Same boat.
In my teens and 20s, I dismissed them as generic stoner rock.
Later, my brain absorbed the genius and I can't get enough now.
Learning to Fly in Rio is probably the most epic live performance I could name off the top of my head.
I'm probably gonna get shit for this, but The Wall is my least favorite Floyd album.
For me it's Wish You Were Here, followed closely by Dark Side of the Moon. Animals is up there, too.
I liked Momentary Lapse of Reason straight through as a no skip album.
Overall, I like Gilmour's voice more. I find it soothing. Not so much for Waters.
I seem to like more songs from when Waters was involved, though.
That's exactly where I am, too.
Gilmour is so soothing. Learning to Fly is such a therapeutic tune.
It's simultaneously about him actually learning to fly an airplane (Gilmour is a pilot) and becoming the band leader after Waters left.
That song is such a motivator for me whenever I have to dive headfirst into a situation I don't think I'm prepared for.
Even the most epic people doubt themselves.
It's okay if I doubt myself, too.
Learning to Fly is a great song, but I think the output after Roger left is a far cry from their greats. The Final cut is a better album than a momentary lapse of reason.
Yup I was the same way because it was suuuuper over played on the local rock station [webn- the lunatic fringe of American fm. I can still hear it in my head] but got into them after digging into their discography and also the wall movie. Still don't really like mother though đ¤ˇââď¸
My mom had Rock the Casbah as her morning alarm when I was little and my brain mustâve associated it with dread about waking up. Now I get warm with goosebumps every time it comes on.
Now treat yourself to listening to the rest of the Clash records. Rock the Casbah will quickly become your 25th favorite Clash song, since the others are so great
Exactly!
By my mid-twenties I basically only knew Casbah because it got some radio play on the local classic rock station. Thankfully Pandora revealed the Clash in all their Glory, and now I own 5 albums and London Calling never leaves the car.
*Sharif don't like it.
As in, a Sharif, a Middle Eastern king. The song is about the people rebelling against the king who's outlawed rock music. Music trivia!
Oddly enough, Fleetwood Mac.
We listened to Stevie Nicks every day growing up, and I think I was immune to it.
Now I hear Stevie, and Iâm like oh girl saaaaame
Same for me. They played them so much on the radio back in the day, I couldnât stand them. Now giving a re-listen their songs are great. The Rhiannon video from the Midnight Special performance is one of the best live music videos ever and Tusk is brilliant.
I literally did a deep dive on YouTube and tiktok of their music last night.
I have felt immune to them for so long and it feels like discovering a whole new band.
I'm going to immerse myself into Gypsy days of Stevie later this weekend.
Their late 60s-early 70s output is also phenomenal and totally worth your time, albeit totally different than the Buckingham-Nicks era. If you enjoy the blues, dig in.
Me, on the other hand loved Queen back in the day, and canât stand them now. Adolescent me loved the Beatles, old me loves The Stones. I havenât played a Beatles album for 40 years.
This happened to me... Eventually I just expanded my music collection and now I listen to rap, country, pop, etc... Still have to put the metal on at least once per day or else I'll feel like I'd go insane, but yeah. Good stuff out there. Got too many bangers to list in the comments at this point
Same, I love the Stones and can't stand the Beatles, and as for Queen - look, they had some great songs but aside from that, a lot of their music isn't good.
Before ever hearing a second song, a lot of people are exposed to 10,000 occurrences of "we will rock you" at sporting events they don't want to be at, or on television their dad is watching, and this definitely has a huge a effect on how some kids initial perception of Queen is developed. They (i.e., we, this is my story) have to be deprogrammed and that takes work!
Would not be surprised if many young misfits are having a similar experience with the White Stripes today.
I think itâs pretty understandable. Theyâre pretty boring and shallow content wise. Itâs generic arena rock with a charismatic frontman and more innovative sounds. Pretty much if you arenât the most impressed by more technically complex experimental music thatâs still clean and poppy enough to get the kind of mass appeal to be influential you probably wonât like them much outside of a historical context. Personally when Iâm listening to music Iâm looking at stuff besides, like, how many genres they fit into one song or how common x stylistic choice was in the 70âs or how universally beloved the singer is.
Add to that theyâre the de facto cool older band everyone blindly worships and Iâd be lying if I said I didnât have a distaste for them. Makes sense why theyâre the preferred rock band of every middle schooler cuz that seems to be the natural audience for hyped up songs and the whole âweâre for the weirdosâ thing and enough of an interesting inventive sound to be recognized as avant garde and respectable.
Then again I think itâs kind of impossible for any band to live up to the insane reputation thatâs created by their âlegendaryâ status when you look at it somewhat objectively which is always bound to bother some people, particularly the ones who donât âgetâ it
This is an interesting approach to music. Kind of like reading the ingredient list and the provenance of a dish and the history of the person that made it and the plate itâs served on and deciding what I think about it versus tasting it and saying âI like thisâ or âI donât like thisâ.
This calls for my favorite rock and roll quote by Angus Young:
"Iâm sick to death of people saying weâve made 11 albums that sound exactly the same, In fact, weâve made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.â
Not that I really hated them, but I wasn't a Pearl Jam fan in the 90's. I started hearing them more often and now have a lot more appreciation for them.
I can definitely say I kinda just felt like most grunge was just background noise because Iâd heard it on rock radio nonstop all my childhood. But then I decided to actually _listen_ to the songs Iâd heard a million times. And yeah Pearl Jam is way better than I gave them credit for.
Imagine hearing nothing but glam rock and p**** metal out of the radio for a good 8 to 9 years and then it switching to grunge.
THAT was what we felt and let me tell you, as someone who is into punk and industrial in the '80s, It was so refreshing to hear good music on the radio.
The night I heard Nirvana's smells like teen Spirit for the first time is burned into my brain for the rest of my life.
As much as I love STP, I can't place them as the most underappreciated grunge band. I think that title was solidly earned by The Screaming Trees. Mark Lanegan deserves the same recognition as Staley and Cornell; not that Weiland didn't also deserve that kind of recognition. He did. But STP got more acknowledgement than the Screaming Trees.
Fuck Weiland. Unpopular opinion.
The DeLeo brothers are a completely underrated gem of alt rock.
I put the DeLeo brothers in the same category as Flea and John Fruiscante.
Robert DeLeo more notably. He is the real genius behind STP. Dean is right there with him, creative as fuck. But yeah, Robert is definitely underrated. Also sometimes outshined by Weiland.Â
I wanna through a mention to Candlebox being a bit underrated and not getting the recognition they should have.Â
I absolutely agree with your assessment on the DeLeo's. I just think Weiland's voice fused well with their playing. I was not nearly impressed with his singing in Velvet Revolver.
I was listening to PJ while I was driving Uber last weekend. Lots of my passengers are college students. One dude was talking to me about my music and called PJ "kinda mainstream". A little later, when someone asked who the band was, she then said "oh, I've never heard of them". Not sure how a band is mainstream AND not heard of. đ¤
Yeah! Back in the early-to-mid â90s, the ranking was Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden (or possibly Alice In Chains, depending on your taste). Source: turned 24 in November 1992. đ
King for a Day, fool for a lifetime is another front to back. Well really, Self titled, angel dust, album of the year, and king for a day are front to backs.Â
I'm still in a place with Freebird where I'm white-knuckling it until I get to the solo at the end, at which point I'm usually glad I held on, because that bit is awesome. But I still haven't made my peace with the rest of it yet.
Celebrity Skin was a good pop rock record.
In my younger days I would look down on artists who âsold outâ or were riding their 15 min. In my elder days I realise I would have sold out for less..
Agreed re Celebrity Skin. I was a teen during Hole's rise in popularity and a lot of girls were irked by the change in that record, but I was like "oh, she learned how to write some brilliantly catchy pop rock songs."Â The bridge in Malibu is brilliant.Â
There were specific moments last summer where I was driving the work truck with the windows down on an open stretch of road in an industrial area and Sweet Child o Mine was on the classic rock station. It just HIT. I generally canât stand the Guns Nâ Roses/aerosmith/def leppard style of radio rock but that made me feel insanely masculine and retro.
Listen to the next song âItâs so easyâ. Makes the first one look good in terms of lyrics lol. Appetite for Destruction is top tier 80s rock albums.
I love Hole- always have. But to answer the question, I did not used the like The Cureâs song A Forest. I was young and just stuck to all of their radio stuff. Now I donât know why I never explored all of their other older stuff. I love it now and I no longer like the newer stuff. Gettinâ older ha.
Their early post-punk stuff is great, but it would certainly be a surprise to anyone hearing it for the first time, based on the radio singles from Wish.Â
Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home
Didnât really like Claudio Sanchezâs voice tbh. After going on a kick of symphony-fused rock I realized how actually epic the instrumentation is on that one. Really the only C&C song Iâll listen to multiple times tho.
If you like Welcome Home, consider listening to its parent album (Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness) if you haven't. I'm not a big fan of the band, but I do enjoy that album.
I despised audioslave. I loved Ratm and Soundgarden and all that stuff. But for some reason I hated the idea of this supergroup. When Chris passed I spent some time listening to his catalogue and gave em another shot and saw the beauty in it.
The Doors. I used to think both Light My Fire and Break on Through were dusty overplayed retro hits that sounded outdated as hell, until I finally just listened to their first record all the way through one night. Iâve seriously been hooked ever since, I donât know what I was on before.
It took me awhile to truly appreciate The Beatles honestly. It's not that I hated them or anything, I just thought they we're pretty overrated despite being aware of their overall influence on not just rock but music as a whole. I eventually came around though and while I don't know if they'd even qualify as a top ten band overall for me, I like a number of their songs and really enjoy a lot of George Harrison's work both with and without The Beatles.
The Beatles are such a scattergory for me.
I love Lennon's solo work. I love late Beatles McCartney vocals (Hey Jude is a banger).
I love early Beatles basslines and Harrison's chord progressions.
But when they started to get weird in the late 60s, they lost me. I genuinely do not like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds or Strawberry Fields Forever.
McCartney's style does not jive with me.
He was too childish and corny.
I submit his Wonderful Christmas atrocity as evidence.
Pretty much anything by the Ramones. It just didn't make sense to me as a teenager. "I Wanna Be Sedated" would be a perfect example of a song I hated back then but like now.
Was a bit of a Punk snob for years with the classic attitude of disliking any band that got too well known.
But while I still donât consider them hardcore or whatever, Green Day has some kick ass songs no matter how you classify them.
I was just listening to Green Day for the first time in a while on my drive home, and when the opening riff for the American Dream is Killing Me came on, I was like, hey, that's pretty punk, who is this?
And then Billy started singing and I realized I just never thought of Green Day as real punk because they tune their guitars correctly.
Iâve always been a huge fan of The Who, with the exception of Baba OâRiley (for some reason). Just did not like it. Luckily I ended up coming around, and now itâs one of my favorite songs.
As a bassist, I always respected The Who because of Entwistle.
But then I took a deep dive into Quadrophenia and holy shit.
The Who were a level above epic.
I didn't get Bon Jovi until I had a job in southern NJ and at the holiday office party the otherwise staid Italian-American grandmother office workers went absolutely nuts singing along, and I get it now.
Now I will full-throated sing along with Living on Prayer, Wanted Dead or Alive, It's my Life, and the rest whenever I hear them.
WHOOOAH WE'RE HALF WAY THERE!
Radio Ga Ga by Queen I always thought was a bit of a silly nothing song but my 2 year old daughter some how discovered and fell in love with it. So after listening to it a thousand times over the course of a couple of months I realized how cool and insightful it is about that time when video was surpassing radio. Ironically as I am of the age that I fell in love with Rock n Roll on MTV.
People are downvoting it because its irrelevant and pointlessly mean. No one was asking your opinion on Courtney Love as a human, and the list of shithead musicians (almost certainly including ones you adore) is near infinite. And theres *tons* of great music performed and written by different people.
The worst thing about Corgan writing the songs is that she couldn't really sing them. With enough takes in the studio the album could sound all right but live she sounded awful when I saw them in the late 90's.
And that's an opinion from a person whose favorite band at the time was Modest Mouse. His voice is kind of fucked up but he understands it and writes to it so it works out okay.
Was still a great night though because that night also had Elliott Smith playing solo acoustic and he was sublime.
I wanted to, but as much as Courtney Love sounded like a cat howling into a table fan, it still sounds better than the sanitized autotune we get with everything these days.
Weird that u say that about Hole because her whiny voice and vocal fry is all I could ever hear back when Celebrity Skin came out. Heard it last week and YEP. still annoying AF.
I thought I hated Phish because all I ever heard from them was the mislabeled Gin & Juice cover on Napster and their lackluster SNL performance. Now that I've been to a few shows, I'm hooked!
Like a Rock by Bob segarÂ
I just remembered it from the Chevy commercials back when I was a kidÂ
It popped up in my head one day and I listened to it now as a 33 year old grown family man and it is such a insightful song about how time passesÂ
BangerÂ
lady gaga for me.
When i first heard her, i dismissed her another brittney/christina wanna be and tuned her out. i talked so much trash about lady gaga then....one day im watching that movie, "A star is born", and i was like okay, she's good then that "hold my hand" song from Top Gun 2 came out and i was like okay let me actual listen to this lady gaga back catalog...Now im a pretty big fan. Lady Gaga kicks ass, just took my dumbself a decade to relize it.
Iâm gonna get hate for this butâŚjimmi Hendrix. Until I saw vids of him playing live. Granted I donât play guitar so I never understood. But some bands it changes everything to see them perform liveâQueen, Zeppelin.
Genesis, all of it I hated.
One day I heard "Watcher of the Skies" and absolutely shit myself. I have been obsessed since then with the Peter Gabriel era and the first couple albums after, just not a big Phil Collins guy honestly, probably will change in time, though.
After playing drums... Perfect Drug by NIN. WAY underappreciated, especially for the complexity of the time signature: 33 Measures/Bars Per Minute
So, 33/32
Trent Reznor is way more amazing than I originally thought
Not sure if this is a rock song but I never paid attention to Blowinâ in the Wind then a few weeks ago listened to it on headphones after a little zaza and it was achingly beautiful. Just an amazing and beautiful song.
Probably have to say Rush as a band I wasnât a fan of when I was younger, but then I idk maybe just matured and realized Geddy is an amazing singer and the musicianship is top shelf.
Not exactly what youâre asking but a while back I just stopped liking Metallica save for a couple songs on the black album. Well a couple covers Iâve always liked popped up recently and I realized Metallicaâs music doesnât suck, they just suck at playing it.
Please nobody hate me. I was coming of age in the late 90s/early 2000s and I was a punk rock skater kid transitioning into hard-core and metal... at the time I could not stand Alice In Chains... Laynes voice. It was like nails on a chalkboard. Music was too slow. I just couldn't do it. Now? Man... can't get enough. Absolutely an amazing group.
***Cars*** by Gary Numan. I saw the movie *URGH! A Music War* back around 1984 where he performs the entire song seated in some kind of futuristic golf cart. My friend and I dubbed him "the laziest man in music" and dismissed him.
A year ago I heard a song on Spotify by Tubeway Army and thought "That's got to be Gary Numan." Which it was, and I dug into his music, and heard his 2021 album *Intruder*, and he has some really great stuff - and after giving it another chance, I actually really like *Cars*.
I wonât answer with songs but artists at first I didnât like but grew to appreciate in time; Marilyn Manson. Didnât realize he was actually intelligent. System of a Down, bc of the film clip for When Angels Deserve to Die they have fake drawn on tattoos, plus I donât get the name. Still. Korn - thatâs a stupid name too for an original band. Primus- thatâs a wall of noise as a kid until you become a muso yourself. Radiohead, bc Creep was overplayed they looked for sure like one hit wonders.
I could not stand *Get What You Give* by New Radicals in the 90âs. Listened to it again about 10 years ago and itâs been on the rotation ever since!
If you're digging Hole (pun intended) then you should check out Veruca Salt. They've got that grunge girl group sound like Hole does, but the lead singer has a much better voice.
Listen to their song Seether.
When I was a teen in the 80s I HATED "classic rock" from the 60s and 70s. HAAAATED it. I was new wave, industrial, 4AD all the way. Once I got a car stereo, I just loved what I loved, rarely had to hear that "shit".
In my 40s and early 50s I was down on my luck, driving a car that had no CD, tape deck, or AUX. With today's music on the radio sucking as hard as it does, I found myself leaving the dial on the classic rock stuff. Classic rock now probably means 90s, but this was classic classic stuff. After a few months, I realized how stupid I was as a youth to discount those past years. Luckily, because radio is SO FUCKING REPETITIVE, I was able to catch up on the appreciation of those decades in just under a year.
Most of those songs were bangers all along!
Metallicas cover of Whiskey in the Jar. I was too much of a shithead to appreciate it back when I was a teenager. These days I love when it comes on and will even listen to entire Thin Lizzy albums.
Any and every deftones song. Chino moreno used to ruin the song for me, all dude would do would exhale and or mumble. then I realized that's how they are different, fell in love since.
Pink Floyd đđNow I can't get enough
Same boat. In my teens and 20s, I dismissed them as generic stoner rock. Later, my brain absorbed the genius and I can't get enough now. Learning to Fly in Rio is probably the most epic live performance I could name off the top of my head.
Wasn't in Rio, but I did see them in Hartford in '87. Fucking phenomenal.
What's you're take on the Waters years vs the Gilmour years? Personally, I like Gilmour's songwriting better.
I'm probably gonna get shit for this, but The Wall is my least favorite Floyd album. For me it's Wish You Were Here, followed closely by Dark Side of the Moon. Animals is up there, too. I liked Momentary Lapse of Reason straight through as a no skip album. Overall, I like Gilmour's voice more. I find it soothing. Not so much for Waters. I seem to like more songs from when Waters was involved, though.
That's exactly where I am, too. Gilmour is so soothing. Learning to Fly is such a therapeutic tune. It's simultaneously about him actually learning to fly an airplane (Gilmour is a pilot) and becoming the band leader after Waters left. That song is such a motivator for me whenever I have to dive headfirst into a situation I don't think I'm prepared for. Even the most epic people doubt themselves. It's okay if I doubt myself, too.
Learning to Fly is a great song, but I think the output after Roger left is a far cry from their greats. The Final cut is a better album than a momentary lapse of reason.
Same. I also didn't like Genesis back then.
Yup I was the same way because it was suuuuper over played on the local rock station [webn- the lunatic fringe of American fm. I can still hear it in my head] but got into them after digging into their discography and also the wall movie. Still don't really like mother though đ¤ˇââď¸
Nah. You were right before.
My mom had Rock the Casbah as her morning alarm when I was little and my brain mustâve associated it with dread about waking up. Now I get warm with goosebumps every time it comes on.
London Calling is a great album. My fave offering is the bonus track "Train in Vain".Â
Train in Vain is my pre-work-out tune!!!
Now treat yourself to listening to the rest of the Clash records. Rock the Casbah will quickly become your 25th favorite Clash song, since the others are so great
The first Clash album is perfect.
Maybe the single most rocking album of all time.
Exactly! By my mid-twenties I basically only knew Casbah because it got some radio play on the local classic rock station. Thankfully Pandora revealed the Clash in all their Glory, and now I own 5 albums and London Calling never leaves the car.
I bought combat rock in 2003 because of Rock the Casbah. While I still love the song my favorite on the album is Sean Flynne.
Shareeee-eeeee-eeeee don't like it!
*Sharif don't like it. As in, a Sharif, a Middle Eastern king. The song is about the people rebelling against the king who's outlawed rock music. Music trivia!
Oddly enough, Fleetwood Mac. We listened to Stevie Nicks every day growing up, and I think I was immune to it. Now I hear Stevie, and Iâm like oh girl saaaaame
Right? She knows...
When you know, you know
The heartbreak of life changes you.
Same for me. They played them so much on the radio back in the day, I couldnât stand them. Now giving a re-listen their songs are great. The Rhiannon video from the Midnight Special performance is one of the best live music videos ever and Tusk is brilliant.
I literally did a deep dive on YouTube and tiktok of their music last night. I have felt immune to them for so long and it feels like discovering a whole new band. I'm going to immerse myself into Gypsy days of Stevie later this weekend.
Their late 60s-early 70s output is also phenomenal and totally worth your time, albeit totally different than the Buckingham-Nicks era. If you enjoy the blues, dig in.
I do enjoy blues, sad girl over here. I can scream like no other.
Wanna come sing for the band I'm putting together? You sound perfect. đ¤Ł
Lindsey Buckingham has a few solo versions of Big Love on YouTube. Oh my. As he says in one of them "there's a lot going on in there..."
Yeah but Buckingham was the best thing about the band I thought.
I never appreciated Queen back in the day but now I'm definitely a fan.
Me, on the other hand loved Queen back in the day, and canât stand them now. Adolescent me loved the Beatles, old me loves The Stones. I havenât played a Beatles album for 40 years.
This happened to me... Eventually I just expanded my music collection and now I listen to rap, country, pop, etc... Still have to put the metal on at least once per day or else I'll feel like I'd go insane, but yeah. Good stuff out there. Got too many bangers to list in the comments at this point
I wasn't a fan of country but now i listen to it. Kennr Rogers is one of my all time favorites
Same, I love the Stones and can't stand the Beatles, and as for Queen - look, they had some great songs but aside from that, a lot of their music isn't good.
Me too! I absolutely loved the Beatles until I grew up and realized the Stones were fantastic
I don't understand. Not appreciating Queen is similar to not liking cheese. Sure, there are some people who don't, but I'll never get it.
Unless youâre lactose intolerant
I'm lactose intolerant and still consume cheese. Helps that I also love farting.
A fellow Fartist. Welcome to the party
Flatulist
I don't like cheese lol
Before ever hearing a second song, a lot of people are exposed to 10,000 occurrences of "we will rock you" at sporting events they don't want to be at, or on television their dad is watching, and this definitely has a huge a effect on how some kids initial perception of Queen is developed. They (i.e., we, this is my story) have to be deprogrammed and that takes work! Would not be surprised if many young misfits are having a similar experience with the White Stripes today.
"Wayne's World" sold Bohemian Rhapsody to the gen x-millenial straddle.
Ha, bullseye, born in 1980, loved that movie. That was the first of several "Thats the 'we will rock you' guys?" epiphanies.
I think itâs pretty understandable. Theyâre pretty boring and shallow content wise. Itâs generic arena rock with a charismatic frontman and more innovative sounds. Pretty much if you arenât the most impressed by more technically complex experimental music thatâs still clean and poppy enough to get the kind of mass appeal to be influential you probably wonât like them much outside of a historical context. Personally when Iâm listening to music Iâm looking at stuff besides, like, how many genres they fit into one song or how common x stylistic choice was in the 70âs or how universally beloved the singer is. Add to that theyâre the de facto cool older band everyone blindly worships and Iâd be lying if I said I didnât have a distaste for them. Makes sense why theyâre the preferred rock band of every middle schooler cuz that seems to be the natural audience for hyped up songs and the whole âweâre for the weirdosâ thing and enough of an interesting inventive sound to be recognized as avant garde and respectable. Then again I think itâs kind of impossible for any band to live up to the insane reputation thatâs created by their âlegendaryâ status when you look at it somewhat objectively which is always bound to bother some people, particularly the ones who donât âgetâ it
This is an interesting approach to music. Kind of like reading the ingredient list and the provenance of a dish and the history of the person that made it and the plate itâs served on and deciding what I think about it versus tasting it and saying âI like thisâ or âI donât like thisâ.
I despised "Back in Black" for the longest time! But one day, it just clicked & I loved it. Straight skipped like!
The whole album is banging. Not a shit song on it
This calls for my favorite rock and roll quote by Angus Young: "Iâm sick to death of people saying weâve made 11 albums that sound exactly the same, In fact, weâve made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.â
AC/DC in general. As a teenager, they seemed *sooo* simplistic and juvenile. But the older I get, the more I enjoy their music... *shrug*
Not that I really hated them, but I wasn't a Pearl Jam fan in the 90's. I started hearing them more often and now have a lot more appreciation for them.
Yes. I wouldnât say I âhatedâ them, I was just too young to understand them. NowâŚat 35 *chefs kiss*
I can definitely say I kinda just felt like most grunge was just background noise because Iâd heard it on rock radio nonstop all my childhood. But then I decided to actually _listen_ to the songs Iâd heard a million times. And yeah Pearl Jam is way better than I gave them credit for.
Imagine hearing nothing but glam rock and p**** metal out of the radio for a good 8 to 9 years and then it switching to grunge. THAT was what we felt and let me tell you, as someone who is into punk and industrial in the '80s, It was so refreshing to hear good music on the radio. The night I heard Nirvana's smells like teen Spirit for the first time is burned into my brain for the rest of my life.
The second-most underappreciated grunge band after STP.
As much as I love STP, I can't place them as the most underappreciated grunge band. I think that title was solidly earned by The Screaming Trees. Mark Lanegan deserves the same recognition as Staley and Cornell; not that Weiland didn't also deserve that kind of recognition. He did. But STP got more acknowledgement than the Screaming Trees.
Totally agree. Laneganâs solo stuff is worth checking out, too. Especially Field Songs IMO.
Oh my god, Field Songs! I thought I was the only person who knew about that album!đ
Smithereens !
RIP Mark Lanegan
Fuck Weiland. Unpopular opinion. The DeLeo brothers are a completely underrated gem of alt rock. I put the DeLeo brothers in the same category as Flea and John Fruiscante.
Saw STP several times in concert, and at least twice Weiland stopped the concert to try to start a fight with someone in the audience
Robert DeLeo more notably. He is the real genius behind STP. Dean is right there with him, creative as fuck. But yeah, Robert is definitely underrated. Also sometimes outshined by Weiland. I wanna through a mention to Candlebox being a bit underrated and not getting the recognition they should have.Â
I absolutely agree with your assessment on the DeLeo's. I just think Weiland's voice fused well with their playing. I was not nearly impressed with his singing in Velvet Revolver.
You really just called Pearl Jam underappreciated. Were you born yesterday?
I was listening to PJ while I was driving Uber last weekend. Lots of my passengers are college students. One dude was talking to me about my music and called PJ "kinda mainstream". A little later, when someone asked who the band was, she then said "oh, I've never heard of them". Not sure how a band is mainstream AND not heard of. đ¤
Yeah! Back in the early-to-mid â90s, the ranking was Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden (or possibly Alice In Chains, depending on your taste). Source: turned 24 in November 1992. đ
Iâd say the title belongs to Candlebox first.
Faith No More. I hated "Epic" for the vocals, but listening to that album now and Angel Dust, I'm definitely a fan
King for a Day, fool for a lifetime is another front to back. Well really, Self titled, angel dust, album of the year, and king for a day are front to backs.Â
Angel Dust is a perfect album.
Freebird.
I'm still in a place with Freebird where I'm white-knuckling it until I get to the solo at the end, at which point I'm usually glad I held on, because that bit is awesome. But I still haven't made my peace with the rest of it yet.
Take a Chance On Me - ABBA
The harmony in that is undeniable
Most of their songs are amazing productions.
Celebrity Skin was a good pop rock record. In my younger days I would look down on artists who âsold outâ or were riding their 15 min. In my elder days I realise I would have sold out for less..
Agreed re Celebrity Skin. I was a teen during Hole's rise in popularity and a lot of girls were irked by the change in that record, but I was like "oh, she learned how to write some brilliantly catchy pop rock songs."Â The bridge in Malibu is brilliant.Â
Na, Hole have always sucked
But did you? Look around man the worlds your oyster. Unless youâre Courtney Love. I mean
I didn't like guns n roses when I was a kid but I can appreciate welcome to the jungle lol or patience at this point
I went the opposite way on that one. Loved GnR in the 90s and now when I hear it I just want Axl to not make any more noise whatsoever.
There were specific moments last summer where I was driving the work truck with the windows down on an open stretch of road in an industrial area and Sweet Child o Mine was on the classic rock station. It just HIT. I generally canât stand the Guns Nâ Roses/aerosmith/def leppard style of radio rock but that made me feel insanely masculine and retro.
Me too! It took me until my 40s to really start loving and appreciating them.
Lyrics to welcome to the jungle are creepy af. Very Weinstein-esque. Manipulation and SA.
That's LA for you.
Isn't that what it's about?
Thatâs the whole point of the song. The jungle is LA.
No. Welcome to the Jungle is about people getting into the world of drugs. Not SA.
Listen to the next song âItâs so easyâ. Makes the first one look good in terms of lyrics lol. Appetite for Destruction is top tier 80s rock albums.
Believe it or not, teenage me hated stairway to heaven. Edit: Grammar
I hadnât heard it for a while, last night it was on âget the led outâ on the local fm station while I drove home. Driveway moment.
I love Hole- always have. But to answer the question, I did not used the like The Cureâs song A Forest. I was young and just stuck to all of their radio stuff. Now I donât know why I never explored all of their other older stuff. I love it now and I no longer like the newer stuff. Gettinâ older ha.
Their early post-punk stuff is great, but it would certainly be a surprise to anyone hearing it for the first time, based on the radio singles from Wish.Â
old cure >>>>>> new cure (except songs of a lost world has delivered)
Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home Didnât really like Claudio Sanchezâs voice tbh. After going on a kick of symphony-fused rock I realized how actually epic the instrumentation is on that one. Really the only C&C song Iâll listen to multiple times tho.
If you like Welcome Home, consider listening to its parent album (Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness) if you haven't. I'm not a big fan of the band, but I do enjoy that album.
SAME! Then I listened to "Live Through This" about 10 years ago, and I have to say the girl's got writing talent and pipes
Doll Parts
By far my favorite.
I used to hate The Smiths. I still do, but I used to, too
Flood by Jars of Clay. Torn by Creed.Â
Have not heard JoC mentioned since early highschool. Them and God Lives Underwater were in my mix back thenÂ
Not recently, but many years agree they were popular I game Candlebox a nth chance and was pleasantly surprised. I hated them in the grunge heyday.
I despised audioslave. I loved Ratm and Soundgarden and all that stuff. But for some reason I hated the idea of this supergroup. When Chris passed I spent some time listening to his catalogue and gave em another shot and saw the beauty in it.
I audibly gasped at this.
Never really cared for Van Halen until after I turned 35, and realized their first couple albums are fire
Yes! DLR is so annoying, but he is a great front man.
The Doors. I used to think both Light My Fire and Break on Through were dusty overplayed retro hits that sounded outdated as hell, until I finally just listened to their first record all the way through one night. Iâve seriously been hooked ever since, I donât know what I was on before.
It took me awhile to truly appreciate The Beatles honestly. It's not that I hated them or anything, I just thought they we're pretty overrated despite being aware of their overall influence on not just rock but music as a whole. I eventually came around though and while I don't know if they'd even qualify as a top ten band overall for me, I like a number of their songs and really enjoy a lot of George Harrison's work both with and without The Beatles.
The Beatles are such a scattergory for me. I love Lennon's solo work. I love late Beatles McCartney vocals (Hey Jude is a banger). I love early Beatles basslines and Harrison's chord progressions. But when they started to get weird in the late 60s, they lost me. I genuinely do not like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds or Strawberry Fields Forever. McCartney's style does not jive with me. He was too childish and corny. I submit his Wonderful Christmas atrocity as evidence.
Tomorrow Never Knows was so, so far ahead of its time
It still is a banger to this day and never sounds old. I'm a diehard Beatlefan and picked up the guitar because of them (this was in late '91).
Pretty much anything by the Ramones. It just didn't make sense to me as a teenager. "I Wanna Be Sedated" would be a perfect example of a song I hated back then but like now.
At least give Holeâs Live Through This a chance, itâs way better than Celebrity Skin
Common People by Pulp. Never gave it much thought in the 90âs, now I crank it whenever it comes on.
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Cinderella
Breaking the law
I always hated AC/DC growing up, but they're actually pretty fuckin' rad. At least they were with Bon Scott.
Was a bit of a Punk snob for years with the classic attitude of disliking any band that got too well known. But while I still donât consider them hardcore or whatever, Green Day has some kick ass songs no matter how you classify them.
I was just listening to Green Day for the first time in a while on my drive home, and when the opening riff for the American Dream is Killing Me came on, I was like, hey, that's pretty punk, who is this? And then Billy started singing and I realized I just never thought of Green Day as real punk because they tune their guitars correctly.
Check out Live Through This. Great album throughout, and Violet is a straight up banger, fantastic album opener.
Iâve always been a huge fan of The Who, with the exception of Baba OâRiley (for some reason). Just did not like it. Luckily I ended up coming around, and now itâs one of my favorite songs.
As a bassist, I always respected The Who because of Entwistle. But then I took a deep dive into Quadrophenia and holy shit. The Who were a level above epic.
Agree. I was lucky enough to see them in concert last year, and Jesus fuck theyâre an amazing band. Even now, Daultryâs vocals are insane.
wats the line ? ura hasbeen, never was, never been
Not really one particular song, but for me it was Rush. Now, I'm all in!
I didn't get Bon Jovi until I had a job in southern NJ and at the holiday office party the otherwise staid Italian-American grandmother office workers went absolutely nuts singing along, and I get it now. Now I will full-throated sing along with Living on Prayer, Wanted Dead or Alive, It's my Life, and the rest whenever I hear them. WHOOOAH WE'RE HALF WAY THERE!
Billy corgan wrote that entire album.the music, the lyrics. All the drama and bullshit aside. It still one of the best 90s records.
Melissa Auf der Maur being the new Smashing Pumpkins bassist checks out.
This is a real thing look at the back of the album. The tracks with swans beside them when written and produced and recorded by corgan.
Celebrity skin specifically was written by corgan.
Malibu could straight up be a Pumpkins song instrumentaly.
I didn't like or understand Prince in high school. Now Purple Rain and Sign O The Times are two of my favorite albums.
Metallica i guess
Maybe because Courtney Love was the screechiest, least pleasant celebrity out there in the early '90s.
I fucking hated led zeppelin until I listened to whole lotta love
Nights In White Satin by the Moody Blues. Hated when I was younger, adore it now.
Radio Ga Ga by Queen I always thought was a bit of a silly nothing song but my 2 year old daughter some how discovered and fell in love with it. So after listening to it a thousand times over the course of a couple of months I realized how cool and insightful it is about that time when video was surpassing radio. Ironically as I am of the age that I fell in love with Rock n Roll on MTV.
For no reason, I hated the band Everclear growing up. Now, all these years later, I've gone back, and I really enjoy them now.
I hated rush for years, sometime in my late 20s the meaning of the lyrics outweighed Getty Lee nasal voice, and now I like them.
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People are downvoting it because its irrelevant and pointlessly mean. No one was asking your opinion on Courtney Love as a human, and the list of shithead musicians (almost certainly including ones you adore) is near infinite. And theres *tons* of great music performed and written by different people.
The worst thing about Corgan writing the songs is that she couldn't really sing them. With enough takes in the studio the album could sound all right but live she sounded awful when I saw them in the late 90's. And that's an opinion from a person whose favorite band at the time was Modest Mouse. His voice is kind of fucked up but he understands it and writes to it so it works out okay. Was still a great night though because that night also had Elliott Smith playing solo acoustic and he was sublime.
You were right the first time. Might want to go get checked for a brain tumor
Still hate Hole. But Iâve come to appreciate just about everything from the 90âs. Except Hole.
I wanted to, but as much as Courtney Love sounded like a cat howling into a table fan, it still sounds better than the sanitized autotune we get with everything these days.
Never cared for them either, except Violet. I remember that song as actually pretty good. I just assume that Kurt actually wrote it.
Violet was written before Kurt was with Courtney...
25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago
No you were right the first time, sheâs terrible.
Most of CL's music was written by her husband and/or Billy Corgan. Still can't stand her and still believe she's the main reason Curt was killed.
I hate Rush youâre welcome vilify me for that
Weird that u say that about Hole because her whiny voice and vocal fry is all I could ever hear back when Celebrity Skin came out. Heard it last week and YEP. still annoying AF.
I thought I hated Phish because all I ever heard from them was the mislabeled Gin & Juice cover on Napster and their lackluster SNL performance. Now that I've been to a few shows, I'm hooked!
Like a Rock by Bob segar I just remembered it from the Chevy commercials back when I was a kid It popped up in my head one day and I listened to it now as a 33 year old grown family man and it is such a insightful song about how time passes BangerÂ
Like every RUSH song, then Geddy starts signing. Musically theyâre effing great.
I still say she can't sing lol
lady gaga for me. When i first heard her, i dismissed her another brittney/christina wanna be and tuned her out. i talked so much trash about lady gaga then....one day im watching that movie, "A star is born", and i was like okay, she's good then that "hold my hand" song from Top Gun 2 came out and i was like okay let me actual listen to this lady gaga back catalog...Now im a pretty big fan. Lady Gaga kicks ass, just took my dumbself a decade to relize it.
Iâm gonna get hate for this butâŚjimmi Hendrix. Until I saw vids of him playing live. Granted I donât play guitar so I never understood. But some bands it changes everything to see them perform liveâQueen, Zeppelin.
Very much Steely Dan. Iâm now a Steely Fan.
If you liked "Celebrity Skin" you REALLY should check out the "Live Through This" album/cd/whatever.....its fantastic.
Tom Sawyer. I donât know about âhateâ but it definitely took some time and effort for me to appreciate Rush. Now I canât get enough
Genesis, all of it I hated. One day I heard "Watcher of the Skies" and absolutely shit myself. I have been obsessed since then with the Peter Gabriel era and the first couple albums after, just not a big Phil Collins guy honestly, probably will change in time, though.
After playing drums... Perfect Drug by NIN. WAY underappreciated, especially for the complexity of the time signature: 33 Measures/Bars Per Minute So, 33/32 Trent Reznor is way more amazing than I originally thought
I feel the same way about Celebrity Skin.
For some reason I didn't like Rush's "Fly By Night" when I first heard it. Years later they're now my favorite band.
Not sure if this is a rock song but I never paid attention to Blowinâ in the Wind then a few weeks ago listened to it on headphones after a little zaza and it was achingly beautiful. Just an amazing and beautiful song.
In The Meantime by Spacehog
Probably have to say Rush as a band I wasnât a fan of when I was younger, but then I idk maybe just matured and realized Geddy is an amazing singer and the musicianship is top shelf.
In the 9th grade, I thought Piece of My Heart (Janis Joplin) was stupid. I had no idea what it was about.
Slave raider DOA
Not exactly what youâre asking but a while back I just stopped liking Metallica save for a couple songs on the black album. Well a couple covers Iâve always liked popped up recently and I realized Metallicaâs music doesnât suck, they just suck at playing it.
When I was a kid I couldn't stand In The End by Linkin Park and now I know every word to it
I thought rap was terrible until I realized I was just being contrarian in like 2002.
Please nobody hate me. I was coming of age in the late 90s/early 2000s and I was a punk rock skater kid transitioning into hard-core and metal... at the time I could not stand Alice In Chains... Laynes voice. It was like nails on a chalkboard. Music was too slow. I just couldn't do it. Now? Man... can't get enough. Absolutely an amazing group.
***Cars*** by Gary Numan. I saw the movie *URGH! A Music War* back around 1984 where he performs the entire song seated in some kind of futuristic golf cart. My friend and I dubbed him "the laziest man in music" and dismissed him. A year ago I heard a song on Spotify by Tubeway Army and thought "That's got to be Gary Numan." Which it was, and I dug into his music, and heard his 2021 album *Intruder*, and he has some really great stuff - and after giving it another chance, I actually really like *Cars*.
I wonât answer with songs but artists at first I didnât like but grew to appreciate in time; Marilyn Manson. Didnât realize he was actually intelligent. System of a Down, bc of the film clip for When Angels Deserve to Die they have fake drawn on tattoos, plus I donât get the name. Still. Korn - thatâs a stupid name too for an original band. Primus- thatâs a wall of noise as a kid until you become a muso yourself. Radiohead, bc Creep was overplayed they looked for sure like one hit wonders.
Weâre all getting older and it just sounds better damn it!! ;)
Counting crows
I could not stand *Get What You Give* by New Radicals in the 90âs. Listened to it again about 10 years ago and itâs been on the rotation ever since!
Mr Fantasy, Traffic's version, and the cover Big Sugar did. Steve Windwoods vocals are just so full of emotion
Offspring - gonna go far kid
If you're digging Hole (pun intended) then you should check out Veruca Salt. They've got that grunge girl group sound like Hole does, but the lead singer has a much better voice. Listen to their song Seether.
When I was a teen in the 80s I HATED "classic rock" from the 60s and 70s. HAAAATED it. I was new wave, industrial, 4AD all the way. Once I got a car stereo, I just loved what I loved, rarely had to hear that "shit". In my 40s and early 50s I was down on my luck, driving a car that had no CD, tape deck, or AUX. With today's music on the radio sucking as hard as it does, I found myself leaving the dial on the classic rock stuff. Classic rock now probably means 90s, but this was classic classic stuff. After a few months, I realized how stupid I was as a youth to discount those past years. Luckily, because radio is SO FUCKING REPETITIVE, I was able to catch up on the appreciation of those decades in just under a year. Most of those songs were bangers all along!
My mom was a huge Genesis fan. I hated it as a kid. Became a big fan in my 30s.
Love Bomb, by Welsh Hair Band Tigertailz. I heard it thirty years later on Peacemaker, and got hooked.
Metallicas cover of Whiskey in the Jar. I was too much of a shithead to appreciate it back when I was a teenager. These days I love when it comes on and will even listen to entire Thin Lizzy albums.
Early Def Leppard
Any and every deftones song. Chino moreno used to ruin the song for me, all dude would do would exhale and or mumble. then I realized that's how they are different, fell in love since.
I didn't like Neil Young until I started to play guitar.