Great bands/singers almost NO ONE remembers...

[WillParkinson]

How about Autograph (Turn Up The Radio and My Girlfriends Boyfriend Isn't Me)?

Or Austin Roberts (Rocky)?

Or Blackfoot (Everyone told me that I was wrong when I told them there was a harder version of "Living In The Limelight" than the Peter Cetera version...)

[FlashHarry]

1. Dwight Twilley

Had a hit with the power pop/booty rock anthem I'm on Fire in the early 70s. Genius.

I might also add: Donnie Iris and Martin Briley.

[bunk76]

2. The Tubes......

"What do you want from life"?
White punks on dope.

[ikojo]

23. Vince Welnick of the Tubes played with a

little band based out of San Raphael, CA from 1990 to 1995....he was quite good.

[AntiCoup2K4]

57. And he survived!

Which is more than his three predecessors can say :-(

[neuvocat]

3. Gary Moore

Still got the blues.

[last_texas_dem]

9. Oh yeah!

I love that song! I remembered hearing it on the radio when I was only six years old or so and really liking it. I forgot about it for years until one day a couple years ago it popped into my head and I went on a quest to find out who performed it and locate it. My only disappointment was after finding the full version online, I purchased Gary Moore's greatest hits collection which omitted the last two minutes of the song, which features some awesome guitar work. So perhaps I'll have to eventually pick up the original album to get the full-length version.

[vi5]

4. Blackfoot! I remember when MTV used to play them...

When MTV first started out and there was a total dearth of available music videos, their rotation including stuff like Culture Club and Michael Jackson and Def Leppard but also totally left field rock stuff like Jim Capaldi and Blackfoot, whose "Train, Train" video would get the occasional default airplay.

[BattyDem]

47. Me too!

I used to love that song "Teenage Idol"

MTV was great back then! They played any band that had a video, because there weren't a lot of videos out there. All different kinds of music - pop, rock, metal, new wave, even country (they actually played The Charlie Daniels Band and The Marshall Tucker Band!).

Remember The Knack? "My Sharona" would get everybody dancin'! :smoke:

[htuttle]

5. Max Webster/Kim Mitchell

Max Webster was one of the great overlooked Canadian bands of all time. I still think of their song 'Check!' when I hear someone doing a mike check. They did a collaboration with Rush at one point ('Battlescar' on Universal Juveniles), but it only received limited airplay.

Kim Mitchell, the front man, achieved some temporary fame with his solo hit, "Might as well go for soda", but that was it.

[Dogmudgeon]

20. Kim Mitchell

He's a major star in Canada and pretty well-known in Europe and Japan.

His really big hit was Patio Lanterns, a song about being a teenager in love. Well worth looking for.

The guy is still around, and I think he put out an album in 2001.

--bkl
Just a bit of a fan.

[MarianJack]

6. Jane Oliver!

Lovely voice, good entertainer. Some hits in the early 80's, then POOF!

[blondeatlast]

11. Wow--memories.

[Richardo]

7. The Busboys...

...had one song in the "Ghostbusters" and (I think) "48 Hrs" soundtracks and some other FM play. They rocked.

[blondeatlast]

12. The perfect marquee:

with post #10.

The BBs were great, very underappreciated.

[Tikki]

8. "NAUGHTY SWEETIES"..

...'ALICE' and 'WHO WACKED (MY BLACK CADILLAC)'

Ian Jack has a tremendous voice...

The band has a social conscience, also, with numbers written like 'WORKING ON THE TOWER OF BABEL' and 'BAD GIRL'.

[blondeatlast]

10. The Waitresses, far more than just "Christmas Wrapping"

Great punk from a woman's POV, but written by a man.

I'm thinking of writing a fictionalized book about them.

[stanwyck]

28. Love them!

And I've got my college junior daughter hooked on them, too!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

31. I told them I don't even know anybody in Toronto!

:thumbsup:

[blondeatlast]

55. "I feel better if my laundry's done."

I had no idea then how true those words would be!

Have you heard Bruiseology?

[WillParkinson]

49. I Know What Boys Like...

Wasn't that them?

Also the theme song from Square Pegs.

[blondeatlast]

58. Yep. I think (judging from your taste) that you ought to listen further.

Their first album "Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?" is the classic.

Intelligent, ironic and funny lyrics--you had to vbe pretty sharp to get it!

These are the lyrics NSMA referred to, like I said--very sharp. From the song "No guilt:"

Needed new posters, so I bought them
I know the cost of stamps now
The thirty-first is when I pay the phone bill
I told them I didn't even know anybody in Toronto

Enjoy--you will!

Check out their site; very interesting personalities in the band.
http://www.hardcafe.co.uk/waitresses/

[Maddy McCall]

13. Gene Loves Jezebel

My favorite group in the 80s.

[Character Assassin]

14. Romeo Void. Or perhaps Kiss. Wang Chung

Oh, wait Kiss were big, weren't they?

Ok, just Romeo Void, then, and Wang Chung, who's album 'Points on the Curve' and the soundtrack to 'To Live and Die in L.A' are both incredible.

[blondeatlast]

15. "Sunset girls must be dis-CRETE . . .

Nursing their fathers locked inside,
they masquerade
as his bride."

Miss Iyall kicked some SERIOUS ass.

[Character Assassin]

17. Never Say Never was actually about a rape, if memory serves.

I wouldn't get in her way, in any case....

[blondeatlast]

52. Yikes--I just read the lyrics on their official website.

I believe you're right, and it's not "Sunset," it's "Sunsuit."

Now that I know the correct lyrics, I believe it's about molestation. How long have I misheard it? Sheesh.

Still a great song though but now even creepier. RV is truly missed. Iyall is one of a kind.

[Susang]

16. Wang Chung were pretty big back in the day

Remember "everybody have fun tonight...everybody Wang Chung tonight"?

Personal story, I actually met Wang Chung, The Georgia Satellites and REO Speedwagon in one evening when I worked the bar at the Kalamazoo Hilton. There were all performing at various venues in town and were kinda pissed that they were all at the same bar at the same time. Particularly REO. For some reason, they were the real jerks of the night and the Georgia Satellites were really nice.

Wang Chung were okay, they just tried a little too hard to get laid and it seemed to be working, but not as well as they would have liked. It was fun to watch. :-)

[LynneSin]

54. EVERYBODY HAVE FUN TONIGHT - EVERYBODY WANG CHUNG TONIGHT

I think we need more nights of Wang Chunging it. Anyone want to join me???

:pals:

:grouphug:

[Character Assassin]

18. Oh, I totally forgot! The Tubes!

I'm trying like hell to get "TV is King" off of Kazaa, but to no avail.

[blondeatlast]

19. "I Eat Cannibals"

Toto Coelho

Betcha heard it at the dance clubs.

[WillParkinson]

24. Betcha I got it...

On a disc somewhere here...I loved that song.

[blondeatlast]

29. Scary--I know all the words!

[Dogmudgeon]

21. The Corgis

"Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime"

A beautiful song but too mellow for the popular metal hair bands of the time.

--bkl

[FauxNewsBlues]

22. Maria McKee/Lone Justice

If anybody knows of a female on the planet with better vocal chords, please let me know.

[AntiCoup2K4]

59. Oh Hell yeah!

There's No justice when Maria Mc Kee & Lone Justice are virtual unknowns and many less talented "singers" have prospered in both the country and pop charts.

[tarkus]

25. Gentle Giant!

[dawgman]

26. don't know if no one remembers them but...Faith No More

was awesome.

[whirlygigspin]

27. Shawn Phillips

aaaaaaaah.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

32. He's got some newer stuff out but I loved SHE

One of my all time fave Phillips songs

[chiburb]

61. Bless you both!

I thought I was the only DUer who knew of Shawn.
My MAIN man!

Check my sig line...

[ACK]

30. Richard Hell and the Voidods

Bob Mould and Husker Du

Paul Westerberg and the Replacements

D. Boon and the Minutemen

Most everything I listen too regularily.

[lynndew2]

33. Melanie...listening to her now

[scarlet_owl]

34. I love me some Melanie!

So does Mr. scarlet_owl!

[scarlet_owl]

35. Hey wait....That's three hundred posts!

WoooooooHooooooooooo!

[lynndew2]

38. Hey Scarlet...lol I was just in your 300 post thread

WTG!!!!!!!!! You rock if you like melanie, and you rock anyway!!!!!!!! Congrats :toast:

[scarlet_owl]

40. Hey thanks!

[Leftist78]

36. Helmet

best alt/grunge/whatever band to come out of the early nineties

[Swede]

37. Marth Davis and the Motels,Cityboy,Camel,UFO

Walter Rossi,the Hooters,

[Swede]

39. Marth Davis and the Motels, Cityboy , Camel

Walter Rossie, Lake

[carpetbagger]

45. Wow. Someone else remembers Camel.

Those third-rate Yes clones beat the c**p out of anything out today. (See my post regarding Renaissance and Annie Haslam, who when she had some good songwriters in the 70's could run circles around anyone out there now.)

[muriel_volestrangler]

51. Focus

Dutch band, most people have probably heard a bit of it (eg 'Hocus Pocus', 'Sylvia') at some time, but hardly anyone can name the band. Who else has got away with yodelling and rock together?

[SiouxJ]

63. I just saw Martha Davis (and the Motels) last year

she was on a reunion tour with Missing Persons and Berlin. She blew away the other two.

Martha Davis is truly one of the most under-rated talents of our time. I was stunned by her performance. She was one of the original "girls with guitar" but no one remembers that.

[jiacinto]

41. The Divynles

nt

[carpetbagger]

42. Renaissance/Annie Haslam

I've heard it described as "Yes with a female lead singer". They're somewhat different, putting out most of their stuff a bit later, more in line with an Alan Parsons-type sound, but you get the point that I'm splitting hairs to a degree. Around the late 70's the band started to degenerate, with the artistic lead being taken over by different band members, but some of the early stuff is incredible.(e.g. Prologue, Ashes are Burning, Scheherezade, Turn of the Cards. The earliest stuff is an entirely different lineup, consisting of the half of the Yardbirds that were into psychedelia-good stuff, but different)

Here's a few of the 30-sec clips from Amazon.com, that probably best characterize the band's sound from about 1972-78

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/clipserve/B000002LKN001005/0/104-2495469-3934335 tracks 5 and 4

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/clipserve/B000002LKT001001/0/104-2495469-3934335 track 1

[lynndew2]

43. I said melanie but you are right with renaissance also

I saw both melanie and renaissance in acuistic concerts in NJ in the early-mid 70s. Excellent find rsammel.

[FloridaJudy]

44. Country Joe and the Fish

Come on, Mothers, throughout the land
Send your boys off to Viet Nam!

Come on Fathers, don't hesitate:
Send 'em before it's too late!

Be the first one on your block,
To have your boy come home in a box!

***************************

Country Joe, where are you now that we REALLY
need you?

[regnaD kciN]

48. Where is he now?

Try http://www.countryjoe.com/

[annagull]

46. The Pretty Things

ttp://www.sixtiesrock.com/pretty-things/

really an important band. My hubby is into all late 60's and early '70's psychedelica rock, these guys were actually recording into the late '80s!

[Kat45]

66. The Pretty Things put out a new album and toured in the nineties

I interviewed them, wrote an article, and went to see them in a local club. Their publicists sent me a shitload of CDs--I think I probably have their whole catalog!

[RebelOne]

50. Starbuck

Their one and only big hit was "Moonlight Feels Right."

[LynneSin]

53. Alan Parson's Project and King Crimson

I just love their albums - well the older stuff.

[ProfessorGAC]

56. Arrrrrgh!

First, King Crimson still plays together, so someone must be remembering them.

Secondly, the great King Crimson stuff was their last incarnation, not the early stuff. While i like everything by them, the four albums with Fripp, Belew, Bruford, and Levin were all artistic masterpieces.

Four sublime musicians, each with their own vision, melding for the common good, to do music that wasn't meant to be popular, only excellent.

And, those four albums sold over 3 million units. They did music for the art, didn't concern themselves with sales, turned out superb work, and it sold anyway.

Kind of blows up the whole business model for today's record industry, doesn't it?
The Professor

[AntiCoup2K4]

60. The Alarm

Most people never got past their haircuts to give their music a chance. Brilliant stuff. "Declaration" and "Strength" are easily in my Top 25 albums of the 80's list.

[Kat45]

67. The Alarm--yeah, I went to see them play back then.

They were good!

[WillParkinson]

62. How about "Rhonda & Physical Motion"?

They did a cover for "It's My Party (and I'll cry if I want)" that was excellent. It's the only song by them I've ever heard.

[Japhy_Ryder]

64. The Instigators

A 90's ska band. Solid music, real ska.

[Cheswick2.0]

65. kick

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