Bands that took a long time to grow on you.

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  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,117
    Radiohead, phish and jack white   
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • clayton12
    clayton12 Athens, GA Posts: 374
    Widespread Panic.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    pjl44 said:
    brianlux said:
    pjl44 said:
    This was The Afghan Whigs for me. My best friend tried pushing them on me for years. Would always hit me as "good 90s rock" but just didn't really click.

    Then one day I was driving around for work and put on Black Love. It was like a tidal wave - one song after another I was like "oh yeah that one, oh yeah that one." One of my five favorite bands now. Very few artists I'd go see instead if the Whigs (or any Dulli project) are in town.

    Ahhh, thus your avatar!   I really need to check out that album.
    Either Gentlemen, Black Love, or 1965. That's the trilogy. The newer and older albums are great too but that's really where to start.

    Excellent- thanks for the tip, pjl!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,791
    brianlux said:
    pjl44 said:
    brianlux said:
    pjl44 said:
    This was The Afghan Whigs for me. My best friend tried pushing them on me for years. Would always hit me as "good 90s rock" but just didn't really click.

    Then one day I was driving around for work and put on Black Love. It was like a tidal wave - one song after another I was like "oh yeah that one, oh yeah that one." One of my five favorite bands now. Very few artists I'd go see instead if the Whigs (or any Dulli project) are in town.

    Ahhh, thus your avatar!   I really need to check out that album.
    Either Gentlemen, Black Love, or 1965. That's the trilogy. The newer and older albums are great too but that's really where to start.

    Excellent- thanks for the tip, pjl!
    That is such a great trilogy of records. Black Love is an all-time favourite of mine. Honestly, it’s ridiculous how often I play it  =) 
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  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,531
    brianlux said:
    pjl44 said:
    brianlux said:
    pjl44 said:
    This was The Afghan Whigs for me. My best friend tried pushing them on me for years. Would always hit me as "good 90s rock" but just didn't really click.

    Then one day I was driving around for work and put on Black Love. It was like a tidal wave - one song after another I was like "oh yeah that one, oh yeah that one." One of my five favorite bands now. Very few artists I'd go see instead if the Whigs (or any Dulli project) are in town.

    Ahhh, thus your avatar!   I really need to check out that album.
    Either Gentlemen, Black Love, or 1965. That's the trilogy. The newer and older albums are great too but that's really where to start.

    Excellent- thanks for the tip, pjl!
    Enjoy Brian!
  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,531
    goldrush said:
    brianlux said:
    pjl44 said:
    brianlux said:
    pjl44 said:
    This was The Afghan Whigs for me. My best friend tried pushing them on me for years. Would always hit me as "good 90s rock" but just didn't really click.

    Then one day I was driving around for work and put on Black Love. It was like a tidal wave - one song after another I was like "oh yeah that one, oh yeah that one." One of my five favorite bands now. Very few artists I'd go see instead if the Whigs (or any Dulli project) are in town.

    Ahhh, thus your avatar!   I really need to check out that album.
    Either Gentlemen, Black Love, or 1965. That's the trilogy. The newer and older albums are great too but that's really where to start.

    Excellent- thanks for the tip, pjl!
    That is such a great trilogy of records. Black Love is an all-time favourite of mine. Honestly, it’s ridiculous how often I play it  =) 
    When I saw them on the 2012 reunion tour they closed with Bulletproof/Summer's Kiss/Faded. Absolutely destroyed. I couldn't have drawn it up better.
  • Gibson
    Gibson Chicago Posts: 2,671
    ....Rush.
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,729
    YES, the band

    Rush, too. I'm really into some of their stuff sometimes. Not a go-to band for me. 2112. Love the song working man. I guess as a listener, my brain tends to enjoy listening to music that doesn't make me try too hard. If that makes any sense.
  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,913
    Led Zeppelin.  Lots of people in high school loved them but I didn't really appreciate them until much later like the early 2000s.  Just started to appreciate their greatness at that point. 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    pjhawks said:
    Led Zeppelin.  Lots of people in high school loved them but I didn't really appreciate them until much later like the early 2000s.  Just started to appreciate their greatness at that point. 

    Sadly (and I mean really sadly because in many ways, they were a great band), the opposite happened for me.  When Led Zeppelin's first album came out, I went bonkers for it.  All my friends and I back then in high school shared our amazement for that record.  I had one friend who was so enamored with the band, he dragged his Marshall stack and Les Paul Jr. over to my house, set it up in the back yard, and started playing the Jimmy Page riffs he was learning.  My mother had gone for a walk and came home and said she could hear this friend's playing "a mile away" (not literally, but a good distance!)
    But over the years, I've grown weary of Robert Plant's younger voice.  I actually like his older mature voice (things he's done with Alison Krause, for example)  much, much better.  
    But all those great Zep songs!  I wish I could acclimate to early Plant better again!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,236
    Yes (the band):  I couldn't get into them at all at around the time I first got into "real music". But not too long after I saw Yessongs(the movie) on TV (I think USA Network) and I was sold. Steve Howe is a good guitarist. I've seen them in Concert quite a few times and recently saw Jon Anderson solo show.

    The Clash: I saw them as one o the openeing bands on The Rolling Stones tour, but I did not like them at the time. Punk/Combat Rock didn't do anything for me at that time. Of course, years later I started liking The Clash. I wish I did when I saw them on that Tour because that was the only time, I saw them in Concert.
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    Canadian here. 

    have never been into Rush. Tried my best. Just can't. 
    By The Time They Figure Out What Went Wrong, We'll Be Sitting On A Beach, Earning Twenty Percent.




  • lexicondevil
    lexicondevil Posts: 2,246
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Canadian here. 

    have never been into Rush. Tried my best. Just can't. 
    Person with ears here. I CANNOT stand Rush. I don't even try to understand them anymore, because Geddy's voice is like nails on a chalkboard. I don't care how good their drummer is. Sorry, had to purge. No offense to you Rush fans out there! I probably like plenty of music that would make your ears bleed.
    1991- Hollywood Palladium, California with Temple of the Dog, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains -RIP Magazine Show Oct. 6th
    1992- Lollapalooza, Irvine, California
    Nothing since then. I suck.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    lexicondevil said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Canadian here. 

    have never been into Rush. Tried my best. Just can't. 
    Person with ears here. I CANNOT stand Rush. I don't even try to understand them anymore, because Geddy's voice is like nails on a chalkboard. I don't care how good their drummer is. Sorry, had to purge. No offense to you Rush fans out there! I probably like plenty of music that would make your ears bleed.

    On the other hand, it would be kind of cool to have put a younger Geddy Lee and Robert Plant in a small room and made a record of the two of them having a screaming contest. 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • lexicondevil
    lexicondevil Posts: 2,246
    brianlux said:
    lexicondevil said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Canadian here. 

    have never been into Rush. Tried my best. Just can't. 
    Person with ears here. I CANNOT stand Rush. I don't even try to understand them anymore, because Geddy's voice is like nails on a chalkboard. I don't care how good their drummer is. Sorry, had to purge. No offense to you Rush fans out there! I probably like plenty of music that would make your ears bleed.

    On the other hand, it would be kind of cool to have put a younger Geddy Lee and Robert Plant in a small room and made a record of the two of them having a screaming contest. 
    Too funny. Plant was the reason it took me so long to get into Led Zeppelin. I definitely appreciate him now.
    1991- Hollywood Palladium, California with Temple of the Dog, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains -RIP Magazine Show Oct. 6th
    1992- Lollapalooza, Irvine, California
    Nothing since then. I suck.
    2016- Fenway Park, Boston - Both glorious nights
    2022- Oakland Night 2
    2024 Sacramento, CA
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,729
    My musical tastes change with the seasons. Naturally.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Loujoe said:
    My musical tastes change with the seasons. Naturally.

    In one of his several books, Henry Rollins talked about that- how certain music appeals to him more by season.   
    I thought about that a few months ago when I was looking at the three albums I have by The Baseball Project.  I realized I hadn't listened to any of them for awhile.  But in the winter, listening to an album of songs that are all about baseball?  "Nah," I said, "That will have to wait until spring."
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    that's always been a thing with me. Winter is the only time I listen to metal. Summer is the only time I listen to someone like Xavier Rudd. Otherwise it feels out of context for me. 

    any time a friend would bring music to the beach and blast Metallica it would totally trigger me. I'm like "dude, read the room". 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    that's always been a thing with me. Winter is the only time I listen to metal. Summer is the only time I listen to someone like Xavier Rudd. Otherwise it feels out of context for me. 

    any time a friend would bring music to the beach and blast Metallica it would totally trigger me. I'm like "dude, read the room". 

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

  • hrd2imgn
    hrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,924
    Well Pearl Jam.  Ten was all around me, it was good, but it never was enough to hook me into buying the cassette at the time, cd was out,but still not my number one format due to price. I was phasing out of hair metal thank God,  months/year later I heard Evenflow at the record store and it was like a breath of fresh air, a sound that was not like anything else out there and I bought Ten on the spot....never looked back.  Resisted the Seattle sound at first, felt like Nirvana were wannabes, Soundgraden was the most appealing due to their heavier riffs and sound.

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