brettall Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 This is one of my favourite things to experience. Who's with me? I'm talking about pulling out an album that maybe you liked, maybe you didn't, but it came out a year or more ago. But when you start listening to it again this time, the whole experience is different. You are totally digging this album. It's blowing your mind. It's changing your perspective. This happens to me all the time. I pick up an album and make a snap judgement about it only to find that, a year later, I feel totally different about it. I am currently being blown away by Dillinger Four - C I V I L W A R. I really liked it when it first came out, but I am LOVING it now. What are yours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motorbike Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 a wilhelm scream-ruiner and gatsbys-volcano Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettall Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 a wilhelm scream-ruiner Same here. Also, I vividly remember having this experience with Millencolin - Life on a Plate. I hated it when I first bought it, and now it's one of my favourites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danthemjfan23 Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 the first few times i listened to the lawrence arms (not any specific album, just all their stuff), i didn't really get it. now i do. it's better this way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motorbike Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 still havent been able to get into lawrence arms. the only song i think i have ever listened to by them was the one on that cinema beer buddy that had afi, jimmy, thrice, tbs and some others. that song is like shoving knifes in my ears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danthemjfan23 Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 i was the same way at first. i think i kind of forced myself to like brendan's voice when The Falcon came out, though, because i felt like i needed to like them since Dan played bass. after really listening to the lyrics, i realized how funny/clever brendan is as a songwriter. then i saw him play a solo acoustic show and met him afterwards, and he was a really awesome dude. it all just came together for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motorbike Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 i will admit their lyrics are top notch but vocals are usually what makes or breaks me liking a band. i listen to some pretty bad vocalists too, but if it fits then i can deal with it. i plan on giving them a chance when i run into someone with a few albums on their itunes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danthemjfan23 Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 out of curiosity, who are some of the other bands you listen to that have "pretty bad vocalists"? (this should be its own thread: worst band that you love) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motorbike Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 well, when i say bad vocalists, think of tim armstrong singing acapella. he fits rancid but i dont want to hear the dude try and sing christmas carols. i like my punk rock rough but sometimes i just cant get over some dudes voices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedavidescapeplan Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 This happened to me with Latterman. The first time I heard them I really didn't get all the hype and then six months later I gave them another shot and was blown away. The same thing happened with Fucked Up. EDIT: Unlike most of you I fell in love with The Lawrence Arms immediatly, but when I checked out The Broadways it took me forever to get over Dan's voice. I love it now, but at first it was super grating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsteel Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 I LOVED Reinventing Axl Rose when it came out, and then stopped listening to it all together until they toured with Alkaline Trio. I listened to it in preparation for the show (and all the other AM! albums to that point) and was blown away all over again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettall Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 I can't get into the Larry Arms 100%. I like some of their stuff, but really don't get some of their other stuff. I guess I should give them a more wholehearted listen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcm1610 Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 This is one of my top three feelings, up there with finding money in your pockets and breaking even after a while of being down in some form of gambling. (I rarely gamble, but that's such an awesome feeling to dig yourself out of a hole like that.) I hadn't listened to the Offspring in years, but when that album got [re-?]pressed recently I had to pick up Smash because I loved it when I was like 9 or however old. It was just as good as I remembered, and I wondered why they went so far downhill after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtw88 Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 It would probably have to be Cursive - The Ugly Organ. I had listened to a few Cursive songs over the years and thought that they were sort of meh, and then a couple years ago I saw The Ugly Organ in a store so I picked it up, and it was amazing. Also, Silver Springs by No Knife gets more and more amazing every time I listen to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Hundred Fifty-Two Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 I'm still trying Lawrence Arms. Bad vocalists that I like: Jordan NFG, Mark and Tom B182, Buddy Senses Fail, and Tim Rancid. For Rancid I'll look up the lyrics sometime and still not know what he is saying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamlikesmusic Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 This happened to me with the Flatliners' "Great Awake". About a year ago, I totally got into this album, but right when it came out, I gave it a listen and set it aside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murakami Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Sponge - New Pop Sunday - i was rocking out hard to this last week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtw88 Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 For all of you Lawrence Arms people on the fence, I'd check out Oh, Calcutta. I was on the fence with them for awhile, but I heard that album and it changed it for me. I neglected checking that album out for awhile because I figured a band would only get worse after like, 5 albums, but it's easily my favorite of theirs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motorbike Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 ^^^ will do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesse Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 This weekend I put World Inferno Friendship Society- Red Eyed Soul back into the rotation and it's all I've been able to listen to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiefwahoo Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Sponge - New Pop Sunday - i was rocking out hard to this last week Oh wow, haven't heard that album in a decade. I'll have to bust that out. For a similar album by a similar band, check out "Latest Thing" by the Nixons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riddle350 Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 I love when this happens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 I hadn't heard Propagandhi until Potemkin City Limits had come out and when I first heard it, I thought it was really bland and boring. Then I ACTUALLY listened to it and realized how amazing it really is. Now its one of my favorite albums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattstrike Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 I love when this happens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murakami Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Sponge - New Pop Sunday - i was rocking out hard to this last week Oh wow, haven't heard that album in a decade. I'll have to bust that out. For a similar album by a similar band, check out "Latest Thing" by the Nixons good call - i have not played the nixons in a LONG time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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