I found myself in works vehicle the other day and immediately turned over to radio 2. A sure sign of moving into middle age.
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What's the WRONGEREST you've been about an album?
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Seagull kimchi
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Yeti - by Amon Duul took some getting used to. But I'm glad I persisted.
Hate to Love - Queens of the Stoneage - Songs For The Deaf.
Loved No One Knows and bought it on the strength of that single. Was the heaviest album I'd listened to at the time and I thought it was just a thrashy mess at first, left it alone for a couple of years.
I was SO wrong.
Loved No One Knows and bought it on the strength of that single. Was the heaviest album I'd listened to at the time and I thought it was just a thrashy mess at first, left it alone for a couple of years.
I was SO wrong.
jakarta
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Didn't like Tago Mago by Can for quite a while before I realised that while it was utterly weird it was also wonderful.
studio150
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Arrrggghhhhh - Sorry nothing against you personally, but one of my major pet hates is the incorrect naming of this classic album, it's THE Dark Side of the Moon.
I have lost count at the amount of times I have shouted at a TV Quiz show where they have allowed the incorrect answer of Dark Side of the Moon to be accepted as correct.
Brighton TID
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There are so many. It usually takes me ages to get into albums, but when do the good ones stay. The only album that I thought was brilliant on first listen was Definitely Maybe, although now I find Oasis a bit monotonous.
Greatest hate to love albums: This Is Hope by Mull Historical Society and Real to Real Cacophony by Simple Minds.
Greatest hate to love albums: This Is Hope by Mull Historical Society and Real to Real Cacophony by Simple Minds.
I got into Can late, about 10 years back, so my ears were fully formed and it was immediate. Brilliant piece of work.
Music's an odd one with me. I don't really hate or criticise it. There's no right or wrong. At worst it's not for me; it's just meh. At the other end I can be like an hyperactive child when I hear something I really like and have to share it with everyone. I can't do love to hate. I'll have a think about my meh to love though.
jakarta
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Think I first heard Can in 1976/77 so a bit more than 10 years for me, also heard the first Faust and Neu! Albums as well as lots of Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk about that time. As a consequence my music tastes diverged somewhat from the mainstream.
I have also changed in my opinions about loving/hating music, there are so many ways to access it nowadays I can play what I want when I want so really don't get as het up as I used to about the amount of dull and derivative stuff (IMO of course) there is out there.
At one point I would shout at the TV when TOTP wouldn't play a Bowie chart single but would play Boney M.
AmexRuislip
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hate to love - Cee Lo Green, The Lady Killer 
love to hate - Craig David, Born to do it
love to hate - Craig David, Born to do it
Think I first heard Can in 1976/77 so a bit more than 10 years for me, also heard the first Faust and Neu! Albums as well as lots of Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk about that time. As a consequence my music tastes diverged somewhat from the mainstream.
I have also changed in my opinions about loving/hating music, there are so many ways to access it nowadays I can play what I want when I want so really don't get as het up as I used to about the amount of dull and derivative stuff (IMO of course) there is out there.
At one point I would shout at the TV when TOTP wouldn't play a Bowie chart single but would play Boney M.
I think I'm mellow because stuff I don't like, or probably would hate, doesn't tend to impede the stuff I do like. Good music is always available and accessible, as you point out, regardless. This isn't always the case with other interests in my life.
The first thing I remember thinking when I heard Can for the first time was how much they had influenced Happy Mondays. But then also thinking it's great....and I've now got shed loads of new albums to listen to.
All good.
Theatre of Trees
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Radio 1 has always been shite unless you yearn for the days of Our Tune, the Hairy Cornflake and Gary's bit in the middle. it is actually far easier to find new and interesting music these days without having to rely on inane national radio stations.
W.C.
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not sure about hate to love, but between the ages of 13-15 I completely rinsed the Cure's albums. Later on I could not stand to hear his whiny voice. I sometimes see people mention them on here and it makes me wonder if I should have a listen again as it's been so long.
BadFish
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Great band that offers so much variety, although if you don't like his voice your are in trouble.
I know what you mean; only the other day they accepted it as the correct answer to the question "What is the name of Led Zeppelin's fourth studio album?". Really irritating.
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I'd start off with Disintegration. Have seen Fat Bob and Co more than any other band apart from Pearl Jam. His voice isn't the strong point of the band but many great songs, especially on the trilogy of Pornography, Wish and Disintegration.