Songs you HATED and now LOVE

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I hated Neil Young's Heart of Gold in the seventies. I hated his voice and especially this sentimental song. Too twee or something for a twelve year old. After my first girl-friend broke up with me I rediscovered Neil Young and suddenly loved him. His voice and lyrics were my consolation. And HoG suddenly wasn't kitsch anymore. Or maybe it still was and I got into kitsch. Whatever.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 3 November 2002 23:45 (twenty-two years ago) link

back when I was sixteen and obsessed with Slayer, Testament, King Diamond and the like, I hated old punk rock, I thought it was weak. Now I love several Richard Hell tunes and just about anything by Wire.

I rarely listen to metal at all anymore, although I do have a soft spot for KD still, and South of Heaven by Slayer.

― webcrack (music=crack), Monday, 4 November 2002 00:06 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Ice Ice Baby"

― Poppy (poppy), Monday, 4 November 2002 00:45 (twenty-two years ago) link

This Mortal Coil's "Song to the Siren"

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 4 November 2002 01:11 (twenty-two years ago) link

Trail of Dead, "Baudelaire"
Sonic Youth, "Expressway To Yr Skull"
Suzanne Vega, "Tom's Diner"
All of the Afghan Whigs Black Love

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 4 November 2002 02:12 (twenty-two years ago) link

van der graaf generator's "still life". i don't know what was it that made me hate it, but i did. then once i went to a peter hammill concert, and it hit me. i've loved it ever since.

― cecilia, Monday, 4 November 2002 02:13 (twenty-two years ago) link

hypnotize :-/

― ep, Monday, 4 November 2002 02:24 (twenty-two years ago) link

er... Record you started off hating but learned to love

― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 4 November 2002 02:37 (twenty-two years ago) link

how weird is this?

Satie's Gymnopedie no 3.

I used to HATE that tune so much. Now ...

― phil jones (interstar), Monday, 4 November 2002 10:32 (twenty-two years ago) link

Pavement - "Shady Lane"

yeah what a boring answer, I know

― Brian the Snorf, Monday, 4 November 2002 12:27 (twenty-two years ago) link

'Love Will Tear Us Apart'

there was a thread like this recently but cant remember what/where

― blueski, Monday, 4 November 2002 12:37 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Rolene" by Moon Martin. He sings with a flat, Steve Miller/Dave Edmunds like voice .. And I've never liked Robert Palmer songs .. so why do I like this song now? Nostalgia or perversity?

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 4 November 2002 12:52 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Associates 'Party Fears Two' I hated it for mundane lyrics sung in the most histronic manner. Then, for no discernable reason, it oesaed to matter.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 4 November 2002 17:52 (twenty-two years ago) link

Laura Lee - "Rip-Off"

At first I thought it was positively unfair of her to clear out the cheatin' hubby w/o first giving him a chance to mend his ways. But after awhile the "and the wallpaper too!" line got me giggling and now I think it's a wonderful little revenge fantasy gone a step or two beyond rational thought.

keityh

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 4 November 2002 18:36 (twenty-two years ago) link

Pulp 'Common People'
Missy 'The Rain'
Blackstreet 'No Diggity'
Tom Tom Club 'Genius Of Love'
Devo 'Whip It'
Cyndi Lauper 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun'

― blueski, Monday, 4 November 2002 18:43 (twenty-two years ago) link

When I first bought Moby's debut album from '92 I thought it was shite, but it's now one of my favorites. (not really a song, but ah well)

― Curtis Stephens, Monday, 4 November 2002 23:17 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Associates 'Party Fears Two' I hated it for mundane lyrics sung in the most histronic manner. Then, for no discernable reason, it oesaed to matter.

me too! assuming oesaed = ceased, obv. i'd been utterly unimpressed the couple of times i'd heard it as an mp3, but then i was sat outside the north star on finchley road one afternoon in august when it suddenly came blaring out of an upstairs window, and... and it made sense.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 4 November 2002 23:24 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's my new word Toby. Do you like it?

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 11:46 (twenty-two years ago) link

i love it! but what does it mean??

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 19:16 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Every Word Means No" - Let's Active
"Jokerman" - Bob Dylan

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 03:54 (twenty-two years ago) link

two months pass...

i still don't know what oesaed means!

― toby (tsg20), Sunday, 26 January 2003 20:56 (twenty-two years ago) link

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours. Love it now. Cocaine golddust.

― robotman, Sunday, 26 January 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago) link

How about Hated-Loved-then Hated again: "Get Free" by the Vines, which briefly won me over.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 26 January 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago) link

i still don't know what oesaed means!

Well according to Let's Active it must mean "no"

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 26 January 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago) link

I used to wonder how anybody could stand the vocals on Canned Heat's Goin' Up the Country -- or if it was just meant to be a joke. ¥

― christoff (christoff), Monday, 27 January 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago) link

two years pass...

Well, maybe not HATED, quite; but I sure didn't have any use for Dead Or Alive's "You Spin Me 'Round" for the first 20 yrs of its existence. Then whaddya know, I hear it on the radio here at work just yesterday and its bouncy-ness blew me away! I was in Stock/Aitken/Waterman heaven. And it's not like I hadn't heard it in years and years - the station plays it every few weeks or so. Strange how that can happen every once in awhile.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Hmm. There are a couple Italo tracks that would fit into this. Most obvious, I think, is "Happy Song" by Baby's Gang. I really loathed that song back when it was new!

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Maggie Mae

― b b, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Destiny's Child - Soldier

― Gavin, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I heard a song off of Pearl Jam 'Ten' (Porch? I don't really know the titles) the other day, and it sounded really, really nice. Even though I used to really, really hate that album. Time heals all.

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Rhinestone Cowboy (what a fool I was)

Get Up--Sleater-Kinney (hate may be a little strong, but this is perhaps the ultimate "grower" song)

Pixies--Here Comes Your Man

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Every Smiths song ever. I woke up to the Smiths at the ripe old age of 28.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Little Red Corvette. (most Prince pre-Sign of the Times; when SofT came out I was hooked)
Cruisin' - Smokey Robinson

― Thea (Thea), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think I LOVE it just yet, but I've come round to quite liking "You Get What You Give" by the New Radicals. I hated it when it was out, when everyone I knew with similar tastes to me loved it. I think at this rate it'll be my favourite song ever by about 2023.

― Ark Hopping (avoid80), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link

The Smiths - "Some Girls Are Better than Others"

― PB, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link

(Is there an inverse thread of this one? Songs you loved but now hate?)

― PB, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Rhinestone Cowboy is an interesting case. When it came out mid 70's, I had no real affection for anything that wasn't heavy or prog. I recently heard RC while driving and was totally done in by Glen's singing. That guy has such musicianship.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 23 June 2005 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link

montell jordan - this is how we do it

― Sym Sym (sym), Thursday, 23 June 2005 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link

The killing moon by echo and the bunnymen
Drive she said by stan ridgway
anything by grandaddy

― Making off like a lucky bandit / Kate (papa november), Thursday, 23 June 2005 01:21 (nineteen years ago) link

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