What are some songs that took you years to start liking?

[Meghan]

Lemon
Numb
-- These two songs, I heard them for the first time when I saw the video's, and I think the extreme close up of Macphisto's mouth and the feet in the face kinda freaked me out. Now I like Numb. As for Lemon, I still don't love falsetto's, but I'm getting used to it.

Zoo Station
-- When I first heard it, I just thought, "What the fuck was that?!" I kept skipping it for a little while, but then it came on my iPod while I was walking -- It is SO much better to listen to when you're moving!

Stuck in a Moment
-- I only like the accoustic version, but I just can't get over the lyrics. I've dealt with depression. You don't tell someone at risk of committing suicide to "Get themselves together." That just makes things worse.

 

[bensaunders]

The Fly - love it now though!

 

[Aardvark747]

Red Light.....

 

[MacPhistoPT]

Zoo Station, Mofo and... WITH OR WITHOUT YOU

 

[MsMofoGone]

Electric Co.
Zoo Station
Numb
If God Will Send His Angels
Please

 

[Stefan]

Most of The Unforgettable Fire album. This is without a doubt the album that has grown the most on me.

I didn't like Gone at first because I had just been at the dentist and the screaming guitar reminded me of a dentist drill! Now I love it.

 

[yimou]

Roger Whittaker - The mexican whistler

 

[prisz25]

I hated Love is Blindness, Zooropa, Playboy Mansion, Elvis and America

 

[the soul waits]

Please

 

[Meghan]

Oooooh! and Wire! I hated that song, now it's one of my favourites on UF.

 

[liamcool]

Corpse.

 

[Irishteen]

Most of The Unforgettable Fire album. This is without a doubt the album that has grown the most on me.

First I heard this album i hated it, then it grew on me and its my favourite album.

 

[No spoken words]

For me it's Please. The Rotterdam version helped me to listen to it in a new light, and now I really like it a lot.

Besides that, So Cruel. I liked it and all, but now, really love the song, the lyrics mean more to me now than in 1991, I suppose.

 

[mads]

zoo station
please
discotheque
mofo

most of the pop album, really.

and although it hasn't been "years" yet, yahweh took a while to grow on me. skipped it every time at first, but now i love it.

 

[BONO'ppetit]

How the hell did you know he was referring to Zoo Station? From here it looks like he hasn't named a single song in his post!

That's what I was just about to say.

 

[shart1780]

Re: Re: What are some songs that took you years to start liking?

What song are you talking about?

OOPS. I'm such a dork. I was talking about Zoo Station. I changed the title heh heh.

I also took me a couple years to get into Where the Streets Have No Name, Love is Blindness, When I Look at the World, Peace on Earth and New York.

 

[tiny dancer]

An cat Dubh, and now i love it.

DITTO!!!

 

[BONO'ppetit]

Where the Streets Have No Names. I was never a big fan until the past couple years.

 

[typhoon]

LI only like the accoustic version, but I just can't get over the lyrics. I've dealt with depression. You don't tell someone at risk of committing suicide to "Get themselves together." That just makes things worse.

Hah, I like that angle:

BONO PUSHED MICHAEL HUTCHENCE OVER THE EDGE!

THEN WROTE A SONG ABOUT IT!

AND IT'S NOT EVEN THAT GREAT!

 

[djerdap]

Bad
I didn't like the song at all for years, but then I heard the Bologna 1985 12-minute version. From then, it's one of my favorites.
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Miami(live version rules)

 

[Chris10685]

I'll have to say...

Ultraviolet (Light My Way)

I never HATED this song. I always thought it was really good... but I never appreciated it the way I do now. It's one of my top 5 U2 songs now.

Bono's soaring vocals during the verses

"I remember when we could sleep on stones, but now we lie together in whispers and moans...."

--they give me chills

 

[drt4]

Lemon
Playboy Mansion
Stuck in a Moment
Zoo Station

(these are all popular answers it seems. interesting how the same ones tend to be growers for so many people.)

Miami and Bad were both much improved by the live versions.

I'd probably also say The First Time

 

[drt4]

I'd also say the Wanderer was slow to grow on me.

 

[Lancemc]

Indian Summer Sky.

Couldn't stand it for the longest time. Listened again just the other day and was blown away.

 

[madonna's child]

The Wanderer

It took me a long time to accept that it was U2 song but it wasn't Bono singing it. But once I listened to the lyrics, the song really started to grow on me. Johnny Cash

 

[nurse chrissi]

The greatness of Wake Up Dead Man has just now hit me

 

[Lil'Bono]

Please, 40 and seconds

 

[BONO'ppetit]

Oh yeah, Beautiful Day was another one. Now I love the song.

 

[RademR]

Numb

 

[Harry Vest]

Just a very simple question...
How could ANYONE "Hate" Love Is Blindness????
Really!!!