Pointyskull

Back in the pre-file sharing days of the late 80s/early 90s, I couldn't count the times I bought CD's, only to discover that I didn't care for them much (other than a song or two)

Then, years later, something prompts me to pop it in for a listen and I discover some golden nugget that I never knew existed.

EXAMPLE:

Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye: A Tribute To Roky Erikson
- This disc has a bunch of artists covering Roky's stuff, and at the time it came out (1990) it didn't hook me, despite having a number of bands I really like (REM, Poi Dog, Jesus & Mary Chain). Lo and behold, buried at track 18 is gem I just discovered:

Nothing In Return - T-Bone Burnett

costanza187

usually for me its reverse of that.....but a cd think a song is cool, years later you think it isnt

Gdrlv

One that comes to mind is "Sluttering" on Jawbreaker's Dear You.

atlantamoi

That's a great question! I thought for a minute and came up with one. There was this CD ten or so years ago called "No Alternative". A bunch of different artists. I was making a compilation of New Zealand music for my girlfriend last year and noticed a song by the Verlaines on that disc. I knew they were from New Zealand and gave it a listen and WOW... their tune "Heavy 33" is excellent. Don't know how I let that get past me.

ziggy

I used to really only listen to the first half of all of the Nirvana cd's

then I really listened to the second half and found it was nearly as good.