Artists you are surprised you used to not like

OccultHawk · 07-30-2017, 06:07 AM

If your favorite Springsteen track isn't on Nebraska you need to go back to school.

I have two very shameful examples of artists that I very stupidly rejected until I got schooled. Forgive me Lord, but the first was Lead Belly. The second was Weather Report.

God, that's embarrassing.

Dylstew · 07-30-2017, 06:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

One time, shortly after a breakup, I went to see !!! in the hopes of being cheered up by jumping around to some dance punk. The opener was SunnO))), who I had never even heard of at the time. I still think this was a really weird pairing of bands. Anyway, with the mood I was in, glacially slow, heavy-ass, beatless, melancholy guitar drones were the last thing in the world I was in the mood for, and so I came away from the show hating SunnO))). For quite a while I considered them the worst band I had ever heard—in fact, they kind of became my benchmark for awful bands. But the funny thing is that I thought of them as the nadir of music long enough that it started to make me curious about them. Eventually, I got so curious that, two years after I had seen them, I bought one of their albums. Not only did I end up liking it, and getting more of their albums, but reading about them is what introduced me to Earth, who ended up being among my favorite bands.

I dig this story. I can never imagine me liking Drone Metal at the moment, actually.

**Exo** · 07-30-2017, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Franco Pepe Kalle

Which Bruce Springsteen style of songs that you like?

Nebraska is his best album. Atlantic City being my favorite song of his.

**Janszoon** · 07-30-2017, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Exo

Nebraska is his best album. Atlantic City being my favorite song of his.

Yeah, it's by far his best album. I can't pick a single favorite from it, but my top three are probably "Highway Patrolman", "State Trooper", and "My Father's House".

pastelcrowd · 07-30-2017, 09:29 AM

Used to hate Oasis.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 07-30-2017, 09:56 AM

Dizzee Rascal
The Streets

Didn't really like either of these the first time I heard them. I thought he had a silly name and I was a bit confused by I Luv U. But there was other stuff on his album I liked.

The first track I heard from Skinner was Weak Become Heroes, I felt like how you feel when you record your voice and play it back, just sounded strange. But then I heard Has It Come To This and it was all good.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 07-30-2017, 09:59 AM

i ****ing hated La Dispute for the longest time. similar to how Jansz talks about Sunn O, they were my benchmark for bad music. parquet courts are another band that made a fairly poor impression on me. it wasn't hatred with them, more of a feeling that they made generic, bland, passionless cock rock. of course the deeper i explored their discography the more i realized how wrong i was.

**Frownland** · 07-30-2017, 10:01 AM

While they're pretty good, Parquet Courts are pretty generic tbh.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 07-30-2017, 10:03 AM

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While they're pretty good, Parquet Courts are pretty generic tbh.

we don't need you anyway

Chiomara · 07-30-2017, 10:06 AM

I actually can't think of anything. Every time I've harbored a stubborn inexplicable disdain for some band or artist it ended up being for a good reason. (I experience the opposite more frequently-- going through old mix cds and not understanding how I used to be able to listen to certain artists.)

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~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	Dizzee Rascal The Streets Didn't really like either of these the first time I heard them. I thought he had a silly name and I was a bit confused by I Luv U. But there was other stuff on his album I liked. The first track I heard from Skinner was Weak Become Heroes, I felt like how you feel when you record your voice and play it back, just sounded strange. But then I heard Has It Come To This and it was all good.