gcbv wrote:This hasn't been addressed, but what about bands that you initially didn't get, but after a period of time (experience, et al), you got into?

A new topic maybe?

Check this out - http://www.electrical.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1918 "Legendary bands you get now after a long time" or something.

Wow, I'd like to think of myself as very open minded, but Zappa doesn't do a thing for me. Songwriting-wise it was really... Different. The musicianship was great too, bit since when has that ever mattered?

godspeed you have too many people onstage and your set is twice as long as it should ever be black emperor

Aaron Copeland. Lauded by many as the quintessential 20th century American composer. Never enjoyed a single note. Stockhausen I get from an applied "20th century" 12-tone minimalistic architecture. He was a scientist. Copeland was a romantic trying to be a scientist, and his compostitions married the sentimentality of downhome heartland, with atonal rote exercise. The result = dreck.

I also never got the Fugs.
Or the Yardbirds.
Or the Stone Roses/Madchester scene.
Or Peter Gabriel.
Or the Boredoms.
Or second-generation-forward avant garde and/or minimalistic jazz and/or rock
Or Beat Happening
Or The Nuge.

Or fucking Superchunk. Goddddamn, people used to go stupid for that band, so stupid that it gave me a minor complex as a yute.

Never was a band so happy and drippy at the same time.

Which reminds me,

Or the Shins.

The Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa, Lawrence Welke, and Barenaked Ladies.

the MC5- The one band I can think of that I really don't care for, but feel like I should. I bought Kick Out the Jams, and though I honestly can't stand to listen to more than one song at a time, I feel like I need to keep it in my collection, if for nothing else, to prove to people that I know my underground rock history (something I pride myself in).

as far as "bands i didn't get initially," these are more numerous:

*the Minutemen (Once upon a time, I actually sold my copy of Double Nickels, realized I had made a wretched mistake, and managed to get it back)

*Big Black (I listened to The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape all the way through four times in a row before I finally stopped straining to understand the lyrics. I didn't understand that they weren't supposed to be the focus.)

*Fugazi (the first Fugazi song I heard was "Do You Like Me" on Red Medicine. I almost turned it off when it didn't change after the first thirty seconds of senseless noise. When I got through it and heard the acutal song, I realized that was probably the idea.)

Wire
Gang of Four
Mission of Burma

Don't get me wrong. I approve of these bands. I ackowledge their importance and the contributions they've made to much of the music I enjoy. They're definitely "not crap." But I never feel like listening to them.

I feel guilty about this for some reason.

As for bands I never cared about, then liked a lot. The Beatles. About half of the time.

JANDEK. I just don't get why people like this at all. Never have, never will.

Agree with Papa M and GBV. Will also have to add -

Tortoise - sorry, don't get it.

Bands I didn't get initially-

Capt. Beefheart - I bought "Troutmaskreplica" once, took it back, then bought it again.