#21

Blackstar was the first David Bowie album I bought.

Only got into Laura Marling on her last album (her 6th/7th?)

MBDTF was the first Kanye album I got, does that count? Also, Lemonade was my first Beyoncé album if that’s of interest

#22

Converge - only really like You Fail Me onwards

don’t @ me

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#23

Swans is the most recent, only got into them last year via The Seer and To Be Kind. When I heard White Light From The Mouth of Infinity I realised the 23 year old me in 1991 would have bloody loved it!

Songs:Ohia, never heard a note of any Jason Molina stuff until after he’d died. Pretty much the same situation with Elliot Smith, I’d heard one or two things but never fully investigated until after his death.

#24

First Fall-related thing I got into was the Von Südenfed album. Didn’t really investigate anything else until starting on the 80s stuff a few years later though.

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#25

That Von Südenfed album is really great

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#26

Started listening to Sleater-Kinney because of a beaten up copy of The Woods I found in Flashback Records in Islington.

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#27

Great place to start and work back from.

#28

I checked them out due to the buzz about their kind of reunion. Was a serious 'how did I miss these ’ moment.

#29

Talking Heads

Stop Making Sense was incredible and led me to get the album the tour was promoting, Speaking in Tongues. That made me think they were great at doing big pop bangers, and True Stories and Naked didn’t dissuade me. It was only later that I went back and listened to the earlier work which all seems so different. They’re like two different bands entirely.

#30

Only discovered Santigold with 2016’s “99 Cents”. It didn’t take me long to check out the earlier stuff though. All very good.

#31

Swans, I only got into around My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky and possibly because they were quite extensively discussed on DiS at the time.

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#32

I started with The Seer. Loved it so explored everything else. Love most of what they’ve done.

#33

I remember being in a record shop nearly twenty years ago and this guy who worked there was trying to get me to buy Didn’t It Rain. I listened to a minute or so and said it wasn’t my cup of tea.

Cut to 2018 and I obsessively collect molina stuff and he’s right up there as my favourite songwriter. Wish I had listened to that guy.

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#34

Aye, The Woods (or more specifically, Modern Girl) was my starting point with Sleater Kinney. Was one of those Rough Trade Counter Culture compilations

#35

Mark Kozelek. I like Sun Kil Moon a lot, particularly the stuff from Benji onwards. I remember hearing the Red House Painters music back in the 90s and it didn’t really grab me. When I first heard Sun Kil Moon I didn’t realise it was the same guy, so I went back and checked out RHP again and was surprised to discover…I didn’t like it. Does anyone else feel the same way? They’re almost like two completely different bands (although you can tell it’s the same singer of course).

#36

Linkin Park I got into with the A Thousand Suns album, I already knew some of their songs before then, such as Numb/Encore but hadn’t proper gotten into them. I soon fell in love with the band and explored their discography and I’ve been following them since 2010.

I was so shooked and saddened with what happened to Chester last year :frowning:

#37

Absolutely this. I think my first introduction to Red House Painters was the track Medicine Bottle, it sort of sounded like proto-A Perfect Circle without any of the heavy parts.

Have since come to appreciate a lot of RHP stuff but aye, completely different to his folky acoustic stuff that grabbed me in the first instance.