My experience with albums (LPs, remember?) was that a handful of songs would attract me fairly quickly, while other's were, meh.

It was good that there were songs that hooked me early because I would wait patiently through the less-appealing songs for those good ones.

Some months or so later, the tracks had flipped — burned out on the hooky songs, loving the once-meh songs.

(I can specifically remember this to be the case with both Murmur and Reckoning when they came out — yes, I am old.)