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Promted by my recent stumbling upon and falling in love with a band known as Explosions In The Sky, I felt the urge to make a thread, enquiring about your experiences. Have you ever listened to something for the first time and immediately known it would become a long-time favourite? Ever heard something and just thought "Yes, this I like, a lot. I'm keeping this"?

Has it happened recently? Does it happen often? Does it usually last long, or does your initial enthusiasm wear out before long? Am I asking too many questions?

It hasn't happened to me very often. All my favorite bands were ones that grew on me.

Although if you're looking for more bands along the instrumental, experimental, ambient lines, I would suggest Dakota/Dakota, Pelican, Russian Circles, Red Sparrows, and Sigur Ros.

If you like Explosions, you might like these guys.

Promted by my recent stumbling upon and falling in love with a band known as Explosions In The Sky, I felt the urge to make a thread, enquiring about your experiences. Have you ever listened to something for the first time and immediately known it would become a long-time favourite? Ever heard something and just thought "Yes, this I like, a lot. I'm keeping this"?

Has it happened recently? Does it happen often? Does it usually last long, or does your initial enthusiasm wear out before long? Am I asking too many questions?

Happens to me a lot. Mainly because last.fm is finally getting a clue as to the sort of stuff I like and recommending a lot of bands I hadn't heard of before. Just recently, I have been very impressed by the following bands on the first listen:

Callisto (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=9jbpZtE-Zm8)(sort of post-rock meets doom metal, with occasional random saxophone - avoid if you can't take occasional shouty-vocal bits)
Maybeshewill (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ThbjbGwdn5w)(again, a kind of post-rock/metal sort of thing, their best song "Not for want of trying" literally made my jaw drop first time I heard it)
Unexpect (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=903_BVVUbxI)(never heard any band like them, a bit of a "love them or hate them" band)
Volbeat (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=UHiMuxLnqRw)(difficult to describe - big riffs, occasionally in heavier bits sound a bit like Metallica, but most songs, particularly on new album have big choruses and think that pretty much anyone could like them)
worriedaboutsatan (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pskab63tMs)(post-rock/electronica)

Ever heard something and just thought "Yes, this I like, a lot. I'm keeping this"?

Bizet, Johann Strauss, Rossini, Tom Lehrer.

Has it happened recently?

No.

Does it happen often?

No.

Does it usually last long, or does your initial enthusiasm wear out before long?

The love is a "'till death do we part" type.

Am I asking too many questions?

If you ever stop doing so you become religious.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=NvcG1kM00Qs

Happens to me a lot. Mainly because last.fm is finally getting a clue as to the sort of stuff I like and recommending a lot of bands I hadn't heard of before. Just recently, I have been very impressed by the following bands on the first listen:

Callisto (sort of post-rock meets doom metal, with occasional random saxophone - avoid if you can't take occasional shouty-vocal bits)
Maybeshewill (again, a kind of post-rock/metal sort of thing, their best song "Not for want of trying" literally made my jaw drop first time I heard it)
Unexpect (never heard any band like them, a bit of a "love them or hate them" band)
Volbeat (difficult to describe - big riffs, occasionally in heavier bits sound a bit like Metallica, but most songs, particularly on new album have big choruses and think that pretty much anyone could like them)
worriedaboutsatan (post-rock/electronica)
I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!

Yeah, just listened to that, it was amazing.

Doesn't happen to often, can't really call Exodus "classic".

I did manage to get a cover of Terry Jacks' "Seasons In The Sun" off Limewire a few years ago. I don't know who it's by but it was instant, the moment I listened to it I knew it would be a favourite for a very long time.

Motorhead's "Whorehouse Blues" was another. Big Motorhead fan so I bound to like a lot of what Lemmy does but "Whorehouse Blues" was off in a completely different direction. I don't like it because it is a Motorhead song, but rather because it is a good song.

That has happened to me several times. But one of the most memorable was when I was 12 years old and I saw Tori Amos's "Crucify (http://www.imeem.com/julz69/music/eD9Xzcfe/tori_amos_crucify_live/)" video for the first time in The Box. I knew I would be her fan forever. And it still holds true. :D

The first time I heard Muse I knew that they would become one of my favourite bands.

Also I bought the 1st Cold War Kids album out of curiousity and loved it. I highly recommend it.

I like Bluegrass. The Brand New Strings album from Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder was a favorite from the first time I heard it, and I have a good CD from a small band called Due West entitled "These Boots" that I bought because of one song I heard on bluegrassradio.org

Priestess. Heard it for the first time, and I said to myself. "These guys are AWESOME!" Same with the first time I heard Led Zeppelin and Queen.

Doesn't happen often. The first music I heard from Icehouse...Queen...David Bowie. I love the music of many other bands, but only those grabbed me by the collar and never let go.

I've had a lot of music shared with me lately... I've fallen in love with some of it. :)

The first time I heard TMBG a few months ago, I knew I would love this band. Same for Reel Big Fish and a lot of other bands I hear. Usually it wears out but I think I will listen TMBG for years.

Maybeshewill (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ThbjbGwdn5w)(again, a kind of post-rock/metal sort of thing, their best song "Not for want of trying" literally made my jaw drop first time I heard it)

When I saw this thread I was going to mention that song. When I read the OP I nearly went for the quote button straight away to mention it. And you beat me to it. You bastard.

I love you.

It's immense, isn't it? Makes me feel tingly when I listen to it. They refused to play it when I went to see them a couple weeks ago, interestingly enough.

Anyway, back to the OP...

Yeah, 65daysofstatic did it for me. Went to see them in Feb 2005 on a tiny stage above a crap pub, was totally flabbergastingly blown away by them, promptly bought their album (The Fall of Math) and it didn't leave my stereo for six months. That's not even hyperbole. You know that first time you hear a new album, and you can never quite recreate that feeling? I can, every time I hear the start of the first track on there. And if you like the bands recommended in the first two replies here, you will like 65. Guaranteed.

Should probably also recommend Isis and Jesu...and Gravetemple, Einstellung, Mogwai, SunnO))) and dozens of others that would have you sitting slack-jawed at your computer for hours on end. :tongue:

If anybody's into metal, find Korpiklaani... and try to top that. Brilliant.

If anybody's into metal, find Korpiklaani... and try to top that. Brilliant.

More of a Finntroll man myself...

When I saw this thread I was going to mention that song. When I read the OP I nearly went for the quote button straight away to mention it. And you beat me to it. You bastard.

I love you.

It's immense, isn't it? Makes me feel tingly when I listen to it. They refused to play it when I went to see them a couple weeks ago, interestingly enough.

Anyway, back to the OP...

Yeah, 65daysofstatic did it for me. Went to see them in Feb 2005 on a tiny stage above a crap pub, was totally flabbergastingly blown away by them, promptly bought their album (The Fall of Math) and it didn't leave my stereo for six months. That's not even hyperbole. You know that first time you hear a new album, and you can never quite recreate that feeling? I can, every time I hear the start of the first track on there. And if you like the bands recommended in the first two replies here, you will like 65. Guaranteed.

Should probably also recommend Isis and Jesu...and Gravetemple, Einstellung, Mogwai, SunnO))) and dozens of others that would have you sitting slack-jawed at your computer for hours on end.

I've seen 65 in your sig for a while now, and I've been meaning to listen to them, but I have the cruddiest internet ever, so I can't really even go to lastfm and listen to them there. It'll chew through my downloads too quick.

Oh, and I am a big fan of Sunno))). I can thank my Canadian metalhead childhood friend turned email-pal for that :p

Black Sabbath
AC/DC

Last time it happened to me was with the Decemberists.

Last time it happened to me was with the Decemberists.

Interesting you should mention that, happened tome less than a year ago with them too. Quality band.

Interesting you should mention that, happened tome less than a year ago with them too. Quality band.

I heard them about two years ago on some station off of winamp or something of that nature... something happened and i heard them and I think it was 2 years ago... or something...

Explosions in the Sky are awesome. I have particular love for All Of a Sudden I Miss Everyone.

Go and listen to Mogwai. Start with Young Team. Then Happy Songs for Happy People. Then Rock Action. Then Mr Beast.

Not the order they were released, but the order I'd listen to them in.