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What have you been most wrong about in 2002 - records/tracks where your initial judgement was completely off-base.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 29 November 2002 11:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Bonus points if you posted that initial judgement on ILX and can link to it!

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 29 November 2002 11:50 (twenty-three years ago)

That must definitely have been when i assured mysellf that 'The Ketchup Song' would never stick MY brain.

― Jay K (Jay K), Friday, 29 November 2002 11:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Well I don't think anyone could have been any "wronger" than I was on my hissy fit proportion of this thread:

Boards of Canada - 'Geogaddi' C/D

I might be wrong about "Under Construction" in six months' time, but I do not SENSE it as yet.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 29 November 2002 12:17 (twenty-three years ago)

i am on record as saying 'nelly is far too STRAINED at this tempo' for hot in herre. i TAKE IT BACK!!

― minna (minna), Friday, 29 November 2002 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I gave the Streets 3 out of 5, my middling response admittedly partially in response to all the raves it got in ILM (I just didn't hear it as living up to all that despite my really really wanting it to--and I listened to it 7 or 8 times in full). I gaffed, and, oy, it's now a top 10-er for sure.

― s woods, Friday, 29 November 2002 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)

ditto that, my initial reaction to the streets was very 'is this it?' but two months later it just clicked.

i was convinced 'two months off' was going to be a fixture of my cd player - not once in recent memory. oh how the mighty have slowly limped off into the distance.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Friday, 29 November 2002 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Andrew WK: "Ew! Ick! Bad!"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 29 November 2002 18:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought I couldn't listen to "Sk8er Boi" without fixating on how wrong I find the lyrics... then I heard the bitchin' remix.

― Adam A. (Keiko), Friday, 29 November 2002 18:48 (twenty-three years ago)

That Sophie Ellis Bextor was just a G.A.Y. targeted production line popstress with no good songs. Fuck, was I wrong...

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 29 November 2002 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

i could only hold out on the "work it" love for so long. key moments: 1. hearing it on the radio just before i got out the car to write my last exam (it was comforting) and 2. hearing it in a sweaty club (i got to say "frumme neptune vignette" in PUBLIC!)

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 29 November 2002 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I praised Lateralus more than it deserved after buying it. I was also wrong to bother buying Is This It?. I may have been wrong about Keith Rowe's and Oren Ambarchi's Flypaper - it's been growing on me. I was wrong to buy Murray Street (I've started to think even NYCG&F was much better. Probably A Thousand Leaves too.) but I was right about it the first time. I was wrong to go against my initial impression. I don't know what happened to them live.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 29 November 2002 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

JULIAN CASABLANCAS ASS. I still hate the Strokes, but MAN, is he hot, etc. etc.

I was also proved wrong about the 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster. I wanted to hate them, OH, how I wanted to hate them, to loathe them, to dismiss them, but, erm, actually they're really rather good. I'll be growing that Misfits devillock back before you know it...

― kate, Friday, 29 November 2002 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought "Jenny From The Block" was just another J-Lo single. Not only is it the best ever J-Lo single it also - somewhat embarrassingly - equals or beats anything on Under Construction (which I love) on its own then-fi/now-fi terms.

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 30 November 2002 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

'jenny from the block' sounds kind of like a fabolous song, 'trade it all.' but without the flute. get 'trade it all,' please. i'd really, really like you to hear it if you haven't. i'd like everyone who reads this to try and make the effort to hear it. you won't be disappointed. trust me.

okay. i was totally wrong about avril lavigne. i was even kind of angry about her. but i heard 'complicated' about a month ago and i really listened to it for the first time ever. it was a shock to me. i realized that i had made a terrible mistake and i felt bad about all the stuff that i had said to people about her.

― d k (d k), Saturday, 30 November 2002 01:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Then: Raved night and day about Xiu Xiu's Knife Play.
Now: Can't stand to hear a track from it.

― paul cox (paul cox), Saturday, 30 November 2002 01:08 (twenty-three years ago)

welcome to tha afterfuture: in 2006 i'll sing about kilburn on top of an untouched"get ur freak on" instrumental bookended with some "grindin" clanks

tom marvels at the "now-fi"

― bob zemko (bob), Saturday, 30 November 2002 01:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Sounds grebt Bob when can I buy it?

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 30 November 2002 01:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I figured "Lapalco" by Brendan Benson would be weak based on his first album. I was pleasantly proven wrong, and Metairie turned out to be one of my top songs from 2002.

― webcrack (music=crack), Saturday, 30 November 2002 05:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I really liked that QOTSA album, now it just bores the shit outta me.

-Colin

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Saturday, 30 November 2002 05:25 (twenty-three years ago)

The QOTSA is their worst album, easily.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 30 November 2002 05:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I still really like the others.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Saturday, 30 November 2002 05:58 (twenty-three years ago)

"wanna come to kil-baaaaaahn lemme know"

― bob zemko (bob), Saturday, 30 November 2002 11:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I was so, so, wrong about Green Velvet being rubbish it isn't funny.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 1 December 2002 12:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought British Sea Power were just a shitty retro band who listen to U2, but they're actually quite good.

― Callum (Callum), Sunday, 1 December 2002 12:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I was wrong about Big Brovaz! I quite like Nu-Flow now.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 1 December 2002 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

At first I thought the Justin Timberlake single was just so-so, now it's one of my recs of the year. 'Round Round' by the Sugababes also turned out to be a real grower.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Sunday, 1 December 2002 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

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