# Bands you hated, but now love. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 11, 2008, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-hated-but-now-love/472157 "2008-11-11T03:42:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-hated-but-now-love/472157/1 "2008-11-11T03:42:54Z")
Time for the Old Switcheroo. For me, it was Soft Machine. I picked up Soft Machine **Volume 1** on a friend’s recommendation. Didn’t much care for it and put it away. But I would occasionally pick it up and play it again. The more I played it, the more I liked it. About a year later, I saw Soft Machine **Third** and bought it right away (I still think it’s an amazing album). Now I’m enough of a fan to buy Robert Wyatt’s **Rock Bottom** (also great). How about you? ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-hated-but-now-love/472157/2 "2008-11-11T03:52:52Z")
For me this usually happens with albums, not bands. Band X will release new album Y and I’ll say, “This suxs!”. But after a few weeks and several listens I’ll get into it and decide that it’s not so bad. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-hated-but-now-love/472157/3 "2008-11-11T04:02:21Z")
The White Stripes. I despised Jack White for years, and teased a friend last Spring for wanting to see them at last year’s Bonnaroo, but a mutual friend had me listen to their cover of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” a month or two before the event, and it made me curious enough that I started listening more closely to a lot of their other songs. By the time June rolled around, I was a fan and meant to see them but I didn’t get the chance. I also missed The Raconteurs at this year’s festival, but if either act shows up next year, I’m going to be there. ---
**Author:** ![Soapbox\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Soapbox\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soapbox_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-hated-but-now-love/472157/4 "2008-11-11T04:14:41Z")
The first Panic! at the Disco album was unforgiveably awful. Oh look, here’s another band straight out of Fall Out University, having no business being in a music studio. Their new album…isn’t bad. I really wanted to hate it. I _tried_ to hate it. But it’s…good. It shows promise. It’s like they decided to actually try this time. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-you-hated-but-now-love/472157/5 "2008-11-11T04:18:07Z")
When I was in high school, an affirmed lover of Ted Nugent, Montrose and other hard rock bands, I was the record reviewer for the school newspaper. I gave The Pretenders first album 2 stars out of 4. A couple of years later, at college, a guy I thought was cool put the album on (yes, vinyl in a non-retro-cool way) - so I listened with different ears… I remain ashamed to this day…a truly perfect album…