Slow Burners?

Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band

I guess I just believed the anti-hype at first, it was presented as a gaff and I listened to it as a gaff. Years later came back to it with open ears and found an amazing album.

Agree about Kid A.

Amnesiac was even worse; I’m still trying to get into it after 20 years.

My personal example is Tool’s “Undertow”.  That’s a weird, dark album and I disliked it so much that I sold my first copy to a used CD store.  It was years later, after Aenima and Lateralus had been released, that I went back to it and learned to appreciate it.  I can still do without “Disgustipated”, though.  Just too weird, unless you’re into several minutes of crickets chirping.

Yes - "Tales From The Topographic Oceans"

Took me 3 years of constant listening to finally "get it". 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtCuh99yOPc

A lot depends on the moment you listen to something, as you enlarge the field of musical experience some cryptic things become strangely familiar. "Turn on the bright lights" by Interpol, listened to some time ago, required more commitment than "Three" by The Necks, listened just a couple of weeks ago. After all, jazz was abstruse for me, until a year ago. In metal field, it took me longer to approach some avant-garde genres, or simply to appreciate the reasoned technicality of Death as much as the immediate ferocity of Entombed. "Kid A" and "Ok Computer" entered me immediately, "Hail to the Thief" took much longer, but I like it (almost) as much as the other two. On the one hand, I think that the most "slow burners" are those that I still don't understand in the least, but somewhere they resonate and ask me to be listened to. In all of this, "Turn on the Bright Lighs" is the one that has best balanced between difficulty and pleasure.

"Flash Flash Flash" by The Explosion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RLwRgod9i4

Metric's "Art of Doubt" album. I had been a huge fan of Metric for about 8-10 years when this album came out. At first I thought it sucked which left me feeling extremely disappointed. After my first listen to the album, I listened to a song here and there to see if any of them would grow on me. It took a few listens to all of the songs, and then I finally started falling in love with it. Now it's one of my favorite albums of all time.

It makes me wonder what other bands, singers, and songs I'm missing out on because I listened to them once, didn't like them, and didn't go back to give them a chance to grow on me.

rammstein, volkerball https://youtu.be/hXiJxOSOiI0