Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#0Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 6/28/05 at 6:04am
What are some songs that you used to not care for, or never gave the chance to listen to, and now you like them after giving it a few more listens?
"If I Can't Love Her" - Beauty and the Beast
"Big, Blonde, and Beautiful" - Hairspray
"Find Your Grail" - Spamalot
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#1re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 6/28/05 at 7:34am
The Schmuel Song from The Last 5 Years
Over the Moon from RENT
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#2re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:09am
All of Movin' Out
Do What youWant to me from Joseph
A Sleepin' Bee is Like a Melody
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
#3re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:17am
How Do You Choose from Dracula
What Was A Woman to Do from DRS (Don't hate me! I really didn't enjoy it at first, I dunno)
The Scarlet Pimpernel from The Scarlet Pimpernel (but only in moderation)
on the other end of the spectrum,
I used to LOVE Gethsemene (JCS), Memory (CATS) and all of Wicked and now if I hear them one more time I just might hurl. Okay, there are actually a lot more in this category... hmm...
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:24amAll of Mimi's songs from Rent had to grow on me, I don't know why but I Daphne used to be my least favorite member of the OBC, but now I love Without You.
#5re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 6/28/05 at 10:35am"Love Sneaks In"-DRS
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hypertruffle
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/22/05
#6re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 6/28/05 at 11:29am
Sit Down, You're Rockin' The Boat-Guys and Dolls
I bought the Broadway Treasures II DVD and watched the Guys and Dolls performance, which got me to play it non-stop for a while.
"The cynicism you refer to, I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys!~All About Eve
#7re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 6/28/05 at 11:36am
me too, larry2.
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
ProducersFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/25/04
#8re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 6/28/05 at 11:40am
"Wick" from The Secret Garden
Our HS did a production of this, and my friends who were in the pit sang it so much that it drove me insane and I hated the song after that. But I recently rediscovered the cast album and now I really like this song. It's good in small doses, I guess.
~Jessica
"If you start from a place of joy and charm, you can get away with a lot in the second act. It may be that that's my life. I'm not sure."
~Roger Bart
#9re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 6/28/05 at 11:53am
The night that Goldman Spoke and He Wanted to Say from Ragtime. I hated them at first, but, now, they are my favorite songs in the whole show...And "What a Game". Didn't like that one either, but now, I love it.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
#10re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 6/28/05 at 11:55am
If I can't love her-beauty and beast.
when I listened to the cast recording, I didn't like the song at all. I only began to love it after listening to James Barbour's singing. 1000 times better than Terrence Mann.
bwaybaby891
Featured Actor Joined: 2/8/05
#11re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 6/28/05 at 11:58amAll of The Light in the Piazza. I just couldn't stand the lack of melodies originally and now I'm beginning to like it.
"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals"
-Benjamin Franklin
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#12re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 7/1/05 at 7:11pm
And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going...the first time I heard it on my ultimate broadway CD I just thought it was someone screaming, but now of course I love it and Jennifer Holliday.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#13re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 7/1/05 at 7:51pm
"once upon a time" from brooklyn..i really dislike all the songs from that show but for some reason this one just grew on me.
"I was good at everything in high school...except gym" -William Finn
Are you in the TFT cult?
#14re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 7/1/05 at 7:58pm
Everything from BKLYN
I'll Cover You from Rent (I just didnt feel like ever listening to it)
Find Your Grail from Spamalot
Fine, Fine, Line from Avenue Q (It was slow..it bored me, but now I 100% love it!)
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
#15re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 7/1/05 at 8:29pm
"Let's Walk" from Piazza
"No More" from ITW
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#16re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 7/1/05 at 9:00pm
Every song from every Sondheim musical ever written. 
"Do you know ChrisLovesShows?" "Yes. Why, yes he does!"
#17re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 7/1/05 at 9:28pm
Everything from Little Women...everything that I thought was painfully lame (and still do...) has now grown on me and I love it! Too bad it's closed now.
"The 4 March sisters! Together!! Forever!!!"
"I look before I leap
I love margins and discipline
I make lists in my sleep
Baby what's my sin?"- Joanne, Rent
Updated On: 7/1/05 at 09:28 PM
arykahmarye
Stand-by Joined: 1/27/05
#18re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 7/1/05 at 10:17pm
At first i hated everything Marissa Jaret Winokur sang in 'Hairspray', just because her voice drove me crazy. But she and the music grew on me over the weeks, and now 'Hairspray' is one of my favorite, just-for-fun musicals.
And i concur with the Sondheim statement. That took some adjusting, but now I have found my master to emulate and look up to in writing.
"Umm...A1 is a steak sauce."
#19re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 7/1/05 at 10:19pm
What I did for Love-A Chorus Line
Most of Company, witch is now one of my favorite to listen too
Move on-SIPWG
#20re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 7/1/05 at 10:20pm
Most of Light in the Piazza.
Because I was stubborn and didn't really give it the time to warm up to me.
Me, I like to live.
Me, I like to laugh.
Me, I like to love.
Me, I like to laugh.
Me, I like to love.
#21re: Songs That You Used to Hate But Now You Like
Posted: 7/1/05 at 10:22pmOnly in New York from MILLIE
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
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