R&P: Are there any bands/artists or albums that didn't 'click' with you on first listen?

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Thrash metal in general took me a while to get used to. I initially didn't like bands like Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, etc. but several more listens after first listening to them, they grew on me.

BQ1: El Camino by The Black Keys

BQ2: Noctourniquet by The Mars Volta

Coheed and Cambria

Cage the Elephant

Clutch

BQ: Handsome Furs - Sound Kapital

BQ2: I have a couple...

The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet

Marilyn Manson - Born Villain

New Deftones

New Tool

New Eve 6

Most of the Celtic/folk/prog/rock groups from the early 70ies until I got rid of my old Garrard turn table & lousy amp & crummy speakers & bought some nice expensive stuff. Everything sounded so much better I knew I had made the right choices.

My downstairs neighbors did not appreciate my purchases unfortunately.

I still have the same Polk speakers, gave my thorens turntable away as well as all my old 33's.

Favorite 2011 album: Mumford And Sons perhaps?

2012: I have no freaking idea as yet. Nothing that grabs me by the short ones I suppose, so to speak.

Tom Waits (Closing Time and The Heart of Saturday Night did click pretty immediately though)

Pink Floyd

BQ: Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

BQ2: Pond - Beard, Wives, Denim

Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light

The new Sigur Rós album

Yes, both my favorite and second favorite bands, Rage Against the Machine and Nine Inch Nails. For both I listened to one song. Killing in the Name for RATM and The Hand That Feeds for NIN. But then never tried them past that. Then I listened to more by them, and now they're my top two bands.

BQ: Watch the Throne - Kanye West & Jay-Z

BQ2: New Anti-Flag album.

I wasn't too keen on Arctic Monkeys' Suck It And See on the first couple listens, but I love it now. Same with Gaga's Born This Way.

BQ: What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?

BQ2: MGMT's self titled.

Mother Mother took me a little while, and it took me years to really get into Linkin Park.

BQ: I'm With You, by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

BQ2: The new Linkin Park record they've said they'll put out this year.

Sigur Ros

BQ: Tom Waits - Bad as Me

BQ2: The new Sigur Ros

Emperor.

BQ: Cynic - Carbon-Based Anatomy

BQ2: Either the new Cannibal Corpse or the double disc live Death.

Led zeppelin. Robert plant's vocals wher a little difficullt at first

Bq: the king of limbs- radiohead

Bq2: not sure