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SYRFox 07.15.2008 07:55 AM

The Rolling Stones

sarramkrop 07.15.2008 07:57 AM

Stellastarr
Barenaked Ladies
The Spin Doctors

sarramkrop 07.15.2008 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by SYRFox
The Rolling Stones


This thread is about bands that time forgot, not people that sense of humour forgot.

sarramkrop 07.15.2008 08:05 AM

Ubelievable Truth (Thom Yorke's brother's band)
Silver Jets

HECKLER SPRAY 07.15.2008 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Death & the Maiden
They're certainly not forgotten in Australia.

Oh, damn, I feel sorry for you, australians...:(

Toilet & Bowels 07.15.2008 09:10 AM

Rachel Stamp

Glice 07.15.2008 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
We Know Where You Live

I'm undecided about Dawn Of The Replicants 'cause they had a couple of tunes that I liked.

AC Acoustics


Ah, now I played the David Holmes Candlefire remix in a DJ set relatively recently, and I was surprised that it sounds loads better now than it did. AC Acoustics I still have a soft spot for.

Linoleum, anyone? Scarfo?

Elastica are still standing up if you ask me.

sarramkrop 07.15.2008 01:08 PM

I dare you to remember Whiteout.



 

sarramkrop 07.15.2008 01:13 PM

David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Thurman
Marion
Senseless Things

Glice 07.15.2008 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
I dare you to remember Whiteout.




 


I remember always liking their sleeves, but don't remember any of their tunes.

The Supernaturals. Silver Sun. Echobelly. The Longpigs. My Life Story. Suede [ha].

sarramkrop 07.15.2008 01:17 PM

Strangelove
Elcka

Glice 07.15.2008 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
Strangelove
Elcka


I think the singer from Strangelove was temping for the company I work for last year.

sarramkrop 07.15.2008 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Glice
I think the singer from Strangelove was temping for the company I work for last year.


I was going to say Geneva but they also have a 2 or three songs that I still like.

Jonathan Fire Eater

radarmaker 07.15.2008 01:22 PM

Fucking Terris.

Glice 07.15.2008 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
Jonathan Fire Eater


I still listen to their first EP quite a lot.

Terris. Ultrasound.

Aww, Union Kid. I really liked them. But I'd be surprised if anyone can remember them. Shame.

radarmaker 07.15.2008 01:23 PM

Hey, Jonathan Fire*Eater were pretty good.

racehorse 07.15.2008 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by tesla69
I used to hang out at Jone's apt in San Fran in the early 90's when she lived with this woman Lynn who drummed for Dino Jr. It was supercool city I'd tag along with my housemate just to check out the scene-she'd been pals with Jone back iN Reno and had convinced Kevin Seconds to masturbate for them one boring night. I remember they told me like they couldn't believe he went for it, but I was thinking, hmm, if two chicks begged me to masturbate for them I don't see much of an issue there, and told them so. Jone told us once about some guy with 2 german sheperds for whom she'd housesit, and the guy had trained the dogs to give him oral, and she was forever having to push the dogs away from her. They were always hanging out with some guy Roddy i think was his name who was in Faith No More but more known among this circle for being the Cobain's babysitter.

I couldn't make up this stuff if i tried...

You sound like Del Preston...

Glice 07.15.2008 01:23 PM

Great minds think alike, eh?

Edit: Twice, in fact.

Glice 07.15.2008 01:24 PM

Do Melys count, in spite of the fact they were great?

sarramkrop 07.15.2008 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Glice
I still listen to their first EP quite a lot.

Terris. Ultrasound.

Aww, Union Kid. I really liked them. But I'd be surprised if anyone can remember them. Shame.

 

I only ever had this one (if memory doesn't fail me it came as a double digipack and I am sure that I had the CD2 as well) and never really liked it. They have something to do with The Strokes, no? I much prefer The Strokes.

tesla69 07.15.2008 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
The Spin Doctors


I subletted a room from the original guitarist of these guys on Mott St in summer of 1988. He later became a junkie and they kicked him out of the band. He made a million bucks from Little Miss Can't Do wrong or whatever it was and put it all in his veins. Yes, even before his fame he was a dick, and when he got kicked out I laughed. Actually I think parts of Suckdog's Drugs Are Nice lp was recorded there.

Can you guys name any more shitty bands I seem to have had a direct connection to?

radarmaker 07.15.2008 01:29 PM

Heh :)
Must admit, I've got a soft spot for Ultrasound - they were on before someone else I wanted to see at a festival that I wanted a good spot for so was crammed right at the front, and they really knocked me out.

Though in retrospect, the chemical cocktail that was no doubt coursing through me probably had a large role in that...

sarramkrop 07.15.2008 01:30 PM

Yeah I don mind Ultrasound too much either and there's 3 or 4 songs by Low Fidelity Allstars that are still good.

Glice 07.15.2008 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
 

I only ever had this one (if memory doesn't fail me it came as a double digipack and I am sure that I had the CD2 as well) and never really liked it. They have something to do with The Strokes, no? I much prefer The Strokes.


That's the EP artwork - the album was exactly the same with a blue motif. The EP (which just so happens to be in my hands) contains:

The search for Cherry red
Make It Precious
Give me Daughters
The Beautiican
Winston Plum: Undertaker
and the exciting bonus track, When Prince was a kid.

The recordings are generally of a better (for which read: less polished) quality than those on the album. I'm pretty sure the Kills did a cover of the search for cherry red in a Peel session sometime in the early 90s. Stuart Lupton went on to form someone else, because I've seen his name since JFE split, I'm sure.

sarramkrop 07.15.2008 01:33 PM

I used to like Dream City Film Club too. I haven't heard a note by them in 567889 years.

Glice 07.15.2008 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
Yeah I don mind Ultrasound too much either and there's 3 or 4 songs by Low Fidelity Allstars that are still good.


Regular Fries (AKA another of Paul Morley's attempts to be in a band that isn't entirely shit) were shit though.

Glice 07.15.2008 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
I used to like Dream City Film Club too. I haven't heard a note by them in 567889 years.


When they were good, they were very good. When they were bad they were well shit.

sarramkrop 07.15.2008 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Glice
Regular Fries (AKA another of Paul Morley's attempts to be in a band that isn't entirely shit) were shit though.

Yep. The only good thing about them was that semi-S&M cover for the NME that had the singer/painter bloke on it. What was his name? Peter or something, I think.

radarmaker 07.15.2008 01:38 PM

Six By Seven. The Kustom Built. 3 Colours Red. Someone must've said Dweeb already, right?

sarramkrop 07.15.2008 01:39 PM

Dweeb were total mega shit. I don't mind some Six By Seven, though.

radarmaker 07.15.2008 01:39 PM

Miss cunting Black America. One of only 2 bands I've ever paid money to see and then walked out after the first song. (Maximo Park are the other)

Six By Seven annoyed me - I was in Nottingham at the time and saw them a load of times in their early days and really wanted them to be good, but aside from maybe one or two songs, it's all turgid shit in retrospect. And Chris Olley is/was apparently a right prick.
I saw them again about 3-4 years back 'cos my mate's band were supporting them and they were beyond fucking awful. They were actually handing out their latest single to anyone that walked in 'cos no fucker had bought it.

sarramkrop 07.15.2008 01:44 PM

haha.

The fucking Eels and especially that tune ''Novofuckingcaine For The fucking Soul''.

Glice 07.15.2008 01:44 PM

Funnily enough, I was listening to a live session of Miss Black America that I'd taped off Peel the other day. Still quite like them. They were never as good as Alec Empire's record of the same name, which in itself was never as good as the Empire vs Presley record.

uhler 07.15.2008 01:45 PM

orchid

sarramkrop 07.15.2008 01:48 PM

The Trash Can Sinatras.

Trust me, i've tried liking them but no way I could.

radarmaker 07.15.2008 01:48 PM

I've heard Miss Black America went through a few line-up changes 'cos no-one could stand the singer. Must admit, he was the main reason I walked.

Oh, now I think about it, I walked out of an Art Brut gig too. And in all 3 cases, it was largely down to wanting to bludgeon the singer with a large blunt-but-spikey instrument within seconds of setting eyes on him.

sarramkrop 07.15.2008 01:50 PM

Cosmic Rough Riders
Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Runrig

Glice 07.15.2008 01:54 PM

Selfish Cunt.

In a just world, there's a whole slew of bands that time hasn't forgotten, in spite of good reason. I was just about to type the Lemonheads and Screaming Trees and Alice in Chains and Soundgarden, but people still listen to them, don't they?

Glice 07.15.2008 01:55 PM

Speedy! One amazing single and absolutely fuck all else. The same with the Chicks. One amazing EP and fuck all else.

sarramkrop 07.15.2008 01:57 PM

Does anyone remember The Paradise Motel? Far from great band but I recently re-found their album 'Still Life' in a shop and it's got two excellent songs that I had totally forgotten about.


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