Songs Or Albums That Eventually Grew On You

[mysticmoon1993]

Love You was oddly enough the album that really got me intrigued to hear more Beach Boys. My friends and I would listen to Pet Sounds in high school, but I wasn't captured by it for a long time, aside from God Only Knows, which I couldn't listen to because it would send me into hysterics, as much as I adored it. It took me til last year to really wrap my head around the depth of that album. It took a long time for me to understand it, emotionally and musically.

There are honestly quite a few Beach Boys albums I've yet to hear... I guess I'm kind of savoring them.

[Loves The Sunflower]

"Pet Sounds".

I was 14 the first time I heard it and I could appreciate the musical sophistication but I just could not relate to the lyrical themes. At all.

Fast forward a year (in which a lot can -and did- happen) to the next time I listened to it -and it was the difference between night and day. It all made perfect sense to me.

Also took me a while to warm up to the albums "Wild Honey" and "Friends" but now I regard them as fantastic components of my favorite BB era (1965-1973).

[job]

Beach Boys (85) weirdly grew on me the other night while I was filling out college applications.  Something about how memorable some of the songs are and how I can easily sing along with them.  Granted, it's no where near an artistic venture as Love You was, but it still has that enjoyable synthy feeling to it.

Yeah BB85 weirdly grew on me last week as I was listening while I read.  It actually began to distract me from my reading.

[Summer_Days]

'Kokomo' is growing on me big time as we speak. It's such a lame, catchy, cliché of a song. I'm starting to really, really like it in spite or maybe because of that. Dammit.

Well, I did like 'Kokomo' a lot when it came out, back when I was like 8 or 9 years old. I wasn't a fan of the group yet, really; 'Kokomo' was hot more than a decade before I discovered Pet Sounds and became a hardcore lifelong Beach Boys fan. I've had trouble with that song since getting into the lesser know high quality side of the band from the late '60s through the '70s. But you know, if I like stuff like 'It's Gettin' Late' and 'It's Just A Matter of Time', then I should like 'Kokomo'. And now I do. A part of me is screaming, why? It's so stupid!! But screw it. I really like 'Kokomo' (particularly Carl's parts on the chorus...just wonderful).

[RangeRoverA1]

aside from God Only Knows, which I couldn't listen to because it would send me into hysterics

Funny, to me it was the other way 'round. I was incredibly disenchanted by GOK - "so this is a song lotta musicians cited their favorite, the most beautiful ballad? Wow." Now I get what they talked about.