What music group did you hate originally that you now think is brilliant?

[Liberal Veteran]

Okay, I'll start with Oingo Boingo.

[JaySherman]

Rush

My first exposure to them was Presto. Still think that's by far their worst record.

[Gothic Sponge]

1. Radiohead

I hated their first CD back in the early 90's I gave their newer stuff a try and now i think they are brilliant.

[darkstar]

2. Given some of the crap in my collection

it's usually the other way around.

I don't know that a band I thought was outright awful ever won me over. But I have grown to appreciate the work of some bands that weren't my cup of tea, i.e. I now own a Fleetwood Mac disc, several Hawkwinds, etc.

Probably the biggest increase in my appreciation has been--cliche, now--The Beach Boys. It was so easy to dismiss them in the early hey-days 70's when I hit my teens and discovered music.

[rhino47]

3. Violent Femmes

When I first heard mother reagan I hated the whiney vocals but I love the femmes now.

[Kellanved]

4. OK

A band exotic and probably meaningless to most on DU: Die Fantastischen Vier (Fantastic Four).
I used to hate them, in fact I still don't like the music/ most of their songs.
However they are the only German Hip-Hop Band producing something that approaches good and their Lyrics are brilliant. Not so much because of the content, but because they manage to rhyme properly using the German language.

http://www.smudo.com/smudo/videos.htm

[NightTrain]

5. The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix.

What can I say? In certain cases, I was a musical late-bloomer! :shrug:

[rfranklin]

6. the Mothers of Invention...

but I'm lying. I always loved Frank Zappa.

[Canuckistanian]

8. Me too.

I didn't listen to him back in the '70s or '80s, but I think he's a musical prophet now. Now that he's dead, of course. *sigh*

[Drifter]

10. Ha Ha Ha ....

I was thinking the same thing.

Cheers
Drifter

[Kahuna]

7. The Beach Boys.

nt

[DBoon]

9. Ramones

n/t.

[Teddy_Salad]

Duran Duran

I used to hate them back in the 80's.

It just wasn't cool for guys to like them where I lived.

But now, I love 'em! :)

[comradebillyboy]

11. 1910 fruit gum company

bubble gum music is timeless

[arwalden]

12. Depeche Mode, New Order, Yazoo (Yaz)

[Liberal Veteran]

13. I love all three!

I wasn't big on Depeche Mode until years after I first heard of them, though.

[Arugula Latte]

14. Man, those bands bring back memories

They were a big part of the soundtrack of my college years.

[Kat45]

15. Springsteen!

Hated him when I first heard him. Then caught some lyrics that I liked. Then liked a couple of more songs, but still didn't get it. People told me that you had to see him live. So I did. Blew me away!

[Guy Fawkes]

16. David Bowie, Rypslime

[Arugula Latte]

17. Styx, Journey, REO Speedwagon

Just kidding!!!! They still SUCK!