Listening to several tunes and realising that on first listening I thought they were awful. It could be applied to practically every Fugazi album ever (works of genius, all), but more recently to this:
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I hated it at first. I think it was due to the dodgy UK Garage remixes they originally released for radio. On proper listening realised it was genius, and absolutely love it, as well as pretty much everything he's done since
I hated it at first. I think it was due to the dodgy UK Garage remixes they originally released for radio. On proper listening realised it was genius, and absolutely love it, as well as pretty much everything he's done since
Agreed. I think the record company well and truly ballsed the album release up by releasing the more 'poppy' singles.
Bentley Rhythm Ace!
Dunno about specific tunes, but couple of artists I thought were pretentious twaddle until I listened properly - Aphex Twin and The Orb.
Tunes initially you thought were awful, but now realise are things of [b]genuis[/b]
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The whole SWMRS- Drive North album.
Such a good band. They opened The Pit at Reading this year and their stage presence was amazing despite being so early and pretty empty.
Listened to their album and thought it was awful at first, couple plays later and it's one of my favourite bands.
Much the same as Future To The Left.
Fugazi for me as well, took me ages to get them. I never thought they were awful I suppose, just didn't get why everyone thought they were so good.
The first thing to pop into my head is Angel Dust by Faith No More. A friend had lent me The Real Thing and that was my introduction to the band but when I first got Angel Dust I found it pretty challenging and I initially only liked a few of its tracks. Then as my musical tastes broadened and my familiarity with the album increased I came to regard it as Faith No More's best album by a wide margin and an enduring favourite of mine.
Not a tune as such but as it should be listened to in it's entirety i'll throw it in.
[url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%27s_Garage ]Frank Zappa - Joes Garage[/url]
I've a mate who's the biggest Zappa fan and for years i disliked his music but over the past few years he's grown on me and this album is just pure genius
Aqualung.
I've been beaten to it for Zappa so I'm going to have to say - The Birdy Song.
Early Roxy music stuff with it's out of tune synth weirdness and terrible singing. Somehow ends up great!
Cokie thanks for posting, I just checked them out and they sound great! Someone on youtube said they're like Fidlar but way better which I think I'd agree with.
I originally dismissed the streets as well but found myself quite enjoying them when I took a proper listen.
Rio by Duran Duran.
Just by typing it, a thousand middle aged men will be singing it in their heads while pretending they like grime or grunge or whatever other dismal rubbish is de rigeur these days.
Kanon Pokajanen by Arvo Part.
When I first bought it I was probably trying to impress the girlfriend at the time. Played it, went right over my head, when asked pretended I liked it (she saw right through me though).
15 years later I dug it, thought I'd better give it another go...
Now it's my most listened to cd. Minimal Estonian choral music, who'd have thunk it...
Fugazi...amazing. Superb live. Haven't listened to their last few. Must search them out.
Always used to skip FEELING CALLED LOVE on Pulp's Different Class before, roughly 15 years later, re-discovering it for the epic masterpiece that it is.
Original pirate material still sounds great.
Just by typing it, a thousand middle aged men will be singing it in their heads while pretending they like grime or grunge or whatever other dismal rubbish is de rigeur these days.
You really are old, grunge was like...20 years ago maaaan.
Used to hate Supergrass but recently decided they were massively underrated.
Early stuff particularly, like Caught by the Fuzz.
Just by typing it, a thousand middle aged men will be singing it in their heads while pretending they like grime or grunge or whatever other dismal rubbish is de rigeur these days.
Old. And weird.
Funny about Supergrass - loved them at the time, but it sounds like naff novelty music to me nowadays.
I've always wondered about Fugazi....would someone recommend an entry album for them?
Fugazi?
Start with 13 Songs, or maybe Fugazi followed by Margin Walker ;-)*
Then move on to Repeater... (chronological, innit)
*13 Songs is the Fugazi ep and Margin Walker LP'fied
The Smiths!
Battles
Ha! I was just going to post the Smiths. Walked out of an early gig (didn't pay), when I think they were already big in the NME. Whatever, slagged them off for about three years before enforced listening (flat in Turkey, limited music) made me change my mind.
...and she dances on the sand...
My brother still takes the piss for this, we saw Biffy Clyro supporting OPM in Edinburgh and I literally stood up the back and heckled, thought they were beyond terrible. 2 years later I got their logo tattooed on my arm 😆 Bestest band evarz.
Quite a bit of Aphex Twin stuff, including his Cheetah EP which I'm really enjoying right now.
Ricochet by Tangerine Dream
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Fugazi?
Start with 13 Songs, or maybe Fugazi followed by Margin Walker ;-)*
Then move on to Repeater... (chronological, innit)*13 Songs is the Fugazi ep and Margin Walker LP'fied
Repeater is my personal favourite, probably because it is has slight two-tone overtones creeping in with the percussion and bass. But then TBH every album is different.
As a kid, well into punk and metal, it was a bit of an epiphany when I realised I actually really liked this.
And ABBA.
Open your minds, it's all just noise, some you like, some you don't.
Rio is bloody awful though
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I'm just getting old, aren't I?
Young fathers, thought they were a bit shit at first...
I thought Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild" was shite until I saw a live performance of it on BBC 4. Previously it sounded like dad rock, but seeing it live I got how exciting it must have been at the time.
Venetian Snares always made me uneasy when I heard his stuff when I was out.
I listened to it when I wasn't off my head and just kept on listening, it was still unnerving but in less of a 'run away and hug your teddy bear' kind of way, after a while it becomes compelling.
Plan B's "Who needs actions when you got words" is horrible but genius, I thought it was just crude and vulgar (which it is) but it's a lot more as well.
I was a bit underwhelmed on the first pass of -
'Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle'
by The Olivia Tremor Control.
Then I listened again, and again...
I'm a bit of music snob and have a habit of righting loads of stuff of almost immediately and then rediscovering it on shuffle and loving it.
I have always been a music snob unfortunately, which has caused me to miss out on a lot of amazing stuff.
Fugazi was easy for me, having already got into a lot of US hardcore.
I didn't like the Smiths, because the spoddy kids at school listened to them. Love them now, ditto Stone Roses... Neil Young... JAMC... all initially ruined by the 6th Form knobbers.
Never 'got' HMHB when Peel played them, but I'd go so far as to call it genius.
Even though I didn't like it, I listened to Capt Beefheart at school because I thought it made me cool (it didn't), properly got into it much later.
Finally, I've never liked the music, but have ABBA ever released a bad song?
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Personally, I've never liked the music, but have ABBA ever released a bad song?
Chiquitita?
It's a pretty awful tune.
This is absolute, utter genius though.
[i]Venetian Snares always made me uneasy when I heard his stuff when I was out.[/i]
Anyone who wants to know where to start with him, try My Love Is a Bulldozer. That's genuis 🙂
Any of about a dozen classic from Simon & Garfunkel. I grew up liking guitars loud and vocals shouty, so melodic singing over acoustic guitars was for old people as far as I was concerned.
Similar thinking for some of the better Beach Boys stuff e.g. Heroes and Villains - I couldn't hear past the close harmonies.
Totally with you on the venetian snares, can be a bit inaccessible at first. I loved his classical mashup bits on Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
Kevin Coyne - bought a copy of Marjory Razorblade bitd and wondered wtf I had bought but got into it after a few spins & still love it to this day
Has this turned into a Fugazi appreciation thread? If so count me in.
Keeping the theme with Fugazi and the thread title. A tune I didn't appreciate as genius until recently (although I never thought was awful) is Minor Threat - Cashing in. The singer of Fugazi's previous band and what I now think is there best song:
Nothing specific but growing up it was either prog rock or Motown. I was firmly in the prog rock camp and it took many years for me to appreciate to delights of Motown. Even more to dare to listen to C&W.
[i]Has this turned into a Fugazi appreciation thread?[/i]
I seen em live me. The snare drum made my ears bleed. 🙂
I seen em live me. The snare drum made my ears bleed.
Sounds like s good gig then.
Continuing the 'I love Fugazi' thread, I used to think they were OK until one day I put on 13 songs after probably a decade of absence and it blew me away. Total, total genius. Pretty much the same thing happened with Tool's Opiate. Still don't get the 10,000 days album, though. Neil Young - hated everything about him until one day Harvest just blew me away. I'd already seen him with Crazy Horse by then and thought it was old twaddle so wandered off... I think to see Prodigy.
Oh, and the Flaming Lips. Never quite got Priest Driven Ambulance after someone gave it to me, but then saw them supporting the Chili Peppers at Brixton and they just rocked. So loud that most people left the hall when bits of plaster started to fall off of the ceiling. Must have been about 10 of us left by the third song. Followed them devotedly until the Mystics album by which point I just got bored with it all. Chili Peppers we dreadful, btw.
Similar thinking for some of the better Beach Boys stuff e.g. Heroes and Villains - I couldn't hear past the close harmonies.
Nah, still don't get them.
fatbobb - MemberOh, and the Flaming Lips. Never quite got Priest Driven Ambulance after someone gave it to me, but then saw them supporting the Chili Peppers at Brixton and they just rocked.
I remember hearing She Don't Use Jelly when it came out and thinking, this is absolute shit. But then roll on a few years, not even sure why I gave them a second chance but saw them play in Edinburgh and it was one of the best gigs I've ever seen, absolute distilled joy...
She Don't Use Jelly is still absolute shit though.
St Anger, Metallica. Tbf it was everyone else that thought it was crap, but I finally bought it and love it.
St Anger, Metallica. Tbf it was everyone else that thought it was crap, but I finally bought it and love it.
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Think you're on your own there!
Saying that, title track and Frantic are actually pretty good. Had no problem with the incredibly tight snare everyone else seemed to take issue with either.