Artists you "discovered"

[King of Rock II]

I mean, artists you liked before they were famous.

For me, only one, Jay-Z. Ok it's not like I was the first one to pick up Reasonable Doubt when it came out but I've liked him since wishing on a star and even more since city is mine. Which weren't really huge hits over here (I think city is mine got to 36 or something on the charts) and I remember telling everyone how he was so great and nobody really cared seven years ago. Now since the blueprint and even more since the black album and his "retirement" everybody suddenly seems to agree that he's at least one of the best mc's ever.

[cj hood]

jay-z used to rap on the old Jazz records in the 80s......he was on Yo! with Jazz during a spring break episode.......jigga what?

[King of Rock II]

yeah I'm from Holland we never got Yo!

[buddmonkey]

311 back in the day I thought I was the only one from my area to appreciate their greatness...

[cj hood]

i saw 311 open up for Kiss in the '96 Reunion tour.....i wish mtv put out Yo! on dvd....i used to have them all, but my sisters taped over them......damn Care Bears!!!

[b-grrrlie]

I read a U2 gig review early winter 1980 and I resently found some old fanzine where I'd sent my best of's at the time and had U2 as #1 "Foreign band I'd like to see the most". This was in March 1980. I bought their single 11 o'clock tick tock that summer and saw them in October in London, Moonlight Club in West Hampstead. Place was packed and me and my friend had to stand on a table to see. Ian Curtis had died just a few months before and when the DJ played Love will tear us apart before the gig he turned the music down so everybody could hear the crowd sing. That's one of my most rememberable (or however its spelled) moments in my life!
Their first album Boy had come out that week and I'd bought it and got signed by all of them after the gig.
Few days later we went to Sheffield to see them at the Limit Club. Place was so small that Bono could reach the ceiling when he was standing on the monitors at the front and one of the ceiling tiles loosened!

I saw them several times between 81-83, Larry even sent me a postcard when they were in the States for the first time. Then I moved to London and missed their gig at Brixton Academy (with Waterboys supporting!) cause I was ill and then Live Aid happened....

[Rock]

The Postal Service - Give Up

I think I got it about a month or so before the Field Day Concert. I don't even know when it actually came out but I had never heard of them before..it was sort of a stab in the dark. Then months and months and months later people started talking about them and I heard some of their shit on the radio.

Sure I didn't discover them...but nobody I knew had heard about them back then.

[Documad]

I was into U2 before anyone here, but bgrrrlie's story has me beat 10 different ways. :D

I bought REM's Chronic Town right away, but they were critically acclaimed from the get go. It took about 4 more albums before any of my friends liked them though.

I liked Prince early on, but he's local, and my best friend was his #1 fan since forever. I was kind of uncomfortable at his early shows because they were too adult for me.

[Mr Films]

in 98, a friend's stepdad was playing kid rock's devil without a cause.

i liked it and bought it now knowing it had just been released like a week before.

2 years later it was certified diamond.

who knew?

i still think it's a great album.

his only great one, in fact.

[jennyb]

I have some friends that run an indie label. Back in oh... 1998 or so they got a demo tape in from a little band called At The Drive In. :eek: We all freaked over it, but the guy in charge of signing new artists didn't pick up on it. I bet he's kickin himself in the ass over that one.

And I was way into Jimmy Eat World back in the Static Prevails days. :cool: I saw them live a bunch of times in tiny clubs.

[roosta]

Goldie Lookin' Chain

i was into them when they were still just doing mp3s on their website. I made a mix CD of their stuff and passed it around my friends and shit. Now theyre on everyshow and have released a proper CD and the joke is threatening to wear thin. We'll see what there next shit is like

[Parkey]

Boards of Canada, Badly Drawn Boy, DJ Shadow. They'll do for now.

[synch]

yeah I'm from Holland we never got Yo!
Not true. Ed Lover and Dr Dre, watched them all the time man :)

[sethomas]

Beethoven.

[King of Rock II]

Not true. Ed Lover and Dr Dre, watched them all the time man :)

my mistake. i didn't have mtv period in my city until 94 or 95.

also, I turend 6 three days before the end of the 80's. so i don't think i would have cared bout it at that time.

[cosmo105]

Rilo Kiley
Rooney
Something Corporate (not that they're all that great or anything)

too many others to list - that's what happens when you're on the indie kid scene. oh how i miss those days.

[BOBBY DIGITAL]

Probably every hardcore band that now has twelve year old girls wearing their T shirts. :mad:

[LOBSTER PRIZE!]

probably every indie rap group that has 12 year old boys wearing their T shirts