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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: KevShmev on April 02, 2021, 06:36:07 AM
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What I mean is this, artists that you get into that in retrospect you probably should have much sooner than you did, but you didn't for whatever reasons. I have a running joke now with a few friends that I seemingly have one of these a year now...
2018: XTC - given my love for 80's music, no clue why I procrastinated so long in getting into them. Once I dug into them in the spring of '18, they dominated my CD player for the rest of the year, and have remained a band I listen to quite often since.
2019: R.E.M. - always sorta liked them, but finally dug deep into them in the fall of '19 and was thrilled at how much I loved a lot of their work; at the time, my younger brother, who had been telling me for years to listen to them more, called it my most shocking 180 ever.
2020: Alanis Morissette - this became an even bigger 180, as after decades of disliking her voice a lot, outside of a few songs, I stumbled across a few songs of hers on YT, checked them out on a whim, and was shocked at how all of a sudden, her vocals were to my liking. I am now a big fan.
2021: Taylor Swift - this is still my my shocking one to date; I am still stunned at this turn of events. I guess I can thank COVID for this one since if COVID never happens, she never records Folklore and Evermore, I don't stumble across glowing reviews of them, and I continue to dismiss her as a country/pop superstar who is not worth my time to check out.
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Bruce Springsteen has to win this, hands down. Where has he been all of my life? or better, where have I been all his life? I started to listen to him just as an experiment, thanks to the pandemic and working from home and needing other stuff to listen to thanks to having 8 hours of music available suddenly.
To think I could have seen him at least twice in a stadium if only I woke up a bit earlier.... I'm sure that, Covid permitting, he will be back in 2022, but damn, it's a shame that I'm 41, he's 71 and I started to listen to him only last year.
Also last year I discovered Dropkick Murphys, it was years since I was into folk metal and irish rock, maybe I could have paid attention to one of the bands that were very clear at the top of the genre? and see them live already? uh well, better lucky next time...
Another mention of honor is Alice Cooper, been around forever, but only in 2013 I finally started to listen to him. At least I saw him already twice live, but really, I could have gotten into him waaaay sooner....
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Kate Bush is one I just got into very recently. I knew her from her appearances on Peter Gabriel songs, and knew she was well thought of but honestly didn’t think I would like her voice (mostly judging by Don’t Give Up). Still, I always figured I’d give her a try eventually. Picked up one of her greatest hits collections a couple months back which blew me a way, and then got Hounds of Love last month and it’s an absolute masterpiece.
Tears for Fears are another band I took way too long to give a full try to. I knew the radio hits growing up and got Everybody Loves a Happy Ending around the time it came out (I mistakenly thought Nick D’Virgilio was on it, but he only played on the tour for that one). I liked it ok back then but they were always on the list to “check out some day.” Maybe 4-5 years ago I finally got Songs from the Big Chair and then quickly got everything else (except the debut. Not sure why I haven’t gotten that one other than I don’t care for Mad World). Roland is an amazing singer and songwriter. One of the underrated figures in pop music I think.
Simon & Garfunkel were one of those old bands that it seemed like everyone was supposed to love just because, but a few years back I found an old mix CD a friend from college gave me that had The Only Living Boy in New York on it. I fell in love with the sound of it, and also found out I could play it on guitar with a capo, so then I kind of became obsessed with it. Bridge Over Troubled Water and Bookends are both tremendous recordings.
King Crimson before the 80s took me forever to give a full listen to. But Red especially is now one of my favorite albums.
The Flower Kings are another that I’ve really gotten into in the last 3 years or so. Back when the first two Transatlantic albums came out I got big into Spock’s Beard, but TFK didn’t click with me so much on my first two tries (The Rainmaker, which I did like, and Stardust We Are, which I wasn’t really able to wrap my head around the whole thing). It took getting Roine’s The Flower King a few years back to reignite my interest. Then I got Retropolis which I loved, and then all of Stardust We Are clicked for me. I’m still missing anything between Unfold the Future and the latest, Islands, but now I’d say Roine is firmly among my favorite prog writers and guitarists.
Oh, and I picked up my first two Beatles albums last week, Rubber Soul and Revolver. So you could say I’m pretty late to that party for sure.
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Alice Cooper - 2019. I checked out Hey Stoopid since it was a dollar in a bargain bin and I was immediately hooked. I had a passing appreciation for him as far back as Wayne's World where he just seemed like a cool guy, but I never assumed he actually created stuff that was artistically deep and diverse until I discovered his catalog.
Motorhead - 2019. I love a lot of the bands they influenced but never actually gave them a chance until I found Bastards for cheap. I think they got way better in the 90's and beyond, as a lot of their early material just feels haphazardly thrown together.
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Biggest one for me is Genesis. Got into them in the early 2010's, after their "final" tour, and after Phil "retired" from music. I was lucky enough to get to see Phil come out of retirement a couple years ago, but I don't think Genesis will be back. They've pushed back they're reunion tour dates back for a second time to next year, and who knows if those will even happen. Not to mention the tour is only in Europe. I just wish a got into them pre-2007 so I could have seen them on their first reunion tour.
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A recent one that comes to mind is Riverside. I've often seen them mentioned on here over the years, but didn't get in to them until 2019. Although according to last.fm I actually listened to one track of theirs in 2010 :lol
There are plenty of others I didn't start listening to until several years/albums into their career of course, but they wouldn't fit the bill of 'probably should have got in to them sooner', as I had never heard of them or been in to that type of music beforehand.
Just waiting for the 'List your "early to the party" artists' thread now :biggrin:
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Grateful Dead
Alice Cooper
Ayreon
UFO (especially since I was a HUGE Michael Schenker fan back in the day)
Jellyfish
Springsteen (though that doesn't really count, because I DID see him back in the day, but it was more to be around friends who loved him than to see him myself. I went for the party!)
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There is a lot of these. Off the top of my head:
2017 - Queen
2018 - My Chemical Romance
2019 - King Diamond, Oasis
2020 - Bob Dylan
I should have gotten into all of these way earlier, honestly.
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What I mean is this, artists that you get into that in retrospect you probably should have much sooner than you did, but you didn't for whatever reasons. I have a running joke now with a few friends that I seemingly have one of these a year now...
2018: XTC - given my love for 80's music, no clue why I procrastinated so long in getting into them. Once I dug into them in the spring of '18, they dominated my CD player for the rest of the year, and have remained a band I listen to quite often since.
I really like XTC but only have their stuff from Oranges & Lemons onward (and their first album which is nearly unlistenable). Have heard English Settlement and a few other earlier bits and pieces but for whatever reason haven't ever picked up anything else by them. I do love Oranges & Lemons, Nonsuch, and Apple Venus Vol. 1 though.
One 80s artist I've wondered if you might like is Prefab Sprout. Kind of a similar vibe as XTC as well as Tears for Fears but a little quirkier than them. If you haven't before, check out their Steve McQueen album (titled Two Wheels Good in the US).
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Very cool theme.
I divide it into three main reasons: I) bands / artists that I had some kind of prejudice; II) bands / artists who simply were not part of my life before; III) bands / artists that I think needed a little more maturity to appreciate.
I) Several examples. As someone who started listening to heavy metal and things like Beatles and Led Zeppelin and then came to progressive rock, I had a HUGE prejudice against punk rock. When I was 30 I decided to reevaluate my musical prejudices and then I discovered artists like The Damned and The Clash that I appreciate.
Another good example is Kiss. I always thought a band was ridiculous, but in the idea of breaking prejudices I listened to the entire discography. I don't like everything, but the 70's records are very good.
II) The biggest example is Rush. I could have liked Rush earlier, if I just had contact with the band. No friends listened to Rush, no one I knew had a Rush record, they didn't play on MTV. When I discovered the band I was in my early 20s!
III) Artists that I knew, respected, but only became a listener after the age of 30, with a certain maturity: David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Leonard Cohen.
Curious how some things just happened without much explanation. When I approached progressive rock, I looked at Yes, but only a few years later I did the same with Genesis, I don't know why. The same happened when Mike Portnoy made me know Transatlantic. From then on, I met Neal Morse and SB, but it wasn't until several years later that I really got to know TFK (and even today I don't know Marillion so well, just the Fish phase).
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Very cool theme.
I divide it into three main reasons: I) bands / artists that I had some kind of prejudice; II) bands / artists who simply were not part of my life before; III) bands / artists that I think needed a little more maturity to appreciate.
I) Several examples. As someone who started listening to heavy metal and things like Beatles and Led Zeppelin and then came to progressive rock, I had a HUGE prejudice against punk rock. When I was 30 I decided to reevaluate my musical prejudices and then I discovered artists like The Damned and The Clash that I appreciate.
Another good example is Kiss. I always thought a band was ridiculous, but in the idea of breaking prejudices I listened to the entire discography. I don't like everything, but the 70's records are very good.
II) The biggest example is Rush. I could have liked Rush earlier, if I just had contact with the band. No friends listened to Rush, no one I knew had a Rush record, they didn't play on MTV. When I discovered the band I was in my early 20s!
III) Artists that I knew, respected, but only became a listener after the age of 30, with a certain maturity: David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Leonard Cohen.
Curious how some things just happened without much explanation. When I approached progressive rock, I looked at Yes, but only a few years later I did the same with Genesis, I don't know why. The same happened when Mike Portnoy made me know Transatlantic. From then on, I met Neal Morse and SB, but it wasn't until several years later that I really got to know TFK (and even today I don't know Marillion so well, just the Fish phase).
Ooh, if you don't know any Hogarth era Marillion there's a lot to discover there (probably my favorite band, so I'm biased). Maybe check out Season's End as a natural progression from the Fish era, but then I'd recommend Brave, Afraid of Sunlight, and Marbles.
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My most obvious/recent one is Deftones. I'm only like 20 years late in getting into them. Weird how you can try with a band, on and off for years, and then something finally clicks and you fall hard!
I suppose the other one, off the top of my head is Devin Townsend. I vividly remember hearing 'Love?' by Strapping Young Lad, on a free CD given away with Metal Hammer Magazine back in '05. I got most of their albums over the next few years but didn't hear any of Devin's solo work until someone I met, whilst travelling Australia in '11, gave me some of his music on mp3. I think it was like Ocean Machine, and weirdly just the first few songs from Terria. It still took me until 2015 to realise how truly awesome he is, and fall hard for him.
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Ooh, if you don't know any Hogarth era Marillion there's a lot to discover there (probably my favorite band, so I'm biased). Maybe check out Season's End as a natural progression from the Fish era, but then I'd recommend Brave, Afraid of Sunlight, and Marbles.
Cool! :tup
I know a few things, but superficially and at random. There are certainly records that I don't know anything about.
I have a list of bands that I intend to meet or revisit the entire discography of (in the same way as I did with Kiss) and Marillion is in it. I am currently revisiting the Fates Warning discography. I think Marillion could be the next band on the list. :)
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Ooh, if you don't know any Hogarth era Marillion there's a lot to discover there (probably my favorite band, so I'm biased). Maybe check out Season's End as a natural progression from the Fish era, but then I'd recommend Brave, Afraid of Sunlight, and Marbles.
Cool! :tup
I know a few things, but superficially and at random. There are certainly records that I don't know anything about.
I have a list of bands that I intend to meet or revisit the entire discography of (in the same way as I did with Kiss) and Marillion is in it. I am currently revisiting the Fates Warning discography. I think Marillion could be the next band on the list. :)
That should be fun. Hope you enjoy!
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I'll also add Rammstein and Lagwagon.
I only really got into Rammy 2 years ago, as their self titled is frigging amazing!
As a fan of most of the American punk rock bands coming out in the 90s, especially those signed to Fat Wreck Chords, I should've been listening to Lagwagon years ago. I know I checkes them out back in the day but it took me until I heard Hang, and was bowled over by it, to really 'get' them.
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UFO.
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I really like XTC but only have their stuff from Oranges & Lemons onward (and their first album which is nearly unlistenable). Have heard English Settlement and a few other earlier bits and pieces but for whatever reason haven't ever picked up anything else by them. I do love Oranges & Lemons, Nonsuch, and Apple Venus Vol. 1 though.
One 80s artist I've wondered if you might like is Prefab Sprout. Kind of a similar vibe as XTC as well as Tears for Fears but a little quirkier than them. If you haven't before, check out their Steve McQueen album (titled Two Wheels Good in the US).
I don't think I am familiar with Pregab Sprout. Did they have any hits or anything like that?
I find the first two XTC albums to be mostly unlistenable, and then Drums and Wires, which I know is a fan favorite, is kind of hit or miss, but still an upgrade. Black Sea is, IMO, where they first clicked on all cylinders. That is in contention for being my favorite along with English Settlement and Apple Venus Part 1.
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I really like XTC but only have their stuff from Oranges & Lemons onward (and their first album which is nearly unlistenable). Have heard English Settlement and a few other earlier bits and pieces but for whatever reason haven't ever picked up anything else by them. I do love Oranges & Lemons, Nonsuch, and Apple Venus Vol. 1 though.
One 80s artist I've wondered if you might like is Prefab Sprout. Kind of a similar vibe as XTC as well as Tears for Fears but a little quirkier than them. If you haven't before, check out their Steve McQueen album (titled Two Wheels Good in the US).
I don't think I am familiar with Pregab Sprout. Did they have any hits or anything like that?
I find the first two XTC albums to be mostly unlistenable, and then Drums and Wires, which I know is a fan favorite, is kind of hit or miss, but still an upgrade. Black Sea is, IMO, where they first clicked on all cylinders. That is in contention for being my favorite along with English Settlement and Apple Venus Part 1.
The only Prefab Sprout song that I think may have been a mild hit in the US was a song called The King of Rock and Roll, which is a tremendously quirky song that you will either love or hate. Either way the chorus will stick in your head forever, so proceed with caution.
If you want individual song recommendations, check out Bonnie, Appetite, or Goodbye Lucille #1 (all from Steve McQueen - there's also an all acoustic version of that album that is amazing).
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Noted. I will have to check out a tune or two on YT.
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Just thought of one - Dave Matthews Band. Before These Crowded Streets is probably one of my top 10 favorite albums of all time, but before this February, I never gave any other albums of theirs a chance. So far, Crash and Under The Table And Dreaming are absolutely blowing me away and I’m really looking forward to digging into their later albums and live stuff.
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Just thought of one - Dave Matthews Band. Before These Crowded Streets is probably one of my top 10 favorite albums of all time, but before this February, I never gave any other albums of theirs a chance. So far, Crash and Under The Table And Dreaming are absolutely blowing me away and I’m really looking forward to digging into their later albums and live stuff.
Those three albums are really good, but there’s a bit of a drop off afterwards. I do like about half of Everyday, and then Busted Stuff was pretty strong, but that was the last one I was able to get into.
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Metallica - I never gave them a chance back in the day. I was on the Winger side of the debate. A played MoP after joining this site and realised what a great album it is.
Steven Wilson - I’ve given him the odd listen over the years but recently I’ve been really enjoying his stuff.
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Helloween and Stratovarius.
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Jackson Browne. Late for the Sky is a wonderful album.
Recently, Phoebe Bridgers and HAIM, and Lana Del Rey are three acts that I discovered this year and last. Phoebe has great songs and is a creative songwriter, and same goes for Lana. She tells such great stories through her songs—Lovesong and Mariner’s Apartment Complex off Norman Fucking Rockwell are what first got me into her, still need to check out her last album. HAIM just kicks ass, three sisters who are multi-instrumentalists and put on a great live show.
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I divide it into three main reasons: I) bands / artists that I had some kind of prejudice; II) bands / artists who simply were not part of my life before; III) bands / artists that I think needed a little more maturity to appreciate.
I am glad you broke it down that way. I was going to post something similar, but you did it better than I would have. I didn't think about III, so not sure who might fall in to that category. I was going to discount II, since that is more a matter of time/circumstance, and many bands I listen to fall in to this group. Category I is the most intriguing to me. The biggest one for me would be Iron Maiden. When I was growing up, I was only slightly in to metal - early Def Leppard was about as metal as I got. For whatever reason I lumped Maiden in with Metallica and similar bands I couldn't stand. Years later when I get more in to metal, I always discounted them as one of those bands. I bought one of their greatest hits CDs on a whim, recognized some songs I liked, and maybe subconsciously knew were Maiden songs, and loved the entire album. They've been a top band of mine ever since.
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For me it’s gotta be Alice In Chains. I basically ignored 90’s grunge era, ending up throwing out the baby with the bath water when it came to AiC.
Glad to have backtracked and discovered this band. Their melodic and harmonic sense is so unique, sounding like music formed out of some sort of primordial goop. I also surveyed others like Soundgarden, but AiC is the only one of this era to stick with me.
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Very cool theme.
I divide it into three main reasons: I) bands / artists that I had some kind of prejudice; II) bands / artists who simply were not part of my life before; III) bands / artists that I think needed a little more maturity to appreciate.
I) Several examples. As someone who started listening to heavy metal and things like Beatles and Led Zeppelin and then came to progressive rock, I had a HUGE prejudice against punk rock. When I was 30 I decided to reevaluate my musical prejudices and then I discovered artists like The Damned and The Clash that I appreciate.
Another good example is Kiss. I always thought a band was ridiculous, but in the idea of breaking prejudices I listened to the entire discography. I don't like everything, but the 70's records are very good.
II) The biggest example is Rush. I could have liked Rush earlier, if I just had contact with the band. No friends listened to Rush, no one I knew had a Rush record, they didn't play on MTV. When I discovered the band I was in my early 20s!
III) Artists that I knew, respected, but only became a listener after the age of 30, with a certain maturity: David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Leonard Cohen.
Curious how some things just happened without much explanation. When I approached progressive rock, I looked at Yes, but only a few years later I did the same with Genesis, I don't know why. The same happened when Mike Portnoy made me know Transatlantic. From then on, I met Neal Morse and SB, but it wasn't until several years later that I really got to know TFK (and even today I don't know Marillion so well, just the Fish phase).
Ooh, if you don't know any Hogarth era Marillion there's a lot to discover there (probably my favorite band, so I'm biased). Maybe check out Season's End as a natural progression from the Fish era, but then I'd recommend Brave, Afraid of Sunlight, and Marbles.
I'm finally on my Marillion trip!
I revisited the Fish era. Misplaced Childhood is a classic and excellent and yadda yadda yadda, but my biggest fun this time was with Script for a Jester's Tear, wonderful!
And you're right, Seasons End is an excellent record.
Next stop: Holidays in Eden (apparently pop?)
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Couldn't even begin to. Probably just about every new artist (to me) from the time I joined MP's board however many years ago (2003, maybe earlier). As someone that does not listen to the radio or stream, I only discover via word of mouth or sheer boredom just reading music news sites or just checking out random catalogs on the internet via samples.
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King Crimson-2020
It wasn’t that I hadn’t heard anything before, I just never gave them a fair shake. When I noticed all of their stuff was finally on Spotify, I tried again. I put on a good set of headphones and laid back on a lazy weekend. I went through everything up through the 80s. Then kept going back over the next couple of weeks. I found that I really loved the first three albums, which surprised me given my Tony Levin/Bill Bruford love.
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As far as more current bands:
-Maiden: They have to be my #1. Didn't get into them until the Final Frontier album cycle (and pretty late at that, since En Vivo! was already out). I like a fair amount of the classic era (NOTB - SiT) and the reunion era. Don't much care for most of what I've heard that doesn't fit those. But I LOVE a lot of what does fit into those.
-Fates Warning: The thing is, I just don't like a whole lot of their pre-X material. At least, not the studio recordings. I do quite enjoy some live renditions of a lot of that earlier stuff. But from X on, they really are one of my current favorite artists.
-King's X: Didn't get into them until I saw them open for DT on the co-headlining tour with Satch. I have almost all of their albums, and like them quite a bit.
-Neal Morse: Not super late, unless you count Spock's. But the Spock's material never did much for me anyway. Got into Neal a bit before Sola Scriptura came out. He's been one of my faves since then.
And a lot of '60s and '70s rock artists. I hated that stuff when I was getting into rock in the '80s. The earlier stuff just never sounded right to me, and it has taken me awhile to appreciate the influence a lot of those bands had on bands that I like. A lot of that, interestingly enough, has come because of covers albums, where I'll hear a band I like covering something, and then go check out the original. Floyd was probably the first of those early bands for me. Got into them in the early '90s. They are still hit and miss for me, so I've never felt the urge to be a completist (I still need to buy Animals and The Wall), but I really like a lot of their material.
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I feel like we’ve done this before. But it’s definitely IQ for me.
I didn’t discover them until 2014, and they’ve been around since the early 80s.
They are now tied with Haken as my #3 all time favorite band, and they are the only band I can think of with a 40 year career (almost) and literally *ZERO* bad albums. Even though I rate Rush and Dream Theater higher, each of them have at least one stinker.
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I'm finally on my Marillion trip!
I revisited the Fish era. Misplaced Childhood is a classic and excellent and yadda yadda yadda, but my biggest fun this time was with Script for a Jester's Tear, wonderful!
And you're right, Seasons End is an excellent record.
Next stop: Holidays in Eden (apparently pop?)
Awesome! Holidays in Eden was definitely the band trying out a more pop oriented style, but still has a decent amount of prog and has come to be an album I really enjoy for what it is. If it doesn’t do anything for you, don’t give up because the next two, Brave and Afraid of Sunlight, are masterpieces.
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Pink Floyd.
A large part of this is that most, if not all, of my exposure to them for the longest time was material from The Wall and I don't like the bulk of The Wall (and absolutely none of The Final Cut). It was only really after I heard Ayreon's The Dream Sequencer, probably around 2004/5, that I made an effort to delve into more of their catalogue.
I'm still not a huge fan, mind. They were a classic "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" band - the more Roger Waters took over the songwriting the less I liked them and whilst I much prefer the two albums after he left to The Final Cut, there's a sense of them being rather neutered without the edge Waters provided.
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A lot of bands :lol.
I think my biggest one would be Rush. I've known about them forever but didn't check them out until Snakes and Arrows came out and I feel in love.
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A lot, really.
Biggest one is probably King Crimson, although not necessarily for lack of trying. First couple of times I tried with them, I just couldn't get them.
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Oh gosh, there are so many of these. There are tons of classic bands I missed out on during my youth when I was getting into music. I mean, there's only so much money and time you can put on albums while growing up and exploring your taste that you simply cannot check out everything. For me, I started with the heavy metal classics, moving pretty fast into extreme metal territory and pretty much staying there for a loooong time. Only recently, the last years or so, have I been going back in time to start checking out stuff I missed. For example, I bought my first Def Leppard CD two weeks ago. Prior to that, I had maybe heard one or two songs of them...
Other examples of my late to the party bands:
The Beatles
Deep Purple
Black Sabbath (beyond the debut album, that is)
It's great to finally be catching up!
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Depends how many years constitutes "late". W.A.S.P. comes to mind for me (thanks Kade!). Is 1989 considered 'late' for Rush? Fates Warning might also apply - I tried APSOG in the late 90s, and dismissed them. After Theories of Flight, I went back and gave some earlier albums a chance, and man are those good. As for classic bands, I'd put Journey and Styx as candidates - I always knew the 'hits', but never owned any full albums. I think I tackled Journey sometime around 2014, and Styx in 2016. Kamelot is another - Momento Mori was my first experience of them (in 2011 with my first roulette), and it didn't click at first. I then gave them a chance when Tommy joined and was suitably wow'd when I went back to the Khan-era stuff.
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Tommy is awesome, but having missed the Khan years definitively constitutes a "late to the party" in case of Kamelot.
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100% Anathema.
I am only really just getting into them now. Their early stuff is like Paradise Lost, and although I don't LOVE PL, I've liked them for years. Anathema's more recent stuff has certainly be raved about on DTF in 7 years I've been visiting. So really, it's a surprise it's taken me so long to really start loving this band.
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Ignore my double post :hat
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Yesterday I finally finished listening to all the Hogarth-era albums.
I only remembered/knew two songs from the whole H-era! Easter and Beautiful.
Lots of interesting stuff! It was finally worth taking the time to listen to everything. I will continue to listen. :)
Thanks HOF for the comment that served as a boost. :tup
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Metallica - wasn't mentally ready for them in the 80's but was ready in the 90's
Porcupine Tree - just never heard of them until Deadwing
Depeche Mode - didn't really notice them until Violator
rap group Ugly Duckling - too underground, never heard of them
Obviously stuff that came out before I was born...
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Yesterday I finally finished listening to all the Hogarth-era albums.
I only remembered/knew two songs from the whole H-era! Easter and Beautiful.
Lots of interesting stuff! It was finally worth taking the time to listen to everything. I will continue to listen. :)
Thanks HOF for the comment that served as a boost. :tup
Very cool! Glad you enjoyed it!
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Fates Warning. Only got into them a couple years ago and now they're one of my favorite bands. Not one bad album in their entire discography imo.
Also Honorable mention to Iced Earth before Schaffer kinda ruined that one
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Fates Warning. Only got into them a couple years ago and now they're one of my favorite bands. Not one bad album in their entire discography imo.
Also Honorable mention to Iced Earth before Schaffer kinda ruined that one
Nice to hear the love for the older stuff. I still remember when Brocken/Spectre/Guardian were the only albums they had...and being gutted when I found out Arch was gone and they were working on a new album with new kid at the helm.
Turned to be the right move, but I still revisit those first few from time to time. And Arch/Matheos was a brilliant comeback for that writing team.
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Spock's Beard - I didn't hear anything from Spock's Beard until around 2001 when their most recent album was V
I discovered The Flower Kings around the same time, they already had several albums under their belts.
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2018: XTC
2019: R.E.M.
2020: Alanis Morissette
2021: Taylor Swift
As noted in the OP, this was my list from the start.
2022 will probably belong to Iron Maiden. Even though I went through the whole discography and got into them in the fall of 2021, their domination of my CD player didn't really kick in until earlier this year, so I will give them 2022. :biggrin: :biggrin:
The Gathering was close to becoming one for 2022 as well, but while I am digging most of what I am hearing, I am not going back to much of it on any kind of regular basis, and a "late to the party" artist for me has to be one that dominates my CD player for a pretty good period of time.
Anyone else have artists they feel they got into in 2022 that they feel maybe they should have sooner?
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Within the last month I've discovered Powerwolf. While they'll never be one of my very favorites there is a lot of great stuff on their 8 studios albums and I've had a lot of fun with them.
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Last year was Deftones, this year is King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
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I guess this year it's been Sylvaine. I'd heard a song or two of her's a year or two before, but didn't really dig into the albums until early this year.
I'm not sure whether to count Alcest or not. I heard them in the 00s and they didn't click, and I somehow wrote off the whole blackgaze scene until about '20. But I listened to a ton of Alcest finally last year, so perhaps they sort of count.
But otherwise last year it was either VOLA, Anubis Gate, or Spiritbox. It should probably be Anubis Gate, because I knew about them in the 00s, but people in my circles weren't really into them for some reason, so I didn't bother checking them out at the time. Spiritbox doesn't feel fair because I rarely check out bands before they have a full-length, but trawling around the internet everyone seems to have already known about them from the EP and singles and were talking about being "late" even not discovering them until '19. And they don't even seem very popular here, somewhat understandably, but it just felt late getting into them a year ago the way people talked about them.
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Iron Maiden would be mine. I’d known about them for ages, and I was somewhat familiar with their history and all, but I never really sat down and consciously listened to them until my buddy played The Book of Souls album for me. For some reason, that album clicked with me, and it inspired me to go back and get a significant portion of their back catalog (all Reunion era and the classic albums with Bruce and Adrian). I still don’t have the first two or the 90s records, but I feel like I’ve really come to appreciate their greatness.
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I'd never heard of Dream Theater until 2003....
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Biggest one for me is Genesis. Got into them in the early 2010's, after their "final" tour, and after Phil "retired" from music. I was lucky enough to get to see Phil come out of retirement a couple years ago, but I don't think Genesis will be back. They've pushed back they're reunion tour dates back for a second time to next year, and who knows if those will even happen. Not to mention the tour is only in Europe. I just wish a got into them pre-2007 so I could have seen them on their first reunion tour.
I'm happy to report that I got to see Genesis's last two North American shows ever. The final night about 8-9 rows from the front of the stage. It was as amazing as I knew it would be.
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I didn't discover classical music until the late 20th century.
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I only discovered Pizza Death this year
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A bunch.
Opeth
Porcupine Tree
The Tangent
Taylor Swift (yes i'm a Swift-y. though Midnights was my disappointment of 2022....don't like it at all...just....no)
Trivium
Tom Petty
Flower Kings
I have ore i'll post if i think.
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Joe Satriani, for one. I really only started to explore his music this year, and capped it off last week with seeing him live. Phenomenal.
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Oh, Type O Negative are another one for me this year
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I got into the following bands way, way too late:
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Rush
Fates Warning
My intro into music was essentially Survivor's Vital Signs, the Rocky V soundtrack, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake, and then finally Queensryche and Fifth Angel, where I noticed I liked more intense metal. For the longest time, while I dug stuff like Skid Row and Winger, and the whole late-80s pop metal movement (aside from QR, Fifth Angel and some others), it wasn't until the late-1990s I really expanded my knowledge. I became a fan of all the above bands, most recently, The Beatles' latter catalog. I became a big Maiden fan in 2000, for example. I became a big Rush fan about 2007 or so.
I guess with me, I get fixated on something, and just didn't give the classic bands a lot of attention. And then I remember one day I said to myself that I would go listen to all the bands that really influenced my favorite artist (the original lineup of Queensryche). I was going to give all of them the attention they deserved. And then boom, it all eventually clicked.
I'm now a hardcore fan of Fates Warning, Iron Maiden and Rush. I'd probably consider myself a solid fan of Led Zeppelin and a more casual fan of Judas Priest, The Beatles and Pink Floyd.
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I got into the following bands way, way too late:
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Rush
Fates Warning
My intro into music was essentially Survivor's Vital Signs, the Rocky V soundtrack, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake, and then finally Queensryche and Fifth Angel, where I noticed I liked more intense metal. For the longest time, while I dug stuff like Skid Row and Winger, and the whole late-80s pop metal movement (aside from QR, Fifth Angel and some others), it wasn't until the late-1990s I really expanded my knowledge. I became a fan of all the above bands, most recently, The Beatles' latter catalog. I became a big Maiden fan in 2000, for example. I became a big Rush fan about 2007 or so.
I guess with me, I get fixated on something, and just didn't give the classic bands a lot of attention. And then I remember one day I said to myself that I would go listen to all the bands that really influenced my favorite artist (the original lineup of Queensryche). I was going to give all of them the attention they deserved. And then boom, it all eventually clicked.
I'm now a hardcore fan of Fates Warning, Iron Maiden and Rush. I'd probably consider myself a solid fan of Led Zeppelin and a more casual fan of Judas Priest, The Beatles and Pink Floyd.
Vital Signs is one of my favorite album of all time. great stuff.
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Within the last month I've discovered Powerwolf. While they'll never be one of my very favorites there is a lot of great stuff on their 8 studios albums and I've had a lot of fun with them.
I saw them live for the third time yesterday and I searched the forums to see if someone was talking about them.
That was the third time for me - in 2017 they were second in the bill of a festival held in a medium-big venue, behind Stratovarius; the next year they were on their own tour and they filled that venue (a wonder it wasn't sold out in advance), and yesterday they play in a bigger venue, usually filled by the likes of Blind Guardian and Helloween pre-reunion, and they filled it as well. Not sold out, but it was packed.
Some bands in the genre are waaaay too serious. Others are waaaay too cheesy and borderline parodic. Powerwolf walk the thin line between writing legit songs with the underlying cheesiness not being too much overbearing. It seems easy, but it's not for everyone to write a song called "Resurrection by erection" and make it work :D
Also, their live show is amazing. The coreography and stage show is top notch, and the singer doesn't miss a beat and is awesome live, basically it's like hearing the studio version.
As you said, they're never be a really favorite of mine, but they are really entertaining live, and every album while it has always 2-3 forgettable songs is still very good. They're on the rise and they will surely become one of the main live draws in years to come.
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I lost track of Powerwolf a bit, but I have a few of their earlier albums...
I mean, they obviously have a schtick, but I remember at least Lupus Dei and Bible of the Beast were legit, entertaining metal albums.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Finally set out to explore his discography outside of their last 3 albums and damn, what a treat so far.
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Napalm Death - just this year. Love their last album, and extreme metal barely ever gets me these days.
Survivor - a couple of years back. I knew the Rocky songs since the 80s but little else. When Seconds Count is my favourite. Amazing.
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I feel like almost all of my favorite artists are late to the party artists, though it's not necessarily a bad thing.
Rush in the 90s
Dream Theater, Fates Warning Threshold, and Angra in the 2000s
Katatonia in the 2010s
I got into Leprous and Riverside pretty early on. And Tesseract.
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Napalm Death - just this year. Love their last album, and extreme metal barely ever gets me these days.
I'm with you on this, I knly really delves into Napalm Death this year. I'm really enjoying Scum and Utilitarian. I'm working my way through their catalogue, so got a ways to go. I was surprised by how much they sounded like Fear Factory in the mid 90s!
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Vital Signs is one of my favorite album of all time. great stuff.
Yeah, it's a great record. I remember a childhood friend and I used to have sleepovers at his house. He had a big family, but they had this camper parked on the driveway behind the house (long driveway to the road) before the garage. We used to take his old brother's cassette tapes and listen. I must have heard it either fall 1984 or spring 1985, and it just resonated with me. Because I remember going into the grocery store with my mother a year or so later and seeing the Rocky IV soundtrack on cassette at the small music section there, and that it had Survivor on it, and I begged her to buy it for me. My love for music exploded after that.
On a funny note, she bought me Styx' Pieces of Eight probably several months later, when I asked her if she could buy me a new tape - I wasn't specific but wanted something rock. She must have asked the clerk at the store what album would be good for someone who liked Survivor, and he/she must have recommended it. I hated it. :lol :lol
Now, I like it. But back then, Styx and I didn't connect.
Good memories. Miss my parents. They've been gone a long time.
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Napalm Death - just this year. Love their last album, and extreme metal barely ever gets me these days.
I'm with you on this, I knly really delves into Napalm Death this year. I'm really enjoying Scum and Utilitarian. I'm working my way through their catalogue, so got a ways to go. I was surprised by how much they sounded like Fear Factory in the mid 90s!
I dig Utilitarian too. Apex Predator also delivers. I've avoided the early stuff as was exposed to it back in the day but am familiar with some 90s bits. Breed To Breathe was on a Kerrang cover cd iirc...