Music group/artist you stumbled onto and now really dig

I don't know if it qualifies, but I 'stumbled' into a 311 garage party in Omaha back in the early 90s. It was right about the time they'd released their first major studio album.
Just a house w/ a two car garage in a middle class neighborhood. Maybe one of their parents houses for all I know. I was with a date, she knew the band, knew they'd be rehearsing, and suggested we stop in. I had no idea they'd go on to success.

"Really digging" them is a stretch though. I recognize their music when someone plays it on a jukebox, but I got stuck in the 60s, 70s, 80s.
 
Red_Alert said:
I don't know if it qualifies, but I 'stumbled' into a 311 garage party in Omaha back in the early 90s. It was right about the time they'd released their first major studio album.
Just a house w/ a two car garage in a middle class neighborhood. Maybe one of their parents houses for all I know. I was with a date, she knew the band, knew they'd be rehearsing, and suggested we stop in. I had no idea they'd go on to success.

"Really digging" them is a stretch though. I recognize their music when someone plays it on a jukebox, but I got stuck in the 60s, 70s, 80s.
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311 is godawful
 
Ethel Merman. Disco album.

Don't ask, I won't tell.
 
How do you “dig” something without stumbling upon it?
 
Deep Dish Pizza Goat said:
How do you “dig” something without stumbling upon it?
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depends on your definition of "stumbling upon"

Spotify generates a Discover Weekly playlist that I put on all the time and sometimes I will find a new song or artist I like on there...but I am not sure I consider that "stumbled upon" since it was given to me by the app.

I see it more like I saw this band open for another band I like and really liked the opening band, so I started listening to their stuff and now I dig it.

or if I am browsing new releases in Spotify and decide to give a new album from a band I hadn't heard of a listen.
 
beardown07 said:
You just stumbled onto Ten Years After? 50 years after? lulz

Alvin Lee was my pops' fave.
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I've "discovered" several other groups from the late 60's/early 70's that I never heard while growing up down South. Also because I was only born in 1970, much of the best music was already recorded before I was old enough to start listening to the radio.
 
I only know his one song, but I really dig Frankie Miller’s “Black Land Farmer” that I heard for the first time a few weeks ago on Hank Willliams Sr Pandora
 
I basically stopped listening to new music in the mid-90's, in the last few years I've gone back and listened to groups like the Strokes, Jet, Cage the Elephant, and White Stripes
 
July 13, 2017 I attended the local "Rock USA" music festival. The headliners for that day were Megadeth, Korn and Avenged Sevenfold; so I got there very early to get as close to the stage as I could. I knew I would have to wade through some shitty music to get to those great headliners, and sure enough, the first few bands of the day were crap.

Expecting more of the same, this band I had never heard of - Avatar - hit the stage. When they opened their set with "Hail the Apocalypse", they got my immediate attention. Before they finished their set, I was downloading their albums on my phone. They're now one of my favorite bands.

 
Hu War Yu said:
I basically stopped listening to new music in the mid-90's, in the last few years I've gone back and listened to groups like the Strokes, Jet, Cage the Elephant, and White Stripes
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Some of that shit is just too clean for my tastes. Too studio.

And White Stripes fans are second only to Tool fans in the annoying department.

ftr i don't really mind any of the bands listed, I just don't seek it out much anymore.
 
Hu War Yu said:
I've "discovered" several other groups from the late 60's/early 70's that I never heard while growing up down South. Also because I was only born in 1970, much of the best music was already recorded before I was old enough to start listening to the radio.
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My parents were first gen hippies. My pops force-fed us all that shit growing up. Not much was missed. There are a few, but when he dies, I had better fucking get his album collection.
 
beardown07 said:
My parents were first gen hippies. My pops force-fed us all that shit growing up. Not much was missed. There are a few, but when he dies, I had better fucking get his album collection.
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My parents SHOULD have been hippies. Instead, they liked 50's music and country
 
beardown07 said:
Some of that shit is just too clean for my tastes. Too studio.

And White Stripes fans are second only to Tool fans in the annoying department.

ftr i don't really mind any of the bands listed, I just don't seek it out much anymore.
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Holy fuck this is astute.

Tool fans think they are MENSA members because they listen to Tool like it takes some otherworldly intellect to get into the band.
 
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