Neutral Milk Hotel for me, they're generally unknown to most but wrote what I think is one of the best albums of all time: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.
'Spooky' if you like shoegazing ( the compilation of their first singles 'Gala' is great too ).
'Lovelife' if you like something more Britpop.
But 'split' is very good too.
You can't do wrong with Lush.
I think Split is my favourite - it's a bit more hard-edged than Lovelife and their earlier stuff doesn't do that much for me. I'm too much of a sucker for a 'nice tune' to like the shoegazer stuff.
There's some good tunes on 'spooky' !
I'm not a shoegazer fan, but this is definitely one of my top10 album ever.
I don't like the production on 'split' too much. The songs were much better when i saw them live.
I'm just listening to Spooky again and the tunes are there but the vocals are quite low in the mix, which I personally don't often like. I bet Lush were great live! I am envious.
Thanks! Yeah, my old band got thanked on their last album (?), but with the name spelt incorrectly. And of course Midget and Tic were Peterborough boys....
The Training Programme (credited as 'The Traing Programme'). Coz they stayed at the lead singers house I think. I did nothing for them! Maybe I was the 'in' part of the band they missed out.
Brummie pop fact #1: The Sandkings featured Jas Mann, later known and loathed as Babylon Zoo. If you watch The Wonder Stuff's Eleven Appalling Promos video, you'll notice the Stuffies' violinist Martin 'Fiddly' Bell sporting a Sandkings T-shirt at one their Brixton Academy gigs in 1989.
Brummie pop fact #2: King Adora were absolute fucking shite.
Cable were bloody brill. They kinda of had a 'hit' with that song they sold to a sprite advert. The 2nd album was full of great pop singles. They should of made it.
Along with Carrie. Steve Ludwin is a pop writing genius type person thing.
Carrie were fucking fantastic. I bought the album for cheapo a few weeks ago, and I still treasure my Carrie/Cable free tour CD from a few years ago. Ace. 'Breathe Underwater' was a superb tune.
thirteen:13 or whatever they were called....bout 4 or 5 years ago, i bought a couple of singles which were quite good, and i seem to remember they had a not inconsiderable amount of polydor money behind them too...
as for a *proper* band who never got the recognition they deserved, nobody can disagree with THE BETA BAND - sadly missed, and treated with lamentable commercial apathy.
I sent a fan letter to Catherine Wheel in 1992. Rob Dickinson wrote back with free postcards. They were lumped in with the whole shoegazing thang, but they had obvious rock sensibilities that set them apart, and 'Balloon' was a classic indie tune. As was their cover of '30 Century Man' by Scott Walker.
Re CW postcard. Erm, bro' - you gotta've been the coolest 12 year old on the planet. ;-)
Well, having recently seen Dig! I guess I'd say Brian Jonestown Massacre. And as a corrollary apparently (Peter Hayes ex BJM) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are prepared to call it quits...though it sorta happened for them, so I don't understand why they'd want to. Junkies are so damn unpredictable!
I remember when I went to see BRMC with a friend because she had no one else to go with. It was at Leeds Town Hall, and they had to cancel it five minutes into their set because the Security guys thought the floor was going to cave in. They had to made an escape through the crowd and the drummer brushed past me. I REPEAT, THE DRUMMER BRUSHED ME! And I never really liked them. My friend hates me now.
On the actual subject... I've liked what I heard of The Beta Band and yet they were rather unsuccessful.
The grandaddy's of this thread are Terris, they were bigged-up by the NME for months after the release of a couple of singles. Then just vanished.
I had the misfortune of seeing them support At The Drive-In at the Astoria in 2002, they had a really fat keyboard player who probably died of a heart attack before the band could do anything of any note.
I actually saw them moment Terris self-destructed. They were the first act on at Leeds in 2002 (could have been Reading in 2001 - memory's gone). The fat keyboard players keyboard was fucking up in every single song, they played four songs then he picked it up and smashed it on the floor and they stormed off.
Later I was DJing and played a song off their album (cos I did quite like them) and some guy came up to me saying I was good for playing it cos they were mates of his. He told me they never did anything after that Leeds slot.
They were massively massively overhyped though. C'est la vie.
Cud.
The only band in the early nineties who's fan base seemed to be entirely built up from their live following, and still got a single into the top 30 (no music press or radio play to speak of).
They were great.
Also.
S*M*A*S*H should have been a lot bigger. They'd be big now if they did the same thing.
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I'll add Marion, Melys, Gorky's Zygotic Mincy and Puressence ( even if third album wasn't too good ).
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Drugstore
The Delgados
Dawn of the replicants
Magoo
Fonda 500
Salako
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They had a double Ep some months ago that was brilliant.
An album is due before the end of the year.
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Neutral Milk Hotel for me, they're generally unknown to most but wrote what I think is one of the best albums of all time: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.
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ha! you said my name! I tricked you!
ahem.
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'Lovelife' if you like something more Britpop.
But 'split' is very good too.
You can't do wrong with Lush.
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I'm not a shoegazer fan, but this is definitely one of my top10 album ever.
I don't like the production on 'split' too much. The songs were much better when i saw them live.
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And another vote for Easyworld.
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Micky was such a great singer !
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Swervedriver.
Failure.
And err....*ahem*...Menswear
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Pooka.
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22-20s.
andrew w.k.
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worryingly, these are all bands i listen to albums by at least once a week.
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Perhaps not so much as the first, but still great.
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Weren't they supposed to come back under the name of their singer ?
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These Animal Men
Kinky Machine
My Life Story
For me, anyway...
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I own something by practically every band mentioned in this thread. I hope all this failure wasn't my fault in some way!
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Tic
Midget
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Seperate fact: For about six months, back in the day, I woke up to 'The Day Of Your Life' by Midget every day. And I never got bored of it. Ace.
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Neutral Milk Hotel are very "meh", and it never happened for them, justly.
Serafin
There are probably a tonne more, but i really can't be bothered to think
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Kinesis
Reuben (tho there last single was terrible)
The Windsor Spokes
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They sold a lot of copies of their first album, and im gona predict that the new album will sell even more.
Im with you on Halo though...
How about:
Colour of Fire
Sunna
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new songs are poor i believe.
*puts incinerator on*
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swervedriver made it every apart from the uk, i saw them support some enormouse oz dates with powderfinger
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Nothing.
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Marion
Longpigs
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The Sandkings
King Adora
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Six by Seven
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Brummie pop fact #2: King Adora were absolute fucking shite.
And I am the indie king.
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Along with Carrie. Steve Ludwin is a pop writing genius type person thing.
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Anyone knows what happen to Little Hell ?
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In what respect?
They sold fuck all...
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as for a *proper* band who never got the recognition they deserved, nobody can disagree with THE BETA BAND - sadly missed, and treated with lamentable commercial apathy.
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Catherine Wheel
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In what respect?
They sold fuck all...
Well I liked there music...
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argh!!!! another one of those days...
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Well, having recently seen Dig! I guess I'd say Brian Jonestown Massacre. And as a corrollary apparently (Peter Hayes ex BJM) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are prepared to call it quits...though it sorta happened for them, so I don't understand why they'd want to. Junkies are so damn unpredictable!
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On the actual subject... I've liked what I heard of The Beta Band and yet they were rather unsuccessful.
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I had the misfortune of seeing them support At The Drive-In at the Astoria in 2002, they had a really fat keyboard player who probably died of a heart attack before the band could do anything of any note.
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*starts crying*
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Later I was DJing and played a song off their album (cos I did quite like them) and some guy came up to me saying I was good for playing it cos they were mates of his. He told me they never did anything after that Leeds slot.
They were massively massively overhyped though. C'est la vie.
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Also:
campag velocet
cooper temple clause (maybe)
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The only band in the early nineties who's fan base seemed to be entirely built up from their live following, and still got a single into the top 30 (no music press or radio play to speak of).
They were great.
Also.
S*M*A*S*H should have been a lot bigger. They'd be big now if they did the same thing.
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I'd say so too.
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They hardly sold a record for five years and it was only after 'Loveless' that the GBP started paying any attention.
Alas, I also feel we could well be adding Art Brut to this list in 6 months' time...
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