[Music] Bands who were ridiculed for being unoriginal or shite, but years later sound brilliant

[Weststander]

The Style Council who were always and understandably compared to the Jam were a really good band. I would add The Beautiful South who were also very unfavourably compared to The Housemartins

I remember the Style Council and The Beautiful South as being loved by the music media. Weller can do no wrong in their eyes. With The Beautiful South, considered a stylish upgrade on the pop music of the Housemartins.

Personally I liked both the Housemartins and the Beautiful South.

The problem for the Style Council was that a huge swathe of The Jam fanbase weren’t fond of the Jazz/Soul of the new band, understandable as The Jam were brilliant.

 

[Surf's Up]

I'll start with one of my favourite bands, one who I would not have lifted a willy to help if they were on fire in the early 80s, The Opposition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPBTE9Up0gU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ5Azi3IBWg

Shite

 

[Surf's Up]

NME used to write 'they were shit, but not as bad as 70 Gwen Party'.

Bollocks.

70GP are IMMENSE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ40kgmGyvM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2EdJSIFjv4

Shite

 

[Igzilla]

Dismissed as Roxy Music soundalikees, David Sylvian now regarded as an auteur of the highest order. Listen, weep and die track pasted first

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7nz68wNGrI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhm-EqcPta0

This this this. I'll see your Quiet Life and I Surrender and raise you with Obscure Alternatives

https://youtu.be/amS-BNNsDA4

PS: my favourite band ever. Still listen to them 40 years on, never grows old. For me, all my significant life moments have a Japan /Sylvian soundtrack. I wept when Mick Karn died, never done that about anyone I've never met.

 

[Gwylan]

Nobody in the band was called 'Hunter' as far as I'm aware.....was the band named after the Hunter you mention? I though the name was a play on 'hunter gatherer'....

They took their name from a Can track - it's on the Landed album.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

This this this. I'll see your Quiet Life and I Surrender and raise you with Obscure Alternatives

https://youtu.be/amS-BNNsDA4

PS: my favourite band ever. Still listen to them 40 years on, never grows old. For me, all my significant life moments have a Japan /Sylvian soundtrack. I wept when Mick Karn died, never done that about anyone I've never met.

You have immaculate tase and impeccable decorum. I remember when Mick was trying to get help to pay for his medication. Very sad

 

[*Gullsworth*]

Quite life and Obscure Alternatives are truly classics IMHO

 

[Igzilla]

This this this. I'll see your Quiet Life and I Surrender and raise you with Obscure Alternatives

https://youtu.be/amS-BNNsDA4

PS: my favourite band ever. Still listen to them 40 years on, never grows old. For me, all my significant life moments have a Japan /Sylvian soundtrack. I wept when Mick Karn died, never done that about anyone I've never met.

You have immaculate tase and impeccable decorum. I remember when Mick was trying to get help to pay for his medication. Very sad

Quite life and Obscure Alternatives are truly classics IMHO

It's times like this that make me love NSC

 

[colinz]

Wow. Thanks for that

They were played a lot on CITR, the university radio station in Vancouver, 83-86 when i was there doing my PhD. I absolutely loved them immediately. But they were not at all popular. I would never have called them Goth. One album was produced by Connie Planc (spelling). I absolutely loved the singer, Mark Seymour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Seymour

There is a great vid of some grunge band (a famous american one) doing 'throw your arms around me' with Mark singing duet, on youtube.

Nobody in the band was called 'Hunter' as far as I'm aware.....was the band named after the Hunter you mention? I though the name was a play on 'hunter gatherer'....

All the best from darkest Faversham.

I remember Hunter telling me that he was in the University band, and that his brother was H&C's French Horn player but could also play a lot of other instruments, but I don't think Hunter himself was ever in the band.
It's interesting that they were popular in Vancouver, they went to the UK around 1988 but they never liked living there.

83-85 I was living in a house hold in Melbourne with 2 (female) Uni students, who were nuts over the band they and their friends would attend their gigs dressed in Goth regalia.

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

Thirteen pages and no mention of Gazza...Hated by nearly everyone back in the day (not me btw)





Now loved and considered a major influence

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Some people seem to have misread the thread title.

If it had been called "shit hands no one has heard of " I'd understand. I don't remember Japan or the Style Council being ridiculed, for example I didn't like either then or how but...unoriginal....no.