What album/s did you discover too late?

The world of music is immense and probably it happened to discover an album... "too late"; then: what album/s would you have liked to discover long before?

My albums:

• The Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 6 by Niccolò Paganini
  
• The Ideal Crash by dEUS

 

Tons of them. Love's "Forever Changes" for example rates near the top of that list.

Edit: as others have already said below, it's never too late, and I agree. I rarely buy new music, as there's so much "old" stuff I've yet to discover for myself from Gene Clark to Wishbone Ash and everything in between and beyond.

 

Too late? None of them.

Later than I would prefer:

Love -- Forever Changes
Kinks -- Village Green PS
The Sadies -- New Seasons

for starters.

 

Jim Carroll "Catholic Boy".

I always liked the song "People Who Died" but I didn't get around to hearing the whole LP until earlier this year. Great album.

 

It's never too late.

 

One day it will be too late.

 

All of Laura Nyro's albums!

 

In college, I always hated Jackson Browne, and thought he was a wimp. Now, that I'm an old fogey, I enjoy listening to Saturate Before Using and For Everyman.

 

What constitutes, "too late"??

 

I think the OP means something along the lines of, "Why did it take me so long to pick up on this great music?"

In my case, one example would be punk: X, Buzzcocks, Ramones and the like. Also Graham Parker and Elvis Costello.

 

On your death bed.

 

Pink Floyd and The Doors mainly because when I was in high school the people who liked them tended to be the ones I didn't get along with. I wrongly assumed that if they liked them they must be crap.

I was also pretty late to The Beatles party.

On a related note I have never heard Nirvana's Nevermind. I have and like Bleach so I must get around to checking that out.

 

You got the album but missed the tour.

 

That's what I thought he meant. For my part, I was too late for Donny Hathaway because of my age. I was 6 when he died so I didn't have a chance to see him live. That would have been amazing based on the live stuff he's done that I've accrued over the years.

Ed

 

Pat Metheny's Bright Size Life is one classic I wish I'd known about sooner. Wasn't until a friend lent me his copy of Song X that I really appreciated Metheny's playing; up to then I only wanted it for the Ornette Coleman.

 

On that basis, my biggest regret was not being old enough to see Bob Marley & The Wailers promote the 'Natty Dread' album. Imagine what it must have been like to witness 'No Woman No Cry' at that Lyceum concert - a totally captivated audience on a hot summer night back in 1975.

 

Scott S. likes this.

 

Been there a couple of times. Keep getting up.

 

I discovered pretty much every album I own too late because I like very little modern music, I was born in 1998, and I didn't really get into music other than game OSTs until several years ago. The only album I can think of that I didn't discover too late was Syro by Aphex Twin. I got it and listened to it on release day.

 

Black Widow - Sacrifice. I would have loved this album back in the 80's.

 

Too late?? Never is late to discover music...

 

I was born in 1966.......so I'm too late for everything.

 

Alice Cooper - Pretties For You
Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come

 

Eberhard Weber - The Colours Of Chloe (1973)

Didn't discover until 3 or so years ago.