I am 100% sure that this was already a thread. Anyway I am 15 and I first heard AnCo when I was 13 due to someone I knew being a fan. But I hated them at first, it just sounded like a bunch of random noise. Then, I year later I remembered them and I listened to Bluish which I was not really into at first until I read the lyrics. Then, once I realized all of the lyrics were of that caliber of beauty. I fell in love. It was a long process though. At first many of the songs sounded terrible ("The Bees" for instance.Their music scared me. ALOT. Now all they cloud my headspace.
The Purple Bottle, hence the username. was around five years ago. when my brother and I both lived with my parents his best friend that lived down the road was an AC fanatic. I always heard the tunes they had goin in the basement when they'd play video games. I thought it was really messy at first, but that was just the first listen. I didn't get heavily into them like I am now up until 3 years ago though.
I heard in the flowers. I saw this trippy looking album at best buy and when I saw it for free at a library I couldn't pass up the opurtunity to listen.
I discovered AC through review sites, they had really high scores, and pretty much everybody was going on about them so I thought I'd give them a try. Pretty lame story, I know... Most of my favourite albums I discovered on my own though. I think the first AnCo song I heard was "Fireworks" through youtube, but I'm not sure.
My very strange best friend swiped my zune because he liked design of the zune software and wanted an excuse to use it and he put a bunch of random stuff on it he thought i might be interested in; this included some indie playlist that had I'm your eagle kisser on it. i never, ever made it past that song on the playlist...
I actually started with Panda Bear's Person Pitch. My mate's girl friend brought it over a few summers ago; we were having a beer and BBQ afternoon and it was so perfect. I hammered it for months before Wikipedia-ing Panda Bear and knowing the existence of AC. Found AC on Spotify and haven't looked back.
Tikey, repeat threads were a big deal when they were easier to track. You'd get the stories of people who no longer post. New threads almost erase the footsteps of the previous posters..whse posts coukd make a difference in your, yes YOUR life. NOT HARSHING ON THY MELLOW SIR just explaining why resurrecting threads is GOOD and HEALTHY.
Grass would be a great song to first hear, some newcomers on here half to say "My Girls" was are first song, including me and basically anyone I know personally. Luckily you were into before they got big, yay.