I loved that album immediately. When there were no more VdGG abums to buy, he started on the solo albums of Hammill. And the little kid that was I followed him on his journey into the wonderland of Peter Hammill and VdGG. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 08:05
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Mine can be one of those standards "can't appreciate at first" albums.
Mr. Bungle's Disco Volante was one of them. I found the album too crazy
(to put it in simple words), But after repeated listenings I've come to
the conclusion that the album is a masterpiece of the 90's. Another can be TNT by Tortoise. It was sooooo boring that I never heard it again, but some months ago I gave it a chance and actually listen to the album and I found it to be another excellent work of art ------------- 
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Posted By: oracus
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 10:42
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Gentle Giant and Frank Zappa.. Especially Zappa takes me lot of plays ------------- 
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