On Second Thought...

Celtic Frost- Cold Lake

Took me years to actually pick it up again.

scottmitchell74 wrote:

"clears throat"

HED P.E. - Blackout - was taking it to a store to sell and on a whim put it in the car one last time....and was hammered. Somehow it hit me. I love that CD! I don't care much for the genre, but that album floors me.

Allen/Lande - The Battle - didn't hate it, but after 3 listens (my normal attempt...3 strikes and all...) Well, I was gonna trade it off. But I listened to it again...and again....and again. Next thing you know it's one of my favorites ever....a true 10/10. To think I almost canned it!

I thought I was the only one listening to HED on the forum! I havnt heard Blackout but I like Insomnia, only in Amerika, and Back to base.

scottmitchell74 wrote:

"clears throat"

HED P.E. - Blackout - was taking it to a store to sell and on a whim put it in the car one last time....and was hammered. Somehow it hit me. I love that CD! I don't care much for the genre, but that album floors me.

Allen/Lande - The Battle - didn't hate it, but after 3 listens (my normal attempt...3 strikes and all...) Well, I was gonna trade it off. But I listened to it again...and again....and again. Next thing you know it's one of my favorites ever....a true 10/10. To think I almost canned it!

You mean I need to give that freakin' Allen/Lande disc another shot?

Forget it. It's for sale. Too much other music to listen to.

Motörhead - Orgasmatron
I didn't like this album when I first got it, the only song I liked was the title track. Few years later I thought I would give it another chance - as one of my friends said it was his favorite Motörhead album - and I liked it.

Down - Nola

I got that one years ago as a promo copy, at the time having no idea who was in the band. I listened to it for about a minute, thought it sucked and stuck it in a box of other junk. Fast forward a few years later, when their 2nd cd was coming out. By then I was familiar with Phil from Pantera and Pepper from COC and forgot I even owned Nola. I was moving out of my apartment into my current home when I found the disc. Been a big fan ever since.

Quote :

Not the subject matter, the music itself.

Yeah, I know. I'm not sure what's so funny though. There is nothing funny about those tunes.

A lot of non-metal fans laugh at our music. Who cares?

I second Queensrÿche's - Rage For Order. I'll add Operation: Mindcrime and Empire too.

Here's another:

Bruce Dickinson - Tattooed Millionaire

Slayer - Divine Intervention

At first I hated it. I kept trying to like it but never could. I gave it a 2 year break and listened again and was surprised that it was actually good. I still hate Seasons in the Abyss though.

Grave Digger. At first I could not get used to the vocals but I kept listening and now I think they are awesome.

The first Grave Digger song I heard was 'Lancelot' off Excalibur. I thought the vocals were crap and the song sounded awkward. This is before I heard 'Rebellion' and became obsessed with it and bought every album. I still don't like 'Lancelot', but they're just one of the most solid bands around, and Chris = rule. I just needed to hear more of the right songs/context to get what they were going for, then I figured it out.

I find that grower bands tend to be the ones I like the most years later.

There have a lot of bands like the ones that have been mentioned that I have not really cared for then come back to them later and really end up liking them. There seem to just about as many that I used to really like and find it hard to get into them now.

Rolling Stones and Led Zep were bands that I could not understand how they were considered to be so great when I was younger but as the years have gone by I find I like and appreciate them more and more.

Ratt and Poison were bands I used to really like and now I have a hard time listening to either of these bands, I don't hate 'em I just don't get too jazzed about them any more.

POISON:NATIVE TONGUE. I first hated it for years but i played it a year ago again and liked it more. Still not my fave POISON album.
Y&T:ENDANGERED SPECIES. Didnt like it when it came out, now i do.

Going back and listening to Megadeth's RISK years later, I actually kinda sorta like some of it. In fact (shock, horror!) I think I like it better than its follow up, THE WORLD NEEDS A HERO, which was recently discussed elsewhere on this forum and described as the "return to form" album after the RISK disaster.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Going back and listening to Megadeth's RISK years later, I actually kinda sorta like some of it. In fact (shock, horror!) I think I like it better than its follow up, THE WORLD NEEDS A HERO, which was recently discussed elsewhere on this forum and described as the "return to form" album after the RISK disaster.

I'm still not crazy about Risk, but I don't hate it anymore either. It's got some ok tunes on it.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Going back and listening to Megadeth's RISK years later, I actually kinda sorta like some of it. In fact (shock, horror!) I think I like it better than its follow up, THE WORLD NEEDS A HERO, which was recently discussed elsewhere on this forum and described as the "return to form" album after the RISK disaster.

I'm still not crazy about Risk, but I don't hate it anymore either. It's got some ok tunes on it.

"Insom-nee-om-nee-om-nee-om-nee..."

Aerosmith - Just Push Play

When it first came out, there were songs I automatically liked, but it had a lot of filler too. I listened to it a few weeks ago and was surprised by how much I enjoyed all of it.

Fat Freddy wrote:

"Insom-nee-om-nee-om-nee-om-nee..."

Prince of daaaaarkneeeesss!!

I've got wanderlust...

Fat Freddy wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Going back and listening to Megadeth's RISK years later, I actually kinda sorta like some of it. In fact (shock, horror!) I think I like it better than its follow up, THE WORLD NEEDS A HERO, which was recently discussed elsewhere on this forum and described as the "return to form" album after the RISK disaster.

I'm still not crazy about Risk, but I don't hate it anymore either. It's got some ok tunes on it.

"Insom-nee-om-nee-om-nee-om-nee..."

That's almost as bad as the "tic...tic...tic..tic" of Frantic.

Black Sabbath-Technical Ecstacy-used to hate it, I hated "Rock n Roll Doctor", "All Moving Parts Stand Still', I hated the cover the production etc. About a year and a half after buying I thought that this album isn't so bad after all, still far from one of favorite Sabbath albums but I have grown to like the album.

Exodus - Shovel Headed Kill Machine

Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill. Just wasn't the same after hearing COF-FBD, like it now, though it's still their 5th best right under RTS

Iced Earth - everything i found them to be extremely boring at first, now their one of my all time favorite bands

tohostudios wrote:

scottmitchell74 wrote:

"clears throat"

HED P.E. - Blackout - was taking it to a store to sell and on a whim put it in the car one last time....and was hammered. Somehow it hit me. I love that CD! I don't care much for the genre, but that album floors me.

Allen/Lande - The Battle - didn't hate it, but after 3 listens (my normal attempt...3 strikes and all...) Well, I was gonna trade it off. But I listened to it again...and again....and again. Next thing you know it's one of my favorites ever....a true 10/10. To think I almost canned it!

You mean I need to give that freakin' Allen/Lande disc another shot?

Forget it. It's for sale. Too much other music to listen to.

Loved The Battle from the first spin. One of my favorite CDs ever by the fifth time I heard it. Toho, you are a little more anal about music than the rest of us methinks, nothing wrong with that BTW. The Revenge was the one I had a hard time getting into, mainly because the music was a little more layered than it was in The Battle, but now I love both (Battle still more than Revenge.

Dream Theater-Systematic Chaos: Being the huge Dream Theater fan, I was ready for another stellar release like Images & Words, Awake, and Scenes From A Memory instead I got another O.K. release like Falling Into Infinity, Six Degrees, Train Of Thought, and Octivarium (secretly I think I was just burnt out on DT). Now I like the album (not love, but like) and consider it somewhat better than Six Degrees and Octivarium.

Fates Warning-Awaken The Guardian: I was used to later FW by that time and wasn't prepared for what I heard. Now I have it again and really like it.

Arena-Contagion: Certain songs stood out more than the rest and I only listened to them. Later I listened to the whole thing and now love it. Definatly one of the best pro rock albums ever and I can't wait to find more from them.

Galactic Cowboys-s/t: Liked the first two songs but wasn't too impressed with the rest. Now I like the whole thing.

Bon Jovi-Keep The Faith: Loved the radio hits but couldn't get into the rest (or I didn't try very hard to) but now I love the whole album especially Dry County (one of the best songs ever written IMO.

Sonata Arctica-Unia: Not what I was used to with SA but it turned out to be one of the few CDs that needed to grow on me.