bands that should have had much more success

[Horsham Gull]

Check out a band called Hold fire (MySpace.com - HOLD FIRE) they are from Brighton innit

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

The World Of Twist.

Their version of the Stones 'She's a Rainbow' was awesome.

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

I would like to throw in Sultans of Ping (fc).

Where's me jumper?

 

[Buzzer]

The Beta Band

Yep. The 3 EP stuff is sublime

The incredible...
P W E I

No, no, no, no, no.

The Wedding Present

Yes, yes, yes. Cinerama (I think or something like that as Gedge's spin-off band were pretty good too) I heard a rumour that Dave Gedge lives down here now.

Seconded

And the Durutti Column

Its Grim Oop North but they helped.......

Yep and been mentioned by me too earlier.


And a bit of a one hit wonder but I liked them...Danny Wilson. Propaganda should have been mega too.

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Big country and Runrig

Was going to say Big Country but thought some would say they were successful... should ahve been MASSIVE!

oh and Propaganda...... one song just drove me wild

'The first cut won't hurt at all
The second only makes you wonder
The third will have you on your knees'

 

[zefarelly]

School for scandal had their moments locally

Agree with Spooky tooth
HP Lovecraft

in 2000 the Pets (Candian band) released their only album, a masterpiece

and this lot . . .moloko plus (at the bottom)

Throbnozzle Racing Online

 

[El Presidente]

Magazine

Playing Manchester Academy in February. Probably the last time they will be together.

 

[Simster]

wrt pwei
No, no, no, no, no.

f*** off LEE, I'm not having that. They were TOP f***ing DRAWER. I must have seen pwei about five times back in the day. Superb band.

Propaganda should have been mega too.

oh and Propaganda...... one song just drove me wild

'The first cut won't hurt at all
The second only makes you wonder
The third will have you on your knees'

Propoganda

This was discussed just before Christmas here.

For me, Propoganda's stuff remains remarkably undated. And Sully, that song is the legendary "Duel", and it remains an absolute GENIUS choon to this day.

 

[El Presidente]

Half Man, Half Biscuit
I, Ludicrous

 

[Frutos]

Vertical Horizon

The only song I really liked of theirs was 'Best I Ever Had', and I actually prefer this cover version of it:

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[Theatre of Trees]

Frazier Chorus

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The Vines made a glorious racket, then just seemed to fizzle out

 

[Sonic]

Frazier Chorus

Blimey, I remember them. Dream Kitchen was great and I've also got their album 'Sue'.

I think the Electric Soft Parade had potential for greater things.

Also Athlete. I thought more people would have gone and discovered their first and IMHO greatest album by far, 'Vehicles And Animals' after the success of the single 'Wires'.

Another one is Gomez whose first album 'Bring It On' is fantastic but sadly none of their later offerings lived up to it and every album since seems to have been worse than the last. I've heard mention that there's a phrase 'Doing A Gomez' where an artist produces a fantastic first album that they have no chance of every bettering.

 

[Frutos]

Frazier Chorus

 

[User removed 4]

My fav band Squeeze deserved more success than they did. Strange as it may seem most of their singles didn't get into the top 40, hence their greatest hits being called 45's and under. How Goodbye girl only got to number 63 and tempted to number 41 beats me.

In parts of the States they were huge live wise, i.e selling out Madison Square Garden yet their only hits there were Hourglass.

Perhaps being on the same record label and sharing the same manager as the Police had something to do with it.

Share sentiments about XTC as well

100% agree , seen them live a couple of times.

 

[Buzzer]

Frazier Chorus

Agree entirely. I started a thread about them a few months back. To me, Fujiya and Miyagi kind of carry on that vibe.

 

[Peteinblack]

Yes, I agree with the posts naming Half Man Half Biscuit - they get better with every album. The latest, 'CSI Ambleside', is genius ('Bad Losers on Yahoo Chess !), They apparently turned down an invitation to appear on
1980's early Friday evening music programme 'The Tube' on the grounds that they would miss the Friday evening home game of their beloved Tranmere Rovers. Bless 'em.

Also, three more bands occur to me:

Magazine
The Comsat Angels
B-Movie (had a brilliant early 1980s song called 'Nowhere Girl')

 

[Johnny Crumplin Football]

I always thought the Thrashing Doves deserved more recognition than they got...Nick Heyward (of Haircut 100) has made some cracking solo albums....Lloyd Cole still churns out masterpieces.....The Lotus Eaters anyone?!

 

[Buzzer]

these 80s band lead singers are well worth checking out. I was always partial to Aztec Camera and their song Oblivious is a perfect pop song. I saw Roddy Frame in concert later. Very good

Edwyn Collins is worth a listen and I also saw Doctor Robert play with Mick Talbot in the Greys pub of all places. Really blew me away. Agree about Nick Heyward's solo stuff being very good. As is Midge Ure

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

these 80s band lead singers are well worth checking out. I was always partial to Aztec Camera and their song Oblivious is a perfect pop song. I saw Roddy Frame in concert later. Very good

Edwyn Collins is worth a listen and I also saw Doctor Robert play with Mick Talbot in the Greys pub of all places. Really blew me away. Agree about Nick Heyward's solo stuff being very good. As is Midge Ure

Check out David Sylvian too... absolutely fantastic solo stuff...

thought a lot of Fish's (ex-Marillion) stuff was good too but started going downhill a bit after 1997.