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For me it is Chic (Niles Rogers and Bernard Edwards)
Roxy Music
quite a departure from Discharge, the Damned and lot of other noisy stuff when I was a nipper.
I hated the Smiths, now I'm a miserable old(er) fart I love them.
I never really got to grips with the genius of Barry Manillow. Now, in my more mature years, I realise how much emptier my life was for not fully embracing songs about showgirls called Lola
James Last.
Not actually appreciating but more like missing some bits that might be interesting ...
!! DAD ROCK !!
I bought A Love Supreme by John Coltrane years ago but found it horrible to listen to.
I decided to give it another go in the car on the way to work this week and it is sublime.
That and The Reynolds Girls.
Johnny Cash
Pink Floyd.
Loads of soul and funk.
puts head over the edge of teh desk and types "Wagner" - not the one of the TV but the one who wrote sublime music. In my Yoof I would have sneared at anyone liking it. Heading back under my desk now.........
Simple Minds, hated them when I was a teenager and everyone else at school loved them. Like the OP I was into Discharge, Vice Squad, Crass, Blitz, etc.
Going to see Simple Minds in November!
Dire Straits
[i]Simple Minds, hated them when I was a teenager [/i]
Opposite to me - liked em back then, but now they sound utterly crap 🙂
[i]but now they sound utterly crap[/i]
And I imagine they will sound completely crap live.
Lynyrd Skynyrd or however you spell them
Credence Clear Water Revival
AC/DC
I wasn't born when they were 'current' but I just thought it was a load of hippy rubbish when I was younger. Now have them on repeat most days....
The Eagles.
The Kinks.
Decidely much betterer than The Beatles
Wagner (ditto)
Miles Davis
Pink Floyd, The Who, Led Zepplin, The Beatles.
I've just realised that it's pretty much the whole of music from the late 60's and 70's.
Of course, it's all better than this modern rubbish.
After well over a decade of rock puritanism and furious opposition to anything even vaguely 'urban' sounding I've got quite into my thoughtful Hip-hop, Aesop Rock and Sage Francis in particular.
Also now dabbling in Dubstep so I can't help but feel my musical taste is travelling in roughly the opposite direction to how most people go when they hit thier 30's.
No Coldplay for me yet, my wife has strict instructions to euthanaise me on the spot if that happens!
The Smiths and Roxy Music!!
[i]Aesop Rock and Sage Francis[/i]
Ooh, nice - can I recommend B Dolan, Cadence Weapon, Subtle and Nocando to your good self..?
On hitting 40 I stopped listening to Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green era, obviously), blues, Pink Floyd, Muse, Coldplay...
I now irritate my wife with Devil Sold His Soul, Bring me the Horizon, Slayer, While She Sleeps, Palm Reader, Suicidal Tendencies, Feed the Rhino, Deftones, Dead Harts, Meshugga, Hacktavist, Cancer Bats etc... if it isn't screamey and loud it gets no air time, I used to hate that kind of vocal style..... think it is the outlet for my mid-life crisis, can't afford a sports car!
Was also into Punk/goth in me youth, but now partial to a bit of Chic, Eruption, Donna Summer, Boney M. windows firmly closed and volume on low tho.
The Beatles.
About the only bands/music that I appreciate now, and didn't when it was current, is the Smiths, and ABBA, who I discovered made several stunning, more down-beat songs on their later albums. I only found this out after recording the two ABBA Gold albums onto cassette for my folks to play in the car. [i]Cassandra[/i], and [i]The Day Before You Came[/i] are big favourites, now. The Smiths [i]How Soon Is Now[/i] is also a massive favourite, too, but I've grown to like all the Smiths stuff.
Lots of stuff that I didn't like then and still don't like much, like jazz, and C&W. Alt.Country/Americana is fine, though.
The Blues, especially Robert Johnson and Mississippi Fred McDowell.
The Clash
i was much more of a Buzzcocks and Pistols fan
Townes van Zandt, Guy Clark and Steve Earl.
This is amongst the best ... used to listen to it in those days ... 
So relaxing ... proper cool music ...
fleetwood mac
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Rolling Stones, wish now, I had been into them earlier.
Finding charity Vinyls for bargain prices has me all excited about listening to music all over again 😉
Can
Neu!
Captain Beefheart
My Dad's records 😯
Neil Young
The Byrds
CSN
Johnny Cash
Brass bands, mainly colliery bands.
Pretty much everything I now listen to.
I was a tasteless oik
Mainly blues stuff.
Lightning Hopkins
John Lee Hooker
Captain Beefheart
America
Dr Feelgood
Being 15 and into crass and discharge I absolutely detested pink floyd, led Zep and AC/DC. Turns out I've cd's by all of them now that I actually quite like....
Chic are ace (although sister sledge I prefer, I just love we are family and lost in music).
I've always loved proper country though. Merle haggard is my hero 😀
I also used to hate goldfrapp (the Loon's favourite band at one point). Turns out I've a couple of their CDs now too. And they get a spin every now and again too...
Never really got on with the clash until London Calling... More of a Buzzcocks fan really.
ETA: could never have seen myself listening to Bach or Purcell back in the day either, let alone stuff like Part, Reich, etc.
Norwegian death skiffle
The Who, few other bits of 70s rock. Was 13 in 1978 so sort of jumped straight in to music with punk and new wave and anything unrelated that came before was ignored. Always dabbled a bit in classical but getting more into it now. Still don't really get Pink Floyd or Led Zep though.
Hmmm. Tight vocal harmonies, ambient and drone, dance music and of course, QOTSA.
I also used to hate goldfrapp (the Loon's favourite band at one point). Turns out I've a couple of their CDs now too. And they get a spin every now and again too...
Got tickets to see them in a small venue in Bristol on Sunday, as a warm-up to their Somerset House and festival gigs.
Can't wait!
MLC, just think of Zeppelin as a loud folk band, particularly Zep III.
as a teenager remember seeing Marc Bolan on Top of the Pops and I just didn't get it - no huge fan now but I can see how far ahead of the pack he was back then when I hear a tune on the wireless
I added folky music to my listening from around age thirty. I still dislike soul and disco. But electronica and house beats are ok.
like others - music that my dad liked. - i.e. Dire Straits!! 😯
I wouldn't have said that 20 years ago!
I never really got the Psychedelic Furs at the time but they have some awesome records/tunes.
Martin Carthy.
My younger, hipper self is shuddering as I write.
But it turns out that dude plays suh-weet folk guitar and the old British folk numbers are actually pretty damn good.
DezB - MemberAesop Rock and Sage Francis
Ooh, nice - can I recommend B Dolan, Cadence Weapon, Subtle and Nocando to your good self..?
You most certainly can.. and just did, *totters off happily to have an online rummage*
ELO
Just "found" them/him last week.
metalheart - Member
Being 15 and into crass
wasn't Penny Rimbaud an old hippy?
Lots of classical stuff my Dad listened to, in fact I'm mainly on Classic FM in the car.
Still love lots of stuff I was into in the 70's & 80's though.
Drum and Bass and Hair Metal
Dance and DJ's mixing became of interest about 5 years ago.
camo16 - Member
Martin Carthy.My younger, hipper self is shuddering as I write.
But it turns out that dude plays suh-weet folk guitar and the old British folk numbers are actually pretty damn good.
Martin's practically as [i]old[/i] as British folk! Along with his wife Norma Waterson , and his daughter Eliza, the family are an institution. He's 72, and still gigging, BTW.
You ought to check out Eliza's stuff, she was mixing folk with dance beats years ago, [i]Red Rice[/i], released in 1998.