Well we’ve been going on site No 3 for sometime now. As Moose says in the post below, Dylan, Beatlesband, Kate Bush and so on have all had thorough airings. Even Cactus World News had a thread to themselves a few days back. So. Who’s not featured at all in the 1600 odd blog posts, which let’s take an average of 10 comments would make 16,000 opportunities to talk about…Pete Wylie and Wah! Wah Heat, Shambeko Say Wah! But have we? Not a bean as far as the search engine returns empty. So, much like the Forgotify playlist, this is the thread to find the biggest names that have not had a single mention so far. Any advance on the Liverpool name-shifters – one of Peel’s very favourite bands to boot. Love them, here’s one of the best. Anyone find someone bigger we’ve missed? One rule – use the search box!
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What’s the world coming to when I cannot find a single mention of The Headboys. The second best band to come out of Scotland, Shirley?
Nothing about The Wonder Stuff.
Great little band – personal favourites (apart from the risible Construction for the Modern Idiot album where they allowed themselves to be manipulated by a record exec into a very bad approximation of an alt-indie American rock band).
Remember them this way with The Bass Thing
http://youtu.be/j6voE0zlRDI
‘The Eight Legged Groove Machine’ is still very listenable. 1988, bloody hell. Very good live band; huge energy.
The Wonder Stuff is a great find. Cannot believe they have not been mentioned so far. A staple of festival going in the late eighties/early nineties.
I’m sure I mentioned the Miles Hunt and Erica Nockalls duo, sort of Wonderstuff accoustic-lite duo, possibly a night out, last year, or was that, too, in the inter-regnum.
Great night out.
There are in fact 2,148 posts and a whopping 45,006 comments in the database.
Art Blakey.
A prince among jazz drummers and a bandleader of great note.
(Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers – Dat Dere from “The Big Beat” – 1960)
Personnel:
Art Blakey, drums
Wayne Shorter, tenor saxphone
Lee Morgan, trumpet and flugelhorn
Bobby Timmons, piano
Jymie Merritt, double-bass
If I’d put up the Kids On The Slope review I mentioned in the blogger takeover, it would have been full of Art Blakey!
The Neville Brothers. none more funky…
I played this album only a couple of weeks ago. Splendid, it is.
here is some for consideration?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlHuDRnXKew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_liiP2Qpc_4
I’d never heard of them before last weekend. But Jungle from London ripped the roof off the tent at Roskilde and attracted a ginormous, very enthusiastic crowd.
One to watch out for!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2WBYb_MlP6s
Going to see these tomorrow with my son
Haven’t heard a musical note from them, I want to be surprised. Hopefully they’ll live up to their name.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Have the Willis had a mench?
(They have now!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXZ6bAnkfuY
I think I have one bigger than all of the above: the Cranberries.
I nearly saw them supporting Crowded House on the Together Alone tour, until they cancelled due to Dolores breaking her arm skiing. There were quite a few people at the ticket desk demanding a refund because of it – tsk, etc. (We had to go to the desk to get duplicate tickets because Mrs Malc threw out the envelope without checking what was inside, and frantic searching of the rubbish bins proved fruitless.)
Anyway, I like this one: it doesn’t outstay its welcome.
https://youtu.be/PUvcG8uMiHw
I have been waiting for someone to lead the charge in an appreciation of the mellifluous juju of Chief Ebenezer Obey
http://youtu.be/0dGn_5zypQk
What about Kasey? Have we discussed my favourite antipodean sex midget? Interesting cover version too.
Actually, if with my taste in music this is fairly easy. I get zero returns on
* Montrose
* REO Speedwagon
* Styx
*Argent
*Black Country Communion
*Chickenfoot
*Budgie
*Tommy Bolin
I thought TB’s name had come up before, likewise with Styx.
Elvis Perkins had a new LP out in March, he’s got the same first name as the greatest man in rock and roll (it’s also the same as that Presley chap) and his dad was Anthony Perkins. Does he get a mention? Does he buggery, until now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezv7r2ZQe2k
That was rather nice. I enjoyed that.
The Fugs.
“The Garden Is Open” from their 1967 album Tenderness Junction.
“Be nice to the hippies. You’ll miss them when they’re gone.”
Mohamed Al Fayed’s favourite band.
Could have sworn I’d shared my Fug love, but it must have been in one of the old or other places…here’s a favourite.
Although a search from the home page here drew a blank, I think this one is possibly cheating because I’m sure they got a mention or two on the old blog. In fact I’m pretty sure they got a mention on the Word blog too, before that.
Nevertheless, here’s The Legendary Marvin Pontiac.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqEcgH1gLeE
“Wanna Wanna”
Have a bit of New Fast Automatic Daffodils.
Contains the effortlessly dismissive put-down “You’ll soon be dust, your deeds already are” which justifies this song’s existence on it’s own.
(“Stockholm” – New FADs)
At university a friend of mine was going out with one of the New FADs. I went with her to visit him/them and we all ended up in a well dodgy club in Moss Side after a visit to the Hac.
I mention this as it is the only even vaguely rock’ n roll thing I have ever done. I seem to recall I was wearing something like a rah-rah skirt. I am really hoping I’m misremembering this skirt.
Did you have the pom-poms as well?
“Go New Fads! Go New Fads!”
I’ve got a horrible feeling I was wearing a jumper.
C’mon, it was the late 80s.
A jumper, in a disco? Dancing bumper-to-bumper?
Hope you didn’t leave it anywhere
I’m hoping I threw out the damned thing in disgust.
A jumper. In the Hacienda. I ask you.
Well, our paths may have crossed @rubyblue way back when as I was a card-carrying member of the Hac in the pre-acid house days. When all the club nights were gloomy industrial affairs and the wind swept across the dancefloor. Came back from uni and (it seemed) overnight the place was now packed, queues round the block. We went down one night and my life was, in a small way, changed. Lots of anecdotes about both the acid era Hac and the Gay Traitor era.
Gay traitor? Anthony Blunt used to go the the Hac? Bloody hell!
His picture was above the downstairs ‘Cocktail Bar’ which was called The Gay Traitor.
I did not know that.
I’m not sure I approve. It’s like going to a bar in 1940s London called Lord Haw Haw’s.
Well, if you saw, amongst the industrial gloom, a be-jumpered square chick straight outta Hicksville, that would be me.
Yes, it was just before Acid House kicked in in the UK; things were starting to develop in that direction but I would hardly have known it. Then yes, everything changed. 🙂
You must have been very sweaty.
(Yes, here we go again)
I’m assuming it wasn’t the magnificently titled Icarus Wilson-Wright, because if it was you’d have to be obliged to drop that into any related conversation as it’s such an amazing name!
Rich Kids
Glen Matlock’s post Piustols band, featuring Midge Ure, Steve New & Rusty Egan.
Debut album suffered from Mick Ronson’s production – he seemed to turn the faders up and then go for a walk. When he returned, he just stuck reverb on everything resulting in a very muddy sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vwhjrD-O8U
I love that record – top choice, sir.
The Professionals.
Another post-Pistols band featuring Steve Jones & Paul Cook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smlOSXAU07Q
Probably has been mentioned before, but “Magazine” is such a generic search term.
I am angry, I am ill and I’m as ugly as sin
My Irritability keeps me alive and kicking
I know the meaning of life, it doesn’t help me a bit
I know beauty and I know a good thing when I see it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ExpiNKZWKw
I have tried to post the obvious, the not so obvious and (potentially) annoying, but I haven’t posted this lot before:
The mention of the Angelic Upstarts reminded me immediately of the not-at-all-like-them Comsat Angels.
(Independence Day)
Great, great band. First three albums amongst my all time faves. Fiction is a lost masterpiece. Then comprehensively ruined by going to Jive Records and being greeted by ‘Flock of Seagulls are big in America. Let’s make you a bit more like them’.
@moseleymoles
Gosh yes. What a waste. Though I actually quite like 7 Day Weekend.
Edit…I’ve already replied to this some years ago!
The Wildhearts
(The song may reference other Afterwhack acts)
Cannot believe the cranberries have not featured on a ‘marmite bands’ thread, of which there have been several. Essence of Marmite.
Yebbut, some people like Marmite.
Here’s someone that’s not had a mention here yet. Jon Hassell.
(Blue Period / Light On Water)
I like marmite AND the Cranberries
@mousleymoles
Re The Comsats. Agree with you about Fiction, it’s their Colour of Spring moment.
And your Flock of Seagull comparisons are a bit harsh though there’s no doubt they definitely had a budget for clothes and haircuts for a while.
I’ve got a soft spot for a couple of later albums…the poppy 7 day Weekend and that one Robert Palmer liked…Chasing Shadows.
@freddy-steady have to admit to never having listened to Land, the standard issue 80s pop sound of Will You Stay Tonight? put me right off.
@moseleymoles
Land…..I’d managed to forget that. You’re quite right….terrible stuff…awful cheesy 80’s keyboards… Nothing at all like the first 3 albums. Such a shame.
I think I’ve got a 12 inch of Will you stay with some terrible terrible re- mixes and b sides. What did go wrong, record company pressure?
Sorry…Moseley not Mousley.
Do we not have an edit button?
If you weren’t an ’80s Indie Kid, you might well have been into this lot “back in the day”. Eight sold-out nights at Hammersmith Odeon in 1985 – that’s impressive!
(Maze, featuring Frankie Beverly – Joy and Pain
Oh god. When I was studying there were few radio stations I could get in the lab. Every Sunday night on Radio 1 was a show in love with Maze. Thinking about it is too much. But I couldn’t play my Walkman (probably of Microdisney – see below)
I was in a record shop at the weekend and the proprietor put on “Singer’s Hampstead Home” by Microdisney – hadn’t heard that for at least a decade and it sounded surprisingly ok.
Can’t post clips at work but anyone else, feel free. They used to be one of my favourite “Peel Session” bands.
Sample Cathal Coughlan lyric (thread idea in itself!):
“I hate the world / I hate my life / and this song…”
Cathal IS a genius. He said so.
Singer’s Hampstead Home…..one of my absolute fave songs ever. Didn’t really like anything else they did though.
It’s about Boy George of course….