What Album Took You The Longest To "Get Into"?

25 years later and I still can't get into The Wall, i still say Dark Side kills it in every conceivable way.

When I was young and stupid it too me forever to get into The Rolling Stones. For the first several years of my musical career (And before You are too harsh on me remember I was quite young and things were very different in the 80s and I've matured a lot since then) my opinion on the Stones was they were "Those twisty gay fruits from England" ....until I actually took the time to listen to a copy of Exile On Main Street, and that started a love affair with Blues Rock that's lasted 20 years.

BA: Wish You Were Here

BA2: My Sharona?

Talking Pink Floyd, I had the same problem you had but a couple months later I got into all the greatness of The Wall and I love it! But the album that really took me longest to get into, overall, was Aerosmith's Rocks. It's SUCH an amazing album and again, some of my favorite songs are there but there's something about it that just doesn't seem to fit...

BQ: honestly I only have The Wall and Dark Side

BQ2: Not sure, I have many long solos...

It depends on the album. Usually, anything from a couple of days to a week, and occasionally a month or so. I often saturate myself in a new album {mostly happens when I've only got the one to listen to ~ big backlog here at the moment!}, listening to it on repeat over and over. Sometimes I can tell within a couple of listens what songs I do and don't like, but other times I'll have to come back to it a few weeks later to re-asses {sp?}. It's common for me to take an instant dislike to a song ~ though I can't always pinpoint *why* I don't like one ~ but just recently I've found myself um-ing and ah-ing over some, and having them slowly grow on me until they actually become favourites!

One I didn't like: The Wall by Pink Floyd for pretty much the same reason as you. I have managed to listen to it straight through, but it only ever got sliiiightly less boring, never really straight out interesting.

One I did end up liking: New York Dolls' s/t. It was insanely cacophonous to me, and I settled on just a few tracks, until a new one would get stuck in my head and eventually that happened for the whole album and now I love it.

Probably The Police's Zenyatta Mondatta. I liked a few songs but really disliked the others. Now, however, I'm content with pretty much all of it.

BA: Piper at the Gates of Dawn... such an incredible album!

BA2: "Dazed and Confused" - Led Zeppelin (Song Remains the Same version. Solo was probably about 20 minutes) :)

Black Flag had always been one of my favorite punk bands. When I first got into them, I only listened to pre-Rollins. After a few years, I picked up My War, only to find it was a different singer. I listened to it the whole way through, more or less, several times, but it never did anything for me. One night, I popped it in my stereo, and for no reason at all, I loved it! Now, it's my favorite Black Flag album, and I found out about S-O-A. But thats a different story....

BA- Not a PF fan.

B2- Po-jama People by Frank Zappa, but thats just off the top of my head.

I'd say the album it took me the longest to enjoy would have to be Planetary Duality by The Faceless... I loved the sound of the album but the content (as in lyrics/subject matter (alien invasions and ancient blood pacts)) really turned me off of the album. just started getting into it again.

BQ: not a pink floyd fan honestly. really just not my style.

BQ2: Idk thats a tough question. The longest song i have on this computer is Blackwater Park by opeth (The roundhouse tapes version 19:00) but as for soloes idk whats the longest but Necrophagist songs all pretty much are made of solos lol.

Dark Side of the Moon. I tried to listen to it, but I just couldn't get into it. I honestly don't see the hype over it

BQ: A Momentary Lapse of Reason

BQ2: I'm not sure. I'd have to listen to about 600 songs to be able to give you an accurate answer... it might be Do You Feel Like We Do by Peter Frampton, though....

Pony Express Record - Shudder to Think.

The songs have some very interesting time and key changes which I really didn't like when I first heard it. It took a few more listens for me to be able to appreciate it.

BQ: Ermmm...I have no idea. I've heard their albums from start to finish only once.

BQ2: I'm drawing a blank on this one too.

I really don't have any ideas for your other Q, but I starred it.

In The Aeroplane, Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

If you've heard it its not too hard to tell why haha, very different from the classic rock I was used to. Really kick started the Indie genre though and opened me up to more music as a whole (when I was 13 all i listened too was classic rock)

BQ: Wish You Were Here

BQ2: Umm...No idea