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| Radical Opinion Change
(not) YEAR END LIST 10/14. Tonight, let's talk about albums you thought the least of, but turned great to you, and vice versa. These are mine: | | 1 |  | Thank You Scientist
Stranger Heads Prevail
My initial distaste for Thank You Scientist's sophomore album could be due to the year it was released in. Annually, I do what I call "Genre on the Grid", where I take one of the genres I dislike and listen to as many new records in it released that year. In 2016 it was Progressive Metal. By the time I got to Stranger Heads Prevail, my head was already plagued with a multitude of terrible, subpar Prog-Metal albums that I to this day find to be utterly repetative and uninteresting. But I came across it again recently again and out of morbid curiosity and the fact that I already forgot what it had sounded like, I listened to it again. Much to my surprise, I was greeted to about an hour of pleasant Jazz-Fusion extravaganza with ridiculously trippy hooks and blood-pumping atmosphere.
2.5 -> 4.0 | | 2 |  | Preoccupations
Preoccupations
I will not lie, I was disappointed in this album at first. Wel, the whole album was great. My whole disappointment lied in three particular moments. I did not understand (and still don't) the necessity in stretching out the song Memory into 11 minutes with that strange drony ambient section. It serves nothing and sounds like nothing (much like everything in Drone or Ambient genres). Then the two one-minute long tracks both underwhelmed me. Ididn't mind having a one-minute track on a n album, but they both sounded like they had so much more to show, especially the song Forbidden, which ends on a fade out. It was only overtime that I finally managed to recognise the greatness of the record and be fully enbraced by the staggering highs that overshadow the lows.
4.0 -> 5.0 | | 3 |  | Dark Model
Saga
I have only this to say in my defense: The album was epic and overwhelming, now I know it's just corny and silly.
4.5 -> 3.0 | | 4 |  | SPG and the Vices
Don't Lose Your Head
Yeah, let's just get all the ones you don't know out of the way. The reason this appealed to me so much is most likely due to the catchiness and lighthearted nature of this album. Now, looking back and relistening, it's not really that good. It's your usual middle-of-the-road Country-ish Folk Rock...
4.5 -> 3.5 | | 5 |  | Arctic Monkeys
AM
Yep, I was on that AM hypetrain too at some point. I thoroughly believed that what this is is actually a fairly relaxing, laid-back, cool experience. But the opposite was the truth, for over time this album somehow got more and more boring, tedious and exhausting to listen to. Nowadays, I can hardly sit through a song off of it. No kidding.
4.0 -> 2.0 | | 6 |  | Dan Mangan
Nice, Nice, Very Nice
At first and second and third and on the fourth try still, any time I came across this it just seemed somewhat half-cooked and corny. Besides, I blamed people like Dan Mangan for the resurgence of the dull-masters like Mumford and Sons or Ed Sheeran. But only with time did the real hidden beauty of this record reveal itself to me. Sure, it might not be the grand Indie Folk chef-d'œuvre, but it is still a touching record.
3.0 -> 4.5 | | 7 |  | The White Birch
The Weight of Spring
I've been a fan of this band for a long time now. Their first album, People Now Human Beings, is a really weird half Ambient, half Post-Rock record that is just way too mind-bending for me to hate. However, after that they pretty much bailed on any of these obscure tendencies and started operating in more acoustic genres. This album is a pinnacle of that. I did still enjoy it, but in the grander scheme of things I am not all that likely to come back to itas much as to pretty mucha anything else the band did.
4.5 -> 3.5 | | 8 |  | Gang of Four
Hard
Okay, this is a bit of a longer story, so I'll just chop it down for you. Gang of Four (or rather their first two records and literally nothing else, but their thrid is also fine) are Post-Punk legends. So naturally, upon discovering them, I went all in hype-mode and was ready to spread my uneducated praise upon everything they have out, having no means of finding out what people actually think of it. And for a while I forced myself to like this. Now I can see it for the obnoxious, dumbed-down New Wave-ish beat-off that it is. Well, I actually saw it a long time ago, but I am rock solid with my opinion now. This is not good.
4.0 (approximately) -> 1.5 | | 9 |  | The Beatles
Help!
This is one of those instances, where I just got bored and annoyed with an album. I was your standard Beatles fan, just like anybody else. I got myself this on vinyl only to find out that my copy was a misprint that had one side on both sides. And hearing the same side with no alternative was annoying to a degree, but still fine. It's just that by the time I got to listen to it in full at last, I was already unimpressed. The amount of spins I gave to the first side were already a tad too much and I just lost my interest in the album. That's really it.
4.5 (approximately) -> 3.0 | |
Papa Universe
12.27.17 | I'll be adding more stuff, this was just off the top of my head. | bgillesp
12.27.17 | Neurosis was a 3.0 to 4.5 for me. Other than that, the Beatles are probably the only ones I had drastic changes on. Oh, King Crimson-ITCOTCK 3.5 to 4.5. | Papa Universe
12.27.17 | Beatles, huh? That gave me an idea.
Also, was you Beatles change for the better or for the worse? | DinosaurJones
12.27.17 | Hey, nice on 1. I'm a big fan of TYS. I had no idea who they were, then I saw them open for Coheed and I was hooked. | Dylan620
12.27.17 | Yeah good call on 1. I can relate to being unimpressed by it at first, album started off as barely a 3 for me but I came to love it more and more over time
@Dino I envy you dude, I'd love to see TYS live | luci
12.27.17 | "It serves nothing and sounds like nothing (much like everything in Drone or Ambient genres)"
now there's something worthy of a radical opinion change | SandwichBubble
12.27.17 | had a few go from 1.0s to 5.0s | Papa Universe
12.27.17 | @Lucid: Change my mind. (I'm asking more for a Drone rec, Ambient got Ryuichi Sakamoto and I was on the guy's binge for a while now. Also, Brian Eno sucks.)
@Sandwich: What might that be? | Jots
12.27.17 | “It serves nothing and sounds like nothing (much like everything in Drone or Ambient genres)”
yeah yikes
as far as the main list theme: as long as I hear the album enough to get the gist of it, my opinion doesn’t change too drastically iirc. what does change is my view of an entire genre/movement through exposure | luci
12.27.17 | try Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun (see you haven't rated it) | Jots
12.27.17 | “Also, Brian Eno sucks.” Eno redefined what a pop song can be, and caused this paradigm shift several times | Papa Universe
12.27.17 | @Johnny: I'm starting to get more into Ambient. It's also my 2018 Genre on the Grid, so I will most likely be a changed man in a year's time.
@Lucid: Will do. | SandwichBubble
12.27.17 | "What might that be?"
Metal Machine Music and Philosophy of the World, only one of which is actually a 5.0 while the other is to be antagonistic. It's a fun guessing game to play | Papa Universe
12.27.17 | did you 5 it... ironically? | SandwichBubble
12.27.17 | I would never do such a thing | Papa Universe
12.27.17 | yeah sure, of course, unquestionably.. | SandwichBubble
12.27.17 | unindubitubly | Papa Universe
12.27.17 | unmistakably | bgillesp
12.27.17 | It was for better for me. I had a few go from 3.5 to 4.5. I never got much into Help though, still 3.5 for me | bgillesp
12.27.17 | Philosophy of the World is an unironic 2 | SandwichBubble
12.27.17 | I have a dream, that one day all that is 1.0 will be 5.0. And all that is 5.0 will be 1.0. It's the only way to restore balance to the world
@bgillesp negatory :( | sixdegrees
12.27.17 | I once thought agalloch were a good band
| bgillesp
12.27.17 | @Sandwich, you sad 2 is too high or low? | Danred97
12.27.17 | He is Legend - Few went from a 3 to a 4.5 over the course of the year. Turned out to be one of my favorites of the year. | soymilk13
12.27.17 | used to love menzin gers now 1 1 1 1 1 1 | manosg
12.27.17 | Oh, lots of them, especially as years go by. Most extreme example is Pink Floyd. It took me 15 years to appreciate The Dark Side of the Moon. First time I heard it I was like "it's ok I guess but wtf is everybody talking about?".
Other albums that I enjoy more:
Deep Purple - Slaves and Masters
Motorhead - Overnight Sensation
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Albums I used to enjoy:
Body Count - Discog (there was one time where listened to these guys on a daily basis almost non-stop lol)
A bunch of gothic/doom shit that was on the rise when I was growing up. | neekafat
12.29.17 | It's okay because the Beatles are lame anyway | widowslaugh123
11.30.18 | Another opinion that changed for you was when you decided papa was a better prefix than unique | Papa Universe
11.30.18 | well you took me down a wormhole of my past lists. |
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