Artists you disliked but now love...

I used to absolutely hate Bobby Darin, and now I really like his music. I think it's the most radical shift I've ever had.

I know, not prog, but noteworthy nonetheless...

eugene wrote: 20 years ago I totally ignored Frank Zappa, as I was into Deep Purple/Black Sabbath/Led Zeppelin stuff. This has changed. 10 years ago I could not stand any rio/avant things, as was into metal stuff like Manilla road/Cirith Ungol/Megadeth/Metallica/OverKill and so on. This has changed as well. Month ago - Magma and other Zeuhl freaks were completely out of my range - almost unbearable, but now I am slowly getting into these.... Thus I'm progressing , I guess.......

Yes, well said, and that is part of what the great prog rock quest is all about - always attempting to appreciate the unknown.

ldlanberg wrote: I can honestly say that every band I wound up listening to regularly I had liked from first hearing them. Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Deep Purple and early-period Steve Miller Band. (The latter is not a typo).

Yes, Steve Miller made some beautiful music. And I know he went through an early phase, but I always liked the middle period stuff like "Fly Like an Eagle" and I even like that tune "I heat up, I can't cool down".

ldlanberg wrote: bluetailfly wrote: Yes, Steve Miller made some beautiful music. And I know he went through an early phase, but I always liked the middle period stuff like "Fly Like an Eagle" and I even like that tune "I heat up, I can't cool down". Hello, Miller was a genius in his own right. His earliest stuff from 1968 and 1969 was among the artsy type of music that pulled me into (what is coined as) Prog rock. Children of the Future is in fact classified by most professional reviewers as a Top Progressive Rock album, for that year (1968). This is one thing professional reviwers may have gotten right.

You've convinced me, I'm going to pick up that lp tomorrow, even if can only find it in vinyl.

Genesis, the first song i ever heard was Suppers ready after like 1 min i turned it off... at the time i thougt the whole song whuld sound like those first min...

that was some years ago then when i found this site and started too read about all people praising them i desided to try again, it wasent easy but now some months later i love em and have 6 albums

GENESIS

i first heard Watcher of Skies, and it did absolutely nothing for me. I also was not expecting Peter Gabriel's voice......when i first heard his voice, it made me cringe.

4 months later

i bought Lamb Lies Down On Broadway at a used cd shop for no reason, and I put it on shuffle, and i heard In The Cage, and was blown away by it. The vocals were still kind of weird, but more i listened, more i came to love Peter Gabriel, love the Lamb, and love Genesis period.

They're now my 3rd favorite band. i've bought Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, SEBTP, The Lamb, and Genesis Live.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: I'm beginning to like Neo-Prog ... I wouldn't have expected that two months ago.

 neo-prog will make you happy!

BAND I LOVED SCENE THE FIRST TIME I HEARD THEM :

RUSH(80'S)

PINK FLOYD(80'S)

YES ( DRAMA)

GENESIS( SECOND OUT, TREE SIDE LIVE)

KANSAS (LIVE)

FOCUS ( I NEVER HAD ANY COMPLAINT ABOUT THESE WONDERFUL BAND)

SUPERTRAMP(LATE 70'S -80'S)

BAND THAT TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO GET INTO AND SOME TIME I DID NOT LIKE THEM.

EARLY GENESIS(GABRIEL ERA)EXCEPT TREPASS ( NOW I ONLY LIKE 70-80 GENESIS) I LOVE GRABRIEL VOICE AFTER I HATE IT. I NOW I AM A FREAK!!!

GONG (I HATED GONG ) BUT NOW ONE MY FAVORITE) DAVIED  GONG

KING CRINSON (I ONLY LIKE THE SOFT SONGS ( INTHE COURT,EPITAPH) BUT THE WETTON-BRUFFORD WAS PAIN!!!! MY FAV ERA NOW!!!!

DREAM THEATER SCENE DAY ONE I HEARD THIS I SAID A METTALLICA RUSH WANNABE IT TOOK A VERY LONG TIME TO LIKE THEM. BUT AFTER I BOUGHT SCENE FROM A MEMORY DVD I WAS SO AMAZE HOW WELL THESE GUYS CAN PLAY AND I EMBRACE THEM EVER SCINE THAT DAY I BECAME A BIG FAN. THE LATEST ALBUMS IS SUPERB, BRILLIANT!!!

YES (TALES WAS A DISASTER AND WAIST OF TIME ) NOW IS A MASTER PIECE!!!

EARLY FOYD (SID BARRETT ERA WAS HORRIBLE AND UMMAGUMMA UFF THAT WAS TOGH!!!!)

LE ORME THE GUYS FROM ITALY. IT WAS HARD TO GET INTO SOME BAND SINGING IN A LANGUAGE THAT YOU DO NOT UNDESTAND EVEN THOUGH I SPEAK SPANISH!!!!

I STILL CAN'T GET INTO STYX,ELO,MUDDY BLUE, ASIA,MARILLON,ECT....TOO POP FOR ME

MAY BE ONE DAY I WILL GET INTO SOME AVANTPROG LIKES UNIVERS ZERO, HENRY COW AND SOME ZAPPA ALBUMS WHICH I CAN'T GET INTO RIGHT NOW BUT THEY MIGHT BE MY FUTURE MASTER PIECE!!!

This, thread should have been named "acquired taste" and I was already thinking of starting it... shame on you, Tony!

my first reply is

Tangerine Dream

I hated their early albums before, listening to Cyclone changed my life! Then comes Force Majeure... I'm still not into Phaedra very much, but I listen to it almost automatically every now and then!!!! (maybe it's a sort of addiction! The same for Rubycon.) I'm discovering the Bootleg Box Sets at the moment... Both are great (will anyone add vol.2 in the discography??)

and most of the other Kraut/Avant/Rio stuff are acquired tastes, especially German ones!!!!

Can (I didn't specifically hate them, but I was somehow distant, just because of Soup in Ege Bamyasi!)
Kraftwerk (wish I heard their first album and Organisation thing first!)
Klaus Schulze (I still have to select very carefully, but his ash ra tempel background counts for everything!)
Frank Zappa (oh that Hot Rats album!!! why hasn't anyone recommended that before!?!?!?!?)

some symphonic bands are also acquired tastes:

Van der Graaf Generator: I didn't hate them specifically, but could not find something to admire in the first listens.... I don't know what happened to me one evening: I was stunned by Pawn Hearts, an album which I heard at least 10 times before!!!!
Gentle Giant is a taste I stilll couldn't acquire!!! I admire one song: Nothing at All nevertheless...

last, but not the least:

King Crimson

is the acquired taste of all times! I experienced the same feeling before digging into each of their 3 eras: '69-'74, '81-'84, '94-present...