Songs You Didn't Like When You Were Younger

[Guest Zack Malibu]

I think the topic name is self-explanatory.

[Guest Kinetic]

I seem to recall denouncing Bob Dylan to a girlfriend when I was sixteen.  I went through all of the typical stuff--terrible voice, outdated philosophy, etc.--and she basically told me I was an idiot for thinking that.  Lo and behold, about a year later I picked up Bringing It All Back Home on a whim and have been a Dylan fanatic ever since.

 

The same girl called both the Velvet Underground and Wilco "boring," though, so I think we came out about even as far as being wrong goes.

[Guest]

I used to absolutely HATE U2..i could never see why they were so big..but now I cry whenever 'Where the Streets Have No Name" is on.. But my music tastes have matured a ton in the last 3 years...

[Guest Kinetic]

I used to change the channel whenever the "Fake Plastic Trees" video would come on.

[Guest]

I used to hate everything, my brother used to watch The Countdown or something on MTV every morning and take up my video game time, it made me hate music.  I used to hate Metallica, but when I heard a midi of "Unforgiven" by Metallica on a DBZ website, I got back into it.

[Guest]

Just about everything I listen to now at 23 I wouldn't have liked ten years ago at 13 (I was a metalhead back then). One form of music I've always enjoyed, though, is rap. And one rap group I use to rag on relentlessly back when they were popular was Arrested Development; I would take great pleasure in mocking their videos and oh-so-positive vibes because it didn't fit my woefully narrow perception of what rap should be.

 

Well, just a couple of years ago, a friend made me a mix tape, and there were a couple of Arrested Development songs on there. Even though my knowledge of rap and all that it could be had grown considerably in the ensuing years, I still looked at AD as being cheesy. But wouldn't you know, when "Tennessee" hit, I found myself grooving to it. Same with the other song he had on there, "Revolution." Arrested Development was good stuff (the first album, that is, the second one was mediocre).

[Guest Zack Malibu]

Maybe it's a guy thing, or maybe just an image thing in my case, but when I was younger, I couldn't bring myself to admit that I liked slow songs or ballads.  Rock ballads I could let slide, because I grew up in the 80's and thus exposed myself to the wonders of Poison, Warrant, and the like.  But actual slow songs and love songs, I wouldn't be caught dead listening to them.  I remember one night I was at my grandmother's house, and some video show was on.  They were showing "If Wishes Came True" by Sweet Sensation, and I loved the song (I grew up listening to dance/pop/freestyle, as I have a cousin who works with that kind of music), but couldn't bring myself to admit that I did.  I finally got that song, on CD, when I was 17...7 years after it was a hit.

 

Nowadays, I listen to pretty much everything, but people do rag on my taste...maybe because I like the pop scene a little more than others do. But hey, to each his own, right?

[Guest Mark4steamboat]

i used to hate Tool when i was younger because theyre videos were odd to a 10 yr old. Now, tool is by far the best band ever and my favorite band of all time.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

I used to hate Led Zeppelin when I was younger...hey, wait, I still do!

 

Umm...er...I used to find power metal to be pure bullshit, and now it's my favorite kind of metal. Mmmmm...Onward, Tad Morose, Nevermore, and the great Iron Maiden...

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

When i was a kid I used to listen to shit like Mariah Carey (I know I Know) so I didn't like any of the stuff I like now.

 

But one day I flipped on the Music channel and 'smells like teen spirit' by Nirvana was on and BAM! Nirvana fan 4 life.

[Guest The Man in Blak]

I thought that "Paranoid Android" and Radiohead were just really...stupid.

I swore by the "fact" that Eric Clapton was all hype and overrated garbage.

I really didn't dig "Smells Like Teen Spirit" until I heard "Lithium" and began to get into Nirvana.

I turned the channel every time I saw those hypoglycemic people in the "Black Hole Sun" video.

 

In short, I was quite an idiot.

[Guest Shaved Bear]

well my mom used to listen to classic rock (mostly the Beatles/Eric Clapton) and i would always say its stupid, but now  actually like it, when i firstliked music i used to like.......

Hootie and the Blowfish

[Guest Insanityman]

Yeah it was the same for me for Nirvana... I remember hearing the song when I was 11 (I'm 13) and thinking, "How does my cousin tolerate this?" We kept listening to Nevermind and it kinda grew on me and I forgot all about Nirvana until this year. (I just got Nevermind and In Utero conviently today for free). I couldn't stand any metal which I like now.

[Guest muzanisa]

Frank Sinatra and all Country I hated

i now like Frank and a lot of Country although tons of it is still shit, but Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, John Prine and the great Gram Parsons are all gold

[Guest areacode212]

Hey, cool topic.

 

When I was 11 I hated Suzanne Vega's "Luka", especially since it played on every radio station and in every mall I went to in Montreal in the Summer of '86 (I think). Who the hell cares if your name is Luka and what floor you live on? But I like it now. Rock on, Suzanne!

[Guest AlwaysPissedOff]

Bobby Brown's "Every Little Step". I swear, I was wayyyy into rap/hip-hop back then and I hated R&B with a passion. Then when I got into my teens, I started getting into it a lil more because it was a good way to get some women and then I became a total R&B mark around 18 and it's really the only kind of music I listened to. I'm more open-minded now about what I like, but nothing will top some old school Jodeci or Luther Vandross to me.

[Guest Mark4steamboat]

I never really got into Slayer until God Hates Us All came out this year because i wasnt into metal until this year.

[Guest]

I hated Weezer for 11 years. Now they are my all time favorite bandf and anything they do can not be wrong in my eyes.

[Guest Mark4steamboat]

gah i was hooked on weezer from when i first saw the buddy holly video. Hashpipe made alot of new fans as well; as did "island in the sun"

[Guest evenflowDDT]

For years I used to constantly rag on rap, for no real reason, until I heard 2Pac's All Eyez on Me and could appreciate it.  Now, I still don't like a lot of the dorky mainstream rap, but if the feeling is there, or even the beat is there, I'll listen to it.

 

Also, when I first bought Local H's Pack Up the Cats back in 1998, I only bought it because of "All The Kids Are Right" and didn't like the rest of the CD at all.  I recently played the CD again a couple weeks back and it's actually pretty good.

[Guest Big McLargeHuge]

I hated Punk rock when I was younger (9 or 10). Altough I wasn't exposed to much of it, I thought it was juvenille and stupid and disrespectful...then when I was 17 I heard the Clash and Ramones. My reaction was simply "Ho...ly...shit!" I was completely blown away and have been immersing myself into early Punk ever since, slowly working my way through current acts. I now understand its rebellious nature and 'who the fuck cares' mentality. God bless it.

[Guest evenflowDDT]

My reaction was simply "Ho...ly...shit!" I was completely blown away and have been immersing myself into early Punk ever since, slowly working my way through current acts. I now understand its rebellious nature and 'who the fuck cares' mentality. God bless it.

While I agree with you about The Clash and a lot of the earlier punk acts, with the newer "punk" acts, and particularly the "pop-punk" genre, isn't the mentality "who the f cares... as long as we get paid?"

 

...it could explain why the music now lacks any genuine feelings or rebellious nature

[Guest Big McLargeHuge]

Which is why I don't really consider Blink 182 or any of their peers to be punk, really. But that's another topic altogether.

[Guest swan]

I don't have songs but certain bands and singers.

 

Alan Parsons Project

Moody Blues

Rush

Johnny Cash

Willie Nelson

Cream

MC5

[Guest Y2BigJ]

One band that I used to loathe , but I like now is Oasis. I always though they were just a subpar band but the older I get I'm really starting to enjoy their work.