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Post subject: Bands that never got noticed
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 4:20 pm
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As many may know i do a variety of weekly podcasts (like 4 per week), 2 of them are a talk a little and play music format. I was thinking about doing a small segment on one of the more musical ones titled "bands that never were" or something like that where i talk about a band that had merit and talent but didn't get noticed for one reason or another. Then play one of their songs. It would run into some concern with copyright playing the music but often i can get a hold of the band and secure an OK to play email.

Obviously this is a very subjective question but what are some bands that you found via blind buy on record or cd that you dug that nobody else has heard of? Maybe they played locally where you live and got some traction but never got signed, just putting out limited indie records. I would love to draw on more than just my collection for the segment so the listeners experience more variety.

I realize this might need some clarity, it makes sense in my brain because i have been thinking about it for a few weeks.


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Post subject: Re: Bands that never got noticed
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 6:29 pm
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Sponge was a great band, yet no one remembers them.

Their song "Molly" is a pretty lovely one.

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Post subject: Re: Bands that never got noticed
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 7:38 pm
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Big Star and Cotton Mather are 2 incredible U.S. bands that come to mind. Another band and songwriter that should have gotten way more recognition was the late '80s -early '90s Boston band Scruffy the Cat with the incredibly gifted songwriter Charlie Chesterman who passed away from cancer at age 51 in November.Charlie also had another band Chas and the Legendary Motorbikes.

Some British bands never got the exposure they deserved either.Such as rock/baroque band Gryphon and rock/classical/jazz band Audience.Even if classical, baroque and jazz genres don't rock your boat,any serious musician would definitely appreciate how these 2 bands combine such radically different genres into something that is very unorthodox but very enjoyable and enthralling.Another great British band that got only one song recognized in North America was The Flying Machine with "Smile a Little Smile"....(for me Rosemarie).Strangely even though they took Britain and Europe by storm in the '60 and '70s,Status Quo never got the recognition that they deserved across the pond.Status Quo were/are one of the most revered of all British bands and their music was just so catchy and filled with hooks,that I'll never understand why they weren't even on the radar here.I'm sure that if I stayed here much longer wracking my brains out I would find more of them.But it's late and I have another one of my horrendous headaches and they knock me out of commission .

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Post subject: Re: Bands that never got noticed
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 7:42 pm
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Sponge was a great band, yet no one remembers them.

They were ... Their entire Wax Estatic album was excellent.

Any body remember a band called Eve 6?? Great band.

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Post subject: Re: Bands that never got noticed
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 10:16 pm
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The Bushdoctors had some really great straight ahead rock 'n roll. To the best of my knowledge they only ever put out one album. The one shown in this link. I have the album on CD. It rocks. I play two of their songs and people always ask if I wrote them because nobody's ever heard them before.

Another band, The Works, was a late 80's rock group. Not really the glam-rock type like Poison or Ratt, more of a straight rock band but they still used a lot of hairspray and wore some spandex on occasion. Again, a one album band with a couple of decent songs. The album was called From Out Of Nowhere. I have this CD as well.

Back in the early 80's I bought a vinyl album of a band called Wrabbit. The album title was Wrough & Wready. Link I don't have that album anymore but I would buy it again if I ever found it on CD. They rocked.

All three of those groups were at one time my fav bands and all three are also bands who none of my friends have ever heard of.

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Post subject: Re: Bands that never got noticed
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 2:37 am
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01GT eibach wrote:
Any body remember a band called Eve 6?? Great band.

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+ 1 on Eve6

Robin Lane and the Chartbusters, "when things go wrong" is a very good song.

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Post subject: Re: Bands that never got noticed
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 4:32 am
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The New Jersey sound...before Southside Johnny and Springsteen.

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Post subject: Re: Bands that never got noticed
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 9:00 am
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In the real early 70's there was a local high school band in upstate New York called First Gear, who were incredible. They all went to high school with one of my older sisters. I remember them too. They were monster musicians, school band, jazz band, marching band, all district, etc... and they decided to form a rock band with horns (a la Chicago, Ides of March, Blood Sweat & Tears, etc..)

They got big enough and earned enough money, that they drove down to NY City to a recording studio. They all pooled their money together and cut an album. They looked for managers and ways to "make it" professionally in the music business, and sadly, nobody signed them and they were heartbroken and disbanded. :(

40-something years later, I wonder if the members are still around? My older sister, brother-in-law, and other neighborhood friends, still bump into the trumpet player occasionally from time to time, but most everyone else has moved on in life.

Looking back, I wish First Gear had made it. They kicked a.s.s back in the day!


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Post subject: Re: Bands that never got noticed
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 9:46 am
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A Buddy of mine in college gave me a CD of a local band where he was from called Sardina. They were an indy band from well… Indianapolis. I still listen to that every now and then. I thought they had a great sound and had a female vocalist named Michelle that I thought had an incredible voice. I think one of the members has since passed away but they had some good tunes and perhaps a lot of potential.

http://musicalfamilytree.com/band/sardina

"I'll Be Around" is one of the ones that stick out for me.

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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 2:31 pm
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Post subject: Re: Bands that never got noticed
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 3:47 pm
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Post subject: Re: Bands that never got noticed
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 4:50 am
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Neutral Milk Hotel really strikes a familiar chord with me,even though I'm not familiar with their music.This song is so quirky and different that it just has a real coolness to it. I think that I read in a review of an Apples in Stereo album,that the two bands are somehow tied in with each other,whether it's that they may be on the same record label,I don't know.Either way,I'll be going back on Youtube to give a listen to all the songs on that release,it should be a good album and that song is probably not indicative of the rest of the album and was put in as just a bit of light hearted filler.

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Post subject: Re: Bands that never got noticed
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 8:31 am
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guitslinger wrote:
Neutral Milk Hotel really strikes a familiar chord with me,even though I'm not familiar with their music.This song is so quirky and different that it just has a real coolness to it. I think that I read in a review of an Apples in Stereo album,that the two bands are somehow tied in with each other,whether it's that they may be on the same record label,I don't know.Either way,I'll be going back on Youtube to give a listen to all the songs on that release,it should be a good album and that song is probably not indicative of the rest of the album and was put in as just a bit of light hearted filler.


They belong to the Elephant 6 Collective with bands like the Apples in Stereo, the Olivia Tremor Control and of Montreal. It's also a record label. I like psychedelic, but I could never get into NMH's psychedelic folk.


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Post subject: Re: Bands that never got noticed
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 2:39 am
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Thanks for that Steve,I thought that it was a record label connection.I had only heard of NMH and hadn't heard their music, songs like the one posted are a good little light-hearted break from "serious" music every now and then but I think if all their songs were written in that vein,it would become a bit monotonous after a while.I do however really like Apples In Stereo very much and their Discovery Of A World Inside The Moone is just plain brilliant.My introduction to them was when I heard "Submarine Dream" for the first time,I was bowled over by the dreamy Beatlesque soundscape they painted and bought the album just on the merits of that song.Robert Schneider is an incredible song writer as his song stylings and output are so diverse.Schneider's voice is also very unique and that really adds to the individuality of their music.

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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:30 am
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BOONES FARM, an American country rock band. They recorded an album produced by Jim Messina in 1972. Some great guitar picking on that album!

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