What have you come back to that you dismissed at first and now love?

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Staple Singers cut from 1985, “Back to the War.” I was compiling a mix cd and thought I needed some Talking Heads (who have not aged well for me…). I couldn’t bring myself to put on “Life During Wartime,” so I thought I might use the Staples cover of it instead. Still wasn’t working for me, so I gave BTTW a whirl as what I really wanted was David Byrne guitarist, not David Byrne vocalist. Wow! What seemed at the time an attempt to recapture their glory days as ’60s protestors is frighteningly right-on for right now: a righteously p.o’ed Mavis spitting fire about blood for oil and politicians amok acting like “urban commandos and Nuclear Brandos.” I always thought she was prescient.

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Beat Happening, Melvins, House Music, The Fall ... anything worthwhile, really.

― sexyDancer, Friday, 17 September 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of all Steely Dan. A friend played me "Hey Nineteen" and I couldn't stop crying. It was everything I hate with music. I guess that's why I've come to love it.

― strom (strom), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Dance music and hip hop. I loathed anything that didn't have guitars when I was a metaller.

― Wooden (Wooden), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

country music and Missy Elliot. The latter I used to find to be just flat out vulgar. Now, I find her hilarious (in a good way).

― frankE (frankE), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

probably everything i listen to.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i wouldn't say i "love" it now, but i'm finally starting to get britpop.

― A. Atom Gorgon (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The Pixies

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i kinda lost the plot about techno from 90-94.

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 19 September 2004 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i was a "the worst hiphop is a better bet than the best of anything else" type guy.

i think i missed a lot of great dancing experiences.

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 19 September 2004 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Pere Ubu, Van Halen, Love, AC/DC

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 19 September 2004 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Radiohead! (And actually, I still don't like _Pablo Honey_.)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Sunday, 19 September 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Kraftwerk!

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 19 September 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Jay-Z, Daft Punk, Loverboy, Pavement

― alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Sunday, 19 September 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Shania Twain

― Richard C (avoid80), Sunday, 19 September 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Sonic Youth

The Pixies

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 20 September 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i kinda lost the plot about techno from 90-94.
-- gaz (mullygrubbe...) (webmail), September 19th, 2004. (gaz)

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i was a "the worst hiphop is a better bet than the best of anything else" type guy.
i think i missed a lot of great dancing experiences.

-- gaz

gaz, you really missed the cream of techno by missing that era. And I regret missing out on Norwegian black metal because I was too busy with techno to notice.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 20 September 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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