Inspired by the recent threads (and as an excuse to post the YouTube), what are the bands that you love but no one else seems to like / appreciate / etc..
For me its (no prizes for guessing if you’ve seen any of my previous posts) its Mono – the Japanese “post rock” band. I absolutely love them.
But, it always seems that its only me that likes – I have friends that have similar tastes that they do nothing for, I seem to be the only one that voted for them in the album of the year poll (although I did see that ex Word Alumni Fraser Lewry had it in his albums of the year list in Prog magazine – yeah !!). I can’t understand why they don’t appeal to other folks – I guess this is a product of being passionate about music.
And the obligatory video…..
From their recent tour with orchestra.
MONO are great!
Joining in on the MONO love – great band.
Monolove? Oooh’errr! Moose??
I loved Johnny Dowd’s early albums but could never convince others of his greatness. Just listen to this, from his best (IMO) album Pictures From Life’s Other Side.
Curiously, I CAN rationally understand why people don’t like my favourite band. I don’t agree with these people, obviously (and I’m sure that there’s an element of “listen to one thing; if I don’t like it, I’ll never listen to anything else” about it) but I do get it.
Perhaps the less rational issue is how this band got so completely inside my head for the last 50 years and never came out.
Edith: well, if you insist…
Frankly, quite why anyone finds bagpipe containing bands a turn off confuses and confounds me. And I don’t mean the gentler skirl of the uillean, border or northumbrian instrument, I mean the full throaty throttle of the full highland warpipes, truly the sound of the Gods.
P.S. Apart from the Red Hot Chili Pipers, who are shite and unworthy of footprinting.
Here’s Niteworks
I love them … does that disqualify them?
This seems like it was a magnificent show
It was! I was there!
I think that if you don’t, broadly speaking, like Squeeze, then you don’t like melodic guitar pop. A fantastic run of singles.
Totally agree re Squeeze, I can’t understand why anyone wouldn’t like them. Squeeze headlined Northern Kin festival a couple of years ago however the couple in the van next to ours didn’t go and see them as they couldn’t stand them – I was genuinely flabbergasted by this! It’s like people who don’t like bananas (the fruit , not a band as far as I know), blows my mind.
I don’t like bananas (the fruit, not the song by Man).
Is your mind blown?
Well and truly!
This Christmas I learnt that Jacob Rees-Mogg loathes bananas.
Good gracious!
Time flies like the wind, fruit flies like bananas.
Perhaps we need a very old joke thread.
Because they’re one of the very, very few concerts I’ve walked out of early.
I would knee-jerk and say loads. Basically, all my favourite bands (cue Dawes hoping they stay together).
Thing is, I can rationally understand why people say “ah, they’re OK” even though I think they’re fools for saying so.
I love thee oh sees, Osees, OCS or any name they give themselves at any time
The very best example of psychedelic garage swampy type music. Good thing is they are insanely prolific so I get lots to swoon over.
See also Liminanas for much the same reason.
It’ll be the one album* wonder ‘Eat’ for me
From watching Mr & Mrs Smack on Swiss telly to seeing the band live in concert in Southampton they were SUCH a thrill. Double drummers, swampy slide guitar, harmonica and bass grooves to butt my hips out to, with Ange as a cross between Jim Morrison and Michael Hutchence, they were the pinnacle of perfection for oh too short a time.
*Let’s forget about the second album
Furniture.
Not so much that no one else likes them, just that no one else cared. Brilliant Mind made 21 in the hit parade, the follow-up single made 101, album The Wrong People was perfect but sank without trace amongst record label collapse.
Was no one else curious?
William Bell. I think he’s one of the greatest soul singers and best writers of soul songs. His original Stax singles (all collected in the first Stax box) are excellent, as is his album The Soul of a Bell. Private Number (with Judy Clay) is just the most joyous, emotive song that goes straight to the heartstrings, if you ask me.
Yet, nobody really mentions this guy. What else did he have to do?
He wrote Born Under a Bad Sign as well. I mean, come on…
William Bell’s I Forgot to be Your Lover is an absolute classic.
It really is- beautiful vocals and a superb arrangement by Booker T.
I think there’ll be a bit of residual fondness for them among the Massive, but Igenuinely can’t think of a band so continually underrated as Green on Red. From their scratchy indie beginnings, to their Jim Dickinson collaborations, they have a great body of work, a playful take on country rock with bags of acerbic attitude. If you haven’t bothered listening to them, let me point you towards Gas Food Lodgings, No Free Lunch and The Killer Inside Me. But, really, al their albums are great.
Superb band, still listened to at Castle Fitterstoke…
It is (as they say somewhere) a “yes” from me for Green On Red.
Andy Kershaw used to play them a fair bit on his Radio 1 weekend (Saturday?) show in the mid-80s. The Killer Inside Me/No Free Lunch is a fixture on my phone.
I must learn how to delete – ha ha.
I loved Green On Red – saw them at least half a dozen times and have all their albums.
However I would baulk at calling their last album Too Much Fun a great album. Sadly it’s very lacklustre in my estimation.
Microdisney, then The Fatima Mansions.
Truly Cathal Coughlan (RIP) hugely under appreciated.
People on the internet years later eventually showed the man there was a sizeable enough number of fans who kept listening to their music throughout the decades who loved the songs. It’s nice he ultimately knew this, I think.
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2024/0314/1437812-new-microdisney-film-is-raw-and-tinged-with-sadness/
Having pondered the my scale of liking vs their success in the wider world ratio, the answer has to be Canada’s finest power-poppers Stars. Here’s my teary review again of me and 120 other souls at the Deaf Institute:
Though @max-the-dog shares my love at least I recall reading the comments again.
Well on this forum anyway – Midnight Oil
I saw them once at the Hammersmith Odeon, knowing nothing about them. It was the oddest gig – everyone was pissed, there was beer everywhere, there were two fights in my row alone, all to a deafening soundtrack completely devoid of melody or indeed anything of interest. I could go on but it’s fair to say it is one of the weirdest gigs I’ve been to.
I’d have left early but was with an old mate who had come up from Cornwall and had given me the ticket in return for a bed for the night. He loved it.
Did he burn it?
But apart from that…
They have melody but it’s usually pretty thundering stuff.
Never seen a fight here @Twang.
Sometimes you get the worst of Aussies overseas. It’s like they have to be far more “ Aussie Aussie Aussie” than they ever would be back home.
@junior-wells one fight was due to the constant flow of people to the bar and back – someone spilled beer on someone else for the second time etc so the spillee knocked his arm spilling more so the spiller carefully put the pints down and belted him. Handbags!
Fight #2 was because someone in the row in front kept standing up so the guy behind shoved him – you guessed it – the shovee turned around and belted him. Handbags!
Tsk, should have taken a deep breath and gone “10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…”