Bands you never thought you would ever like but have come around to.

[Kontiki]

I don't know if I'm necessarily surprised by it, but I never cared much for Michael Jackson when I was growing up. I now find that I can appreciate his early musical brilliance (though credit has to also be given to Quincy Jones), up until the full-on descent into crap and insanity around the time of "We Are the World" and the Bad album, which still had a couple of decent songs.

[Pekka]

Lancer, Maybe it was ELOs Living Thing? That's pretty good I like that..

A band I never thoufhd I'd like but did.. depeche mode.

[ajbera]

I can't exactly say I like ABBA, but I have a new appreciation for their music after watching Muriel's Wedding.

And I agree with Rufus. Back in the 70's & 80's, in school, when it was rock vs. disco, I loathed disco. While today I'll still never purposely put on or tune into a disco station, I feel great nostalgia for the music and that has softened my criticism. It's generally not good or serious music (with exceptions, like Gaynor's I Will Survive) but I can appreciate it for what it is and take enjoyment in it.

But I think the older you get the broader your tastes become, or at least you become willing to (re)sample different things, and you sometimes find you appreciate (or even like) what you once dismissed or reviled. I hated country music as a tyke; again, I can't say I like or listen to it with any regularity, but I can appreciate it and admire the better examples of it.

But my heart will always belong to rock 'n roll.

[Lorizael]

Shortly after reading this thread, I heard ELO on the radio for the first time (although it's quite possible that I had heard ELO before and simply not realized it). It was very interesting music and quite good.

[Ari Rahikkala]

Originally posted by Saras
Depeche Mode.

[Dis]

I really have too many examples to name.

I wouldn't be caught dead listening to the music I sometimes listen to now when I was younger (that sentence structure is weird, I know). Stuff like classical and jazz.

When I was a kid it was all rock and metal. Nothing else.

[Q Classic]

Yeah, that Beatles band. God, they sucked. I mean, who the **** sings about yellow submarines? Racist ******.

But, I like 'em now, now that I know they sang for the Commies, too. Fair and balanced.

[Q Classic]

Also, don't knock ABBA. It got me a job, when I creatively quoted it on a cover letter.

[Asher]

You got hired as the token gay man?

[Hueij]

I'm kind of like Rufus. Being in the "alternative" scene in the early 70's I missed out on all of the Motown and Stax music. Listening to people freaking on their instruments for 25 minutes instead of listening to Sam Cooke

And then I looked beyond Dolly's bossom and found out that there was a whole universe of breath taking music I never listened to. @Lancer: Patsy Cline

The Singing Detective (a 80's BBC series) introduced me to 1940's music and then Sinatra came along...

[Provost Harrison]

No. My judgement is perfect first time and I never have any need to revise it. It's just reinforced. Robbie Williams for example. I despised him at first. But now, well, I still despise him

[Provost Harrison]

(before people think I sound too angry - strictly musically of course )

[Richelieu]

Blue Rodeo

[Q Classic]

Originally posted by Asher
You got hired as the token gay man?

Well, you tell me...

[Asher]

It's true, so many Asian men in their 20s look gay. It confuses the hell out of me and my gaydar.

That said, in my experience most Asian men in their 20s are gay.

And Bad Religion sucks.