Treat, hair metal rocks out
How can it be that Love Like Blood by Killing Joke isn't the national anthem.
I nearly cry everytime I hear it.
As for the Chameleons. I never get in a car without them.
The cedar room is the work of unbridled genius! And I always love Winter Hill when we're about to set off down the San Marino. Appropriate. 🙂
Have you got Lost Sides? The stuff that didn't make it onto albums is better than most bands coud dream of writing!
Nope never heard Lost Sides. Need to try and find it.
Cooper Temple Clause.
Public Image Ltd.
The Macc Lads.
Charlatans - how did oasis 'make it', but they didn't?
Teenage fanclub +1
Mc5
Ian dury
rotten - Member
Cooper Temple Clause.
[b]Public Image Ltd.[/b]
The Macc Lads.
You're kidding, right?
Blue Nile+1, teenage fanclub + 1,and. MOGWAI
🙂
The Wonder Stuff.
Not sure what Doves are doing, they have a 2-CD best of I believe, but their web site isn't giving much away gig-wise.
I Am Kloot, well, 2010 Mercury Award nominee, new album due January, all over 6Music; like Elbow, who have a hand in production, they're slow-burners, getting more and more attention.
One band, often cited as being hugely influential, but never as massive as they ought to be, are Gang Of Four.
I [i]love[/i] their stuff, but never seen them, they ought to be much bigger than they are.
Then there's Half Man Half Biscuit... 😀
Blue Nile were on RadMac on 6Music this week, they have no interest in being hugely popular.
The Wonder Stuff
Excuse me? Seriously? They were huge, until they decided to call it a day. Back together and touring, they're playing Bath Komedia next month.
Will read all this thread tomorrow as there is usually something new I will discover. But back in my youth, I always thought these would be big and they never were.
Righog, a clue would be nice, I've no idea at all who that band is.
^^^ It says in the vid, they are Krokus 😀
Edit: It seems like a long time ago......Because it was..
Oh not to forget Jane's Addiction
Kerbdog
Silver Sun
Then there's Half Man Half Biscuit...
Quite. 😀
Huuge Biscuit fan - don't think fame would change them in the slightest, but, let's face it, it's not going to happen is it?
I think as long as they can do what they do, they're happy.
Certainly seems that way from the infrequent interviews.
As to the accusations of snobbishness:
I love the music threads on here - I've found some amazing music by bands I'd never heard of before.
I think 99% of people are just trying to share the joy they get from music, whatever that music may be.
No need to get wound up because someone posts a bit of Peruvian ambient techno-folk, whatever their motives might be.
Belle and Sebastian.
Krokus appear to be a Saxon/AC/DC hybrid withour Biff Byford's talent and Young Bro's riffage! Like it though!
IMO the Doves are hugely dull, it's generic boring drivel.. I got taken along to see them in Edinburgh about ten years back and thought they were just badly rehashing early 90's Indie; a genre I quite like. In my mind they're in the same genus as ColdPlay, but with a veneer of self applied 'cool' and ultimately not that good.
danny gatton (guy was a fantastic guitarist)
therapy (fantastic band)
ozric tentacles (ok i admit that they are a very one trick pony/but i love their stuff 😀
chas n dave (nuff said 😉
Blue Aeroplanes
And amazingly that is a +1. Sometimes this place really surprises me. Can't believe someone already mentioned them.
And for something different, The Goats. Don't u derstand why that first album, which I though was a work of genius, didn't immediately make them massive.
And agree I would like to see a world where The Fall are successful but wonder if they would still be the fall if they had become part of the Mainstream. Nothing to do with snobbery - everything to do with losing the essence of what defined them.
Gong 😀
electralene. Asobi Seksu Baddies (amazing live) Joy formidable (although they will be soon)
Been listening to Talk Talk loads, amazing band
Great thing though, the huge amount of music that's out there. We should celebrate that. Just support music!! download weird stuff you've never heard of, go to gigs!
Love music
Shack + 1
The The + 1
One Dove - one album wonders from the early 90's
Janes Addiction were massive in the US when I lived there
I'm still waiting for The Jazz Butcher to be recognised as the greatest songwritey guitary person of his generation...
Penguin Cafe Orchestra must have made a mint from films and TV adverts, but why hasn't everyone bought their records?
Ride were pretty big in indie terms, but yeah I suppose they could have been like a proto-Coldplay. The pop face of shoegaze.
Stereolab are a funny one, loved them but always thought they were trying to be a cult band.
Still, it would've been cool if this had got to no 1...
the beatles
Love Stereolab but they were never going to be huge.
The Sound who I mentioned earlier, were contempories of U2 and if you had to choose at the time who was going to make it,it would have been The Sound.
Singer, not band.
Rosa.
Great voice, just too chunky too be marketable.
The Music
Should have been as big as Kasabian
Dr Feelgood
Wire
New Model Army
therapy (fantastic band)
I've seen them live a couple of times. I've never seen three men make so much noise, bloody impressive.
They're playing near me next month. Tempted.
Spear of Destiny.
The Redskins.
Both class acts and superb live, but overshadowed by U2, who were nowhere near as good live as either these two bands.
Agree with those suggesting The Music, first album was quality.
Also a bit bemused that Suede were never as big as some of the other dross that was around at the time.
House of Love and The Sundays, are both good shouts actually.
Both could be massive today now that indie has gone MOR.
Another vote for Ride from me.
My offering is Gene. I thought Olympian was great.
And another thing! Why wasn't Beulah's "When Your Heartstrings Break" the best-selling album of 1999? Why didn't I even hear about it until 10 years later?
Oceansize- should have been filling stadiums around the world IMO but never quite seemed to get there.
Ha, Silver Sun! Saw them as a support a couple of times; good, but not that great.
Emsz, I'll go with Asobi Seksu, although they have changed their style significantly, and I can sort of see why they wouldn't be that big. Saw them once, supposed to be them headlining, but got changed to them supporting 65daysofstatic. I wanted one of their t-shirts, but there was nobody looking after their merch stand, and in the end I had to persuade one of the Static's crowd to take my money on their behalf, which didn't impress me.
Neither did 65days..., for that matter, walked out after two 'songs' and went to a nearby pub. Not the best night's gig-going.
And for something different, The Goats. Don't u derstand why that first album, which I though was a work of genius, didn't immediately make them massive.
Tricks Of The Shade or another The Goats?
Close Lobsters anyone?