Adjusting to New Songs

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I just bought two new CDs today: one by a band and also another that's a solo album by one of the band's members. I used to collect all the band's albums, but I got busy with other things over the last dozen years. Now I have to catch up, after having had a resurgence of interest. These are newer songs, some of which I've heard on YouTube. I'm finding I'm having some trepidation about playing the new CDs, even though I've heard songs I like from them in the videos. I've discovered there's an adjustment period when I get a new album, and now I have two at once. I'm going to maybe try them out one at a time, to get used to them. I'll like them better as time goes on, I'm sure, but something in me might object at first. This is how it's sometimes been in the past.

Anybody else experience this? I love music, love this band, and love the songs I've heard from these albums so far, and yet I still feel not quite ready for the purchases I've just made.

I don't have an adjustment period with songs. However, there is a point with listening to a song, where I will be really listening to it, as in paying attention to it, and it will imprint some impression on me, like a story or a feeling or an image or something. Often songs by the same artist will give me similar feels.

For example, Erik Satie's work mostly makes me think of forests, with tall trees and lots of very green plants covering the forest floor, and clearings in the trees filled with wavy grass and other plants. The imagery is much more in depth than that - that is just a small description.

Some of his songs, though, make me imagine being inside a very old house that was left alone abandoned for a long time, with beams of light shining through the dusty air, coming in either between cracks between boards or through windows. Listening to these songs, I imagine myself in this place, huddled in a small space - and it's not uncomfortable at all, it's actually really comforting and such, but there's also a feeling of the place having once been filled with life and things happening, wishing it still had people inside, remembering the many years where it did, while it sat there alone for countless years. It's a warm feeling, not temperature-wise, but just warm textured. I don't know how to describe it.

I guess this isn't quite the same, but it's rare that I like songs on the first listen. Songs tend to grow on me instead. If I do like it the first time it's a pretty good sign that I'll continue to like it.

I'm like that as well. It takes me forever to get used to new songs. I have to hear them usually more than once to fall in love with a song. If I hear a song once and I automatically like it, that means I really really like it.

I find remixes hard to get used to and most of the time I don't give them a chance.
Also new earphones are hard as they all sound different and I can never seem to find some that sound like my old ones... I once thought mine were breaking as they sounded different then I realises I had them in the opposite ears so they sounded different

I try to refrain from buying more than 1 CD at a time, because inevitably i gravitate toward one and play it until I'm completely sick of it and by then I've lost interest in the first.

<---- laughed out loud.

I thought EVERYBODY needed an adjustment period to get used to new songs lol

I am only recently learning that my quirks and issues are aspergers related... I suppose this is another "ah" moment to my growing list.

I tend to only do one CD as well.. or a group of songs over and over until I naturally progress to another group of songs over and over... I tend to like to play a song to death... or until everyone in the house wants to strangle me lol

Okay, I ended up listening to all three CDs in a row, because we were on a long car ride. I think the ride and having my girlfriend to listen with me helped. But the sound of the engine made it hard to make out some of the words. I listened to one of them again today, and I like some of the songs already. There's one I put on repeat, because the way it's sung and the sound of the vocalist reminded me of my cousin's voice and his songs when he sings them. I'd like to see him more often.

There's this one song, on a CD I don't have yet, but that's on order. I need it before I go to a concert, because I heard this song on a YouTube video, and I reacted to it strangely. I'm trying to get used to it, because I like the song and might hear it at the concert in September. I don't want to be jolted hearing it live. The singer goes from low notes to high, with vibrato, and it makes me feel like a shock is going through me. I haven't encountered this before, that I can recall. It happens every time she sings the chorus, and I'm working on dealing with it. So far, just from the videos, I'm getting better.

Anybody else ever experience this effect?

When I was a kid I bought an album because I liked this one song on it that I'd heard on the radio. I was afraid to listen to the rest of the album and never did.

Never really understood that. I mean if i dont like a song hearing it the first time i will never ever like it. :S

Same with food or drinks or whatever. I dont grow to like stuff, i like it from first moment or not at all. maybe that is just me lol.

Well, my grandfather said he'd never give a TV show a second chance if he didn't like the episode he saw first. He said he knew he might be missing a really great show just because he saw one bad episode, but he couldn't ever make himself try again. So, loner1984, I guess you're not the only one.