"Oh, NOW I get it!" - acts that you only appreciated way after everyone else did.

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When did YOU last fall behind the curve?

Examples:

1. Jeff Buckley - Grace. Studiously avoided for years, on account of reviews which said it sounded like a bit like Led Zep. (Child of punk, ergo cannot overcome lifelong antipathy to Led Zep.)Grr, I could SUE...

2. The second Gorillaz album. Painstakingly avoided for months, on account of hating that miserable dog's dinner of a first album. Scales only fell from eyes after Channel 4 screening of jaw-droppingly wonderful Manchester Opera House show. Asda £9.99 rack, here we come!

3. Ray Charles. Scales only fell from eyes on Saturday evening. Genius or what! Why didn't you TELL me?

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I played "A Factory Sample" last month.

Hey, that Joy Division were quite good after all, were'nt they?

(p.s. I'm not kidding)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

That's funny. I liked a New Order track here and there, but didn't really appreciate them until '87.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

i really did not understand the appeal of guided by voices until i started hanging out with two diehards a few years back. short, crappily recorded songs full of non-sequiters and an incoherant vocalist? i like other stuff that fits that description, but something about GBV just didn't do it for me. plus there's always that tendency to write off the stuff that indie rock critics get all mouth-foamy about. at least, there is with me.

now i don't exactly count them as one of my all-time favorites, but i like them a lot and have picked up a few albums, and would rate "bee thousand" as a classic that i could listen to on any given day and enjoy a great deal.

i heard one track by the books and thought "boooooring". a year later i listened to "the lemon of pink" at someone's house and was absolutely floored.

― Emily B (Emily B), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

Pavement. Never understood it ... and then one day took time to actually listen to Brighten the Corners. What an amazing record that is ... I still think Slanted and Enchanted is overrated, though.

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

Radiohead's Kid A and Amnesiac.

― mike a (mike a), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

It took me until adulthood to come to terms with Led Zeppelin - I couldn't deal for a long time. Maybe the same will happen for mike t

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't really notice or enjoy the Ramones until I was, like, 27. And Fleetwood Mac until I was 25. I mean, it's not like either of them are difficult to like or anything.

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 03:38 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't start listening to Steely Dan until about 5 years ago. Just thought they were some muzak bullshit my mom liked.

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

I've probably heard a combined total of 1,000 hours of The Cure in my life, but only last month actually paid attention. ??? It's weird, I just zone stuff out without even realizing it.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

Sex Pistols. Couldn't really understand the hype until i saw The Filth and the Fury Documentary, and saw what a sweet man Johnny Liden really was, and then hearing them do roadrunner pushed it over the top even more.

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 06:13 (nineteen years ago)

phil collins (solo)

― lavendra diamondheart (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

not that anyone appreciates him.

― lavendra diamondheart (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

all the NME bands like Franz Ferdinand and The Rakes and stuff. Hated hated when it came out but sometimes when it comes on in the boozer I secretly say "Oh I quite like this" to myself.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

Nick Drake, Grateful Dead, the funky side of 70s jazz fusion: all belatedly appreciated in this century

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

the smiths.

sat next to a guy in my music gcse class for 2 years. during the last year he was researching a project on THE SMITHS banging on and on about them all the time. this was like 1989/90. only when i left school, reached 17 and somebody gave me a tape of HATFUL OF HOLLOW did the lightbulb actually go on.

and hey it's never gone out since. arf.

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

The Pixies. My sister loved them and then my best friend loved them so I had to be difficult and say they totally sucked. Then they had a song on MTV that I really didn't like so I knew I was right. Then in like, 2002 I finally borrowed some of their CDs and got into them.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

I was late to the In The Aeroplane Over The Sea party. I got it when it came out but never listened to it much, the 8 minute Oh Comely in the middle ruined it for me. A couple years ago I busted it out again after it came in first in the Magnet magazine poll, and voila.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

God, most of my record collection. The Smiths, particularly, would have been good to a sad adolescent. Instead, I had Lloyd Cole and Kirsty MacColl who, though lovely in their own way, make more sense now than they did then.

I remember getting a *very* disdainful look at an indie night when I asked what the record they had just played was. It was "here comes your man" by the Pixies. Yeah, sorry.

People keep telling me to listen to "things we lost in the fire" by Low. I suspect one day I will, and like it. Not yet, though.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

What Ray Charles stuff was it, Mike? I've always thought I should investigate further but have been a bit half-arsed about doing so.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

It was a cheapo compo (mid-1950s to early 1960s, all Atlantic stuff)from that massive Virgin sale... haven't got the details to hand, and the CD is miles away, sorry.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe "The Best of Ray Charles: The Atlantic Years"? At any rate, not a bad place to start.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

hmm. the Dead I guess I actually like more these days, or appreciate. I must be getting lazier as I get older.

really, tho, it's the Go-Betweens. I mean I liked some of "Tallulah" esp. "Spirit of a Vampyre," but I kinda never loved them or anything; their records always sounded badly or wrong-headedly recorded to me. they still do. but right after McLennan died I saw some footage of them playing from about a year ago. and then someone lent me a copy of "Oceans Apart." OK, I figured I would play it and I'd feel the same way I did about most of their stuff. Instead, flawed sound and weird rhythm-section dynamics and strange melodies--strange *tone*-- and all, I loved it, and still do. I'm dealing with some heavy life-and-death shit right now (not me, my family) and "Darlinghurst Nights" and "Boundary Rider" and "This Night's for You" and "No Reasong to Cry" have become sort of my half-melancholy soundtrack for this unfortunate era. I figured out they were one of those groups that required a click, a shift, of sensibility, to get, and something clicked. So fuck, I'm in their cult. Too late, I know.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

final fantasy

― kevin barking (arghargh), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

er, the beatles? everything pre-1975, when i was born? :)

srsly ... fuck, everything, really. i think the only time i've been vaguely ahead of the curve was with the arcade fire. and mogwai.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

Captain Beefheart, last week.

― Steev (Steev), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

WEEZER

― ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ (chaki), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

scritti politti!

― Adolescence Mokushiroku! (gendo ikari), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

my gf turned me onto disco after about three years of me rolling my eyes and leaving the room whenever she busted out the k-tel records. so, kc and the sunshine band and chic.

this summer i am going to teach myself to love kiss.

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

I read that as ...

this summer i am going to teach myself to kiss.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

I read that as ...
this summer i am going to teach myself to kiss.

as did i, which would have made it immensely more hilarious and appropriate.

― Emily B (Emily B), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

I think this would be a marvellous way to spend one's summer.

One day, I will probably discover I quite like Joy Division and wonder why I never thought I did before.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

tony williams' lifetime. until i heard turn it over i refused to give any "fusion" that didn't involve miles davis a listen. tony dug keith moon and the mc5, and it shows.

although as it turns out, i was right; with the exceptions of turn it over and emergency, all non-miles "fusion" is indeed fuzak.

― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

The vast majority of the music I listen to.

― It's Rodney, pimp! (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Radiohead....I made a concious decision to avoid them being the snob that I am after seeing them atop all of the lists. Then I heard Let Down by accident and I was floored.

― joe schmoe (joeschmoe), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

I think there might be a day where I finally come around to Beat Happening, and sometimes I think I'm almost there... but then three songs worth of Calvin Johnson vocals make me hit the stop button.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

I second Guided By Voices. I was a huge fan of both Pavement and Dinosaur Jr. in the mid-nineties. I never even heard GBV. I think at the time I thought they were some dream-pop band. I also remember that I thought the cover for Alien Lanes looked really stupid. Finally discovered them in late 2004, just in time to miss their departure (in name, at least). Alien Lanes is easily my favorite GBV album.

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

this is an ongoing process.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

It hasn't actually happened to me yet, but something tells me I need to start to give Steely Dan a good listen.

― shorty (shorty), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

I was one of the last to jump on the Sonic Youth bandwagon after hearing A Thousand Leaves. I jumped off a couple of years later though, as of Murray Street.

And about this "Tony Williams Lifetime" Lawrence the Looter mentions -- I've heard a lot of jazz fusion but maybe I'm finally ready for it.

― aworks (aworks), Thursday, 22 June 2006 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

Funkadelic. Jimi Hendrix. Pigbag. The Pop Group. Disco Inferno. Dogfaced Hermans. Killdozer. Six Finger Satellite. All bands that I had heard of and either thought were OK or over-rated that I just kinda got. Most '80s bands too, since I was raised to believe that there was no good music during the '80s. That, apparently, was a bit of a lie.

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 22 June 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

hated on "since u been gone" when it first came out. was obsessed a few weeks later. oh the folly of youth

― archipelago (archipelago), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

oh and wolf parade. after hearing all the encomia i downloaded 'apologies to the queen' last fall and was totally unimpressed. but then at some point this spring i realized i had been listening (and singing along) to "i'll believe in anything" for over a month. fucking tight song

― archipelago (archipelago), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Patti Smith. Never heard any of her music till last year. I had heard of her but I never thought I'd like her stuff, then they played land on some tv show (millenium i think) and I was blown away.
Really wish I heard this in my teens.

― babysquid (babysquid), Thursday, 22 June 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Stevie Wonder -- it's not that I didn't like him before, I just never realized how perfect some of his material was. It all started the first time I heard "Innervision".

― ross m (Snorb), Sunday, 25 June 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Led Zep. Thought Robert Plant sang like a girl for ages.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Sunday, 25 June 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

I've only recently started getting into Lou Reed & the Velvet Underground. I'd owned "Velvet Underground & Nico" since I was sixteen & there was always something about it that appealed to me, but I never quite knew what it was. I always thought it was the John Cale element (because I've always been attracted to avant-garde noise stuff), but it turned out it was Lou Reed.

Here's the progression that led me to it:

Basquiat obsession --> Warhol obsession --> Factory obsession --> V.U. obsession --> Lou Reed obsession.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Sunday, 25 June 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

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