Well yea I would say Prince too because I wasn't always a fan...just became one a couple of years ago and I was like why did I not know this man exists..I mean knew he did but I really never paid any attention to him. And now it's like overload trying to get my hands on every single thing related to him.

A couple of months ago I discovered Betty Davis. She wasn't huge but man she was a complete bad-ass.

I love discovering artists I've never heard of. There are so many good ones that never hit the mainstream.

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lavender1983 said:

Well yea I would say Prince too because I wasn't always a fan...just became one a couple of years ago and I was like why did I not know this man exists..I mean knew he did but I really never paid any attention to him. And now it's like overload trying to get my hands on every single thing related to him.

A couple of months ago I discovered Betty Davis. She wasn't huge but man she was a complete bad-ass.

I love discovering artists I've never heard of. There are so many good ones that never hit the mainstream.

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I suppose Betty Davis could apply to me as well since I only discovered her when her albums got remastered and rereleased.

Timmy84 said:

Alej said:

Prince

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Nah but seriously I just realize how mind blowing some of his more adventurous stuff is. And the extended mixes of his hits...

Well, I started listening to his music in 2005

Alej said:

Timmy84 said:

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Nah but seriously I just realize how mind blowing some of his more adventurous stuff is. And the extended mixes of his hits...

Well, I started listening to his music in 2005

Oh OK.

Until last year, Amy Winehouse.

sextonseven said:

lavender1983 said:

Well yea I would say Prince too because I wasn't always a fan...just became one a couple of years ago and I was like why did I not know this man exists..I mean knew he did but I really never paid any attention to him. And now it's like overload trying to get my hands on every single thing related to him.

A couple of months ago I discovered Betty Davis. She wasn't huge but man she was a complete bad-ass.

I love discovering artists I've never heard of. There are so many good ones that never hit the mainstream.

[Edited 6/3/11 11:07am]

I suppose Betty Davis could apply to me as well since I only discovered her when her albums got remastered and rereleased.

^ Yup, same here--brand new to Betty Davis. Now, Prince I stopped listening to in '96 but I've "rediscovered" him in recent years to my listening pleasure.

Graycap23 said:

I wish I could discover a new artist.

I discover new ones all the time! You gotta just get out of the mainstream..

My newest... Fitz and the Tantrums... LOVEEEEE them!

I prolly only know about 3 U2 songs.

Lammastide said:

novabrkr said:

You should.

Interesting you would bring up the whole prog rock scene. Are you into Traffic? I just got their entire discography not long ago after having sloughed them off for years.

No, actually, I don't think I've ever heard a single Traffic record. Another one to check out then.

Radiohead.

StillDirrty said:

Radiohead.

yes radiohead ...i have only recently bought almost everything they have done...i had '' ok computer '' from the 90s and i thought it was a great album but they lost me with kid a...but i recently started listening to them again and the new album ...i discovered what a great album '' in rainbows'' is...not all their stuff works for me but they are adventurous musically and thats what i like...

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and david bowie is indeed the 70s version of prince in the 80s...

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blackbob said:

StillDirrty said:

Radiohead.

yes radiohead ...i have only recently bought almost everything they have done...i had '' ok computer '' from the 90s and i thought it was a great album but they lost me with kid a...but i recently started listening to them again and the new album ...i discovered what a great album '' in rainbows'' is...not all their stuff works for me but they are adventurous musically and thats what i like...

.

and david bowie is indeed the 70s version of prince in the 80s...

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StillDirrty said:

Radiohead.

I agree. I got into them around the time 'Kid A' first came out & loved that album so much I bought everything they did before, & everything they've done since....

I don't know if anyone here listens to "The Brazilian Girls", but if you don't, you might want to check them out! They're highly slept on imo......

HamsterHuey said:

Graycap23 said:

I wish I could discover a new artist.

Chad VanGaalen

Tom Vek

Yellow Ostrich

13&God

Hauschka

In Flagranti

Malachai

Bill Callahan

Roommate

Conquering Animal Sounds

Colin Stetson

You youtube them yourself?

These are my favest new discoveries.

Planningtorock's "W"