what artists and or album that you grew to love YEARS after the fact?

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

i usually find myseklf doing this to old artists or albums i didn't like in the begining but then i sort of rediscover them.how about you?

[Voncaster]

Pretty much the whole punk genre in general. I never really paid attention to, but I have this major punk fan at work.

Now I really dig Bad Religion, Dead Kennedy's, NOFX, Propagandi and of course...the Ramones.

[monkeysweat]

A Tribe Called Quest - Beats, Rhymes and Life.

I threw that shit in the trash the first time I bought it. Just didn't live up to Midnight Marauders at all. Now, though, it's regularly rotated material.

[blackdragon6]

jodeci's first album,specificly their singles from that album.when they first camed out i did not like them.it might have been the hype that surounded those songs.and the fact that they was played to death.but now that the hype has died out i strangely apreciate the songs more..... go figure.

[Rob Imes]

Back in the mid-1980s when my sister had bought all of the Monkees LPs, I remember thinking that I liked "Head" and "Birds & Bees" a little bit more than "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones, Ltd." I remember thinking the Harry Nillson-written/Davy Jones-sung "Cuddly Toy" on that album was kinda sappy.

Cut to August 2005, and I happen to get "Pisces" on CD, and I was very surprised at how much I dug it, and how much I dug "Cuddly Toy"! Maybe listening so much to 1960s Beach Boys and Paul Simon lately has opened up my ears to a well-crafted pop song even more than they were opened before. I sit and look at the trio of tracks on Side 1 from "The Door Into Summer" to "Love Is Only Sleeping" to "Cuddly Toy," and I'm just blown away by how good they are. I also recently got "Head" on CD and now I'm thinking that "Pisces" is probably the better album.

[jessecuster]

I have found myself becoming obsessed with Bluegrass and Rockabilly and each time, the artitsts are either dead or retired.

I always knew Beach Boys songs, but it wasn't until later in my life that I fell in love with Pet Sounds.

[Headhunter]

The Sundays and Mandalay, now 2 of my favourite groups.

[Punisher]

In the last few years I've really grown to like Depeche Mode after not really caring about them when they came out.

[DrewTheXenocide]

I don't know if this would be considered "old", but Blink 182's "Dude Ranch" album, I recently re-listened to after a couple years, and it kicks ass. Say what you will about their current state, back then, they were pretty damn good.

[Bakema NL]

Almost all hardrock/metal I like from the 70's and 80's, because I got into that music after those decades were over.

Other bands.....U2 and the Cure. I hated them, really hated the music, but going into the nineties I grew to appreciate it. I started out on soul, disco, funk, electro, hiphop/rap, dance......mainly music performed by black people and of course the occasional white. But I always liked stuff like Kim Wilde, Nena, ZZ top, some Bon Jovi, Santana, Meat loaf, Queen and some other more or less rock oriented stuff. Of course Prince, my favorite artist ever, really made me appreciate guitar solos. Then along came Guns 'n roses, a few new friends into hard rock/metal, the dance genre as a whole becoming less interesting what with the rise of house music....which I despised........and gradually I got more into (hard)rock/metal......all those blues tunes my father had also were to my liking, I kind of grew up I think.

Other bands I hated at first but started to really like years after they came out are....Talk talk, Simple minds and probably a lot of others I can't think of right now.