obvious bands youve read the name of a million times
 

but you for whatever reason dont check them out until way later and yr thinking "what the fuck this band woud have been my favorite band ever a few years back why the fuck did i never check them out!"

i just heard unsane for the first time which is why this thread has come about.

everybody should just post massive lists of all the obvious bands everyone on here should like and then people can make an effort to check the ones they have yet to listen to.

aweome thread idea. right now i really can't remember any.

the unsane wave makes it into a tsunami, good to see that they still got the same impact as 1997 on me :)

Sunn oo]]] or whatever they're called.

For me, it was The Fall. I avoided them for years, and then in the mid 90's, was sold copies of the "Dragnet" and "Hex Enduction Hour" LP, plus a bunch of their earliest singles. After that, I was totally converted.

Regarding the noise rock thread , nobody has posted a list of what you or anyone else *should* like.

Haha dude that's happened to me so many times. I think the first was with Dinosaur Jr. when I was about 9.

My Bloody Valentine for a few years. I always found their name to be incredibly unappealing, probably 'cos it reminded me of Bullet for My Valentine or a million other "emo" bands or whatever.

I love them now.

Radiohead. Although I think they're somewhat creatively blocked these days. I probably would have been a total fanboy if I'd listened to them when I was younger.

sonic youth actually.

i thought they were like a punk band who were way past their prime and completely sucked now. like one of those old bands that become popular again for some reason but still sucki

smart went crazy are a good one...

the melvins and huggy bear are the only two i can think of.

We had an almost identical thread to this last week.

Anyway, none. I check out every band immediately that sounds interesting .

It took me ages to check out Ed Kuepper and all his bands. I'd known about him for awhile, because I loved The Saints, but I just didn't really care. I was more interested in buying non-Kuepper Saints albums than listening to him. I ordered a Laughing Clowns album when I began to notice him. The album didn't arrive for more than six months, and in that time I'd forgotten about it. Now he's my favourite artist.

New theory:
Death & the Maiden is astroturfing for Ed Kuepper.

That's been going on for ages. Type "kuepper" in the search function, and almost fifty results come up. But the German thing isn't over - did you miss my Neubauten thread? I'm surprised you haven't commented on the fact that my all time favourite album is a German album.

I think I posted something on your MySpace blog about it.

I also went through a short phase where I thought you were a neo-nazi.

einsturzende neubauten i heard them for the first time about 7 or 8 years ago, and got annoyed with myself for not checking them out in my teens

Television Personalities; had good reviews in my then fave music mag; although releasing on Seminal Twang along the likes of Half Japanese and Daniel Johnston; I only listened to them circa 1999 and felt it was something I did relate to; at that time the band no longer existed; shortly after Dan Treacy, its leader, disappeared; now he's back and his current songs are horrid.

Thee Headcoatees; read about them in a fansize that was quite quite good (Hyacinth - through which I got the Ranaldo/SY Social Power Performance for close to nix); I had one of their "early" 7"; I liked it a lot but never bothered purchasing an album until their very last.

The wonderful Flamin' Groovies; there was that journalist dropping their name wherever he could; if I'm correct he associated it to Supergrass's first. 8 years later I discovered the music.

And I'm Kuepper-infected too.

yo la tengo.

fuck me in the head.

fuck me in the head

is that a band name too?

hahahahahaha

I am serious

MBV

People would tell me for years to buy LOVELESS. "YOU'LL totally love it. It's so YOU." And for some reason recomendations like that rub me the wrong way. So I put them off for quite a long time. But yeah, LOVELESS kills it.

Interesting thread. I've bought my first album by The Fall only about 7 years ago, and I had known them forever.

Kraftwerk: believe the hype.

The Byrds

The Velvet Underground

Television

Tar

I'd known about These Immortal Souls for awhile, because of the Birthday Party, but I only listened to them recently.

afghan whigs
damn listening to debonair for the first time, and cant stop

pussy galore

i despise john spencer so i kinda ignored them. even though royal trux and to live and shave in la are two of my all time favorites. then a friendf lent me 'dial m for motherfucker' to prove what an idiot i am, now i love pussy galore just as much if not more than the aforementioned bands. i mean, a deskonstruktionist lo fo noise blues rock band, thats like, what i envision rock is supposed to be like.

I saw it the same way.

Can (and really most other ''krautrock'')
Talking Heads (mainly Fear Of Music)
Boredoms
Deerhoof
Amon Duul II