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My Pet Orangutan

(9,249 posts)
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 07:47 PM Nov 2020

How many songs/albums are better the 30th time you've heard them?

Ok. I might be (very) late to this party, but "Norman Fucking Rockwell" by Lana Del Rey is up there with the greatest albums ever released. There is something about listening to a song you have heard a thousand times and thinking holy shit, it can't be this good.

OK. Enough of this fanboy shite. Exhibit A.

You took my sadness out of context
At the Mariners Apartment Complex
I ain't no candle in the wind


Not a shabby opening.





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How many songs/albums are better the 30th time you've heard them? (Original Post) My Pet Orangutan Nov 2020 OP
That IS a great album, agreed ... and MOST of the really great albums mr_lebowski Nov 2020 #1
I'd say this one, but I admit my tastes aren't necessarily those of the majority... regnaD kciN Nov 2020 #2
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
1. That IS a great album, agreed ... and MOST of the really great albums
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 07:47 PM
Nov 2020

I can think of ... I liked more the 30th time than the 1st.

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)
2. I'd say this one, but I admit my tastes aren't necessarily those of the majority...
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 07:55 PM
Nov 2020


For those who are curious, here's a needledrop from the vinyl version:
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