OK, Looking back, what's the biggest Not-bullshit, musically speaking, that you didn't fall for in the 00s but then found you were wrong, and so did, in the 10's?

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OK, Looking back, what's the biggest Not-bullshit, musically speaking, that you didn't fall for in the 00s but then found you were wrong, and so did, in the 10's?

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ok.

I actually have an answer for this question, unbelievably...and that answer is hip-hop

Cool.

There's loads of stuff where I was 'not interested' but tried in the latter days to get into because I 'should'... and stuff I resisted because it was too much "the sort of thing I'd like"

I like "Physical Grafitti" although I don't love it.

Back in the day, Punk was a 'hate' but then I swiftly changed my mind (before 1976 was out, I'm sure)

Lily Allen, MIA, of Montreal, Bat for Lashes

Lil Wayne. I had no idea how good he was.

^this too...though I kind of got into him in 08 tbh (after seeing him in TIME magazine)

I underrated My Chemical Romance & Fall-Out Boy in the 00's...definitely some of my favorite stuff from the era looking back now

I was super-late getting on the Joanna Newsom train, mostly because her music is, on paper, something that I really shouldn't like at all. But now I kind of love her a lot.

I'm always so late to the party with dance music. Maybe it's because there's a dearth of decent dance clubs in my area that I never had the chance to discover disco-punk, minimal house, dubstep etc etc in their intended contexts (i.e. in a club on loud speakers) until way after the initial wave.

It's nigh-on impossible to fully appreciate, say, Ame's "Rej" on a home stereo. So often my complaint (especially with 00's dance) has been that it's too quiet, too subtle, too polite etc, much to the frustration of seasoned dance dudes like the lex and matt dc.

With discopunk I struggled at the time to find the correlation between punk and whatever this house music was. To me it really wasn't as exciting as Mixmag had pitched to me. Of course, "Discopunk" is misleading as bands like Gang Of Four are more postpunk/new wave, not Sex Pistols-style rock. So i expected something very different, not being terribly familiar with the post-punk movement in 2003. Of course by the time I heard "Losing My Edge" and "House Of Jealous Lovers", it started making a lot more sense. Reading the Reynolds book set me straight on OG post-punk too.

Similarly, I didn't get the point of minimal, coming from the ardkore nuttah gabber warehouse school of dance I was familiar with. I remember thinking some of the more melodic stuff was very pretty, but not understanding why these plippy ploppy beats and inhuman vocal snatches were supposed to get me moving my feet. A few Kompakt compilations and a trip to Plastic People totally changed this.

Same with dubstep. I tried listening to some compilations in 06 but they went on forever and felt structuraless. Super slow beats, cheesy Arabesque sample flourishes and basslines that didn't appear to follow the beats, rather just wash over them. I even tried putting together some DJ mixes of MP3s I'd downloaded, but even those bored me to tears. It actually took the rather unfashionable brutalism of Caspa and Rusko to bring me round to dubstep, and I worked from there. I'm now no longer so into C&R, and much more interested in the less boshing stuff.

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