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Re: Bands you've changed your mind on? (brought over from Facebook)

62 by Cardholder
I used to be not too fond of Jack White, but now I have a lot of admiration for him.

At first, I was ruffled by the chest thumping behind the White Stripes and I didn’t listen much to the garage-rock revival bands of the mid-2000s. Not that I disliked the White Stripes or hated the revival, but I felt that a lot of the scene was pushed by publicists trying to market the music back then, which made me less interested in it (basically “wiggling a severed head” as Steve described in an interview about the music industry). But now with the hype and marketing being long dissipated, I have more of an appreciation (despite some lousy moments in the scene). In particular, for somebody like Jack White who, instead of being just another rocker who got rich years ago and tries to party like it was during his heyday, did some cool shit since then. Namely, starting Third Man Records, which helped release music from a variety of musicians and the local scenes with TMR locations. I’ve grown to like him and his music.

And I admit, I totally want this plasma gas pedal:
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Re: Bands you've changed your mind on? (brought over from Facebook)

65 by rsmurphy
In high school I absolutely hated the Cure. I never heard one note, but due to self-loathing and falling victim to music tribalism I never got to experience their wonderful music until college. I'd like to think if I gave their music a genuine sit-down back then I would have been more accepting but that's folly; I was closed-off, confused, and happy-ish in my bubble.

For the most part I still love and dislike most of the bands I've loved and disliked my entire life. That said...
Pennington wrote:don't listen to a ton of heavy stuff in general anymore
This is where I am right now. It's more about new bands utilizing the same heavy or noisy sound that I've been listening to over the past thirty years that kind of exhaust me at this point. I'm always open to hearing new heavy noisy weirdness but it has to be more than retreads of the T&G, Skin Graft, and Amphetamine Reptile catalogs.
Justice for Dexter Wade and Nakari Campbell

Re: Bands you've changed your mind on? (brought over from Facebook)

67 by mrcancelled
Being a petulant child, I did not want to like Ty Segall due to the specific people who told me I HAD to listen to him. At some point years back I listened to a couple of tracks and didn't care much for them... they weren't bad exactly, just sort of easy-listening garage rock. I've since come around on him a bit more... Melted has some great songs and I like the new EP. Nothing groundbreaking but he can certainly write a catchy song.

While I feel I've grown a little bit as a person through this experience, I will NOT be listening to King Jizz Wizard Fizzard Lizard or whatever that those same people kept telling me to listen to. Gotta draw the line somewhere.

Re: Bands you've changed your mind on? (brought over from Facebook)

68 by joelb
Happily, I became much more open to bands and styles as I've gotten older. It's a long list.

In the other direction - I was huge into the whole WaxTrax and adjacent kind of music as a teen. KMFDM, Ministry, Front 242, NIN, that sort. At the time I thought that shit was HARD, but man that shit has aged poorly. Now it sounds like a cartoon to me, which can be fun for a certain purpose, but pretty cringey if you take it seriously.

Re: Bands you've changed your mind on? (brought over from Facebook)

69 by Krev
jakethesnake wrote: Thu Nov 09, 2023 3:40 am For me it's mainly "smooth"/slick stuff like Sade, Steely Dan and Anita Baker which I hated when I was younger but really enjoy nowadays in spite of still appreciating more abrasive, in your face stuff (my most played album this week is the new Suffocation which is their best since the 90s and Cecil Taylor is *always* in rotation); Anitas "Rapture" might lowkey be my most played album in the past 3 years.

Bad 90s rock still doesn't work for me though; I see people my age (Im 48) getting "softer" on that stuff but for me, it's almost the opposite: even stuff I *used* to kind of like-think Jawbox, Nation of ulysses or much Amrep stuff-sounds crap to me now... the stuff I *really* liked, I still dig though, I rarely change my opinion on stuff I love. Rather, I may get tired of it but the appreciation always returns after some years/decades.

The sole exception would be trip-hop and british IDM stuff I dug for a short while in the mid-90s... I can't stand it, still love detroit techno and 90s Hip-hop though, it's the british "artsy" appropriations that tend to age badly for me...
That new Suffo is a burner. It's probably their best since Pierced.
We're headed for social anarchy when people start pissing on bookstores.

Re: Bands you've changed your mind on? (brought over from Facebook)

70 by dfglv
Having been a fanatic in my teens, I cooled quite significantly on Beefheart after learning more about what life in that band was like for most of its inmates, and after sustained contact with Wolf and Ornette Coleman (who feel to me like the wellsprings for so much of what I like in Beefheart's music).

I get huge pleasure out of the Magic Band's 'Back to the Front', and 'Clear Spot' and the first two albums are total keepers for me, but it's specifically a lot harder for me to enjoy 'Trout' with knowledge of how abysmally they were being treated.
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