Musical 180s
 

What artists or albums have you hated in the past but love today? Or albums that you loved that you can't stand today (I'm guessing this one is more common)? Post your turnarounds here.

I used to hate Deicide because at one point I found their music to be anathema to tasteful heavy music. And the singer branded an inverted cross onto his forehead which is silly as all hell.

But I quite like them now. Good death metal.

With the title I thought you were referring to music from the 180s B.C.

You did not.

I didn't like Regina Spektor at first, but then something clicked after seeing a live performance on youtube, and I like her now.

I used to like The Who, but now I'm pretty much tired of them. I saw a interview of Pete and I thought he was the most annoying guitar player out there. I like Roger Daltrey as a singing but I don't care for the rest of the band.

I did a 180 so to speak with The Beatles twice. I like them no more than any other band. Then I did a 180 after an a "who is the greatest band in the world" type argument. I never let not liking to a band stop me from watching a doc about them. So I did another 180 after seeing a documentary of them. I think seeing a more personal side of them changed my mind about them and there music.

You got me.

work on your delivery

In Soviet Russia best rock music band suggest you!

I always hated Incubus since the popularity of their song "Drive" in 2000-2001. I think it was because all the cool people I wanted to be friends with were obsessed with them (and Godsmack, for some reason), and I was resentful of that because I couldn't get "into" it. It was also strangely drug related. Kids who started to smoke weed in 7th grade were also obsessed with Incubus and I thought that was uncool.

Now that I'm an adult (sort of) I appreciate their music and I'm a huge fan of the track "Aqueous Transmission." I also dig "Love Hurts" and "Here In My Room."

Good band, actually. Would have said I hated them up until a couple of years ago.

When I was in high school through my early 20's and totally spun out on the prog rock of the day (Tull was my favorite), I totally hated bands like Kiss or AC/DC. I thought they were all flash pods and whiz-bang set to basic three chord rock.

As I grew I came to appreciate the fact that not everything needs to be convoluted time signatures with bombastic chops and extensive themes, that basic three chord rock, whether tight and clockwork like AC/DC or disheveled and trashy like some of the DIY that came along, could kick serious patootie. I accept and enjoy all these styles now, when well executed.

I stamped on a U2 album once, then I did a total 180 and stamped on it again.

The first one that comes to mind for me is Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. My first exposure to the group was Trout Mask Replica, and when I listened to it, I thought "well fuck, they're not even trying, and that singer's just trying to be a weirdo." While the latter might be true, I still hated the album and group for a good 5 months. Then I decided to revisit Captain Beefheart after enjoying his and Zappa's collaboration on Bongo Fury quite a bit in the form of Safe As Milk. After getting to know and love Safe As Milk, I eased into TMR again (not without mild discomfort, but considerably less than when I first listened to it). Now it's my favourite album.

hahaha, I actually liked the early albums, esp. War, but from TJT on, *yawn*.


"And I still...can't wake up....from this boring song..."

Nah man, Bullet the blue sky and the B-side are some great songs.

I remember first hearing The Cure in junior high and finding them pretentious and lacking in ability. I'd say my sophomore year of high school, The Cure really clicked for me. I appreciate their atmospheric takes on certain songs and really appreciate Smith as a lyricist. Their music may have changed over the years, but I can still appreciate throwing on anything pre WISH and even some songs off Wish.

I didn't like Nirvana back in the day. All the press on Kurt Cobain following his death didn't help their cause for me.

But when I heard some of their songs on a mix-tape a few years back it was "hey, I can like that". And I did. I've since picked up all the deluxe edition reissues of their albums & enjoy them like I should have back in the day.

...said the midwife.

It's kind of the opposite for me. I loved S.C.I.E.N.C.E then after that they went downhill. I agree with you about Drive being overplayed and over-hyped. Really just a disappointing song.

Yeah. :/ I like S.C.I.E.N.C.E, too, but it's not my fave from then. I guess you had to be there. :)

Basically all of my favorite albums are something I would have hated five years ago.

Lol.

A big 180 for me was Sunn0))). My introduction to their music was seeing them open for !!!, and if you're familiar with the upbeat dance punk of !!!, you can probably imagine what an odd pairing it was. I had just gone through a bad breakup and was really in the mood for something energetic and upbeat, not oppressive guitar drones, and as a result I really hated Sunn0))). The weird thing was I kept thinking about them for weeks after the show, eventually bought one of their albums and loved it.

^ that may be the oddest line up i have ever heard of :)

I used to not be able to stand The Darkness, but now I can't get enough of their cheesy high pitched glorious pop-glam-rock.

I used to hate Metal Machine Music, it was just a constant flow of confrontational noise that didn't agree with me. Then when I began getting into noise rock and the like, I moved on to artists like Merzbow, Whitehouse, and Maurizio Bianchi and really liked them. I dug the style so much that I began to start making some noise music.

One day on the hunt for some new tunes I found MMM on a best noise albums list and when I listened to it, I thought to myself "this is almost like something I would do" and from that point on I really dug the album.

I echo Frownland's comments about Beefheart - I heard Trout Mask Replica in my mid-teens and thought it was terrible. I gradually got into it over time, prompted by the constant namedropping of Beefheart by the post-punk bands I loved at the time. But I didn't listen to the record for ages after first hearing it, and told others it was the worst music I'd ever heard before I revisited it.

That Beefheart guy's my favourite musician of all time, now.

Maybe ill get there someday but I have only made it to about minute 10 on MMM. Made it all the way through trout mask but it was painful and I have never re-lived that nightmare.

First of all, in sincerity, and in general, drugs make all music sound better.

Secondly, as a kid I loved 'Technique' by New Order.
Like, to a ridiculous degree.

Now?


Mmmmm...

no

PS> great question.
Thank God I'm a newb and don't care too much what people think about me.
I also liked New Kids on the Block ...when I was like 8.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHGuTa6pWxg

Edit: 'liked' not 'like' ....for heaven's sake.

This is copied directly from the irrational hatred thread, but it really belongs here.

When I was 17-27 years old, I loooooved Kansas. Loved 'em. Then, starting in the mid 80's I started exploring other music, esp. Classical. Then, as I revisited the progressive rock of my youth, most of it held up well but Kansas did not, there was/is a cake & ice cream sappy ubersugarry element to their music (albeit extremely well performed) that just didn't work for me at all once I got into my 40's.

I recently revisited them in plug and enjoyed the parts that were good (mainly instrumental proficiency) but cringed at the candy-coated aspect. It was a short visit over the past week, I'm done with it now. Again.

I've disliked metal and electronic music at one point or another, and there's not a lot of music I liked then that I dislike now. Even the artists I generally dislike, like Kid Rock or Limp Bizkit, had some good songs that I still listen to today.

I'm pretty open to most genres. but I just can't get into electronic music. Which is weird, because old video game music sounds fine to me.(Not that I would really sit down and listen to it, but it's nice in the background). I hope that someday I'll learn to appriciate some electronic music, it's a pretty broad genre. There must be something in there I like.

What do you people even mean by "electronic" music? Do you even realize how vast that genre is? Do you mean you simply don't enjoy music that uses synths and sounds made by a computer in general?

Yup, that's what I mean. synths(especially cheesy 80's synths) annoy me. except if they sound like hammond organs, you know, what they use in ska.
Music entirely made up of sounds made by a computer just doesn't do it for me somehow :c.

What about music made up of sounds made by a computer that also contain vocals? I mean, for example, do either of these songs do anything for you:




I'm sure you can tell both of these songs are vastly different. One is a pop song, the other is very downtempo and glitchy. Electronic music in general encompasses so much, I just don't know how someone could find no joy in any of it.

I agree with this statement. Maybe we can also apply it to the music of the first six decades of the twentieth century and see if you can do a little musical 180 of your own. :)

Oh please, try harder. There are more good electronic albums made in the 2000s alone than there are good albums in general from before 1955 or so.

When I was a kid I thought emo was one of the worst genres out there...I never gave it a chance because of the image it had in mainstream culture back then. I went back to it in college and now it's one of my absolute favorite genres. (It doesn't hurt that there's been a revival going on.)

Maybe I was pissed off about something, but I actually listened to MMM two times so far since getting the disc last Summer...sober.

I can understand others reaching for the eject button and throwing the disc around after minute 5, but for some reason that album was right for that time.

Still have NOT made a 180 on it, though.

How do you know? Are you an expert of pre-1955 music?

That is such bull**** dude.

Agree to disagree, bro

What you're writing off is infinitely more diverse than electronica, so I find your distaste of music from a time period to be a bit silly.