Bands that took a long time to grow on you

wash_

Pearl Jam and Neil Young.

Oddly enough, Sleater Kinney was an instant liking.

stateoflove79

Incubus
Radiohead

Those are the main ones.

pdh1978

wash_ wrote:

Pearl Jam and Neil Young.

Neil Young took me a good few years to get into. The Unplugged and Harvest Moon albums are not a good place to start...

Thanks God I found Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - he is my absolute favourite now.

Pearl Jam I first heard when Vs. came out - my friend gave me a tape and I was hooked from the start.

Edit: BUT, I remember running out to the shops straight after school to buy No Code on release day - and being so disappointed. I tried hard to like it, but it wasn't until years later that I started to enjoy it...

Dick Jones

Kings of Leon

Downloaded Aha Shake and upon first listen it was forgettable to me,...a few months later, I played that album to death. And it's pretty high up there for one of my favorite records. My most played album on my mp3 player, Rememo and King of the Rodeo top the played list, by far.

rcs

Not for me, but it took my brother 15 years to get into Pearl Jam. I took him to the Gorge shows last year and now he is a complete fanatic! All I could say to him after was "Now do you get it?" Boy does he!

Gary Carter

chris cornell


i used to hate his voice and i wasnt a big fan of soundgarden, now i cant get enough of his voice and everything he has put out

Odin

whoops, wrong thread

while i'm here... Deftones.

MattCameronKicksButt

erm, Pearl Jam. My brother was listening to them when I was 10 years old.
When Vs came out I started to really like them.
My brother once caught me hiding behind the sofa singing the songs on Ten and reading the inlay card. He REALLY took the piss out of me - but I know deep down he was proud!

snipes824

Mother Love Bone and Alice in Chains. Strangely enough, AIC is now my 2nd favorite band probably. Go figure.

gabers

White Stripes
Wilco

Now two of my favorite bands, period.

Also Neil Young, The Who, and Pink Floyd, believe it or not.

itsevobaby

placebo - took me along time to get that voice

Blind Melon

Grüvis Malt
Circa Survive
Modest Mouse
Rush

Ved in the Head91

The White Stripes and Guns 'N Roses

I actually tried to resist The White Stripes as much as I could when they were first hyped. Thought it would just be another passing fad - but they really, genuinely won me over.

Believe it or not, I HATED GNR for the longest time. Hated them. But Slash obviously became one of my favorite guitarists, so slowly, ever so slowy, I developed a respect for what Axl could do with his voice. Now I love them (for the longest time, I couldn't get over what a shit drummer Steven Adler was).


I did instantly like Pearl Jam from the time I bought Vs. and so forth, but it took a little while to for them to earn the top spot as my favorite band. It's not so easy to knock off Zep or the Beatles! (or Nirvana for that matter)

tonadax

the last ´grunge´ band i really get into was soundgarden, at first i found their music so complex and unmelodic, but from 2 or 3 years i have listened to them almost everyday...

itsevobaby

took me three seperate occassions over a period of a couple years for these guys to finally click with me, i knew i'd like them but they really took some effort! (and some weed & a pipe as it turned out, surprise surprise )

MattCameronKicksButt

(listening to music as you fall asleep, makes it easier to get used to - I think. That's how I got into Sonic Youth of all bands.

JC is a wonderful song to listen to as you drift off to sleep).

FinsburyParkCarrots

Waters-era Floyd. I was a Syd purist, for years.

itsevobaby

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

(listening to music as you fall asleep, makes it easier to get used to - I think. That's how I got into Sonic Youth of all bands.

JC is a wonderful song to listen to as you drift off to sleep).

i fucken love JC, def in my top 3 on that album

Lifted

pearl jam, took me 10 years to give them they're proper chance, and now they've been by far my favorite band for the past 6 years. my morning jacket took me a few listens to z before i became a fanatic. i liked it at first but now they are my second favorite band and i went and got all their albums of course...............and yeah sonic youth, took me a couple months after i first checked them out to really appreciate their music. one of my top bands as well now.

angryyoungman

rage against the machine. . .never was a big fan until recently, now im starting to dig them