Forgotten Indie Bands that shouldn't be

neuroboy · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:13 am

TheTwilightKid Wrote:

HUM

holy shit yes!

c.

no guru · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:20 am

Vanlandingham Wrote:

I was just listening to Failure the other day. Certainly not forgotten in my book...

I was going to say maybe Prefab Sprout or Love and Rockets, but I could be wrong.

If they are it's a sad day for the human race. Next people will say they don't remember The The or Squeeze. Ain't right, I tell ya.

--
np: Mission Of Burma "That's When I Reach For My Revolver"

bluejayway · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:01 pm

duckyboy Wrote:

I'll add, in the kiwi vein, the Verlaines and Tall Dwarfs.

And Straightjacket Fits, without which I wouldn't have known New Zealand even existed for several more years :oops:

bluejayway · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:02 pm

Odds Bodkins Wrote:

Young Marble Giants

For some reason I think I saw that Colossal Youth was being re-released or just had been or some such... so not completely forgotten (but surely underloved)

bluejayway · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:06 pm

frosting-DASH-spoon Wrote:

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Fatima Mansions

You know, I used to really like RLYL, but I pulled out some of their stuff over the weekend and I can kind of see how they ended up forgotten. I liked them more when I didn't listen.

I don't know the music of Fatima Mansions, but I used to live just down the road from the housing project in question.

no guru · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:42 pm

bluejayway Wrote:

I don't know the music of Fatima Mansions, but I used to live just down the road from the housing project in question.

Cathal Coughlan's group after Microdisney and before his solo work.

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

bluejayway Wrote:

duckyboy Wrote:

I'll add, in the kiwi vein, the Verlaines and Tall Dwarfs.

And Straightjacket Fits, without which I wouldn't have known New Zealand even existed for several more years :oops:

add Snapper and The Screaming Meemees

e-stone · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:47 pm

bgl3 Wrote:

the feelies

just d/l some tunes last night and am enjoying immensely. i've always heard of 'em, but never anything by them. thanks for the reminder to check 'em out.

ElGuapo · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:32 am

Big Dipper-Craps and Heavens are the 2 quintessential Boston indie records of the late 80's. (yeah..I know..The Pixies)

Pale Saints-Comforts of Madness and In Ribbons are the = or > so many much more lauded UK albums .

The Marshes-Along with the Wrens, victims of a corrupt Indie label. Grass Records. 4 albums. The 2nd "Fledgling" should have vaulted them into the same league as Green Day and Jawbreaker. See www.amazon.com for other opinions. Oh yeah, my brother was in this band.

Smoking Popes-Destination Failure is one of the greatest records ever made. Duvall carries the torch. Morrissey loves em' too.

Gordo · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:03 pm

ElGuapo Wrote:

Big Dipper-Craps and Heavens are the 2 quintessential Boston indie records of the late 80's. (yeah..I know..The Pixies)

And while we're talking Boston late 80s/early 90s (with mentions of Scruffy the Cat, BimSkalaBim and Treat Her Right)...let's not forget:

the Cavedogs
Tribe
O Positive

ElGuapo · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:12 pm

Volcano Suns, Wargasm, Seka, and Slapshot as well

scottycash99 · **Joined:** Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:46 am **Posts:** 1149

-the dentists

-deus

PopTodd · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:20 pm

Did anyone say
The Wipers?

(I only have one album, and am not crazy about it, but I hear that a lot of their other stuff is pretty amazing.)

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

Bosstown:

The Real Kids
The Neighborhoods
Nervous Eaters
La Peste
Unnatural Axe
Willie Alexander
Cat's Ass
The Neats

Dunwoody Dude · **Joined:** Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:20 am **Posts:** 2869

PopTodd Wrote:

Did anyone say
The Wipers?

(I only have one album, and am not crazy about it, but I hear that a lot of their other stuff is pretty amazing.)

Which album do you have?

Their early 80's stuff is pretty terrific, then they had a rough time of it only to recover a bit in the 90's. Actually shouldn't even say "they" because it's pretty much always been just Sage.

Steve

Postmersh · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:26 pm

All indie bands, great or not, will eventually be forgotten...

If you don't think some kid was out there in the late 60's out_Sgt. Peppering the Beatles after hearing Pet Sounds himself, but couldn't get signed/label attention because he was from Idaho (or some other hinderance) and never released anything in enough of a mass market environment to get noticed, you're cheating yourself. I mean, over half of the bands mentioned are ones that I will never hear, and there are a lot that have been mentioned that I just never liked...

It's only the corporate $ that will make sure, through reissues/song placement in movies/ etc., that some bands are remembered while others are forgotten...

PopTodd · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:32 pm

DunwoodyDude Wrote:

PopTodd Wrote:

Did anyone say
The Wipers?

(I only have one album, and am not crazy about it, but I hear that a lot of their other stuff is pretty amazing.)

Which album do you have?

Their early 80's stuff is pretty terrific, then they had a rough time of it only to recover a bit in the 90's. Actually shouldn't even say "they" because it's pretty much always been just Sage.

Steve

Can't remember the name of it, but it has a cartoon-ish drawing of the Earth, as seen from outer space on the cover.

Dunwoody Dude · **Joined:** Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:20 am **Posts:** 2869

PopTodd Wrote:

DunwoodyDude Wrote:

PopTodd Wrote:

Did anyone say
The Wipers?

(I only have one album, and am not crazy about it, but I hear that a lot of their other stuff is pretty amazing.)

Which album do you have?

Their early 80's stuff is pretty terrific, then they had a rough time of it only to recover a bit in the 90's. Actually shouldn't even say "they" because it's pretty much always been just Sage.

Steve

Can't remember the name of it, but it has a cartoon-ish drawing of the Earth, as seen from outer space on the cover.

I think you have The Herd which is a 90's album that I don't have. Their early stuff is much better but I believe hard to find nowadays. If you want to give them another shot try their 1990 comp.

Steve

no guru · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:05 pm

some more to add:

Game Theory
The Lilac Time
The Long Ryders
Not Drowning, Waving
Kevn Kinney
Lydia Lunch (name is familiar to people but not her songs)
Laurie Anderson (same problem)
Peter Hammill (same problem)
Gavin Friday
Clan Of Xymox
The Wolfgang Press

PopTodd · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:17 pm

Spoon Reassesses Yes Wrote:

The Wolfgang Press

I loved Queer and actually saw them a couple of years after it was released. album: great. Live show: not as great.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:16 pm

another one... not forgotten by me, but:
Tenpole Tudor

Fun! Fun! Fun!
British pub-punk.

pinkeyedwink · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:04 pm

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Lift To Experience, Unwound

these are the only two bands i really give a shit about right now. perhaps you (watermelongun, or anyone) could offer some recommendations?

chopper · **Joined:** Tue Nov 23, 2004 5:29 pm **Posts:** 144

i would like to second railroad jerk and jennyanykind

and also add garageland

mcaputo · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2005 5:46 pm

the grifters
the long ryders
green on red
cardinal
portashrine
engine 88
the three o'clock
chris knox
svt
the times 5
action slacks
rank & file

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

mcap Wrote:

chris knox

of Toy Love? Excellent.

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