Artists you used to hate

[Sir Stewart]

I can tell from your other post that you grew up a communist. That must have been hard.

Ted Kennedy was my senator! I had no choice!

[The High Heat]

For awhile I was hit or miss with Bob Dylan. Now I have almost every album and dig it all, save for a few tracks.

[NightOfJoy]

Wilco.

 

When UT split, I decided I liked my country music sad so I went with Sun Volt and paid no attention at all to Wilco outside of hearing Casino Queen a few times which completely reinforced my choice. I wisened up around 2002 or so but have since reconsidered after Wilco's last couple albums.

 

And so it goes.....

[Moss]

This won't get too much backup around here, but the Foo Fighters. I'd hear a song on the radio every now and then and think "Yeah, I like this song enough to not turn the channel and maybe sing along." Then about a year and a half ago I was flipping around on the TV and came across a FF's concert. Oh, there's that one song I like. Hey, I really like that one too. Wait a minute! I love (nearly) every song I've heard so far! Catchy and rockin' all at once.

 

Yeah, it's what some would call 'jock rock.' I think of it as more just good ol' hard rock. Plus, Dave Grohl is just about the nicest guy you'll ever meet.

 

I'll back you on that one, I think they get a bad rap. It's cliche to say but I think the best stuff is not the stuff you hear on the radio. Not sure how you could dismiss "Aurora", "Hey Johnny Park", "Headwires", etc... as anything but great songwriting. Then they play that crappy new "wheels" song on the radio and it confirms people's perception of them.

 

C'mon, Prince covered them at the Super Bowl.

[brianjeremy]

Oasis - I would say that Oasis probably sits at the top of the list for me. It probably wasn't until their third album that I actually took notice.

 

Metallica - All my friends in middle and high school were all about Metallica and I just didn't get it. But eventually, I got into the older stuff. The new stuff - not so much.

 

The Beatles. My cousin who lived next door to me was obsessed with the Beatles. My family were more of the Stones-type. It was more of an annoyance than anything It wasn't until college and away from my cousin's constant Beatles mania, that I actually came to appreciate and love the Beatles.

 

Guns n' Roses - GNR is another one of those band that a lot of my friends liked but I didn't. My wife actually made me a big fan because she likes them.

 

And I will also back you up on the Foo Fighters front. I recently have re-discovered them and loving it.

[bsr8j]

The Killers. I got into them a little over a year ago. Sam's Town is a great rock record. I'm kind of surprised what a negative critical reaction that one got when it was released.

[CortezTheKiller]

My Morning Jacket. Okonokos set me free.

[luke79]

Dylan and the Velvet Underground. Girlfriends in high school played them and i hated them. I like them both now. Love the Velvet's Heroin.

[Mr. Kinsley]

Not from me. I love the Foo Fighters. Always have. Catchy rockers are fun. Remember Jay Bennett?

Don't you mean EASY rockers?

 

when I flipped back to Night Flight or Hot Hit Video, Bruce was still bounding around the burgundy stage, drawing out this long boring song and stealing precious airtime from "Hold Me Now" or "Everybody Wants To Rule The World".

Oh. My. God. Thank you for reminding me about Night Flight! My favorite part of babysitting for the neighbors - having an excuse to stay up late and watch videos!

 

I didn't get Neil Young until recently. I'm still working my way into the catalogue, but there's definitely some good stuff in there that I didn't appreciate at first.

Same here! I hated him so much at one point that when I once won some tickets to a concert I drove an hour to the show, alone, and sold them in the parking lot then drove home. I'm not proud of that, on many levels.

[barbkm]

I was very anti-Led Zeppelin in high school -- mainly cos everyone liked them and I had to be different. Also, at the time the only songs you heard were Stairway to Heaven, Dazed & Confused. But now I think Kashmir is such a great song.

[jokin' dealer]

Don't you mean EASY rockers?

 

 

Oh. My. God. Thank you for reminding me about Night Flight! My favorite part of babysitting for the neighbors - having an excuse to stay up late and watch videos!

 

 

Yes, I did mean easy rockers (I got the wink) but saying that the Foo Fighters write easy rockers isn't doing them justice. So, I took a liberty.

 

Night Flight was on USA if I remember correctly. But it's amazing, in the early/mid 80's we'd do whatever we could to watch videos. Our local cable didn't have MTV at first so there was Friday Night Videos on NBC, Night Flight on USA, and for those kids lucky enough to have HBO, they had a 1/2 hour show called Video Jukebox. I remember seeing a Split Enz video where a dude was beheaded and it was like nothing I'd ever seen or heard at the time.

[mountain bed]

Oh man, Night Flight was SUCH a great show! I have hundreds of hours of stuff on VHS from that program.

 

Beat Club (German TV) stuff, Atomic TV, and especially New Wave Theatre. I found SO many bands through NWT.

[cooperissup3r]

Bruce Springsteen

[Wild Frank]

My Morning Jacket. Okonokos set me free.

I'm with you on this. I found albums like 'At Dawn' 'Tennessee Fire' a bit sprawling and lacking in focus. Once I heard 'Z' and 'Okonokos' I completley change my views on the band. I love those old records too now. That said I couldn't stomach their last album.

[Analogman]

Yes, I did mean easy rockers (I got the wink) but saying that the Foo Fighters write easy rockers isn't doing them justice. So, I took a liberty.

 

Night Flight was on USA if I remember correctly. But it's amazing, in the early/mid 80's we'd do whatever we could to watch videos. Our local cable didn't have MTV at first so there was Friday Night Videos on NBC, Night Flight on USA, and for those kids lucky enough to have HBO, they had a 1/2 hour show called Video Jukebox. I remember seeing a Split Enz video where a dude was beheaded and it was like nothing I'd ever seen or heard at the time.

 

I recall those shows. We have talked about them a few times around here. The old folks, that is.

[moxiebean]

Blondie - almost all of my exposure to music when I was a kid (mid-late 70's) was whatever was played on top 40 radio, so I'd thought that Blondie was just another disco band. It wasn't until the early 80's & college when I fell in with people with cool music that I got to listen to the albums - what a fantastic band.

 

Fleetwood Mac (Nicks/Buckingham era) - Was always indifferent towards the hits & put off by the feathers and scarfs and white witch vibe. It's only been in the past few years of really listening (and first not changing radio stations out of reflex) to realize how wonderfully crafted most of their stuff is, altho I still can't stand most of the Nicks' stuff. Also, Tusk (the album) is such a strange, paranoid trip.

 

Steely Dan - I'll just second what PopTodd wrote.

[Analogman]

Blondie - almost all of my exposure to music when I was a kid (mid-late 70's) was whatever was played on top 40 radio, so I'd thought that Blondie was just another disco band. It wasn't until the early 80's & college when I fell in with people with cool music that I got to listen to the albums - what a fantastic band.

 

I could never really get into any of those NY bands, but I have always loved Blondie and The Ramones.

 

Clem Burke is heck of a drummer. (He actually played drums for The Ramones for a couple of shows in the late 80s.)

[hardwood floor]

i would echo moxie's post ... i dismissed fleetwood mac very quickly ... "thunder only happens when it rains?" are you kidding me?

 

about 20 years later i realized buckingham is a freaking genius

[nettles]

Used to think Jackson Browne just sucked! But now some of his tunes can make me cry

[cooperissup3r]

Used to think Jackson Browne just sucked! But now some of his tunes can make me cry

 

Fountain of Sorrow.

[JessieOK]

Fountain of Sorrow.

 

For sure. Sky Blue and Black is incredibly tear inducing as well.

 

For me, I'd have to say Johnny Cash. I like my music with a little more complexity, a few more layers. Johnny Cash was always just a little too straight forward for me. But my husband took the time to put a few of the JC box sets he had on my itunes and when I got the chance to give the music a listen, I finally realized that there was a lot of depth there. Maybe not always lyrically but always in his voice. Now, I'm addicted.

[cryptique]

Used to think Jackson Browne just sucked! But now some of his tunes can make me cry

Fountain of Sorrow.

For sure. Sky Blue and Black is incredibly tear inducing as well.

Yes, yes, yes ... except that I was a Browne fan from the start.

 

His first three albums are among my all-time favorites, and I'm Alive is a sadly overlooked gem (though it does have a few weak points).

[lamradio]

Dr. Dog. I never hated them, but was just kind of meh about them when I got Fate. Months later I got Easy Beat and just completely fell in love. Now I own all of their records, have seen them live, and they are one of my top favorite bands.

[cooperissup3r]

oh, Dirty Projectors too. i really just thought they were super overrated a few months ago...now i love them. my brain sometimes messes with me like that.

[Basil II]

Clem Burke is heck of a drummer. (He actually played drums for The Ramones for a couple of shows in the late 80s.)

 

He's the drummer on one of my favorite records by them,"Too Tough To Die"

 

for me it was The Kingston Trio......(but I guess you're suppose to hate what your parents liked,right??)

 

The John Stewart years were vastly superior to the initial Dave Guard period.

 

-Robert