Merzbow's Cycle. At first, all you can hear is noise; the next, all you can hear is noise.
Wire's Pink Flag. Still far from my favourite album of theirs (Chairs Missing, 154, Send), but a very solid experience with some utterly mind-blowing moments that grows better with each listen.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
Agreed. The best albums are the ones that grow on you and reveal more about themselves with every listen. If you love an album on first listen, it's usually (but not always) because you've already heard all there is to hear.
I did not get Double Nickels On The Dime the first time around. I think I was expecting it to sound more like a Hardcore Punk album or something, and also didn't like D. Boon's voice, and at any rate I didn't even get all the way through the album. Much later I gave it a second listen and noticed that the basslines were cool, the drumming was really good, those strange trebly guitar parts sorta sounded like surf rock, and the lyrics were weird but interesting. Now it's one of my favorite albums ever.
edited 8th May '11 5:12:40 PM by MikeK
Godspeed You! Black Emperor — f#a#∞
At first, only that one part of East Hastings (you know which one I mean) stood out, but now everything falls into place and it's a masterpiece.
edited 8th May '11 5:22:53 PM by AchromaticSky
"I want to create an omelet that expresses the meaninglessness of existence, and instead they taste like cheese."...You cum like a nun. Lasers gets better after a couple of listens. Not much better. Not approaching any levels of good, but it doesn't piss me off like it did in March.
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt." - Some guy with a snazzy hat.I thought you listened to the album.
It did happen with me with The Unseen Empire, but that was because I listened to Princess Ghibli the previous day and dude, what an album. Of course, after I got used to the awesomeness overload TUE became just as good.
This "second listen" effect happens to me more often with songs. Dust Devils and Cosmic Storms* , De|com|pression* , The Illusion of Balance* and The Brave/Agony Applause* had this effect on me alike.
edited 8th May '11 6:18:45 PM by NEO
No regret shall pass over the threshold!@ Bound By The Moon: DO IT. Djent + Industrial Metal + Guest programing by Laetherstrip = Crowning Music Of Awesome.
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.Woven Hand seem to be the masters of this. Every album I've listened to by them has gotten so much better on a repeated listen.
edited 9th May '11 7:09:34 PM by sca_punk
They're off the streets now, and back on the road on the riot trail. http://www.last.fm/user/sca_punk^It's funny. Individual songs frequently hook me on the first listen ("My Russia" was the second song I ever heard by them, and I immediately knew at that point that I needed to find more by them) but then I listen to the whole album and I'm all "The heck?" And then I listen a few more times and I realize how great all the other songs are.
edited 7th Jun '11 5:48:51 PM by JHM
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.All Electric Six albums past Fire. KILL took some time to get accustomed to (especially since I'm fond of the wacky Fire-era sound - it's... well, it's still there in KILL, but it's somehow different). I warmed up to Zodiac after I also found the most Fire-like tracks.
Was Jack Mackerel. | i rite gudGreen Day's Insomniac. The first time I tried to listen to it, I pulled it out of the CD player halfway through the first song and stuck it in the "sell back to the music store" stack. I tried it again a coupla months later, something clicked, and it didn't leave my car for at least the next six months.

L'amore by Sonorha. The guys are actually pretty talented, and I realized that when I heard their music, it was usually drowned out by the screaming of little girls, so I didn't appreciate it before.
The Element Of Freedom by Alicia Keys. The sound quality really made up for it when I listened to it on my person player than when I heard singles on the radio. For one I could actually distinguish that her voice hadn't warped, it was Beyonce guest starring.
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