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What are your ultimate growers /mu/? Albums that either took a long ass time to click or you sorta liked them from the start slowly became all-time faves.
>pic related
Sat in my library for 3 years or so but recently discovered how fantastic it is. Similar thing happened with Public Strain last year.
>taylor swift - red
I always liked her for years, sort of a 'guilty pleasure' and this too when it came out, but this year I went from occasionally listening to it to being completely obsessed with it. Maybe the novelty of listening to girly pop wore off, because it doesn't give off that same feeling I once had whenever I listened to her, but I love it in a different way now, and made me relisten to all of her stuff again. It's tied with third album as my favourite from her.
>pink floyd - the dark side of the moon
I was a contrarian shithead and I hated it for being so popular, and I hated that album art. I hated the lyrics "oh yeah, 'run rabbit run/dig that hole/forget the sun' real deep", and for not actually being an album about the moon (I seriously thought it was going to be). I just wanted to keep loving Meddle, mostly because of it's relative obscurity.But now I'm a little bit older, the lyrics actually start to make sense (specifically Breathe), and for now it's my favourite PF album. I think I fell in love with the production, too, especially on the first track, which has like, seven layers of guitar and two lap steels.
>Portishead - Third
I got into this because Machine Gun was used on the Metro Last Light trailer, but that was the only track I could enjoy from it. Dunno, maybe just repeated listens changed my mind, but it's defiantly in my top ten now.
>>61386341
I really hate saying this, I really do, but one time my and some friends were pretty stoned and decided fuck it we're gonna listen to DSOTM high as fuck and see what the hype is with the "lol 420 I listen to Marley and Floyd with dank kush". I already loved the record but that one night I was high it was a totally different experience. The production on album is 10/10, I could hear all the space between instruments and sounds, my mind was spinning out of control. But whatever you get the point, the production on dark side is truly unbelievable.
Haven't been blue pilled on portishead though, still waiting for the day they'll click for me.
took me a year I think
>>61386621
This honestly feels really stupid to say, but I think Darkside kind of needs to be listened high if you want to appreciate it fully. I know it happened with me too.
I've always loved the record, and especially the production like you mentioned, but a few years back after a long break from weed I decided I'd try listening to it again high for the first time after turning 16 or something & I was completely blown away.
I still listen to it occasionally, not as frequently as before but it definitely is one of my fav records of all time.
Pic related. For the longest time I couldn't understand how people listened to Joy Division, but at some point in the last six months I really started liking them for whatever reason.
kind of obvious
it's now my favourite metal album
At first I thought she wasn't my cup of tea
But good god now she's my biggest guilty pleasure
never got the praise of this album when it first came out. but a friend of mine had "brutal" playing when I was at his house after my ex-gf left me and everything in that song just described how I felt. and after that it clicked
been a huge dean blunt ever since. still think it's his best album IMO.
Started with this album, meh'ed, found out Oceanic(still my favourite), but listened more and more to this one too. Perfect drum sound and groove, PERFECT SNARE SOUND, perfect human-atomic-bomb-clip, almost flawless.
I've had it for many years and always thought it sounded good or at least interesting, but really I didn't get it. I thought it was just a mostly subdued rock album with a dark atmosphere.
Then I got older and lonelier, and one day I was just in the right mood and goddamn.
>>61387497
It's pretty good, though I like Under a Funeral Moon more. Pic related is the album I like the most atm.
At first I thought it was just generic lo-fi rock.. But when I listened more carefully and payed attention to the lyrics I saw what people meant. And when I found out the context of when it was released and how influential they were, my mind was blown.
>>61386042
good on you for appreciating that gem. his discography is fucking great, but "space is only noise" is his best
>>61389290
second this
Loved the first and second track immediately but I thought the rest was so boring for the longest time. Then, song by song, I uncovered its greatness.
