Bands you like but no one else seems to know about....

[WillParkinson]

I love the group TAPPS. They had "Runaway", "Don't Pretend To Know", "Hurricane" and "My Forbidden Lover". I heard them for the first (and really only) time during my first Gay Pride Parade in Chicago when I was 18. Went out and bought the cassette. Truly 80's music.

[AllegroRondo]

1. I Mother Earth, Wild Colonials,

among others

not many people have heard of Bela Fleck either, but I love his stuff.

[Bassic]

3. I Mother Earth?

They used to be pretty big.

[AllegroRondo]

6. No one I know had heard of them

I only found out about them because the singer did some work in a band called Victor, which was basically the guitar player from Rush doing some solo work. (Im a big Rush fan)

[ghostsofgiants]

11. I've only heard one Victor song, but I loved it...

Edwin is a pretty kickass singer.

[Bassic]

16. He is. Too bad he left I mother Earth

They do some pretty good work nowadays too, but nowhere near as high profile.

[Bassic]

17. They were pretty big in Canada about 10 years ago.

I am also a big Rush fan. In fact I'm a big prog fan altogether.

[driver8]

135. They were big in Canada -- not that big in the States, I don't think.

[sundog]

4. i mother earth had some great stuff

[ghostsofgiants]

7. IME were big in Canada during the 90s...

Great band.

[wildhorses]

20. I have seen Bela Fleck and the Flecktones but,

have you heard of a band called STIR?

[AllegroRondo]

48. Sorry, never heard of them.

When did you see Bela? The Dave Matthews tour? Darn good show.

I also saw him in around 1995, before they had the sax player, in a very tiny club. Future Man up close is unbelievable, his fingers never stop.

[MrScorpio]

50. I've got some Mother Earth

Sounds great

[Left Is Write]

83. I know Bela Fleck.

Not personally, of course, but you know what I mean. ;)

[HEyHEY]

123. IME were good until the lead singer left - then both sucked

[ghostsofgiants]

194. I thought IME's first post-Edwin album was good...

"Summertime In The Void" was a great single.

[jeff30997]

2. Barfing Peanuts.

[bif]

5. Bark Psychosis

Best band no one has ever heard of.

[tigereye]

9. what a great name!

[ghostsofgiants]

8. Protest The Hero

Whom I can't stop singing the praises of. Their new album, "Kezia," is a fucking hardcore masterpiece.

http://www.protestthehero.com

[RubyDuby in GA]

10. Portishead

I know some people know about them, but they never seemed to hit it big.
Damn they are awesome!!!

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

23. Yeah - they turn up as the incidental music

to some TV shows over here (along with Massive Attack) which is a bit odd. I also want to know what happened to that other Bristol based genius, Tricky.

[RubyDuby in GA]

25. Yes!

I love all three of those bands. What did happen to Tricky????
Time to do some research......

[MrScorpio]

51. Portishead is the bomb

Take it from me

[Gold Metal Flake]

97. Portishead IS the bomb.

There is a Portihead artist station at www.launchcast.com.

You must be familiar with Lovage, right?

[MrScorpio]

114. Damn straight

I have both the vocal and intrumental dealies

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

64. Everyone I know knows them.

[RubyDuby in GA]

67. Somehow they're not that well known

down here in bumblefuck Egypt nowhere that I call home.

[Taxloss]

177. They're hugely well known here in the UK.

I have all their albums.

[lady raven]

12. Shelleyan Orphan/ Babacar

[WeRQ4U]

13. HUM

Some hard core Illinois music fans may know who they are, but most people don't. They only had one radio "hit", but they are one of the best bands to come out of that area in a long time.

[Initech]

14. P-Funk!

I'm a big P-Funk fan but most of my friends dont even have the slightest clue who George Clinton is!

[kwassa]

22. P-Funk is a very famous band, the funkiest funk band of all

[Initech]

28. Make my funk the P-Funk!

[Rabrrrrrr]

65. George Clinton is a god!

I'm not really into funk at all, but Clinton and Parliament I can listen to for hours on end. Frickin' exciting!!

Bring down the mothership!!

Great article in the Onion a few years ago about the Mothership landing at a Hootie and the Blowfish concert.

[Initech]

128. Amen! I've seen P-Funk twice in concert over the last year!

Once was in San Diego at the newly opened House Of Blues (really - it was the second show played there), and once was in North Hollywood at the Greek Theater.

The San Diego show was WAY better, but the North Hollywood show had Bootsy Collins, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers showed up to play a couple of songs.

[driver8]

136. I saw P-Funk when I was in college...it was one of the most

unbelievable things I have ever seen or heard.

[Initech]

142. When I first saw them, they played for four hours straight.

An absolutely unbelievable show. It started at 9:00 and didnt get out until almost 1:00 AM.

[Burma Jones]

15. The Polyphonic Spree and Tone, the Guitar Ensemble

[Rabrrrrrr]

161. Is that Fripp's group, The Guitar Ensemble?

[Burma Jones]

162. Not Fripp's, a Dischord band

http://www.tone-dc.com/

[crispini]

186. The Polyphonic Spree are sooooo cool.

Went to their Christmas concert last night. Wonderful happy happy joy joy! My avatar is a pic I snapped of Tim at one of the shows. :)

[jane_pippin]

18. Sure, why not: Black Lips, Miss Alex White, King Kahn & BBQ,

There are more but these three are what I'm listening to most lately. People know about them, but those people don't seem to be on DU. ;)

[mitchum]

185. I know the Black Lips...

I watched them get banned from the 40 Watt three years ago

[jane_pippin]

Finally! I knew there had to be one person on DU who knew of them.

They got full-on banned? What the fuck did they do? When I saw them here in April the club they played was ridiculously trashed--mostly with smashed beer bottles everywhere--but that wasn't all their fault.

Do you have their new record yet? Or are you not that into them? (I'm just happy someone has heard of them).

[mitchum]

204. Trashing their gear and attempting to set the drums on fire

[jane_pippin]

187. whoa, dupe city.

[jane_pippin]

188. I don't know how that happened.

[Goblinmonger]

19. Mojo Nixon, Hayseed Dixie, Richard Cheese

If you like any of them, then you and I need to party. :toast:

[RetroLounge]

38. I've seen Mojo twice

Once in LA (With Skid Roper) in 1986 and once in Milwaukee in 1988.

He's great!

:party:

RL

[Goblinmonger]

41. I just busted out his xmas cd this week

good times. good times indeed. Listening to that again caused me to order the Prarie Home Companion cd he did with biafra (another one of my favorites, btw).

[pdx_prog]

77. poop in a jar is a damn classic!

[MN ChimpH8R]

21. Can and Van Der Graaf Generator

German and English prog bands of the 1970s, respectively. Can was Teutonic and nuts, but had an enormous influence on every adventurous style of rock that came after. They still sound futuristic thirty years later. VDGG were gothic prog with an incredibly intense vocalist in Peter Hammill, who wrote dense, highly complex and sometimes quite disturbing lyrics.

Neither band is everyone's cup of tea, for sure, but they sure do speak to me.

[HughBeaumont]

92. They're MY cup o tea, especially "Pawn Hearts"!

With what they had to work with, VDGG was one genius fucking band. No bassist . . .really, no proper guitarist either . . . just Pete with the occasional acoustic, Hugh Banton being a one-man orchestra, Dave Jackson on all the wind instruments and Guy Evans on drums. "Lemmings" is still one of my favorite prog songs with really intense lyrics for the early 70s.

[MN ChimpH8R]

95. VDGG

I got into them about the time of "Godbluff" and "Still Life" which are intense enough to scare the hair off King Kong. Haven't heard too much of the earlier stuff, but anything Peter Hammill is involved with is worth hearing. Ever heard "The Long Hello" - an instrumental album by David Jackson, Guy Evans and some Italian friends? Quirky, mellow jazzy, cool!

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

24. The Tiger Lillies

http://www.tigerlillies.com/

[Loonman]

26. Rose Tattoo

The unfamous hard rock band in Australia. AC/DC got huge, but Rose Tattoo didn't. Like The Pretty Things and the Rolling Stones.

[sakabatou]

27. The Seatbelts

The only other people that know this band are VashtheStampede and TimeChaser , as far as I know.

[NaturalHigh]

29. Kings of Leon

"Holy Roller Novocaine" is one of my favorite songs.

[tuvor]

42. I have their first CD. Love it.

Why they aren't more popular, I don't know.

[fudge stripe cookays]

46. I like "California Waiting"

I bought their first EP for that song.

[AngryAmish]

30. Run-DMC

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

62. You don't think anyone knows who RUN-DMC is?

[RandomKoolzip]

31. Wow, got a spare week or so to do some research?

The Hounds, Glass Eye, Ariel Pink, Animal Collective, Soixante Etages, Mahogany Brain, 2066 and Then, Amon Duul, Swiz, Jawbox, Chomsky, the 5UU's, Due Process, Power of Jism, Kak, Human Instinct, Hatfield and the North, Secret Affair, the Records, Cotton MAther, The Merton Parkas, Any Trouble, The Zutons, Biota, Antibablas, Crystallized Movements, Geologist, Ruins, Skullflower, Area, Secret Oyster, The Homosexuals, Josef K, Troubled Hubble, The Features, Tan As Fuck, To Live and Shave in LA, JAckie O. Motherfucker, Deadbeat, Dub trio, The Shining, Lucifer's Friend, DAF.....jeez, this is just off the top of my head, too.

[MN ChimpH8R]

34. Hatfield and the North??!!

HATFIELD AND THE NORTH?? I thought I was the only person in the US (well one of only a handful) who knew and loved this band.

Take 1000 cool points out of petty cash and give that man a lady in the balcony!

[tigereye]

69. you and Asth

are the only people who post stuff, most of which, I have never heard of.

I thank you. :)

[sweetheart]

32. playing a dholak

http://chandrakantha.com/articles/indian_music/dholak.html

I like playing music more than listening to it, or maybe "that" is my favourite
band, when i'm listening to an inner rythm and dancing that with my fingers
on to the drumskins. Its fairly large, played, by sitting with 1 leg over, to
keep it stationary. I so much love music where rythm is the lead instrument, where
timing changes and scales are no so rigidly western.

I had a drum class years back with this professional jamaican drummer. He taught me
some basic timing, as i had just gotten the drum at the time, and was so frustrated
with my body's lethargy in not playing what my mind intended. Well, so in playing
with this drummer, i had the priviledge to play rythm, to a rythm-drummers lead for
hours, and blissful and happy it is indeed when drumming is such a song singing.

[Chemical Bill]

33. It's A Beautiful Day. n/t

[RetroLounge]

37. White Bird is a great song...

I loved their first album!

:hi:

RL

[Faygo Kid]

39. White Bird. Ah yes, 1973, backpacking through Europe, afternoon sojourn.

She was blonde and tall, I recall, and after a few days of traveling together, we spent the afternoon alone with each other. Then we went our separate ways. Thanks for the memories. Magical.

[last_texas_dem]

43. I love that group

I like their debut and the album Today the most. What's funny is those two albums could practically be by two different bands. The self-titled is a trippy psych-folk-pop album, while Today (their last studio album, and lacking founder/violinist David LaFlamme) is a very catchy and upbeat, R & B-influenced seventies rock album.

[proud2BlibKansan]

45. Ah they were great

[Giant Robot]

35. Dread Zepplin anyone?

Anyone? Anyone?

[ucmike]

52. i actually heard some dread zeppelin a few times

i thought it was cool. i wouldn't go out and buy it, but i'd listen if it was on.

[Left Is Write]

36. The Mavericks, The Mavericks, The Mavericks!

Raul Malo has a voice to melt buttah. His solo stuff is good too.

[mac56]

55. a big second on the Mavericks

nm

[lcbart]

166. Yeah man - The Mavericks

Does Raul Malo sound like Roy Orbison or what ?

[MrSlayer]

40. Dew Scented

Excellent German old-school Thrash.

[LSK]

44. the Corrs

[Jamastiene]

47. Ramones & Joan Jett

I know quite a few people online know who the Ramones are, but where I live, there are like 3 or 4 of us who actually know and like their music. Joan Jett is more popular, but doesn't have tons of Billboard top ten hits, so I counted here in just to give her props. She deserves honor in the music world. She's fucking great.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

61. May I ask how old you are?

Just wonderin'

[Jamastiene]

121. 35 going on 90

I met Joan Jett when I was 16 years old. It was a blast.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

125. Ok - they're both household names - that's why I asked

[Jamastiene]

143. Now, they may be, but back when I was younger, they weren't.

Back then, I had to special order any albums of theirs that I bought. I had to go to Charlotte (100 miles away) to special order the Ramones' music and Deborah Harry's solo albums as well. Luckily, Joan Jett had the fan club for her music. No one ever knew who they were, no kidding.

[Gold Metal Flake]

98. Have you checked out the Runaways?

It's worth it.

[Jamastiene]

120. Yes, Joan Jett's voice was higher in pitch back then.

Have you noticed that?

[BobEPeru]

49. The Tossers, Boris the Sprinkler, Sloppy Seconds, Mojo Nixon..

I could go on...

[ucmike]

53. Soul Coughing.

you might have heard some of their stuff on the radio over the years, but not many people have any idea of the cool funkiness of their music.

[dpbrown]

73. Second that

I've got three CDs on my iPod.

[tjdee]

200. Third. How many cans must I stack up?

I love their first cd best (ruh roh, i think it's their first!)

Move aside and let the man go through.

[GOPisEvil]

201. Mike Doughty's solo cd is really good, too.

"Haughty Melodic" is the title.

[dpbrown]

207. I'd listen to anything he did

I'm going to have to buy that one.

[DainBramaged]

54. hellogoodbye

http://www.hellogoodbye.net/

I like power pop thanks to my kid.

[mac56]

56. Spongetones! Spongetones! Spongetones!

www.spongetones.com

[taterguy]

101. I agree n/t

[mac56]

129. Finally! Someone else who knows The Spongetones!

Taterguy, you rawk.

[southlandshari]

146. The Spongetones!

:thumbsup:

:hi:

[HuskerDU]

57. Most of my fav bands are fairly underappreciated:

Minutemen, New York Dolls, Husker Du (my screen name which most people think refers to the state of Nebraska) The Saints.

[tigereye]

68. well if it's any consolation

they weren't under or unappreciated when they were in their heyday... Most of my friends at the time were obsessed with both the Minutemen
(their shows were massively attended) and Husker DU. And when I was in college I wore the grooves out of my NY Dolls records.

And all that music still sounds really good.

[anarch]

58. The Mystreated

Only fans of obscure garage psych know of them, it seems. Good stuff!

That's actually the only band I can think of that pretty much nobody I ever talk to knows about. I guess it's all relative, though...I've been revisiting a bunch of stuff recently from the early 90's...Moonshake, Teenage Filmstars (but everybody knows about Television Personalities, right?), Lavender Faction, Moose, the Boo Radleys, Pale Saints, the Telescopes, and like that. But people know about these bands, I think...at least some people. Nobody's ever heard the damn Mystreated, and it's too bad.

[jane_pippin]

71. I've heard of them, if it makes you feel better.

Though that's not the same as knowing them, I know. We might have something by them somewhere in the collection as we are fans of obscure garage psych at our house. I'll have to check when I get home.
How about The Monks? Do you know them? (German garage-psych from the 60's)

[anarch]

88. the Monks are awesome!

:D

Glad to hear somebody else knows of the Mystreated, too.

[jane_pippin]

102. They sure are!

Putting on "Black Monk Time" and cranking "I hate you" when our boy Georgie pisses me off makes life a little eaiser to take.

And the "Hi! My name is Gary!" line cracks me up every time I hear it.

There are some newer bands around you might like if you like this stuff. One of them is the Black Lips--they're kind of noisy, but once in a while they approach psych too. (try to find the songs "Hippie Hippie Hoorah" and "Dirty Hands" if you feel like searching for mp3s). The King Kahn & BBQ Show might interest you too. They're a little jangly sounding, I guess, but they're amazing.

I'm making it my mission to get someone on DU to check these bands out. :D

[driver8]

137. I used to play "Drugs in My Pocket" all the time when I was a

college dj. I love that song.

[sundog]

59. the pretenders & frankie goes to hollywood

[Left Is Write]

84. Who?

:P

[malta blue]

60. The Samples, The Why Store n.t

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

63. Solar Radio

[swag]

75. They said "obscure," jackass.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

113. I was being ironic

Geez

[swag]

116. Sorry.

I missed your winky.

I always miss your winky.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

124. my winky misses you too

*winky*

[Rabrrrrrr]

66. Camper van Beethoven; The Ruttles; The Wallets; The Pogues.

Of course, I date myself with these offerings...

[Rambis]

70. when you pissed yourself in Frankfurt...

while bowling with skinheads, totally nude, thats totally naked. Where the hell is bill anyway? I saw one of the Wallets last shows at the M-Shop in Ames Iowa. I don't know the ruttles though-

[Rabrrrrrr]

87. The Ruttles were Niel Innes' other band, doing Beatles parodies

featured in the hit movie "Here Come the Ruttles", a total one-for-one spoof of the Beatles movie.

Though parody band really isn't a good descriptor for the Ruttles; but there isn't anything else to use.

[Oeditpus Rex]

89. Not to be a wanker or anything, Rab

But that's "Rutles," with one 't'.

Dirk, Nasty, Stig and Barry — the Pre-Fab Four.

Hey, diddle diddle
The cat and the fiddle
Piggy in the middle
Do a poo-poo

"It was the trousers."

[Rabrrrrrr]

94. Dammit! I get that wrong all the time. Pain in the butt.

Thanks for the corrective!

[Rambis]

103. Ah tnx (nm)

[Left Is Write]

80. You know THE WALLETS?

As in Totally Nude?

[Rabrrrrrr]

81. I'm totally nude... I'm totally naked!

Haven't listened to them in years, but they had a wonderful sound and energy.

A friend of mine turned me on to them; he saw them a number of times in concert, but I never got to.

[Left Is Write]

82. They're Minneapolis guys! I used to see them 20 years ago at The Uptown

in Minneapolis. They were so much fun!

I even have a record.

[Rabrrrrrr]

85. They played Madison a lot, too - that's where my friend lived at the time

(still does, actually). But, I didn't, I lived in NYC.

:-)

I'd like to get their music again - all I had were cassettes that I more than likely tossed ages ago. Small NYC apartments do not engender the packrat mentality, and I threw away hundreds of old cassettes because I needed the room. I don't regret it at all, but it does mean there are a few things I need to find again. Such as all my Camper Van Beethoven and Mojo Nixon, which were all on casette.

[Left Is Write]

86. You've made me want to put on "Totally Nude" and give it a spin.

The only downside of listening to the Wallets would be the reminder of the time spent with my X - he's the one who introduced me to the Wallets. Same thing happens when I listen to Graham Parker.

[CAcyclist]

99. Camper Van Beethoven 's Eye of Fatima

was Number one on the KROQ playlist back in the summer of 1988 and when I moved to Davis that fall to go to grad school, I was stunned that no one had heard of them - or Shona Lange, Big Audio Dynamite, Danielle Dax, Mary's Danish and a bunch of other groups that were popular on KROQ in LA and 91X in San Diego. I had to actually go out and start buying tapes.

[seemunkee]

122. Pogues are doing reunion tour.

They're playing two dates in DC.

[tsakshaug]

72. Donna the Buffalo

http://www.donnathebuffalo.com/

[Earth_First]

118. Ohhh...I love me some Donna...

they are actually playing up in Troy as the last act to play Revolution Hall before they close their doors after being strongarmed by local politicians....

[peekaloo]

126. I like 'em! They usually play New Year's Eve in the Tampa Bay area

as a benefit for the local community radio station.

[swag]

74. The Original Artists

kind of a Young Marble Giants spin-off.

The album "Barbara Manning Sings with the Original Artists" is a huge favorite.

[dpbrown]

76. The Squirrel Nut Zippers

Swing Jazz beat and some old standards and some new songs.

I've even got their Christmas Album.

http://www.snzippers.com/
http://www.google.com/musica?aid=fErmmgOWuLD&oi=musicr

They haven't done any new music for a few years, but it's all good.

[Left Is Write]

79. I love their version of "Sleigh Ride."

[Oeditpus Rex]

90. SNZ are solid, daddy-o

Right up there with Brian Setzer. :thumbsup:

Also...

Austin Lounge Lizards (who oughta be the Lounge's official band, wot?)
The Foremen (no longer together, but the best political satire group EVarrr.)
The Rev. Billy C. Wirtz
The Waybacks
Trailer Park Troubadors
The Hellecasters



Yup... I listen to KPIG. :bounce:

[taterguy]

107. Progressive too

They were the entertainment at the rally after the Shrub / Gore debate at Wake Forest

[southlandshari]

147. I love the Squirrel Nut Zippers!

Cannot listen to them without getting up to dance, even if just in my living room in old sweats with my hair in a two-day-old ponytail!

:applause:

[dpbrown]

208. The first song I ever heard from them was "Hell"

I've been hooked ever since.

:applause:

[Arugula Latte]

78. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

It's time they came out of obscurity. :evilgrin:

[cedahlia]

91. Babes in Toyland and Life of Agony

are two of my all time favorite bands. LOA has had a little mainstream success this past year, but ironically, it is with their "reunion" album (which pales in comparison to their earlier albums.) They've actually been together for more than a decade, and they broke up in the late 90's. Then they came back together these past couple years for a new album and reunion tour. I saw them live this past tour and it was the greatest show I ever experienced.

The Babes unfortunately busted in the 90's, too. But I still treasure their old stuff and when I get some more cash I'll probably buy one of their many bootleg/import CDs. Thankfully, I got to see them live back in 95 and I got to meet (and hug) their drummer Lori! :-) Ah, memories.

I'll be really (pleasantly) surprised if any fellow DUers say they like either of these bands!

[akwapez]

175. I don't know life of Agony, but Babes in Toyland were always a fav.

They were one of the bands on a Sonic Youth video that rocked.

[HughBeaumont]

93. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Kayo Dot, PFM,

Le Orme, High On Fire, Mastodon, Dillinger Escape Plan, godspeed you black emperor (well, more Canadians have heard of them), Isis, Sunn O))))), Electric Wizard, Sleep, Goatsnake.

[Gold Metal Flake]

96. The Start! More...

As mentioned, Babes in Toyland.

Blonde Redhead

Lush

Monster Magnet

Kaito

The Black Keys


The Greenhornes

The Bell Rays

Komeda

Lovage

Goldfrapp

Peaches

Bratmobile

Fu Manchu

Ikara Colt

Bowery Electric

Saint Etienne

Laika

The Distillers

Sloan (in the US at least)

Swervedriver

Swervedriver

Swervedriver

Gus Gus

Curve

Mclusky

[CAcyclist]

104. I love Lush

and I've heard the Distillers and heard of Swervedriver - I 'll have to check these bands out.

[Gold Metal Flake]

111. If you can stream audio, try my Launchcast station.

http://launch.yahoo.com/launchcast/station.asp?u=1238743841

If you get a free Yahoo email account, you can start your own. It'sa cool, because you train it to play the music you want. You can't request specific songs, but you rate up what you like, and rate down what you don't, and pretty soon you have a great station. You can also choose other stations to be influenced by. For free, there are commercials.

For me, it works out real well.

[Gold Metal Flake]

100. Forgot Electrocute. Oh, and The Mae Shi.

The 5.6.7.8's had that great sond Eddie Is A Sweet Candy.

[taterguy]

105. the dB's

Maybe it's a local thing since they're from my town but the albums they put out in the 80s are power pop masterpieces. I think they just had bad luck with record labels

[mac56]

130. Love the dBs.

"Love Is For Lovers" is a power pop classic.

[driver8]

139. I love me some dB's...check out the album that Peter Holsapple

and Chris Stamey did together called "Mavericks". You can usually find it in a bargain bin. It is excellent!!

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

167. Amplifier, baby!

[satireV]

106. Quatermass

[billyskank]

108. How can this thread have been started on the 14th?

It feels as if this thread (or one just like it) has been going since forever!

[TexasLady]

109. Kritickill, a local band here

awesome band! far as I know, they arent signed, but not sure.

http://www.kritickill.com">listen to em here

[Love Bug]

110. Coco Montoya

Blues guitarist and singer.

[Oeditpus Rex]

127. Isn't Coco the one with the really bitchin' surf medley? (n.t)

[Love Bug]

163. I don't know ....

my favorite song of his is "I can't get my ass in gear"

I can't get my ass in gear
I can't get it nowhere near
Too much wine and too much beer
I can't get my ass in gear

[NC_Nurse]

112. Elysian Fields, Joydrop, Snow Patrol

The Shins, Catatonia

[Earth_First]

115. Depends, PHISH is quite off the 'mainstream' radar screen...

but had quite a cult following.

Those were the days...

[MrScorpio]

117. Zero7, 4hero and Minus8

Boards of Canada too

[MN ChimpH8R]

119. I am diggin' that Zero 7

A most excellent choice, Mr. Scorpio. Great late nite chillin' music - lush and dreamy.

[Taxloss]

178. I love those! Do you like the Necks?

And Kruder & Dorfmeister? And Global Communication?

[MrScorpio]

206. I've been diggin on Kruder & Dorfmeister for years

The others, I don't know.

But thanks for hippin' me onto them

[Dukkha]

131. Sigur Ros!

a fairy-tale explosion of unhinged elemental majesty!
the sound of God weeping tears of gold in heaven!

http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk

[Lilith Velkor]

132. Dayglo Abortions

The first album, Feed U.S.A. Fetus, is pure '80s (punk) gold.

"Argh! Fuck! Kill!"

[seemunkee]

133. mu-ziq, Godspeed You Black Emporer, Mum, Autechre, Animal collective

My son supplies me with new bands to listen to.

[Gold Metal Flake]

149. "Blaise Bailey Finnegan III" is a great piece.

So hard to listen to that guy. Compelling.

[seemunkee]

160. That was the first piece I heard by them

Compelling is a good description.

[otohara]

134. A3 of Soprano's Fame

I like all their stuff

You woke up this morning
Got yourself a gun,
Mama always said you'd be
The Chosen One.

[Maestro]

138. For Metal...

As I Lay Dying
All That Remains
Between the Buried and Me
Cave In
Devildriver
Dimmu Borgir
In Flames
Ill Niño
Mastodon
Soulfly
Shadows Fall
Zao

Progressive Rock/Metal
Porcupine Tree
Opeth
Dream Theater

Electronica
Hardfloor
Funker Vogt
Funkstorung
Fischerspooner
John Tejada
Wumpscut
Cabaret Voltaire
Luke Vibert
Daft Punk


Take your pick. All great music even though from the beginning to the end of the list the genres change greatly.

[Gregorian]

140. King Missile, Crabby Appleton, Ass Baboons of Venus

Butt Trumpet. Mondo Topless. I have horrible name memory, or I would be able to recall literally hundreds of others that few have heard. Crabby Appleton is an old 60's group. I think out of Height Ashbury.

Hearing the bands is way different than reading the lyrics. I was listening to Butt Trumpet this week, and just cracking up over their tune- Primitive Enema. Here's the lyrics

La la, primitive enema
La la, primitive enema
I've been sitting on the pot all fucking day
I've read all my magazines-twice!
I gotta get on with my fucking life
There's one thing left that I haven't tried
CHORUS
I need a primitive enema
No, I need a primitive enema
No, I need a primitive enema
La la, primitive enema
I gladly spent the forty bucks
I spend more than that to spurt my nuts-love!
You wouldn't understand the joy I felt
When they finally yanked the butt plug out
CHORUS
People say that I'm full of shit
They don't know the half of it-no!
You might think that I'm sick and wrong
But try it and you'll know where I'm coming from
CHORUS
Desperate people do desperate things
You don't know the joy it brings
Desperate people do desperate things
You don't know the joy it brings

[akwapez]

176. King Missile. I forgot about them...Detachable Penis

[driver8]

141. The Gigolo Aunts. I went to high school with these guys. If you like

"power pop", check them out. Great songs and harmonies.

[Karmadillo]

144. The Blake Babies

Juliana Hatfield (sigh).

Sunburn is such an incredibly great album.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:g8jgtq4...

Sunburn is not just the Blake Babies' best album, it's in many ways the last great college rock album, the album that's the pinnacle of the US indie guitar scene of the late '80s and the album that exemplifies what "alternative" meant in those pre-Nevermind days when the term was actually understood to mean something. Juliana Hatfield, John Strohm, and Freda Love (puckishly billed here as Freda Boner) create a literate, emotionally direct brand of catchy, melodic pop based on the post-punk jangle pop of the '80s, but with a slightly tougher edge, particularly in Strohm's guitar sound. For the first time, Strohm contributes two solo writing credits on which he sings lead, the disturbing "Girl In A Box" and the anthemic "Train," which somehow manages to quote both "Mystery Train" and "I Melt With You." However, Sunburn is primarily the album on which Juliana Hatfield's songwriting prowess first flourishes, and it's possibly her finest collection of songs. Kicking off with the one-two punch of the tart kiss-off "I'm Not Your Mother" and the aching "Out There," the finest song of the Blake Babies' career, the album continues through 10 more punchy guitar pop songs with lyrics filled with Hatfield's trademark combination of innocence, brashness, wit and moments of extreme self-doubt.

more...

[Broken_Hero]

145. LOA

Most of my friends, have never heard of LOA, Life of Agony...but i do run into a few people who do enjoy, the Keith Caputo!...:)

[southlandshari]

148. The Donavon Frankenreiter Band, Johnny Clegg & Savuka

Are two that come immediately to mind. I also enjoy a number of solo artists that are, sadly, very underappreciated, including...

Pat McLaughlin, Ben Harper, Fatboy Slim, 'Keb'Mo, and Marc Broussard.

:hi:

[Gold Metal Flake]

150. Meccanormal and Suburban Lawns.

I still have the Suburban Lawns album on vinyl. Great, fast pieces with all sorts of pop hooks and humorous lyrics. Love 'em. Hell, I quoted Flying Saucer Sarfari in the Mod forum the other day.

[Gold Metal Flake]

151. Remember the Gits?

Second Skin. God, what a voice. :cry:

[PittPoliSci]

155. it was a shame about her murder...

my girlfriend is a big Gits fan.

[Gold Metal Flake]

152. Anybody hear Chris Bowden?

The album Slightly Askew. Great stuff, not hip on genre lingo, and never have been, but it's Jazz with roots in bebop. Just fantastic.

[Gold Metal Flake]

153. Neko Case and therefore The New Pornographers.

Neko Case's album Blacklisted is amazing if you like your country a bit dark and western and not at all pop-ish. Fantastic voice.

[Hypatia82]

154. Helmet, 24-7 Spyz, Bad Brains, Lords of Acid, Kraftwerk....

Die Warzau, Material Issue, 1,000 Homo DJ's, Revolting Cocks, Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society, Defunkt, Afrika Bambaataa, Alphaville, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Husker Du, Sugar, Bob Mould

[Patsy Stone]

170. What year is this? 1990?

LOL. Nice choices. :thumbsup:

[PittPoliSci]

156. Darkest Hour

Everytime I mention how brilliant they are nobody pays attention, well damn it go download the song "Sadist Nation" and tell me they aren't brilliant! Damn it!

www.darkesthour.cc

[Maestro]

182. Will do.

They look like a good politically conscience band.

[Maestro]

196. Thanks.

I checked them out and have already bought two of their albums plus I downloaded the free album that Kris Norris, the guitarist for the band, has available at his website. All excellent material!

[madrchsod]

157. west coast pop art experimental band

just bought the album again after 30 some years

[khashka]

158. King Missile, Uncle Banzai, Lunacy, Red Room, The Bobs

Khash.

[Moochy]

159. Rogue Wave on sub pop

Todd Rungreny pop with 60's sounds and odd effects, and they just released "Descended Like Vultures" Oct 25, 2005. I got both rogue wave albums on a whim from a review, and wow! talk about calming ear candy.

check out their cover of Seconds, by U2.

http://www.roguewavemusic.com/roguewave_home.html

Oh and they are playing tomorrow nite 12/16/05 in san diego, ca, the casbah, w/ mazarin.

[CAcyclist]

164. Some more:

Pop Will Eat Itself, WB Hits the Beat (British import circa 1989 I could never find in the record stores- just recorded a song off the radio (KROQ), Eidelweiss.

[LostinVA]

165. Heather Nova and also the Glengarry Bhoys

[Chemical Bill]

171. I used to wait on Heather Nova...

at a health food store. She was in college then. Friendly but shy....

Bill

[LostinVA]

180. Cool! How very interesting...

[WCGreen]

168. The Alex Harvey Band, Strawbs and Triuvmerant....

My cool bands from the 70's that never really caught on...

[mitchum]

174. Vambo Rool!

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band were fantastic!
I used to cover their "Faith Healer" in a teenage band

[WCGreen]

193. Way cool...... We were working on Last of the Teenage Idols

when our band split up.....

[Patsy Stone]

169. The Squirrel Nut Zippers and The Pernice Brothers

Also:
Ben Folds Five
The Mosquitos
Tristan Prettyman

[Maestro]

172. Eric Johnson

Awesome guitarist that is relatively unknown.

[DanCa]

173. Stephan Smith not a band but solo artist.

Here's his website www.stephansmith.com

[Taxloss]

179. Mew, a Scandinavian band, are great.

Also Kings of Convenience. And Belle & Sebastian. And all the groups mentioned by Mr Scorpio.

[WildEyedLiberal]

181. High on Fire

Great metal band. Also, I like Alabama Thunderpussy, and think they have the best rock band name ever.

[LVdem]

183. Libertines (now defunct), The Sadies, Heavy Trash, Flaming Sideburns

[mitchum]

184. Chris Whitley...Rest In Peace

[Tikki]

189. ...an LA based band....The Hangmen....

http://www.thehangmen.net



Tikki

[judaspriestess]

190. Flipper

I know Lords of Acid and Life of Agony

anyway

Mercyful Fate
Metal Church
Fear Factory
High on Fire
Faster Pussycat
Bang Tango
Prong

more to follow

[Gregorian]

191. Happy Flowers

I love Flipper!

[Scout1071]

192. Chubby Carrier and The Bayou Swamp Band

Ain't no party like a Chubby party!

www.chubbycarrier.com

[ghostsofgiants]

195. I'm surprised I haven't posted in here yet, aside from the IME comments...

Anyway...

City and Colour, Closet Monster, Coheed and Cambria, Controller.controller, Cursive, Murder By Death, Desaparecidos, dredg, Head Automatica, Hot Water Music, Idiot Pilot, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Propagandhi, Protest The Hero, Refused, Rise Against, The Lost Patrol, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Snapcase, Sparta, The Mars Volta, At the Drive-in, Stars, The Go Find, The Stills, Thrie, Thursday, Tiger Army, Turbonegro, Underoath, Yesterdays Rising, Wintersleep, Death From Above 1979, Sweatshop Union, Warsawpack, Atmosphere, Anti-pop Consortium, Deltron 3030, Dr. Octagon, Aesop Rock, El-P...I'm sick of typing now.

[long_green]

197. The Jam...

not totally anonymous but they were nowhere near as famous as they should have been. Paul Weller was a freakin' genius songwriter, broke up the band before he was 25 and never again approached the same level of greatness. The bass player, Bruce Foxton, is probably God.

[Greyhound]

198. Me first and the gimme gimmes. n/t

[MiniMandaRuth]

199. Ladytron.

I don't know if other people know about them, or the Caesars, for that matter...

Great bands. Great music.

[GOPisEvil]

202. Hmmm...ok...The Long Winters, Centro-Matic, The Wrens, The Gourds,

The Derailers, Neutral Milk Hotel, Drive-By Truckers, Spoon...off the top of my head.

[enigmatic]

203. Just about every band I listen to!

and play on my show; I've pimped Richmond Fontaine to the gills here, so I'll say the best alt-country band in Canada (and who is from Edmonton) Old Reliable:

http://www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.asp?epk_id=25638



Their album "The Gradual Moment" is a masterpiece; I'd try to get that first, but any of their records is a good call..

[Cobalt Violet]

205. My Life With The Thrill Kill Cult n/t

[CJCRANE]

209. Angry Gay Republicans,

the Astronauts, Cavemachine, Johnny Hydroxide...

Sorry, I'm just making them up, but they sound good, don't they?

;)

on edit: I like making up names for bands that should exist, but don't just yet...

[Divine Discontent]

210. ha, funny made up names! Anyhow, I love a-ha & morten harket

you are quite the playful sort arent ya!

for real bands that "no one" has heard of that I like, well, a lot of unknown Christian bands, but for pop/rock I can say honestly,


that I feel I'm alone in loving A-HA!!!!!!! And, no, not for "take on me", there one radio huge radio hit from 85, but for their alternative adult music such as, "cannot hide", "locusts", "time & again", and "lifelines", and more obscure, their lead singer, Norwegian 40-something hottie, Morten Harket for his songs like, "Los Angeles", "Spanish Steps" and, "Ready To Come Home" rom his "WILD SEED" CD from 1995. If you love crisp vocals and world music stylings, give him a shot!



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