[Closed] Bands probably forgotten, but it's a shame....

Buffalo Tom

Or these guys

Pop Will Eat Itself and very early Jesus Jones. Mixing samples lead guitars and rapping, singing and very good imagery. Led the way for a lot of music.

The Sundays, I Feel Fine....

Budgie?
Nazareth?

Mike Finnigan is a longtime friend. He went on from this band to become the world-class sideman for such acts as Dave Mason, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Joe Cocker and Bonnie Raitt. This is the band he was in in 1972, Finnigan and Woods. This cut from their album "Crazed Hipsters" is the most rockin', burning cover of a Dylan song ever. You will forget Hendrix's "Watchtower" after you hear this one.

PWEI are probably best forgotten, saw them when they were supporting loads of indie bands , they were terrible. How about a bit of easterhouse

This cut from their album "Crazed Hipsters" is the most rockin', burning cover of a Dylan song ever.

Filthy. Love it!

I know DJs still ocassionally play Sergeant Rock and Senses Working Overtime, yet surely XTC are woefully under-remembered? Swindon's finest and one of the world's greatest ever bands. I feel they were always criminally under-appreciated from the outset.

JLS 🙁

Oui3. Really liked their stuff when I was at school at uni, but they sort of fizzled out and went away.

Pretty much everything I liked in the 90s tbh

Also it's really hard to search youtube for A.

Bros.

I feel they were always criminally under-appreciated from the outset.

Still appreciated - BillytheTrumpet played "Sense is Working Overtime" when England were 123-5

Northwind, I saw them supporting someone around the time of this;

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Very good!

I offer you.....
The Golden Palominos
James King and the Lone Wolves

Darts

The La's

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PWEI were genius. Ahead of their time.

I've got a few things in my collection Northwind would like 🙂

Now, I nominate Eat. They were around the same time as PWEI, Wonderstuff etc, but their music lasts the test of time much better for me. I believe Ange Dolittle is a lost genius. Brilliant lyricist and singer.
I once saw them supporting James. Eat were so good I left before James came on cos I didn't want them to ruin it 🙂

Not their best track, but it fits with the thread title

I always liked PWEI. Saw the remnants of them live, supporting Carter a few years back, they were pretty dire. Shame.

"Smurf Robot And The Marzipan Bikers" or "Penguins In My Head". I certainly don't hear much about them these days.

always liked PWEI. Saw the remnants of them live,

Clint is no longer with them is he? Too busy doing movie soundtracks.

Also, pretty recent:
A.Human. Another lost genius singer. Saw them with a mate in a tiny pub and they (especially him, he was nuts) blew us away. Since lost a few band members, tried to go pop and went.. parp. Sad.

what happened to gomez and mansun i wonder?liked their music.

Deacon Blue.

Thread locked and blown up.

Deacon ****ing blue!? that tops every other thing you've ever posted on here 😆

Clint must be minted from lux, you hear it everywhere!. Im a big fan of pwei but then they were from my uni days so we're part of the whole soundtrack as it were.

MrNice - Member
Deacon **** blue!? that tops every other thing you've ever posted on here

+1000000 !! 😆

@bikebouy - some of us have not forgotten Harriet from the Sundays

we seem to be mostly mentioning bands hardly anyone had heard of in the first place. In which vein, I give you

The Wolfhounds. But I echo the mentions of PWEI. So inventive with their mixing and the lyrics " the rhythm it smokes more than a beagle". Easterhouse as well, Contenders is a fantastic album.

Idlewild

What a fantastic band. Sorry they arent niche enough or retro-cool ❓

Very forgotten.

No, seriously, they were just shit.

Poppies were ace back in their day. Growing up round Stourbridge in '89 probably helped.

The last time they played together was the reformation gigs in '95...brilliant. Saw Graham's version last year with Mary Byker and was underwhelmed.

Eat were ace. Saw them a few times in the old days.

My suggestion from that era..Family Cat. Their first EP still sounds great.

The Wildhearts. That fella certainly has the knack of writing a catchy tune. And a greater knack for career self-sabotage every time the prospect of substantial success beckons.

Idlewild are still going. They had a new album out not so long ago. Hugely hugely underrated when you look at the inexplicable popularity of some other scottish bands (ahem).

The Wildhearts.

Ginger's still rocking! This is about the only good thing Courtney Love has ever done, though.

(Sweary intro)

He sure as hell knows to to write a catchy hook, and some riffage. Top of the World worth a mention as well!

Dust Junkys.

And the Beta Band.
Reunion, please?

The 4 of Us
Energy Orchard
Cud
Gene
Terrorvision

Crikey, I'd forgotten Eat.

Hopefully by tomorrow, I'll have forgotten them again.

The senseless things.

Good call on the Senseless Things!! I was just thinking about them. I was also somehow reminded of the New FADS the other day- I'd forgotten about them for about twenty years. Saw them live at the Windsor Old Trout back in the early nineties. Lovely!

not just some tyres

is it wrong that I want a fat bike just so I can have tyres that say Husker Du on them?

PWEI - ACE
Senseless Things - Also ACE.
EMF - Not 'Unbelievable' but everything else they've done. First two albums are amazing. Saw them supporting Carter and they blew the roof off. Just like they'd never been away.

This band might not be as forgotten as some of the others but the video just popped up and I had no idea it was so hilarious! 🙂

+1 for the Dust Junkys

Also, Kingmaker

That was the later remix, the original is here.

(Prefer the original to the remix, I have to say!)

Clint is no longer with them is he? Too busy doing movie soundtracks.

I'm not sure TBH. It was just two blokes when I saw them, couldn't tell you who.

Terrorvision

Terrorvision have had more final tours than Spinal Tap have had drummers. They're still about though, I'm going to see Tony Wright's Christmas show at, erm, well, Christmas.

A few more from the era we all seem to be rose-tinting.

Ash
Mega City Four
Catherine Wheel
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BAD
Echobelly

+1 for PWEI. A bit 'obvious' at times, but always inventive and fun.

Idlewild are still going. They had a new album out not so long ago.

The new album is pretty much by the numbers but not the worst thing I've heard.

Echobelly?

Ok I raise you.. Elastica

Roddy woomble from Idlewild has done an album pretty much every year, in various guises, some of which are awesome.

Beta Band (minus Steve Mason) morphed into the Aliens and made two of the best albums of the 2000s. The little brother of one of them formed Django Django, and you can hear the synergies.

Gomez were successful in the States and have done 5 or 6 albums since the heady days of Get Myself Arrested.

No idea about Mansun but I think they're still banned from Liverpool Street Station.

Ok I raise you.. Elastica

I parsed that as Republica for a second and was quite confused.

Though, now I'm reminded of Sleeper. Whatever happened to them?

Yoof... 🙄

or perhaps, mostly unheard of in the uk, but bizarrely, very big in Greece:

My contribution, Gene. I always loved the album, Olympian.

That was what popped into my head when I saw the thread title on the front page. Gorgeous album, and weirdly I remember my old science teacher knew them through her son and managed to get the album signed for me when I was a kid. God knows what happened to it though 😥

+1 for Play Dead. Never got to see them but they were great on The Tube.

very rare live video footage that I only found out about 2-3 years ago:

there used to be more if you followed that link; think I downloaded most of it, must try find it, see if I can create a DVD of it. I saw them quite a few times, mostly in Wakefield / Leeds / Bradford. I missed The Tube show but I [i]was[/i] there for NMA in 84 🙂

this autumn, over a 2 week period, I shall be going to see, in this order:
The Sisters Of Mercy
New Model Army
Killing Joke

EIGHTIES!!!!
all over again 🙂
just needs the Nephs & The Mission & my autumn will be complete 🙂

Thanks, guys - I'll have a dig through these 🙂

That was what popped into my head when I saw the thread title on the front page.

Funny, isn't it ?

what happened to gomez and mansun i wonder?liked their music.

Gomez are still no doubt playing that bloody instrumental bit in a gig I saw them play in the late 90's. It had the feeling it was going to go on forever, so I left.

They are still recording and touring.

Mansun, You will never see play live again. Paul Draper the singer is currently recording an Album for release soon.

[url= https://twitter.com/pauldraper ]His Twitter feed.[/url]

re Sleeper - singer Louise Weiner (sp?) writes novels. Of the chick lit variety, I think.

Hora - you have confused me even more than normal. Why does someone who liked Elastica also suggest such utter shite as deacon blue? 😕

I may have posted this one before on another thread

Campags, anyone? Pete Voss was arguably too out-there for the Baggy-thru-Britpop scene at the time but I liked them the more for it. I miss them anyway and they still feature fairly heavily on my rides playlist 😀

MrNice - Member
@bikebouy - some of us have not forgotten Harriet from the Sundays

we seem to be mostly mentioning bands hardly anyone had heard of in the first place.

Ok I raise you.. Elastica
I parsed that as Republica for a second and was quite confused.

Though, now I'm reminded of Sleeper. Whatever happened to them?

Dust Junkys! **** yeah. Though not forgotten, everyone recognises one of their bsides... That's what we're doing when the fat boy's trippin.

The Wildhearts? Get out of the thread! Back on tour next month, it's a while since they've done a great album ([i]apparently[/i] Ginger is quite hard work, who knew?) but definitely not forgotten.

MrNice - Member

Idlewild are still going.

Idlewild ended in about 2006, there's a sort of shambling zombie band of the same name doing their best to become REM and shit on their own legacy mind...

Harsh Northwind, very harsh

Kingmaker.
Adorable
Milltown brothers
Dinosaur Jr.

Indie was ace

Gay Dad hahahahahahahahaha I hated them so much!!!

@curto- I'll narrow it down, it was May the 3rd 2005. ****y shoegazer versions of their old songs (basically everything sounded like a crap version of Happy To Be Here Tonight, so WHY NOT PLAY HAPPY TO BE HERE TONIGHT? Then responded to massive, endless chants for Captain with El Capitan...

I was hoping Bob Fairfoull would storm the stage with an explosive vest on and give it a cleaner end but no, cover version of I Wanna Be Sedated because you can't play your own punk songs but you can play someone else's.

Harsh? Harsh was paying money to have the piss taken out of us. There was a huge block of the crowd chanting THERE'S NO ROOM FOR LIARS, THERE'S NO ROOM FOR LIARS... Ah but when they were good, they were good. Roddy stagediving at the Cas then not getting back on stage because the bouncers didn't believe he was in the band... That was probably the same night they got so many crowdsurfers in the that the entire crowd collapsed and got tangled up like the end of a twister game, I thought we were going to need the fire brigade to cut us free of each other.

Beta Band.

sparklehorse

Going to echo a couple already raised: -
- Senseless Things
- Beta Band
- Sparklehorse

I'd also add: -
- Cashier No'9
- Cosmic Rough Riders
- Bernard Butler (As solo musician) - his debut record was brilliant

Can't believe Hora mentioned Elastica. I bought the debut album but probably one of the worst bands at the time - nearly as awful as Menswear!

Swervedriver
Spacemen 3
kerbdog
Belly

^^Spacemen 3 were great!

So maybe this a little early for some but what about?

Man, a brilliant band out of Wales.
Steve Hillage, a great influence on much that came after him.

Can I have 'That Petrol Emotion' and 'The Housemartins' too?

I had the misfortune to see Deacon Blue at Reading in the late 80s. They lasted a couple of songs before the hail of bottles made them exit stage left.

However, Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction played their entire set, can't remember too much, but I do recall the lead singer sticking a hand out and catching a bottle, much to everyone's delight - mind you, he had plenty of opportunity to get lucky.

Nobody mentioned the Go Betweens, sublime Aussie music, such shame that Grant McLennan died.