Music you HATE the most but once you LOVED it

NPR Newshour just had a segment with Virginia voters about the presidential election.. It was held in someone's house and on a bookcase in the rear of the room were vinyl records.  You could very clearly see Jeff Beck's "Wired". 

Just another reason to love America!

Used to be a huge KISS fan but now I'm down to listening to Dressed to Kill about twice a year and maybe Rock and Roll Over every other year. 

Used to be a Ted Nugent fan but good god I can't stand anything from him, can barely tolerate Great White Buffalo and that's a great tune!

My taste changed radically in 1969 (my teen-combo opened for The New Buffalo---the remnants of Buffalo Springfield. Watching and listening to Dewey Martin play my drumset, with Bobby's brother Randy Fuller on bass, I had an epiphany. Just like "THAT"---the timeless finger-snap---I now "got" The Band. Finally!). I'm embarrassed to name some of the stuff I loved before it did, but will anyway. Nothing as bad as, say, Blue Cheer (perhaps the worst Band of all-time), but not that different, really. Iron Butterfly (oy!), Vanilla Fudge (yee gads!), Cream even, and yes, Jimi Hendrix. Okay, abhor is too strong a term for him. But not the others.

Two categories that I like less:  artsy/psychedelic stuff like later Yes (think Topographic Oceans) or Strawberry Alarm Clock, Electric Prunes (yes, I had albums by both of those bands)
or rock bands recycling styles that were better done the first time, such as blues, bluegrass or earlier rock and roll.  Some Yardbirds and some Grateful Dead material comes to mind.  There's still a lot of stuff I like by both those bands.  In the blues category I have no problem with the original Fleetwood Mac.  I can still take Cream doing blues but I'd rather hear Cream doing SWLABR and Howling Wolf doing Spoonful, FWIW.

Also, I no longer like later Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna (with Papa John Creach) that I used to enjoy.  I still like the earlier stuff.