Old Bands Time Forgot

[DC Reed]

Here's one:

The Presidents of the United States of America

I saw them play the Fairfax Fair (yes they are doing fairs now) and they sounded great live. Too bad they couldnt do any better than Lump of Peaches, cause they are some pretty chill guys and good at getting the crowd goin.

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

Me and skid were just talking about them.

What ever happened to Marcy Playgound or Crash Test Dummies?

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[mikeyboy]

Off the top off my head --

From my days as a DJ on a college radio station, these are bands that I recall being on our playlist in the late 80s that you don't hear much of anymore:

The Godfathers
Transvision Vamp
That Petrol Emotion
The Wonder Stuff
Hoodoo Gurus
Dead Milkmen
Screaming Blue Messiahs
Fetchin Bones
House of Freaks
Shriekback
World Party
Hunters and Collectors
Hothouse Flowers
The Primitives
The Alarm

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[FUNKMAN]

how about Big Wreck... a friend turned me onto "In Loving Memory Of" and the music was excellent all around...

Blown Wide Open is a favorite...

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[DC Reed]

Marcy Playground - one hit wonder

But what a damn good hit.

How about Semisonic Closing Time was a good song, but where are they now, I havent heard anything. Anyone else?

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Fetchin Bones


Wow-- I actually have one of their albums!

Better than Ezra is another that comes to mind.


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Porno for Pyro's

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[TheMojoPin]

The Catherine Wheel.

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[Arienette]

Marcy Playground - one hit wonderthey were not a one hit wonder. obviously sex and candy was their biggest hit, but sherry fraiser, st joe on a school bus, and it's saturday got a fair amount of radio play. i saw them play the wetlands a few years back, and it was actually a pretty damn good show. i was surprisingly impressed.

Better than Ezra is another that comes to mind.really good band. they never hit it too big, other than a song or two off each album - good, desparately wanting, one more murder, and at the stars. i wonder what happened to them anyway...

The Catherine Wheel.this is why i love mojo. but i don't know that time ever really remembered the catherine wheel to begin with...

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Semisonic was and is a great, great power pop trio. Damn the public if they just wanted to latch onto that one stupid song.

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[The Chairman]

I never travel far, with out a little of these guys...

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[Steels]

Bands that time forgot???? With the exception of "Porno 4 Pyro's" I have never heard of any of the bands in this thread. What genre of music are they??? Before I read this thread I was almost positive I had an excellent knowledge of most music with the exception of odd 80's bands that tried ridiculously too hard to look like freaks. Are we sure that these are bands time forgot or is this the "Remember my talented yet unpopular (in a chic way) band I used to like back in the day"? I'm not being sarcastic just flustered.

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Oh yeah, remember...THE CATHERINE WHEEL STILL ROCKS YOUR SORRY ASS.

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Corrosion Of Conformity...

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[TheMojoPin]

Bands that time forgot???? With the exception of "Porno 4 Pyro's" I have never heard of any of the bands in this thread. What genre of music are they??? Before I read this thread I was almost positive I had an excellent knowledge of most music with the exception of odd 80's bands that tried ridiculously too hard to look like freaks. Are we sure that these are bands time forgot or is this the "Remember my talented yet unpopular (in a chic way) band I used to like back in the day"? I'm not being sarcastic just flustered.

Most of the bands here did have at least one charted hit, or a video in rotation on MTV (Usually late night or on "120 Minutes"), except for most of Mikeyboy's bands. Come on, you say you have an "excellent knowledge of most music", yet have NEVER heard of Semisonic, Marcy's Playground, Catherine Wheel or Big Star? Liar. Even just being a long time R&F fan should have you knowing of Semisonic.

I mean, do you just want ANOTHER one-hit wonder thread here, or people's ideas of bands that had a shot, a tiny hit, or a glimmer of recognition, before being unjustly ignored? A lot of these bands had a lot of write up with indie and underground music press. Do we HAVE to stick with mainstream stuff for the umpteenth time? UNLEASH THE UNKNOWN BANDS.

Just a rant, not a lecture...

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-Helmet
-L7
-Breeders
-Silverchair
-Live
-Toadies
-Smashmouth
-Nixons
-Soul Asylum
-Gin Blossoms
-Fishbone
-Firehose
-Green Apple Quick Step
-Dinosaur Jr.
-Front 242
-Mudhoney
-Super Nova
-Arrested Development
-Ned's Atomic Dustbin

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[The Chairman]

I know Mark's solo now, but I miss:

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[Steels]

For the record I haven't liked main stream music since I bought the "Bad" & "Faith" albums as a kid.

Most of the bands here did have at least one charted hit, or a video in rotation on MTV (Usually late night or on "120 Minutes")

Now it ALL makes sense! The program "120 Minutes" on MTV played music I absolutely found atrocious. Honestly, that kind of music and "MODERN DAY" R & B are actually the only forms of music I do not like whatsoever. Every other genre of music I'm pretty tip-top with.

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[TheMojoPin]

The program "120 Minutes" on MTV played music I absolutely found atrocious. Honestly, that kind of music and "MODERN DAY" R & B are actually the only forms of music I do not like whatsoever.

"That kind"? "120 Minutes" played everything from punk to funk to hip-hop to trip-hop. It was just about the ONLY show on MTV that DIDN'T play any one kind of music.

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[Steels]

"That kind"? "120 Minutes" played everything from punk to funk to hip-hop to trip-hop. It was just about the ONLY show on MTV that DIDN'T play any one kind of music.


I never really liked MTV but if I was at a friend's house who had 120 Minutes on I would usually ask them to change it, the music was very boring to me. Below is what seems to be an informative link that describes what the show was all about.

http://www.jumptheshark.com/o/120minutes.htm

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[fluffernutter]

Some you may know, some you maynot. These are some bands some dead and some alive who I feel were brilliant and people never caught on to:

Jawbreaker

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Leatherface

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004SQ26.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg

Fuel (early 90's)

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The Melvins (still going)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002IWU.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg

Ween (still going and the new one will make you shit)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002HFE.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg

The Jesus and Mary Chain

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000I2UF.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg

The Sisters of Mercy

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SNFU

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Handsome

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Samiam

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Quicksand

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nada surf

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002HM6.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg

Discount

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Hum

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No Fun At All

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[Steels]

When I refer to "120 Minutes" I am speaking of the years 84 till the very early 90's. I completely stopped watching MTV all together around that time. I believe almost all of the groups listed on this thread were part of that "alternative" music which was apparently played on that show. I don't mean to dwell but I couldn't understand how I could miss so many bands. This now explains why I had no idea who these groups were.

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[grlNIN]

Hum

WSOU plays HUM. I wasn't aware that they had left to begin with.

-Breeders



They're still together, they don't play mainstream clubs anymore just small gigs under an assortment of different names.

-Silverchair

Ahhhhhh, the first band i was ever obsessed with. The Memories. ::sigh::

Again, they aren't gone, they just released an album in August "The Greatest View". Pretty good album but in my opinion nothing can touch "Neon Ballroom".

-Live

Last song i heard from them i believe was featured in the Leonardo DiCprio movie, "The Beach"...I think the title was "when Dolphins Cry". If they released something after this i am completely unaware otherwise i wouldn't have posted this part. hehe

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[fluffernutter]

When I refer to "120 Minutes"......these groups were.

During this time period you mentioned Steels, 84 - early 90's, I was being bred my metal. I knew all this shit existed but my mind was too closed at the time. i look back in shame at my ignorance towards so much goo dmusic. Fortunately around 92 or 93 my mind began to open and I fell in love with all these bands.

I grew out of being a "metalhead" into just being a "musichead".

WSOU plays HUM. I wasn't aware that they had left to begin with.

They are probably the only station as I have heard them on there too. WSOU has the best selection of music. It is like they raided my collection and picked what to play. I hardly ever have a hard time with them. I am glad they came around from the nu metal shitpile they were turning into a few years back. I remember back in the day always looking forward to getting to right around new brunswick and just switching right to 89.5. That was hardcore and metal central back then and they have kind of reestablished themselves as such in recent years.

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[TheMojoPin]

I am speaking of the years 84 till the very early 90's. I completely stopped watching MTV all together around that time. I believe almost all of the groups listed on this thread were part of that "alternative" music which was apparently played on that show. I don't mean to dwell but I couldn't understand how I could miss so many bands.

Too bad, man. MTV put out two "120 Minutes" best of's in '91, before the Nirvana "explosion", that were pretty diverse and cool...

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1. Higher Ground - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
2. Sometime to Return - Soul Asylum
3. Fools Gold - The Stone Roses
4. Wasteland - Mission
5. See a Little Light - Bob Mould
6. Under the Milky Way - The Church
7. Carolyn's Fingers - Cocteau Twins
8. World Shut Your Mouth - Julian Cope
9. Mandinka - Sin‚ad O'Connor
10. Kool Thing - Sonic Youth
11. Balloon Man - Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
12. Put the Message in the Box - World Party
13. Dear God - XTC
14. Ana Ng - They Might Be Giants
15. Eye of Fatima, Pt. 1 - Camper Van Beethoven
16. I Melt With You - Modern English

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1. Orange Crush - R.E.M.
2. This Is Not a Love Song - Public Image Ltd.
3. Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio? - The Ramones
4. Burning House of Love - X
5. Stigmata - Ministry
6. Everyday Is Like Sunday - Morrissey
7. Head On - The Jesus And Mary Chain
8. Killing Moon - Echo & the Bunnymen
9. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
10. Perfect Kiss - New Order
11. Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
12. Birthday - Sugarcubes
13. Could You Be the One? - H�sker D�
14. We Care a Lot - Faith No More
15. Gone Daddy Gone - Violent Femmes
16. Eardrum Buzz - Wire

"120 Minutes" has pretty much been MTV's only saving grace in that it'll play shit you'll NEVER hear or see anywhere else...even though it always had the shitty Sunday night midnight-two AM slot...

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[Arienette]

I'll never let the love die for my beloved Bluetones.i bought a bluetones cd used today for 99 cents. i'd call that forgotten.


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Coyote Shivers. Saw them/him in the early 90's at Coney Island High, thought they would of been big.

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How about Warrior Soul?

Is GWAR still around?

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i bought a bluetones cd used today for 99 cents. i'd call that forgotten.


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*Sigh*

Which one?

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

What the hell ever happened to Charlie Sexton? He fell off the face of the earth after "Beat So Lonely."

And here's another band time forgot: The Hooters.

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[mikeyboy]

And here's another band time forgot: The Hooters.


I remember them getting so much hype. They were supposed to be huge, but instead they just vanished.

Fun fact: they were the first band to play at Live Aid.

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Ned's Atomic Dustbin was the first concert I ever went to...


Is GWAR still around


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Ned's Atomic Dustbin was the first concert I ever went to...


I always hated these guys...they just seemed like yet another in the wave of "baggy" bands that tried so hard to rip off two of my old favorites...

Happy Mondays...

http://djmod.kokopelli.de/bands/01_happy-mondays.jpg

...and The Stone Roses.

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You ARE twisting my melon, man.

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I always hated these guys...they just seemed like yet
another in the wave of "baggy" bands that tried so hard to
rip off two of my old favorites...
Happy Mondays...

Yeah, i never quite understood their appeal, especially since
their music didn't really fit the culture of the time and place
(Madchester late 80s/early 90s). And yet they were beloved
by many. And Tony Wilson comparing Shaun Ryder to Yeats?
Come on. However, the club mix of "Hallelujah" does hit me
in the heart and make my body move.

But time didn't forget the Happy Mondays. They forgot
themselves.

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[TheMojoPin]

Hey, you do THAT muck E/coke/smack/crack, it's a shocker they're still ALIVE, much less remembering anything.

Though Black Grape was pretty fun.

Ah well.

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The Farm...

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[A.J.]

And here's another band time forgot: The Hooters.


They played the Spring Fling my sophomore year in college. The Fixx was the year before.

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[TheMojoPin]

Oh, WOW.

I'm honestly angry with myself that I left out one of my favorite bands of the 90's, and probably one of rock's most tragic figures, too.

Material Issue.

I'm a complete power pop geek, and these guys were pretty much the top of the heap for me in the mid-90's. Sadly, lead singer Jim Ellison killed himself with crabon monoxide fumes from his moped(!) in his garage after a breakup with a girlfriend. If there isn't a more creepily, horribly "appropriate" reason and way out for a power pop guru, I wouldn't be suprised. But the news of his death probably ranked just under Jeff Buckley's in terms of personal impact and regret.

Long live Material Issue.

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And along those lines, time seems to have forgotten all my other power pop favorites of the 80's and 90's, some of which have been mentioned, some who have not...

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I think Matthew Sweet has already been brought up...

But I KNOW one of my favorites haven't...The Go-Betweens. They were an Australian band in the 80's that essentially sounded like The Smiths merging with Big Star. Classic, classic stuff.

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This week in DC you can see a bunch of old bands that time has forgotten.

X just played the 9:30 club this week.
Berlin, Modern English, and A Flock of Seagulls are playing on Jun 19th.

Los Lobos are opening up for Buddy Guy at Wolftrap on Friday.

Blondie, the B52's , the Smithereens will also coming to the 9:30 club this summer.

http://www.930.com/fs.php?x=800&ba=IE&bv=6.0&bp=Win (http://)

Radio Psychic -- Ron and Fez top 3 by the end of 2003.

[grlNIN]

Ok i thought of a couple:


Toad the Wet Sprocket
Collective Soul
Lisa Loeb
Cake
Travis



Travis was a good band man, shame to see them go.......wherever they went.

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Juliana Hatfield

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Just saw her the other night, playing onstage with Evan Dando. And J. Mascis was playing lead in the opening band. It was just forgotten music icons left and right...and AWESOME.

And Travis went away when Coldplay became the new Travis and everyone forgot about the old Travis. Which is too bad, because Travis always ruled. They have a new album coming out this year, actually. Why can't the world have room for both Coldplay and Travis?

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2% << December boys got it BAD >> "You might tell some lies about the good times we've had/But I've kissed your mother twice...and now I'm working on your dad..."

[A.J.]

And Travis went away when Coldplay became the new Travis and everyone forgot about the old Travis.

Indeed.

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A Skidmark production.

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And speaking of bands with first names as names, America sure forgot about James pretty fast after "Laid" came out. And now it's too late. Bastards.

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2% << December boys got it BAD >> "You might tell some lies about the good times we've had/But I've kissed your mother twice...and now I'm working on your dad..."

[furie]

time has forgotten Mother Love Bone

[ANC]

time has forgotten Mother Love Bone

nah, not forgotten...just succumb to heroin and Pearl Jam

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-Helmet
-L7
-Breeders
-Silverchair
-Live
-Toadies
-Smashmouth
-Nixons
-Soul Asylum
-Gin Blossoms
-Fishbone
-Firehose
-Green Apple Quick Step
-Dinosaur Jr.
-Front 242
-Mudhoney
-Super Nova
-Arrested Development
-Ned's Atomic Dustbin

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This message was edited by SuperClerk on 6-10-03 @ 12:49 AM

This is the post of the day.....er, the post of six years ago. I love the entirety of this catalog. Dinosaur Jr. and Fishbone are my die-hard all time favorites.