What bands did you HATE but now LOVE?

Now, he's far away and I've had time to play it to myself properly and realise that it's actually quite a good record. Not one that I love as such, it's still got crap moments, but one that I was deliberately put off by hearing it in the wrong context. There's other examples of the same kind of thing - my brother's taste being awful most of the time but sometimes he picked a goodie and I only hated it because he liked it so much. I doubt if it worked the other way though (except that he nicked my copies of "Forever changes" and "Wilder" when he went to college after slagging them off for years).

i used to hate metal with a passion but i love acdc now

i used to hate jay-z - now i kinda dig him (same is true of puff daddy, p diddy, puffy - whatever)

Customer #1: "Where can I find an AC/DC record?"
Store Clerk: "Ummm...try under 'Sounds' "
Customer #2: "Excuse me, wheres your Polka section?"
Store Clerk: "All polka records are filed under 'Sounds' "
Customer #3: "Yo, whassup? I'm lookin' for..."
Store Clerk: " 'Sounds!' "

Its not that genres suck, its when people get so wrapped up in genres that things begin to look shitty. I personally hate these trendsters that are adamantly anti-genre, or those that cant see anything BUT genres. Both are disgusting. But then again, I am disgusted by 99.9997 per cent of humanity.

As for the original question: Monte Cazazza. I thought his music was shit at first, and that goes double for his singing. But I realized, eventually, that the beauty was in his complete lack of self-awareness and the human-ness of his flawed music.

(Ducks to avoid left hook from J. Worrell)

I agree with Alex 'bout Radiohead - Kid A and Amnesiac rescued things.

Hell in a handbasket.

It would make me very happy to come across a record shop that had a 'Rap or Country' section. It could be next to the 'Techno or Swing' section and the 'Opera or Jungle' section.

I Love Brian Wilson, the genius behind the Beach Boys!

Pet Sounds....oh...Every single track of this album is music at its best!

George Martin (Beatles producer): "If there is one person that I have to select as a living genius of pop music, I would choose Brian Wilson. Without Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper wouldn't have happened... Pepper was an attempt to equal Pet Sounds"

Queens of the Stone Age.

I really hated them when I was 13...I don't know why, but now I'm all obsessive over them!!! Even teaching myself how to play some of their songs on guitar.

I used to hate Pink Floyd and the Doors, but I realized after smoking pot that I liked Pink Floyd, and I realized that without the associative nastiness of the gross, druggy Morrison worshipers in my high school, the Doors are pretty good!

i still hate all the bands i used to hate.

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vinnie paz needs a hug

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I loved Andrew WK, then saw him right before I Get Wet and hated him, and then I learned to love him again. I Get Wet is really an amazing record, I was so dumb!

I was gonna post examples but there were just too many. I think this is one of the true joys of music fandom - that moment where you go "ah! *now* i get it" and you can see a whole new vista of enjoyment open up in front of you. Or something.

I was a rather outspoken Pink Floyd hater back in the 80s.

Kinda surprised you changed your opinion on ANYTHING, Geir! But I guess the '80s were a long time ago.

I can name at least a dozen perfomers that have gone through the hate-to-love cycle - a couple of 'em as a result of persuasive ILM peer pressure. (Steely Dan most notably.) So I'll single out The Residents, who I liked then hated then learned to love again, tho I'm pretty indifferent to whatever they've done after about '84 or so. And there's Creedence Clearwater Revival, who I've loved nearly all my life, except for a year or two in the mid-80s when I had to hate 'em because I was a rebellious teen and they were my dad's eternal favourite.

deerhunter

The Smiths, which I first heard on shitty car speakers with no bass, just the first (cassette) half, every day for half a year. It sounded like "Rusholme Ruffians", over and over and over. Once I figured out that most Smiths songs didn't sound like "Rusholme Ruffians", love wasn't far off.

j0rdan otm, Deerhunter for me too.

Yes, co-sign on the Deerhunter. I don't know about "hate" per se, but annoyance about hype, etc. Now, easily my favorite band of the last few years.

the hype and the image both

fleetwood mac. this was before i had listened to tusk though. i still don't like rumours.

Actively hated them for years but was then sort of indifferent. However at this point I can no longer deny it. I like Led Zeppelin. I like them a lot.

Zeppelin was my dismissed-because-of-all-the-douchebags-in-high-school-who-loved-them band. I was wrong.

Bravo. If you get "How the West Was Won" and the DVD, you'll be shittin' in high cotton!

Grateful Dead. This is as major a sea change as anything I've ever experienced. I still can't stand anything after, say, 1973, but wow, there was some energy in 1969-1972 that I didn't think they ever had in them.

couldn't stand animal collective years back, wouldn't say i love them but i do enjoy them.

most eighties pop music. bruce springsteen.

haha, my comment above. i now officially like half of rumours. maybe in two more years i will like the rest.

I really came around on the Tragically Hip - a rite of Canadian adulthood maybe?

Springsteen is probably my answer too. I was 8 when Born in the U.S.A. was ubiquitous and I got sick of hearing those same songs over and over again. Then came his crappy later 80s and early 90s stuff, I just couldn't reconcile what I was hearing with all the praise heaped on him. It actually wasn't until very recently that I went back and discovered his 70s work on my own, which I've now come to absolutely love.

Dylan sort of similar. When I was about 13-15 and really getting into classic rock with my friends, I, for some reason, drew a thick line at Dylan and refused to like him. I was very vocal about my hatred of him. But then I saw Dazed and Confused, specifically the scene with Matthew McConaughey walking into the Emporium and it was like a circuit connected in my brain and I became sort of obsessed with "Hurricane". My mom bought me both of the movie's soundtracks for Christmas, but I was disappointed that it wasn't on either of them. Finally, about eight months later, I came across a used copy of Desire and, as they say, that was that. Have loved Dylan ever since.