Sometimes something catches you the first time and sometimes you have to hear it a few times. One of the most amusing examples for me was "In My Tribe" by the 10k Maniacs(not a folk group, I know) which I bought, listened to and almost threw away. It sat for six months before someone asked to hear it, after which I could not stop playing it--of course, there are others--

I have tried to figure this out, and the closest I can get it that sometimes the first time you hear something, you maybe expecting to hear something else, and you are disappointed--the next time, you know what you are listening to so the expectations are gone and you can just enjoy it.


I had a friend back in college who regarded the first listen as something unpleasant he had to out of the way--that way, if it was good, he was one up, and if it was disappointing, he was expecting it--