For me it was Andrew Bird (who I am currently on a binge of) and Fleet Foxes.
To a lesser extend, Radiohead and the Flaming Lips. Though I mostly just didn’t care about them until I was older.
Prince. I think I was scared of being attracted to men when I was a kid.
metal like iron maiden and metallica. all the people i knew in high school who listened to metal were either weird or the older guys dating/married to my friends’ older sisters. i was more into punk and metalcore stuff, but after listening to street fight radio and hearing them talk about metal encouraged me to give it a try. now i love iron maiden and like a lot of metallica and similar bands like slayer and megadeth and all that
I will not listen to Metallica anymore, but Iron Maiden is fantastic, and Eddie is the best band mascot on the planet.
I will not listen to Metallica anymore
Same here, but it only applies to listening to them legally - I’ve been holding onto this grudge since I was a tween and they killed Napster.
yeahhhhh metallica are terrible people, but they’ve made some good music and every once in a while I like to listen to a few of their songs. iron maiden is definitely my favorite, sometimes I’ll just start at the beginning of their discography and listen through it for a day.
I’m having a hard time thinking of an example, but I’ve got one for the opposite situation. If you’d asked me a few years ago what I thought of the Dave Matthews Band, I would have said “too meh to bother with an opinion. I nothing them.” But then I bought a used car from a dealer and got a couple months of free Sirius radio. So much of that is sports, but I found a few music stations that I liked. There was one that was playing 90s alternative rock, which was fun . . . until a Dave Matthews Band song and I AGGRESSIVELY PUNCHED the button, like 2 seconds in. Turns out I really hate that band, and I didn’t realize it until I was suddenly confronted with their music after probably years of never really hearing anything from them. And it kinda made me laugh, because I’d still call them a very beige band, too middle of the road to bother having a passionate opinion of, and yet apparently I passionately hate them. IDK
Beyond Dave’s weird voice, I can’t stand their fiddle player’s style. It sounds like ass to me after listening to mostly bluegrass for years.
Yeah, I guess I can always type out the shruggy guy. Makes me think of the time my mom tried to put it in our family text group but didn’t quite get it right, so he looked all lopsided. One of my brothers copied it and used it for a long time. It was a pretty cute little inside joke.
lol, that sound hilarious.
I used to love DMB in high school, mostly because of their sax player, now I’m very ‘meh’ on them, but will listen to a few tracks for nostalgia purposes.
Not a particular musician, but I thought I didn’t like black metal for a long time. I realized recently that I actually do like black metal when the quality of the recording is decent. Idk why so many black metal bands like recording on shitty equipment.
Depending on your age, it could just be that black metal artists now have access to better equipment in a DIY setting.
That makes sense. I’m young but a lot of what I tried listening to was older.
This is a pretty interesting mini-doc about DIY music making in the early 2000s in Ireland. Includes a couple of bands I really love like Enemies and Adebisi Shank.
I had a similar thing happen, but a bit different. I always liked melodic and symphonic black metal but I had a hard time appreciating the rougher production side of things. Now, I like it all. I see the low production as an added layer of distortion on top of the already distorted guitars. It can help the tremolo riff gain a “hum” that allows it to fill your whole ear. It’s for not everyone, and I can totally understand why it turns people off, but it does add atmosphere.
