[Closed] Music you wished you'd discovered earlier

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Bare Naked Ladies

Saw them at Glastonbury in the early 90's but never really listened to their albums.

John Fahey.

Ray LaMontagne, discovered late in life but wished he'd been around way earlier..

Arcade Fire. If I'd found them earlier, I would have seen them play Bristol. And I missed them! Other than that, I can't really think of anyone else specifically; listening to 6Music, and reading mags like Uncut and The Word, (now defunct), with their great review sections and free sample CD's, I get to find lots of interesting stuff fairly early on.
Watching the Folk Awards on telly at the mo' has given me a bunch of newcomers to look out for as well. There's really too much out there, though, something will always pass you by, there's [i]always[/i] gonna be stuff that has you thinking: "damnation, how could I have missed something [i]that[/i] good, for [i]so[/i] long!"
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Slayer, I discovered 'Reign in Blood' 3 years after it came out....3 years of Slayer I've missed out on and can never get back.

Gogol Bordello.
A week earlyer i turned down tickets to see them

Jazz FM"

It's not often music i don't know, but it is my kind of smooth easy listening.

Psychedelia as in "A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind"
Its mind expanding stuff

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Ray Charles

Aqua

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AC DC - I jumped on the itunes release bandwagon last year! (To be fair most of their stuff was released before I was born so I have an excuse!)

Jazzy Jeff!

Blue Cheer!

Led zeppelin, spent the nineties wearing phat pants and dancing, djing most nights of the week

Took beers and lots of time working on bikes with a ferind who was a fan to turn me, always assumed it was dad rock to that point.

Black Sabbath

Always 'sort of' liked them but the last few years has been a revelation – the more I listen to them the more I realise what a great band they really are.

I discovered Gansta Rapp in my 30s, the Old School stuff is great. Recently, Led Zep and Sabbath, always liked rocky stuff but these are the real greats.

Nick Drake. How did I ever miss him? 🙁

The Afghan Whigs and Black Sabbath

Rolling Stones

Only started to listen to to them last year, now topping my playlist charts on my mp3 player.

Elliott Smith. Only listened after he died. Some great stuff.

Well done Kimbers.

The only time I was ever asked by a punter what was playing when I worked in Threshers years ago it was Revolution Blues.

+ Elliott Smith - only heard miss misery & thought it was a bit naff..

The Chameleons, Orange Juice & Talking Heads

Krautrock. (Can, Neu!, Faust etc)
Just because I'll never go back and listen to it now, so I'll never know what gems I've missed.

Muse took me ages to discover, despite playing the sort of over the top, squeally guitar with Queen-like theatrics that I quite like.

Muse took me ages to discover, despite playing the sort of over the top, squeally guitar with Queen-like theatrics that I quite like.

Ironically, I’m glad i discovered Muse in the early days; i much prefer their early stuff, before they started doing their Stadium Rock stuff....

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Ironically, I’m glad i discovered Muse in the early days; i much prefer their early stuff, before they started doing their Stadium Rock stuff....

Springsteen. Used to think it was all tub thumping stars and stripes bluster, then I actually listened to the lyrics properly. Not my absolute favourite but certainly the biggest turnaround in opinion. The 19 year old me really would not have understood.

Two that I'd heard about for years but didn't discover till more recently - Neil Young and Big Star.

As for music the younger me wouldn't have understood - Country music

Couldn't agree more.

Nor me.

I was one of those irritatingly proud youngsters because I was into Muse before anyone else I knew. Saw them a couple of times and reckon the gig at the Manchester Apollo was the best gig I've ever been to. Then they started playing "spot the influences" on their albums; Queen I could cope with, but Abba took the biscuit. Now I barely listen to them.

Noteeth...... John Fahey is an utter musical genius!! He is not a new discovery for me though having known about him since the 1970s.

For me it is Mississippi Hill Country Blues - Robert Belfour, Junior Kimborough, R L Burnside, Jesse Mae Hemphill, etc. How did i miss most of these for so long?

I missed a Cedric Burnside gig by two days when I was in Mississippi. Gutted.

John Fahey is one of my favourite artists ever, luckily I discovered him at just the right time. I still spend a lot of time learning his songs on my guitar.

The Black Keys - got into them fairly recently but would loved to have seen them at a smaller venue.

The Black Keys are totally indebted to Mississippi Hill country blues (their early best stuff especially). So much so that they did a whole album dedicated to only Junior Kimbrough covers - Chulahoma. Awesome stuff - almost as good as the originals.

adstick - I too have tried to play John Fahey pieces for many years. Impossible to get that melancholy otherworldly atmosphere and timing though I have found (fun to try however). In fact sadly I am trying to be a Fahey clone so much that I have a weissenborn guitar on order!

Radio Head
I had encounters with them when they were in their first incarnations (along time ago now) and thought they were a bunch of talent less posh boys who didn't need to work for a living.
Oh how wrong I was.

I need to brush up on my English as well, by the looks of the above post.

The Black Keys are totally indebted to Mississippi Hill country blues (their early best stuff especially). So much so that they did a whole album dedicated to only Junior Kimbrough covers - Chulahoma. Awesome stuff - almost as good as the originals.

To answer the OP: Junior Kimbrough 🙂