Trent Reznor described this as "albums that make you work for it". You don't like them the first time you hear them (or they just sound monotonous and undiffere

Trent Reznor described this as "albums that make you work for it". You don't like them the first time you hear them (or they just sound monotonous and undifferentiated). You don't like them the second time. But on subsequent listenings you start to notice things, things become familiar and you start liking it. And the crazy thing is that a lot of the time those albums (or artists) are the ones that get catapulted into "best album of all time" statuses. Definitely some of my top artists/albums of all time are ones that did not appeal to me on the first few listens.