Daft Punks's "Discovery" : Classic or Dud

Also Radiohead I guess, for many younger generations their first Radiohead album was hail to the thief or in rainbows.

For me it was the Velvet Underground. The only LP (in print or otherwise) I could find when I got into them was the 1985 odds & ends comp... which is not to say it wasn't a great listen but certainly not on par with the big 4. Then a couple years later I found a SEALED copy of WLWH for $8.99 lol.

REM too - I was first aware of them as the band that did Shiny Happy People with the singer out of B52's when I was about 10. Later got Out Of Time out the library as a young teen, and soon after that Automatic For The People came out, this very big serious grown-up album. It was ages until I walked into a bigger record store and realised they had stacks of albums prior to that.

Loads of people must have come to Blur via Song 2.

I also know people who came to the Prodigy via stuff like Warrior's Dance who say the earlier albums sound thin and old-hat. Nutters

See also:

Madonna - Ray of Light album (and chart singles)
Santana - Supernatural (and smooth)
Cher with Believe
Most recently Elton John for newer generations with the Dua Lipa remix/cover thing.

Ditto the falsetto TikTokification of pretty much every song ever made

xp I definitely had a wrong impression of Blur after "Song 2". Years later I realized I DID know another Blur song - "Girls and Boys" - but had no inkling it was the same band

Are Gen Z really into Discovery? Great if so, cause I find most younger Gen Ys seem to think RAM is their best, which is totally baffling to me

― Roz

A fairly good barometer of what online Gen Z music people think is RYM, where it sits at #79 of all time.

If anything I think the zoomer love for RAM is growing, in spite of the grubbing it seems to have increasingly gotten elsewhere. My love for it has probably grown too. How I wish drums sounded like that on every pop or rock (or disco) record made today.

yeah I found most of RAM to be a strung out snoozefest too but no doubt it's a really great sounding record which shows the kind of shit you can and should be doing with an actual budget, I wish more big acts tried to sound like that

Happened a lot for me when I was 11, 12 in the mid 90’s. My first approach for several “legacy” acts was with their most recent hits as presented in compilations like “Now!” So per example this were all songs I first heard by these artists

This was always me when I was little - the years-long gaps between loving lots of songs by an artist (in childhood) and becoming an actual 'fan' (generally in adolescence) - but it was sometimes via some probably odd tracks, i.e.

David Bowie - New Killer Star (via Brit Awards 2004) (I did already sort of know "Heroes" but never listened to it)
Erasure - Solsbury Hill (via Now 54)
George Michael - Flawless (Go to the City) (via Now 58) and the Shapeshifters Remix (via numerous summer 04 club compilations) (again, I sort of liked Fastlove but rarely listened to it)

My opinion of Human After All has increased over the years and RAM declined sharply after I initially enjoyed it. Now they’re even for last place, although neither are bad by any means.

Human After All is my favourite

the best Daft Punk album is the Musique Vol 1 best-of compilation and even that suffers by using the radio version of One More Time and by not featuring Burnin'

“Something about us” seems the most RAM thing on the album

Not exactly what you're asking, but a few music enthusiasts my age had their first serious encounter with David Bowie via Blackstar.

Prince’s Batman would be mine