Artists whose tastes surprised you

Watching musicians/directors/actors load up on free records and DVDs from Amoeba and Criterion and gushing about them is always a treat but I'm trying to think of the last one who I really wouldn't have expected repping for this, and drew a blank.

just reading yesterday that Ant & Dec were into Urusei Yatsura (the band, not the cartoon)

Matt Berry being a huge fan of Cluster II was definitely a shock

Do they actually get the records/DVDs free in exchange for those videos? It makes sense that there would be some kind of deal but some people seem to get a lot more stuff than others.

I could imagine Steve Hillage being a P-Funk fan but Bill Oddie?

We give them a gift certificate and they are welcome to buy the items they pick out with that. Sometimes they buy a lot more stuff than what the GC could cover and sometimes they don't. It's totally up to each guest.

— Amoeba Music (@amoebamusic) May 25, 2018

We give them a gift certificate and they are welcome to buy the items they pick out with that. Sometimes they buy a lot more stuff than what the GC could cover and sometimes they don't. It's totally up to each guest.

It looks like Criterion has a "whatever fits in the bag" policy, or it seems like it based on how much these guys are cramming in some of them.

Some good examples in here:

Famous Folks who are Unlikely Fans of Your Favorite Artist

Wham-era George Michael was a Joy Division fan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj3HOklzUTo

I could imagine Steve Hillage being a P-Funk fan but Bill Oddie?

― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Wednesday, July 5, 2023 8:01 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Listen to "The Funky Gibbon"! Total Stevie Wonder worship, albeit far cheaper. Not so far from there to P-Funk. Someone I knew who worked in Tower said he'd come in and buy up loads of tedious fuzak albums, figures.

Eric Andre buying an Arvo Pärt choral CD at Amoeba was a surprise.

Immolation, they ate at Subway before one of their shows

i heard the mountain goats guy is way into the blackest metal

the matmos guy might be even ~crazier~

Wes Anderson and Neon Genesis Evangelion?

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8eKajyL

Big Boi being a huge Kate Bush fan

The gold standard for this is always gonna be Sherman Hemsley, huge prog-rock fan.

I remember, decades ago reading about George Wendt's love of American post-hardcore bands, fIREHOSE, and suchlike, that was cool.

nicki minaj (when people still listened to her) probably did a lot to help enya's reputation among millennials

Prince being such a massive Kate Bush fan was a surprise to me a few years ago, but seems to make sense now.

oh no it wasn't Kate Bush, it was Joni Mitchell

The gold standard for this is always gonna be Sherman Hemsley, huge prog-rock fan.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, July 5, 2023 11:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

This is amazing.

Harry Styles shouting out Hosono House was pretty unexpected.

I believe Helmsley was super into Gong which makes it even weirder

re: wes anderson repping for eva, the youtube clip that came from actually inspired the thread, except to me I was all, oh anderson likes distant parent precocious kids robot anime? no surprise there.

there's quite a bit in the series (I gather it's a French movie rental chain?)
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=konbini+video+club

here's bong joon ho pretending(?) to steal a stack of blurays
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/j7kzcdqrdr7.jpeg

Gavin Rosedale (Bush) is a huge fan of The Fall

Rossdale

I remember that The Cocteau Twins went on tour with Metallica in the 90s because Lars Ulrich was a huge fan

Weren't the Cardigans huge metalheads?

chino moreno pantha du prince fan

Xpost Their guitar player once apologized to the audience for the quiet nature of the show, saying they needed bigger amplifiers, so he was clearly a fan of Spinal Tap

I remember that The Cocteau Twins went on tour with Metallica in the 90s because Lars Ulrich was a huge fan

OK, this made my head spin around so I had to look it up. What actually happened was, the Cocteau Twins were booked as special guest openers on one of the Lollapalooza dates that Metallica headlined. It didn't go well for them apparently, but it would likely have gone much worse had it been a full-on Metallica concert (other main stage acts: Soundgarden, Ramones, Rancid, Screaming Trees).

"Have the Thompson Twins killed"

"but SIR"

yeah it didn't go well

http://www.evo.org/4ad-faq/artists/cocteau-twins/metallica-concert.txt

Metallica also invited Waylon Jennings along for that Lolla tour, which apparently worked a bit better.

Glenn Howerton (wearing a Tomahawk shirt) repped Mike Patton in a greatest rock singers conversation on the Always Sunny podcast some weeks ago, kind of strange but then maybe this is an insight into his character on the show

I feel like his character would have also liked Patton

but for the wrong reasons

Paul Westerberg professed his love for the Cocteau Twins in a drunken MTV interview in the late 80s