OT: Old Band-New Discovery

[NewJerseyGuy]

I like these different music threads. Thought I would see if anyone has any similar experiences with good bands or songs they overlooked in the past.

I recently thought about a song from the past that I always liked and found myself humming this week.

I looked up the song — turns out it was by Son Volt from 1995. Never owned any of their music. Downloaded the album this week and really liked it. I probably stopped listening to the radio around 1995 actually.

Please post any band that has been around for awhile, that you overlooked in the past but recently discovered you like. Thanks.

 

[RutHut]

I'm sure I overlooked plenty of bands.



@Jm0513

 

[NewJerseyGuy]

Uncle Tupelo: “I got Drunk”

 

[AdventureHasAName]

Hurra Torpedo

 

[Jm0513]

The Bouncing Souls

I had a friend who liked them in HS, but I never took an interest to their music.
We saw them recently in Asbury and it was a fun time.


The Stone Pony has some awesome bands scheduled. 🤘

 

[Jm0513]

I'm sure I overlooked plenty of bands.

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@Jm0513

This one too

 

[brgRC90]

Texas, I discovered them a while ago but they were never big in the US.

 

[AdventureHasAName]

Paw

 

[RutHut]

Hurra Torpedo

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Now that's quirky.

 

[NewJerseyGuy]

The Bouncing Souls

I had a friend who liked them in HS, but I never took an interest to their music.
We saw them recently in Asbury and it was a fun time.


The Stone Pony has some awesome bands scheduled. 🤘

I’ve looked them up when I heard them mentioned on this board once. Name sounded vaguely familiar at the time.

I like them.

 

[RU848789]

Uncle Tupelo: “I got Drunk”

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Love that song and Uncle Tupelo kind of fits your thread basis for me. Became a big alt-country fan back in the 90s, with Old 97s, Whiskeytown and Wilco being three of my favorites of that genre, but I didn't know that Uncle Tupelo had preceded Wilco (and Son Volt) until maybe the late 2000s, when someone requested one of their songs before a party of ours I was DJ-ing and I didn't know it - it was "I got Drunk" - I then became a fan.

 

[RU848789]

When our son was in his teens and early 20s and very heavily into music (he developed an encyclopedic knowledge of music), he would DJ our car rides on vacation or going to visit someone and he'd play all kinds of somewhat obscure (but not unknown) mostly indie/punk bands that I missed from the 90s and 2000s (before I got SiriusXM in 2008, which was the best thing I ever did for discovering new and old/missed music) that I then became a fan of.

This included bands like the Vaselines, Belle and Sebastien, Neutral Milk Hotel, the Black Lips, The Magnetic Fields, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Rocketship, Moldy Peaches, Beat Happening, Apples in Stereo, Jay Reatard, Snowing, Joyce Manor, Drive By Truckers, Jeffrey Lewis, the Ergs! and more. The really cool thing was that once I became a fan, I took him to see many of these bands (and many more), sometimes with his friends, so he got to see them for "free" and I got to go to a ton of shows I likely never would've from around 2006-2014 or so. We still go to see the occasional show, but he's a working man now, lol, so he has a lot less time (and can go on his own).

 

[ashokan]

Greg Alexander (New Radicals) Unreleased Demo

 

[RedTeam1994]

Hurra Torpedo

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Was interesting for the first 20 seconds. Got old quick. Just…not…good…at….alll

 

[AdventureHasAName]

Was interesting for the first 20 seconds. Got old quick. Just…not…good…at….all

Sorry, I cannot agree. That guy is the best stove top player I've ever listened to.

 

[RUPete]

This thread is another example of why this is a great board.

 

[TM94goRU]

The only positive I see about the downturn in music the last 25 years or so, is I have had time to go back and get all the great stuff that got lost in the shuffle, and I didn't buy back then.

An example of this would be the Gin Blossoms. I found I knew and like more of their songs then I thought. Great underappreciated band from the 90's, still active.

 

[RUGuitarMan]

There are many for me. i can go way back with rock music. One band that I kind of ignored until maybe 5 years ago is the MC5. They were out of the time period I’m very familiar with but I never really checked them out. Generally, I was not that enthralled with what later would become classified as “punk rock” or it’s influence on heavier rock, but as usual, the early progenitors of a sub genre of music are typically the best. MC5 was more influenced by blues and early rock which I like:

 

[RUScrew85]

I'm sure I overlooked plenty of bands.

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@Jm0513

Too ugly to listen to.

 

[Rhuarc]

I saw that Green Day just did a show at the Metro that was almost all rarities and songs they hadn't played in forever. I wish more bands did this. Here's Whatsername which hasn't been played live since 2005.

 

[RU848789]

When our son was in his teens and early 20s and very heavily into music (he developed an encyclopedic knowledge of music), he would DJ our car rides on vacation or going to visit someone and he'd play all kinds of somewhat obscure (but not unknown) mostly indie/punk bands that I missed from the 90s and 2000s (before I got SiriusXM in 2008, which was the best thing I ever did for discovering new and old/missed music) that I then became a fan of.

This included bands like the Vaselines, Belle and Sebastien, Neutral Milk Hotel, the Black Lips, The Magnetic Fields, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Moldy Peaches, Rocketship, Beat Happening, Apples in Stereo, Jay Reatard, Cap'n Jazz, Joyce Manor, Drive By Truckers, Jeffrey Lewis, the Ergs! and more. The really cool thing was that once I became a fan, I took him to see many of these bands (and many more), sometimes with his friends, so he got to see them for "free" and I got to go to a ton of shows I likely never would've from around 2006-2014 or so. We still go to see the occasional show, but he's a working man now, lol, so he has a lot less time (and can go on his own).

And if anyone wants to try any of these bands out, I picked what I thought might be the biggest "hit" (or at least the one I liked the most) for each. Was able to see about half of these bands over the years, most of them with my son. Enjoy - curious if anyone likes these bands or if they don't know them if they like a particular band or two. I'll do these two per post, so it's not one ridiculously long post. Can you tell I was bored tonight? Actually, the thread was a great excuse to go back and listen to a bunch of music I hadn't listened to in a bit and led down a bunch of fun musical rabbit holes along the way.

The Vaselines (Scottish band) - "Molly's Lips (1988)", covered by Nirvana - Cobain loved this band


Belle and Sebastien (Scottish Twee) - "Get Me Away from Here I'm Dying (1996)"- perhaps the song most likely to make me smile and a little misty at the same time...

 

[RU848789]

Neutral Milk Hotel (US band) - "Holland, 1945 (1998)" - many in the indie rock world call their 1998 album the most important indie rock album ever made, but more than a few hate it, probably just being contrarian. They never made another album, but did do a reunion tour in 2013 and I got to take my son and a few of his friends to their show at Prospect Park in Brooklyn (they were 18 and I was their hero for that, lol).



The Black Lips (US band) - "Bad Kids" (2007) - this garage/punk band is one of my son's favorites and when he turned 21 and could legally drink, I took him to a show of theirs on a NYC booze cruise. We both got hammered and had a fantastic time.

 

[RU848789]

The Magnetic Fields (US band) - "I Think I Need a New Heart" (1999) - just a nice tune...




Andrew Jackson Jihad (US band) - "Brave as a Noun" (2007) - often called purveyors of "folk-punk," a term they hate - but to me it captures the sound. Had tickets for them in Philly the Friday after Sandy hit in 2012 and since our power was out anyway, we just went to a hotel in Philly for 3 days and saw the show (my wife got to go to this one). The also do one of the funniest songs I've ever heard: "The Michael Jordan of Drunk Driving (Played His Final Game Tonight)"

 

[RU848789]

Moldy Peaches (US) - "Anyone Else But You" (2001) - this song was featured in the 2008 film "Juno" giving it a second life.




Rocketship (US) - "I Love You Like the Way that I Used To" (1996) - just great indie-pop, but the band really only put out the one album (somehow my son found some of the coolest, most obscure music)

 

[RU848789]

Beat Happening (US) - "Indian Summer" (1988) - another lo-fi indie band (a genre my son loved, as you can tell if you've listened to many of these bands) that was a big influence on many bands, including Nirvana.




Apples In Stereo (US) - "Lucky Charm" (1995) - neo-psychedelic indie rock...

 

[RU848789]

Jay Reatard (US - a stage name, obviously) - "Drink Today" (2005) - post-punk - the man could rock, but unfortunately he died in 2010 from a cocaine overdose.




Cap'n Jazz (US) - "Little League" (1995) - one of the earliest Emo bands - very influential (go to the 3-minute mark if you want to hear one of the best earliest Emo yells after a quiet interlude)

 

[RU848789]

Joyce Manor (US) - "Derailed" (2011) - their debut album was voted best new punk album of the year by Punk News in 2011. Great stuff.




Drive By Truckers (US) - "My Sweet Annette" (2003) - one of the bigger bands on this list, but somehow I missed them (and I was a pretty big alt-country fan) until hearing this song on one of my son's playlists (he likes a lot more than Indie) - I remember being immediately floored.

 

[RU848789]

Jeffrey Lewis (US) - "Broken Broken Heart" (2009) - another folk-punk type band, but this song is more pop - we saw them in Philly about 5 years ago and they were great.




The Ergs! (US) - New Jersey's answer to the Ramones (every member took the last name Erg!), who, for my money is the best punk/rock band that most never heard of. Didn't know about them in their heyday in the late 2000s, but totally fell in love with them in the early 2010s and got to see them on a reunion tour in 2019 with our son and they just blew the doors off (was at House of Independents in AP).

 

[RU848789]

And two bonus bands/songs I forgot about. The first is from a Japanese indie-pop band called Advantage Lucy with the song "Solaris" from 1995 - how the hell my son found this I'll never know (he does have about 300K songs, mostly ripped)




And the 2nd is from US indie band Olivia Tremor Control - the song is "Jumping Fences" from 1996. Have never gotten tired of this one.

 

[angmo]

 

[RUTGERS95]

great thread

 

[angmo]

 

[colbert17]

I guess I have no life. Of all the bands listed on this thread the only ones I've even heard of are the Gin Blossoms and Green Day

 

[colbert17]

More my time frame. Pretty awesome sound for 1968 from an almost totally forgotten band with a 19 year old Ted Nugent on guitar. Lots of people who hear this think it's the Moody Blues.

The Amboy Dukes

 

[S.W.A.I.N]

And two bonus bands/songs I forgot about. The first is from a Japanese indie-pop band called Advantage Lucy with the song "Solaris" from 1995 - how the hell my son found this I'll never know (he does have about 300K songs, mostly ripped)

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And the 2nd is from US indie band Olivia Tremor Control - the song is "Jumping Fences" from 1996. Have never gotten tired of this one.

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You have excellent taste. Lots of great picks.

 

[newell138]

The Bouncing Souls

I had a friend who liked them in HS, but I never took an interest to their music.
We saw them recently in Asbury and it was a fun time.


The Stone Pony has some awesome bands scheduled. 🤘

Seeing any live music in that type of atmosphere is always a good time. I have never liked jazz music but Friday night we were at a place in Cape May and they had a jazz band playing and it was really good. Being drunk also helps

 

[RUGuitarMan]

Seeing any live music in that type of atmosphere is always a good time. I have never liked jazz music but Friday night we were at a place in Cape May and they had a jazz band playing and it was really good. Being drunk also helps

I’ve always kind of flirted with being a fan of jazz. I’ve listened on and off since I was young. It was more of a change of pace or diversion for me. In recent years I find myself listening more and more. As you get more into it , it gets kind of hypnotic. There are a lot of different types of jazz, but John Coltrane’s quartet is as good as it gets:

 

[ldwnmas]

Neutral Milk Hotel (US band) - "Holland, 1945 (1998)" - many in the indie rock world call their 1998 album the most important indie rock album ever made, but more than a few hate it, probably just being contrarian. They never made another album, but did do a reunion tour in 2013 and I got to take my son and a few of his friends to their show at Prospect Park in Brooklyn (they were 18 and I was their hero for that, lol).

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The Black Lips (US band) - "Bad Kids" (2007) - this garage/punk band is one of my son's favorites and when he turned 21 and could legally drink, I took him to a show of theirs on a NYC booze cruise. We both got hammered and had a fantastic time.

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NMH’s “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” probably my fav album of all time, literally blew me away first time I heard it.

 

[colbert17]

I’ve always kind of flirted with being a fan of jazz. I’ve listened on and off since I was young. It was more of a change of pace or diversion for me. In recent years I find myself listening more and more. As you get more into it , it gets kind of hypnotic. There are a lot of different types of jazz, but John Coltrane’s quartet is as good as it gets:

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Another one from back in the day. Here's a different type of jazzy/funk sound for you.
post Cream/Blind Faith
Ginger Baker's Air Force. I always liked this sound.

 

[RU848789]

NMH’s “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” probably my fav album of all time, literally blew me away first time I heard it.

I'm with you - it's fantastic. But I recall being annoyed I had to find out about it in 2007 from my then 13 year old son, as I had generally been pretty well up on punk/alt/indie music from the late 70s through about the mid-90s, but with work, family and other distractions, I kind of lost touch a bit with music. It was actually pretty cool that my son was the one who led me back to new music (and missed older stuff) and we got to share that together - and my wife felt the same way.