re: Name Some Bands You've Come To Appreciate After The Height Of Their Popularity

Coldplay

Some of my all-time favorites were big before I was born or old enough to truly appreciate, so I'll avoid anything pre-1990:

Blind Melon - Was 13 when Shannon died. Never really listened to them past No Rain until college and just fell completely in love. When I decided to learn to play guitar, I made Change my first goal.

Sublime - Two of the biggest assholes I have ever met were huge fans, so I never game them a chance.

Strapping Young Lad - I actually almost flew to see them in Colorado on their last tour. I didn't know who they were at the time and decided against it. (I heard the name and assumed screamo ) Thankfully, Devin is still making tons of astonishing music.

The Mayan Factor - I first listened to them about a month before Ray Ray died and was instantly hooked. I had heard the name many times, but never checked it out. Damn shame. Drugs are bad, mmmkay. I see a pattern forming.

Jeff Buckley - Need not say more

Hum - I liked them back in the day, but really got hard into them about 8 years ago.

Rx Bandits - I don't see the new progressive side ever being as popular as their old ska shite, but it is much better music. I actually walked out of an Rx Bandits show back in the ska days.

Day One Symphony - Too short-lived. The last I heard, David is the only one still in the music industry and he mainly just plays in Malaysia. I haven't spoken to him in years and that makes me sad.

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Blind Melon - Was 13 when Shannon died. Never really listened to them past No Rain until college and just fell completely in love. When I decided to learn to play guitar, I made Change my first goal.

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Another one for me. I think everyone needs to give their entire catalog a listen. No Rain is a great song, but by far not the best of their stuff. Love them.

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My most recent is Steely Dan.

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I've heard several people, who are completely independent from one another, over the last few years gush about Steely Dan.

I doubt I've even heard three of their songs. I think this calls for some back-listening.*

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*I really like the concept of back-listening.** It's like if you never once watched the show Entourage until the series was over, but then several of your buddies told you it was awesome, so you netflixed every season and watched all the episodes in like three weeks. I mean, that's a way better way of viewing the show than in small increments over 8 years.

**My next three back-listening projects are Stars, Pixies, and Steely Dan.

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It's like if you never once watched the show Entourage until the series was over, but then several of your buddies told you it was awesome, so you netflixed every season and watched all the episodes in like three weeks. I mean, that's a way better way of viewing the show than in small increments over 8 years.

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I recently did this with every episode of Breaking Bad and it was awesome. I don't watch a lot of TV, but heard BB was badass for years. I watched all of em in 3 or 4 weeks on Netflix/iTunes.

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Pixies

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If you're doing back-listening on them, you're in for a great experience. Classic.

For me, the band I really came to appreciate after the height of their popularity was Modest Mouse.

I have 2 kids and during the big run up of success MM had I was listening to Radio Disney and other kid-friendly stuff. I really lost interest in new music for about 10 years as my kids were infants through about 10 years old.

Now my kids have pretty good taste in music, so that's cool.

I'd heard Ocean Breathes Salty and downloaded that plus maybe one or two additional tracks. Later once our kids became more independent and I got back into music - holy shite I had some serious back-listening/downloading with Modest Mouse.

Same with the White Stripes, who I know have been mentioned in this thread.

The Doobie Brothers
The Eagles

The Beach Boys
Squeeze
Pixies

Steely Dan was always ultra-suave. Aja is a sublime album.

You might want to revisit Supertramp, too. "Hide in Your Shell" and all that. Not as champagne as Steely Dan, but some catchy lyrics and tunes.

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Pat Benatar.

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saw her in the late 90's at HOB in nola. sounded just as good as she did on mtv in the 80's.

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Modest Mouse is another that I learned to appreciate. I find their less popular stuff is much better than the radio hits

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I could not possibly agree with you more on that point.