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slainte 😀 rob
I really need to get my soundcard sorted to contribute to this thread properly.
HOWEVER, why do I never hear/see other people talking about these guys? Fast and slightly wild sort of blues-jazz-psycadelic (I hesitate to use the term 'psycadelic' cos it can just mean 'painfully cliche' but the guitarist does a pretty credible hendrix impression live)
One review described them as being a bit derivative, but by the time it has listed about 10 different influences I think it had undermined its own point...
The Monks are doing OK, one or two film soundtracks, a couple of compilations (Optimo and Espacio) and a movie of their very own that I saw in the cinema 8)
Rustymac, Gomez did (by my count) one more worthwhile album (In Your Gun, much the same vein as Bring it On and Liquid Skin).
SONA FARIQ we're pretty damn good in my book, only one album, supported some big names, are no more.
...actually, having written that I'm reminded that there's a White Denim tune on a Persil advert, d'oh!
There's also Mr Soft and Sub Sub. Wonder what happened to them.
Oh, wait:
Third Eye Blind
Zolof the rock and roll destroyer
Vertical Horizon
+1 for grant Lee buffalo also Grand Drive, great bands.
Shed 7 on the other hand.......
Electric Soft Parade - Their debut album Holes in the Wall mas Mecury nominated, but they seemed to disappear. Empty at the End and Bitting the Soles of my Feet are brilliant tracks.
JJ72 - Good debut, only made one more then split up.
Live - underrated American alternative rock band. Throwing Copper is one of my favourite albums.
+JJ72 and ESP
RIP Bert;
Sticky Filth
Cosmic Psychos
Sprung Monkey
Weddings, Parties, Anything
Toy Love
Headless Chickens
Muttonbirds
Hello Sailor
and Holy Toledos
British Sea Power - Excellent live and liked the album "the Decline of British Sea Power" lots
An Irish band called the Stunning, made it to the outer reaches of the charts here but deserved more.
+1 The Chameleons
The March Violets
The Mighty Lemon Drops
+1 Creaming Jesus
+1 Curve
Bad Brains
24-7 Spyz
Loop
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Eugenius
Buffalo Tom
Another +1 for Grant Lee Buffalo. Mighty Joe Moon was an amazing album!
I would also add Joseph Arthur to that list.
have we done shed 7?
23 Jewels (early 80s Nottingham)
That Petrol Emotion
+1 for Curve
+ MANY for Shearwater - Been a bit obsessive about them for the last 3 years.
RIP Bert;
Indeed, just heard on my way to work 🙁
Didn't really like Pentangle much, but he's got a pretty serious claim for most influential British guitarist.
Got a massive blister on my finger from hacking out Anji last night - that clips got some lovely variation licks over the Davey Graham version I know.
Curve
Ride
Sugar
Gene
I had a few acts in mind when I saw the title of this thread and I'm surprised to see that (I think) none of them have been mentioned...
1. The Jazz Butcher
4. The Pastels
5. Spacemen 3
6. Galaxie 500
Anyone mentioned Therapy? yet?
If not - Therapy?.
Bands I never listen to now cos' (but are still going) I think they've lost it..
Matchbox20
Counting Crows
Bands/Artists I listen to but hope they'll return to former glory:
John Mellencamp
Stone Roses underrated/forgotten? Not in my house!
Another one... the Zutons. Brilliant band.
qwerty - MemberSONA FARIQ we're pretty damn good in my book, only one album, supported some big names, are no more.
I've been playing that album a lot a work lately! And only last sunday was drunkenly opining to the housemate that kasabian sound like a lesser descendent of them - less groove and less kick. Should've been big.
Another plus one for Hundred Reasons too - they may have been my first proper gig.
Future Of The Left continue to be nowhere near as loved as they should be - seemed to be playing smaller venues than normal last time they wandered past - and that's a shame. Same goes for The Computers, still doing the same support slots they were three years ago when i first saw them.
I'm surprised this bunch weren't championed more during those recent post-punk retrospective years (unless they were, and i wasn't paying attention)
@ Tazzymtb - Godflesh got a half-arsed mention in the Home Of Metal exhibitions they've had 'round Brum and the Black Country lately. Important enough to feature on the commemorative artwork/tea-towel
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but not enough to get any display that i noticed (Napalm Death felt a little swept into the background too) save for a couple of quotes from musicians they inspired.
Some Bands I loved but never get a mention now:
Man
Greenslade
Steve Hillage
Could go on but these were particular favorites before I realised that punk was the way forward. Still secretly loved a lot of prog rock though.
The Soup Dragons
Teenage Fanclub
Mega City Four
Pop Will Eat Itself
Adult Net
Birdhouse
Big Audio Dynamite
Bomb the Bass
Electronic
All made a few good tunes. Gone, but not necessarily forgotten (cos I'm remembering them now).
Poppies were ace, especially Dos Dedos. Cracking album.
Teenage Fanclub still going Mike, and still turning out the good stuff. Side project 'Jonny' are worth checking out too.
PWEI are touring at the moment I think - back to their grimy indie club roots, I was going to go to Oxford to see them but I have to fly out @ 04:00 the next morning and be half awake when I get to the site 🙁
Pimpmaster Jazz - do you enjoy PWEI or Lionel Ritchie more?
Anyone mentioned Senseless Things?
do you enjoy PWEI or Lionel Ritchie more?
I like Lionel when I'm sad. 😉
Some good calls so far (Galaxie 500, Bert Jansch, Therapy?) but has anyone mentioned Chavez yet?
Underrated, and not sure I know anyone else who owns either of their records.
Andy
I was going to get Poppies tickets but then discovered it's just one of them resurrecting the name, which put me off tbh. Sad I never saw them back in the day...
Anybody mentioned The Chameleons? One of THE great under-rated manchester bands!
THE THE....infected greatest album of the eighties
Nenah Cherry......brilliant
John Foxx.........underpass
Ultravox.........new romantics brillance
Hothouse Flowers.......first album
The Pale Fountains.......
Cocteau Twins......
Neds Atomic Dustbin.........
The Beat........took ska to usa
Gone but not forgetten
Ian Drury and the blockheads...legend and father of Grime
Mike-at-dialled-bikes, along with PWEI, B.A.D. toured a couple of months ago. A collegue at work saw them at the Cheese And Grain in Frome. He's a huge fan of The Clash too.
A local band who have just released their second album are starting to pick up some attention; Kill It Kid, from Bath. Really very good band indeed, very underrated at the mo'.
+1 for Jesu
+1 for Mansun
+1 for Spacemen 3
+1 for Grant Lee Buffalo
+1 for Add n to (x)
+1 for Blyth Power
+1 for British Sea Power
+1 for The Beat Band
+1 for Sikth
and if I may add my own
Dawn Of The Replicants
Grandaddy
Black Bonzo
Evil Scarecrow (absolute hoot live, wish I knew how to post vids on this thing)
The Olivia Tremor Control
Creedle
Porcupine Tree (not so much underrated as under appreciated)
Ulver (ditto)
Clutch (ditto)
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
Quasi
Beehoover
I could keep going but trust me when I say they are worth seeking out for a listen. 🙂
Shame on you all.
Not a single mention for The Blue Nile.
The Church. Loved them from the first hearing on the OGWT pick of the year in oh, god, 1981? , still innovating even today. Here's one of many I could've chosen.
always preferred theatre of hate over spear of destiny
these chaps are ace
What about Airhead and their album Boing?
'Funny how the girls I fall in love with never fancy me,
Funny how the ones I don't, do...'
Only got it on tape, would love it on CD...
Mr SBrock count me in on The Chameleons but you must check out Live In The Hothouse by The Sound.
They really should have taken U2's place in history.
The Skids were also so much more than Into The Valley.
ooppss Forgot,HOUSE OF LOVE
Gone but can't forget this