The road not taken: Things you heard that seemed interesting and might have led y ou somewhere different if you'd followed up on them at the right time.

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Spacemen 3. (I probably wouldn't be all that excited by them now, but if I'd bought one of their albums when I first became aware of them, it might have led me down a drone-ier path than the one I have followed.)

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

That "y ou" doesn't look like my sort of typo.

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

This isn't going to be a dead-end thread is it? Oh no.

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

give it time, grasshopper.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I have too short an attention span to read/try to understand the title...

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Jazz.

― frankE (frankE), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm weary whenever I think of buying "classic" albums for fear of being led somewhere I can't afford. That's why it's taken me so long to get into Beefheart & Krautrock and those sorts of paradigm-shifting classics

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I spent ages think Krautrock was a genre rather than a band. Maybe if I'd asked I would have heard them sooner.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

If I had bought a Melt Banana CD in 1996... I WOULD BE *IN* WOLF EYES.

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I spent ages think Krautrock was a genre rather than a band. Maybe if I'd asked I would have heard them sooner.

It's actually also a style of music...or so claims allmusic. I'd have to go with jazz too, or else British Invasion artists. Glad I stayed away.

I do own a Radiohead album, but it didn't pollute me.

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember being at school and thinking "This Corrosion" by the Sisters of Mercy was a classic. I didn't have money to buy the album though, and by the time I had saved up I was listening to some "Now thats what I call music" album with "Suedehead" on, and by the time I got to the local store I ended up buying "Viva Hate". A year later I was quiffed up, sat in my bedroom, feeling alone - I'm not sure which was the worse route to have taken?? :/

― Dean Birkett (Fynci), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

got invited, car ride & all, to a fugazi show in high school, 88ish, with the cool kids.

― autovac (autovac), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 06:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Back in '96 or so I used to avidly read my detroit electro mailing list emails but could never find any fucking records in my godforsaken university town, barring the odd Aux 88 ep and the like. Had I actually got a hold of a decent quantity of stuff I could have djed at far more dumb-ass shoreditch bars than I actually accomplished in my stay in London.

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 07:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Jim Nabors, Perry Como, etc.

― jack cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 07:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Went to see Jesus Lizard in 1990, still one of the best live shows I have ever seen.

― mike a, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

In 1993, at UConn, I went tape shopping. I "had" to choose between 2 of the following 3:

- Deep Six (C/Z Records ur-grunge collection)
- Liz Phair's _Exile In Guyville_
- Superchunk's _Foolish_

I chose the first two. I think it was a toss betweeen Foolish & Guyville. BUT if I had forsaken my grunge love & gone w/ Foolish...

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

But is there really a distinction between buying Foolish at a Record Express affiliate in '93 (age 18), and buying their uberlong singles / B-sides collection @ Lechmere's two years later? Is there?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

walt mink.

― cramedog, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

almost got a Fugazi record in like 1994 till someone told me that they sucked compared to minor threat

asshat!

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Disco. Heard it everywhere in the mid-70s, dug a lot of it, but never pursued it. Would have jeopardized my standing in the Young Rockist League of America. A few years later when EVERYTHING sounded like some kind of disco to my ears, it occurred to me that I'd missed it.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

for a long time (or at least maybe a couple of years) after being heavily into punk and hardcore I couldn't bring myself to listen to much music with heavily distorted and/or extremely loud guitar, having thought it all had been done (I think I was listening to a lot of college rock by this time?). So I missed out on a few things I would've naturally been into, but ended up getting into them later anyway (examples would probably be the Fall or Mudhoney perhaps).

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 03:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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