Saturday Surprise
Bekkah and I were listening to the Pixies yesterday and this fantastic song came up:
MP3: Bone Machine
Francis and Kim sound all gospely on this song.
But the truth is I missed the Pixies the first time around.
What great band did you miss the first time around?
MP3: Bone Machine
Francis and Kim sound all gospely on this song.
But the truth is I missed the Pixies the first time around.
What great band did you miss the first time around?
posted by jEFF at 9:26 PM
15 Comments:
well, i missed wilco the first time around, but i think i'm still missing them. i know i'm about to commit ranh ranh suicide here, but i don't get it with wilco. i've listened to the cd that jeff burned for us which i imagine to have been the best tracks, and i watched the documentary about laying down that record, and i read and listened to that super long post on this very site, and well, i remain unimpressed. but i understand that i am in the minority here.
can someone explain wilco to me? please?
You're dead to me.
I missed out on The Smiths and The Cure the first time around, and I'd especially like to figure out where to start with The Smiths.
By the way, Matty, I've never enjoyed Wilco's albums or shows as much as everybody wants me to either. Every time somebody explains their genius (their eclectic sound, their growth as a band), I always recommend Los Lobos. Smokin' live shows, interesting side projects, experimental albums, a wide variety of American musical influences...Los Lobos may be the most-missed great band out there.
i have the problem that it usually takes seeing someone live for me to get into their music. not always. and luckily i have a husband and friends who will beat me into musical submission most of the time.
with wilco it was partially watching "i am trying to break your heart" but it was also the beatings by jeff, sonnet and alex. (not so much alex. cause he's british. he just looks on sweetly and offers to pour me another drink - but he doesn't call off the hounds.) i think it was whatever song where he sings "say you miss me tooo...baby say you miss meee..." whatever song that is. and also heavy metal drummer. and i think it was the vocals more than the songsmithery. there is an earnest quality to his voice that i really love. (jeff is challenging me even as i type because i apparently think i'm tough for not loving jeff tweedy unconditionally. prepare for musical rumble!!)
i am totally easy (musically speaking) for boys and girls who could sing me to sleep at night: m. ward, sam phillips, sufjan stevens, glenn tilbrook(!), ella, frank, jon brion, etc. and jeff tweedy is hovering on the fringes of that category. he can't sing me to sleep *every* night, but once in awhile i will open my window for him.
joel - you should buy "the queen is dead" and listen to it driving down the highway with the windows rolled down.
i missed squeeze (not sure i really had a chance there) but after seeing glen tilbrook play a solo show last week i am embarking on a squeeze appreciation project around these parts. also checking out brian jonestown massacre...
It took me a long time to get REM. Sad isn't it? And even then it took me a long time to get New Adventures in Hi-Fi which is now one of my favorites. Tom Waits took me forever and when it happened, it was like an epiphany. Bob Dylan took me a loooooooong time and he and I are still waiting for you Jeff.
And Wilco.
With Wilco it was a bootleg concert from Syracuse. And then I got a bootleg Tweedy show and I. Was. Hooked.
I continue to miss out on The Smiths, but I'm listening to more and more of the songs before I flip forward when they appear on the random of my IPod.
We could discuss songs and albums we flipped on too. You know, those ones you listened to, dismissed with disappointment and then realized your mistake later . . .
I missed out on The Smiths, but liked some of Morrissey's solo stuff and am broadening my appreciation for his old band.
I almost missed out on Nirvana, but got in just in time for the release of In Utero.
I missed The Beatles the first time around, but had made up for that by the time I was 10.
I missed out on Neil Young. And am still missing out.
Matt: you've done yeoman's work with Wilco. If you've sat through the Wilco movie and still don't like them, then they're just not your cup of tea. They're your Neil Young. You can rest easy knowing you gave them every chance in the world.
Also -- Los Lobos...I appreciate them and respect. I just don't really like listening to them all that much. Sometimes, yeah...but not consistently.
BTW, Sign Of The Times is on its way to my house, so I may be able to add another to the list of came-to-them-late.
Oh also: The Band. Go and download Whispering Pines if you haven't heard it.
3 things that I have gone from liking a little bit to a medium amount are The Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen and New Order.
I'm pretty stubborn so I don't usually change my mind that much.
Rivers Cuomo opened me up to the Beach Boys when he said "I just wasn't made for these times" was his favorite song.
Man, I totally missed Jon Brion completely until Jeff saved me from what surely would have been a life of paint and emptiness.
Speaking of flipping; I hated most of the Radiohead Records after "OK Computer" and my little brother and husband (who never agree on music) both told me I was crazy. So I gave them another go and I love them all. I have amnesiac in my car right now and always go to it. (that's right, I said car, as if you guys can relate.... ha ha)
I may do a post of what's in my car...
Oh, and Matty - just so you know, Owen HATES Wilco, and he's heard 2 of their records, seen the movie and seen them live in concert.
You are not alone.
Let me just quickly mention two bands that I have flipped the other way on (since I was 9 I mean):
Elctric Light Orchestra
Pink Floyd
Hate
Them
do not trash th elo, fucker.
love you.
Yeah, Pink Floyd. I keep trying and trying and it just doesn't happen.
And the Doors BLOW. In high school I had a Doors greatest hits cassette, because I was in rural Virginia and high-schoolers were required to have it as well as a Jim Morrison T-shirt. I kept trying to listen to it, but I always popped it out and put my Supertramp back in.
Now that's a good band.
Agreed. The Doors are utter shite.
while i have a soft place in my heart for the doors, i understand why others don't.
supertramp. SUPER. TRAMP.
pink floyd? i love the floyd. and their heirs apparent, the flaming lips.
i missed the cure and the smiths in high school, and while i have found and whole-heartedly embraced the cure, morrisey and the smiths are just TOO depressed.
i also do not likie post OK computer radiohead.
i'm just now finding and liking the white stripes.
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