Name a band you hated growing up; now are embarrassed to admit you dig?

[a_random_joel]

For me, Bruce Hornsby and the Range.

[commander bunnypants]

1. AC/DC

DDQM

[Screaming Lord Byron]

The Waterboys, U2.

[On the Road]

2. Herp Alpert and the Tijuana Brass

not to mention the Monkees.

[quispquake]

3. Kiss

Loved them as a young teenager, but good god, do they suck in retrospect!!!

[Loonman]

4. The Who

n/t

[CPschem]

5. elton john

elton john was totally considered sissy music in high school. glad i moved on- elton rules.

[bubblesby2002]

6. He's not a whole band but I used to love his music

Rick Astley - how lame and embarrassing.

[a_random_joel]

7. AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

*Runs away screaming hysterically*

BTW, did you see my worst of the 80s poll?

[quispquake]

9. Sadly, my sister's shining moment in music...

was winning a limo ride & backstage passes to a Rick Astley concert...yikes!!! I would NOT go with her...I always felt that I'd go to any concert for free, but I had to draw the line!!!

[bubblesby2002]

10. Yes I did and I do believe I participated

Please don't laugh too hard - you might blow a gasket. I am shamed however.

[Brucey]

8. The Bee Gees.

[OneBlueSky]

11. Aerosmith . . .

used to hate 'em . . . but I've come around . . .

[Sandpiper]

12. Really? I'm just the opposite

I used to love Aerosmith, but think they've been churning out pure shit for the last 10 years.

[KissMyAsscroft]

13. Tears For Fears

...

[scottcsmith]

14. They have a new album coming out!

Yes, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith have reunited! The last TFF album with the Smith/Orzabal lineup was 1989's The Seeds of Love. The new album is called Everybody Loves a Happy Ending and is scheduled for release on April 6.

The current single is Closet Thing to Heaven and you can listen to it online!
http://www.tearsforfears.net/closestthing.ram

You'll need the Real player.

[Bertha Venation]

15. I Was A Bubble-Gum Groupie!

The Captain & Tennille!

I still like some of their stuff. "Disney Girls" is now my favorite song they ever recorded. When I was a kid, my favorite song was whichever one was getting the most airplay on 93 KHJ.

[sangh0]

16. The Jackson 5

.

[tigereye]

17. didn't know enough back then to be embarrassed (teen years)

now I'm embarrassed when I like mainstream bands since I was an indie/ alternative band person for so long. Actually like John Mayer and Dave Matthews - they seem to have a lot of "chops" (blues chops for Mayer)
Just don't tell any of my indie pals, K?

[Tank in Texas]

18. Bread

Don't ask.

[tigereye]

26. one of my faves in high school

didn't know any better

[mdmc]

19. I can barely admit it now

but Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger. They were so different then Alice Cooper.

[Blue-Jay]

20. I don't consider it to be "embarrasing", quite the reverse.

When I was a kid, I was forced to listen to Willie Nelson, Waylon, Johnny Cash, & Patsy Cline. I hated it at the time, mostly because my parents liked it.

As I grew older and moved out of the house, I realized that those artists (among others) produced some of the best music I'm likely to ever hear. God, I love those guys now, especially Willie and Johnny. We'll never see their equals again.

[RandomKoolzip]

21. Billy Joel.

I HATED Mr. Joel growing up. He was the antichrist. Now I'm big enough to admit that "Movin' Out," "Allentown," "Only the Good Die Young, " and "Big Shot" are really good tunes. They're well-written, musically sophisticated, and sound in hindsight like the basis for Ben Folds's career.

The rest of his ouvre BLOWS, though. "My Life?" Nephew, please.....

[Screaming Lord Byron]

23. Good God man. I'm going to have a heart attack

ack ack ack ack.

Well, somebody had to.

[Whitacre D_WI]

24. Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray

South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye

Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Maciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichman, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

[Lauren2882]

22. Ace of Base

Being 22, "growing up" for me wasn't that long ago.

There are also a lot of bands and songs from my high school days that I enjoy now when I hear on the radio. Songs like "All For You" by Sister Hazel, and "I'll Be" (can't remember the name of the artist). Never liked those songs in h.s. but get sentimental hearing them now.

[mvd]

25. Many are the other way

I now don't like Paula Abdul, Wilson Phillips (concept is fine, but harmonies are bad and execution could be better,) and New Kids Of The Block. Culture Club got better when I was older.