Shamefully late discoveries

Another recent discovery for me right now is Brian Eno. Of course I knew who he was and had appreciation for his production skills with u2, Talking Heads, etc... I even got me a couple years ago his Music for Airports cd, which never clicked with me until recently when coming back late at night from a long work day they played a piece on the radio and I discovered the best way to listen to that album is exactly under those circumstances (tired, with you mind in blank after working 12 hours in a row, driving throught the night when all you wanna do is go to sleep) that means I still don't dig that album.
But anyway, recently I've been on a deep glam phase (Bowie, NYDolls, etc) and I decided to get his Here Come the Warm Jets cd, which has some rocking songs but still you can perceive the ambient direction he'd later take. Then just a week ago I got the album he did with David Byrne which I remembered listening at a friend's home and really liking it... wow, that record is just flawles, exciting, clever, danceable... is just friggin' perfect. And I also got his new album Another Day on Earth, which is the first with proper songs since a long time ago, very, very enjoyable. Right now I'm keeping my eyes open for Before and After Science, another record of songs.
I'm still not so sure about getting his more experimental/ambient albums based on my feelings towards Music for Airports. But since I liked that record with David Byrne, which is on the experimental vein, probably I'll be taking a chance with another album of this kind....
hey, which leads me to invite you to check as well the most recent album by his long time partner Daniel Lanois, the album is called Belladonna and simply takes you high to heaven.

lou reed just got into him. the dead kennedys got into them spring/summer of 04. i heard of bad religion for years before i listened to them, but that was years ago. pixies were a band i still cant believe were so hard to find. now things are a bit different but when i first got into them it was hard finding stuff. most of the classic rock stuff the who, zeppelin. cat stevens. neil young, etc ive known about since i was a kid. my dad listen to classic rock stations growing up. but i didnt get into these band till i was in my late teens and i had money to spend on cds.
thing is i wouldnt say these are late discoveries though it seems i find these artist when i need them. if i would have heard dk when i heard br i might have been turned off from punk and that would have been that. pixies came right when i was getting bored with music in a sense and all new music sounded like crap. i needed something fresh and different, something like nothing else. they i remembered kurt mentioning the pixies and i was like might as well buy one of their cds since there is nothing else good. i could write a book about how i discovered bands and the important role they played but i wont.
maybe its a blessing or a curse but it really seems to me bands find me when i need it.

heres to the band from the 80's that ill hear for the first time next year.

the band. i got a scorsese box set as a present last year. i've probably watched the last waltz in its entirety 10-12x since then. and i'm listening to the cd now.

the afghan whigs. i have no clue how i survived this long without them.