Gateway Bands

What band opened up your doors to great music that you never would have heard would it have not been for that first band that attracted your musical tastes? Coldplay was that for me and now i've really been enlightened to the fact (as hardharry once said) to work to find good music.

bands that i discovered b/c of coldplay and might possibly like more than coldplay are-

radiohead
the smiths
faultline (chris martin collaborated on this track your love means everything ) **fixed the link
doves
sigur ros'
wilco (i just got yankee foxtrot)
interpol

and many more.

what band opened up the gate for you to really appreciate music that you had no real idea existed?

 

you should go to Wilco at Ovens next Monday

 

The thing that sucks is I had to get to Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Withers through Fiona Apple. I had to get to James Brown, Parliament Funkadelic, Isley Bros. through rap samples. I got interested in the blues, and specifically BB King, because of that Standing In a Broken Phonebooth with Money In My Hand song. Being 17-19 with nothing but VH1, MTV meant that once I was finally able to do anything with alternative resources, it meant tenfold returns in actual decent music.

Finding Dave Matthews was probably what did it, though, giving me Bela Fleck, Phish, GD, and anybody any of them covered. That's the bulk of what I listen to, since each of them pushes things in different directions.

Actually, it was simply the computer that did it all. I started on mp3s in 98, before Napster, and had a couple thousand songs quickly. I've slowed at around 11,000, concentrating on other formats and live music, and there are probably things on my hard drives that I will really dig once I get around to hearing it, but chances are, it will have come and gone many years before.

 

my ex-roommate and 2 of my friends are going, but i have a class i have to teach monday night. otherwise, i would have most definitely joined them.

mags- you have 11k songs? whoa, now thats a lot. i never really got really into jazz or dmb (although i do appreciate it, just not my cup of tea).

another gateway band for me is the deftones- i heard about them on a live radiohead show simulcast in glowing terms from the voiceovers (who i never would've gotten into if it werent for coldplay).

 

Is that Wilco show not sold out?

 

nope

 

Well, I may as well go then. Maybe I'll like them if I see them live.

 

allright, though that's not what this is about.

seriously, though. I wouldn't have found 90% of this without the internet. Where I heard it, why I liked it, was just a matter of exposure.

 

in my youth, the grunge scene was something that i explored heavily. found my way to offshoots like mark lanegan's solo works, steve fisk's work with pigeonhead, which lead to an interest in shawn smith (with both satchel and brad -- which ironically lead back to the seattle grunge scene via stone gossard).

these days, i can't say i'm into any particular scene...

 

Um, I guess I like the Shins because of Scared of Chaka. I like Jets to Brazil because of Jawbreaker. I like The Jealous Sound because of Knapsack. I like Weston because of Digger.