Forgotten bands, hidden gems

Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Green Day - Dookie
The Black Crowes - Shake your Money Maker
The Wildhearts - Earth Vs The Wildhearts
Metallica - The black one
Pulp - Different Class
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club

I listened to Loveless by My Bloody Valentine last week. First time for dozens of years, no idea why...but...wow its still good

I was listening to Men At Work on my commute today 🙂

Deltron 3030 by Deltron 3030 this still sounds as good as the first day I heard it back in 2000

Guns n Roses – Appetite for Destruction

I think you need to reassess your definition of hidden gems from forgotten bands.

Ben Folds Five by Ben Folds Five

The Neon Handshake - Hell is for Heroes

Stumpy: are any of those forgotten? They all seem pretty well known to me.

Albums I loved, then forgot about, then remembered again:

Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires

Sly & Robbie - Rhythm Killers

James Brown - In the Jungle Groove

Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk

Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul

Big Joe Turner and the Trumpet Kings - The Trumpet Kings (Higly recommended)

Propaganda - A Secret Wish

TAD
Fudge Tunnel

Propaganda – A Secret Wish

Flippin 'eck Tucker, that is another one of my forgotten bands, hidden gems! Such a good album

Propaganda – A Secret Wish

Good shout - sound of my 6th Form, heard Duel on the radio the other day for the first time in about 30 years

I have a vinyl album by a band called Beckett, released in 1974, sort of prog rock. Very obscure, Shazam doesn’t recognise it, and unsurprisingly it’s not on iTunes or Apple Music, which is a shame, ‘cos I have fond memories of it, and I’d love a digital copy. It may be on cd, but my computer isn’t working, so I can’t even rip a copy and import it into my Apple Music library. 😕

The whole album’s on YouTube, and I’ve always liked the cover design - the central part would make an interesting tattoo, I think…

I’m pretty sure I can find plenty of obscure, forgotten bands, in fact, I’ve just remembered one I saw at Reading in ‘95, called Star 69, formed in London, fronted by an American singer, Julie Daniels with the rest of the band British, one member being the drummer with The Sundays. Sadly, only released the one album, and then broke up.

Anything by The Rezillos/Revillos.
What about The Gymslips?

Counting Crows - August and Everything After.

It was huge when it came out 1994?, then they disappeared for years. I put it on a few months ago. It stunned me how good it was and brought back loads of memories.

The Wolfgang Press - Bird Wood Cage.

Counting crows is a good shout, in a similar vein..
Gin blossoms new miserable experience.

Another band I’ve only recently rediscovered, to my shame, as they were a Bristol band, and I never got to see them, was Stackridge.

Sadly, no rubarb or dustbin lids to be seen.

Counting Crows – August and Everything After.

It was huge when it came out 1994?, then they disappeared for years. I put it on a few months ago. It stunned me how good it was and brought back loads of memories.

Well, they released another six albums after that, the most recent in 2021, called Butter Miracle Suite One, Which Adam Duritz worked on here in the U.K., where he’s been living.

I saw them at the IoW Festival in 2015, along with the likes of Susanne Vega, Blur, The Prodigy and Fleetwood Mac, so they were in August company…

China Drum - Goosefair
Cable - When animals attack
Mad Season - Above

Telstar Ponies - In the space of a few minutes

Vent 414
Aereogramme - Sleep and Release

Mountain.

Nantucket sleigh ride! What a tune

Counting Crows at the IoW Festival. His hair’s a lot shorter these days…

Oh, and August & Everything was 1993.

Anyone remember Curve? Love them to bits, saw them twice, there was supposed to be a reformation, but Toni Halliday decided against it, because she wasn’t happy about the whole music industry, which I was rather sad about. They did a couple of promotional prints of album sleeves, which I have signed copies of, so that’s something.

Fisher z … Word Salad … Cracking

Immediate thoughts:

Dodgy, Homegrown
Gomez, Bring it on
Beck, Odeley
Finley Quaye, Maverick a strike
Mazy Star, So tonight that I might see
Live, Throwing Copper

Sure there’s loads more….

Anything at all by New Fast Automatic Daffodils - criminally underrated band.

Ooof

Throwing copper what an album

Dodgy, Homegrown
Gomez, Bring it on
Beck, Odeley
Finley Quaye, Maverick a strike
Mazy Star, So tonight that I might see
Live, Throwing Copper

I've listened to something off each of these albums in the last couple of weeks. Mostly because Mrs.10 put on a Gomez station on Pandora!

How about Longpigs ? My phone rediscovered them recently while I was having a shuffle in the car 😖

1st album (the sun is often out) was best for me

I know music is a very personal thing (and is often of a time) but there is lots above that really sound terrible to my ears (sorry). My era was the 90's so am a bit spoilt for good bands. I will persist though as I do like expanding the music I listen to.

Super furry animals.

I was listening to a fair bit of PJ Harvey on Spotify the other week. She has a huge back catalogue with some great tunes mixed in with some that are pretty out there, for me anyway.

Anything at all by New Fast Automatic Daffodils – criminally underrated band.

^This. Still love playing bass along with the NewFADs Pigeonhole lp, ..

Anything by EAT. Bloody loved that band and saw them loads of times. Always thought Ange Dolittle was a criminally underrated vocalist and a great frontman. Thinking about it, his Big Yoga Muffin side project has stood up really well too...

These are the 1st 2 that came to mind...

Deltron 3030 is an excellent shout; only thing is it's anything but forgotten as it's up there with my all time favs!

Funny how people’s perspectives differ.

So much of this doesn’t seem forgotten at all. Counting Crows? Sheryl Crow?

Gomez? My eight year old knows pretty much every song they ever released 🤣

Bands and albums I’ve temporarily forgotten might be:
Toasted Heretic, LSD isn’t what it used to be
Ozric Tentacles, Pungent Effulgent
Das Efx
Travis, the man who

Then stuff I wasn’t really interested in like Wonder Stuff and Carter USM

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Niche Bullshit - Always a thread like this

think both were John Peel favourites

The Dust Junkys, Done and Dusted
Foil, with the bloody incredible Spread It All Around.
Carter USM still have a big following but the entire rest of the world's forgotten them so I'm still nominating 1992: The Love Album.
And Dub War- Pain. It'd still sound amazing if it came out tomorrow

Awesome shout on Neon Handshake Fat-Boy-Fat, gutted we have to wait another year to see that live again.

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How about Longpigs ? My phone rediscovered them recently while I was having a shuffle in the car 😖

What an absolute bloody tune She Said is.

Anything at all by New Fast Automatic Daffodils – criminally underrated band.

Amen to that.

My era was the 90’s so am a bit spoilt for good bands.

Um, a number of those referred to above are 90’s bands, and having lived through the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, I’ll bet I can find a lot more music I don’t actually like than you can, and probably some of it will be favourites of yours!

Disappears into – As usual
Niche Bullshit – Always a thread like this

think both were John Peel favourites

Well, you could always not bother commenting and bugger off somewhere that’s more to your taste…

#rollseyes

Many of those bands above were big sellers, so hardly ‘niche’…

loud,creaming jesus, curve, the nymphs, eves plumb, sunshot

all random stuff that turned up on a random playlist form the depths of collection the other day, bloomin loved sunshot, remember them supporting new model army and then hunting down their album.

Love is here by Starsailor , good debut album then struggled with the second album syndrome
Mama Said Lenny Kravitz, he seem to be kept busy these days with his F1 Sky duties

first one that sprung to mind for me was because i heard a song on 6 music yesterday and thought ahh that sounds like Asian Dub Foundation, i wonder what happened to them....
had 2 or 3 good singles back in the day, Naxalite, Free Satpal Ram and Buzzin come to mind.

That Petrol Emotion..... 'Chemicrazy' still gets a lot of airtime in my house'.

Deltron 3030 by Deltron 3030 this still sounds as good as the first day I heard it back in 2000

A fantastic proper hip-hop album. The instrumental version is ace too.definitely a hidden gem if tastes are more mainstream.

I was listening to Dust by Screaming Trees as part of my trip down Lanegan Lane. Still think it’s up there with Superunknown as one of the best of the 90’s

Vent 414

Supposedly some new material in the works.

That Petrol Emotion….. ‘Chemicrazy’

That's a cracker, what was their last album, Fireproof or something...that's great.

Eat Yourself Whole by Kingmaker..is my suggestion for this thread.

Creamy Mushrooms, life is a source.

I'd forgotten how much I loved Swervedriver. Not sure what prompted me but listened to their album again the other day.

Beta Band

- Throwing Copper - that’s a good one suggested above.
- I prefer Southern Harmony and Musical Companion by The Black Crowes, rather than SYMM.
- Loveless, never stopped listening TBH
- The Stairs, Mexican R&B. I was astonished last week to see Weedbus mentioned on here.
- Primal Scream, Vanishing Point
- Felt, pretty much any album
- Teenage Fanclub, Grand Prix
- Cosmic Rough Riders, Enjoy the Melodic Sunshine
- The Real People, Marshmellow Lane

I've been listening to Family Cat (Tell 'em we're surfin') and New Cranes (Frontline) a lot this week...it's like I've gone back in time.

I’d forgotten how much I loved Swervedriver

I saw them play about three years ago, I'd forgotten how much I hated that dull drone....ain't musical taste great, would be so boring if we all loved the same stuff!!!

– Cosmic Rough Riders, Enjoy the Melodic Sunshine

Wow. Twenty years ago this week we drove around southern spain, partner 5mths pregnant with our son, that was part of the soundtrack. Loved it, haven't listened to it for years. As a side note we ended up in Barcelona, noticed that Gorkys Zygotic Mynci were playing, got a sneaky gig in as well!
Their Spanish Dance Troupe and Barafundle are also lost hidden gems.

You may be able to tell I was a rock fan in the late '80s. A sample song from each of the artists I noticed from quickly scanning one shelf of my CD collection (excluding great artists who had massive commercial success like Queensryche)

King's X

Walter Trout

Goergia Satellites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdpAop7gp0w

Jeff Healey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwgOUzodS6E

Shelter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lalb8vL4VRw

The The - Soul Mining
Arrested Development - 3 years,5months,2 days.
The Streets - Original Pirate Material.

Pale Saints - Comforts of Madness.

Wow. Twenty years ago this week we drove around southern spain, partner 5mths pregnant with our son

Must be a lovely memory!

I discovered Danger Danger the other week - been listening to them pretty much constantly since...

Great album artwork as well

There's a really good live album on Spotify as well..

https://open.spotify.com/album/2jbAmXbxUWqXsgfWPNC8Jr?si=_m0dUcmHT0uQMAUHquloBA

Spotify threw up Dizzy by the Throwing muses (from Hunkpapa) a few nights ago, which led my down a lovely wee sidetrack of The Breeders, Belly, The Amps and The Perfect.

Beta Band

Hot Shots 2 is a great album - the Three EP’s even better.

I still listen to all of theirs to be honest. Steve Masons solo work is also good.

I’ve been listening to Liquidizer by Jesus Jones this week which I love.

Wedding present Seamonsters I hated it when it came out as I thought it
was a Steve Albini produced racket it’s now in my top 5 favourite LP of all time now. They’d grown up I hadn’t.

House of Love House of Love on Fontana is brilliant just came out at the wrong time. Im going listen to it this afternoon on my ride.

Carter have been on TOTP on BBC4 a lot recently I’ll give the Love Albumn a go as i always loved their singles but never got properly into them.

I’ll give the Love Albumn a go as i always loved their singles but never got properly into them

1st two albums far superior IMHO.

Recent rediscoveries...

Right Now - Van Halen
Alright - Supergrass
Locomotive breath - Jethro Tull
Rain - The Cult
Deliverance - The Mission
Moonchild - Fields of the Nephilim
Dominion - Sisters of Mercy.

I've gone a bit Goth.

Supergrass

In It for the Money is still regularly on my playlist.

Gryphon

Be Bop Deluxe

Senser - Age of Panic
Cocteau Twins - Bluebell Knoll
Mega City Four - Who cares wins or Sebastopol Rd.
Senseless Things - The First of too many
Curve - Doppelgänger
Maria McKee - You gotta sin to be saved

Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires

Yes!  We used to play that all the time in a bar I used to work in.  Took me ages to hunt down a copy.

I used to love trawling late night radio shows for oddities and rarities.  One I picked up from that was an artist called Sandy Dillon, think Tom Wait's eccentric niece and you're maybe getting close.  I had an album of hers called Electric Chair which I recently found on Apple Music, so listened to it again.  Still think it's great.  Also, after I listened to it once the songs from that album went to the top of the artists most popular songs list!

Thanks to Rick Beato: Muddy Magnolias.

Recent old crap in my Spotify history, I mean I would not say they are forgotten, because I did not forget them, more oldie-but-goodie:

69 Love songs - Magnetic fields
Ladies and gentlemen ... - Spritualized
Dummy - Portishead
Exhile on Coldharbour Lane - A3
Beaucoup Fish - Underworld

Pat Fish aka The Jazz Butcher passed away recently. Even in his heyday he was under-appreciated and a bit apart from musical fashions, but he made some really beautiful songs.

This first one features Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3 fame at the end, fact fans...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIez7lGxKps

69 Love songs – Magnetic fields

*fist bump*

Goosebumps every time.

Close Lobsters - Foxheads Stalk This Land
I believe they have reformed recently

early 70s prog band Van Der Graaf Generator

I saw the Cosmic Rough Riders supporting The Black Crowes at the Barras about 20 years ago. Also saw the Gin Blossoms supporting the Spin Doctors at the same venue almost 30 years ago.

These are tracks that did pretty well on release, but I never hear any more other than my own playlists.

reef, place your hands
rocket from a crypt, on a rope
sneaker pimps, 6 underground
the choral, dreaming of you

Mountain.

Nantucket sleigh ride! What a tune

Yep, used to have that on vinyl. Leslie West is no longer with us sadly.

I found a cd by Men at Work (remember them?) and stuck it in the player. It always makes me laugh how well their most famous song still sounds great. Anyway later on in the album I stumbled into this, and thought blimey, that is a great and beautiful song.

Both of the first 2 albums are full of excellent tunes - I loved them at the time and still do. Colin Hay is still making music and still has that distinctive voice. In fact, he's just released an album, which is a little less quirky than MAW but is still good.

I always thought Sugar were massively underrated

Sugar - Tilted

And Buffalo Tom should have been way bigger than they were

@chestercopperpot - The drummer from FT (Adrian Parkin) used to be MD of the company I work for.

This is a beautiful album from 1989.It got me through some shitty times in the early 90s.

Shoegaze / folk with gorgeous lyrics and harmonies.

Lead vocalist is actor Rebecca Pidgeon.

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Glad Deltron and the Dust Junkys have got a shout, both awesome albums - Deltron Event II is well worth a listen.

I'm a 90's kid as well, so I'd say the following tracks rank in there for me
- Bluetones - Slight Return. Everyone talks about the big 90s Indie bands but Bluetones get forgotten
- Geneva - No One Speaks (Clicky!). Supported the Bluetones in '95-96ish interestingly enough.