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Describe the last time you heard something that you absolutely loved immediately. Something by someone you had never heard before, so you realized that you were going to have a lot of fun exploring the rest of this band/artist's catalog.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 24 March 2003 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

this record by Kaito that I just put in five minutes ago, utterly delicious

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 24 March 2003 14:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Teenage Fanclub's Grand Prix - as soon as the plummy opening chords of About You kicked in I knew this was going to be a treat. And hearing The Modern Age by The Strokes was a near transcendental event, obviously.

Shane

― shane murphy, Monday, 24 March 2003 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I never really paid attention to Peter Gabriel. But then, last year, I was on a very long flight with little to do than watch the TV and listen to the radio. On one radio channel they were playing an overview of Gabriel's career, from start to finish, looping all the way. As I switched to this channel I was just in time to hear Digging In The Dirt, the last song of the programme. It totally amazed me. And I was able to check the backcatalogue right there, as the programme started all over again with Solsbury Hill. Must say that song disappointed me at first, after hearing the splendism of Digging In The Dirt, but still every song they played was at least nice.
I'm collecting his albums now.
Not sure if he counts, as I remembered Steam, which I did like when it came out.

So another example would be David Sylvian. A Mexican friend of mine was totally into him, and last year, February I think, he lent me his copy of the live album Damage (with Robert Fripp).
By now I have all of his & Japan's albums, save for two or three ambient records.

― Tijn, Monday, 24 March 2003 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Ten minutes ago, Infusion Legacy (Junkie XL Remix). Ooooohhhh...

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 24 March 2003 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Boredoms VCN

― original bgm, Monday, 24 March 2003 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

i loved Allen Anthony's 'Alright' (slick urban Donnell Jones-y soul on Roc-A-Fella) at first listen and more than i ever will hereafter...its one of those tracks that has great impact, respective of its genre but it will over-saturate and while it might go down as an anthem it will probably just be a flash in the pan along the lines of Sunshine Anderson's 'Heard It All Before'

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 March 2003 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Most recently, hm, good one. Probably DNTEL.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 March 2003 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Argus!

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Monday, 24 March 2003 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Turbonegro: I was like "How have I lived this long without hearing this"?

― matt riedl (veal), Monday, 24 March 2003 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Serge Gainsbourg! What a relief to discover something you know you're totally going to get into right from the start. I'm amazed it took me this long to hear him.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 24 March 2003 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

's complicated, in the sense that some of them mad fist-listen-loves tend to sad-sad-sadly evaporate after a third listen or thereabouts. which fortunately ain't always the case, yet happens quite often.

for some reason, a sea of separate *songs/pieces* has stayed with me for years and years and years - several Lee Perry tracks, say, or certain 'early music' pieces, or Byrds doin' Dylan's "My Back Pages", or D. Scarlatti's sonatas, some Transglobal Undergroud, etc. - as opposed to first-listen-love *albums*, the names of which i'd find much harder to blurt out off the top of my head at first notice..
like, the last year's Yohimbe Brothers rekkid, that i heard for the first time two days ago, really got me v.excited by the fourth track and then up to the end, and a second listen was most rewading too ...still, i kinda kno' that after a coupla more spins we won't be bothering each other much more.
go figure.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 24 March 2003 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

(oi! 'fist' should've really been 'first')

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 24 March 2003 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Last thursday night - someone sent me a Wav of what they were working on. I rarely, if ever, feel this way (I love this unreservedly) and it made me very cautious. Of course, I let them know I liked it and wrapped things up fast before I said something I'd regret.

― nick.K (nick.K), Monday, 24 March 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

"Congo Man," Mighty Sparrow
"In these Shoes," Kirsty MacColl
The first time I listened to the Pogues.
"Gimme the Car," the first Violent Femmes songs I heard (although I don't think much of them now).

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Monday, 24 March 2003 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Wolf Eyes-Dread

and I second Boredoms-VCN!

― ddb, Monday, 24 March 2003 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

pas/cal, as for their back catalog some of them were in asha vida who were much better when they were reclusive legends with sporadic appearances on record then when they finally released an album. but i am anxious for the pas/cal album in may.

― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 24 March 2003 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Cupid & Psyche 85

(!!!!!!)

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Monday, 24 March 2003 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Pussy Galore - "Car fantasy" it sounds like the Silver Apples Collaborating with The Fall!

― rex jr., Monday, 24 March 2003 18:46 (twenty-three years ago)

this doesn't happen me too often,i usually have to work on "getting into" music,but two spring to mind
first of all,seeing the jimmy cake live,on the basis of having heard one song on the radio
i loved every minute,and they have since become one of my favourite bands....
secondly,hearing charles mingus-i find it hard to get into a lot of jazz,but i heard some a while ago,asked what it was,and was told it was mingus...i still don't know what particular song it was,but i made a mental note to look out for mingus,and now the mingus is by far my favourite jazz musician,although i am working on others...

― robin (robin), Monday, 24 March 2003 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

_Here Come the Warm Jets_ - Brian Eno
"Dragging Hooks" - The Cowboy Junkies
_Airs Up Your Station_ - Kinski (particularly "Semaphore")
_VCN_ - Boredoms, who i'd previously written off.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 05:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Last Saturday went to see Blood Brothers who I'd never heard before and they were total rubbish.

However the support band called Winnwbago Deal, who I'd also never heard before, were fantastic. Me and about 3 other people loved them and their noisey metally punky guitar screamy squeals. Everyone else there for BB was nonplussed. Uh?

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 10:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Mclusky - Do Dallas. Utterly amazing. Would have merited mentioning here if the only worthy thing on the album was that one of the songs starts with the line 'all of your friends are cunts'. Like half man half biscuit heckling the jesus lizard.

Interpol - live in glasgow just after turn on the bright lights came out. Went with some friends, hadn't heard anything about them before. Were amazing. Saw them at the astoria in london over the weekend, again were great, but nothing will touch seeing them cold in a wee but packed venue and being utterly blown away.

― neil simpson, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm,

Deerhoof - Reveille (and the new Apple O' is pretty great, too)
Kinks - Are the Village Green Preservation Society. Still the ultimate feel-good record. It's whimsical, hummable, and still experimental.

Yo La Tengo's new one: Summer Sun.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

mei - utterly the other way round for me. I hated Winnebago Deal's album with a passion, but the one BB song I've heard I loved to pieces.

Just put the Northern State mini-album on. It is fan-frigging-tastic.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Recently, it has been Desert Hearts' "Let's Get Worse".

― alex in montreal, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree the Northern State album is just excellent. I love those girls, they're great. However, they've only done one other single, so not much else to explore! ;-) Mine's pretty trite - In A Silent Way by Miles Davis years ago. Gave me a lot to listen to and turned me on to jazz in a way that I'd not been before, so does the job...

― Dave Stelfox, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oops didn't read initial question properly. The LAST TIME was probably one of Akufen's single releases on Trapez...

― Dave Stelfox, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

William - I bought the Winnebago Deal demo that night but haven't heard it yet, I've got a feeling it's going to be much worse than they were live. I can image that BB would be better on album too.

I liked Northern State a lot when I first put it on but it sort of peters out and by the end I was glad it wasn't any longer. Got better again on repeated listen mind.

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

area - caution! radition area

― j fail (cenotaph), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Winnebago Deal... maybe it was the press release - "Fu Manchu and Black Flag conspiring to murder The White Stripes" = why the fuck you sound like The Vines? It was just so... tired. I'm half tempted to give it another go. Only half, though - probably not even that, actually.

Not when Fallacy & Fusion inhabit this world, anyway.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

most recent was the first song on the Data 80 album "You Are Always On My Mind".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 19:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I reckon (live) WD were vaguely, very vaguely, Fu Manchu or BF but really just an exciting two piece ROCK band who were clearly having huge fun - I'm sure that wouldn't show up on record as much. Never heard the Vines so no comment there.

PR prolly only mentions the white stripes (who i've heard one song by) because the band = drummer + guitarist.

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

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