Your favorite band/artist whom you wish you followed since their inception

[jammindude]

Very easy answer for me. IQ without hesitation. How these guys went under my radar for 30 years is inexcusable and criminal.

I will always have Cool Chris to thank for that. He insisted I find Frequency and it was love at first listen. But even then, only having heard one album I was hesitant to pull the trigger on the price tag for Road of Bones. But then my friend Sean from Odd Logic said it was his album of the year, so I bought it and loved it. Then I decided to start from the beginning and get Tales from the Lush Attic...which took some getting used to, but then I fell in love with that too. After that I pretty much went all in. I now own every album, love nearly every single note (the exception being a couple of the poppier songs from Nomzamo) and they have shot into my all time top 5 bands.

[HOF]

Someday I’ll have to give IQ another shot. I’ve tried before and couldn’t get past the singer’s voice (and usually I’m pretty accepting of unusual voices). I suppose it’s possible they have had more than one?

[jammindude]

Someday I’ll have to give IQ another shot. I’ve tried before and couldn’t get past the singer’s voice (and usually I’m pretty accepting of unusual voices). I suppose it’s possible they have had more than one?

They had a different singer for the poppier sounding 3rd and 4th albums (Nomzamo and Are You Sitting Comfortably respectively) but other than that it’s always been the same guy. However, I will say that it sounds to me like he took vocal lessons between his departure after album two (The Wake) and his return on album five (Ever...my favorite). But he’s started to become even richer on his low range in his old age IMO.  Check out his opening on the title track from Frequency. I think his voice is absolutely butter on this. Goosebumps

https://youtu.be/gNA-6JqKsVQ

The vocals start at 2:10 after a beautiful intro.

[HOF]

Someday I’ll have to give IQ another shot. I’ve tried before and couldn’t get past the singer’s voice (and usually I’m pretty accepting of unusual voices). I suppose it’s possible they have had more than one?

They had a different singer for the poppier sounding 3rd and 4th albums (Nomzamo and Are You Sitting Comfortably respectively) but other than that it’s always been the same guy. However, I will say that it sounds to me like he took vocal lessons between his departure after album two (The Wake) and his return on album five (Ever...my favorite). But he’s started to become even richer on his low range in his old age IMO.  Check out his opening on the title track from Frequency. I think his voice is absolutely butter on this. Goosebumps

https://youtu.be/gNA-6JqKsVQ

The vocals start at 2:10 after a beautiful intro.

Ever was the one I tried to get into. I liked the music well enough, and Martin Orford has done some other stuff I like (Jadis, The Old Road), so I don’t see why I shouldn’t like IQ. The voice on Frequency isn’t so bad. I’ll check that album out sometime.

[Cool Chris]

Very easy answer for me. IQ without hesitation. How these guys went under my radar for 30 years is inexcusable and criminal.

I will always have Cool Chris to thank for that.

Wasn't me.

[jammindude]

Very easy answer for me. IQ without hesitation. How these guys went under my radar for 30 years is inexcusable and criminal.

I will always have Cool Chris to thank for that.

Wasn't me.

I thought you were the one I ran into at the Transatlantic show on Super Bowl night?

[Kotowboy]

I became a fan of THERAPY? in 1993 around the release of SCREAMAGER and latterly the Troublegum album in 1994.

Been a fan ever since and they are currently writing album number 16.

Troublegum was their second major label album and 4th overall after their debut and two indie mini-albums.

I was a fan of OASIS from Supersonic until they split and I saw them live twice.

Been a fan of GREEN DAY since Dookie and was a fan of the band MANSUN whom I loved from their debut single until they split.

I'd love to have been a fan of Metallica since 1981 - but i would have been 2 years old in 81 

[dparrott]

I was a fan of OASIS from Supersonic until they split and I saw them live twice.

Been a fan of GREEN DAY since Dookie and was a fan of the band MANSUN whom I loved from their debut single until they split.

Same with me, except only saw Oasis live once with the Black Crowes and I was a fan of Mansun since the first album, not single.

[Cool Chris]

Very easy answer for me. IQ without hesitation. How these guys went under my radar for 30 years is inexcusable and criminal.

I will always have Cool Chris to thank for that.

Wasn't me.

I thought you were the one I ran into at the Transatlantic show on Super Bowl night?

No, sorry, we've never met (despite being locals) 

[jammindude]

Ok....I even thought you would confirmed it over in the IQ thread when I first started getting into them. But I obviously have you mixed up with somebody else who’s hanging around here somewhere.


EDIT - it was Chris Hinton. Another Chris....thus the confusion.

[King Postwhore]

Dada. When their debut,  Puzzle came out I was hooked.

[Stadler]

I was a fan of OASIS from Supersonic until they split and I saw them live twice.

Been a fan of GREEN DAY since Dookie and was a fan of the band MANSUN whom I loved from their debut single until they split.

Same with me, except only saw Oasis live once with the Black Crowes and I was a fan of Mansun since the first album, not single.

I saw Noel solo, and Liam solo, but never Oasis.   The WEEK I moved into my house in Philly, they played in Camdem - I could see the venue from the roof of my house, it was so close - and didn't go.  Kick myself to this day. 

[MirrorMask]

In this case I'm happy I was never a fan of Oasis, because they split up literally before the italian date in Milan. If not before that, the italian concert was very nigh anyway. I can only imagine what it must have been like for people actually wanting to go to count the days for a concert, and then read that Liam and Noel had another fight and broke up the band over it.