MikeyT Posted 24 October 2010 Share Posted 24 October 2010 Ok, kinda self explanatory thread title. Basically, any bands or artists you knew of but never listened to, then one day you tried them and thought they were damn good. Mine is Alice In Chains. Literally just started listening to them today and they are pretty god damn awesome. Only took me 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonthefox Posted 24 October 2010 Share Posted 24 October 2010 I only bought my first kasabian cd this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted 24 October 2010 Share Posted 24 October 2010 Don't think i listened to The Smiths until around 1999, now i love them. Well in to the Courteeners also and thats a few years after they started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe. Posted 24 October 2010 Share Posted 24 October 2010 Radiohead and Rage Against The Machine are the two that spring to mind first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filbert_Ross Posted 24 October 2010 Share Posted 24 October 2010 Cypress Hill have just hit my radar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 24 October 2010 Share Posted 24 October 2010 Emarosa Blink 182 Green Day Muse My Chemical Romance (only found out a few years ago that they formed because of the 9/11 attacks) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted 24 October 2010 Share Posted 24 October 2010 Muse and Radiohead are the first ones that spring to mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Doctor Posted 24 October 2010 Share Posted 24 October 2010 Muse Nirvana Belle And Sebastian Last Shadow puppets Lost Prophets Enter Shikari The Prodigy Foo Fighters Queen Led Zep Motorhead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpleronnie Posted 24 October 2010 Share Posted 24 October 2010 REM, only really started buying their records a couple of years ago. The Coral, & blur were others I've only recently got into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webbo Posted 24 October 2010 Share Posted 24 October 2010 I hated David Bowie as a kid. How wrong can you be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fosse Boy Posted 24 October 2010 Share Posted 24 October 2010 Bloc Party and Arctic Monkeys are probably the two most notable ones for me. So basically my rule of thumb is I get put off if a band get overly bummed by the NME when they first come out, but I'll eventually get round to liking their music for what it is as soon as the hype dies down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted 24 October 2010 Share Posted 24 October 2010 REM, only really started buying their records a couple of years ago. The Coral, & blur were others I've only recently got into. Saw them live twice and were quality both times. Suprised they haven't made it a bit bigger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterborofox Posted 24 October 2010 Share Posted 24 October 2010 Pretty much all of my music I discovered way after the artists first began. I've always liked Queen because my Dad always listens to them, and really didnt listen too many other artists till a few years ago, I was the sort of person who liked the odd song by lots of people. Then I discovered Foo Fighters after hearing a few songs and liking The Pretender video, so bought an album and really liked them. Then one day I started looking through lists of 'best songs ever or 'greatest rock songs' and listening to the top ones. I discovered Smells Like Teen Spirit and instantly couldnt get enough of it, and after realising that Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters was the drummer for Nirvana I had to listen to some more and again loved it. I was only 3/4 years old when Nirvana finished and Foos formed and didnt discover them till I was 15/16 so thats a good few years after they began. Those two bands I think I'd say are now my favourite two bands. Also bands like Kasabian, I liked a few songs and liked them as they were from Leicester, but after hearing songs like Fire and Underdog from the last album, I again found my self getting the other albums and started considering myself a fan. Generally, I dont listen to much modern music at all so the majority of the artists I listen to began years before I started listening to them. The only band I can think of listening to them from the start is Them Crooked Vultures and thats only because of their relations from other bands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miquel The Work Geordie Posted 24 October 2010 Share Posted 24 October 2010 The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Nine Inch Nails. All formed before I was born but wasn't into any until eight / nine. Over the past five or so years, Thrice, Brand New, Jimmy Eat World, all bands I've really gotten into post-debut EP/LP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe. Posted 24 October 2010 Share Posted 24 October 2010 Oh, Blur as well for me. Dad was always an Oasis man so I was brought up on them, but listening to Blur properly in the last few years has put them well up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samilktray Posted 25 October 2010 Share Posted 25 October 2010 Hendrix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACF Posted 25 October 2010 Share Posted 25 October 2010 Oasis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dickie Greenleaf Posted 25 October 2010 Share Posted 25 October 2010 Neil Young. Used to hate it when my old man played him when i was a kid. Absolutelt love him now though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lillehamring Posted 25 October 2010 Share Posted 25 October 2010 loads of bands from the 30s to the 70s of course, but of bands that i might have listened to but didn't... the smiths teardrop explodes eliot smith röyksopp embrace the whole genre of jazz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdb Posted 25 October 2010 Share Posted 25 October 2010 David Bowie but kinda to be expected at my age (i.e. not alive in his prime) I found Coldplay a bit mundane at first, like them now (probably opposite to most) Radiohead and Muse to an extent although i still think they're both a bit overrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACF Posted 26 October 2010 Share Posted 26 October 2010 Bloc Party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyT Posted 26 October 2010 Author Share Posted 26 October 2010 It's strange when you find a band of whom you have heard many songs but you never actually knew who they were. This happened to me yesterday with the band Crowded House. Know many of their songs but didn't realise it was them until yesterday. Now i can't get enough. Really good band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ousefox Posted 26 October 2010 Share Posted 26 October 2010 Lots of 60s music for me..Beatles, Kinks, The Who, Rolling Stones. Didn't know much about them til my dad played them in the car and stuff. Listen to 60s stuff a lot more than any other period at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zingari Posted 26 October 2010 Share Posted 26 October 2010 Showaddywaddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anorak Posted 26 October 2010 Share Posted 26 October 2010 Belle & Sebastian The Misfits Royal Trux The Strokes Robyn Hitchcock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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