This one's a challenge for me, because I give zero farts what a critic has to say.

Most of the music that I love is not critic-friendly. I like it, it makes me happy, and that's all that matters to me.

Pretty much everything that I checked out, didn't like, I still don't like. Maybe the biggest one to be a late bloomer for me would be the Grateful Dead. I was never really into them, even when my (now ex) wife was a diehard fan. That changed once I started listening to Garcia Grisman Rice and Old and in the Way, two bluegrass/folk ensembles that Jerry Garcia played in. I really dug that stuff, and after our divorce, moving away from hippie college town, I started listening to some of the Dead bootlegs I collected a few years prior, and they're good songs, catchy, and the musicians are definitely talented. That said, I'd never want to spend a summer touring with them (if that were still an option) and it's rare that I listen to them more than as part of a shuffled mix.

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