Any albums that you were late to catch on to?

SlopeSoarer

I don't know if anyone else listens to BBC 6 Music but Steve Lamacq does an album club on Wednesdays, basically using his words, "Revisiting classic albums in full, plus in-depth interview with the artists who made them."

Anyway today it was AC DC with their album Back in Black. I've just realised I'm probably the only 62 year old who has never heard this album in full. In fact really I missed AC DC going from prog rock straight to punk/new wave. Anyway what a great album and can't believe I have never heard it in full before.

Any albums that you were late to catch on to?

BloodEagle

The Clash - London Calling. Always reminded me of aging punks going on about The Clash when I was a disinterested teenager listening to Black Flag, but it turns out it is indeed a cracking album.

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Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time - I'd always considered this kind of stuff laughable hippy nonsense until during lockdown last year when I decided to push myself out of my comfort zone (musically speaking). Great album, the hippy mumbo jumbo stuff is brilliant

fretmeister

Aretha Franklin's "Young gifted and black"

I only got it last year.

Amazing album. Her voice is sublime.

pluckbuddy

The Bends. Band on the run. Up the bracket, if that's a classic. I think it is.

Wings were before my time but the other two I was only vaguely aware of when they came out. Don't know why I didn't pick up on them til relatively recently. Love them both

Cookiemonster

I don't know if this classes or not. But I have never been a Radiohead fan. Just before lockdown I saw In Rainbows the basement sessions on YouTube

I now think that album is one of the best I've ever heard 

I really like this thread and will definitely try out each album that gets mentioned.

If anyone hasn't listen to Love - Forever Changes. That's one of my favorite classic albums

horse

fretmeister said:

Aretha Franklin's "Young gifted and black"

I only got it last year.

Amazing album. Her voice is sublime.

I love that one too - the whole thing just sounds so good to my ears

ThePrettyDamned

For me, it was OK computer.

I heard it as a young muse fan, but it didn't really click. I found it a bit weird. 

It's absolutely one of my favourites now, and the special edition has some awesome tracks with some fun guitar pieces. 

Cookiemonster

ThePrettyDamned said:

For me, it was OK computer.

I heard it as a young muse fan, but it didn't really click. I found it a bit weird. 

It's absolutely one of my favourites now, and the special edition has some awesome tracks with some fun guitar pieces. 

Man of War is possibly one of the best songs they have done. 

YellowLedBetterMan

Define "classic".

For me, I've recently bought and listened through Temple of Low Men and loved it.

And seeing as I was only 7 when it released, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not. I'll consider that a classic by now.

ICBM

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

I found it last week in a charity shop and bought it because the cover - which doesn't even show the band's name or the title until you open out the booklet - looked interesting. I suspect that like me, many of you won't have even heard of it or the band... but it turns out that it is actually an important and influential album.

I also suspect that many of you won't like it. Classic rock it most definitely isn't . I'm not *certain* I do yet, but I think so. Which probably makes me a hipster, but I don't really know (or care).

SlopeSoarer

YellowLedBetterMan said:

Define "classic".

For me, I've recently bought and listened through Temple of Low Men and loved it.

And seeing as I was only 7 when it released, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not. I'll consider that a classic by now.

Yeah, I may change the title a little as really the classic bit is irrelevant / unneeded in the title as does recent. I wrote the post thinking about the album I'd heard and perhaps how I was thinking about it.

My last line sums it up better.... Any albums that you were late to catch on to?

horse

ICBM said:

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

I found it last week in a charity shop and bought it because the cover - which doesn't even show the band's name or the title until you open out the booklet - looked interesting. I suspect that like me, many of you won't have even heard of it or the band... but it turns out that it is actually an important and influential album.

I also suspect that many of you won't like it. Classic rock it most definitely isn't . I'm not *certain* I do yet, but I think so. Which probably makes me a hipster, but I don't really know (or care).

Never really lived up to the hype to my mind, but I should give it another listen now. It's pretty distinctive and expressive.

SlopeSoarer

Changed the thread title from: Classic Albums You Have Only Recently Caught On To!? 

To: Any albums that you were late to catch on to?

Just seems more relevant:-)

brojangles

ICBM said:

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

I found it last week in a charity shop and bought it because the cover - which doesn't even show the band's name or the title until you open out the booklet - looked interesting. I suspect that like me, many of you won't have even heard of it or the band... but it turns out that it is actually an important and influential album.

I also suspect that many of you won't like it. Classic rock it most definitely isn't . I'm not *certain* I do yet, but I think so. Which probably makes me a hipster, but I don't really know (or care).

Great album! Some amazing songwriting and I like the lo fi production. Also "Neutral Milk Hotel" is such a great nonsensical name, almost like one of those phrases linguists make up to make points about stuff (like "colourless green ideas sleep furiously"). 

thermionic

I remember Neutral Milk Hotel being mentioned in connection with REM for some reason, back in the 80s. Sounded like something I’d be into.

I rescued my girlfriend’s vinyl collection from her attic… I must confess to enjoying the occasional spin of Dark Side Of The Moon.

Whitecat

Kraftwerk’s entire back catalogue. It was an acquired taste over a long time, despite early efforts - and now I love love love it, and realise how important it is/was to everything that came after it. 

skullfunkerry

Weirdly, I heard of Neutral Milk Hotel the other day for the first time, because they're the favourite band of a character in Parks & Recreation (which I've also got to very late).

Back on topic though, and I'd say Blast Tyrant by Clutch. I'd heard a few of their songs and didn't mind them but hadn't had my socks blown off... then one day I thought I'd give them another go and put BT on. What an album! Just one monstrous groove from beginning to end, not a single duff track.

TeleMaster

I'm always finding stuff from 20, 30 years ago that I didn't listen to or dismissed. 

SPECTRUM001

The Idiot - by Iggy.

I have the first two Stooges albums, and probably heard The Idiot a few times over the years, but I never actually listened to it - properly - until recently. Can’t believe I never gave it any appreciation before - what an LP !!!

Neither had I ever heard Rory Gallagher until last year. Wow !!!!

horse

Hot Rats fits the bill for me. More mainstream sounding than I expected - quite accessible really

Cookiemonster

ICBM said:

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

I found it last week in a charity shop and bought it because the cover - which doesn't even show the band's name or the title until you open out the booklet - looked interesting. I suspect that like me, many of you won't have even heard of it or the band... but it turns out that it is actually an important and influential album.

I also suspect that many of you won't like it. Classic rock it most definitely isn't . I'm not *certain* I do yet, but I think so. Which probably makes me a hipster, but I don't really know (or care).

It's a fantastic album. I really like those Elephant 6 bands.
Apples in Stereo have a song called strawberry fire that sounds like how Oasis wanted to