[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by h8kurdt

Five?!? Crazy. How many of those albums do you give more than one listen to see if it grows on you? Everyone has albums they've not liked at first and then forced themselves to keep listening which led them to loving it.

At first (and, in retrospect, almost incredibly) Lester Bangs didn't quite enjoy Fun House as much The Stooges, was one of the many critics who thought Exile On Main St was a murky mess (in the bad way ), and just plained hated On The Corner (called it "garbage"). Not long after those three initial reactions, he wrote the definitive pieces on those albums that hailed them as masterworks — and NOT because of audience or peer pressure; with the exception of a few reviewers, those records were still years away from being introduced to the commonly accepted rock/jazz/funk pantheon. He did it because he reconsidered them.

It's nearly impossible to imagine a figure like Bangs in our age, but one has to wonder whether he would have made such 180-degree turns had he just initially Spotifucked the albums and moved on with a damn click.