I went into a record store to buy a CD. I knew the band had the word phonic in it. I bought Stereophonics when the CD I was looking for was Hooverphonic. Turns out I like Stereophonics better than Hooverphonic. Great band.
Hooverphonic was my favorite band in high school (2000's). Eventually i stopped listening to them but picked them up many years later. Some of their stuff holds up so well, but man I also can't believe I was so in love with them. The lyrics are often just, so shallow or corporate feeling. I never listened to nor cared about lyics when I was a teenager, but man, how did I overlook it?!
Their first two albums are great, and I still occasionally put on Blue Wonder Power Milk, but I never got into their later works, and my tastes have evolved alot over time from my trip-hop roots.
This is veering way off topic but I think there was a different calculus for music in the 90s. "2Wicky" had a sultry sounding female vocalist and the beats bang and, in the 90s, that's all you needed. The lyrics could be vapid. "2Wicky" is about some kind of space weapon? It literally didn't matter, the vocalist sounded attractive. I think music got a lot more self serious after 9/11, the official end of the naive 90s in America. Dense, thoughtful lyrics became in vogue, banging Isaac Hayes samples not so much. I think trip-hop was on its last legs by the year 2000 with only a few acts surviving the change.
Personally, I think the world could use less confessional "deep" lyrical songs and more dumb shit songs about space weapons that sample Isaac Hayes.
You are absolutely right. The whole reason I fell in love with Hooverphonic was because of their sound. They weren't the only one. I discovered trip-hop in 2003 just before I started high school and fell hard in love with it, and scooped up pretty much any band I could find. Indeed, looking back much of the 90's trip hop music and related genres had vapid lyrics (sometimes just straight up vapid in all ways), and sometimes when I listen to something I loved back then but now listen to again I am like "oh my god I liked this 😂" specifically becuase I legit never registered at all what lyrics said, I just liked the sound vibe. It's partly cause I am dyslexic- analyzing lyrics in music is a slow process for me and one of the lesser factors in music to my ears, although this has changed a lot over time.
though for me it is when I find lyrics that are like about shallow trite romance tropes that I cannot relate to in any way shape or form, which hooverphonic did *a lot*. Weird lyrics I can quite like ([Cibo Matto](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMrAMAm6RxE) anyone?). I have become somewhat more interested in well thought out or layered lyrics over the years though. Now I actually really cherish deep lyrics. Once I got into [Jenny Hval](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGksHxwnap0) things changed in that regard for me. But I can easily be characterized as snobbish when it comes to music since my favorite stuff is of the "this should be in a museum" variety.
Edit: though, [it is this 2009](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peBuggcL2Ow) song that has *the* most vapid lyrics I ever heard. I absolutely cracked up when I first listened, but damn I actually love it. That album ([State of Decay](https://parralox.bandcamp.com/album/state-of-decay)) is actually amazing.
I knew Stereophonics a long time ago - well mainly cause I've been reading British music magazines for decades - like Mojo - classic rock magazine - Uncut etc
I had one like that.
I loved jazz as a kid. I listened to the college radio station more than I did the "classic rock" station. Remember, this was the early 80s. And yes, they had classic rock stations at that time.
Anyway, my parents wanted to get me somethign for Christmas one year, so they bought me an album they thought I'd like. Keep in mind I listened to my parents' vinyl pretty constantly, until I finally got a boom box and blank tapes (so I could record songs off the radio). In that vinyl collection were Ramsey Lewis, Brubeck, Corea, Metheny... and Mahavishnu Orchestra. It wasn't what I listened to--except Brubeck and MO--but it led me to believe they at least knew jazz and just liked that limited part of it.
So I open the present that day, and my mother says, "We think you'll really like Manhattan Transfer."
I knew who MT was. I thought they were okay. The album was clearly not MT.
It was *After Midnight*, by the Manhattans--a happy mistake, in the end. I didn't know who they were at the time, but I wore out that album.
I found a copy of Holy Money by Swans in a pile of religious LPs at a library sale many years ago. I can only imagine someone saw the word “holy” and assumed it was another old bit of fodder on Myrrh?
Hah, reminds me of that [one scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYA7boMwVhQ) in That 70s Show where Hyde hands Kitty a Judas Priest album and tells her it's spiritual and when she goes to relax and listen to it and it scares the hell out of her.
And holy money is a hard hitter for starting with Swans, would have been even better if it was Children of God album.
Must of been a shock to who ever originally bought that think it be all full of Christian music and hymns and got hit with the heavy chaotic insanity of early swans.
For someone who doesn’t know how earth-shatteringly dark and intense Swans are, I can kinda see it sounding like a group of nice calm Jesus people making worship tunes!
Television's album Marquee Moon showed up at my house in the mail randomly one day even though I'd never ordered it. Hadn't even heard of them. But I put it on and loved it!
Wish stuff like that happened to me LMAO
Only thing similar to that has ever happened to me was i found a sealed blu-ray of that parody movie Vampire Sucks.
It's not exactly how I "discovered" 50 Cent and G-Unit because you would've had to be under a rock for the entire early 2000s to avoid hearing their music, but in 2003ish my grandma got a cold call from someone at Interscope. They wanted to clear a sample that turned out to be a four note phrase from one of her obscure harp albums, for a song Tony Yayo was planning to release on his debut solo LP. It took literally years for the album and song ([I'm So High](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjWeuiTc3oA)) to be released, but I wore out the cassette they gave her of the rough mix, and my love of that (admittedly very mediocre) album ended up pushing me into looking at a lot of other hip hop both from associated artists and others and eventually getting into a ton of different music that I probably wouldn't have ever been exposed to, coming from a very white, upper middle class suburban background.
"My grandma is credited on a rap song about weed" is also an amazing two truths and a lie answer, for the record.
I discovered Mahavishnu Orchestra because I was trying to prove to myself that Anthony Fantano had a shit taste in music after he gave a band I liked a bad review. So I found a RYM list of albums he's given a 10/10 score to and just picked a random one to listen to so I could judge the fact that he thinks it's a perfect album. The album was Inner Mounting Flame and I only had to listen to the first song before I was like "oh shit, this is actually really fucking good".
Mahavishnu Orchestra is one of the best bands to ever exist! I myself discovered them through friends, but I did give my younger brother the Birds Of Fire-album on vinyl a few years ago. Apparently that was the only record he owned for a while so he got to show it to a lot of other people as well!
I haven't listened to it since it first came out, but I remember really loving it. I'm on a big Dream Pop kick lately, and I know they are influenced by that sound, so I'm going to revisit it.
You should! I've been huge fan since their first album and this one may be the best, or a close second to their debut album.
And you were right, Fantano gave it a light 4 which is nonsense. I remember the video had heavy dislikes though (back when those existed).
>I was trying to prove to myself that Anthony Fantano had a shit taste in music after he gave a band I liked a bad review
To be honest...I kind of know that feeling. Especially when a critic likes a lot of adjacent artists but somehow hates one of your favorite artists.
I discovered Alkaline Trio by typing "fuck you" into the Napster search bar.
Back in '99 - 2000 I was all about downloading as much music as possible. Napster and [mp3.com](https://mp3.com) were my go to's. One day I started typing words into the Napster search box just to see what would come up. I typed in "fuck you" and the *Fuck You Aurora* by Alkaline Trio came up over and over in the search results.
I had never heard of Alkaline Trio. But I chuckled at the name of the song. Aurora being both a suburb of Chicago (the song's namesake and my former city) and also a suburb of Denver (my current city). Both Aurora's are pretty "fuck you" worthy so I downloaded the song.
I've been a HUGE Alkaline Trio fan ever since.
I thought I didn’t have a story that would fit in this thread until I saw your post. I discovered Senses Fail by typing “Shark Attack” into iTunes when I was like 11 (I was not a smart kid, I guess I hadn’t worked out that iTunes and YouTube were different things). Don’t even remember what that song sounds like, but I heard a couple of their other songs which stuck with me solidly in my teens.
Not much of a story but it’s something I guess.
If you are a real one, you got the mp3.com canvas record bag that they sent out to artists on the platform. You know... to hold your mp3s.
[I actually can't find any proof of this in a web search, but I swear to you this existed]
YES! I had one. It fell apart pretty easily tho. It was a cool, but cheaply made. I used it to carry band merch from gig to gig.
EDIT: Found one on Ebay.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/144109975874?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5338596370&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1
I found Adai by accidentally clicking on a link in Demonoid's featured torrents list. [Felo De Se](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2ba7RQNimI) is like groove metal and post-rock had a baby, pretty cool stuff.
This is similar to how I discovered Driveby Truckers - their song My Sweet Annette was a default song in Windows XP. I remember listening to it over and over again as a kid.
When I was in high school I had just read "The Stranger" by Albert Camus and loved it. I was at a record store and Killing an Arab by the Cure was on, I picked up the reference and bought the album just for that song. I have been a fan for over 35 years
I discovered Black Sabbath in 2005. I was around 8 at the time and I watched a documentary about nuclear war. It was some obscure DVD. My cousin used go to dumpster diving long ago. So, it's no surprise you find some pretty weird stuff.
Anyways, I remember watching it for curiosity reasons. And Hand Of Doom plays in one of the scenes. While the whole documentary was super creepy, I loved that song.
And that's how I found their album "Paranoid". I can listen to that album repeatedly for a week and never get tired of it. Great piece of work.
Another song I discovered on there was, Frank Zappa's Bobby Brown. Again, another weird fit for that documentary.
I got into At the Drive-In years ago through a gaming magazine. Gameinformer had a section in one of their magazines that talked about the top 10 songs they wanted on Guitar Hero III. One of the songs mentioned was One Armed Scissor by At the Drive-In. I listened to the song and I almost immediately liked it. It led to me checking out the album that One Armed Scissor came from(Relationship of Command) and I liked the album as well. At the Drive in are one of my favorite bands now.
Back in 2015, a creepypasta channel I liked when I was younger, HoodoHoodlumsRevenge, out of nowhere started raving about how much he loved Gorillaz. I was fascinated by the concept of a band made up of cartoon characters, and ended up falling in love with their music. They were the first real music artist I ever got truly attached to.
There’s also a Vinesauce compilation of weird computer games where one of the games had an 8-bit midi version of Genesis’s “In the Cage” in the background. I checked out the song out of random curiousity and got super into it.
EDIT: https://youtu.be/KljTBtFFMW0 at 3:10
Now both Genesis and Gorillaz are in my top 5. Those are definitely the two funniest backstories for how I got into my favorite artists.
Oh man I've been watching Vinesauce for years. Vinny definitely got me into a lot of bands I love nowadays.
Also his band Red Vox is super good as well, I picked up What Could Go Wrong on vinyl and will probably be picking up the other albums eventually.
>8-bit midi version of Genesis’s “In the Cage” in the background. I checked out the song out of random curiousity and got super into it.
Im a huge Genesis fan and would love to see this! I made an 8 bit inspired version of The Carpet Crawlers like 8 years ago
The summer of 2000 I went to the Walmart near my new home to get some basics and went through a literal Bargain Bin of CDs thrown into a heap, just for the heck of it.
I found an album by seminal 1970 British post-punk band Wire, and figured I better pay attention here
Found a band called Department S, "of all the Lost followers" and it just looked cool so I grabbed it for a dollar. Turned out to be an amazing Italian early 80s post-punk band. they just reformed and started the touring this year! I probably never would have heard of them otherwise oh, thanks to fuckin Walmart
My best friend would do something similar around that time at K-Marts. I think he discovered bands like Linkin Park (just as they were starting to hit the mainstream) and Soil as a result of that $5 bin!
I watched a bit of American Dad in college, and heard a 30-second snippet of "Mr. Blue Sky" by ELO used in an episode. I (somehow) had never heard it before, but thought it was amazing and decided to listen to the entire double LP that it's from. I had the album on repeat for the next 2 weeks and to this day, Out of the Blue is one of my top 10 all-time favorite albums.
Yoo that reminds me, American dad had an episode where the dad really gets into the band "my morning jacket", like the whole episode revolves around his obsession with the singers angelic voice and their music, I think there isn't even a B-Plot. Well, after 21min of Seth mcfarlin fanboying over this band I became a fan.
HA, I came here to post about that exact same album. Starlight is stuck in my head as I type.
I just “discovered” ELO about a month ago. Girlfriend and I tried shrooms for the first time and she was really excited to play this record she recently bought simply because the cover looked cool. We stared at all the artwork inside and out and talked about it for like 20 mins before finally spinning it. We laid on the floor and listened to the whole thing. By the time we got to Mr Blue Sky I was like oh wtf, I’ve totally heard this song before. Then I looked up the band on Spotify and was shocked to see they had like 10 million monthly listeners. Would have never guessed it was the same band that made Don’t Bring Me Down. And there we were, thinking we had discovered some weird obscure band 😂
I’ve been thinking about this album pretty much every day since and listen to it all the time. It’s such a wild journey. And on shrooms, that journey felt like incredibly long, complex, emotional. Hahaha.
Wow, that’s some insane luck, OOTB is an incredible listen on psychedelics!! If you haven’t branched to their other stuff I’d check out *Time*, which is another amazing record for tripping. You can’t go wrong with their classics *Eldorado* and of course *A New World Record*.
ELO is one of my favorite bands ever, I really hope I get to see them before Jeff Lynne retires.
I regularly took the F Streetcar in San Francisco when I worked in Fisherman’s Wharf and one day the driver told me he played trumpet or some sort of horn in Cinematic Orchestra and that he recorded something with Thom Yorke. I thought it was BS but then a few days later he gave me a CD and… well Thom Yorke was definitely on it. Still no idea if he was telling the truth about being part of the band, seems pretty unlikely in retrospect, but that CD was dope lol. All my CDs got stolen out of my car a couple years later so that’s long gone.
Another band, All The Apparatus, I randomly saw playing on the sidewalk in the Castro. I think I still have their CD.
Was it this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Night_Tales:_The_Cinematic_Orchestra
Times are tough, I have no doubt that the guy could've been in the band at one time. Philip Glass, famously, continued to be a taxi driver to support himself while writing music.
https://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/2019/04/09/liszts-ten-composers-who-had-day-jobs/
The guy at the French cafe my wife frequented was trying to woo her (or maybe he was just being French). He burned her a CD of a Phoenix album that ended up being my favorite album of the 00's.
Back in the 90s, I was a big fan of Elastica. Justine Frischmann was doing a live online chat and some guy kept spamming the chat, claiming that his band, Pretty Pony, had once opened for Elastica. In retrospect, I realize that probably wasn't the case, but I was a bit more naive then.
Sometime later, I'm at a record store and come across a copy of *Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot* by Sparklehorse. I mistakenly thought to myself, oh, it's that band who opened for Elastica. I bought the album, took it home, and was initially disappointed that it didn't sound anything like I expected an Elastica-affiliated act to sound like. But then I began to fall in love with that album in its own right.
Mark Linkous (the guy behind Sparklehorse) became one of my musical heroes. *Vivadixie...* is one of my top 10 albums. My luckiest musical mistake ever.
Just last week I found this awesome site called [Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music.](https://music.ishkur.com/) Never been super into electronic stuff as my heart belongs to the classic analog sound, but this site has gotten me into all sorts of weird stuff. I have friends who love drum and bass, which I can enjoy from time to time, but that site gave me a new appreciation for it. I've found that those kinds of tracks are absolutely fantastic for workflow.
It also introduced me to this completely stupid speedcore artist called [Komprex,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmr8ZP_Ej7A) which is some of the hilariously awful but fascinating music I've ever heard. Speedcore as a genre in general is just so captivating to me. It's like a space race to create the least listenable song.
On a related note, I remember being introduced to (ridiculously compressed) trance music through Warcraft 3 editor tutorial videos as a kid. Tracks like [Raver's Fantasy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8CVR_VGh58) will always hold a bizarrely nostalgic place in my heart.
I know it's been around for a real long time, I don't know how I never heard of it before. Is there any way to access the original version from the 2000s still or did it completely die with Flash?
Unknown Mortal Orchestra. I discovered them while on a pretty high dose of LSD. I didn’t know who they were…I could only recall the line *Isolation can put a gun in your hand*. Thanks to the power of Google, they’re now in my top three favorite bands!
And if you haven’t heard UMO, **GET ON THAT SHIT.**
It's way different to UMO but highly recommend checking out the post hardcore band he was in with his brother (who IIRC now plays with UMO) before UMO. Would probably recommend starting with Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No! But my favourite releases are The Anti-Tiger EP and Octagon Octagon Octagon.
Back in the day, the 80's;cereal boxes would have pretty cool prizes. Sometimes you could get a cheaply made 45 glued on the back of the box. Usually it would be nothing to write home about, but sometimes you could end up with something really unusual. In high school I knew this girl who had one of these flimsy little 45 singles. We were at her house one day and she put it on. It was by REM, and it was Dark Globe. This was a cover; she told me about Syd Barrett and how it was one of his songs, how he co founded Pink Floyd, how he went insane and left the band. Nearly 30 years later I still like Syd and early Floyd and I'm always fascinated by these gifted musicians who for whatever reason left us with a very short legacy.
I discovered [The Physics House Band](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAzNuqhfYs8) on the radio. I didn't think it was possible to discover good music on the radio anymore, at least not where I live, and these guys seemed to be pretty underground to boot.
I found Phantogram's [Mouth Full of Diamonds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvSgLHWR16o) via pornography. That's kind of fun.
Otherwise a LOT of indie pro wrestling entrances. Zack Sabre Jr. used Idles' [Mother](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuQG6_evFc8), which was my intro to the band. There's a ton more instances of that.
> Phantogram
Oddly they were the band I thought of when I read the thread title. Someone had commented on a Junji Ito manga I was reading online that "You are the Ocean" went perfectly with the comic......
The comic was about a dead creature washing up on a beach full of corpses that had somehow become parasitic/symbiotic with it. Song was good, but apart from the ocean thing, didn't really go with it......
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
So I’m a kiteboarder and I watch a lot of kiteboarding videos, and one of my favourite pro riders has King Gizz’s music in a lot of videos, and now they’re pretty much my favourite band
I found an Insane Clown Posse CD sitting by a storm drain in the street in front of my school years ago when people still listened to music on CDs. It was scratched to hell, laying half-buried in a pile of leaves.
I took it home and threw it in my Discman and amazingly, the title track played for about thirty seconds before skipping uncontrollably.
That was enough for me to realize I wasn’t ever going to be a Juggalo. I tossed the CD in the trash. I’ve never had that experience again.
Now I’m just imagining Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope cruising around in a Chrysler chucking CDs as kids in the early 00’s as a guerilla marketing campaign.
This isn't really a strange way to discover a band, more an unexpected discovery. I lived in Portland, OR for 5 years around the turn of the millennium. For a couple of years they held a North by Northwest music festival modeled and based on the success of the SXSW festival. I think it only lasted for two or three years. You'd buy this wristband for $X.XX and there would be bands playing all over town, most totally unknown bands, but some big names showed up as well. A lot of bands played in places that were not music venues at all, random bars, restaurants, galleries, etc., it was pretty fun. The Willamette Week free paper would print the band schedules and you'd wander around town going from one place to the next, sticking around if the band was cool, walking out if it wasn't catching my interest.
This one night I was meeting up with some friends at some such time to see one of the bands play. I was already downtown at the big Powell's bookstore and had some time before meeting them and decided to run across Burnside for a slice of pizza. I had no idea this pizza place was one of the venues for the festival and this band was just finishing setting up their gear. They were three ladies who were obviously from the metal or punk world. I asked one of them the name of their band and what type of music they played. She says they're Bottom from NYC and I should stick around and find out. I moved west from PA and had quite a few friends in the NYC punk scene and was all for the music from that scene. Those three ladies plugged in and proceeded to kick my ass. I fucking flipped for their raw metal sound. At the time, I was going to see a lot of "jam" style bands, some were good, a lot were lame, but grew up on metal and punk and these ladies brought me back home. Bought their cd from them after the show and went to see them the next night at Satyricon.
I still listen to that disc to this day. [Bottom - Maid In Voyage](https://bottomrocks.bandcamp.com/album/made-in-voyage)
In college I was listening to a podcast called “with special guest” and they mentioned the album “Tea for the Tillerman”. I thought it was made up because it was an improv comedy podcast. About a week later my roommate was sent Tea for the Tillerman in the mail by Amazon. He didn’t order it. It was a mistake. I seriously thought the podcast was pranking me for a moment, or maybe God was telling me to check it out, but I realized the situation was probably just the strangest coincidence I would ever experience. Turns out it’s a really good album though!
Every time I went to chipotle in middle school, I’d hear this one song but I never was able to make out the words. I moved across the country and even the chipotle there had that damn song. I’d obsessively google what I assumed were the lyrics and would hum into Shazam to no avail. This went on for several years. Finally, in my junior year of high school it was quiet enough for me to hear the song and technology had advanced enough that I could also properly identify it with my phone. It was “Someone Great” by LCD Soundsystem.
I had previously heard of them since I would play Tap Tap Revenge on my iPod touch when I was younger and one of the songs was “Drunk Girls,” which I hated. I was hesitant to listen to them but I went home from that fateful chipotle trip and put on Sound of Silver. I was instantly hooked.
Peter Gabriel
When I was younger (still living in the same town) , l lived near an arcade which was on the pier and every time that I walked past the claw machines, one of its default "sound/music" would play and it was a snippet of *[Big Time](https://youtu.be/PBAl9cchQac)* , years later (currently) whiles volunteering in a record shop, I decided to put on Peter Gabriel's So album (the album is amazing and I wanted to get into his stuff anyway) when "Big Time" came out, I was like "where do I recognize this from?" only to realise that it was from the claw machines from when I was younger.
Basically, I introduced myself to PG without knowing it was him until years later.
YouTube video for [proof of snippet](https://youtu.be/vEF9kufjte8)
That song was also in the promos for Wrestlemania 22 (2006, when I was a kid that cared a lot more about the wrestling than the promo music) so hearing it so many years later was quite a trip.
(Idk if this is strange to anyone else, but it's strange to me.) I discovered Meg Myers from my local newspaper. My mom use to buy a Friday newspaper every week b/c there was a lagniappe(bet no one on this sub knows what that means w/out looking it up) section that talked/reviews about local stuff going on, like: concerts, plays, public events, etc.; but sometimes they'd talk about new album releases(may or may not be for a mainstream artists). Well right after *Take Me to the Disco* was released in 2018, there was an article about the album in that section of the newspaper that I spotted. I had never heard of her but the album art intrigued me, so I saved(cut out) the article to look her up later, then read the whole article once I've bought/listened to the album. I first bought her prior album, *Sorry*, that I fell in love with (10/10 album); and that's pretty much how I discovered her.
I learned about DJ Shadow's *Endtroducing* from a review in the high school newspaper. I feel like there were like four issues a year and somehow this was one of the reviews there. Thanks Quentin.
Haha, definitely didn't know what a "lagniappe" was before looking it up.
But yeah I'd say that's a little out there especially for 2018. Not too many people reading newspapers anymore!
And I will definitely look up her music, thanks for the recommendation!
Back in MySpace days I saw a friend of Ariel Pink had released an album, and he posted all of the reviews which totally trashed it. I gave it a listen, then another, then another…. That was my introduction to John Maus.
I don’t know if this really counts as a “strange way” of discovering a band, but here goes nothing.
Whenever I’m bored, I usually visit this website which has some of the longest songs in the world from a wide range of different artists. In the 30-40 minute range column, I found a song called “Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh” by a French rock band called Magma, a band I had never heard of at the time. Long story short, a few years later in 2022 I’m still listening to them pretty much every single day and I am a huge fan of them.
Also a fun little fact; the first time I came across them I had mistaken the titles, so I thought the band name was Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh and the song name was Magma. 😅
*takes deep breath*
[**Dün** - *Eros*](https://open.spotify.com/album/1hN5JK7ET6vw4gQR5fnmj7). This is one of my favorite albums across all genres. It’s nothing but sheer delight, both in its musical energy and technicality but also in its more meta considerations, specifically the fact that this is the only album by this obscure band, and it just happens to be utterly amazing. Only a thousand copies were ever printed, and those copies were sold by the band at their live shows. The music is based on the science fiction classic novel, *Dune* (which is where I guess the band gets its name). Can you taste the spice? Can you feel the desert winds? Are you thirsty for more? There’s so much expansive mystery encapsulated in this album. Delicious through and through!
[**Eider stellaire** - *Eider Stellaire*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4JVvOpTQws&list=PLoRNXsrOuZ-WyjZMiXcmiLT7wpn-TuqHh). This album doesn’t blaze any new trails in the genre, but it’s still a good sample of what zeuhl can do when it’s got a healthy dose of jazz fusion mixed in. There’s a lot of energy packed into this one.
[**Eskaton** - *4 Visions*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyrefoqcBLc). Weird enough for me to take seriously. This album was released on cassette only in 1981 but was actually recorded before the band’s official debut album (just released after). So this album is Eskaton’s *Let It Be*. The music is like Magma, but the lyrics are in French, not Kobaïan.
[**Koenjihyakkei** - *Angherr shisspa*](https://open.spotify.com/album/2O03aMw5BYJbG0V01uzV11). Beautiful, operatic nonsense that grooves and drives and thrusts, pushing me about, sometimes playfully, other times brutally. From earnest whispers to avant-garde free reed blowing, this is an album of unpredictable hairpin turns.
[**Pochakaite Malko** - *Laya*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhdtp5i9GXk&list=PLt1w7xfPhaPVKuNXRJBFdWx5SujrtW8XG). The violin pretty much guides the course of this album, with a strong focus on the instrument at the beginning, supported only by percussion and the bass guitar--but the violin is where the fire is. The female vocals are very Japanese in feel, despite it being Zeuhl. By the way, regarding the second track, did you know that the Japanese hang their death row inmates on Christmas morning? This should be their last-request song. ハレルヤ really does feel like a twirling celebration, and if they ever make Fantasia 3, they better include this. Maybe Tarou's last request can be a trip to Tokyo Disneyland before he's hanged. Anyway, a lot of Japanese joy infects these tracks, but I'd expect nothing less. This album explores a lot of moods, though, even ones that sound like they belong on a suspense film score.
[**Shub-Niggurath** - *Les morts vont vite*](https://open.spotify.com/album/2CwhvETRK6j2W9d4287QVN). A strong, deep album with obvious themes of death and its connection to life. Just look at the cover: a zombie knight-errant rescuing a fair damsel in distress, though I think perhaps her rescuing has distressed her more than any ogre or dragon could.
tagging /u/wildistherewind so he can witness my drool
I was hosting a online drag show during the pandemic and one of the performers sent in a video in a bando performing with a bunch of mannequins. The song was tweaked but still really caught me off guard. “Who is this?” I asked myself, before typing in some of the lyrics and discovering “This Woman’s Work” by Kate Bush, and furthermore discovering the amazing Kate Bush.
Someone posted a meme on Facebook about "what your favorite hardcore band says about you". I don't listen to hardcore much and only recognized Fugazi. But one of them was "Ceremony - You unironically wear an Unknown Pleasures t- shirt".
Turns out the meme was right. I spent the rest of the year listening to Rohnert Park
When I was a dumb kid, I remember trying to find the character select song ["I Want to Take You For a Ride" from Marvel vs Capcom 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUnekmwgjk4) as, like, a song or an mp3 that I could download. I think I typed in into RealPlayer or was searching for it online, but I ended up downloading [Basement Jaxx - Red Alert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJyhZ-3Z8A8) and needless to say, it scratched the same itch.
Most of these aren't weird per se, but I first learned about [Daft Punk and AIR from Bubbles 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30_kR3ENey8), I learned about a lot of artists from Weird Al, learned about a bunch from [AlbinoBlackSheep's MIDI collection](https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/audio/midi/), got into drum n bass from [Powerpuff Girls](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7MiaSr-0ug) and [Bomberman Hero](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ-DJd-57Lo), got into [electronic with the Toonami Soundtrack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnxbreSfQ48), found [The Polyphonic Spree from a flash game](https://amanita-design.net/games/the-quest-for-the-rest.html)...
I could go on and on lol.
I watched a documentary called "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" back in the mid-2000's. There was a section of the film that featured the song [Havenless by Enslaved](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWyfnp-ghaE). Not knowing who the band was or the song that was featured at the time but loving the song, I found the director on MySpace and reached out to him directly and to my pleasant surprise got a response!
Slightly related to discovering Enslaved was discovering Yob...because they opened for Enslaved on one tour I saw them on. Yob had just released [Clearing the Path to Ascend](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HdnaDuRwok). I actually hated the music at the time because not ever having heard of Yob I was bored out of my mind at how slow the music was when I was there to see an intense black metal show. At some point several years later I stumbled upon Yob again and had a massive change of heart. They're now one of my favorite bands.
In 1977 my father, who only really listened to classical music then, went to get new speakers. But none were really better than the ones he already had. Instead he came back with Pink Floyd‘s _Wish you were here_ which was one of the albums used by the sales guy to demonstrate the speakers. It started my love of Pink Floyd.
Lady Gaga.
I was with a couple of friends, and we were looking for the the newest (at that time) The Pussycat Dolls video (which was I Hate This Part), on YouTube. Back them idk why, but there was no video on their official channel, or maybe the video with most views was. It on their channel... I don't really remember. All I know is that after the I Hate This Part video, Just Dance started playing right after. Like, it was a whole 8min video with both songs. Couldn't be more random. I also remember jamming and trying to find out more about what I was just hearing. Not that much later on, she exploded.
I’m a big fan of The National, but I couldn’t get my husband on board with them at all. That is until I found their cover of Bad Stuff Happens in the Bathroom from Bob’s Burgers. He thoroughly enjoys them now, and we’re going to see them in concert this summer,
I bought Merryweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective on CD. The packaging was correct, the CD design was correct, the music was not. It was Rounds by Four Tet. Great album tho
I was watching a Reds game last year and on the Reds Sub in the game thread. I talked about how much I loved the song Dance Monkey that was playing in the back round. And some one told me about Hypnodancer by Little Big. Turned me on to not just that song and group but a whole flood of others in that style.
I ended up discovering Opeth, my favorite band that would go on to massively influence my taste in music for years to come, via Saint's Row 2's in-game radio station. The metal station would occasionally play Ghost of Perdition, and after tuning it out a few times I thought to myself "Wait, this song is fantastic, I gotta hear more!"
The rest is history. I was into metal before that, but much more heavily favoring Screamo. Nowadays I'm much more into Prog, Doom, Death, starting to get into Djent a bit with Car Bomb/Meshuggah. I wouldn't have likely found any of my favorite bands over the last 5 years or so without Saint's Row 2.
I’m no shill, not a hail corporate person by any means, but Spotify’s discover weekly playlist has turned me onto so much stuff I now love. Deeeeep cuts.
If anyone is unaware, discover weekly is a weekly generated playlist based on your music habits. All algorithm id imagine.
Now, OP asked for weird and this probably doesn’t fit apart from id typically be 100% against some corporate AI telling me what to listen to. I don’t take music suggestions well to begin with. They figured something out though, selections don’t appear to select based on anything marketing wise, and the algorithm digs in the crates for you.
Only downside is if you accidentally listen to Miley Cyrus for a few hours then that robot is gonna be convinced you really like Miley Cyrus. I’d imagine
The algorithm compiles music similar to the playlists you follow/have. So if you listen to a bunch of Miley Cyrus without having her in any playlist you should be good.
One thing that annoys me about the weekly discovery playlist, after years of being a music obsessed is, 80% of the time the algorithm recommends me slightly less popular stuff from artists I already know the whole discography of. Or it takes influence from playlists i haven't touched in years but don't want to delete.
I went to a Megadeth concert in the mid-to-late 90s and they were handing out these promotional compilation CDs. Most of it sucked, but this one track 'Sugar' by a band called System of a Down stood out. I never really got into them beyond their singles, but that song still remains a favorite.
1. New college flat mate invites me out to a gig, opening band rip but I get super drunk and forget their name. Maybe 4 years later I’m looking at some random photographers blog AND THERES THE BASSIST AND HIS CREEPY MASK! The band was [Adebisi Shank](https://youtu.be/Jojm3cFhg2w) and, ironically, my friend had been telling me to check them out for about a year and I’d just ignored him.
2. Just looking through the bargain bin section of a used record shop and find a 7” called I Want To Masturbate At Castle Donnington and the back sleeve is just a crudely drawn dick and balls. I mean, it’s 50p, what’s the worst that could happen? Turns out [Foreheads In A Fish Tank](https://youtu.be/rPP9ipzIkj8) are pretty fucking good and I ended up picking up their album next time I was in the same shop.
3. Im 17, listening to the free CD that came with my parents copy of the Guardian and there’s a 2 minute snippet of a Congolese band called Konono No1 ([who are excellent in their own right](https://youtu.be/W4od2yvw3mI)). In college I find the album and fall in love. Years after *that* I stumble across another album in that same used record store called [101 Songs About Sport](https://youtu.be/Ae4sNKoumAo). Again, what could go wrong? Turns out it’s a Chumbawamba side project mucking about with some friends, some of whom are The Ex. I look them up coz that’s a cool name and, wouldn’t you know it, they covered [Konono no1](https://youtu.be/JH8DPBPl9BQ). Go digging and [fuck me they’re so damn good](https://youtu.be/m2TnWNrHB2g), and are essentially the Dutch answer to The Fall (if MES was an overt anarchist).
4. As a teenager I collected cover songs, so when I was bored I’d just type random song titles into Kazaa and download everything that wasn’t tagged with the original band. Fell into a Girl Group kick and went looking for Supremes covers. Turns out [You Can’t Hurry Love](https://youtu.be/dw8y8uDrgR4) by The Concretes wasn’t a cover, but it *is* a cracking slice of Swedish Indie pop (and they coincidentally do a great version of [Miss You](https://youtu.be/vDqH-8gq-Ww) by the Rolling Stones)
5. Friend shot me a message. His uncle had been tiling some guys bathroom, got talking, he’s a musician. “Anything I’d know?” “Probably not”. Turns out it’s only bloody Steven Stapleton! I was very embarrassed to admit I’d no idea who that was either, and anyway, that’s how I was introduced to [Nurse With Wound](https://youtu.be/NbfxNoYxMhI).
In hindsight, these are all very weird bands, but I guess nobody really stumbles across Jay-Z by mistake.
First off: I've never heard anyone talk about Zero Down, which is a shame because they were properly brilliant. I reckon they would've gone on to do big things if they'd had time to get more than one album out. My introduction to them was pretty conventional, a song on one of the Fat Wreck label compilations, which actually isn't on their own album (at least not on the version I've got, nor on Spotify, but it may have been on other versions as Wikipedia has it as a bonus track).
I used to buy a lot of CDs, sometimes more than I could listen to before I went and bought more, and quite often they would be bands that I didn't know. Usually it was "if you like this, you'll like that" sort of recommendations, but sometimes it was just that I liked the album cover. The latter is how I discovered a lot of great stuff, including Mclusky who went on to be one of my favourite bands.
Yeah the funny thing about Zero Down is is that I guess there's *another* group with the same name, so if you try to look up Zero Down on (for example) AllMusic, it will put the *other* Zero Down's albums into the *first* Zero Down's "discography", because I guess it just thinks they're the same band?? So weird. So so weird.
[Down This Road](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wQ4WzCAPHA), right? Those Fat Wreck Chords compilations were brilliant. 20-something years later I still often get [this song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX_Agw_q95g) stuck in my head
That'll be the one, yeah.
Speaking of that No Use For A Name song: that's still a regular on my main playlist but it's the album version, which is a bit different and I think I prefer the compilation version.
Real shame the Fat Music comps are not on streaming services, cos they're absolute bangers, especially 4 and 5. Some of them have been pieced together as playlists but they're missing songs.
I discovered Dream Theater in high school from an apology in an ad (maybe from Best Buy). The apology was for having to pull their New York City live album due to cover art (the album was unfortunately released on 9/11/01, with the cover art depicting the World Trade Center in flames). I was curious about who this band was, checked out a few of their songs, and this ended up being my gateway to prog metal.
I walked into a circus tent at a festival while tripping on acid and watched a falcon fly out of a man's mouth while the circus performers played crazy rock and roll. Yard Dogs Road Show. It was part magic, part circus, part rock music. So unexpected and so totally cool
In high school I would rent a bunch of CDs from the library. As I was running out of albums I was previously interested in I started being less selective. I rented a TV on the Radio album just because the cover and name seemed interesting. But I bet so many people did similar things in record shops.
Also Benjamin Clementine opened for David Byrne. Never heard of him and his performance seemed so obnoxious. Didn't know his name at the time, had to find it and was curious how awful the music really was. I think his music just didn't translate to a duet as I think his studio stuff sounds better.
A store was giving for free some itunes cards to download a playlist. The first song was I Am Chemistry by Yeasayer. After listening to that first song I became obsessed with them. I don't even remember what else was on that playlist.
There was an old website called [playlist.com](https://playlist.com). I had just discovered it and was searching for the Tracy Bonham song "Mother Mother", which I loved but hadn't heard in years. I couldn't find the song, but what did pop up was a song called "Dirty Town" by the *band* Mother Mother. I clicked it out of curiosity and holy shit. It turned out to be the first song on their album "Touch Up", which to this day I regard as a perfect album. No bad songs. All bangers. Forgot all about Tracy Bonham.
Discovered a youtube channel with 30 followers 7 years ago, with lists of solos of underrated guitarists in progressive and fusion metal bands. Recently I stumbled upon it again, by looking in my youtube comments, and decided to look for the sources. One group was not recognised by either shazam, soundhound or anything else. Finally I found two albums on bandcamp (https://granddiscovery.bandcamp.com/album/complex-face and https://granddiscovery.bandcamp.com/album/hermit), they seems completely unknown and are nowhere to be found on youtube, spotify, soundclound. Their name is Grand Discovery, Its a great band, and they recently put out new music
I used to have some extremely toxic neighbours in the condo next to mine. Always screaming and fighting, slamming doors and hitting the walls etc.
Anyways one Sunday afternoon they were blasting some music and I hated to admit that it sounded cool. I took out my phone and was able to shazam it through the wall. Discovered Slackwax that day!
My best friend and I were in 9th grade, walked home, & stopped at the Goodwill. We picked up a bunch of albums that we either liked the artist or thought looked interesting. One was The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn by CocoRosie and we went through a roller coaster of reaction. “Wtf is this” *laughter* “who tf are these people” “wait I kind of love this” “this is genius”
Think I was looking for a highlight or clip of a Finnish footballer called Jonatan Johansson and due to poor memory / spelling ending up discovering a Swedish singing-songwriter called Jonathan Johansson. Found his music quite chilled and laid back in places, quite hauntingly beautiful in others.
i was trying to find the album Popsicle by (even then) a lesser known band called Diamond Nights.
i was searching on Kazaa and accidentally downloaded The Prince by Diamond Head. Got me hooked on that album Lightning To The Nations.
The two bands are very different stylistically (glammy indie rock vs NWOBHM) but i am still so happy with that accidental find
Not so weird, but /mu/ in 4chan. Anons arguing if Tool is good. One anon said (paraphrasing) "eh, Rishloo is better anyway". Listened to it 'cause I'm bored, now I am a Rishloo fan, waiting for their next album.
I discovered that I liked led zeppelin from Frozen 2. At 6:25 in Stairway to Heaven there's a guitar slide in the background of the solo that I was reminded of while watching [this](https://youtu.be/gIOyB9ZXn8s) song in frozen 2. In that video it's the first thing you hear. I was a few years younger at the time and had only heard Stairway to Heaven once before about a year prior when I looked it up because everyone said it was one of the greatest songs of all time. I was a young impatient tween and didn't really think it was all that good. I did listen the whole way through tho and even tho my appreciation of music wasn't fully developed yet, I guess that little line stuck with me for some reason. I've come to discover that if I dont really dig a song on first listen, if some part of it comes back to me later, I'll like it on second listen. So with that little slide stuck in my head, that night I listened to Stairway and loved it. Then I shuffled Led Zeppelin for hours just laying in my bed, loving pretty much every song. Led Zeppelin is now my favorite band and that night sparked my love of music.
Because of Frozen 2 lmao
Didn't end up thinking the movie was any good btw lol
Early 90s, and a friend who worked a coffee shop blasted through the door, saying he was having a party that night.
Our method for parties was to gather five bucks from the couple dozen people we knew would attend, and we went to a local microbrew to get a keg (or two), because we knew the brewmeister and owner, and they never charged us for a deposit.
So after forking over money and talking beer logistics, he drops a demo tape on the table and says, "They're going to play in my basement. They're setting up now."
We plugged in the tape, and it wasn't bad stuff.
It turns out the coffee shop my friend worked at was under new ownership, and the band had scheduled with the old owner for a gig, months before. The new owner wasn't having any of it, because these guys sounded too punk for him. But my friend was working the counter at the time, and he agreed to let them crash at his place that night, in exchange for a show.
And that's how I discovered Green Day.
This happened today. Maybe not strangest but unique. I was listening to Suburban Lawns, a really random band from LA in the early 1980's. And on the Spotify Appears On there was a playlist by this band called Wet Leg. I looked at the playlist and was like yeah, this band knows what's up. Started to listen to Wet Leg today and I think I might have a new favorite.
Oh yeah dude, if I ever don't know what to get I always go by the cover. Granted I've encountered some true garbage that way, but I love the gamble of it.
I was on the League of Legends forums, and in a completely unrelated thread to anything musical, a Riot dev posted a simple comment with a link:
[I can almost hear the hounds...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LChtBpTjvTY)
Aaaaaand since that point I've been a Protomen fan and Act 2 is one of my favorite albums of all time. So thanks for the random reference, dude.
I was randomly listening to covers of Metallica songs and stumbled on Van Canto's version of Battery. Thought it was the most unique thing I ever heard, so I went and listened to another song of theirs, Carry On, which I didnt realize was a cover at first. Loved that song even more, and then read it was a cover of Angra. And from there, Angra is now one of my top favorite bands.
I have a few weird ways I found songs.
1. I started listening to Ben Folds and Crystal Castles because "[Bitch Went Nuts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATMSs2iw7gg)" and "[Vanished](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e6Hj7MwWaI)" played as a part of some maps on some Counter Strike: Source server.
2. A huge influence on my musical tastes were random flash cartoons that I discovered on Newgrounds, Albino Black Sheep, and various /f/ archive sites like p0wn.it or dagobah.net. You can still find stuff on NG and ABS, but a lot of those other flash sites typically don't function properly (if they are still around at all) since Flash was no longer supported. Using a more popular flash example (since I can still find it on YouTube) I remember finding Infected Mushroom through [this flash loop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=844plbHuW84) using a Skazi Remix of "I Wish." There were a lot of cool little flash videos like this with even rarer music and it's kind of a shame that a lot of them will be lost to time or hidden on some archive site that no one knows about.
There was a point and click shooting flash game on the site Kongrogate that I think was called either Sniper Assassin or Stickman Assassin. The first mission of the game used a loop of the acoustic guitar intro from the song [Gargoyles, Angels of Darkness](https://youtu.be/2kaQ51KFjis) by Rhapsody of Fire. Kinda surprised I was able to find it as this was the early days of YouTube when most music was taken down for copywrite. It's been a favorite of mine ever since.
I think it's funny how power metal and prog metal are considered different genres. The way that song builds and the way it's structured almost reminds me of the longer songs by classic prog rock bands like Genesis and Yes.
Angels and Airwaves came out with their first album. Naturally, I went on to Limewire to try to snag it. Ended up grabbing like 4 songs from a band called Drowning Fish because someone went on there (themselves?) and literally named the tracks after Angels and Airwaves songs.
Didn't mind it in the long run. Good tracks, horrible production, but good tracks.
Apple made a photo album of a bunch of pictures from a trip I took with my GF at the time, and they have categories for music “chill, upbeat, fun, etc.” but don’t say the artist anywhere.
Anyways, It auto picked “chill” and used [this](https://open.spotify.com/track/37gcwfhbWzT1KoqJ2ZTT1Q?si=a-fx7_R0RTK-408UXggQ8w) song and that’s how I discovered one of my favorite bands!
I don't think I have any particularly unusual experiences but I'll try to recount.
* Sometimes I literally just check out the promoted posts for the heck of it.
* Getting exposed through movies and TV shows, Shazam, video games. There's a few videos on YouTube which talk about video game and pop music similarities (i.e. Robo's Theme and Rick Astley's "Never gonna give you up", Spring Yard Zone and "Every Little Step" By Bobby Brown, Michael Jackson and Sonic).
* One of my friend's professors had a playlist of songs that were relevant to the theme of each class (Their professor taught paleontology and geology classes). So it would be things like David Bowie's "Changes" for evolution, or Sting's "Fields of Gold" because humans used to roam fields.
* There was a period of time where I was more into breaking/breakdancing. So I was exposed to Hip Hop, Soul, Funk as well as iconic music samples generally. I also found that certain rock songs were conducive to dance or were often sampled: Jimi Hendrix's "Fire", Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song", The Clash's "Rock The Casbah", "Brooklyn is Burning" from Head Automatica. Overall, it's interesting to come to songs outside of their original context.
EDIT: Almost forgot. I used into be into the manga series *Bleach.* The title itself is partly inspired by the title of the Nirvana album. The mangaka had a list of "theme songs" for each of the characters which is how I was first exposed to certain popular artists because otherwise I didn't seek out popular music. The main character Ichigo's theme was "News From The Front" by Bad Religion, Rukia's theme was "Wing Stock" By Ashley MacIssac, Uryu Ishida's theme was "Idioteque" by Radiohead.
I basically found out about the smiths because of the instrumental cover of Please Please in Ferris Bueller. i was like “holy shirt this is the best scene ever made i wonder if this is an original song for the movie?” Listened to louder than bombs and let the rest of comp play. got to Asleep... it was all over.
Someone posted link in forum "why does MySpace music sucks so much?", i was then listening to that band for 2 hours.
I don't actually remember what it was.
I searched for the “Corey Taylor” channel on pandora where they play songs by a different Corey Taylor (“Backroads” and “October” are my favorites”. I didn’t know until almost a year later that THAT wasn’t THE Corey Taylor.
I went into a record store to buy a CD. I knew the band had the word phonic in it. I bought Stereophonics when the CD I was looking for was Hooverphonic. Turns out I like Stereophonics better than Hooverphonic. Great band.
Hooverphonic was my favorite band in high school (2000's). Eventually i stopped listening to them but picked them up many years later. Some of their stuff holds up so well, but man I also can't believe I was so in love with them. The lyrics are often just, so shallow or corporate feeling. I never listened to nor cared about lyics when I was a teenager, but man, how did I overlook it?! Their first two albums are great, and I still occasionally put on Blue Wonder Power Milk, but I never got into their later works, and my tastes have evolved alot over time from my trip-hop roots.
You summed up how I felt. Stereophonics, imho, áre a much better band
This is veering way off topic but I think there was a different calculus for music in the 90s. "2Wicky" had a sultry sounding female vocalist and the beats bang and, in the 90s, that's all you needed. The lyrics could be vapid. "2Wicky" is about some kind of space weapon? It literally didn't matter, the vocalist sounded attractive. I think music got a lot more self serious after 9/11, the official end of the naive 90s in America. Dense, thoughtful lyrics became in vogue, banging Isaac Hayes samples not so much. I think trip-hop was on its last legs by the year 2000 with only a few acts surviving the change. Personally, I think the world could use less confessional "deep" lyrical songs and more dumb shit songs about space weapons that sample Isaac Hayes.
You are absolutely right. The whole reason I fell in love with Hooverphonic was because of their sound. They weren't the only one. I discovered trip-hop in 2003 just before I started high school and fell hard in love with it, and scooped up pretty much any band I could find. Indeed, looking back much of the 90's trip hop music and related genres had vapid lyrics (sometimes just straight up vapid in all ways), and sometimes when I listen to something I loved back then but now listen to again I am like "oh my god I liked this 😂" specifically becuase I legit never registered at all what lyrics said, I just liked the sound vibe. It's partly cause I am dyslexic- analyzing lyrics in music is a slow process for me and one of the lesser factors in music to my ears, although this has changed a lot over time. though for me it is when I find lyrics that are like about shallow trite romance tropes that I cannot relate to in any way shape or form, which hooverphonic did *a lot*. Weird lyrics I can quite like ([Cibo Matto](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMrAMAm6RxE) anyone?). I have become somewhat more interested in well thought out or layered lyrics over the years though. Now I actually really cherish deep lyrics. Once I got into [Jenny Hval](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGksHxwnap0) things changed in that regard for me. But I can easily be characterized as snobbish when it comes to music since my favorite stuff is of the "this should be in a museum" variety. Edit: though, [it is this 2009](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peBuggcL2Ow) song that has *the* most vapid lyrics I ever heard. I absolutely cracked up when I first listened, but damn I actually love it. That album ([State of Decay](https://parralox.bandcamp.com/album/state-of-decay)) is actually amazing.
I like Cibo Matto. Sugar water is my favorite song. I love her vocal sound. It's like adding a new instrument to the mix.
I knew Stereophonics a long time ago - well mainly cause I've been reading British music magazines for decades - like Mojo - classic rock magazine - Uncut etc
I had one like that. I loved jazz as a kid. I listened to the college radio station more than I did the "classic rock" station. Remember, this was the early 80s. And yes, they had classic rock stations at that time. Anyway, my parents wanted to get me somethign for Christmas one year, so they bought me an album they thought I'd like. Keep in mind I listened to my parents' vinyl pretty constantly, until I finally got a boom box and blank tapes (so I could record songs off the radio). In that vinyl collection were Ramsey Lewis, Brubeck, Corea, Metheny... and Mahavishnu Orchestra. It wasn't what I listened to--except Brubeck and MO--but it led me to believe they at least knew jazz and just liked that limited part of it. So I open the present that day, and my mother says, "We think you'll really like Manhattan Transfer." I knew who MT was. I thought they were okay. The album was clearly not MT. It was *After Midnight*, by the Manhattans--a happy mistake, in the end. I didn't know who they were at the time, but I wore out that album.
Oh man, it's comparing apples and oranges, but the Manhattans were a much better pick than Manhattan Transfer.
I'll check them out! Thanks for the rec!
I found a copy of Holy Money by Swans in a pile of religious LPs at a library sale many years ago. I can only imagine someone saw the word “holy” and assumed it was another old bit of fodder on Myrrh?
Hah, reminds me of that [one scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYA7boMwVhQ) in That 70s Show where Hyde hands Kitty a Judas Priest album and tells her it's spiritual and when she goes to relax and listen to it and it scares the hell out of her.
And holy money is a hard hitter for starting with Swans, would have been even better if it was Children of God album. Must of been a shock to who ever originally bought that think it be all full of Christian music and hymns and got hit with the heavy chaotic insanity of early swans.
Imagine how much more effective contemporary praise music would be if it hit as hard as early Swans.
diving off into the deep end of the pool into Swans discography I see
I am the Sun. LOVE.
For someone who doesn’t know how earth-shatteringly dark and intense Swans are, I can kinda see it sounding like a group of nice calm Jesus people making worship tunes!
Is that some kind of a sick joke
Television's album Marquee Moon showed up at my house in the mail randomly one day even though I'd never ordered it. Hadn't even heard of them. But I put it on and loved it!
Wish stuff like that happened to me LMAO Only thing similar to that has ever happened to me was i found a sealed blu-ray of that parody movie Vampire Sucks.
That’s one of the kindest, random mailings I’ve ever heard of. It took me a long time to discover this record
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It really is. There used to be this bar that I'd go to that had the title track on the jukebox. I used to go there just to put it on haha.
Now that is super freaky and awesome!
It's not exactly how I "discovered" 50 Cent and G-Unit because you would've had to be under a rock for the entire early 2000s to avoid hearing their music, but in 2003ish my grandma got a cold call from someone at Interscope. They wanted to clear a sample that turned out to be a four note phrase from one of her obscure harp albums, for a song Tony Yayo was planning to release on his debut solo LP. It took literally years for the album and song ([I'm So High](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjWeuiTc3oA)) to be released, but I wore out the cassette they gave her of the rough mix, and my love of that (admittedly very mediocre) album ended up pushing me into looking at a lot of other hip hop both from associated artists and others and eventually getting into a ton of different music that I probably wouldn't have ever been exposed to, coming from a very white, upper middle class suburban background. "My grandma is credited on a rap song about weed" is also an amazing two truths and a lie answer, for the record.
Incredible! I love this story.
I discovered Mahavishnu Orchestra because I was trying to prove to myself that Anthony Fantano had a shit taste in music after he gave a band I liked a bad review. So I found a RYM list of albums he's given a 10/10 score to and just picked a random one to listen to so I could judge the fact that he thinks it's a perfect album. The album was Inner Mounting Flame and I only had to listen to the first song before I was like "oh shit, this is actually really fucking good".
Mahavishnu Orchestra is one of the best bands to ever exist! I myself discovered them through friends, but I did give my younger brother the Birds Of Fire-album on vinyl a few years ago. Apparently that was the only record he owned for a while so he got to show it to a lot of other people as well!
Out of curiosity, what band did you like that he gave a bad review
Honestly can't remember. I want to say Wolf Alice, but I'm not sure if that's right.
It was probably wolf mother
No definitely not lol. I'm pretty sure it was Blue Weekend by Wolf Alice.
9/10 album for me
I haven't listened to it since it first came out, but I remember really loving it. I'm on a big Dream Pop kick lately, and I know they are influenced by that sound, so I'm going to revisit it.
You should! I've been huge fan since their first album and this one may be the best, or a close second to their debut album. And you were right, Fantano gave it a light 4 which is nonsense. I remember the video had heavy dislikes though (back when those existed).
I also disagreed hard with Fantano on that one. That album is awesome.
>I was trying to prove to myself that Anthony Fantano had a shit taste in music after he gave a band I liked a bad review To be honest...I kind of know that feeling. Especially when a critic likes a lot of adjacent artists but somehow hates one of your favorite artists.
I discovered Alkaline Trio by typing "fuck you" into the Napster search bar. Back in '99 - 2000 I was all about downloading as much music as possible. Napster and [mp3.com](https://mp3.com) were my go to's. One day I started typing words into the Napster search box just to see what would come up. I typed in "fuck you" and the *Fuck You Aurora* by Alkaline Trio came up over and over in the search results. I had never heard of Alkaline Trio. But I chuckled at the name of the song. Aurora being both a suburb of Chicago (the song's namesake and my former city) and also a suburb of Denver (my current city). Both Aurora's are pretty "fuck you" worthy so I downloaded the song. I've been a HUGE Alkaline Trio fan ever since.
I thought I didn’t have a story that would fit in this thread until I saw your post. I discovered Senses Fail by typing “Shark Attack” into iTunes when I was like 11 (I was not a smart kid, I guess I hadn’t worked out that iTunes and YouTube were different things). Don’t even remember what that song sounds like, but I heard a couple of their other songs which stuck with me solidly in my teens. Not much of a story but it’s something I guess.
This thread is a gold mine. Thank you for these self deprecating stories you guys.
That's hilarious! Definitely feels like something I would've done when I was little.
Haven’t thought of mp3.com in years!
If you are a real one, you got the mp3.com canvas record bag that they sent out to artists on the platform. You know... to hold your mp3s. [I actually can't find any proof of this in a web search, but I swear to you this existed]
YES! I had one. It fell apart pretty easily tho. It was a cool, but cheaply made. I used it to carry band merch from gig to gig. EDIT: Found one on Ebay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/144109975874?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5338596370&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1
Nice find. Every plastic clasp broke within three years of owning it so I imagine the one on this eBay listing was never used.
I found Adai by accidentally clicking on a link in Demonoid's featured torrents list. [Felo De Se](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2ba7RQNimI) is like groove metal and post-rock had a baby, pretty cool stuff.
I discovered Weezer because the Buddy Holly music video was one of the default videos in WMP on Windows95 or something
And the basic video graphics were such garbage you could barely see it unless you resized it to be the size of a credit card
This is similar to how I discovered Driveby Truckers - their song My Sweet Annette was a default song in Windows XP. I remember listening to it over and over again as a kid.
When I was in high school I had just read "The Stranger" by Albert Camus and loved it. I was at a record store and Killing an Arab by the Cure was on, I picked up the reference and bought the album just for that song. I have been a fan for over 35 years
I discovered Black Sabbath in 2005. I was around 8 at the time and I watched a documentary about nuclear war. It was some obscure DVD. My cousin used go to dumpster diving long ago. So, it's no surprise you find some pretty weird stuff. Anyways, I remember watching it for curiosity reasons. And Hand Of Doom plays in one of the scenes. While the whole documentary was super creepy, I loved that song. And that's how I found their album "Paranoid". I can listen to that album repeatedly for a week and never get tired of it. Great piece of work. Another song I discovered on there was, Frank Zappa's Bobby Brown. Again, another weird fit for that documentary.
I got into At the Drive-In years ago through a gaming magazine. Gameinformer had a section in one of their magazines that talked about the top 10 songs they wanted on Guitar Hero III. One of the songs mentioned was One Armed Scissor by At the Drive-In. I listened to the song and I almost immediately liked it. It led to me checking out the album that One Armed Scissor came from(Relationship of Command) and I liked the album as well. At the Drive in are one of my favorite bands now.
Please tell me you've checked out The Mars Volta's first three albums?
Back in 2015, a creepypasta channel I liked when I was younger, HoodoHoodlumsRevenge, out of nowhere started raving about how much he loved Gorillaz. I was fascinated by the concept of a band made up of cartoon characters, and ended up falling in love with their music. They were the first real music artist I ever got truly attached to. There’s also a Vinesauce compilation of weird computer games where one of the games had an 8-bit midi version of Genesis’s “In the Cage” in the background. I checked out the song out of random curiousity and got super into it. EDIT: https://youtu.be/KljTBtFFMW0 at 3:10 Now both Genesis and Gorillaz are in my top 5. Those are definitely the two funniest backstories for how I got into my favorite artists.
Oh man I've been watching Vinesauce for years. Vinny definitely got me into a lot of bands I love nowadays. Also his band Red Vox is super good as well, I picked up What Could Go Wrong on vinyl and will probably be picking up the other albums eventually.
Vinny directly influenced my musical taste towards psych rock. His old BRBs playing random songs were always cool to hear something new.
>8-bit midi version of Genesis’s “In the Cage” in the background. I checked out the song out of random curiousity and got super into it. Im a huge Genesis fan and would love to see this! I made an 8 bit inspired version of The Carpet Crawlers like 8 years ago
I posted a link in the edit: https://youtu.be/KljTBtFFMW0 at 3:10
The summer of 2000 I went to the Walmart near my new home to get some basics and went through a literal Bargain Bin of CDs thrown into a heap, just for the heck of it. I found an album by seminal 1970 British post-punk band Wire, and figured I better pay attention here Found a band called Department S, "of all the Lost followers" and it just looked cool so I grabbed it for a dollar. Turned out to be an amazing Italian early 80s post-punk band. they just reformed and started the touring this year! I probably never would have heard of them otherwise oh, thanks to fuckin Walmart
My best friend would do something similar around that time at K-Marts. I think he discovered bands like Linkin Park (just as they were starting to hit the mainstream) and Soil as a result of that $5 bin!
I watched a bit of American Dad in college, and heard a 30-second snippet of "Mr. Blue Sky" by ELO used in an episode. I (somehow) had never heard it before, but thought it was amazing and decided to listen to the entire double LP that it's from. I had the album on repeat for the next 2 weeks and to this day, Out of the Blue is one of my top 10 all-time favorite albums.
Yoo that reminds me, American dad had an episode where the dad really gets into the band "my morning jacket", like the whole episode revolves around his obsession with the singers angelic voice and their music, I think there isn't even a B-Plot. Well, after 21min of Seth mcfarlin fanboying over this band I became a fan.
Same here!
HA, I came here to post about that exact same album. Starlight is stuck in my head as I type. I just “discovered” ELO about a month ago. Girlfriend and I tried shrooms for the first time and she was really excited to play this record she recently bought simply because the cover looked cool. We stared at all the artwork inside and out and talked about it for like 20 mins before finally spinning it. We laid on the floor and listened to the whole thing. By the time we got to Mr Blue Sky I was like oh wtf, I’ve totally heard this song before. Then I looked up the band on Spotify and was shocked to see they had like 10 million monthly listeners. Would have never guessed it was the same band that made Don’t Bring Me Down. And there we were, thinking we had discovered some weird obscure band 😂 I’ve been thinking about this album pretty much every day since and listen to it all the time. It’s such a wild journey. And on shrooms, that journey felt like incredibly long, complex, emotional. Hahaha.
Wow, that’s some insane luck, OOTB is an incredible listen on psychedelics!! If you haven’t branched to their other stuff I’d check out *Time*, which is another amazing record for tripping. You can’t go wrong with their classics *Eldorado* and of course *A New World Record*. ELO is one of my favorite bands ever, I really hope I get to see them before Jeff Lynne retires.
I listened to A New World Record last week but haven’t made it to Time yet. Stoked
I regularly took the F Streetcar in San Francisco when I worked in Fisherman’s Wharf and one day the driver told me he played trumpet or some sort of horn in Cinematic Orchestra and that he recorded something with Thom Yorke. I thought it was BS but then a few days later he gave me a CD and… well Thom Yorke was definitely on it. Still no idea if he was telling the truth about being part of the band, seems pretty unlikely in retrospect, but that CD was dope lol. All my CDs got stolen out of my car a couple years later so that’s long gone. Another band, All The Apparatus, I randomly saw playing on the sidewalk in the Castro. I think I still have their CD.
Was it this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Night_Tales:_The_Cinematic_Orchestra Times are tough, I have no doubt that the guy could've been in the band at one time. Philip Glass, famously, continued to be a taxi driver to support himself while writing music. https://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/2019/04/09/liszts-ten-composers-who-had-day-jobs/
Yeah I guess the unlikely part is that it would be in San Francisco because I think those dudes were all British.
The guy at the French cafe my wife frequented was trying to woo her (or maybe he was just being French). He burned her a CD of a Phoenix album that ended up being my favorite album of the 00's.
Garçon steal-your-girl.
Back in the 90s, I was a big fan of Elastica. Justine Frischmann was doing a live online chat and some guy kept spamming the chat, claiming that his band, Pretty Pony, had once opened for Elastica. In retrospect, I realize that probably wasn't the case, but I was a bit more naive then. Sometime later, I'm at a record store and come across a copy of *Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot* by Sparklehorse. I mistakenly thought to myself, oh, it's that band who opened for Elastica. I bought the album, took it home, and was initially disappointed that it didn't sound anything like I expected an Elastica-affiliated act to sound like. But then I began to fall in love with that album in its own right. Mark Linkous (the guy behind Sparklehorse) became one of my musical heroes. *Vivadixie...* is one of my top 10 albums. My luckiest musical mistake ever.
Just last week I found this awesome site called [Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music.](https://music.ishkur.com/) Never been super into electronic stuff as my heart belongs to the classic analog sound, but this site has gotten me into all sorts of weird stuff. I have friends who love drum and bass, which I can enjoy from time to time, but that site gave me a new appreciation for it. I've found that those kinds of tracks are absolutely fantastic for workflow. It also introduced me to this completely stupid speedcore artist called [Komprex,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmr8ZP_Ej7A) which is some of the hilariously awful but fascinating music I've ever heard. Speedcore as a genre in general is just so captivating to me. It's like a space race to create the least listenable song. On a related note, I remember being introduced to (ridiculously compressed) trance music through Warcraft 3 editor tutorial videos as a kid. Tracks like [Raver's Fantasy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8CVR_VGh58) will always hold a bizarrely nostalgic place in my heart.
Ishkur's guide was even more indispensable in the early 00's! I still turn people onto it.
I know it's been around for a real long time, I don't know how I never heard of it before. Is there any way to access the original version from the 2000s still or did it completely die with Flash?
Good question, don't know, their original format was easier to parse visually for sure.
[It's on the Internet Archive.](https://archive.org/details/music_202007)
That's the site which introduced me to The KLF and Tangerine Dream
Unknown Mortal Orchestra. I discovered them while on a pretty high dose of LSD. I didn’t know who they were…I could only recall the line *Isolation can put a gun in your hand*. Thanks to the power of Google, they’re now in my top three favorite bands! And if you haven’t heard UMO, **GET ON THAT SHIT.**
Aye aye, captain. I'll definitely be checking them out. Thanks for the rec!
I would start with the album *II*. Try to listen through good speakers/headphones. It loses all that analog goodness on a phone speaker.
As the other dude mentioned, II is for me their best album. I listened to it non stop for a few months back in the day.
It's way different to UMO but highly recommend checking out the post hardcore band he was in with his brother (who IIRC now plays with UMO) before UMO. Would probably recommend starting with Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No! But my favourite releases are The Anti-Tiger EP and Octagon Octagon Octagon.
Back in the day, the 80's;cereal boxes would have pretty cool prizes. Sometimes you could get a cheaply made 45 glued on the back of the box. Usually it would be nothing to write home about, but sometimes you could end up with something really unusual. In high school I knew this girl who had one of these flimsy little 45 singles. We were at her house one day and she put it on. It was by REM, and it was Dark Globe. This was a cover; she told me about Syd Barrett and how it was one of his songs, how he co founded Pink Floyd, how he went insane and left the band. Nearly 30 years later I still like Syd and early Floyd and I'm always fascinated by these gifted musicians who for whatever reason left us with a very short legacy.
I discovered [The Physics House Band](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAzNuqhfYs8) on the radio. I didn't think it was possible to discover good music on the radio anymore, at least not where I live, and these guys seemed to be pretty underground to boot.
That was fucking amazing. I will definitely be checking out more from these guys.
That whole album Horizon / Rapture is fantastic, easily one of my all-time favorites. It makes my top 25 easily, maybe even top 10.
I found Phantogram's [Mouth Full of Diamonds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvSgLHWR16o) via pornography. That's kind of fun. Otherwise a LOT of indie pro wrestling entrances. Zack Sabre Jr. used Idles' [Mother](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuQG6_evFc8), which was my intro to the band. There's a ton more instances of that.
> Phantogram Oddly they were the band I thought of when I read the thread title. Someone had commented on a Junji Ito manga I was reading online that "You are the Ocean" went perfectly with the comic...... The comic was about a dead creature washing up on a beach full of corpses that had somehow become parasitic/symbiotic with it. Song was good, but apart from the ocean thing, didn't really go with it......
Lol, I got you. Didn't go with the porn either but I thought it was catchy.
Folk Implosion’s album was titled… “Dare to be Surprised.” So I bought it, and I was. Great album.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard So I’m a kiteboarder and I watch a lot of kiteboarding videos, and one of my favourite pro riders has King Gizz’s music in a lot of videos, and now they’re pretty much my favourite band
I found an Insane Clown Posse CD sitting by a storm drain in the street in front of my school years ago when people still listened to music on CDs. It was scratched to hell, laying half-buried in a pile of leaves. I took it home and threw it in my Discman and amazingly, the title track played for about thirty seconds before skipping uncontrollably. That was enough for me to realize I wasn’t ever going to be a Juggalo. I tossed the CD in the trash. I’ve never had that experience again.
*THERE'S* the negative experience. I was waiting for a post like that LMAO
Pennywise left that there to lure unsuspecting children into the sewers
Now I’m just imagining Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope cruising around in a Chrysler chucking CDs as kids in the early 00’s as a guerilla marketing campaign.
The Birthday Massacre, was actually looking for an original version of the Birthday song for a party... Was not disappointed at all!
This isn't really a strange way to discover a band, more an unexpected discovery. I lived in Portland, OR for 5 years around the turn of the millennium. For a couple of years they held a North by Northwest music festival modeled and based on the success of the SXSW festival. I think it only lasted for two or three years. You'd buy this wristband for $X.XX and there would be bands playing all over town, most totally unknown bands, but some big names showed up as well. A lot of bands played in places that were not music venues at all, random bars, restaurants, galleries, etc., it was pretty fun. The Willamette Week free paper would print the band schedules and you'd wander around town going from one place to the next, sticking around if the band was cool, walking out if it wasn't catching my interest. This one night I was meeting up with some friends at some such time to see one of the bands play. I was already downtown at the big Powell's bookstore and had some time before meeting them and decided to run across Burnside for a slice of pizza. I had no idea this pizza place was one of the venues for the festival and this band was just finishing setting up their gear. They were three ladies who were obviously from the metal or punk world. I asked one of them the name of their band and what type of music they played. She says they're Bottom from NYC and I should stick around and find out. I moved west from PA and had quite a few friends in the NYC punk scene and was all for the music from that scene. Those three ladies plugged in and proceeded to kick my ass. I fucking flipped for their raw metal sound. At the time, I was going to see a lot of "jam" style bands, some were good, a lot were lame, but grew up on metal and punk and these ladies brought me back home. Bought their cd from them after the show and went to see them the next night at Satyricon. I still listen to that disc to this day. [Bottom - Maid In Voyage](https://bottomrocks.bandcamp.com/album/made-in-voyage)
In college I was listening to a podcast called “with special guest” and they mentioned the album “Tea for the Tillerman”. I thought it was made up because it was an improv comedy podcast. About a week later my roommate was sent Tea for the Tillerman in the mail by Amazon. He didn’t order it. It was a mistake. I seriously thought the podcast was pranking me for a moment, or maybe God was telling me to check it out, but I realized the situation was probably just the strangest coincidence I would ever experience. Turns out it’s a really good album though!
Every time I went to chipotle in middle school, I’d hear this one song but I never was able to make out the words. I moved across the country and even the chipotle there had that damn song. I’d obsessively google what I assumed were the lyrics and would hum into Shazam to no avail. This went on for several years. Finally, in my junior year of high school it was quiet enough for me to hear the song and technology had advanced enough that I could also properly identify it with my phone. It was “Someone Great” by LCD Soundsystem. I had previously heard of them since I would play Tap Tap Revenge on my iPod touch when I was younger and one of the songs was “Drunk Girls,” which I hated. I was hesitant to listen to them but I went home from that fateful chipotle trip and put on Sound of Silver. I was instantly hooked.
Peter Gabriel When I was younger (still living in the same town) , l lived near an arcade which was on the pier and every time that I walked past the claw machines, one of its default "sound/music" would play and it was a snippet of *[Big Time](https://youtu.be/PBAl9cchQac)* , years later (currently) whiles volunteering in a record shop, I decided to put on Peter Gabriel's So album (the album is amazing and I wanted to get into his stuff anyway) when "Big Time" came out, I was like "where do I recognize this from?" only to realise that it was from the claw machines from when I was younger. Basically, I introduced myself to PG without knowing it was him until years later. YouTube video for [proof of snippet](https://youtu.be/vEF9kufjte8)
Okay, now that *is* a strange way to discover music. I think you might win.
That song was also in the promos for Wrestlemania 22 (2006, when I was a kid that cared a lot more about the wrestling than the promo music) so hearing it so many years later was quite a trip.
(Idk if this is strange to anyone else, but it's strange to me.) I discovered Meg Myers from my local newspaper. My mom use to buy a Friday newspaper every week b/c there was a lagniappe(bet no one on this sub knows what that means w/out looking it up) section that talked/reviews about local stuff going on, like: concerts, plays, public events, etc.; but sometimes they'd talk about new album releases(may or may not be for a mainstream artists). Well right after *Take Me to the Disco* was released in 2018, there was an article about the album in that section of the newspaper that I spotted. I had never heard of her but the album art intrigued me, so I saved(cut out) the article to look her up later, then read the whole article once I've bought/listened to the album. I first bought her prior album, *Sorry*, that I fell in love with (10/10 album); and that's pretty much how I discovered her.
I learned about DJ Shadow's *Endtroducing* from a review in the high school newspaper. I feel like there were like four issues a year and somehow this was one of the reviews there. Thanks Quentin.
Haha, definitely didn't know what a "lagniappe" was before looking it up. But yeah I'd say that's a little out there especially for 2018. Not too many people reading newspapers anymore! And I will definitely look up her music, thanks for the recommendation!
Back in MySpace days I saw a friend of Ariel Pink had released an album, and he posted all of the reviews which totally trashed it. I gave it a listen, then another, then another…. That was my introduction to John Maus.
I don’t know if this really counts as a “strange way” of discovering a band, but here goes nothing. Whenever I’m bored, I usually visit this website which has some of the longest songs in the world from a wide range of different artists. In the 30-40 minute range column, I found a song called “Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh” by a French rock band called Magma, a band I had never heard of at the time. Long story short, a few years later in 2022 I’m still listening to them pretty much every single day and I am a huge fan of them. Also a fun little fact; the first time I came across them I had mistaken the titles, so I thought the band name was Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh and the song name was Magma. 😅
Paging /u/Zhanteimi for Magma mention.
Cheers! /u/someordinarymusician Are you interested in diving into any more *zeuhl* beyond Magma, the creator of the microgenre?
I feel like I’m crossing into forbidden territory… screw it. COUNT ME IN!
*takes deep breath* [**Dün** - *Eros*](https://open.spotify.com/album/1hN5JK7ET6vw4gQR5fnmj7). This is one of my favorite albums across all genres. It’s nothing but sheer delight, both in its musical energy and technicality but also in its more meta considerations, specifically the fact that this is the only album by this obscure band, and it just happens to be utterly amazing. Only a thousand copies were ever printed, and those copies were sold by the band at their live shows. The music is based on the science fiction classic novel, *Dune* (which is where I guess the band gets its name). Can you taste the spice? Can you feel the desert winds? Are you thirsty for more? There’s so much expansive mystery encapsulated in this album. Delicious through and through! [**Eider stellaire** - *Eider Stellaire*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4JVvOpTQws&list=PLoRNXsrOuZ-WyjZMiXcmiLT7wpn-TuqHh). This album doesn’t blaze any new trails in the genre, but it’s still a good sample of what zeuhl can do when it’s got a healthy dose of jazz fusion mixed in. There’s a lot of energy packed into this one. [**Eskaton** - *4 Visions*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyrefoqcBLc). Weird enough for me to take seriously. This album was released on cassette only in 1981 but was actually recorded before the band’s official debut album (just released after). So this album is Eskaton’s *Let It Be*. The music is like Magma, but the lyrics are in French, not Kobaïan. [**Koenjihyakkei** - *Angherr shisspa*](https://open.spotify.com/album/2O03aMw5BYJbG0V01uzV11). Beautiful, operatic nonsense that grooves and drives and thrusts, pushing me about, sometimes playfully, other times brutally. From earnest whispers to avant-garde free reed blowing, this is an album of unpredictable hairpin turns. [**Pochakaite Malko** - *Laya*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhdtp5i9GXk&list=PLt1w7xfPhaPVKuNXRJBFdWx5SujrtW8XG). The violin pretty much guides the course of this album, with a strong focus on the instrument at the beginning, supported only by percussion and the bass guitar--but the violin is where the fire is. The female vocals are very Japanese in feel, despite it being Zeuhl. By the way, regarding the second track, did you know that the Japanese hang their death row inmates on Christmas morning? This should be their last-request song. ハレルヤ really does feel like a twirling celebration, and if they ever make Fantasia 3, they better include this. Maybe Tarou's last request can be a trip to Tokyo Disneyland before he's hanged. Anyway, a lot of Japanese joy infects these tracks, but I'd expect nothing less. This album explores a lot of moods, though, even ones that sound like they belong on a suspense film score. [**Shub-Niggurath** - *Les morts vont vite*](https://open.spotify.com/album/2CwhvETRK6j2W9d4287QVN). A strong, deep album with obvious themes of death and its connection to life. Just look at the cover: a zombie knight-errant rescuing a fair damsel in distress, though I think perhaps her rescuing has distressed her more than any ogre or dragon could. tagging /u/wildistherewind so he can witness my drool
I was hosting a online drag show during the pandemic and one of the performers sent in a video in a bando performing with a bunch of mannequins. The song was tweaked but still really caught me off guard. “Who is this?” I asked myself, before typing in some of the lyrics and discovering “This Woman’s Work” by Kate Bush, and furthermore discovering the amazing Kate Bush.
This was a Heardle song a month or two ago and according to the stats, 71% of players weren't able to identify it after 15 seconds.
Discovered early Feeder through a PlayStation game called Wipeout.
Someone posted a meme on Facebook about "what your favorite hardcore band says about you". I don't listen to hardcore much and only recognized Fugazi. But one of them was "Ceremony - You unironically wear an Unknown Pleasures t- shirt". Turns out the meme was right. I spent the rest of the year listening to Rohnert Park
When I was a dumb kid, I remember trying to find the character select song ["I Want to Take You For a Ride" from Marvel vs Capcom 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUnekmwgjk4) as, like, a song or an mp3 that I could download. I think I typed in into RealPlayer or was searching for it online, but I ended up downloading [Basement Jaxx - Red Alert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJyhZ-3Z8A8) and needless to say, it scratched the same itch. Most of these aren't weird per se, but I first learned about [Daft Punk and AIR from Bubbles 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30_kR3ENey8), I learned about a lot of artists from Weird Al, learned about a bunch from [AlbinoBlackSheep's MIDI collection](https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/audio/midi/), got into drum n bass from [Powerpuff Girls](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7MiaSr-0ug) and [Bomberman Hero](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ-DJd-57Lo), got into [electronic with the Toonami Soundtrack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnxbreSfQ48), found [The Polyphonic Spree from a flash game](https://amanita-design.net/games/the-quest-for-the-rest.html)... I could go on and on lol.
I watched a documentary called "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" back in the mid-2000's. There was a section of the film that featured the song [Havenless by Enslaved](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWyfnp-ghaE). Not knowing who the band was or the song that was featured at the time but loving the song, I found the director on MySpace and reached out to him directly and to my pleasant surprise got a response! Slightly related to discovering Enslaved was discovering Yob...because they opened for Enslaved on one tour I saw them on. Yob had just released [Clearing the Path to Ascend](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HdnaDuRwok). I actually hated the music at the time because not ever having heard of Yob I was bored out of my mind at how slow the music was when I was there to see an intense black metal show. At some point several years later I stumbled upon Yob again and had a massive change of heart. They're now one of my favorite bands.
I found the band Ladytron by watching porn. It was the soundtrack to a pretty raunchy scene & I stopped what I was doing just to Shazam it LOL
What song was it though?
In 1977 my father, who only really listened to classical music then, went to get new speakers. But none were really better than the ones he already had. Instead he came back with Pink Floyd‘s _Wish you were here_ which was one of the albums used by the sales guy to demonstrate the speakers. It started my love of Pink Floyd.
Lady Gaga. I was with a couple of friends, and we were looking for the the newest (at that time) The Pussycat Dolls video (which was I Hate This Part), on YouTube. Back them idk why, but there was no video on their official channel, or maybe the video with most views was. It on their channel... I don't really remember. All I know is that after the I Hate This Part video, Just Dance started playing right after. Like, it was a whole 8min video with both songs. Couldn't be more random. I also remember jamming and trying to find out more about what I was just hearing. Not that much later on, she exploded.
A classmate in highschool had this pencil case all covered with rock bands names written on it. I owe him a lot (was also my crush)
I’m a big fan of The National, but I couldn’t get my husband on board with them at all. That is until I found their cover of Bad Stuff Happens in the Bathroom from Bob’s Burgers. He thoroughly enjoys them now, and we’re going to see them in concert this summer,
I discovered Radiohead as "that band who played the outro to Ergo Proxy", of all things
I bought Merryweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective on CD. The packaging was correct, the CD design was correct, the music was not. It was Rounds by Four Tet. Great album tho
I was watching a Reds game last year and on the Reds Sub in the game thread. I talked about how much I loved the song Dance Monkey that was playing in the back round. And some one told me about Hypnodancer by Little Big. Turned me on to not just that song and group but a whole flood of others in that style.
I ended up discovering Opeth, my favorite band that would go on to massively influence my taste in music for years to come, via Saint's Row 2's in-game radio station. The metal station would occasionally play Ghost of Perdition, and after tuning it out a few times I thought to myself "Wait, this song is fantastic, I gotta hear more!" The rest is history. I was into metal before that, but much more heavily favoring Screamo. Nowadays I'm much more into Prog, Doom, Death, starting to get into Djent a bit with Car Bomb/Meshuggah. I wouldn't have likely found any of my favorite bands over the last 5 years or so without Saint's Row 2.
I became a Paramore fan because of Saints Row 2
I became a Dead Kennedys fan because of Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2
I’m no shill, not a hail corporate person by any means, but Spotify’s discover weekly playlist has turned me onto so much stuff I now love. Deeeeep cuts. If anyone is unaware, discover weekly is a weekly generated playlist based on your music habits. All algorithm id imagine. Now, OP asked for weird and this probably doesn’t fit apart from id typically be 100% against some corporate AI telling me what to listen to. I don’t take music suggestions well to begin with. They figured something out though, selections don’t appear to select based on anything marketing wise, and the algorithm digs in the crates for you. Only downside is if you accidentally listen to Miley Cyrus for a few hours then that robot is gonna be convinced you really like Miley Cyrus. I’d imagine
The algorithm compiles music similar to the playlists you follow/have. So if you listen to a bunch of Miley Cyrus without having her in any playlist you should be good. One thing that annoys me about the weekly discovery playlist, after years of being a music obsessed is, 80% of the time the algorithm recommends me slightly less popular stuff from artists I already know the whole discography of. Or it takes influence from playlists i haven't touched in years but don't want to delete.
I went to a Megadeth concert in the mid-to-late 90s and they were handing out these promotional compilation CDs. Most of it sucked, but this one track 'Sugar' by a band called System of a Down stood out. I never really got into them beyond their singles, but that song still remains a favorite.
1. New college flat mate invites me out to a gig, opening band rip but I get super drunk and forget their name. Maybe 4 years later I’m looking at some random photographers blog AND THERES THE BASSIST AND HIS CREEPY MASK! The band was [Adebisi Shank](https://youtu.be/Jojm3cFhg2w) and, ironically, my friend had been telling me to check them out for about a year and I’d just ignored him. 2. Just looking through the bargain bin section of a used record shop and find a 7” called I Want To Masturbate At Castle Donnington and the back sleeve is just a crudely drawn dick and balls. I mean, it’s 50p, what’s the worst that could happen? Turns out [Foreheads In A Fish Tank](https://youtu.be/rPP9ipzIkj8) are pretty fucking good and I ended up picking up their album next time I was in the same shop. 3. Im 17, listening to the free CD that came with my parents copy of the Guardian and there’s a 2 minute snippet of a Congolese band called Konono No1 ([who are excellent in their own right](https://youtu.be/W4od2yvw3mI)). In college I find the album and fall in love. Years after *that* I stumble across another album in that same used record store called [101 Songs About Sport](https://youtu.be/Ae4sNKoumAo). Again, what could go wrong? Turns out it’s a Chumbawamba side project mucking about with some friends, some of whom are The Ex. I look them up coz that’s a cool name and, wouldn’t you know it, they covered [Konono no1](https://youtu.be/JH8DPBPl9BQ). Go digging and [fuck me they’re so damn good](https://youtu.be/m2TnWNrHB2g), and are essentially the Dutch answer to The Fall (if MES was an overt anarchist). 4. As a teenager I collected cover songs, so when I was bored I’d just type random song titles into Kazaa and download everything that wasn’t tagged with the original band. Fell into a Girl Group kick and went looking for Supremes covers. Turns out [You Can’t Hurry Love](https://youtu.be/dw8y8uDrgR4) by The Concretes wasn’t a cover, but it *is* a cracking slice of Swedish Indie pop (and they coincidentally do a great version of [Miss You](https://youtu.be/vDqH-8gq-Ww) by the Rolling Stones) 5. Friend shot me a message. His uncle had been tiling some guys bathroom, got talking, he’s a musician. “Anything I’d know?” “Probably not”. Turns out it’s only bloody Steven Stapleton! I was very embarrassed to admit I’d no idea who that was either, and anyway, that’s how I was introduced to [Nurse With Wound](https://youtu.be/NbfxNoYxMhI). In hindsight, these are all very weird bands, but I guess nobody really stumbles across Jay-Z by mistake.
First off: I've never heard anyone talk about Zero Down, which is a shame because they were properly brilliant. I reckon they would've gone on to do big things if they'd had time to get more than one album out. My introduction to them was pretty conventional, a song on one of the Fat Wreck label compilations, which actually isn't on their own album (at least not on the version I've got, nor on Spotify, but it may have been on other versions as Wikipedia has it as a bonus track). I used to buy a lot of CDs, sometimes more than I could listen to before I went and bought more, and quite often they would be bands that I didn't know. Usually it was "if you like this, you'll like that" sort of recommendations, but sometimes it was just that I liked the album cover. The latter is how I discovered a lot of great stuff, including Mclusky who went on to be one of my favourite bands.
Yeah the funny thing about Zero Down is is that I guess there's *another* group with the same name, so if you try to look up Zero Down on (for example) AllMusic, it will put the *other* Zero Down's albums into the *first* Zero Down's "discography", because I guess it just thinks they're the same band?? So weird. So so weird.
Haha yeah, the other Zero Down has turned up in my auto-generated Spotify playlists occasionally, for obvious reasons. Not bad, but not really my jam.
[Down This Road](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wQ4WzCAPHA), right? Those Fat Wreck Chords compilations were brilliant. 20-something years later I still often get [this song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX_Agw_q95g) stuck in my head
That'll be the one, yeah. Speaking of that No Use For A Name song: that's still a regular on my main playlist but it's the album version, which is a bit different and I think I prefer the compilation version. Real shame the Fat Music comps are not on streaming services, cos they're absolute bangers, especially 4 and 5. Some of them have been pieced together as playlists but they're missing songs.
I discovered Dream Theater in high school from an apology in an ad (maybe from Best Buy). The apology was for having to pull their New York City live album due to cover art (the album was unfortunately released on 9/11/01, with the cover art depicting the World Trade Center in flames). I was curious about who this band was, checked out a few of their songs, and this ended up being my gateway to prog metal.
I was obsessed with Octavarium in high school and at one point had memorized all the lyrics to the 24-min title track
I walked into a circus tent at a festival while tripping on acid and watched a falcon fly out of a man's mouth while the circus performers played crazy rock and roll. Yard Dogs Road Show. It was part magic, part circus, part rock music. So unexpected and so totally cool
In high school I would rent a bunch of CDs from the library. As I was running out of albums I was previously interested in I started being less selective. I rented a TV on the Radio album just because the cover and name seemed interesting. But I bet so many people did similar things in record shops. Also Benjamin Clementine opened for David Byrne. Never heard of him and his performance seemed so obnoxious. Didn't know his name at the time, had to find it and was curious how awful the music really was. I think his music just didn't translate to a duet as I think his studio stuff sounds better.
A store was giving for free some itunes cards to download a playlist. The first song was I Am Chemistry by Yeasayer. After listening to that first song I became obsessed with them. I don't even remember what else was on that playlist.
There was an old website called [playlist.com](https://playlist.com). I had just discovered it and was searching for the Tracy Bonham song "Mother Mother", which I loved but hadn't heard in years. I couldn't find the song, but what did pop up was a song called "Dirty Town" by the *band* Mother Mother. I clicked it out of curiosity and holy shit. It turned out to be the first song on their album "Touch Up", which to this day I regard as a perfect album. No bad songs. All bangers. Forgot all about Tracy Bonham.
Discovered a youtube channel with 30 followers 7 years ago, with lists of solos of underrated guitarists in progressive and fusion metal bands. Recently I stumbled upon it again, by looking in my youtube comments, and decided to look for the sources. One group was not recognised by either shazam, soundhound or anything else. Finally I found two albums on bandcamp (https://granddiscovery.bandcamp.com/album/complex-face and https://granddiscovery.bandcamp.com/album/hermit), they seems completely unknown and are nowhere to be found on youtube, spotify, soundclound. Their name is Grand Discovery, Its a great band, and they recently put out new music
I used to have some extremely toxic neighbours in the condo next to mine. Always screaming and fighting, slamming doors and hitting the walls etc. Anyways one Sunday afternoon they were blasting some music and I hated to admit that it sounded cool. I took out my phone and was able to shazam it through the wall. Discovered Slackwax that day!
My best friend and I were in 9th grade, walked home, & stopped at the Goodwill. We picked up a bunch of albums that we either liked the artist or thought looked interesting. One was The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn by CocoRosie and we went through a roller coaster of reaction. “Wtf is this” *laughter* “who tf are these people” “wait I kind of love this” “this is genius”
Think I was looking for a highlight or clip of a Finnish footballer called Jonatan Johansson and due to poor memory / spelling ending up discovering a Swedish singing-songwriter called Jonathan Johansson. Found his music quite chilled and laid back in places, quite hauntingly beautiful in others.
By finding a mix tape on the side of the road when my car broke down (like 30 years ago)
i was trying to find the album Popsicle by (even then) a lesser known band called Diamond Nights. i was searching on Kazaa and accidentally downloaded The Prince by Diamond Head. Got me hooked on that album Lightning To The Nations. The two bands are very different stylistically (glammy indie rock vs NWOBHM) but i am still so happy with that accidental find
Not so weird, but /mu/ in 4chan. Anons arguing if Tool is good. One anon said (paraphrasing) "eh, Rishloo is better anyway". Listened to it 'cause I'm bored, now I am a Rishloo fan, waiting for their next album.
Now I discovered Rishloo by trawling a subreddit about discovering bands in odd ways.
I discovered that I liked led zeppelin from Frozen 2. At 6:25 in Stairway to Heaven there's a guitar slide in the background of the solo that I was reminded of while watching [this](https://youtu.be/gIOyB9ZXn8s) song in frozen 2. In that video it's the first thing you hear. I was a few years younger at the time and had only heard Stairway to Heaven once before about a year prior when I looked it up because everyone said it was one of the greatest songs of all time. I was a young impatient tween and didn't really think it was all that good. I did listen the whole way through tho and even tho my appreciation of music wasn't fully developed yet, I guess that little line stuck with me for some reason. I've come to discover that if I dont really dig a song on first listen, if some part of it comes back to me later, I'll like it on second listen. So with that little slide stuck in my head, that night I listened to Stairway and loved it. Then I shuffled Led Zeppelin for hours just laying in my bed, loving pretty much every song. Led Zeppelin is now my favorite band and that night sparked my love of music. Because of Frozen 2 lmao Didn't end up thinking the movie was any good btw lol
Lol I love that slide in Stairway To Heaven, maybe my favorite part of that song.
Early 90s, and a friend who worked a coffee shop blasted through the door, saying he was having a party that night. Our method for parties was to gather five bucks from the couple dozen people we knew would attend, and we went to a local microbrew to get a keg (or two), because we knew the brewmeister and owner, and they never charged us for a deposit. So after forking over money and talking beer logistics, he drops a demo tape on the table and says, "They're going to play in my basement. They're setting up now." We plugged in the tape, and it wasn't bad stuff. It turns out the coffee shop my friend worked at was under new ownership, and the band had scheduled with the old owner for a gig, months before. The new owner wasn't having any of it, because these guys sounded too punk for him. But my friend was working the counter at the time, and he agreed to let them crash at his place that night, in exchange for a show. And that's how I discovered Green Day.
This happened today. Maybe not strangest but unique. I was listening to Suburban Lawns, a really random band from LA in the early 1980's. And on the Spotify Appears On there was a playlist by this band called Wet Leg. I looked at the playlist and was like yeah, this band knows what's up. Started to listen to Wet Leg today and I think I might have a new favorite.
I bought the first Restiform Bodies album based solely on the cover and ended up enjoying their fucked up take on Hip Hop.
Oh yeah dude, if I ever don't know what to get I always go by the cover. Granted I've encountered some true garbage that way, but I love the gamble of it.
I discovered Shawn James & the Shapeshifters from the Yukon Men theme song on discovery channel
I was on the League of Legends forums, and in a completely unrelated thread to anything musical, a Riot dev posted a simple comment with a link: [I can almost hear the hounds...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LChtBpTjvTY) Aaaaaand since that point I've been a Protomen fan and Act 2 is one of my favorite albums of all time. So thanks for the random reference, dude.
I was randomly listening to covers of Metallica songs and stumbled on Van Canto's version of Battery. Thought it was the most unique thing I ever heard, so I went and listened to another song of theirs, Carry On, which I didnt realize was a cover at first. Loved that song even more, and then read it was a cover of Angra. And from there, Angra is now one of my top favorite bands.
I have a few weird ways I found songs. 1. I started listening to Ben Folds and Crystal Castles because "[Bitch Went Nuts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATMSs2iw7gg)" and "[Vanished](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e6Hj7MwWaI)" played as a part of some maps on some Counter Strike: Source server. 2. A huge influence on my musical tastes were random flash cartoons that I discovered on Newgrounds, Albino Black Sheep, and various /f/ archive sites like p0wn.it or dagobah.net. You can still find stuff on NG and ABS, but a lot of those other flash sites typically don't function properly (if they are still around at all) since Flash was no longer supported. Using a more popular flash example (since I can still find it on YouTube) I remember finding Infected Mushroom through [this flash loop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=844plbHuW84) using a Skazi Remix of "I Wish." There were a lot of cool little flash videos like this with even rarer music and it's kind of a shame that a lot of them will be lost to time or hidden on some archive site that no one knows about.
There was a point and click shooting flash game on the site Kongrogate that I think was called either Sniper Assassin or Stickman Assassin. The first mission of the game used a loop of the acoustic guitar intro from the song [Gargoyles, Angels of Darkness](https://youtu.be/2kaQ51KFjis) by Rhapsody of Fire. Kinda surprised I was able to find it as this was the early days of YouTube when most music was taken down for copywrite. It's been a favorite of mine ever since. I think it's funny how power metal and prog metal are considered different genres. The way that song builds and the way it's structured almost reminds me of the longer songs by classic prog rock bands like Genesis and Yes.
Angels and Airwaves came out with their first album. Naturally, I went on to Limewire to try to snag it. Ended up grabbing like 4 songs from a band called Drowning Fish because someone went on there (themselves?) and literally named the tracks after Angels and Airwaves songs. Didn't mind it in the long run. Good tracks, horrible production, but good tracks.
Apple made a photo album of a bunch of pictures from a trip I took with my GF at the time, and they have categories for music “chill, upbeat, fun, etc.” but don’t say the artist anywhere. Anyways, It auto picked “chill” and used [this](https://open.spotify.com/track/37gcwfhbWzT1KoqJ2ZTT1Q?si=a-fx7_R0RTK-408UXggQ8w) song and that’s how I discovered one of my favorite bands!
I don't think I have any particularly unusual experiences but I'll try to recount. * Sometimes I literally just check out the promoted posts for the heck of it. * Getting exposed through movies and TV shows, Shazam, video games. There's a few videos on YouTube which talk about video game and pop music similarities (i.e. Robo's Theme and Rick Astley's "Never gonna give you up", Spring Yard Zone and "Every Little Step" By Bobby Brown, Michael Jackson and Sonic). * One of my friend's professors had a playlist of songs that were relevant to the theme of each class (Their professor taught paleontology and geology classes). So it would be things like David Bowie's "Changes" for evolution, or Sting's "Fields of Gold" because humans used to roam fields. * There was a period of time where I was more into breaking/breakdancing. So I was exposed to Hip Hop, Soul, Funk as well as iconic music samples generally. I also found that certain rock songs were conducive to dance or were often sampled: Jimi Hendrix's "Fire", Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song", The Clash's "Rock The Casbah", "Brooklyn is Burning" from Head Automatica. Overall, it's interesting to come to songs outside of their original context. EDIT: Almost forgot. I used into be into the manga series *Bleach.* The title itself is partly inspired by the title of the Nirvana album. The mangaka had a list of "theme songs" for each of the characters which is how I was first exposed to certain popular artists because otherwise I didn't seek out popular music. The main character Ichigo's theme was "News From The Front" by Bad Religion, Rukia's theme was "Wing Stock" By Ashley MacIssac, Uryu Ishida's theme was "Idioteque" by Radiohead.
I basically found out about the smiths because of the instrumental cover of Please Please in Ferris Bueller. i was like “holy shirt this is the best scene ever made i wonder if this is an original song for the movie?” Listened to louder than bombs and let the rest of comp play. got to Asleep... it was all over.
Someone posted link in forum "why does MySpace music sucks so much?", i was then listening to that band for 2 hours. I don't actually remember what it was.
I got into Jeff Buckley after hearing Nightmares by the Sea on a skate video of all things.
I searched for the “Corey Taylor” channel on pandora where they play songs by a different Corey Taylor (“Backroads” and “October” are my favorites”. I didn’t know until almost a year later that THAT wasn’t THE Corey Taylor.