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Favourite Artist Discovery?
MilkmanDan:
I found 65daysofstatic rocking a crowd of one drunken guy at Truck Festival in 2003. Then they got a drummer and totally sold out, but not really. The point is, they played play.nice.kids and it was so swell I wet myself all over the floor. For this reason alone Truck Festival is the best music festival ever (Except Dedbeat)
Atmosphere I got into after a friend got as much of the Lucy Ford EPs as would fit on one side of a tape off his cousin (for the record, that means we didn't have The Woman With the Tattoed Hands, which any Atmosphere fan will tell is one of their very, very best. It gained a near mythical status as the magical song we would never hear, but would probobly cure world hunger if we ever did. In the end, we heard it, and world hunger remained. Bummer) Anyway, we broke the tape from playing it too much, and then did the same with the replacement copy we made. It was crazy fresh. Then another friend went to America, and managed to find the actual album on CD in some obscure record shop. Happy days, I tell thee. You had to work for your tunes back then, none of this MP3 malarky. The youth of today, etc, etc.
Josh:
Finntroll - I just found them on this topic :) Thanks a whole bunch to KharBevNor!
Pavement - Same as above :) Thanks to everyone who mentioned them.
Deerhoof - I think there was a reference to Panda Panda Panda in a comic or a rant somewhere on QC, so I downloaded it and now I love their eccentric stlye :) Sometimes its gets a bit excessive, like in My Pal Foot Foot, but Come See The Duck is awesome.
Broken Social Scene - I read something about them in a rant, Lover's Spit in particular, and like Deerhoof, I love them now :)
Interpol - Ultra thanks to GebStar! Thanks man!
All up, thanks QC!!
Inlander:
Ugh. "Favourites". I hate saying so-and-so is my favourite band or performer or writer or whatever . . . but on the other hand I can't be bothered now listing several dozen explanations of how I got into various bands/songwriters.
So I'll tell you a really boring story about how I found out about Darren Hanlon. He's been pretty much my favourite for the last year or so. It was shortly after I moved into Fitzroy, in Melbourne, last year, and I was browsing in Polyester Records (an awesome record shop in the heart of Fitzroy). They were playing Hanlon's latest release, Little Chills, over the store's speaker-system. It was right at the end of the album, around "Brooklyn Bridge". I always keep an ear out for great lyric-writing (hence my love of Ira Gershwin - see if you can spot the reference in the first paragraph!), so when I heard Hanlon rhyme "Manhattan" with "that'n", I was a goner.
TheLoweringTide:
Does anyone remember the period during which Alternative Press magazine didn't completely suck? They used to actually cover and review a decent cross-section of the musical spectrum from indie rock to experimental electronica. Of course now they pretty much just devote entire issues to the pop-punk flavor of the week, but there was a better time...
During that time, I read a review of godspeed you black emperor's "lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven." It got a perfect 5/5 rating, contained words like "beautiful" and "haunting", and was accompanied by an intriguingly out-of-focus silhouette of the band performing. My interest was piqued. I bought the CD. I fell in love.
Trollstormur:
--- Quote from: Josh ---Finntroll - I just found them on this topic :) Thanks a whole bunch to KharBevNor!
--- End quote ---
I suggested 'em to Khar a while before he ever bothered ter listen to them. 'Course, that was a different time back then, when few had faith in me.
Anyway, if you like Finntroll may I suggest Equilibrium, Vintersorg and Midnattsol.
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