Albums you disliked because they weren't what you expected

babyBlueSedan · 2017-09-04T11:44:29-04:00

...but eventually ended up loving. I couldn't think of a better way to word the title, but basically my thought is this. Usually when you listen to a new album, you have an idea of what it will sound like or what you're hoping to get out of it. If you're not familiar with the artist or genre, this idea may be vastly different than what the album ends up sounding like, and it might be off putting at first. Are there any albums you feel like you originally didn't give a fair chance because they didn't meet your expectations, but when you went back to them later really enjoyed? Also feel free to discuss any thoughts you have in general on how one should set their expectations when listening to new albums. The album that made me think of this topic is Jens Lekman's Night Falls on Kortedala. For some reason I'm not sure of, when I first listened to it I thought it would be similar to Sufjan Stevens's folkier albums. I listened to it because I was really in the mood for a sparse album like that. The lush instrumentation really turned me off and I didn't pay much attention to the lyrics. Luckily I went back to it, because I discovered it's a really beautiful album and has truly amazing lyrics. It's pretty much all I've been listening to recently. Others that come to mind are Marquee Moon (which I expected to be closer to hardcore punk than post punk) and The Glow Pt 2 (which I was hoping would be a copy of ITAOTS). I came around to Marquee Moon pretty quickly afterwards but The Glow Pt 2 took me quite a few listens to really appreciate as a sparse, almost ambient folk album.

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Now while I loved Yellow House, I found these albums to spend themselves on great singles and the album tracks to be quite boring. Now I love most of the album tracks more than I do the lead singles because I listen to the albums as whole them all the time now.
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What no Vampire Weekend? I thought we had something going 😢 . 🤣 🤣 :lol:

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It's true - for those that don't know, I really liked Vampire Weekend's debut, skipped their second album and then heard this album (which I've grown to love, but at first thought it was a bit lame):

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Was there ever a more album for this discussion than this one:

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Daydreamer wrote:

Was there ever a more album for this discussion than this one:

Kid A by Radiohead

Agreed 100%!

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