Post the names of bands you were really wrong about....
Example.
In a music class I had in middle school we were to do a poster about who we thought was going to be the next big thing in music. Mind you this was 79 and the teacher wanted to engage us not just into listening to the music but talking about it and what we liked about it.
My pick for the next big superband of the ages - The Knack.
Clearly I was wrong but I still thing that with enough time the Knack might actually be just that
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But, back when I first heard Kid Rock, whatever that first song was - I liked it.
That was before I heard it too many times, and found out what a colossal idiot he is.
Now he just makes me want to 
"I am the BullGod", the first to get any radio play whatsoever, was kind of funny and entirely about smoking weed. It didn't take too much more of him before he got old.
So y'all aren't alone in your shame. 
Big furry animals should NOT be able to drive motorized vehicles
for anybody to give a shit if they put out a second album. I was wrong but only because I underestimated the selling power of Adam Levine's smile, personality and hotness. Musically, they're still mediocre. There are worse acts out there, but not that have sold so many CDs.
I thought Sugar Ray were going to be huge...man, I had terrible taste in the mid-90s.
I told a woman in a grocery store while they were playing "Just Dance", a breakout first hit by an artist that had ties to the same neighborhood I was living in NYC (Lady Gaga), that "It's a poppy song, but it's got one hit wonder written all over it." That woman turned out to be her mother. So not only was I wrong, I made an ass out of myself. 
to judge Maroon5's and Lady Gaga's selling power by their music... 
That's like judging an action blockbuster movie by its plot. What sells the film is the movie star and the explosions (backed by a well funded corporate marketing machine). The plot is just a minor ingredient and usually preferred to be bland and of little consequence.
Action Blockbuster movies have plots?
I just thought we were paying $25 (ticket + small popcorn & soda) to watch things blow up for 2 hours.
Who would have thunk it
was Pretty Ricky when I was listening to him with somebody who I used to go to high school with, and he was like, "that ain't no Pretty Ricky! Bro is you crazy?!"
