[Music] Songs that you didn't like when you were an opinionated youngster that you now appreciate.

[Pevenseagull]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9hGcJA8fXvU



As a stroppy teenager I thought they were just going through the motions, trying to revive past glories.
It's not their best, but it's a lot better than I thought it was at the time.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

When "I bet you look good on the dance floor" went MENTAL, I decided I didn't like it or the AM's because I wanted to rebel against the sheep following the myspace music boom.

Now I realise I'm an idiot as that song is an absolute BANGER.

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

Beck. Most of his stuff in fact, but especially ‘Loser’

 

[Pevenseagull]

When "I bet you look good on the dance floor" went MENTAL, I decided I didn't like it or the AM's because I wanted to rebel against the sheep following the myspace music boom.

Now I realise I'm an idiot as that song is an absolute BANGER.

The first time I heard them I thought, what's the fuss, I write songs like that. The second time I thought ....hmmmm? The tenth time I gave up thinking I might be a songwriter.

When given the option of general or local anaesthetic for abdominal surgery, I chose local. With 'Do I Want To Know?' as part of the playlist in the surgery.


Initially, I thought they were shit.

Still don't like anything that wanker from The Liberteens has done

 

[Tom Bombadil]

I don't know if I really didn't like them at first, but i'm listening the **** out of early Roxy Music atm.

 

[Pevenseagull]

I don't know if I really didn't like them at first, but i'm listening the **** out of early Roxy Music atm.

Mother of Pearl!!

 

[Pevenseagull]

Not that early but ....Mother Of Pearl ..... Oh my days

 

[Bold Seagull]

Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues

 

[Pevenseagull]

I didn't like Joy Division, 'Decades' when I was a kid.... I always thought it was a bit dull and gloomy.
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nearly a third of a

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PMAB3r6EjcM

century later I rather like it

 

[Icy Gull]

Just about anything by Frank Sinatra

 

[Stato]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcADqxnQA_4

I didn't really know who Randy Newman was. I used to hear this on the radio and think it was a big stupid anthem to the American dream. In a way, it is, but it is Randy's big stupid anthem to the American dream, so it comes multi-layered with irony like only his songs are. He used most of Toto on the track and, like most of the 'Trouble In Paradise' album it's almost too successful at recreating the sound that he is subverting, (Or is he? I'm still not sure). I'm not even sure that he knows. All I know is that, having relaxed about the over polished sound of US eighties rock and just accepting it on it's own terms, I can now enjoy it on both levels.

 

[happypig]

I used to think Bob Dylan was shite. I was wrong.

 

[Triggaaar]

I'm ashamed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw

 

[MattBackHome]

I didn't like The Bends when I first heard it. What an absolute div.

On a separate, but related note, in the 90's I hated 'You're Gorgeous' by Babybird, yet I heard it recently and it induced such a Proustian rush (Kickers & Ben Sherman etc) that I now like it. But in this case I'm wrong now and was right then, as the song is still complete SHITE.

 

[Mellotron]

Oasis. Still not a massive fan but can see the good in some of the songs.

Coldplay - Parachutes. It's a great album, regardless of what they've done since.

 

[Badger]

Oasis. Still not a massive fan but can see the good in some of the songs.

This. I was always TeamBlur, so I didn't like Oasis by default. Now I'm happy to listen to their songs.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

everything by Dire Straits. Then it was 'Dad-music', now I'm a Dad, and its bloody great,

Also, whisper it, there are a couple of Smiths songs that I now find tolerable. Just a couple mind.

 

[W.C.]

everything by Dire Straits. Then it was 'Dad-music', now I'm a Dad, and its bloody great,

Also, whisper it, there are a couple of Smiths songs that I now find tolerable. Just a couple mind.

Odd one, I think most people are going the other way every time Morrissey opens his mouth! Loved them myself.

 

[Pevenseagull]

I'm now think 'Hold Me Now ' is a good song

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

The first time I heard them I thought, what's the fuss, I write songs like that. The second time I thought ....hmmmm? The tenth time I gave up thinking I might be a songwriter.

When given the option of general or local anaesthetic for abdominal surgery, I chose local. With 'Do I Want To Know?' as part of the playlist in the surgery.


Initially, I thought they were shit.

Still don't like anything that wanker from The Liberteens has done

Conversely, I remain of the view that 'I bet you look good on the dance floor' is inexplicably overrated garbage, while I don't mind The Libertines.