Bands you love that others seem not to know much about...

[WillParkinson]

Dead or Alive:
My favorite song from them is Sex Drive

oh the suns going down
the nights coming in
i got a brain for business and a body for sin
so shoot like a rocket cuz my engine is hot
if you want whats forbidden
baby thats what i got

sex drive(x6)

sex drive it sees no gender or color
so lets get together and collide with each other
sex drive aw you know how it feels
get out of my car and get under my wheels

sex drive(x4)

french kisses a thing of the past
were too young to die so we'd better live fast
the dying is easy the urge is so hard
if your looking for funking then get into my car

im a mercedes benz why dont you jump in
i got a rear view mirror you can watch us in
the harder you drive the smoother i go
i got my engine running

sex drive it sees no gender or color
so lets get together and collide with each other
sex drive aw you know how it feels
get out of my car and get under my wheels

oh the suns coming down
the nights coming in
i got a brain for buisness and a body for sin
so shoot like a rocket cuz my engine is hot
if you want whats forbidden baby thats what i got

get under my wheels(x3)

[Burma Jones]

1. Oasis.....n/t

[Initech]

2. I'm a big fan of Porcupine Tree

Unfortunately, they're relatively unknown outside of progressive rock / heavy metal circles.

[buddhamama]

10. i dig them

:thumbsup:

[bbernardini]

13. Beat me to it!

After I heard their XM performance, they quickly shot up to be in my top 5-10 favorite bands EVER.

[Initech]

17. They're much better live.

I've been to at least six PT shows over the last few years (going to two more in May and I recently saw the PT side project Blackfield a couple weeks ago) and they just keep getting better!

[AllegroRondo]

3. Bela Fleck

I've been following him for over 15 years.
He's won three grammy's for best album - one for bluegrass, one for jazz, and one for classical. All for playing banjo.

[WCGreen]

4. Yea, Bela Fleck is cool....

I dig Toni Price, The Format, Ben Folds, The Decemberists...

[greendog]

44. I first saw Bela play in 1983...

...at a Bluegrass festival in Louisville, KY. The previous New Grass Revival lineup (with Courtney and Curtis) had split up and the new line up (with Bela and Pat) wasn't together yet.

Sam Bush and Bela (then unknown) joined David Grisman onstage for a couple tunes. At the time, Grisman's band included Mike Marshal, Darol Anger, Mark O'Connor, and Rob Wasserman.

Not much you can say about a lineup like that 'cept WOW!

[Aristus]

5. Roger Cline and the Peacemakers.

Totally rockin' B-)

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

6. Assemblage 23 & The Cruxshadows

2 great tastes that taste great separately

[mainegreen]

11. A friend introduced me to Assemblage 23.

Good stuff.

[Rhythm]

7. London After Midnight

Great LA goth band that i first heard in '90, on a comp a friend sent me in the mail.

Probably the only band that i pine away to get to see live.

[taterguy]

8. Harvey Danger

Even I don't know much about them. I just know that their Where Have All the Merrymakers album from the mid-90s is one of my all-time favorite records.

[NightWatcher]

9. Easy E All Stars

They covered Radiohead's OK Computer on their cd, Radiodread. It's radiohead and reggae, how kuhl.

Also, the Polyphonic Spree

[crispini]

47. I (heart) the Polyphonic Spree!

They make me happy. :D

[catmandu57]

12. October Project

Altough they've been defunct for ten years, they made a couple of really good albums.

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. The Austin Lounge Lizards

per my sig.

Also, the now-defunct Foremen — though their creative genius, Roy Zimmerman, is still performing.

[musette_sf]

30. In the Chester Nimitz Oriental Garden

In Fredricksburg, Texas,

la la la la something, i can't remember the words.

actually my fave song of theirs is "Old Blevins".

then the one about the Golden Triangle.

anyone who has spent way too much time in the Ark La Tex needs them some Lounge Lizards.

[Oeditpus Rex]

33. Bla bla blaaaa bla-bla bla bla bla bla bla bla

"Them crazy hippies."

I saw 'em do the Chester Nimitz Oriental Garden Waltz once. It was freakin' hilarious. :D

[musette_sf]

34. Bla bla blaaaa bla-bla bla bla bla bla bla bla

"The Great Depression"

hey, maybe the ALLs were giving us a little prescient warning there....

on a lighter note, I also like the one about "Let's Go To The Apiary, Baby"

[Oeditpus Rex]

36. That a new one?

I don't recognize it, and I've got all their CDs except the new one.

You ever see 'em? They play the Kuumbwa in Santa Cruz at least once a year.

[musette_sf]

38. i heard them do the Apiary one

at McGonigle's Mucky Duck, in Houston. went there a few times to see them, before i escaped from Texas :-)

actually i have been looking for a good excuse to go down to the Kuumbwa, i haven't been there in years. an ALL gig would be worth the ride. i'm on Sleepy John's mailing list so i should hear about it when they're on the calendar.

[Oeditpus Rex]

39. You know Sleepy John?

Then why am I telling you anything? :shrug:

I miss the old, printed flyers, though. Funny cartoons 'n' stuff. Kinda like MAD's "Drawn-Out Drawings" by Sergio Aragones.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

15. Television.

AMAZING album. :thumbsup:

[schrodingers_cat]

42. Agreed - Same as above, plus Gun Club below, and Sufjan Stevens these days

And howabout these old faves from the 80's:
Chrome
Big Black
Virgin Prunes
Tall Dwarves

[mainegreen]

16. Psilodump & Binärpilot n/t

[Initech]

18. Another one - a lot of the lesser-known reggae bands

I love reggae, and enjoy a lot of the classics like Steel Pulse, Black Uhuru, and Toots & The Maytals.

[Ramsey]

19. The Devlins, Placebo, Black Lab

They put out a perfect album called Waiting.

Black Lab's album Your Body Above me is one of my all time faves. I have know idea what happened to this band, but I wish they'd do another.

Placebo is a fantastic Brit band with a really unique sound.

[flvegan]

24. Another Placebo fan here.

I saw them with Flickr and Stabbing Westward (I think) a few years ago.

[ghostsofgiants]

20. Umm, just about every band I listen to.

For this thread, let's say The blood Brothers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwZ0OuUrDes

[martymar64]

21. The Weirdos

also:

Apollo Sunshine

Millions of Dead Cops

Camper Van Beethoven

Uriah Heep

Hawkwind

[SacredCow]

22. Hoodoo Gurus

Aussie band with a fairly large catalog from the '80's to the present.

[Ariana Celeste]

23. VNV Nation, I guess.

I haven't met anyone who listens to them, anyways. My fave of their albums is Empires.

[SKKY]

53. I like VNV Nation...

...I got turned onto them in 2003. VNV Nation and Suicide Commando are pretty much all I listened to for 10 months while on deployment.

[mitchum]

25. Gun Club...the greatest band of the past 25 years

Rest In Peace, Jeffreylee

[Va Lefty]

26. The Beat Farmers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iquVd12M4lQ

[Mojambo]

27. Unbunny. n/t

[GOPisEvil]

28. The Long Winters, Centro-Matic and Earlimart

Those are but a few of the relatively unknown bands that I like.

[Book Lover]

29. Jellyfish

Great two-album band. Where are they now.....

[LostinVA]

31. Glengarry Bhoys

[Forkboy]

32. Kayo Dot,,Sun City Girls,The Residents

To name three out of a million :)

[seemunkee]

35. Broadcast, Animal Collective, Godspeed You Black Emporer, Mu-ziq

I made compilation CDs to give to my friends to see if I could get them interested in anything new, so far no takers.

[mitchum]

37. From Athens GA: Don Chambers + GOAT, box devils, Hope for a...

goldensummer, Garbage Island, Ham 1

[opiate69]

40. Eleven

Awesome band..
http://www.myspace.com/elevenesque

[Zookeeper]

41. Starlight Mints, Tullycraft, Marvin Pontiac, Komeda, Bad Plus. n/t

[otherlander]

43. The Pillows

They're Japanese and they're awesome! ^_^
"Ride on shooting star..."

[helderheid]

45. Moxy Fruvous

[wildhorses]

46. stir

never have got a response...

[benny05]

48. Can they be old bands? n/t

[WillParkinson]

52. They can be any band you want!

Please do tell.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

49. The Dubliners

I especially like the late Luke Kelly

Great group with lots of passion and zeal for what they do

[catzies]

50. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

kinda a punk super group

[enigmatic]

51. Richmond Fontaine

I'll keep pimping them until they get some much needed love. Here's Willy and the guys live earlier this month:

http://recluseshow.blogspot.com/2007/03/richmond-fontaine-live-march-5-2007.html

[SKKY]

54. Curve...

...Do a YouTube search for the words Fait Accompli, and enjoy the video. They're phenominal!

[Bzzzz]

55. Rocco DeLuca and The Burden...

Colorful is a great song.