Thread: bands your friends never heard of

so i saw a couple of cd's from some years back and that got me thinking about all of the random music i listened to in college that the majority of my friends had never heard of. and i'm not just talking about bands like ned's atomic dust bin who are only moderately obscure. i diving deeper into the thousand yard stares and the new fast automatic daffodils or mi phi me. the shit that people look at you funny when you say the names.

so what do you have in the old music locker?

Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Cream

Constant Llama
Sandy Duncan's Eye
The Creamers
My Sin
Paper Bag
Celebrity Skin
Red Lorrie, Yellow Lorrie
Sativa Luvbox
Red Temple Spirits
Universal Congress Of
Exploding White Mice
Severed Head
The Ugly Janitors of America
Haunted Garage

Originally Posted by Viva

Red Lorrie, Yellow Lorrie

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry -- one of the great underappreciated bands.

If you like Killing Joke, check out RLYL. (and vice versa)

Hula
A Certain Ratio
Red Dress
Face Ditch
Mother Love Bone/L'Andrew The Love Child
GONG
Soft Machine
Allan Holdsworth
Here & Now/Floating Anarchy
Caravan
The League of Gentlemen
LoTek
The Wipers
Rhasaan Roland Kirk
Pharoah Sanders
Jerry Lee Lewis
Eric Dolphy
Peter Blegvad
The Dukes of Stratosphere
The Way of the West
House of Thandoy
The Minutemen
Bad Brains
Tal Farlow

Ganggajang
Hoodoo Gurus
TSOL
Agent Orange
The Johnnys
The Angels

I have always had a soft spot for
Sass Jordan
Pat Travers Band

Originally Posted by Superstar Punani

Ganggajang
Hoodoo Gurus
TSOL
Agent Orange
The Johnnys
The Angels

If I remember correctly TSOL had a killer track in "Journey to the Impact Zone"

Originally Posted by mrryde

If I remember correctly TSOL had a killer track in "Journey to the Impact Zone"

TSOL played most of the soundtrack to Billabong's "Surf Into Summer" ('87) and "Filthy Habits" ('88), which is the surf equivalent of Blizzard of Aahhhs and License to Thrill.

One of my favorites: Steak
One that is probably well known in college towns: Mother Hips

supersuckers
absinthe blind
clap your hands say yeah!
the sea and the cake
supergrass
pizzicato five

Now, that's not to say that YOU guys don't know these bands... but my that friends don't

Three Beers 'til Dubuque

I have records by everyone Camel Toad listed other than Mi Phi Mi. There are lots of other ones people mentioned that are in my vaults, too!

How about Cabaret Voltaire, Chapterhouse, Straitjacket Fits, The Verlaines, The Triffids.

How about Northside? They are pretty obscure, I would think.

Filibuster
Jedi Mind Tricks
Pivit
Zion I
Alice in Videoland
Go Team
Pocket Dwellers
Rebirth Brass Band
Robert Randolf and the Family Band
Sublime

was just listening to the mighty mighty lemon drops. don't hear of them much anymore. and remembered some crap free cd i got in college Utah Saints

Sukia
April March
ACT
Nasty Rox Inc.

Adorable
The Pale Saints
Kitchens of Distinction

I don't have these, but I remember the names and some of the music:

Waldo The Dog Faced Boy

Anus The Menace

Flesh For Lulu

The Meatmen


I have a single CD from each of the below:

Gorilla Biscuits

Revolting Cocks

The Sisters of Mercy

Originally Posted by vtdownhiller

I have always had a soft spot for

Pat Travers Band

hell yeah! snortin' whisky an drinkin' cocaine!

my list:
mahavishnu orchestra
captain beyond
ozric tentacles
spock's beard
porcupine tree
spiral architect


i'm also a fusion & progrock nerd.

Originally Posted by Superstar Punani

Hoodoo Gurus

super indeed. I got a tape of these guys from a family friend when I was 8 years old and living in Melbourne, AU (1982). It was the first cassette tape I ever owned. The second was Olivia Newton John's "Lets Get Physical." Hell-muthah fuckin' yeah.

for interp. class we had to pick a song with a powerful theme and i picked Straight Out of Compton and nobody knew who N.W.A was.

there are to many rednecks at Hocking College

i bet if you cruise over to ou someone there would know who nwa is. but yeah, there always were more people interested in shooting shit at hocking ,(tech) back then, than they were interested in tunes.

oh another for the list: primal scream

Viva, I used to LOVE RevCo (revolting cocks) and forgot all about them. Now I think I'll go download their cover of Do Ya Think I'm Sexy. One of the best covers, ever.

Originally Posted by Walter Sobchak

Tall Dwarfs. Lo fi, kinda psychedelic, from NZ. Should be bigger than they are.

Saw them live in 93 or 94 at Irving Plaza as part of a Flying Nun Records group show. Decent.

For Flying Nun NZ guitar rock, though, I always liked Straitjacket Fits better. I saw them live in 1991 at the old Knitting Factory in NYC on the strength of the name, and they blew me the fuck away. They disbanded circa 1994, but the lead singer/guitarist has a pretty good new band called Dimmer.

Other obscure bands I love or have loved:
Love Tractor
Hugo Largo (the best live band ever)
Ida
Airlines

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Sigue Sigue Sputnik fucking rock. I've been listening to these guys since "Flaunt It" came out way back when. $$$$$$$$$$