Bands you 'once' hated...

...but now like (if not love).

E.L.O

i don't know if this counts, but i've pretended to hate the Grateful Dead for years. i secretly love them. tell no one. it'll ruin my street cred.

I wrote off Bruce Springsteen. How very bloody wrong I was.

I slagged off Jet. Now I like them as a guilty pleasure.

I thought Neil Diamond was a pompous ass. He is, but he has great songs.

Snow Patrol and The Killers.

Not that I like them all much now, but I don't hate them any longer.

Clap your hands and say yeah.

Thought they were just another pitchfork overhype band. Kind of growing on me slowly.

I used to hate Cannibal Corpse... then I saw them live and hung out with Alex Webster, now I have almost every album they put out.

The first time I heard a Leve Lovich song I wanted to claw my eyes out with a rusty spoon. Then it got stuck in my head. It grew on me like nobody's business. Now, I must find her first CD.

Cheers,
Ché

Edited because I had forgotten Muse. I hated them when I first heard them, but then I found myself singing along when they came on the radio. It was strange.

[Edited on Aug 07, 2005 by karmatsunami]

I fucking HATED Radiohead and Pavement when I first heard them.

oh, Muse...how?

i usually find the reverse of this thread...the bands i love end up shitty.

oooh, i thought of another one. i used to hate Modest Mouse until i saw them live. i thought they were too poppy/sappy. i was wrong. now i love them. that is all.

I used to hate Green Day. Then I loved them. Now I dislike them again. So I've come full circle.

That is too funny, my wife is a huge "Lene Lovich" fan and owns every one of her albums/tapes ( she's 37 and hasn't quite caught up with the whole cd thing yet) She does have quite an impressive voice

I used to hate Darkest Hour
and then certain songs on "sadist nation" grew on me, and I totally dig the new album.

not as annoying as most of the other "melodic metalcore" bands out there

For the longest time I hated, HATE Mushroomhead. All I would go on about was how Jeffery Nothing (vocalist) ripped the hell off of Mike Patton in his vocal styles and how "new metal" it sounded. After a while I forgot about how AWESOME their concerst were and how powerful they appear on stage. I now love Mushroomhead and play Super buick ALL THE TIME next to Down and Opeth.

Rush, until I listened to the "newer" stuff. It was stuff like "Tom Sawyer" I couldn't stand, but I love "Time Stand Still", "Subdivisions", and "Ghost of a Chance".

I've been giving the Beatles an honest chance. I'm still not crazy about them, but I can name several songs I really like. I love "Octopus' Garden" and "Back in the U.S.S.R."

Mum used to drive me crazy with Patsy Cline. Now I find myself smiling if I hear Patsy Cline in a bar or on a friend's stereo.

I used to hate Green Day, and they've grown on me with the newest album and I've started to like some of their older stuff.

I used to like Pearl Jam and then I hated them and then my ex got me back into them.

The Killers

couldn't stand this band when they came out. borrowed my roommates cd one day and kinda like it now.

Hear ya.

Keith Jarrett
Nick Cave
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Snow Patrol
Lime Spiders
Psychotic Turnbuckles
Green Day
Bartok
Frente
Pantera
Tom Rundgren
Baby Animals
Robert Fripp & League of Gentlenmen
Eno
U2 (actually I still mostly hate them, except Adam Clayton, he rocks)
Wildhearts
Soilwork
Opeth

Sometimes it takes a second listen...

Jet are fucking pants though... if I had of know all I had to do was rip of Iggy to get a music career, I would have been famous ages ago.
Anyone who listens to Jet nees to be castrated.

I was a big Minor Threat fan and hated Fugazi until one day I stopped trying to compare them at all in any way, and realized that Fugazi is amazing.

I hated Wutang Clan because of the C.R.E.A.M. single, then i heard the whole album and was an instant fan.

The White Stripes... no reason, just used to piss me off, they gradually grew on me, now I think they're the shit, especially the new album.

when i was a too cool for mainstream music punker AC/DC was the antishesis of what i hated

now i can't live without them

when i was 15 and more into metal and just heavier shit, i thought the smiths were about the worst thing i'd ever heard. now if i don't listen to the smiths or morrissey at least 3 or 4 times a week i might actually die.

Down, boy.