Name A Band That Got You...?

Question

...listening to a genre you had previously dismissed or disliked.

I never used to listen to electronic/dance music, and never really found it that interesting or appealing, until a friend of mine insisted a few years ago that I listen to Daft Punk, and subsequently The Knife. Ever since I've been hooked on electronica.

Has this sort of thing ever happened to you?

Prof. Anger:
That's cool, you usually don't come across may rock fans that like hip hop :) I might check that one out, I've always been convinced that there must be good rap and hip hop out there somewhere.

lovnrckets:
I absolutely agree, The Knife are definitely one of the most talented bands around at the moment.

LOL, Blue Man Group. I was just watching Arrested Development, one of the episodes where Tobias is trying to get an acting job as an understudy for them. Absolutely hilarious!

Sarah C:
The one I was watching was the one where Maybe tells Steve Holt ("Steve Holt!!") that here mom is a man cause she was hitting on him. Love that show.

*her mom, that is to say.

Answer 1

I had never really been into hip-hop. I knew there was some good stuff, but I never really thought I could be compelled to buy anything until a friend of mine showed me the wonder that is the Dr. Octagon "Dr. Octagonocologyst" cd. Just an amazing record. Between that and Jurassic 5, particularly their first e.p. it's opened me up to get into some pretty awesome stuff.

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If you do get the Dr. Octo cd don't be put off by the first track which is pretty much an audio interpretation of a porno scene. That's just Kool Keith for you, but the rest of the record is really amazing. That Jurassic 5 e.p. (their first release) is really, really great.

Also, Yeah Arrested Development!! All the good ones get cancelled way too early.

Answer 2

I can't say enough good things about The Knife, perhaps one of the most exciting bands on the indie landscape right now. Daft Punk has been great for a while yet remain very elusive.

I don't think any one band would make me change my mind about an entire genre. Maybe a more accurate statement would be that it opened the door ever so slightly. I had pretty much given up on rap music a long time ago. However, I must admit the Jurassic 5 have a great old school sound. Too bad they broke up.

To a lesser extent, bands like Mudvayne and Slipknot got me paying more attention to metal.

Answer 3

I've listened to music since i was about 4 or 5 years old, mainly chart pop, and my parents record collection (70's glam rock, K-Tel compilations), and my own record collection which consisted of acid house hits, S/A/W produced pop, and the odd indie (although i wasn't aware of it then) act like Carter Usm, Wonder Stuff etc. Also i became a massive Madness fan around '92 when Divine Madness came out. but my real musical epiphany happened when we got Sky in '94, and i started watching MTV, and the first video i saw was Basket Case by Green Day - that changed my love of music forever! I got into punk, (which i previously dismissed as being just noise, although i hadn't actually heard much of it!) both new and old, discovered the Clash, Sex Pistols, Damned, Buzzcocks etc. That led me to the likes of Iggy Pop, Television, Talking Heads, P.I.L., and the whole post punk thing, and everything else just fell into place.... Found myself listening to Jazz recently, which i never had time for before! A friend has recently got me listening to Kanye West, after months of me dismissing him as crap.....Now i have a diverse collection, and not enough room to fit it all in! Long and winding answer, but there you go....

Answer 4

The Irish fiddle player Tommy Peoples got me listening to Irish traditional music, which I had never liked before. He's much more purist and hardcore than a lot of the watered-down Riverdance-style stuff you hear. After listening to him I checked out people like Tommy Potts and Bobby Casey (both fiddlers) and Johnny Doran, Paddy Keenan and Seamus Ennis (pipers), and discovered some incredibly powerful music. A lot of Irish music is very Muzak-y, but these guys are raw and gutsy. (I notice that at least three of the abovenamed are also dead, Irish music being a genre where the younger you are, the more easy listening you are, apparently.)

Answer 5

If you talking just about electronic music i used to hate it, mainly because it was noise in the ears, but when i heard Legend B: Lost In Love which includes Red Jerrys Mix at HMV I bought it straight away and nowadays theres almost not one single day that i dont play it. Really, honest, it fabulous to the ears. If your talking about old bands from the Sixties then its always been The Seekers, I even went to see their last show in London a few years back and Judith Durham was absolute, shes one of the best if not best singers from Australia, no im not christian as such but their singing got a lot of people out of their seats, since they are gone now its mainly been Paul Oakenfold.

Answer 6

David Bowie opened a world of glam for me. I began listening to him in my early '20s - before that, I had never cared to listen to any other music of the glam-rock era ... so shortly after, my appreciation grew for bands like Slade, Mott The Hoople, and T. Rex including bands inspired by them such as The New York Dolls, Pretty Boy Floyd ... The Rapture ..., etc

Answer 7

Ryan Adams/Whiskeytown made me aware of country music, which was always a no-go area before.
I never liked much instrumental music until I listened to Mogwai - After hearing them I now like GYBE and Explosions in the sky

Answer 8

Something similar.
I love to listen to Eminem on the television (MTV) and would sing along quite happy although I could not make out half of what he was saying, the tunes are fab.

Until he released his greatest hits album and I purchased it.
Only a short way into the first song the album was thrown into the dustbin. My grandchildren thought it very funny when I had told them what had happened. Now I only listen to modern music through MTV's censorship.

Answer 9

Actually, hearing Patsy Cline opened my eyes to some of the older bluegrass and country. I'm not the hugest fan in the genre by any means, but I listen to it now with my ears and mind a bit more open.

Answer 10

Porcupine Tree. I use to listen to progressive rock, but never progressive metal, but Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree produced several Opeth albums so I started listening to Opeth. I never was much of a metal fan till I got into Opeth, and even though Porcupine Tree isn't metal, it still got me into metal.

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Was that the episode where Tobias got the call to fill in for one of the Blue men and he misses the call cause he can't hear?