Your Favorite Band You Discovered By "Accident"

[NashVegas]

Me: the Dirty Three.

Found them when I was looking for some Nick Cave rarities on gnutella and came across "Zero is also a number." Said to myself: DAMN! Who's playing that fiddle?

Downloaded a couple of their tunes then went out and bought Horse Stories - and I hope the legal departments at the RIAA labels get to see this post. Fuck you, darlings.

[xultar]

1. Olive - but they've broken up!

[Stew225]

2. The Beatles. eom

[mrbassman03]

3. Iron and Wine and the Postal Service...

I know they are pretty big, but I found them without any outside help...

[indigobusiness]

4. The Feelies

still feel good.

[Wickerman]

6. Hey, same with me

and then they "accidentally" led me to Yo La Tengo, and from there the VU guitar bands flowed from the woodwork.

[indigobusiness]

13. Hey, me too....Yo la Tengo...likewise

The Mekons, as well.

[NashVegas]

9. I Saw An Ad

In a local 'zine once; a take off on the "this is your brain on drugs" ads. Decided right then and there I liked 'em.

[sundog]

10. they were a great band...

(they still around?)

I think they had a cut on the Married to the Mob soundtrack... after I heard it I went out & bought all their stuff.

[indigobusiness]

14. I keep digging up obscure works of theirs

but don't know if they still have it together.

[sundog]

15. the album "Only Life" just defines a little chunk of my history...

fall 1988 driving aimlessly through color coated October Appalachian Mts... *sigh*

[Wickerman]

16. I am pretty sure they broke up after Time For A Witness

Did a big tour and that after the tour was about that. The drummer went on to be in Luna, the Galaxie 500 followup. The Bass player had a few lps with a band called Spped the Plough - great stuff. One of the guitar players got out of music - the rumour used to be he was a locksmith for Disneyworld.

Two of the players went on to form Wake Ooloo, living in Chicgo. Couple of nice Lps.

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[indigobusiness]

18. No kidding...Galaxy 500 was a raging fave of mine

loved that phoned in from the Twilight Zone sound.

Luna grew weak from what I heard. Did they ever pump it back up?

I remember Speed the Plough.
on edit- But I don't rember actually hearing it. This was something I intended to check out, I think. My memory banks are failing me...back in the day, I stumbled across a trade magazine that plugged me into alot of stuff at once and fogged my circuits.

Wake Ooloo, huh? Thanks, I'll check that out.

I can understand why 'Time for a Witness' would be a band's swan song...it would be hard to top.

[sysoprock]

5. Knapsack

and The Jealous Sound.

I got a Knapsack song on a cd I got when I bought a pair of shoes.

They turned out to be one of my favorite bands.

[sundog]

7. Thievery Corporation

[MercutioATC]

21. Yes! Me too. Found them on the Skyy Vodka page.

Great stuff.

[sundog]

24. everything on the Eighteenth Street Lounge label is groovy

[MercutioATC]

25. I haven't listened to anything else...I'll have to find some.

I love that stuff...

[sundog]

26. here...

http://www.eslmusic.com

[MercutioATC]

33. Thanks!

[RandomKoolzip]

8. Brainiac.

Back when they were on Grass, so were The Wrens (who I was obsessed with). I thought I'd check out a Grass sampler and was bloooown awaaaay by "Smack Bunny Baby." Great lost, late band (RIP Timmy Thomas).

[Karenina]

11. Duoud.

Smadj und Mehdi happened to drop in for a beer in the basement with their ouds. Fortunately the bar stool I draped myself over was tall enough that my chin was only slightly bruised as my jaw dropped. :wow:

[Diego360]

12. Dressy Bessy

Their self-titled album is the best CD I've bought in a long time.

[miss_kitty]

17. THe Clash n/t

[JimmyJazz]

19. not n/t - please explain - how does one discover the clash

by accident???

[miss_kitty]

22. I could not stand

"Lost in the supermarket" I was nails on a blackboard for me....then one day the groovy radio station said "hey! we have a couple of new album in from the clash it's a three record set-we'll be playing it in it's entirety"-it was the one album version-They started playing it before i could turn it off and i thought "Fuck-these guys-fuck! what have I been missing?"
I had friends that worked in the record biz and i got some rare shit off them-everyone pretty much knew how I felt about the cLash after Sandanista. I own pretty much all the clash i can find.

BTW "Lost in the supermarket"-nearly my rtheme song :P

[JimmyJazz]

23. Lost in the Supermarket?? I won't even go into how you heard that

first! If anything, people relate the Clash to Rock the Casbah or Should I Stay or Should I Go. I got into the Clash because I was a huge Who fan and Pete Townshend said, "Hey, there's this really great band you should check out..." I was totally hooked from the beginning. Their sound is still very fresh today and I like them a little bit (in case you couldn't tell). I don't care how you got there, as long as you did...

[MercutioATC]

20. Prefab Sprout

I had never heard of them in the 80's...just found them a little over a year ago.

[Jokinomx]

27. The Talking Heads.....

I was a teenager then... going thru discounted albums at the Mall Music Store and came across "More Music About Buildings and Food".

The cover and the title caught my attention...I thought, why not?

They turned out to be one of my all time Favorite bands.

:kick:

[NashVegas]

32. The Local Library

Similar thing. Saw the cool album title, Fear of Music and brought it home. My older brother threatened to beat me up if I didn't take that "punk shit" off his stereo.

[KittyWampus]

28. Primus. Was Driving W/College Radio On. Had To Pull Over & Listen

I had NO idea someone could do that with a bass guitar. :D

[mac56]

29. Any Trouble.

It was 1980. Read a Rolling Stone review of their album, went out and bought it. Promptly played it till the grooves wore through.

[scottcsmith]

30. Venus Hum

I first heard of Venus Hum when I saw a video from the Blue Man Group, and I "accidentally" found one of Venus Hum's singles. After the "accident" I purchased their album.

[havocmom]

31. Brother from Oz, but I don't know if they are still together

really good stuff... didgeridoo, bagpipes, & rock n roll