Late to the Party: Bands you really got into well after they made their mark.

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  • BIGDaddyWil
    BIGDaddyWil Michigan Posts: 3,080
    Steely Dan
    Pine Knob Music Theatre - Jul 31, 1992 Crisler Arena - Mar 20, 1994
    Summerfest - Jul 09, 1995*Savage Hall - Sep 22, 1996The Palace of Auburn Hills-Aug 23, 1998 Breslin Center- Aug 18, 1998,The Palace of Auburn Hills-Oct 07, 2000 DTE Energy Theatre-Jun5,2003,DTE Energy Music Theatre - Jun 26, 2003Sports Arena - Oct 02, 2004 Van Andel Arena - May 19, 2006Palace of Auburn Hills-May 22, 2006 Quicken Loans Arena-May 09, 2010
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  • DissidentRival74
    DissidentRival74 Six One Five Posts: 151
    Blind Melon - didn't really get into them until 99 when I bought Soup for $8 at a grocery store in Gardiner, MT.  Now (unfortunately) they are on top of my "Bands i wished i had seen live" list...
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  • JH6056
    JH6056 Posts: 2,437
    DissidentRival74 said:
    Blind Melon - didn't really get into them until 99 when I bought Soup for $8 at a grocery store in Gardiner, MT.  Now (unfortunately) they are on top of my "Bands i wished i had seen live" list...
    Keep an eye out for a documentary about Blind Melon that PJ BFF photographer Danny Clinch is making or has already made.  But I don't think it's been released yet, maybe they're waiting until after being in a theater isn't such an issue?
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,975
    JH6056 said:
    DissidentRival74 said:
    Blind Melon - didn't really get into them until 99 when I bought Soup for $8 at a grocery store in Gardiner, MT.  Now (unfortunately) they are on top of my "Bands i wished i had seen live" list...
    Keep an eye out for a documentary about Blind Melon that PJ BFF photographer Danny Clinch is making or has already made.  But I don't think it's been released yet, maybe they're waiting until after being in a theater isn't such an issue?
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  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,975
    Pearl Jam - 1998
    Starsailor - 2007
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,827
    Leonard Cohen - I first heard his songs on a tribute album featuring REM, Lloyd Cole, The Pixies.

    Wilco - my wife introduced me to them in 2006.  I was aware of them, but the only song I knew was "Heavy Metal Drummer".  I am now a mega-fan!
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    JOEJOEJOE said:
    Leonard Cohen - I first heard his songs on a tribute album featuring REM, Lloyd Cole, The Pixies.

    Wilco - my wife introduced me to them in 2006.  I was aware of them, but the only song I knew was "Heavy Metal Drummer".  I am now a mega-fan!

    Great choices, Loujoe! 
    I was late to the party with Cohen myself.  I like "Suzanne" a lot but not much else until many years later I saw him on the show Sunday Night hosted by Jools Holland and David Sanborn.  Cohen played a couple of number with Sonny Rollins that are just amazing and really sparked my respect for the man and his music. Both of them!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,283
    Radiohead- Really got into them after In Rainbows came out.
    8/28/98- Camden, NJ
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    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
    Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • mr bungle
    mr bungle Posts: 1,424
    Faith No More.  I was indifferent towards The Real Thing when it came out.  And then Angel Dust arrived and changed my life!
  • ceska
    ceska New York Posts: 1,137
    Definitely Drive-By Truckers. I got into them in 2013. Missed the entire Isbell/Tucker/Neff eras. I don't mind not having seen them with Isbell. I would really have enjoyed seeing them with Shonna Tucker. I was relatively late to Neko Case (2008) and Kathleen Edwards (2103) too.
  • ceska
    ceska New York Posts: 1,137
    edited November 2021
    Oh I should definitely add Bloodkin. I'm not sure I ever even heard of them before I read Patterson Hood's memoriam of singer Daniel Hutchens. Might be a case of a bad band name keeping them off my radar. This summer I bought their discography off bandcamp. The Blues in Heaven is easily one of the best songs of the 2000s. That song should have been a hit.
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  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,336
    CarryTheZero said:
    Drive By Truckers, really got into them with American Band and now love it all!

    Built to Spill, wasn’t until Ancient Melodies, but my first actual albums were Keep It Like a Secret and Perfect From Now On!
    I only started listening to them a couple of years ago. It has been cool to go back and discover all the music. We went to see them last month in Indianapolis and they were great.
  • Spartanacus
    Spartanacus Oviedo, FL Posts: 940
    The most head scratching one as they are easily my favorite band now (eclipsed PJ) is QOTSA.  Their classic debut came out in 1998 and despite knowing their 2002 hit 'No One Knows' I didn't get into them until about 2012, shortly before '...Like Clockwork' came out.  

    Others are a bunch of 'Black' bands...BRMC, Black Keys, Black Angels, and to a lesser extent Black Mountain (got about 20 cool songs).

    Finally I'll add that I really got into Cage The Elephant, The Kills, Dead Weather, and the good old Toadies late (Toadies was very late...they have a couple dozen songs that really kick ass).
    208XXX (September 2000) - 21 Pearl Jam shows, 2 Eddie Vedder shows, 1 Temple Of The Dog show
    1998     - East Lansing & Auburn Hills; 2000 - Tampa & Noblesville; 2003 - Lexington & Noblesville;
    2006 - Cincinnati; 2007 - Chicago (Lollapalooza); 2008 - Ed in Milwaukee; 2009 - Chicago; 
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    2025 - Hollywood I & II
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,517
    Clutch.  Don't know how I missed out on them.
    Drive By Truckers.  Heard a tune by them I really dug about 2 years ago on the radio.
    Grateful Dead.  I hear songs come up and was like why didn't I listen to them?

    There might be a few more.

    Interesting thing about the above bands is I still don't actively listen to them.  I am afraid to get caught up in a frenzy and be upset that I can't see them as they should have been seen.  I recently started to listen to the album Soup by Blind Melon.  I remember a few songs and enjoyed the album but couldn't fully get into it knowing that Hoon was gone...

    Anyone else weird like me on here?

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,517
    Oh Mac Miller is another one.  That dude is a treasure.  He is another one I delved into a bit and pulled back out of.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Clutch.  Don't know how I missed out on them.
    Drive By Truckers.  Heard a tune by them I really dug about 2 years ago on the radio.
    Grateful Dead.  I hear songs come up and was like why didn't I listen to them?

    There might be a few more.

    Interesting thing about the above bands is I still don't actively listen to them.  I am afraid to get caught up in a frenzy and be upset that I can't see them as they should have been seen.  I recently started to listen to the album Soup by Blind Melon.  I remember a few songs and enjoyed the album but couldn't fully get into it knowing that Hoon was gone...

    Anyone else weird like me on here?


    I very much like and have Working Man's Dead and American Beauty, but they are not typical lengthy jam band Dead albums, so I can't say I'm really a big fan.  Give me another 55 years and I might become a Dead Head after all.  :lol:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,517
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Clutch.  Don't know how I missed out on them.
    Drive By Truckers.  Heard a tune by them I really dug about 2 years ago on the radio.
    Grateful Dead.  I hear songs come up and was like why didn't I listen to them?

    There might be a few more.

    Interesting thing about the above bands is I still don't actively listen to them.  I am afraid to get caught up in a frenzy and be upset that I can't see them as they should have been seen.  I recently started to listen to the album Soup by Blind Melon.  I remember a few songs and enjoyed the album but couldn't fully get into it knowing that Hoon was gone...

    Anyone else weird like me on here?


    I very much like and have Working Man's Dead and American Beauty, but they are not typical lengthy jam band Dead albums, so I can't say I'm really a big fan.  Give me another 55 years and I might become a Dead Head after all.  :lol:
    I only listen to the Dead live, or when I go see the Dead cover band 1/2 Step, which are fan friggin tastic  or when my GF listens to them.  I am a big fan of anything that has Pigpen in it.

    https://halfstepgd.com/the-band
  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,908
    The Beatles

    I didn't like them what I was young, not even when I was done high school, but slowly I started like the odd song, and then with each passing year I liked their music more and more.  Now I really like them, especially the back half of the catalog.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Zod said:
    The Beatles

    I didn't like them what I was young, not even when I was done high school, but slowly I started like the odd song, and then with each passing year I liked their music more and more.  Now I really like them, especially the back half of the catalog.

    That's a cool and, to me, unusual story, Zod.  When the Beatles first hit it big in the U.S., spurned on by their introduction to us kids by appearing on the Ed Sullivan show, they were and instant mega-smash hit with just about everybody.  Even my parents, who had the obligatory knee jerk reaction about the long hair (good grief, it barely made it over their ears and they wore neat and tidy matching suits!), I think even they in their own kind of subtle way thought they were at least cute. 


    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,975
    Tom Waits - 2004
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