What's a band that you used to hate but have grown to love?

Journey, my mom loved them and I hated to listen to them when I was a kid. My mom always had their tape playing in the car 24/7, She actually went to a concert in the Astrodome to see them when she was pregnant with me.

But now I’ve learned to really appreciate them. Neal Schon had great tone and killer solos and Steve Perry’s voice is insane.

Thing that bums me out the most is my mom never got to know how much I love them.

Hated Springsteen as a kid in the 80s (though I wasn't very familiar with his 70s stuff). It all changed when I got to college in the late 80s/early 90s... by listening to his early stuff... I now even love his 80s output, even though a lot of it is way over produced, but thats a lot to stuff in the 80s.

The Doobie Brothers

Their first 5 album are excellent.

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Mastodon. I wrote them off completely when they first came out. Grindcore just isn't my thing, at all. It wasn't until years later when I borrowed someone's iPod while on deployment and heard "Divinations" that I realized how much their sound had transformed. I love them now and am convinced that these days they can do no wrong.

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Same thing for me with Mastodon. Wanted to like them at first but couldn't get into it with the rambling riffs and mediocre vocals.

Just took some time and they got better at singing haha

Closest I can think of would be Siouxsie and the Banshees. A friend loved them in the 80s and I thought that their music sounded really weird. Definitely like a lot of their music now.

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I used to hate the Rolling Stones as a young teen

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The Doors. After seeing Oliver Stone's movie about them I have really come to appreciate their music.

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Disco era Bee Gees

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I was having a conversation with a co-worker in his 70's sometime last year and I don't recall why the subject of the Bee Gees came up. I told him they were a great band to which he responded "meh I don't like disco, never did". Not sure why people have the notion that mostly all the Bee Gees did was disco. If you look at their music catalog, not even 5% of their music is disco.

Regardless, they were a great band and I would rank them top 20 bands of all time. They were excellent songwriters, too. The "One Night Only" concert marked my life when I was in my middle 20's, it helped me get thru a divorce at the time.

Tool

I always wrote them off when I was younger because I couldnt get into the long developing epic songs. One day my buddy showed me right in two and completely changed my opinion. They are now one of my all time favorites.

Edit: Great choice with SOAD. They are so unique

Rush... Couldn't deal with the singer's high pitched voice.