I came up with this thread idea whilst using Pandora the other day. I've always been a big Keane fan but somehow I had never heard their second album, "Under The Iron Sea". Pandora suggested "A Bad Dream", and after hearing that I had to download the album. It's fantastic: not a single skippable song, in my opinion. So have you ever stumbled upon an album from the past for the first time, only to realize what you've been missing out on all these years? Other albums that come to mind: Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile Radiohead - The Bends Muse - Origin of Symmetry Foo Fighters - The Colour and The Shape
Funny you mention Keane, because I have also known couple of their songs but never gave a listen to any of their albums... and then one friend suggested that I listen to their third album Perfect Symmetry and it blew me away immediately. Also: Editors - The Back Room Nelly Furtado - Loose Rammstein - Mutter
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy I only listened to it this year. And I've been meaning to since 2010. Incredible album.
Train's Drops of Jupiter, released in 2001, was something I put off listening to for a while after I had started listening to Train and their latest studio album at the time, 2009's Save Me, San Francisco. Upon first listen, however, I instantly fell in love with it and today would put it high on my list of best albums of the 2000s. Embrace's Out of Nothing, released in 2004, was also something I put off after discovering an artist. Although I had been listening to "Gravity", a single from the album, I never gave it a good listen because I was enjoying 2006's This New Day way too much to care about Embrace's other music. However, when i did listen to it, I also fell in love with the album instantly. "Someday" is one of my all-time favorite songs. Daft Punk's Discovery, released in 2001, is also something I regret not listening to before. I've been exposed to all four of the album's singles beforehand, and liked the songs, but I wasn't really a fan of Daft Punk before I gave Discovery a listen. After getting used to the album, it's definitely one of my favorite albums now. In my opinion, it's the best Daft Punk album. Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, released 2010, was an album i never really wanted to listen to. I, at the time, hated Kanye West, and still to this day, The College Dropout, Late Registration, Graduation and especially 808s and Heartbreak, are albums I hope never to have to listen to again. My personal distaste for Kanye West's music held me from listening to My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. But then I heard "All of the Lights" for the first time on MTV when it was initially released as a single. I remember being simply amazed, then I listened to "Power" out of curiosity, and I was loving every second of it! Kanye West changed his music so much that even I was loving it! Something I definitely regret was not getting in the loop when the album was being released. This album nowadays is an easy second on my list of best albums of the 2010s. Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns tops the list, if you're wondering.
Every Other Linkin Park album before A Thousand Suns Every Beatles Album Every Coldplay Album before Mylo Xyloto OneRepublic - Waking Up The Black Keys - El Camino (only released in my country earlier this year)
Alice in Chains – Black Gives Way to Blue, for example. I guess I could cite more, but I don't get the feeling you described getting, Mark. When I listen to an album that's a little older, I go like: "Oh yeah, I like this!" I don't really go "Fuck, I've been missing out on this for all these years!"
i think it was only this year that i listened to "Camp" by Childish Gambino. shit was dope. the album was released late 2011.