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Daft Punk. Discovered them too late to go to an actual concert.

And same with Caravan Palace. Loved the original ensemble and style, the spirit of their concerts. The current getup is nice too, but with different vocalist and a few other band member changes, it's just not the same...

Consider the Following

Big Country - Influenced your favorite band, bagpipe guitars, google it.

They Might be Giants - Not JUST a fun jokey band, just mostly one. Some of their songs are lyrically and musically brilliant tho despite the light tone.

The Menzingers - A lighter hardcore band with a southern rock vibe that puts out really heartfelt and just awesome stuff.

I found Royal Republic way too late in my life

Bear vs. Shark.

By the time I discovered them, they had already broken up. Very short lived band that apparently put on great live shows.

ETA: not sure if this is the kind of answer you were looking for, but it's the first thing that popped in my head.

Stevie Ray Vaughan.... a week before he died :(

SOPHIE. They died like a month after I found their stuff. Hell of a producer.

The Gits - I was huge into grunge and punk in the 90s, I have no idea how I missed them. Unfortunately, their singer Mia Zapata was murdered.

They only have two albums but they are both zero skips for me.

Amy Winehouse.

Musical tastes change over your lifetime too, so what was cool when you were a teenager might become cringe later on in life, and vice versa.

And even later on, the things that became cringe might make a comeback and become cool again.

As a broad category, 70s Disco is a great example of that. The Bee Gees, Donna Summer, ABBA, etc etc. were overplayed, but it was popular music because it was good.

60s and 70s soul samples become the foundations for new rap and dance tracks.

I love Judy Collins, Mary Hopkins, Harry Belafonte and other late 60s and 70s vocalists even though they were big before I was born.

The herbalizer. Discovered them after they already broke up

Deadsy

Oingo Boingo was done and gone like almost a decade before I became a fan. And I started out right, becoming a fan of the "Only a Lad" album before most of the rest. Never did come around to the 1994 album "Boingo," but to each their own.

Saving this post to go spelunking after it has amassed some replies. Great question! I love music exploration.

Every time I heard the band name "Daft Punk," it meant nothing to me. Toward the end of their existence I finally put the name with the music and hot damn that's good stuff.

I somewhat recently found out about an artist called Foreground Eclipse. According to the Touhou Wiki, they disbanded in 2013 and they were considered a screamo and post-hardcore metal band but because of the singers voice, they might fall under "kawaii metal" (cute metal). A good example of their music would be In A Night When Her Sorrow Resounds Around.

I recently discovered a (sub) genre too late - Riot Grrrl music. Bikini Kill is one of the founding bands.

Warren Zevon

My old roommate sucked. His favorite band was a Canadian thrash metal band called 3 Inches of Blood. I assumed they also sucked. Many years later I actually listened to them and they're amazing. In the meantime they had broken up.

Happy ending, though. They did a reunion show last year and I was able to go see it!

Choking Victim

The Do is so underrated. Unfortunately, they disbanded but their music is eternal.

Low. Heard Hey What and absolutely loved it, then found out that Mimi had just died. Saw Alan solo a couple years later at a festival, and you could still really feel his grief in his voice.

Nirvana. It hit me hard ten years later.

Skitliv. Big fan of the 'Maniac' era in Mayhem (Wolfs lair, Grand declaration, Chimera) then one day I learn that Maniac is vocalist in Skitliv. However I'm to late to the party so no live concert's or anything 😡

There is this really funky band called mating ritual, and I got really into their music over the past year. After awhile I started to wonder if they were touring, and found out that they had just wrapped up their 'goodbye forever' tour, including a show in my city a couple months ago.

Rush. I had heard the occasional song, but it never really stuck.

Then a few years ago, I listened to a full album. Then another. Now I'm a huge Rush fan (and my spouse is sooo tired of hearing them).

I got tickets to see them play next year.

Toots Hibbert (and the Maytals). He died in 2020. I would never have been able to enjoy his music before then anyway so.... there's always the recordings. My morning playlist is almost all Toots

• Get up stand up
• Spiritual healing
• Reggae got soul
• Beautiful woman
• Broadway jungle
• etc..

Company of Thieves

The Vincent Black Shadow. They only put out a couple albums, but they were absolutely fantastic.

I discovered Jeff Buckley just after he toured Australia. I was looking forward to his next tour, then he died. 😥

As a tween I, for some unknown reason, decided that I liked Nirvana and therefore didn't like Pearl Jam. It wasn't until I was much older that I realised that was silly and I could like both if I wanted.

The Graduate

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. If there was ever a voice of love and peace, it was a giant of a man with a giant's heart. If I could bring one musician back from the dead, it would be the Hawaiian avatar of humankind's best qualities.

But there may be a worthy successor to his voice.

Nightmare boyzzz from Alabama. Moved to the south 10 years too late! Awesome punk rock.