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Old 24-06-2007, 18:20
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Sometimes I only finally 'discover' a song, or realise I like it well after its inital success. For example, Fedde Le Grand's song from last year about Detroit...it was number 1 in September or something, but I only realised I liked it in about January of this year

And Just Jack's 'Stars in their eyes' and Fedde Le Grand/Camille Jones' 'The Creeps' were only added to my iTunes yesterday...months they peaked in the charts



Are there any songs that you've discovered later than everyone else?
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Old 24-06-2007, 18:26
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Stupidly I listened to a colleague at college in 1989 who told me not to buy The Stone Roses debut album 'because it was crap'.......

Didn't discover one of the best albums ever made until 18 months after every one else as a consequence......still, it's 18 months fresher to me, I'spose........
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Old 24-06-2007, 22:17
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Your colleague gave you some very good advice, then. Buying that album was the most wasteful £3 I've ever spent. I was just lucky HMV had a sale on at the time. I hoped it would all sound like Fools Gold. I was a fool for thinking that.
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Old 24-06-2007, 22:58
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Your colleague gave you some very good advice, then. Buying that album was the most wasteful £3 I've ever spent. I was just lucky HMV had a sale on at the time. I hoped it would all sound like Fools Gold. I was a fool for thinking that.
Why would you want all of an album to sound like one song??

White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane...It was written 20 years before I was born, but still only discovered it last month. It is now my favourite ever song.
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Old 25-06-2007, 00:07
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Yeah, it does happen sometimes.

The worst is when you slag off a particular song or artist to people quite strongly, but after listening to it a bit more you realise you actually quite like it. Happened to me with Kelly Clarkson and the Arctic Monkeys.
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Old 25-06-2007, 01:02
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Because it's a good song. And the first Stone Roses album does all sound the same - a load of generic, jingle-jangle 'indie' rubbish.
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Old 25-06-2007, 11:12
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Recently, Gnarls Barkley - refused to like at first. Also Will Young - All Time Love - hated it at first, refused to listen to it, before realising a couple of moths later that it a great tune!

Arctic Monkeys are another band with which that has happened!
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Old 01-07-2007, 15:17
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I discovered David Bowie, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop in the 80s, after Bowie brought out 'Scary Monsters' and I bought his back catalogue, got really keen on him and discovered all the others through his links with them.
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Old 01-07-2007, 15:57
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I discovered David Bowie, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop in the 80s, after Bowie brought out 'Scary Monsters' and I bought his back catalogue, got really keen on him and discovered all the others through his links with them.
I did exactly the same (Bowie through to Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Eno, Iggy etc) but only about a year or two ago. It's great when things unfold and you end up discovering lots of bands through one artist as I did.
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Old 01-07-2007, 16:08
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(Bowie through to Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Eno, Iggy etc) ...
Tin Machine?
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Old 01-07-2007, 16:40
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well, no one's perfect!
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Old 01-07-2007, 16:57
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I've tried not to discover them! Not one of Bowie's better moments.
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Old 01-07-2007, 19:01
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"Naive" by the Kooks. Ignored it for months then decided I liked it.
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Old 01-07-2007, 19:09
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I HATED Gnarls Barkley's Crazy at first, especially when it was at number one for so long. I started liking the song a few months later
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Old 01-07-2007, 22:19
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Having been in denial since my self-deluded cool youth, after today's performance I've got to 'fess up to liking Duran Duran's 'Rio'.........

There. I feel better now.
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Old 01-07-2007, 22:25
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War- Why Can't We Be Friends never heard the song until seeing The Bridge To Terbethia
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Old 02-07-2007, 04:40
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"Naive" by the Kooks. Ignored it for months then decided I liked it.
Same here.
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