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Bands it didn't quite happen for...

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by restlessboy
...despite being good and staying good.

I'm thinking of Geneva for a starter.
restlessboy | 31 Jul '05, 17:21 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Bands it didn't quite happen for...

Good choice.
I'll add Marion, Melys, Gorky's Zygotic Mincy and Puressence ( even if third album wasn't too good ).

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i suppose mansun too. although they did two stunning albums their third one was bollocks, so it's their own fault.

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Mansun were quite big in their prime.

Drugstore
The Delgados
Dawn of the replicants
Magoo
Fonda 500
Salako

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i liked Magoo...are they not still around in some form?

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Yes they are.
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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Ride should have been the biggest band in the world. At least in my world anyway.

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I would say great minds think alike, but I am a moron.

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Did I say you could speak Thom_fa?!

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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"Did I say you could speak Thom_fa?!"

ha! you said my name! I tricked you!

ahem.

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What didn't happen for the Beatles? I understand not.

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Lush clearly win this, for me. Although it didn't quite happen because their drummer or bass player (I always forget) committed suicide.

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Which Lush album is best?

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Which Lush album is best?

Re: Bands it didn't quite happen for...

Which Lush album is best?

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Which Lush album is best?

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'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.

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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.

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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.

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Strangelove.

And another vote for Easyworld.

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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.

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It was my first gig and one of my best.
Micky was such a great singer !

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Seconded Strangelove.

Swervedriver.

Failure.

And err....*ahem*...Menswear

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Seconded Swervedriver.

Pooka.

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kinesis.
22-20s.
andrew w.k.

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Ohhhh and also Ooberman. Fantastic melodies and great live too.

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my votes go to Ooberman, Kinesis, Menswe@r and Marion. and Gene.

worryingly, these are all bands i listen to albums by at least once a week.

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I still listen to the second Marion album quite a bit...it's nothing to be ashamed of...is it?

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No it's great.
Perhaps not so much as the first, but still great.

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Shack and Witness are two that spring to mind.

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Ah Witness...

Weren't they supposed to come back under the name of their singer ?

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Some ace names mentioned here, good work people!

These Animal Men
Kinky Machine
My Life Story

For me, anyway...

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Ultrasound - they were so great!

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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Lightyear
Tic
Midget

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I didn't know you liked Lightyear. Well done.

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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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....

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Who were your old band? You'll find my name in that album as well, only it's my proper name and spelt wrong. Freakin' eejit.

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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.

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McClusky.
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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Halo
Kinesis
Reuben (tho there last single was terrible)
The Windsor Spokes

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completely disagree on Reuben...

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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Halo are sort of still going. They're now called The Vega Method - same line-up, completely new set of songs.

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WRONG! different drummer, innit!
new songs are poor i believe.
*puts incinerator on*

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at least spell Mclusky correctly if yr such a big fan. :-P

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kinky machine were fantastic, though did eventually make it as rialto, and their lead singer louis currently stars in a ba tv advert

swervedriver made it every apart from the uk, i saw them support some enormouse oz dates with powderfinger


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Didn't say i was a big fan of Mclusky, just that it never happened for them. Always on the verge of something happening and then....

Nothing.

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These Animal Men
Marion
Longpigs

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wimple winch..........amazing band, zero success.

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Thousand Yard Stare
The Sandkings
King Adora

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King Adora were shite.

Six by Seven

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The first four King Adora singles were anything but shite, although sadly they got lost in a sea of acoustic drudgery by numbers at the time.

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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.

And I am the indie king.

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Most bands signed to DiS Recordings

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No, King Adora were shite.

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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.

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Didn't Carrie feature one of EMF?

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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.

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Carrie were good.
Anyone knows what happen to Little Hell ?

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one of them is now co-managing Good Shoes.

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Yeah the bass player Zac Fooley (I think) was also in EMF. He is dead now.

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"Cable were bloody brill."

In what respect?
They sold fuck all...

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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.

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Beta Band, agree.

Catherine Wheel

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Cable were bloody brill."

In what respect?
They sold fuck all...

Well I liked there music...

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dunno why the hell i quoted bit. that makes no sense to me now.

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quoted *THAT bit.
argh!!!! another one of those days...

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You lost me again....but thats not to hard to do!

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Re Catherine Wheel. I just heard a new(?) tune by Rob Dickenson that's pretty good.


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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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Do you think At the Drive In could have released something better then Relationship...? That's unfulfilled potential in a way.

*starts crying*

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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.

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They were $hit before their time :'(

Also:
campag velocet
cooper temple clause (maybe)

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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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'Ride should have been the biggest band in the world.'

I'd say so too.

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What about My Bloody Valentine?
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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Oh yeah, S*M*A*S*H! 'I Wanna Kill