What bands did you at one time try to convince your friends ruled, only to realize later that you were completely right about said bands?

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easy one for me - spoon. was praising the gospel of this band back in the 90s and all my friends who hated them [one disliked the band solely because britt sounded like gavin rossdale] now love love love love love them.

i feel vindicated.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

The Shins will change your life!

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

most of them. no fucker ever listens to me, and then they all decide they found bands themselves, when it was in fact ME that introduced them. fuXors.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

OMG I LOVE TEH SHINES!

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

how about genres
like oh i don't know electronic

― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Brag About Some Band You Cared About Way Before Everyone Else

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I got several people in my office into Pinback several years ago. Then last year, through some sort of connection, these co-workers all had dinner with lead singer Rob Crow - and NO ONE INVITED ME!!!! I'm still pissed.

― darin (darin), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Garage rock. Most of the bands I listened to in college in the early '90s sounded like The Hives. Mono Men, New Bomb Turks, the Fall Outs, etc. Then, 5 years after I give up on trying to convince people about garage rock along come the Hives, Strokes, White Stripes, etc.

― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

i'll take Spoon as well, plus Trail of Dead for an Austin brace! i went with some American friends to see ToD at Lupo's in Providence on their co-headlining tour with Queens of the Stone Age. they claimed to be unconvinced and were there for the QotSA. i was most certainly there for ToD, and the boys i backed came out on top, bringing the house down and playing 45 minutes into QotSA's slot. i don't imagine too many QotSA fans came away converted because of that, but my friends were.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

ToD = dead, ain't they?

― what's to like about ToD anyway?, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

i have similar experiences to charlie, although my gf does tend to listen to me about new bands even if nobody else will

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

Boards of Canada
Elliott Smith
The Coral
The Kinks
Fingathing
The White Stripes
Kasabian
Sons and Daughters
Raymond Scott
Fats Domino
Tiny Tim
The Idle Race
Super Furry Animals
Jurassic 5
Nas
The Zutons

― Erock LAzron, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

I second The Shins. Also Little Birdy, PJ Harvey & Lou Reed. Well they still haven't caught onto the latter two.

I actually like having bands all to myself. It's like having your own little world which others are clueless about. Also, there's a somewhat self-important sense that if they did listen & like them, they wouldn't "get" them in that "special" way you do. Because of course, the songs were written just for you. Maybe in a parallel universe.

― salexander (salexander), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

the shins and spoon too! also the go! team, the flaming lips, elbow and the new pornographers.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 6 October 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

2 Unlimited

― Pelé & Sebastian, Thursday, 6 October 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

see, nabisco, i get what youre trying to say when you link to that thread but i feel its a different thing. here, im talking about bands you tried to get your friends into and they didnt dig, but then later on they're like insane rabid fans about them. this isnt what the other thread is doing where its all "i was into this before you"... dig?

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 6 October 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

deftones.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 6 October 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

I got a bunch of people into Of Montreal, then I got them into Apples in Stereo, then Olivia Tremor Control, then Neutral Milk Hotel. Now they like any Elephant 6 band. Weird.

As much as I brag about Dressy Bessy (especially "Sound Go Round") no one seems to get really convinced.

― Voodoo Child, Thursday, 6 October 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

Is this thread a parody, or ... ?

― carl w (carl w), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

Bah. I love this thread, and I know somewhere down the line you will love it, but you'll forgot that it as I who turned you onto it.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 7 October 2005 09:33 (twenty years ago)

Man, too many, too often...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 October 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

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