My earliest experience of this was when I first heard the record Hendrix In the West - I didn't really like it at first, but kept listening because it was interesting, but in a couple years grew to love it. Same with the record Live Dead, almost hated it at first.
Atlanta Rhythm Section - never really grabbed me other than enjoying the radio hits here and there, got directed to their live stuff from a thread here and was blown away, love their sound.
Free jazz, Coltrane, Davis, Monk - way too late in life -would have liked this a lot earlier but was stuck behind the Rocknroll Curtain
Vietnamese pop from the 60s and 70s, really dig
Dub reggae - always liked reggae, not dub, but then it took
Some electronica, trance stuff, very groovy
Gregorian chants, Palestrina chorale
Native American drum songs
Early sixties French Yé-Yé, Françoise Hardy (bites hand)
Edith Piaf
Film music composers, Toru Takemitsu (Ran), Ennio Morricone (Good Bad Ugly)
Recently turned on to Hugh Masakela, by an HTW member here, great discovery!
and on and on, it never ends, music planet
[Edited on 8/21/2019 by BrerRabbit]
Nice topic....
Queen!
Bluegrass
Classical Piano
Reggaethon and salsa. It is the only music my wife plays in the car.
I HATED country growing up. In high school I worked at a basketball arena and acts would come — Alabama, Garth (3 nights in a row), Alan Jackson,etc.
Those shows drove me nuts.
Then my college roommate was a big country fan and I turned around a bit, then my law school roommate was an old country and western / outlaw country, whatever you want to call it fan, and I became hooked.
Now, I love it — pop country up until early 2000s and all “real” country / good country rock.
The Dead
Frank Sinatra
Can't say I would ever love music I didn't originally like, however I find myself liking much of the music I originally dismissed when MTV 1st came out.
for me in general, country music.
I focus on the excellent players, not so much the corny lyrics....
I definitely have a much bigger appreciation for disco music than I did when the "disco sucks" backlash was active right when I was becoming a music fanatic.
The bass lines in Bee Gees music and many other disco songs in the late 70s were great. Those were real bands with real drums plus real orchestra strings playing that stuff. Great players. Some of it is cheesy but there are also great songs from that era I now appreciate.
Grateful Dead
I HATED country growing up. In high school I worked at a basketball arena and acts would come — Alabama, Garth (3 nights in a row), Alan Jackson,etc.
Those shows drove me nuts.
Then my college roommate was a big country fan and I turned around a bit, then my law school roommate was an old country and western / outlaw country, whatever you want to call it fan, and I became hooked.
Now, I love it — pop country up until early 2000s and all “real” country / good country rock.
THIS! Just digging into Turnpike Troubadours, Uncle Lucious recently, in addition to having dug Sturgil Simpson and the classic outlaw stuff in the last 5 years.
Good posts from above. I was anti-disco in the late 70s, but some of those basslines are indeed killers. I was anti the new wave of MTV bands in the 80s, but I enjoy the catchy melodies now that I don't care about the hairstyles.
As far as actually buying albums, though, I can only think of two artists that I went from dismissing to later purchasing their stuff: Prince and the Bangles.
Grateful Dead
I HATED country growing up. In high school I worked at a basketball arena and acts would come — Alabama, Garth (3 nights in a row), Alan Jackson,etc.
Those shows drove me nuts.
Then my college roommate was a big country fan and I turned around a bit, then my law school roommate was an old country and western / outlaw country, whatever you want to call it fan, and I became hooked.
Now, I love it — pop country up until early 2000s and all “real” country / good country rock.
THIS! Just digging into Turnpike Troubadours, Uncle Lucious recently, in addition to having dug Sturgil Simpson and the classic outlaw stuff in the last 5 years.
give tyler childers a try if you havent already.
I HATED country growing up. In high school I worked at a basketball arena and acts would come — Alabama, Garth (3 nights in a row), Alan Jackson,etc.
Those shows drove me nuts.
Then my college roommate was a big country fan and I turned around a bit, then my law school roommate was an old country and western / outlaw country, whatever you want to call it fan, and I became hooked.
Now, I love it — pop country up until early 2000s and all “real” country / good country rock.
THIS! Just digging into Turnpike Troubadours, Uncle Lucious recently, in addition to having dug Sturgil Simpson and the classic outlaw stuff in the last 5 years.
If you’re an uncle Lucius fan you ABSOLUTELY much check out their lead’s solo album from last year.
Kevin Galloway — The Change.
My favorite album of the year, hands down.
Blood Swear & Tears, Hall and Oats
😮 I never thought I’d say this but ....Queen ... the movie changed my thoughts and feelings
I thought it was great 
Dixieland jazz. My dad liked The Dukes of Dixieland and Jack Teagarden when I was a kid. But lately I discovered all the YouTube videos of Tuba Skinny playing on the street un New Orleans for tips and I like it.
