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Charicature
Age: 50
Location: Vermont 
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- Posted: 06/23/2010 15:02
- Post subject: Music you thought was new to you...but wasn't
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Figured I'd make a topic out of this.
I was just listening to several Kraftwerk albums, thinking I've never heard them before, might as well give them a shot.
Surprisingly found I'm familiar with four or five of their songs. The Model, Radio Activity, Trans-Europe Express, and possibly Autobahn and at least a sample from It's More Fun To Compute. I never would have realized I'd ever been exposed to Kraftwerk at all before, let alone quite this many individual songs. I can't even tell where I've heard them.
Another recent example was listening to Yoshimi by the Flaming Lips - I didn't know they sang the "Do You Realize" song that's clipped in some commercial I was seeing all the time a few years ago.
Anyone else have this experience of listening to what you think will be completely new only to find out it isn't really?
EDIT: just to clarify...I'd heard OF these bands, of course...just hadn't listened to their music that I knew of (with the exception of one terrible Flaming Lips single from 1993 or so).
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SquishypuffDave
Gender: Male
Age: 34
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- Posted: 06/23/2010 15:24
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I guess it's foolish of me not to have expected to have heard them before, but a whole bunch of songs off Led Zeppelin IV.
Don't Panic from Parachutes, Rhubarb from Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2, Teardrop from Mezzanine, and Wake Up from Funeral also.
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Juan Schwartz
Gender: Male
Age: 31
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- Posted: 06/23/2010 15:43
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This has happened to me a few times before. Usually with commercials. I had a similar experience with the Flaming Lips, but with the Yeah Yeah Yeah song instead. I think it was on some computer commercial or something. The same thing with Black Lips' Veni Vidi Vici in the virgin mobile commercial. Lips bands are such sell outs 
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cartoken
The Seer
Gender: Male
Age: 41
Location: Paris 
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- Posted: 06/23/2010 15:44
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this happens all the time ! but the exemple which comes to my mind is Grant Lee Buffalo, i thought i never heard of them, until i listened to Mighty Joe Moon and after some time and research realised that i've heard them in a TV show "Gilmore Girls" .... yes !!! i watch some episodes . 
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Charicature
Age: 50
Location: Vermont
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- Posted: 06/23/2010 16:30
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| cartoken wrote: | | this happens all the time ! but the exemple which comes to my mind is Grant Lee Buffalo, i thought i never heard of them, until i listened to Mighty Joe Moon and after some time and research realised that i've heard them in a TV show "Gilmore Girls" .... yes !!! i watch some episodes . |
They also played Happiness in an episode of House  But the Gilmore Girls connection is a little more easily explained - Grant-Lee Phillips had a recurring role on the show as "The Wandering Minstrel" where he often sang his solo songs. Though his versions in the show aren't as good as the studio versions (even though he's great live in concert...but for some reason he had wimpy arrangements in that show).
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Applerill
Autistic Princess <3
Gender: Female
Age: 32
Location: Chicago
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- Posted: 06/23/2010 16:36
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When I first became obsessed with the Blue Album, I was shocked to find out that Weezer also made "Beverly Hills", which I despised on Radio Disney years earlier.
Also, this is sorta different, but years before I got into Tori Amos, I had already listened to tons of other female artists that were influenced by her :p
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- Posted: 06/23/2010 19:16
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Cars by Gary Numan
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Charicature
Age: 50
Location: Vermont
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- Posted: 06/23/2010 20:38
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| an_outlaw wrote: | | Cars by Gary Numan |
I also had that Gary Numan moment back in the 90s. Jesus Jones had done a cover of We Are So Fragile for a tribute album, and since I couldn't find the tribute album I instead bought a 2-CD best-of. I'm positive I had heard Stormtrooper In Drag on the radio in the early 80s, and a couple other songs (besides Cars, which I knew I'd heard before this) seemed familiar also.
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alovesupreme
Gender: Male
Age: 36
Location: Florida
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- Posted: 06/24/2010 09:14
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The Cure, R.E.M. but most especially The Smiths were music my dad played in the car. I took all of his cd's when i was 15 and realized these were the bands i had heard for years when i was little. I just thought everyone sounded like Morissey back then until I realized it was all the same band.
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- Posted: 07/25/2010 11:44
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Maet Loaf - You took the words out of my mouth
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