Rock and Pop: Name any 5 albums that have grown on you significantly?

Whaddup Ryan?

Some recent ones would probably be...

1. Worthless by Weekend Nachos. Took a while to fully get it, and honestly I still kinda don't, but this is a sludge influenced powerviolence record that has a few cool things going for it. The energy is the main point in this, it's unreal in every powerviolence group, but this adds more to the sound by adding sludge passages sprinkled throughout. Currently I think it's just okay and it will definitely take a little more to grow on me. 7/10 for now.

2. Acrobatic Tenement by At the Drive In. With me loving In/Casino/Out, Vaya, and Relationship of Command a lot starting about a year ago, I decided to listen to their debut album soon after. I didn't really get it at first. I liked it, but it just kind of felt like bouncy lo-fi emo. In fact, their earlier EPs had a lot better production it seemed like. Then I started listening closer: there was definitely a lot more happening in the music than the bouncy rhythms. This album is full of emotion, really cool instrumentals, and some of Cedric's best vocal performances. A definite 10/10 now as opposed to early 2015 when I first heard it.

3. Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues by Strung Out. A couple weeks ago I listened to this skate punk record expecting too much from it. Though, taken at surface value, it's a great energetic skate punk record. It does it's job rather well I'd say.

4. I blindly hated To Pimp a Butterfly since it came out. A few weeks ago I gave some of it a listen, and was thoroughly impressed. Even King Kunta sounded great in context. I guess I wasn't keen on listening to a top 40 backed rap artist, but I was definitely wrong. Will probably revisit the rest of the album later on. 8/10 so far.

5. I'll probably go along with Hurricain about Undertow for lack of another album. Used to be kinda boring, but now I find it a glorious experience. 8/10.

BQ: Hometown Hero, Initiation/Ticklish, Monster, Free?, Intolerance/Bottom/4*/Disgustipated

BQ2: Title Fight probably. Love the cool shoegaze influenced melodic hardcore.

BQ3: I've listened to a few but the last one I heard start to finis was Pain of Mind by Neurosis last night. I have Neurosis on my list as one of the ones I'm gonna attempt a complete discog on. Naturally, I started with their first album. Vastly different from Times of Grace and Sun That never Sets, the albums I've heard previously. This one was hard-hitting crust punk that did have some elements pre-shadowing their soon to be experimental sludge sound. The great thing about this was the how the songs developed. Very refreshing contrast to the formulaic (but still great in it's own right) hardcore punk I've heard recently.

Band CD Title Rate Fav Song

Poison - Crack A Smile (& more) 10 Lay Your Body Down

Bon Jovi- Keep The Faith 15 If I Was Your Mother

Billy Falcon- Pretty Blue World 9 Power Windows

Tesla - Psychotic Supper 9.5 What You Give

Motley Crue 9 Same Ol Situation

*Last CD - Tim McGraw "Damn Country Music" 8

Ministry - Psalm 69: - Didn't care for Ministry til I saw them at Lollapalooza '92. After that I liked this a lot. 8

Rush - Grace Under Pressure - I thoroughly despised it when it first came out, I wanted it to be like their previous albums. Finally I came to the conclusion it was the best album they'd yet made. I still think so. 9

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - I was predisposed to hate it since I despised that whole indie-hipster thing. Then I heard it. My favorite album, and that's after over 40 years of listening to rock music. It still blows me away every time I listen to it. 10

Pink Floyd - The Final Cut - much like Grace Under Pressure this was a letdown after Floyd's previous material. Still, a solid album. 7

Suicidal Tendencies - The Art of Rebellion - Unlike ST's previous albums this one was obviously designed to appeal to a more mainstream audience. Took some getting used to but eventually I decided it was pretty darn good anyway. 8

Sgt. Pepper - The Beatles 10/10

Jar of Flies - Alice in Chains 9.8/10

Holy Wood - Marilyn Manson 7.8/10

The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd 9.8/10

Ok Computer - Radiohead 9.6/10

Hmm....good question. Here are some albums that have grown on me quite a bit recently:

The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge (8.5/10)

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (9/10)

Wipers - Youth of America (Either an 8/10, or an 8.5/10)

Echo and The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain (8/10)

The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour (8.5/10)

BQ: From Script of the Bridge: "Second Skin"

From Psychocandy: "Taste the Floor"

From Youth of America: "When It's Over"

From Ocean Rain: "Ocean Rain"

From Hex Enduction Hour: "The Classical"

BQ2: For me, it's either Deafheaven, or Godspeed You Black Emperor.

BQ3: Thank Your Lucky Stars by Beach House. I'd give it a 7.5/10.

Yo so I know an answer was chosen but I gotta put my answers down. This is fun!

1. FKA Twigs-LP1: It took a little while for that album as a whole to grow on me. I knew I loved her voice and I loved her lyrics, but at first the album seemed a little slow, a little too artsy. Slowly I actually listened to more of the songs and realized that they all had that FKA sound I loved. Great record. (9/10)

2. Silverstein-Rescue: This album was good, but I think I was thrown off by this band's change in style. They were more aggressively emo on previous records, and I missed that initially on this one. But later I fell fond of the work they did and saw how vocalist Shane Told could really showcase his singing skill on this record. It also turned out to be a huge turning point for this band musically so I think it is a rather important one for this band's history. (9/10)

3. The 1975-The 1975: This one was more about lyrical content and I guess general feel. It didn't take me that long to get into it but I think they're lyrics are different from a lot of things I'd been hearing at the time so it took awhile to get it. (10/10)

4. Schoolboy Q-Oxymoron: This one surprised me because I'm not usually that into rap. I like it, for sure, but I tend to be picky when it comes to rap I genuinely like and see artistic value in, especially in recent years. This album was dark and heavy, Q's flow was fire, the production was perfect, it had that heavy gangster feel to it but was very modern and fresh at the same time. Really great album and it's absolutely necessary for rap music today. (10/10)

5. Jimmy Eat World-Damage: Ok so this one is kind of an interesting one, because it took awhile for it to grab me. The first couple singles I enjoyed a lot. The rest of it felt like a complete departure from their older stuff, a little too "folky" sounding for my taste. They used to be a great pop rock/emo sort of band back in the day, and this was like a slap in the face in terms of change in sound, particularly for a fan like me who knows their previous records. This also coming from someone who thinks that their album Clarity (1999) was one of the best emo/alternative rock records ever made. That being said I thought this album was different, but I think it simply showed how the band has matured as people and musicians. It feels more like something a 40 year old would write, rather than a 25 year old, which is exactly what was the case here. This is the prime example of how change in sound is inevitable and sometimes necessary, no matter how much us fans hate to admit it. (8/10)

BQ1: FKA Twigs-"Pendulum"

Silverstein-"Good Luck With Your Lives"

The 1975-"Pressure"

Schoolboy Q-"Gangsta"

Jimmy Eat World-"Appreciation"

BQ2: Ugh this is hard...I honestly can't pick there are too many genres and too many bands to pick just one.

BQ3: Honestly I actually think the last album I listened to was 'Mind Games' by Palisades. I honestly didn't like it very much. Good effort but trying too hard. They're young, they need to figure their sound out I suppose. (6/10)

this is going to date me

1. Tommy by The Who - got me through three years in the army back in my twenties.

2. Pictures at an Exhibition by Emerson, Lake & Palmer - classical music updated? who would've thought!

3. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd - omg, what IS this???

4. Spirit - Jewel

5. The Wall - Pink Floyd

yeah, i know ...

Hi Ryan!

This is actually a hard question for me; I know for a fact that I can't name 5 albums that have "grown" on me. I'm sure it's to my own detriment, but if I don't like an album after a few listens, I rarely give it a chance to "grow" on me...I move on to something else. There's just so much music out there to listen to, and so little time to listen to it, I don't give an album a lot of chances to grow on me if it doesn't click after a few listens.

Here are a few, though, that eventually became favorites even though I didn't like them that much initially.

"Undertow" - Tool. Weird, dark, and hard to get into. If Tool hadn't come out with vastly superior later albums that made me fall in love with the band, I probably wouldn't have ever gone back and given Undertow an extended audition.

"Blackwater Park" - Opeth. I was really turned off by Akerfeldt's death metal cookie monster vocals, but I stayed with it long enough to learn to tolerate them, and I'm glad I did because the album is a masterpiece in spite of the death growl vocals, which I will never actually like, only tolerate.

"Oceanic" - Isis. Similar to the Opeth vocal thing, but on a lesser scale. This one wasn't as hard, because the vocals aren't really that extreme, and the music is so good the vocals really don't detract from it.

BA1: On Undertow: Flood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cNR2Td2lIE

On Blackwater Park: Bleak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhPqMudh6Og

On Oceanic: From Sinking (AWESOME track)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NT0QL-xrx4

BA2: I'll assume that you mean bands that formed after 2010? Royal Blood, I guess.

BA3: Today I was listening to "The Book of Souls" by Iron Maiden. I'm still evaluating it, but so far I'll give it an 8. It's got all of the elements that made me love Maiden...it sounds like Maiden from the very first note, and it's some of their best songwriting in years. Maybe going all the way back to Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, in order to find an album this good.

You won't know them or like them anyway, but here I go:

Jimi Hendrix, "Are You Experienced?"

Freddie King, "Burglar"

Allman Bros., "Live at the Filmore East"

Arc Angels, "Arc Angels"

ZZ Top, "Eliminator"

Probably no surprise to note that I performed with electric guitar for many years.

See, I told ya...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82w6OFaq_Gw

UPDATE: Oooops, sorry Ryan. If had paid more attention, I would have known that you know your music. More stuff:

Joni Mitchell, "Blue"

Steely Dan, "Can't Buy a Thrill" (or Aja)

Eric Clapton, "From the Cradle"

Stevie Wonder, "Inner Visions" - with the "statement" about so much of the hate and too often the death on the streets. Keep the Faith.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVJiwyg0iDM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfbvm52G8fE

1.snot- get some. If you dont know them this is there only cd came out in 97 and there singer & his dog died in a car accident in 98. They made some waves but time ran out. Everytime i start to liscen to it again i like it more and more over the years.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wafjPpXgPws

https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL904D3B22524DF35...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL904D3B22524DF35...

2.avenged sevenfold- waking the fallen

3.slipknot-iowa

4.megadeth-so far so good so what

5.stone sour-stone sour