I believe the last time a topic similar to this was back in 2023 but I just listened to a couple of albums by Elbow, who I hadn’t listened to for a few years and I’m loving them!
Elbow’s album ”Build a Rocket Boys” I hadn’t listened to for ages (years) and “The Birds” really moves me - a terrific track.
Have any of you returned to a band after a few years and “rediscovered” them?
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Thomas Dolby - the flat earth. Listened to it a lot in the 80s and again now. A 40 year gap!
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I must say that’s an album I’ve never really stopped listening to.
Superb!
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For me it’s US jazz-funk fusion. Not exactly rediscovered as in love all over again…
I loved Mahavishnu Orchestra and still do, and early Return to Forever (the Flora Purim albums, latin than the later funk outfits), still do. But most of the fusion I’ve gone back to and played recently has left me cold. Notable exceptions: Larry Coryell Spaces (though that’s not fusion as such imho) most of Lenny White’s Venusian Summer and of course early McLaughlin. I’m sure there may be other goodies I’ve just forgotten, but as a whole I find jazz/funk fusion just tedious now.
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That reminds me me there are some terrific Acid Jazz gems (amongst some tedious) which I should revisit.
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Kirsty MacColl ‘Titanic Days’ popped up recently when I was flicking through my collection. A great album with a tough story at times, but her usual wit too. Her early death and chequered life always make me feel a bit sad. She gets a spin every Xmas morning with ‘Fairytale of New York’ but there’s lots to enjoy in her other output.
Bruce
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Although I’ve heard all of the tracks from The Joshua Tree over the years. I haven’t played the full album since around 1990 when I’d been playing it constantly since release. This was my first U2 album and Rattle and Hum was my last. I really haven’t enjoyed anything from them since.
Following a few references to JT on here this afternoon I have listened to JT from start to finish. For me it needs to be played loud and let the impact grow. Two things strike me, how good it was back then and secondly how the seeds of U2’s pretentiousness were already showing 
Excellent album but it remains a pleasant past memory for me. Favourite track is probably Running to Stand Still.
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I think sometimes there are albums that actually mature with your age you buy them and listen to them but as you get older they get better and you learn to appreciate just how good they were back when they were released. I think I have more patience now to listen to albums in there entirety there’s so much good music I missed and for that reason it makes sense to revisit old albums
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I’ve often admired Kirsty’s work but never really tried any album. I think I should! And yes, tragically taken far too young.
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Absolutely - I remember listening to and dismissing a few albums, only to revisit them years later and LOVING them.
”Dancing on the Couch” by Go West is one example. I dismissed it as their “poor 2nd album”, only to revisit it during Covid and I absolutely LOVE it.
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After reading your post last night I decided today I was going through my back catalogue of vinyl and playing albums from early days of my music man what a great trip so much good stuff from Talking heads remain in light joy division closer pink military do animals believe in god
Man you have started the ball rolling big thanks
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It’s easy to forget or overlook some real gems from one’s past !
Although not all are worth revisiting, many are.
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I totally agree with you Joshua tree was a great album as was boy for me as for the rest some good tracks but not good albums I remember buying boy on vinyl and playing it for the first time it was something totally different at the time sound was so good fame and fortune didn’t favour U2
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I loved the first three U2 albums, Boy, October, and War, but Unforgettable Fire didn’t interest me.
I liked Joshua Tree but lost interest after that.
I agree, there are good tracks on their albums, I just couldn’t get into the albums generally.
Under a Blood Red Sky is an absolute belting live album, right up there with the best live albums.
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One of the things that happens to me in relation to music is how all of a sudden, and often just before I go to bed, a song will pop into my head.
I can start to sing it and then it gets stuck there until I have run through, in my head, all possibilities of who it is by.
Sometimes I’ve never owned the music.
When this does happen it invariably drags me back to revisit a song or an album thereby refreshing my interest in that bit of music/artist/s.
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I find that Tidal’s “forgotten favourites” good at reminding me.
Obviously doesn’t work for vinyl - but there’s plenty on this forum to tweak my memory.
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The good old ear worms!
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
I bought this what, maybe 15+ years ago and never gelled with it. Compared to their legendary “V” this album with its simple production never landed, lacking the songwriting chops of the former.
Listening to it now (CD rip) and I’m really enjoying it. It’s slower and sludgier yes but there’s far more atmosphere than I remember, offering a dark, interior-focused riff melange. And the production sounds great on my current set-up with heaps of tone and detail.
A lovely return.
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I’ll have to give this a spin (stream) as it’s not one I’m familiar with.
I rediscovered John Mayall. ‘The mists of time’ blew my mind!
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