Bands you hated when you thought you were too cool but appreciate now

Eddie Money

I took a lot of heat for jumping on the Duran Duran bandwagon early on but I stood my ground and told people to sit back and listen closely before writing them off. Of special not to a community formed around Phil Lesh is John Taylor's bass playing. Very creative with a deep groove happening. 

Bruce Hornsby

Tom Petty

Harry Styles

Amy Winehouse

Hall and Oates

no can do

Prince 

Bud & Travis

Tomita

Jean-Michel Jarre

Roxy Music

A lot of Classical music

A whole lot of Jazz-Funk fusion

Most Show Tunes

Psychedelic Christian Rock circa 1968-1972

The Osmonds

i'll second the hall n oates and prince.

I'll third HalI and Oates and Prince, and raise ya' The Bee Gee's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHtGu0OGEpc

Dise and Earl in for the kill. 

Pre Disco ,I started a joke,  was is wonderful.

Bunch of Jazz & Pop Vocalists (Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Anita O'Day, Mel Torme) and Pop Instrumentalists (Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Arthur Lyman) too.

I was going to go with BeeGees too, but Earl beat me to it. 

Wait, tell me more about psychedelic christian rock, Dave!  Links?

I definitely missed Prince.

Sinatra

Springsteen

Ain't half bad...

These'll get you started, Jack:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/consequence.net/aux-out/dreamlab-christian-...

https://thecmr.forumotion.com/t9469-christian-psychedelic-music

https://www.google.com/amp/s/consequence.net/aux-out/dreamlab-christian-...

devo

REM.  Love them now, ignored them when they were around 

Hall and Oates CRUSHED their set at Jazzfest a few years back

Hall and Oates too.  Stoked that I got tix for October.

Barenaked Ladies is another.  They put on a good show.

Michael Jackson - some if his earlier solo stuff is dope.

Earth, Wind, & Fire. 

Phish

Thanks Dave... down the rabbit hole I go!

Bob Weir Band....

October 26, 1978 Paramount Theater, Portland, OR: Jerry Garcia Band/Bob Weir Band

In late October of 1978, the Jerry Garcia Band did a brief Northwestern tour, playing three dates in Portland, Eastern Washington State and Seattle. Although the circulating tapes of the shows are apparently quite good, these largely ignored shows are significant in that this is where Jerry Garcia first heard Brent Mydland, and suggested to Bob Weir that Mydland might work as the Dead's keyboardist.

At the time, Mydland was a member of The Bob Weir Band, who were opening all three dates. However, for various reasons, the Bob Weir Band had never played with Jerry Garcia before then, so the Portland show would have been Garcia's first real chance to hear Brent perform. Although the exact date of the conversation between Garcia and Weir is unknown, it apparently occurred during this weekend, so the October 26, 1978 show in Portland takes on an unexpected significance.

Hated may be a little strong, but I saw them about 6 months earlier & was bored.

I've tried Sinatra a bunch, but I've never heard any heart or soul in that voice. Obviously a great singing voice, but it seems to be the intangibles in art that birthed the saying to 'to each their own.' 

I don't much care for Sinatra, but the charts are killer on most of that material.

Reading Miles Davis' autobiography was what brought me around to Sinatra.  Miles cites him as one of his major influences, saying he learned more about phrasing from listening to Sinatra than anyone else.  Once I started listening to Frank that way, it opened up his music for me.

There is no denying the high caliber of songs, arrangements, personnel, engineering and high quality materials of most of his recordings.

As the years go by this becomes an interesting topic.

One of the best things about working concerts is the opportunity to see many artists one would never pay to see, and based mostly on live performances that I've seen while working so many shows, I've changed my tune about many bands I had disliked over the years, many that have been named here.

The first one that comes to mind for me is AC/DC, a band that for many years I thought was monolithic, one-note dull and foolish to boot.

But then I worked one of their shows, and this was after Brian Johnson had joined them, and I really couldn't stand him. 

Withing minutes, their raw, heavy, crunching rock sound, the intense energy from the crowd and the guitar playing of Angus Young had me completely turned around, watching the show (a major no-no). I'll never forget that moment or that show. To this day Brian Johnson still annoys me, but damn that band could play rock 'n roll.

Many, many others as well. Many of the other "hair bands" of the '80s surprised me. The Bee Gees put on a GREAT live show. Neil Diamond was pure schlock but he could also sing a ballad like no one else, and he really knew how to play to his crowd.

And yeah, Sinatra, although I always liked him. That man was a story-teller, the master of meter, brilliant with rhythm, phrasing & tone. In the same ways, I thought Jerry Garcia was like Sinatra, and even Dylan. None of those singers had "great" voices, but they all had a little story, they thought we should know.

One For My Baby. One of the greatest songs ever recorded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m121tmJzcAc

The Ramones, and then I went to see them in a small punk club in Orlando. They killed it, never really listen to them but man that one night was a show, Joey Ramone was a god 

Good thread. I always laughed and found deadheads to be the most "supposed open, but really closed" minded music fans. Especially toward successful or popular music. We always had to "out obscure " each other with our Uber innie finds instead 

Kanye 

Too many to name, but most of the stuff played on Little Stevens Underground Garage ( Ramones, Elvis, etc)

the phishes ! ! !

amused at how many bands/artists y'all listed are folks i have loved nearly a lifetime

Sadly, I didn't appreciate Amy Winehouse until after she died. :-(