Albums that grow on you...

#1

Albums that grow on you...

Posted: 2/17/05 at 1:46pm

at the request on MEF- i relistened to MyLifeWithAlbertine and now LOVE IT! i think it is so beautiful. This also happened with Assassins, Pacific Overtures (both are my two fav sondheim shows), King and I, and Porgy and Bess

on another note, i have been listening to Side Show for two months now and find it too be way overhyped- i bought it on recomendation (sp?) from people who rave about it here on the board and think that the lyrics are really what kills the show for me. I love the music and talent though.

which albums grew on you, and which albums did you try to like but couldn't?

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#2

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 1:52pm

Sweet Smell of Success has been growing on me lately.

Has anyone heard Bed and Sofa? I've tried and tried but I still find it to be a piece of crap.

#3

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 1:52pm

Can't get into Elegies or Brownstone at all. Tried and tried.

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#4

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 1:53pm

Le Miserables, definetly. It always takes me a while to warm up to a new show's music, but I really couldn't appreciate Le Miz until at least the third or fourth listen.

#5

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 2:00pm

i've never heard Les Mis, along with Miss Saigon and Rent. do i get my musical lovers license revoked?

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"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

#6

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 2:03pm

It took a long time for me to actually get into "The Last Five Years". Now I love it.

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#7

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 3:07pm

Honestly, Taboo took a while to grow on me. Most Sondheim, as well, with the exception of Assassins, which I loved the first time I put it on. Usually, if I see a show, the music grows on me faster.

#8

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 3:07pm

yay Sondheim takes a while (except for Woods and Todd)

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"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

#9

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 3:08pm

Caroline - You've never heard the music to MISS SAIGON, RENT, and LES MIS? Yes, your license is temporarily revoked.

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#10

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 3:11pm

Well, while we're confessing, can I tell everyone that I haven't heard a note of A Chorus Line or Sweeny Todd? (I'm a poor teenager, but I swear those are on my to-buy list)

CQT, do check those out. You won't be disappointed.

#11

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 3:12pm

You MUST get Sweeny Todd and Chorus Line. they are genius.

i just never have the money for the albums or i always see something else. AND- i've never heard south pacific, bye bye birdie, annie, west side story, and camelot...

do i fail?

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"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

#12

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 3:13pm

You fail.

Insomniak - You must get SWEENEY TODD as soon as you can.

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#13

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 3:14pm

thank god i'm jewish so therefore i don't have to go to confessionals.

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"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

#14

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 3:14pm

CQT, you get your CDs and I'll get mine and then we can rejoin the cool kids. Until then, how are you feeling about life as a failure? Failuredom isn't too bad of a place, they give you free drinks with little umbrellas in them if you're good.

#15

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 3:16pm

*sob*
drinks with umbrellas!!!!??? failure life isn't THAT bad. i hope they don't take out the booze in the Pina Coladas

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"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

#16

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 3:17pm

Well, if you join me in the province of Failuredom that coincides with De Nial, you can have whatever you want. It's grand.

#17

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 3:22pm

oooH! Failuredom sounds pretty great! is it like Hades in the Frogs?

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"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

#18

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 3:25pm

Wow. I'm really, really shocked at you two. *falls over dramatically*

CQT, you listed nearly every one of my favorite shows! How DARE you!
















I'm over it now.

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#19

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 3:54pm

I'm glad to hear that L5Y grows on you because I just bought the cd after many recomendations and was not thrilled with what I heard. I hope it grows on me because otherwise I just wasted $17. And I must also confess that I have never heard any of Sweeney Todd either (except what's on B'Way the Am. Mus.). I've heard it's amazing but have never gotten around to buying it. I have heard the other must-hears though.

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#20

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 3:57pm

Sweeny is grrreat. i was sorta on the fence w/ L5Y. but now i like it

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"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

#21

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 4:05pm

Yeah, CQTboo likes ALBERTINE! I'm going to change my quote to something ALBERTINE related in celebration!

#22

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 4:09pm

just about anything really takes a little while to grow on me. Particular songs stick out but in general that is the case. Shows that I immediately loved (ironically) are Wildhorn's shows. Jekyll and Hyde was an immediate "i love it!" as was Scarlet Pmimpernel after Madame Guillotine (wow!)

Weird isn't it.

#23

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 4:37pm

L5Y also took me a while to like. I love it now though! Also i can't get myself to like aida except for the god's love nubia. I don't know what it is but i just can't listen to it.

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#24

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 6:17pm

CQT, i recently got SIDE SHOW also. have only listened to it once and wasn't that impressed. it didn't grow on you, but maybe it will grow on me?

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#25

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Posted: 2/17/05 at 6:22pm

Assassins.

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