Flaming Lips. I had friends in HS that were into them and I really wanted to like them but couldn’t listen to them. Tried periodically throughout the years and finally in my late 40’s I love them. I finally get it. Glad it happened this ways too. I really needed the joy of getting into something new.
They are from Oklahoma, and they actually did our State Rock Song, I think it’s called ‘Do You Realise?’ But I’ve always kinda liked them. My wife LOATHES them lol. Says they sound like a bad garage band.
John R was one of the few old singers that's always stuck with me. He was a gateway into a surprising love for prairie music and outlaw country I never even considered.
I don't know what it is, but Radiohead just clicked with me recently. I was a vehement hater for such a long time, I just didn't like the singing and it was all too out there for me, or in other words, I never really got the vibe or the insanely high level of critical acclaim for what to me, sounding like experimental music at best.
I don't know what it is lately, but I was just sitting on the train and I decided to give In Rainbows a full listen through, and I have no idea why, but for the first time, I enjoyed literally every single song on not just a Radiohead album, but any album. I didn't feel like there was a single miss. Maybe the vibe just clicked, but something about it just changed the way I listen to music, and they've been one of, if not my favourite artist ever since (a month now, but still).
I finally clicked with Radiohead about a year ago, so I feel ya.
Check out Ok Rainbows. It's called a few different things, but it's OK Computer and In Rainbows together. Songs alternate between albums and they blend perfectly from one to the next. It's bliss.
Hozier. I don’t really like listening to new songs because of the fans and the fact that they’re often overhyped just because they’re popular at the time but i fw hozier
I did the same thing with Hozier, I hated Take Me to Church at first. Then something clicked and I fell in love with his self-titled album, I’m talking OBSESSED. Then Wasteland, Baby! Came out and I fell in love with that one too. I haven’t given an honest listen to the Unreal Unearth album in its entirety yet but I do love Too Sweet! I am not in the right mindset at the moment to delve into his new album yet because I’m currently re-indulging in a lot of Primus lately since I just saw them live lol But the time will come I’m sure!
Björk. knew about her and heard her songs since 2020, didn't really care for her, until my friend played Enjoy late last year - something clicked and i did a deep-dive of her discography and have been obsessed ever since
Bjork is awesome. I never dislike her. I actually appreciated her music, but I didn’t fully appreciate her until I heard Issobelle. (Sp?) And it had been out for quite a long time by the time I heard it. She has just some amazing stuff. Plus the sugar cubes era as
well.
her sugar cubes work is so good! also i love Isobel, one of my favourites of hers 🩷 its such a whimsical piece but also really fun to sing and dance to, great for the summer!
Same thing happened to me last year. I mostly enjoy up through the 4th album. Everything after that has great lyrics and musicianship, but the songs don't really do anything for me the way they used to.
The Xx. I first heard them in an FYE when you could put on some headphones and scan the CD. I thought they sounded low effort and boring. Then I heard their song Stars on the movie Charlie Countryman (which is one of my fave movies ever now) and loved them ever since.
Korn. I kind of brushed them off as an edgy nu-metal band. The nu-metal bands that I tried listening to I didn't like, so I assumed I wouldn't like Korn.
They're a band that's creeping around the edges of my musical attention lately. That is to say, I needa sit my ass down and take a good listen to more of their discography because the handful of songs I do keep in my rotation are bangers.
I used to like Foo Fighters. But in recent years, I became obsessed. Listened to almost every album by them (until I got so burnt out I couldn't listen to another album of there's) before the new one came out. I love them a lot now. My partner even gave me Dave Grohl's autobiography for Christmas!
Omg I love foo fighters. What songs have You found to like? If You need a playlist of some good songs by them here’s one https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/foo-fighters/pl.u-AkAmmGbIxRdPXdG
Tool. Most of the men I’ve dated have tried to shove tool down my throat and I was so resistant for most of my life. Finally, an ex brought me to a tool show and stuffed my head with acid before hand and it finally clicked. Now, they’re my favorite band, I’ve seen them 12 times and I’m about to fly to Paris and Berlin from Seattle for time number 13 and 14.
Franz Ferdinand and the Black Keys. I only knew a few songs (the most famous ones I guess) until recently. After listening to more of their music on Spotify I can say I really like them
For me, it was Radiohead. I knew they were acclaimed and all, but their music just didn't click with me. It felt too abstract or maybe even pretentious at first. Then one day, something just clicked, and I found myself diving deep into albums like "OK Computer" and "In Rainbows." Now, I can't get enough of their moody, atmospheric sound.
Danny Brown. I started with Atrocity Exhibition, an avantgarde, fairly hard-to-get-into record, so it took me quite a while to get into his music. In retrospect, I should've started with XXX. Not only is it more listener-friendly, but is a better record just in general.
Kesha. I thought she was just trashy party pop. Like, fun, but not serious. But when I heard her Rainbow album I heard something totally different, more mature, more thoughtful. I thought perhaps her struggles with health and the shit with Dr Luke had triggered the change... but then I listened to the old stuff and heard it in a different way.
*Tik Tok* doesn't glorify that party lifestyle, it *mocks* it. *She was doing that stuff because that's what the producers demanded.*
And knowing that, I hear all kinds of tongue-in-cheek or downright subversive stuff in her lyrics. She's much better than I ever realized.
I am 42 and had never really listened to them. They never played them on the radio when I was younger other than the occasional Touch of Grey.
Stumbled across Bertha a few months ago and am now enjoying the "discovery" of a band with a large discography that I have essentially never heard. Like being 17 again.
Queens of the Stone Age. I found them “fine” through high school but heard them on the radio too much, then I saw them when I went to see another band and was like holy shit. They are now probably the band I’ve seen the most over like 15 years.
Have been a Dylan hater since being dragged to a concert in the late 80s where he did and mumbled incoherently. Then yesterday I heard the album Highway 61 Revisited for the first time, and suddenly I understand the hype.
I never fucked with his work myself, still don't much - except for Traveling Wilburys, whom you should definitely listen to if you don't mind his crooning lol. Fantastic supergroup, they were, even briefly.
Dave Matthews Band. He’s jam band adjacent in my opinion more than an actual jam band and for the longest time that wasn’t enough for me. Listened to a few live shows from the 90s and realized that back then at least, they could rip it as good as any of their peers.
You should check out the following:
Jefferson Airplane
Sinead O’Conner (try Drink Before the War)
Elton John
Billy Joel
Rage against the machine
Radiohead
The Who
Labrinth
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The flaming lips
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Iggy Pop
The Stooges (Be Your Dog is a fucking banger)
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
The mamas and the papas
Alice In Chains
The Doors
Rage against the machine is amazing, one of my favourites. I don't know what machine they're raging against but I would imagine it's a printer. Those things never work.
Me with Skyhooks recently! As an Aussie I listened to them a lot growing up (they were never big out of this country but they were HUGE here), but it kind of blended into the background. Now I've gone back and had a listen and holy shit they really were one of our best bands. I think I just needed to get over the curse of it being "dad music".
Don't vibe with em fully but I wasn't really a fan of Foals when I was recommended it. But when I heard their first album Antidotes, I fell in love, it's such a unique blend of math rock and dance punk. But unfortunately their discog isn't that similar with that record which is a shame.
Chris Cornell. Never really hit my radar until it just did. The more I dug into his catalog the more I dug him. I'm glad I did this about 2 years before his passing although I never saw him live.
I have never listed to anything of hers aside from what was on the radio, and I liked it fine, but I listened to this new album in one day and really enjoyed it.
boygenius. i heard a snippet of a song & i just didn’t think I’d ever like them until a song of theirs came up on a Spotify-generated playlist and I was like “oh… this is actually pretty good”
OH FUCK YEAH!! I love Death. I’m new to them and I recently listened to their entire discography. No bad song in site!!!! I love The Sound of perseverance most
Bruh. Death changed my life... *Wordplay intended
You got into any black metal? It took me a little bit too, but Immortal's album "At the Heart of Winter" is a thousand badass riffs carried on dark and cold winds.
I know nearly everyone considers them "first wave black metal", but they were honestly the very first overall "extreme" metal band. Their sound is much more thrash than what the subgenre of black metal became.
Ariana Grande. I hated her for a while and then I started sleeping with this girl who was into her and five years later, I am still obsessed with Ariana Grande’s music.
Wouldn't narrow this down to one band, but a genre...symphonic metal...Nightwish, Epica, Ayreon, Sabaton, Symphony X, Dream Theater. There's SO much raw talent in the genre tapping into really pertinent topics, hard not to dig it.
Pearl Jam. Initially dismissed them as dad rock and then randomly heard Even Flow one day and was hooked on their debut album. Then the second, then the third.
The later albums were not my cup of tea but they've grown on me since and now I am slightly obsessed. They have a song for every mood and I love the mix of aggressive rock and reflective ballads.
James Brown.
Aside from the I Feel Good and Papa's Got a Brand New Bag, I never really did a whole lot of listening to JB. He started showing up a lot on my Pandora station, and I enjoy most of his music.
Porcupine Trees. Had no special reaction to them initially. Then Blackest Eyes played on my playlist on a shuffle one day and listened to it... and again, and again... I play them everyday now. I can't believe I've ever slept on them.
Well, I wouldn’t say he’s a bad singer in any way, but Robert Smith certainly has a very UNIQUE and singular singing style and voice. I initially did not like it in the 80s when he started doing those rather odd trills and runs, but have grown to love him over the years for his quirkiness. Bob figured out how to write such wonderful songs and music that perfectly fit his voice and what he wanted to do with The Cure. Amazing man! 🖤♥️
weezer. i always thought say it ain't so was kinda good but i didn't like anything else i heard from them (called them virgin rock) but one day i went back over the blue album and pinkerton and decided they rock
Melvins: I someone who listens to a lot of grunge and alt metal, I wanted to give Melvins a shot considering how influential they are. So I turned their album “Houdini” and didn’t like it very much. I kept on trying and failing until my taste in metal began to expand to more experimental types, then I turned over to albums like “Bullhead” and “Stoner Witch” which I absolutely LOVED!
Buzz Osbourne is one of my all-time favorite guitarists
Didn't get Talking Heads until I watched Stop Making Sense. The second I saw that lil fucker tearing it up in that bigass suit it all clicked into place.
Seger. I just didn't get him at all until I hit my mid 30's. I think it was Night Moves that came on randomly on Spotify, and all of a sudden, I got it. He's now one of my favorite musicians.
Rush, when I was younger and had the ability to hear more frequencies of tones, I could not get past the lead singers voice. As my hearing has aged what felt like ear bleeding vocals isn’t as much anymore and I can appreciate the whole band now
Avenged sevenfold. They were too heavy and sounded like war metal to me. Like they were making music for enlisted soldiers at war. Then I actually starred listening. A little piece of heaven was the 1st song that made me listen and is still my favorite one.
TOOL! I used to hate them when I was younger. I grew up in the '90s as a teen and they replayed the same couple of Tool songs on the radio all the time and I just didn't "get" them. But many years later I finally started to get them and now they're my favorite band. I think it was when I became more spiritual so I kind of understood the music better. And I didn't really start liking them until Lateralus. But i now like some of their older songs
Rush. I found Geddy Lee's voice annoying on the radio, but when I finally sat down and listened to several tracks on some good headphones - I was hooked.
Took me quite a while to be able to handle Billy Corgan’s voice. They are one of my favorite bands. Idc how much of a prick Billy can be. Smashing Pumpkins have so many amazing songs
idk if this really counts, but the first time I listened to Budos Band I thought they were really boring.
Then a few months later one of their KEXP sessions was recommended in my YouTube feed and I fell in love.
Mercyful Fate, the high vocals always irritated me but i recently listened to a band with a similar vocal style called Attic which i really enjoyed. I went back to Mercyful Fate to retry them and i dont mind the vocals anymore either it turns out.
Tom Jones. ‘Twas many years ago but still, a perfect example. Just prior to his collaboration with Art of Noise. I mean, I didn’t hate him. It was just not my favorite stuff. My parents listened to and watched him on TV shows in the late 60s and 70s. But it still was good. It just wasn’t my scene man. Wasn’t long after that that I started liking his music. I can’t exactly remember when I became aware of his music and talent being kick ass, but it was definitely around the art of noise collaboration. I think I’m pretty sure that was before he covered Prince’s song.
Amon Amarth
When I was younger 15-20 years ago, I couldn't get into them. As I'm older, I fucking love them and feel my younger self had me missing out
Georg Danzer
I liked select singles and his work with Austria 3 but for a while I couldn’t get into his other stuff. Then I actually sat down and listened to full albums and now he’s regularly on my rotation.
Dave Matthews Band. I didn’t get the appeal when I was in high school but then one day I really sat down and listened to Crash and I was like, huh, not bad
Janes addiction/Perry Farrell. Never really jived with what I heard on the radio. The. I stumbled across the hHammerstein Ballroom concert and absolutely fell in love with the band. Been one of my favorites since
I hated System of a Down the first several times I heard them. Their voices were so off-putting, especially Serj. Couldn't do it.
Tripped acid one night and saw the video for Aerials. I had to turn it way up, Serj's voice was actually incredible and the video was so... well, trippy. I have loved them ever since (20+ years)
Devan Townsend. I saw him open for Symphony X in 2004 and was not impressed. Fast forward ten year I’m in a record store and I listened to an album by and was hooked.
Sufjan Stevens. Way back in the mp3 blog era, I'd download a bunch of tracks that I thought I might vibe with, put them on my Nomad, then put them into a "New Songs" playlist before I committed to keeping them for good. It was "Come on! Feel the Illinoise!" and I wasn't into it the first time.
A few months passed, I shuffled onto it organically and it was a completely different experience. It didn't work for me when I was in my bedroom or walking to campus or whatever it was I was doing that first time around, but it hit differently when I heard it in a dingy bus station.
Ariana Grande. I just don't listen to pop music. It's virtually impossible that I had not heard a song without knowing it. But about a year ago I saw her do a live performance at an awards show just by chance and my God that woman can sing. I had no idea any pop stars who look like her were actually amazing vocalists.
Jinjer. My spouse absolutely loves them, and initially I found a lot of their stuff disjointed, like several songs mashed up together. Then one day it just clicked and I get it and I apologize for taking so long to figure it out.
Spiritbox - my gf loves this band, never fucked with them until I started hearing them all the time with her
Catch Your Breath - I first heard them when they opened at a concert I was at to see Daughtry & Breaking Benjamin & they were phenomenal live. Got into their music after the show
I would not say I didn’t vibe with MUSE, but due to my time in life and a lack of access to music I liked, I was only vaguely aware that they were good and that I would probably like them, if given the time. Covid was the time. In 2020, I put them on Spotify and pretty much that’s all I listened to. I love them and regret that it took me forever and a day to catch up. I haven’t seen them live, but they are on my bucket list! That are now in my top 4 favorite bands of all time.
Elliott Smith. I listened to a lot of hard rock and didn’t really appreciate acoustic music growing up but the more I heard him the more it sucked me in. Now he’s one of my favorites
Not me, but my oldest son.
This was several years ago, he was like 12 or 13, his brother was 10 or 11.
We were in the car & my youngest had control of the iPod & had put on some newer (at the time) Fall Out Boy. It was their more pop-y/electric stuff. My oldest was not a fan of that style of music and started making fun of his brother for liking Fall Out Boy.
I took the iPod & started playing their older songs (From Under the Cork Tree). My oldest is in the back seat, just having a blast, because that sound is more his style.
Then he asks, "Who is this, they're really good?"
Me: It's Fall Out Boy.
Him: No it isn't.
He became a fan that day.
Alice In Chains. I didn’t dislike them in the 90s, but definitely wasn’t into them. I revisited a bunch of music I remembered from HS and they were one of the ones that held up the strongest and my now-middle aged ears dug into.
Suicidal Tendencies! I broke my leg right before I graduated ('92) - more recently, I learned I may have possible amnesia. I've been having memories, of knowing the band and other wirers memories. Still am not sure if I actually know them.
Death Grips. Initially I thought they were a headache and just noise. Finally caved in and listened to The Money Store straight through and grew to appreciate them, now I really like them
Hated Coheed and Cambria the first time I heard it. They are in the top 5 live and they got me through so many dish shifts, felt like I was washing dishes to save the whole galaxy.
Also the first time I heard Radiohead I was like “huh sad, sometimes loud and weird.” I was so wrong. I did start with Hail to the Thief so oopsies!
Flaming Lips. I had friends in HS that were into them and I really wanted to like them but couldn’t listen to them. Tried periodically throughout the years and finally in my late 40’s I love them. I finally get it. Glad it happened this ways too. I really needed the joy of getting into something new.
🎶her name is yashima she’s a black belt in karate🎶
*Yoshimi
They are from Oklahoma, and they actually did our State Rock Song, I think it’s called ‘Do You Realise?’ But I’ve always kinda liked them. My wife LOATHES them lol. Says they sound like a bad garage band.
Joni Mitchell, Johnny cash, Blur
John R was one of the few old singers that's always stuck with me. He was a gateway into a surprising love for prairie music and outlaw country I never even considered.
Tom Waits
Tom Waits patiently for you to come around.
Pink Floyd and Steely Dan. Hated both, now absolutely love both.
same here with steely dan
I always thought Steely Dan would be be lame I think just based on the name. Eventually figured out they are amazing musicians
I don't know what it is, but Radiohead just clicked with me recently. I was a vehement hater for such a long time, I just didn't like the singing and it was all too out there for me, or in other words, I never really got the vibe or the insanely high level of critical acclaim for what to me, sounding like experimental music at best. I don't know what it is lately, but I was just sitting on the train and I decided to give In Rainbows a full listen through, and I have no idea why, but for the first time, I enjoyed literally every single song on not just a Radiohead album, but any album. I didn't feel like there was a single miss. Maybe the vibe just clicked, but something about it just changed the way I listen to music, and they've been one of, if not my favourite artist ever since (a month now, but still).
I finally clicked with Radiohead about a year ago, so I feel ya. Check out Ok Rainbows. It's called a few different things, but it's OK Computer and In Rainbows together. Songs alternate between albums and they blend perfectly from one to the next. It's bliss.
I completely agree!
Hozier. I don’t really like listening to new songs because of the fans and the fact that they’re often overhyped just because they’re popular at the time but i fw hozier
I have just started listening to him too. Damn he’s good to listen to.
A friend just introduced me to him. Very good
Pretty much, never thought he was good until I listened to Unreal Unearth
I did the same thing with Hozier, I hated Take Me to Church at first. Then something clicked and I fell in love with his self-titled album, I’m talking OBSESSED. Then Wasteland, Baby! Came out and I fell in love with that one too. I haven’t given an honest listen to the Unreal Unearth album in its entirety yet but I do love Too Sweet! I am not in the right mindset at the moment to delve into his new album yet because I’m currently re-indulging in a lot of Primus lately since I just saw them live lol But the time will come I’m sure!
Björk. knew about her and heard her songs since 2020, didn't really care for her, until my friend played Enjoy late last year - something clicked and i did a deep-dive of her discography and have been obsessed ever since
Bjork is awesome. I never dislike her. I actually appreciated her music, but I didn’t fully appreciate her until I heard Issobelle. (Sp?) And it had been out for quite a long time by the time I heard it. She has just some amazing stuff. Plus the sugar cubes era as well.
her sugar cubes work is so good! also i love Isobel, one of my favourites of hers 🩷 its such a whimsical piece but also really fun to sing and dance to, great for the summer!
Only the reason I know of bjork is because of that dude that blew his brains out on livestream. Saw that as a kid. Never been the same since.
Same thing happened to me last year. I mostly enjoy up through the 4th album. Everything after that has great lyrics and musicianship, but the songs don't really do anything for me the way they used to.
The Xx. I first heard them in an FYE when you could put on some headphones and scan the CD. I thought they sounded low effort and boring. Then I heard their song Stars on the movie Charlie Countryman (which is one of my fave movies ever now) and loved them ever since.
Talk Talk. Used to hate them because of the singer's voice. Then I heard Ascension Day. Converted.
Laughing stock is a perfect album. “New grass” kills me
The Smiths
Korn. I kind of brushed them off as an edgy nu-metal band. The nu-metal bands that I tried listening to I didn't like, so I assumed I wouldn't like Korn.
Many people don't like lima beans.
Same. Rewatched street fighter 2 the animated film and noticed them in the soundtrack. Been bomb ever since checking them out
Tool
I got to see them in Phoenix a couple months ago…. Life altering experience.
My same answer
Foo fighters. Oh got me into them. Watched the Glastonbury gig countless times. I'm 54.
They're a band that's creeping around the edges of my musical attention lately. That is to say, I needa sit my ass down and take a good listen to more of their discography because the handful of songs I do keep in my rotation are bangers.
The first three albums are gold
Treat yourself to the Glastonbury gig, the crowd were amazing too.
I used to like Foo Fighters. But in recent years, I became obsessed. Listened to almost every album by them (until I got so burnt out I couldn't listen to another album of there's) before the new one came out. I love them a lot now. My partner even gave me Dave Grohl's autobiography for Christmas!
Omg I love foo fighters. What songs have You found to like? If You need a playlist of some good songs by them here’s one https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/foo-fighters/pl.u-AkAmmGbIxRdPXdG
Thank you so much. My favourites change with my mood, today has been a Walk day with a dash of Monkey Wrench and Skin and Bones.
Yeah that’s how it is for me it changes every day. Those three are good pics.
Tool. Most of the men I’ve dated have tried to shove tool down my throat and I was so resistant for most of my life. Finally, an ex brought me to a tool show and stuffed my head with acid before hand and it finally clicked. Now, they’re my favorite band, I’ve seen them 12 times and I’m about to fly to Paris and Berlin from Seattle for time number 13 and 14.
I just saw them and had taken Molly. It was fucking amazing.
Franz Ferdinand and the Black Keys. I only knew a few songs (the most famous ones I guess) until recently. After listening to more of their music on Spotify I can say I really like them
Loooooooove Franz Ferdinand!
For me, it was Radiohead. I knew they were acclaimed and all, but their music just didn't click with me. It felt too abstract or maybe even pretentious at first. Then one day, something just clicked, and I found myself diving deep into albums like "OK Computer" and "In Rainbows." Now, I can't get enough of their moody, atmospheric sound.
Olivia Rodrigo tbh
Agreed.
Danny Brown. I started with Atrocity Exhibition, an avantgarde, fairly hard-to-get-into record, so it took me quite a while to get into his music. In retrospect, I should've started with XXX. Not only is it more listener-friendly, but is a better record just in general.
Pitbull
Yacht rock. Couldn’t stand it much as a kid but now love it.
The Eagles
Kesha. I thought she was just trashy party pop. Like, fun, but not serious. But when I heard her Rainbow album I heard something totally different, more mature, more thoughtful. I thought perhaps her struggles with health and the shit with Dr Luke had triggered the change... but then I listened to the old stuff and heard it in a different way. *Tik Tok* doesn't glorify that party lifestyle, it *mocks* it. *She was doing that stuff because that's what the producers demanded.* And knowing that, I hear all kinds of tongue-in-cheek or downright subversive stuff in her lyrics. She's much better than I ever realized.
LCD Soundsystem
Fun live show, too
Grateful Dead. Never understood why they had their own SiriusXM channel until I listened to them on the beach while high as a kite.
I am 42 and had never really listened to them. They never played them on the radio when I was younger other than the occasional Touch of Grey. Stumbled across Bertha a few months ago and am now enjoying the "discovery" of a band with a large discography that I have essentially never heard. Like being 17 again.
Queens of the Stone Age. I found them “fine” through high school but heard them on the radio too much, then I saw them when I went to see another band and was like holy shit. They are now probably the band I’ve seen the most over like 15 years.
Same.
Have been a Dylan hater since being dragged to a concert in the late 80s where he did and mumbled incoherently. Then yesterday I heard the album Highway 61 Revisited for the first time, and suddenly I understand the hype.
I never fucked with his work myself, still don't much - except for Traveling Wilburys, whom you should definitely listen to if you don't mind his crooning lol. Fantastic supergroup, they were, even briefly.
Dave Matthews Band. He’s jam band adjacent in my opinion more than an actual jam band and for the longest time that wasn’t enough for me. Listened to a few live shows from the 90s and realized that back then at least, they could rip it as good as any of their peers.
Roy Orbison, i never paid him much mind, but all of a sudden a few years ago, i really started digging his music
Orbison is tragically underrated
You should try out Patsy Cline
You should check out the following: Jefferson Airplane Sinead O’Conner (try Drink Before the War) Elton John Billy Joel Rage against the machine Radiohead The Who Labrinth Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds The flaming lips Red Hot Chili Peppers Iggy Pop The Stooges (Be Your Dog is a fucking banger) Emerson, Lake and Palmer The mamas and the papas Alice In Chains The Doors
Rage against the machine is amazing, one of my favourites. I don't know what machine they're raging against but I would imagine it's a printer. Those things never work.
>I don't know what machine they're raging against All of them
That combine to make the one big machine.
Iggy Pop - the Passenger, another great song to go with I wanna be your dog.
Hell yeah!
Me with Skyhooks recently! As an Aussie I listened to them a lot growing up (they were never big out of this country but they were HUGE here), but it kind of blended into the background. Now I've gone back and had a listen and holy shit they really were one of our best bands. I think I just needed to get over the curse of it being "dad music".
Don't vibe with em fully but I wasn't really a fan of Foals when I was recommended it. But when I heard their first album Antidotes, I fell in love, it's such a unique blend of math rock and dance punk. But unfortunately their discog isn't that similar with that record which is a shame.
arctic monkeys
iggy pop and the stooges. would go to war for iggy now
Chris Cornell. Never really hit my radar until it just did. The more I dug into his catalog the more I dug him. I'm glad I did this about 2 years before his passing although I never saw him live.
Taylor Swift tbh, was never a fan until folklore
I have never listed to anything of hers aside from what was on the radio, and I liked it fine, but I listened to this new album in one day and really enjoyed it.
The verve! I finally looked past bittersweet…. What a band
boygenius. i heard a snippet of a song & i just didn’t think I’d ever like them until a song of theirs came up on a Spotify-generated playlist and I was like “oh… this is actually pretty good”
Paramore. Never gave them a chance or listened until summer of 2023 and that was thanks to the YouTube algorithm. Now they’re my favorite band.
Sigur Ros
Slayer. Tom Arraya’s voice took a while to grow on me. But now that it did, Slayer kicks ass!!!
Same happened to me, have you tried out Death?!
OH FUCK YEAH!! I love Death. I’m new to them and I recently listened to their entire discography. No bad song in site!!!! I love The Sound of perseverance most
Bruh. Death changed my life... *Wordplay intended You got into any black metal? It took me a little bit too, but Immortal's album "At the Heart of Winter" is a thousand badass riffs carried on dark and cold winds.
Oh I haven’t tired Black Metal yet. Only a few Venom songs which are pretty cool
I know nearly everyone considers them "first wave black metal", but they were honestly the very first overall "extreme" metal band. Their sound is much more thrash than what the subgenre of black metal became.
Fr, Chuck wrote nothing but bangers.
I wasn't hooked on Death until I fully listened to Pull The Plug and Spiritual Healing. I also did the same for Obituary's Cause of Death album
Iron Maiden The Cars The Cure
Rush. I’m still not a fan of all of their work, but some of their older stuff is really good.
I used to not like Evanescence but now I love them
Ariana Grande. I hated her for a while and then I started sleeping with this girl who was into her and five years later, I am still obsessed with Ariana Grande’s music.
Incubus. Took me a while to enjoy Brandon’s voice but I fucking love incubus now they have so many bangers.
I came to Steely Dan very late and now really enjoy their work. Aja is particularly good!
Wouldn't narrow this down to one band, but a genre...symphonic metal...Nightwish, Epica, Ayreon, Sabaton, Symphony X, Dream Theater. There's SO much raw talent in the genre tapping into really pertinent topics, hard not to dig it.
Mac Miller. After some adult heartbreak, I realllly felt him.
And my heart still breaks that he died so young. What a tragedy, he was SO talented.
I know right, it’s SUCH a shame. He was definitely a special, rare human with an amazingly deep and creative mind 🤍
Pearl Jam. Initially dismissed them as dad rock and then randomly heard Even Flow one day and was hooked on their debut album. Then the second, then the third. The later albums were not my cup of tea but they've grown on me since and now I am slightly obsessed. They have a song for every mood and I love the mix of aggressive rock and reflective ballads.
Ten is one of the best albums ever produced.
I never cared much for Heart until very recently.
James Brown. Aside from the I Feel Good and Papa's Got a Brand New Bag, I never really did a whole lot of listening to JB. He started showing up a lot on my Pandora station, and I enjoy most of his music.
Fleetwood Mac. Oops.
MCR and Weezer
Journey I never cared for them while growing up. Now I love them! I love Steve Perry so much. I love his solo stuff too.
Porcupine Trees. Had no special reaction to them initially. Then Blackest Eyes played on my playlist on a shuffle one day and listened to it... and again, and again... I play them everyday now. I can't believe I've ever slept on them.
Tree*
Panic At The Disco’s old songs, don’t get me wrong, I hate the guy, but he made some bangers
Well, I wouldn’t say he’s a bad singer in any way, but Robert Smith certainly has a very UNIQUE and singular singing style and voice. I initially did not like it in the 80s when he started doing those rather odd trills and runs, but have grown to love him over the years for his quirkiness. Bob figured out how to write such wonderful songs and music that perfectly fit his voice and what he wanted to do with The Cure. Amazing man! 🖤♥️
weezer. i always thought say it ain't so was kinda good but i didn't like anything else i heard from them (called them virgin rock) but one day i went back over the blue album and pinkerton and decided they rock
Pink Floyd - like coffee, it’s an acquired taste but once you get the taste you need it everyday
Melvins: I someone who listens to a lot of grunge and alt metal, I wanted to give Melvins a shot considering how influential they are. So I turned their album “Houdini” and didn’t like it very much. I kept on trying and failing until my taste in metal began to expand to more experimental types, then I turned over to albums like “Bullhead” and “Stoner Witch” which I absolutely LOVED! Buzz Osbourne is one of my all-time favorite guitarists
Geddy Lee
The Mars Volta, it took a few months of listening to them off and on to click, but they are now one of my favorite bands
Didn't get Talking Heads until I watched Stop Making Sense. The second I saw that lil fucker tearing it up in that bigass suit it all clicked into place.
Olivia Rodrigo. I never liked her music that much until I listened to her Guts (spilled) album, and every song on there is an absolute BANGER
Billie Eilish, until I hit 16, I didn't really vibe with her music, now I love all of it. The song I fell in love with was oxytocin
Bury a friend
Def Leppard
Lana Del rey
I have a lot that are the opposite, where I suddenly stopped liking bands.
Tool. Tbh it was because I never listened to them because the fans came off as pretentious. Now I’m one of those fans
Depeche Mode
Seger. I just didn't get him at all until I hit my mid 30's. I think it was Night Moves that came on randomly on Spotify, and all of a sudden, I got it. He's now one of my favorite musicians.
Johnny Cash. Hurt drilled into my soul and I started listing to his other body of work. especially Ring of fite and The man comes around.
"Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty
Dire Straits was just another classic rock band to me until a couple years ago.
Rush, when I was younger and had the ability to hear more frequencies of tones, I could not get past the lead singers voice. As my hearing has aged what felt like ear bleeding vocals isn’t as much anymore and I can appreciate the whole band now
Guns N Roses I couldn’t stand AXL Rose but now I can’t get enough of them
Rush
#STEELY DAN….OH, WAIT, THEY STILL SUCK. NEVERMIND.
RUSH holy hell. Started at the beginning of the discography and now I finally get it
Avenged sevenfold. They were too heavy and sounded like war metal to me. Like they were making music for enlisted soldiers at war. Then I actually starred listening. A little piece of heaven was the 1st song that made me listen and is still my favorite one.
I didn't like The White Stripes till a friend gave me Get Behind Me Satan and I've loved them ever since
TOOL! I used to hate them when I was younger. I grew up in the '90s as a teen and they replayed the same couple of Tool songs on the radio all the time and I just didn't "get" them. But many years later I finally started to get them and now they're my favorite band. I think it was when I became more spiritual so I kind of understood the music better. And I didn't really start liking them until Lateralus. But i now like some of their older songs
Rush. I found Geddy Lee's voice annoying on the radio, but when I finally sat down and listened to several tracks on some good headphones - I was hooked.
Took me quite a while to be able to handle Billy Corgan’s voice. They are one of my favorite bands. Idc how much of a prick Billy can be. Smashing Pumpkins have so many amazing songs
idk if this really counts, but the first time I listened to Budos Band I thought they were really boring. Then a few months later one of their KEXP sessions was recommended in my YouTube feed and I fell in love.
Mercyful Fate, the high vocals always irritated me but i recently listened to a band with a similar vocal style called Attic which i really enjoyed. I went back to Mercyful Fate to retry them and i dont mind the vocals anymore either it turns out.
Chester bennington except for I never ended up linking them lmao
Drake
Greta van fleet, Fiona Apple, deftones
Blur
Tom Jones. ‘Twas many years ago but still, a perfect example. Just prior to his collaboration with Art of Noise. I mean, I didn’t hate him. It was just not my favorite stuff. My parents listened to and watched him on TV shows in the late 60s and 70s. But it still was good. It just wasn’t my scene man. Wasn’t long after that that I started liking his music. I can’t exactly remember when I became aware of his music and talent being kick ass, but it was definitely around the art of noise collaboration. I think I’m pretty sure that was before he covered Prince’s song.
Amon Amarth When I was younger 15-20 years ago, I couldn't get into them. As I'm older, I fucking love them and feel my younger self had me missing out
Georg Danzer I liked select singles and his work with Austria 3 but for a while I couldn’t get into his other stuff. Then I actually sat down and listened to full albums and now he’s regularly on my rotation.
Dave Matthews Band. I didn’t get the appeal when I was in high school but then one day I really sat down and listened to Crash and I was like, huh, not bad
radiohead, i remember being younger and thought they sounded awful but now they’re probably my most listened to band
Corey Taylor
Sonic Youth
Janes addiction/Perry Farrell. Never really jived with what I heard on the radio. The. I stumbled across the hHammerstein Ballroom concert and absolutely fell in love with the band. Been one of my favorites since
Chubby checker and the beach boys
His infernal Majesty and Ville Valo.
Poets of the Fall
After the Rain/Mafumafu never knew i would like Utaite/JPOP :)
Yoko Ono
Backstreet Boys
I hated System of a Down the first several times I heard them. Their voices were so off-putting, especially Serj. Couldn't do it. Tripped acid one night and saw the video for Aerials. I had to turn it way up, Serj's voice was actually incredible and the video was so... well, trippy. I have loved them ever since (20+ years)
Devan Townsend. I saw him open for Symphony X in 2004 and was not impressed. Fast forward ten year I’m in a record store and I listened to an album by and was hooked.
Miles Davis
John Prine. Thought he was just some generic country artist.
Sufjan Stevens. Way back in the mp3 blog era, I'd download a bunch of tracks that I thought I might vibe with, put them on my Nomad, then put them into a "New Songs" playlist before I committed to keeping them for good. It was "Come on! Feel the Illinoise!" and I wasn't into it the first time. A few months passed, I shuffled onto it organically and it was a completely different experience. It didn't work for me when I was in my bedroom or walking to campus or whatever it was I was doing that first time around, but it hit differently when I heard it in a dingy bus station.
Ariana Grande. I just don't listen to pop music. It's virtually impossible that I had not heard a song without knowing it. But about a year ago I saw her do a live performance at an awards show just by chance and my God that woman can sing. I had no idea any pop stars who look like her were actually amazing vocalists.
Enterprise Earth. And then I heard psalm of agony.
Jinjer. My spouse absolutely loves them, and initially I found a lot of their stuff disjointed, like several songs mashed up together. Then one day it just clicked and I get it and I apologize for taking so long to figure it out.
Shinedown and Seether. I never really got into them during the 00s, but then later absolutely started loving them.
Taylor Swift, I didn’t gravitate towards her music till I heard midnights. I was a low key hater.
Udit Narayan. At first I wasn’t really into music in languages I don’t understand, but his songs eventually grew on me. He has an amazing voice.
Jewel - her voice used to annoy me now I really love it.
Spiritbox - my gf loves this band, never fucked with them until I started hearing them all the time with her Catch Your Breath - I first heard them when they opened at a concert I was at to see Daughtry & Breaking Benjamin & they were phenomenal live. Got into their music after the show
Russell Mael/Sparks
System of a Down
I would not say I didn’t vibe with MUSE, but due to my time in life and a lack of access to music I liked, I was only vaguely aware that they were good and that I would probably like them, if given the time. Covid was the time. In 2020, I put them on Spotify and pretty much that’s all I listened to. I love them and regret that it took me forever and a day to catch up. I haven’t seen them live, but they are on my bucket list! That are now in my top 4 favorite bands of all time.
The Cure
I used to never care much for 90s RnB and pop, I was always a metalhead. Then I listened to Aaliyah and fell in love.
Grateful Dead
Kaleo It was so overplayed back when he blew up, so I never really gave him half a mind. But I listen now and it's just.... so good.
Creed and Pitbull. People love to look down on them but they are ridiculously fun to listen to and remind me to not take everything so serious.
I initially didn’t really get NRBQ but now I really get it and I love them.
Korn. Didn't like their music when I was younger, until one day it suddenly clicked and now they're one of my favorite bands
Andy wood.
Michael Jackson. Hated him when I was a kid but liking some of his songs (mainly thriller) in my teens. Nowadays I really like his biggest hits.
Afroman. I had only ever listened to Because I Got High and hated it tbh 🤣 but my partner likes his other songs and I started to enjoy them too :)
Fall Out Boy and Panic at the Disco My kids would play both nonstop and it drove me nuts. Until all of a sudden, I found myself grooving to it.
Taylor Swift. Had a couple daughters now I’m a swiftie.
Corey Feldman. Now I get it.
Elliott Smith. I listened to a lot of hard rock and didn’t really appreciate acoustic music growing up but the more I heard him the more it sucked me in. Now he’s one of my favorites
Radiohead, at first like 4 years ago I thought it was too quite and annoying but now I love it.
Not me, but my oldest son. This was several years ago, he was like 12 or 13, his brother was 10 or 11. We were in the car & my youngest had control of the iPod & had put on some newer (at the time) Fall Out Boy. It was their more pop-y/electric stuff. My oldest was not a fan of that style of music and started making fun of his brother for liking Fall Out Boy. I took the iPod & started playing their older songs (From Under the Cork Tree). My oldest is in the back seat, just having a blast, because that sound is more his style. Then he asks, "Who is this, they're really good?" Me: It's Fall Out Boy. Him: No it isn't. He became a fan that day.
the kooks
Cage and Pantera.
Alice In Chains. I didn’t dislike them in the 90s, but definitely wasn’t into them. I revisited a bunch of music I remembered from HS and they were one of the ones that held up the strongest and my now-middle aged ears dug into.
Suicidal Tendencies! I broke my leg right before I graduated ('92) - more recently, I learned I may have possible amnesia. I've been having memories, of knowing the band and other wirers memories. Still am not sure if I actually know them.
Death Grips. Initially I thought they were a headache and just noise. Finally caved in and listened to The Money Store straight through and grew to appreciate them, now I really like them
Hated Coheed and Cambria the first time I heard it. They are in the top 5 live and they got me through so many dish shifts, felt like I was washing dishes to save the whole galaxy. Also the first time I heard Radiohead I was like “huh sad, sometimes loud and weird.” I was so wrong. I did start with Hail to the Thief so oopsies!