What group(s) were you late to discover?

[bif]

Me:Flaming Lips and Echo & the Bunnymen because of their dumb names.

[mitchum]

1. Uncle Tupelo...because of their dumb name

[Mopar151]

2. Wishbone Ash n/t

[Tobin S.]

3. Dream Theater

Pretty cool name, though.

[Twillig]

19. Yeah, I have regrets I didn't know about DT.

Time I can't get back.

I did get to hear a lot of music all at once when I bought it though, so there's that.

I think Petrucci's my favorite player now. If nothing else I admire his goddam finger stamina.

John Petrucci - Glasgow Kiss - G3 2005
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t25AOSxZZkI&feature=related

[DevonRex]

4. Deathspell Omega and Leviathan for the heavier stuff.

Just in the last year I've come to appreciate Led Zeppelin (even though I'm not a Robert Plant fan by any stretch of the imagination). And late to liking Widespread Panic Govt Mule and My Morning Jacket. Recently I've been getting into Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters a bit.

[Forkboy]

11. I've corrupted another one!

Satan owes me a raise. :)

[DevonRex]

13. He'll get his little demons right on that.

I had my IPod plugged in the car when I picked my husband up the other day. I thought he was gonna make me drive him straight to the nearest church. And he hates organized religion. So maybe Satan thinks he won 1 and lost another. :evilgrin:

[Ron Green]

5. Tuesday night anger management.

Oh wait, you mean like a band?


Well, then probably Jimmie Lunceford.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

6. Cornershop.

I don't know where the hell I've been the past gazillion years but I am addicted to them now. :loveya:

[TZ]

7. Rush.

I didn't know anyone who really liked them till the last few years.

[mcctatas]

9. did you ever consider that maybe it is an elaborate hoax?

a psychological experiment if you will. By utilizing the 'bandwagon effect' and convincing you that other people actually like this shit-tastic band, the experimenters (paging Dr Strange) were able to over-ride your rational and non-sucky music loving brain?

[TZ]

21. LOL

You know whats funny- I probably go to their concert with my ex-Navy BIL who reminds me alot of Symarip in temperment and training and ALSO lives in Manassas Virginia.EXCEPT he loves Rush....:rofl:

[old mark]

29. Mainly because they suck. Like them now that they have retired. nt

[TZ]

32. Mark- they haven't retired!

They have a documentary out and are going on tour this summer. Sorry to disappoint...:)

[Arugula Latte]

8. I always felt that Echo didn't get the recognition they deserve because of their name.

They were/are brilliant. I saw 'em in '87 -- Wow.

Ian McCulloch has some good stuff out now, too. It has a kind of reflective, looking back, taking stock, happy to be here kind of vibe.

[SoxFan]

14. The new Echo album is excellent

Picked it up a few weeks ago, right before I saw them in Boston. Naturally, they played only one song from the new album, but played almost every song from "Crocodiles"! Of course, I don't think they ever put out a bad album. Hell, I even like Ian's solo "Candleland".

I agree that the name held them back. Ian can kvetch about U2 being more commercially succesful (despite both bands having similar sounds and emerging at the same time), but if the band had been just Echo, they might have had more crossover from college radio.

[Forkboy]

10. Pentagram

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXck-YAMvfY

Boris (also the only band I've seen live where the drummer came out and crowd surfed!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_GgowniQWk&feature=related

The Gories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfuXJL6JTIU

Sun City Girls
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1215884237685

[DevonRex]

15. Wow that girl can really play that Black Beauty. At least that's what it looks like.

And is that a Gibson doubleneck? Good music, good instruments. I'll check the others out later on after I finish work.

[NuttyFluffers]

30. love Boris. been great each time in concert, too.

one that i'm embarrassed about not remembering and getting into (especially because i remember them way back in the late 1990s on local college rock and indie shows on local radio) is Blind Guardian.

ended up getting a signed copy of Twist in the Myth from a used copy resell. score! :P

gawd... i'm such a music geek. :(

[guitar man]

12. Govt Mule

They had been around over 10 years before I heard of them. ::crazy:

[DevonRex]

16. That's one of the bands my son introduced me to last year. Love 'em. nt

[guitar man]

17. I can't get enough

I've never heard them do anything I didn't like. Their own music is fantastic and when they cover tunes they always manage to hit the mark and then some.

[DevonRex]

20. They're huge Zeppelin fans and even had John Paul Jones with them at Bonnaroo

in 2007. Zeppelin isn't easy to cover at all, IMO. Lots of bands try to do it but few do it well.

[guitar man]

22. yep

They did the entire Houses of the Holy album on Halloween a couple years back too. Big pink Floyd fans too, covered a lot of Floyd stuff recently.

Here's a free stream and setlist from their most recent New Years Eve Show...it's monstrous, definetly worth a listen ;)

http://panicstream.net/streams/govt_mule/2009-12-31/player.html

[Capn Sunshine]

27. Alice in Chains

ignored them when they were fresh. I think I had grundge overload.
All I ever heard was "Man in the Box" which is NOT their best.
I listen to them more today than I did then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3px0m1Y9Tuc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p9JqXSRhew

[Dr Morbius]

18. Muse, Three month ago I had no idea who they were.

This is the first 21st-century band I like. Possibly the last, too; we'll see.

[ArnoldLayne]

23. Genesis when Peter Gabriel was with them and the group Bauhaus

[av8rdave]

24. Radiohead

Ironic...I always loved the Talking Heads song they're named for.

[woo me with science]

25. Pink Floyd.

I was initially creeped out by "Comfortably Numb" and "..the worms ate into his brain," and I avoided them for a long time.

[AllenVanAllen]

39. Better late than never.

:hi:

[woo me with science]

42. Yep!

:toast:

[Common Sense Party]

26. The Jayhawks.

[bif]

31. Really incredible vocals

I enjoy them a lot.

[Common Sense Party]

36. I love groups that can write good melodies and sing lovely harmony.

I got into the Jayhawks just about the time they were getting ready to break up. One of my favorite bands.

[old mark]

28. Never liked the hair bands from the late 80's....till a few years ago,

started to listen to the Crue and liked the guitarist and drummer a lot. Poison is OK, too...many of the rest of them still suck it like Rush.


mark

[Wapsie B]

33. Anything rock & roll up to the mid-70's.

Sheltered, insular life indeed.

[lazarus]

34. Psychedelic Furs

I was huge music nut in the 80s, but for some reason, I never stumbled across this band. Love them now.

[Common Sense Party]

37. Not even from the Pretty in Pink soundtrack?

Or the Valley Girl soundtrack?

I love their album "Forever Now." 80's pop classic.

[lazarus]

40. Yeah, I had heard those

but for some reason, I never connected with the band until about ten years ago. Forever Now rocks, and Hearbreak Beat is the 80s to me now.

[JCMach1]

47. They are very good live... their live version of 'Heaven' is an absolute classic

[MiddleFingerMom]

35. The Rolling Stones

.
I always loved The Beatles, but never got The Stones until 1982, when I had a fairly older GF who
LOVE LOVE LOVED them.
.
Finally asked her why, and she told me in a very breathy voice while involuntarily shiver/writhing,...
.
.
.
..."They're just so... ... ... ... ... ... :evilgrin:NAUGHTY:evilgrin:."
.
.
.
I understood them fully and IMMEDIATELY.
.
I miss her.
.

[AllenVanAllen]

38. Faith and the Muse

Burning Season
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdhffo7niQU


http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/13289075/Faith+and+the+Muse++live+lineup.jpg

[NuttyFluffers]

41. love them. were here last month and i missed them. so sad!

:(

inconsolable...

[AllenVanAllen]

43. Maybe you can catch them next time around.

It's been a while since I've seen any live shows. I also dig Monica Richards' solo work and her work with The Eden House
"Believe In Something" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ7e8JYRqGk

:hi:

[LibDemAlways]

44. Green Day

Never heard of them before American Idiot.

[BlueIris]

45. "Death Cab for Cutie."

So sue me.

[travelingtypist]

46. RPWL, a former Pink Floyd cover band

Evanescense, Leaves' Eyes, Sirenia, Nightwish, just a lot of gothic metal.

[Rabrrrrrr]

48. Portishead. Never heard of them until they'd stopped being a band.

Too bad - would have loved to see them in concert.

Though I see that in the last year or two they've come back together.