Albums that you disliked a lot before getting into

The title should explain that one pretty much.
Have you ever heard an album and thought it was rubbish, only to later realize it was brilliant ?

...and vice versa ?

Ever got an album and fell in love with it out of excitement but on closer inspection it turned out that you hated it ?





For Example, I absolutely hated both Number Of The Beast and Reign In Blood for a good few years, with the exception of the songs 'Hallowed Be Thy Name,' and 'Post Mortem' and 'Raining Blood.' I used to think that they were really overhyped and just not as good as the albums that followed them like Piece Of Mind and South Of Heaven.

Another example would be Burn My Eyes, because I had got into Machine Head through Supercharger, Burn My Eyes just seemed weird to me.

Now I like them all.


Edited by Kingcrimsonprog - 04 Dec 2011 at 8:19am

Celtic Frost's "Into the Pandemonium" and To Mega Therion" took some time for me to get into... I just wasn't ready for that sort of music the first time I heard them. Now, I totally love them.

Blackjazz

I don't know about specific albums, but Voivod took me a while to get into.  I heard them when I was 17-18, didn't dig it, but now I do.  Initially, I was only familiar with their self-titled album and a bit of War and Pain.  I remember always liking there Astronomy Domine cover, but never knew what album it was from (or even that it was a cover).  A few years ago, I stumbled across "Nothingface" at a used CD store, tried them again and that album converted me.

Jane Doe is probably the biggest one, but there have been a lot that took me a while to get into.

The Days of Grays by Sonata Arctica.  I absolutely hated it when I first heard it, but then I listened to it again a year later and loved it.  

A major one for me that I forgot about: Faith No More

Edited by Stooge - 07 Dec 2011 at 2:22pm

Believe it or not, I didn't see anything special about Opeth's Still Life until about a year or two after I bought it. I loved it to death for about a year, and now I don't care for it so much anymore; its treble production hurts my ears.

Xaxaar wrote: Jane Doe is probably the biggest one, but there have been a lot that took me a while to get into.

Same as. Miss Machine I hated and is now one of my favourite albums ever.

http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/nespithe--review.aspx?id=254403I didn�t use to enjoy this one at all. In fact I found it completely ridiculous. As you can read from my review things have changed.