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Cider The Final ECW Champion from Not New York Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
The Final ECW Champion
#1: Apr 5th 2011 at 6:47:32 PM

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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JHM Apparition in the Woods from Niemandswasser Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hounds of love are hunting
Apparition in the Woods
#2: Apr 5th 2011 at 8:45:06 PM

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.
Goomba4001 Cat avatar person from Phoenix, AZ Since: Feb, 2010
Cat avatar person
#3: Apr 5th 2011 at 10:00:52 PM

This is pretty much a requirement for an album to make it onto my computer. Most things I love on first listen get old fast.

Usually.

Saeglopur Resident Hipster from Various places in the UK Since: Jan, 2001
Resident Hipster
#4: Apr 6th 2011 at 3:29:49 AM

[up] 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.

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MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#5: May 8th 2011 at 4:59:20 PM

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

inane242 Anwalt der Verdammten from A B-Movie Bildungsroman Since: Nov, 2010
AchromaticSky Golbat from Long Island Since: Oct, 2009
#7: May 8th 2011 at 5:22:38 PM

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."
BoundByTheMoon Kvltvre Vvltvre from The Spanish Sahara Since: Jun, 2010
Kvltvre Vvltvre
#8: May 8th 2011 at 5:26:14 PM

[up][up]Really? I have a few songs from it, I'll have to check the rest out.

There are snakes in the grass, so we'd better go hunting!
Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#9: May 8th 2011 at 5:27:35 PM

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was rather mediocre on first listen, but now...

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
KitsuneInferno Jackass Detector from East Tennessee Since: Apr, 2009
Jackass Detector
#10: May 8th 2011 at 5:39:43 PM

...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.
Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#11: May 8th 2011 at 5:41:12 PM

...You cum like a nun.

wwwwwwwwwhat

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
KitsuneInferno Jackass Detector from East Tennessee Since: Apr, 2009
Jackass Detector
#12: May 8th 2011 at 6:01:13 PM

I thought you listened to the album.

"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.
Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#13: May 8th 2011 at 6:08:23 PM

You should've you "...you make a nun cum", I would've recognized it then....

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
NEO from Qrrbrbirlbel Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
#14: May 8th 2011 at 6:16:00 PM

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

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inane242 Anwalt der Verdammten from A B-Movie Bildungsroman Since: Nov, 2010
Anwalt der Verdammten
#15: May 8th 2011 at 6:51:45 PM

@ Bound By The Moon: DO IT. Djent + Industrial Metal + Guest programing by Laetherstrip = Crowning Music Of Awesome.

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sca_punk Not-Not-Not Your Academy from sca_punk's computer Since: Apr, 2010
Not-Not-Not Your Academy
#16: May 9th 2011 at 7:09:15 PM

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

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MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN
#17: May 9th 2011 at 7:24:27 PM

^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.

CinemaZebra from The Texas Panhandle Since: May, 2011
#18: May 9th 2011 at 9:06:04 PM

Zeuhl music in general, but especially the stranger stuff like Dun.

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iamathousandapples The Collective from Northeast Ohio Megablob Since: Oct, 2009
The Collective
#19: May 9th 2011 at 11:17:13 PM

Nearly all of Fates Warning's albums, but Disconnected turned from "Eh." to "HOLYJESUSTHISISAMAZING"

"I could eat a knob at night" - Karl Pilkington
JHM Apparition in the Woods from Niemandswasser Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hounds of love are hunting
Lordnecronus dOOOOM from Wales Since: Sep, 2009
dOOOOM
#21: May 10th 2011 at 2:30:20 AM

Thergothon's Stream from the Heavens is the major example that springs to mind for me. On first listen, I thought it was incredibly dreary; on second listen, it blew me away, and I was surprised that it didn't click on first listen.

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Usipeus Since: Apr, 2011
#22: May 19th 2011 at 4:10:44 PM

[up][up][up] Same for me, but especially Night on Brocken and The Spectre Within. At first, I liked them, but then WHOA, THIS IS AMAZING, ESPECIALLY JOHN ARCH

But once I listened to Awaken the Guardian, I instantly fell in love.

Jackerel SURPRISE from ur sentry Since: Feb, 2011
SURPRISE
#23: May 19th 2011 at 4:16:40 PM

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.

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Hi
#24: May 19th 2011 at 4:52:33 PM

Green 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.

Bananaquit Since: Jan, 2001
#25: May 20th 2011 at 12:00:33 PM

Caravan: For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night

It just struck me as very “lite” and bland at first.

A month later I was playing it once every week (which is a lot for me).

It made me want to play the viola (which I don’t, but still...).


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