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). _________________ <(: @ :)>
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 😜
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 . 😁
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 . :D
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). _________________ <(: @ :)>
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
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. _________________ <(: @ :)>
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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