Bands that you never knew where the masterminds behind a really famous song.
 

Weve all been there, that one famous song you have known for years - maybe a childhood song that your mum or dad used to listen to whilst you were growing up?

And one day, you hear that very song on the radio, and when the DJ announces the Artist you gasp in amazement because you neever knew it was them.

A song i recently disocovered via this method was Black Eyed Boy by Texas.

What's your's????

Baba O'Riley for me. I never realised it was The Who until it was mentioned by the DJ on my local radio station one day. I loved Baba but I never realised it was the Who. Before this I didn't really know much about The Who and I ignored their work, but now having actually listened to their albums they have to be in my top 3 bands of all time.

Everclear - Santa Monica
Collective Soul - December

remember really liking and hearing them a lot and only discovered what they were 5 or 6 years after I first heard them

Great idea for a thread, I thought... It's tough as my memory is cloudy at the moment...

The Beatles - Act Naturally

A long time ago before I knew anything about music really, I had no idea that a lot of awesome songs (Hey Jude, All You Need is Love, etc) were by The Beatles. My discovery is this fact is what initially got me into them and into good music in general.

AdamBentley, you'd love my local radio station lol.
They love a cheeky bit of Texas.

To answer your question, Beds are Burning by Midnight Oil

my dad used to play two songs repetitively in my infancy

they're permanently ingrained into my subconscious

found out in the 80s that they were Tommy James & The Shondells' Mony Mony and The Loving Spoonful's Summer in the City (which my dad used as a tester for sound systems back in the day, for some reason)