Music you used to dislike but now love.

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Does anyone have any genres or bands that they used to detest but have grown to appreciate (maybe even love) ?

I've learned to appreciate broader ranges of music as I've gotten older. New Wave and Indie Rock are 2 genres that took me a while to get into to. Coming from a punk rock background, new wave used to seem too poppy for my tastes. And not just New Wave, most 80's music I couldn't get into. But now I love new wave, it's fun and danceable music (shit I love to dance.)

While I get that indie rock is a broad term, most of the music I heard seemed too mellow.The music itself seemed to lack energy. Especially compared to what I was into at the time. It took one band to change my whole perspective: Stereolab. Possibly due to their slight influence from electronic music. Now it's the genre I mostly listen to when I'm not listening to EDM.

Right now I'm starting to appreciate Phish. They seemed a bit boring when I first heard em but after a couple listens I have realized that these guys are good musicians. They took some elements from 2 genres I already like (jazz and funk) and put their own spin on it
 
Country. When i was younger i really hated it (most young people do) but for about the last year or so i started listening to it little by little and now i really like it. You can relate to the things they talk about in the music i guess as you get older and appreciate it more. Country music is about living life and the daily struggles we put up with to get through the day.
 
I'm like that with ALOT of music....It depends on my mood and attention span alot of times....Im a bit ADD and dont really pay attention to lyrics much....I have to really concentrate or give something several listens before I can really appreciate the lyricism....

East Coast/Underground Hip Hop was really like that for me....Other forms, sound better musically but dont have much lyrical depth....as ive gotten older and have taken more time with music...ive finally learned to appreciate lyricism...that really goes for all forms for me
 
Pretty much everything that wasn't on the one radio station I listened to when I was younger. Then I realized "HEY! THERE'S A LOT OF MUSIC ON THE INTERNET!" and started expanding my musical horizons.

When I was a kid, I fucking hated The Beatles...now I want to punch my twelve-year-old self in the face for being so damn stupid.
 
StarOceanHouse said:
I've learned to appreciate broader ranges of music as I've gotten older. New Wave and Indie Rock are 2 genres that took me a while to get into to. Coming from a punk rock background, new wave used to seem too poppy for my tastes. And not just New Wave, most 80's music I couldn't get into. But now I love new wave, it's fun and danceable music (shit I love to dance.)

While I get that indie rock is a broad term, most of the music I heard seemed too mellow.The music itself seemed to lack energy. Especially compared to what I was into at the time. It took one band to change my whole perspective: Stereolab. Possibly due to their slight influence from electronic music. Now it's the genre I mostly listen to when I'm not listening to EDM.
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This. Except I have to admit it was Arcade Fire which put me onto indie.
 
XThexXTank said:
Country. When i was younger i really hated it (most young people do) but for about the last year or so i started listening to it little by little and now i really like it. You can relate to the things they talk about in the music i guess as you get older and appreciate it more. Country music is about living life and the daily struggles we put up with to get through the day.
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I used to hate country and now love classic country. the new stuff is just nauseating. They are just city bitches with cowboy hats. It is pure pop music that is geared to win the dollar of toothless hill billies who live at wal mart. The classic stuff like pre 2000 is fantastic though. Hank Williams, Cash, Dwight Yoakam, George Jones, Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton, Loretta lynn. That's the real country shit.

As for topic question. One answer SLAYER. I used to hate them now I can't get enough of em.
 
^Yeah i get i could say im part of listening to the newer country these days like montgomery gentry, jake owen, eric church, bg, jason aldean (well, not so much) and so on. Not gonna say the old stuff aint good, it is, but im part of the newer shit thats out there. Its the mainstream shit but hey, you still get stuff outta it and it IS better than fuckin rap :\
 
XThexXTank said:
^Yeah i get i could say im part of listening to the newer country these days like montgomery gentry, jake owen, eric church, bg, jason aldean (well, not so much) and so on. Not gonna say the old stuff aint good, it is, but im part of the newer shit thats out there. Its the mainstream shit but hey, you still get stuff outta it and it IS better than fuckin rap :\
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Honestly anything mainstream is the same. Main stream rap, mainstream country, mainstream rock. It's all a product designed to be sold it isn't intended to be art and it is all soulless and awful. IMO new country is as retarded sounding as mainstream rap,it is all fake. trust me all that shit they try to "relate" to you with is bullshit, they have a marketing team that sits down and decides what they are goign to sing about based on what they know will make peopel go "Oh I can relate to that, this song really gets me. I'm gonna buy that because it represents me. :D" . Also you shouldn't restrict yourself to listening to music based on what genre people have labeled it as since that kind of generalizing is totally black and white where a lot of music doesn't fit in a particular genre.
Hank SR beats em all

And try some yoakam on fer size

 
Yeah i think ages got alotta do with it i mean im 19 so mainstream shits gonna stick ya know my old english teacher who listens to country said how he puts on country radio and the shit they play isnt even country. Oh well, he got so fuckin pissed when someone told them that taylor swift was country he was like, 'just cause she puts on a cowboy hat and boots dont make that pop shit country' Musics gon a long way id like to see how it is in 10-20 years from now when were gonna be turning on our radio and be like, wtf is this shit?
 
XThexXTank said:
Yeah i think ages got alotta do with it i mean im 19 so mainstream shits gonna stick ya know my old english teacher who listens to country said how he puts on country radio and the shit they play isnt even country. Oh well, he got so fuckin pissed when someone told them that taylor swift was country he was like, 'just cause she puts on a cowboy hat and boots dont make that pop shit country' Musics gon a long way id like to see how it is in 10-20 years from now when were gonna be turning on our radio and be like, wtf is this shit?
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Well I am 22, I've been able to see through the mainstream garbage since I was 14. That's funny about your english teacher, though are my exact sentiments when hear taylor swift. The thing is it really isn't country. It is pop with a twang. That's what peeves a lot of true country fans is that people think just because someone has a cowboy hat and sings about jesus and fishin' or whatever the fuck it makes it country. Well it ain't. Them old country boys were real hard workers and most of them didn't have shit in life country used to be about real emotions pain and love. The new stuff is pop stars in cowboy/girl costumes.
And just so you know I'm not trying to knock you in any way. Just trying to pull you from the dark side lol ;). You'll hear it one day.
 
If "newer country" in the broader contemporary sense suffices, then I've come around to certain acts. Two such acts fall under the alt-country, or possibly hellbilly, moniker: Wayne "the Train" Hancock and Split Lip Rayfield. Most contemporary country acts sound 90% pop and 10% country to me.
 
motherofearth said:
If "newer country" in the broader contemporary sense suffices, then I've come around to certain acts. Two such acts fall under the alt-country, or possibly hellbilly, moniker: Wayne "the Train" Hancock and Split Lip Rayfield. Most contemporary country acts sound 90% pop and 10% country to me.
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I agree . It is shameful, disgusting even. It slows down the progress of mankind. It causes children to see music as just entertainment when real music is so much more. I hate people who think music is just entertainment.
I never heard of wayne the train or split lip ray. I gotta check em out, sound like Old blues names %)
 
the only thing even remotely 'country' i'll touch with a ten foot pole is those poor bastards.
 
when i was pretty young (in the 90s) i pretty much only listened to "alternative," and was one of those people who thought rap "isn't real music"

fast forward a few years i started listening to it and now i love hip hop, all different kinds from the 70s to current. it probably makes up about half of everything i listen to
 
sensitive white boy indie. i don't really love it but i like it way more than i did when i was 17. when i was 17 i thought bright eyes was dumb and who the fuck cares about beruit or band of horses or whatever. i own a couple of beruit albums now. i also listen to a lot more soundtracks/scores/instrumental (in the non industrial sense) than i ever have before.

for those who say they have no love for country, that breaks my heart! i was born in arkansas mountains and my momma was a folk singer so maybe i'm just a softie, but who doesn't love Townes Van Zandt? that man has written some of the greatest poetry in american history as far as i'm concerned.
 
^ To add to the sensitive white boy indie music, I used to hate Dashboard Confessional back in early high school. I was like who is this dude with the acoustic guitar and when will he shut up? Then I hit junior year and met a girl and you know the rest. Don't get it twisted, I still liked them (or him for those of you that think Chris Ender Carrabba is the only member of the band) before they got big, but there was a time when I couldn't stand that whiny voice and strumming of the acoustic guitar. The Swiss Army Romance was a great album though, and it's been my best friend when I've had a few drinks and I'm feeling like a lush, and I'm thinking of the female lush's in my life that the songs apply/applied to.
 
When I first heard Charles Mingus' album Pithecanthropus Erectus, I couldn't stand it.
I like more traditional jazz, but this pushed my limits.
But there was something in there that make me want to go back...
I heard it every 2 months or so, and honestly did not enjoy it, but could see something valuable inside...
After a year, I began to enjoy it more and more.
Now, I can really appreciate it.
 
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still induces an involuntary gag reflex.
the first guns 'n roses album. god, i used to loathe that album. now i find it kinda amusing.
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lol but i really love that one bright eyes song and "postcards from italy" is a fucking great song.

"my michelle" is on a mixtape from high school downstairs. who are you, anyway? i feel like we're talking a lot in this forum.
 
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