best band that should have been more popular but.....
a variation of the other thread....i was thinking of great bands that either didn't catch on, die too soon or were ahead of their time....
The Gang of Four....should have blown up but didn't
these two did well, but should have been constant multi-million record sellers:
The Buzzcocks
The Ramones
Fun bands that faded away:
The Big Boys--texas punks
The Birthday Party--young nick cave
and what ever happened to The Comsat Angels??
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The Gang of Four....should have blown up but didn't
these two did well, but should have been constant multi-million record sellers:
The Buzzcocks
The Ramones
Fun bands that faded away:
The Big Boys--texas punks
The Birthday Party--young nick cave
and what ever happened to The Comsat Angels??
g
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I think the main reason of many good bands going unoticed have been because of the death of FM radio and MTV...
Gang of Four. Good choice. But look at the survival of the "white/punk/funk" Red Hot Chilli Peppers...one of those bands that really kind of had MTV as a lifeboat for them.
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<strong>a variation of the other thread....i was thinking of great bands that either didn't catch on, die too soon or were ahead of their time....
The Gang of Four....should have blown up but didn't
these two did well, but should have been constant multi-million record sellers:
The Buzzcocks
The Ramones
Fun bands that faded away:
The Big Boys--texas punks
The Birthday Party--young nick cave
and what ever happened to The Comsat Angels??
g</strong><hr></blockquote>
All those bands were great _(someone else who actually knows about the Birthday Part!?!?!?! I was their biggest fan!!)
but the thing is is that some of thse bands were actually very counter-cultural, not mainstreamable --Gang-of-Four, fer instance, was intelligently critiquing capitalism in almost every song
and the BParty was singing about murder and death and: "our lives are nothing but boxes full of dirt
I just want to die beneath her teats
I just want to make love to my zoo-music girl!!!"
the live version on an EP called 'Drunk On The Popes Blood"
I could not imagine NSYNC doing a copy of that song . . .
the Buzzcocks are actually still making music though except the quality has become seriously hit and miss
never heard o Comsat, or the Big Boys . . .
the motors (heavy glossy power pop)
the stranglers (i think the were large in europe but never caught on in the u.s.)
gang of four (although you'd never know by all the gang of four fans in this forum)
22 brides (2 sisters that sound like a dark side of the bangles)
suicide (scary stuff, bruce's nebraska has a suicide feel)
splinter (a group beatle george produced who were good pop music)
mcguiness flint (the british "band") (meaning dylan's group)
I still hold a candle for Devo 1977- 1982. They should have been massive with their excess of ideas and riffs- way ahead of the game and outrageously good live.
Others I can think of:
Fadgadget (even Frank Tovey's post-Fad stuff was great).
The The
Thin White Rope
Tones On Tail (post-Bauhaus pre-Love & Rockets boys)
The Legendary Pink Dots (weird, but great none the less)
Alice Donut
Cop Shoot Cop (pre-Firewater...good stuff)
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The Fall - although I can't really imagine a world where the Fall could have been a genuinely popular band. Mark E Smith would have just gone on to do something that made everyone hate them if that'd happened.
The Minutemen - I guess they were pretty popular, but they deserve to be remembered for more than just the theme music to Jackass...
Trumans Water - probably the best 90s art-punk band that nobody ever seems to mention anymore. If you cloned Antennae Jimmy Semens (of the Magic Band) twice and raised the clones on a steady diet of Sonic Youth, Minor Threat, John Zorn, Sun Ra and Boredoms they might end up playing guitar like Trumans Water.
<strong>The Minutemen - I guess they were pretty popular, but they deserve to be remembered for more than just the theme music to Jackass...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Absolutely, but the main reason they couldn't go on was because D. Boon died in a car accident. That didn't help. But I don't see why they could be held up in the same ranks as Nirvana...
JUST ANOTHER SOLDIER (boon)
Over 300 dead, we still got pride
We've lost all our morals,we still got pride
Should we fight this war in some far corner of the globe
And learn how to die for some unjust cause
Is this our future?
Ashes are all that remain
It's easy when you got pride
How much pride does a dead soldier got?
His life so short,no chance to even start
The ones he left behind
The world he'll never see
But no one could deny that the soldier died with pride
...sigh. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
Second worst selling double LP ever (second only to a double Yoga LP.)
and: <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[surprised]" />
I was going to ask if anybody had gotten the chance to see Captain Beefheart live . . .
I heard some live stuff from that era, Ice Cream For Crow, it didn't seem to have the same gonzo flow as stuff like Troutmask or Mirrorman . . . but you should tell me . . . how was the show?!?
and he was there . .. hobbling around on a cane and keeping well to himself and away from anybody else
. . . . I like his paintings . . . and I do that 'art' stuff fer a living . . . if that means anything . . . <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
Also Martin Mull (Fernwood Tonight)is a good painter as well
but definitly, Sylvester Stalone's are Shiite
loved the minutemen too, and husker du
but mission of burma was the best...great live too
too bad the guitarist lost his hearing from too many iggy pop concerts when he was young...
burma should have been huge....
shit...just posted this and thought i would google mission of burma and found they have re-united after 17 years!!! hope they come to the southwest...
oh, i also enjoyed flipper
<a href="http://www.here-now.org/topics/_arts/al_020225.asp" target="_blank">burma</a>
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i think "willie the pimp" with zappa on the hot rats (my fave zappa) album is very accessible, my kids like it anyway!
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<strong>let it be noted that my signature is from trout mask replica.
i think "willie the pimp" with zappa on the hot rats (my fave zappa) album is very accessible, my kids like it anyway!
[ 02-27-2003: Message edited by: superkarate monkeydeathcar ]</strong><hr></blockquote>You never caught the Maskara Snake post I made in another thread as a responce to your sig
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fun stuff for the soul
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Rusted Root.....
only two off the top of my head....
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<strong>The Verve
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They did "Bittersweet Symphony" of course...a pretty mind blowing song.
got a brief record deal with MCA, but it just never went anywhere. great live band, had some good singles, too. but never got radio play, except for Jenny Says in '97/'98 (a good song, but a very radio-unfriendly song to say the least). they're still together, and the members do the occassional solo gig too. you can check 'em out at <a href="http://www.cowboymouth.com" target="_blank">CowboyMouth.com</a> or <a href="http://www.mercyland.com" target="_blank">Mercyland.com (a solid fan site)</a>
another good band that i discovered when my wife and i moved up here to toronto was moxy früvous, a band of street performers originally who got a radio-friendly single released, and got notoriety from '92 to '98. imagine if barenaked ladies had become activists, and you get the idea. unfortunately, they have since gone on "indefinite hiatus," as the members have pursued their own individual interests, gotten dissillusioned with the pop scene, and their lead singer jian ghomeshi is so in love with hearing himself talk that he convinced the CBC up here in canada to give him a weekly bad talk show. ugh. at least their first and third albums are worth picking up -- Bargainville and You Will Go To The Moon. they have a fan-based website called <a href="http://www.fruvous.com" target="_blank">Früvous.com</a>, but it hasn't been updated in over a year since the band went their semi-separate ways.