Who is that artist that completely speaks to you, but you completely missed it growing up?

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BulimicMosquitos@reddit

Urge Overkill. I liked the stuff they played on MTV in the early 90’s, but Saturation is in my regular rotation now.

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flash_match@reddit

Played it for my kids recently and they HATED it. They were probably my fave band in 1195.

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Worth-Mistake-9673@reddit

Damn, 1195? Are we THAT old?

Sorry your kids hated it. Maybe they're just not ready for it yet.

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supergooduser@reddit

Led Zeppelin.

I was in eighth grade, so 1992, my buddy's parents played them for me trying to be cool. They played Black Dog and I was like 'ew, they're trying to hard'

16 years later, I'm 30, I spent a week in the Adirondacks in a cabin with my friends, just stoned and drinking beer, canoeing, grilling every night, making tie dye shirts. Led Zeppelin was 100% the soundtrack and I completely "got it"

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dusktreader@reddit

Soundgarden.

It didn't click for me until I saw them live. Chris had a power in his vocals like no other performer I've ever seen. It's like seeing them live unlocked something. Now they are my favorite Grunge band.

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VauxhallandI@reddit

Sparks

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reduxrouge@reddit

This is a crazy good question! I don’t think I really have an answer though. My absolute favorite artist is Trent Reznor and I’ve loved him since 94.

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Furballprotector@reddit

Gary Numan. I only knew the Cars song but man some of his stuff is amazing.

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RussianDahl@reddit

My Chemical Romance- I wasn’t into them when they came out. I have had my awakening via my tween kiddo. We saw them live last summer and it was epic.

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rialucia@reddit

Biggie and Tupac. That is to say, I knew and enjoyed their big radio hits when I was a teenager, but I only recently started listening through their whole catalogs. What a damn shame that they were both taken down in the prime of their careers.

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MrMaryMack@reddit

Neil Young

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digitaljestin@reddit

Rush

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napalmthechild@reddit

Christopher Cross

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FoofaFighters@reddit

Yacht rock radio channel on Sxm is the shit. It's all the stuff my dad used to listen to, and as a result i grew up listening to. I mean like, songs i heard some forty years ago that i never knew the name of until now. It's so cool.

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PhTea@reddit

The Yacht Country channel is great too. Stuff like Kenny Rogers and Ronnie Millsap and the crossover stuff like Little River Band.

I'm a metal head, but Yacht Rock Radio and Yacht Country are my workday SXM channels. Good stuff.

The downside is that "Wildfire" by Michael Martin Murphey has been stuck in my head for the better part of a month. 😂

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Sanchastayswoke@reddit

The only yacht rock artist I can’t stand. He was so so so so overplayed on the radio. The rest of it is amazing & so nostalgic!

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napalmthechild@reddit

I’m not too immersed into yacht rock yet. You got any deep cuts to recommend?

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phillyrat@reddit

De La Soul

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dutch981@reddit (OP)

That guy is a legend

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omelatk@reddit

Roxette. Amazing band.

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thepatientwaiting@reddit

They were one of the first three CDs I ever purchased, along with the single to "Everything I do, I do it for you" by Bryan Adams for the Robin Hood movie, and Michael Jackson's Dangerous.

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OhTheHueManatee@reddit

Ozric Tentacles. I was in my late 30s when I discovered them. Holy shit they rocked my musical world.

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thepatientwaiting@reddit

Wowww have not heard that name in 30 years! I'll have to give them a listen, I remember being a fan.

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IndubitableMatt@reddit

I saw them open for Lenny Kravitz in the 90s. Really good show.

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Crowedsource@reddit

Tool

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-SandorClegane-@reddit

I didn't sleep on Tool for toooo long, but I sure did sleep on Puscifer. Probably the best side project I've ever listened to.

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thepatientwaiting@reddit

Same, back from '92, from the first EP! It's funny because I also really like A Perfect Circle but then only listened to Puscifer a few times. Got SUPER into Normal Isn't (will probably show up in my Spotify wrap up). Saw them when they just toured, loved listening to the new album, and they played every single song that I liked from their other albums. It was like my own personal playlist. They were a lot fun, Maynard and Carina play off each other so well.

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punky100@reddit

Deftones

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MurrayGrande@reddit

Motörhead

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comphynum@reddit

Dilated Peoples and Gang Starr

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sapient_pearwood_@reddit

Radiohead. I didn’t discover The Bends until like 2004 and I feel like there’s a huge hole in my teen years that would have been filled perfectly by Thom Yorke’s voice

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HoneyUndo@reddit

I feel like I missed the whole Fiona Apple train until my late 20s now her songs hit me like a perfectly timed emotional punch in the gut.

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dbzmah@reddit

Extrordinary Machine is such a banger album.

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CarrotJerry45@reddit

I saw her in concert the year she released this album. It was incredible. I still love her.

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Emotional_Dot_5207@reddit

Welcome. :)

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spinnnnnnnn@reddit

She's been a bad, bad girl...

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Aware_Policy_9174@reddit

Yes! I (re)discovered her about 5 years ago when I was going through a divorce. I was never into her before and I don’t know why.

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SimpleVegetable5715@reddit

I knew her songs from the radio, but there’s a bunch of good stuff that didn’t make it on the radio. My gosh she can sing and is a great lyricist. I really like “Paper Bag” and “It’s Not About Love”.

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mrnoonan81@reddit

Oscar the grouch.

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zoddie3@reddit

I somehow missed Weezer. Like, I knew "The Sweater Song" and the "Buddy Holly" video was included on my Windows 95 CD, but I didn't listen to the Blue Album until after the 90s ended.

Now I can't get enough of it. "In the Garage?" one of my favorites.

Ironically, I don't particularly care for most of their music that they released after I actually started listening to them - pretty much everything in the 21st century.

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Aware_Policy_9174@reddit

I listened to that album on repeat one summer and I actually couldn’t listen to it for a while because it would bring back strong memories of me beating out “In The Garage” alone in my room full of angst. When I finally listened to it again though it was so good.

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zoddie3@reddit

Man, I miss all of that angst.

It was terrible. But I miss it.

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BobbyGuano@reddit

“I got posters on the wall”

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zoddie3@reddit

No one hears me, no one hears me No one hears me, no one hears me

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Ok_Breakfast5425@reddit

That window cd introduced me to Weezer

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odysseyredalert@reddit

King diamond. I've always loved horror movies and books, and also love concept albums, but never heard of king diamond til a couple years ago, and became obsessed.

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Ace_Robots@reddit

John Prine. I just didn’t know how deeply real Americana spoke to me, because I had only been exposed to radio country garbage.

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ManInTheMorning@reddit

I lived in Nashville for most of the 2000s. John Prine and I had the same barber.

After a while i asked our barber to get John Prine to sign some shit for me, which he did. I was always kind of embarrassed about it because it's not really how Nashville worked at the time... You were kind of supposed to let the famous people do their shit without bothering them. It's what made it a cool place for the famous people to hang out in.

Like 2 years later I ran into him at one of the shitty bars I was working in. I interrupted him long enough to thank him for the autograph, and apologize for making his haircut weird. He remembered signing for me, remembered my name, and chatted me up for a bit about how awesome our barber was.

Dude was every bit as cool as you imagine him to be. Just a fucking old school gangster. Stone cold. Nice as hell.

They say don't meet your heroes... But I'll tell ya, John Prine was a real motherfucker.

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creddittor216@reddit

I remember seeing musicians and stars around quite a bit in the 90s/00s. The idea that locals would leave stars alone was the big draw for them to start moving here, which led to the city blowing up and turning into…what it is….today

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porkpie1028@reddit

I heard he left his Porsche to Sturgill Simpson when he passed away.

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Ace_Robots@reddit

I’m elated but not surprised by your interaction. That is so very cool.

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BobbyGuano@reddit

I was big into Nu, experimental/math metal and Hardcore in the late 90’s early 2000’s…SoAD, VoD, Snapcase, DEP, Converge etc…I somehow was completely oblivious to “Every Time I Die” for 20 years.

Fucking incredible band.

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creddittor216@reddit

The Replacements and The Jesus and Mary Chain. I’ve really gotten into them the last 10ish years

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FoofaFighters@reddit

The Hip. I knew of them but i just never saw the appeal for the longest time, and then a year or so ago it finally clicked. Gord was an amazing talent.

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit

Fleetwood Mac. Didn't exactly "grow up with them", but they were ubiquitous, and I just took that particular good music for granted. I can't get enough of it now, and I'm girl crush in love with Stevie Nicks.

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1_art_please@reddit

Same!!

They were all over the radio but I dont think i realized all those hits were them, i think because so different people whould take the lead on different songs. Like 'Songbird', ' Dreams' and ' Go Your Own Way' was the same band and I had no idea.

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theicecreamassassin@reddit

Kate Bush and Low.

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TrustAffectionate966@reddit

I was already grown up, but I totally missed Chromatics. I got into them after they disbanded.

☠️

I’m in love 😍

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adamkissing@reddit

Deftones. I wasn't a fan as a teenager, but as a 40-something year old Dad they're in my Top 5.

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Silly_Scientist_007@reddit

David Bowie

I was born in '85. But never listened to his music until my mid-to-late 20's.

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mcfetrja@reddit

ABBA

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HopelesslyHuman@reddit

I was looking for my Eurovision connection in this thread. Thank you.

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emergency-nap-911@reddit

Sitting here listening to it right now.

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bettypenney@reddit

Brian Wilson. And I regret it terribly 😢

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rallruse@reddit

Elton John

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pantheroux@reddit

The Cure. In elementary school, I only heard Lovesong and Friday I’m In Love on the radio and found them both whiny.

Fast forward to 2022. I’d been hiking all day in the cool, foggy rainforest in Vancouver Island. Was driving into town at night in the rain for dinner when ‘A Forest’ came on whatever random playlist I was listening to. It was mind blowing, and made me dive into their discography. Still don’t like Lovesong or Friday I’m In Love.

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xt0rt@reddit

Chicago, and also Peter Cetera.

Up until here recently I didn't know that the guy who did the song for The Karate Kid also fronted Chicago.

I'm now diving back through both of their catalogs.

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djsynrgy@reddit

Yeah.

Cetera gets a lot of flack from the Chicago crowd, who largely seem to prefer the Kath era. I'm the exact opposite: gimme all the Cetera tunes. 🤷🏼‍♂️

But I'm admittedly an absolute sucker for power balads. Glory of Love (the jam from Karate Kid 2) was a banger then, and it's a banger now.

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xt0rt@reddit

Ha! I didn't realize that Power of Love was from KK2. Lol I've that song!

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djsynrgy@reddit

Ehh

Two killer songs from two killer movies:

Glory of Love (Peter Cetera; Karate Kid II)
Power of Love (Huey Lewis And The News; Back To The Future)

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xt0rt@reddit

Love both Peter and Huey! Though I've always been a fan of Huey Lewis and the News.

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eat_like_snake@reddit

Soundgarden and Tool.

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locusofself@reddit

I was born in 84 and in the 90s and early 2000s it just didn’t seem cool at all to like music from the 80s. It wasn’t until I turned like late 30s before I really started to appreciate a lot of 80s bands.

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_shaftpunk@reddit

Guided By Voices.

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phillyrat@reddit

De La Soul

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porkpie1028@reddit

They dropped an album last November

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phillyrat@reddit

RIP Trugoy

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dutch981@reddit (OP)

That was high level stuff for me growing up.

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LooksLikeAWookie@reddit

David Bowie. With my musical tastes as a kid, how did I miss that? But my dad introduced me to a lot of the music from that era and he went to a stinker of a concert during Bowie’s cocain years.

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Magica78@reddit

Ronnie James Dio is my spirit guide, but nobody i knew listened to him or played any of his songs on the radio, ever.

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KayBeeToys@reddit

Basquiat

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VampireOnHoyt@reddit

Keith Haring

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EastCoastJohnny@reddit

Tom Petty. I was born in 1994 and he was more of a VH1 artist than an MTV artist growing up, but both his music and his videos were incredible watching them now as an adult. Free Fallin with the slow motion California skateboard half pipe scene may be the most 80’s Americana thing I’ve ever seen.

On the VH1 artists I was too cool for as a kid, Meatloaf was kind of cool in a completely unconventional way. He had some absolutely epic songs and videos that bordered on corny but in an endearing kind of way.

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lospotatoes@reddit

U2, the earlier stuff. I first truly listened to The Joshua Tree in my mid 20s and it hit hard as fuck.

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New_Stats@reddit

Jurassic five

I was completely and utterly oblivious to their existence until I was in my 30s

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HeywoodJaBlessMe@reddit

Elvis Costello

Hot damn those first two albums are crazy good!

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fermentedradical@reddit

Elliot Smith

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walter_grimsley@reddit

Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. I knew of them and heard a few songs as a kid. Then really dug into their catalogs during lockdown, and got way more into their music.

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dutch981@reddit (OP)

There were a lot of people in high school with those shirts. I always wanted to know what they sounded like.

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toomanyusesforaname@reddit

There is no bigger disconnect between a band's image and sound than Iron Maiden. I found their album covers and posters terrifying. What sort of infernal noise might be produced by this band named after a torture device and whose mascot is a reanimated, decaying corpse? Then you listen to it and it's basically melodic rock about the Crimean War, and Greek and Anglo Saxon history. Bunch of dorks lol.

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HeywoodJaBlessMe@reddit

Iron Maiden was face-meltingly ferocious sounding compared to most contemporaries in 1978-1982. After that people took heavy to such extremes that Maiden always felt tame.

Most of the songs are about a book or a movie. Absolutely one of the dorkiest bands in history.

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MadameLeota604@reddit

The pixies and talking heads.

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echochilde@reddit

Yes to both of those. I didn’t get into either until I was in my 20’s.

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emergency-nap-911@reddit

YES Talking Heads

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SimpleVegetable5715@reddit

Frank Black had an entire solo career and many side projects too. Passed me by.

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fakewoke247@reddit

Tears for fears

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xt0rt@reddit

For sure!

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jdw1977@reddit

Yes! Check out Brother Tiger, they covered an entire Tears for Fears album and it’s spectacular.

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Coraline1599@reddit

Peter Gabriel. I think Mercy Street and Don’t Give Up hit completely differently now than when I was in my teens.

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joshuastar@reddit

geez. don’t give up makes me cry now, if i’m in the right mood.

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ghoulthebraineater@reddit

Morphine. Heard the name but was just really into punk rock so I completely missed them.

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Natural-Fly-2722@reddit

I was lucky enough to see them before Marc died

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ghoulthebraineater@reddit

Lucky bastard. At least I got to see Kurt before he died. One of the last shows in North America. I think there was only a couple shows in Seattle before they went to Europe.

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dutch981@reddit (OP)

I really wanted to get into them

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toomanyusesforaname@reddit

PJ Harvey

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StrategyUnlikely398@reddit

Little Feat. Umphreys McGee.

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Natural-Fly-2722@reddit

Smog/Bill Callahan

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That_Skirt7522@reddit

The Jackson’s. Prince. Stephanie mills. Natalie Cole

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Chemical_Butterfly40@reddit

Morrissey

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_buffy_summers@reddit

Portishead.

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dumbass_sempervirens@reddit

Blind Melon.

I heard No Rain as a kid. Saw the video tons of times on MTV. By kid I mean up until 17. Then one night I heard the self titled album. It was like 3 days before I moved to a different state, so I couldn't ask what that band was, because I never saw that dude that I smoked weed at his house that one time again.

Like 10 years later I dated a girl and she played a CD for me, and that was the album I had kind of remembered for a decade and kept wishing I knew who the hell it was.

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dutch981@reddit (OP)

They had a really good laid back album

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