If I don't get an album within 2 or 3 listens that's it for me. It shouldn't be that much work surely?

......I have been known to buy albums listen to them a few times and not be engaged by them whatsoever. Then put them on the shelf for two or three years.

Lo and behold, as if by magic, the next time I hear them I love them.

Sometimes I don't though and out the window they go...wheee frisbeee.....

"Aqualung" by the Tull and "The last record album" by Little Feat - totally different to my current listening at the time - didn't get it, stuck with it and have loved 'em ever since. Actually the music which has stayed with me longest is the stuff I didn't initially "get".

Oh, and actually i didn't see what all the fuss was about with Richard Thompson at first. Mind you I loved the Bonzos instantly.

(Natural order of posts restored...)

Ordinarily I wouldn't keep persevering but Richard and Linda Thompson are something special and I ignored 'calvary cross' in 'I want to see the bright lights', because it didn't grab me as much as the other tracks and actually by devoting more time to this song, I realise it has more depth than most of the other tracks on that album.
I think too, I was so enamoured with this album and hungry for more of their stuff I ensured that I gave 'shoot out the lights' the attention it deserved. Sometimes you have to work at an album for it to work for you. In this case, I had a hunch I would need to give the album time, and it paid off.

The first time I heard it, I was rather bemused. Tried again, once or twice, just couldn't get my head around it. Left it alone for six months, then thought it couldn't hurt to give it another experimental spin and.... wow. Now easily in my top five of all time.