[YanksFC]

This thread is for music or artists that you wonder why you never listened to until recently.

Mine is Iggy and the Stooges. I have several Iggy Pop solo efforts ("The Idiot," "Lust for Life," "Blah Blah Blah"), but never thought about checking out Iggy's earlier stuff with the Stooges until recently. Legs McNeil's chronical of the '70s New York punk scene, "Please Kill Me," was the impetus for my purchase of Iggy and the Stooges' "Raw Power," as Iggy is prominently featured in McNeil's book. Anyway, I absolutely love the CD and will probably get the Stooges' two other albums.

Your turn.

[Col Mustard]

I'll have to go for David Bowie on this one. I've avoided his stuff for so long because I just can't stand him as a personality. He comes across on TV as a pretentious nerk and his films make me want to retch.

However I started with Hunky Dory and I haven't looked back. His back catalogue being on offer at 3 for £18 hasn't hurt things either.

Top 5 so far:-

Hunky Dory
Low
Ziggy Stardust
The Lodger
Scary Monsters

[hangthadj]

Nice thread to start....
For me I been a big fan of alt-country or whatever the hell its called...But it wasn't to the re-release of the Mekons Fear and Whiskey that i listened to the Mekons. I always hear them lumped into alt-country grandfathers or something like that, but that album is so much more than that. I been playing it to death (much to my roomates chagrin) and need some more mekons, but I don't know where to start. Maybe thats why I never listened in the first place for so long...

[Northside Rovers]

David Gray.

[obie]

Miles Davis. The recent re-issue of Birth Of The Cool has been a revelation.

[eneste]

Unrest

I remember my friend having a bunch of Unrest 7" back in junior high and just looking at the covers I didn't think I would like them. 10 years later I decide to pick up Perfect Teeth and I love it. I don't know why I didn't before it's the sort of stuff I would like.

Pixies too. I didn't like Teenage of the Year that much so I didn't think I would like the Pixies. That was silly.

[Foots]

Eminem

[Dolemite]

Originally posted by obie
Miles Davis. The recent re-issue of Birth Of The Cool has been a revelation.

i think flamenco sketches is one of the best songs ever recorded.

[nicodemus]

I got Johnny Cash's "From Folsom Prison" over the weekend and said to my wife, "Why don't I own this man's entire catalogue of music?"

Additionally, I got all of Bill Monroe's reissues on the German label, Bear Family Records for my birthday, and it was the same thing, why did it take me so long to get this?

[hangthadj]

Originally posted by nicodemus
I got Johnny Cash's "From Folsom Prison" over the weekend and said to my wife, "Why don't I own this man's entire catalogue of music?"

i thought the same thing after i got the "Love, God, Murder" boxset as a gift.