Most underrated bands....
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I've got one, hugely underrated.
Everyone knows them for Turning Japanese. The Vapors were an incredible power-pop band that were, sadly, written off by most after their supposed inability to follow up thir number one hit. This is absolutely criminal. Listen to New Clear Days or Magnets, their two albums, both are brilliant. Turning Japanese was a novelty hit (and one of the only songs about w**king to ever make it big, so to speak) but they had so much more in their musical arsenal.
A fantastic band, The Vapors.
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Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
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Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
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I was listening to a band called the Beatles, who seem pretty good. I don't think a lot of people have heard of them.
All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight
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I was listening to a band called the Beatles, who seem pretty good. I don't think a lot of people have heard of them.
Beatles, eh? Oh yes, I seem to remember their off-key caterwauling on the old Ed Sullivan Show. What was Ed thinking?
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off-key caterwauling....
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Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
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...ummm.... yes... well....Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
20/5/20
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
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I genuinely don't understand why Kylie doesn't get more recognition as an artist.
If you saw her live in knee high boots like i did, you would agree with me.
All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight
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Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
20/5/20
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
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ToH are one of my favorite bands of alltime. Only a few weeks ago I got a ToH tshirt off eBay. I've got most of the ToH singles, including a few of The Pack's releases. And even better, I absolutely adore early Spear of Destiny. The Wheel and Flying Scotsman are a couple of the mid-eighties most underrated singles.
And the Comsat Angels? All I can name is Indendence Day and Do The Empty House. Great tracks both.
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The Pack's releases? I hadn't thought about them in a while. I've got, somewhere, a cassette of one of their gigs. I'm on to it... the search begins... got one single but can't remember it's title.
I've got a ToH collection. Probably the most complete of any band I've listened to. Was, god I'm sad, listening to them in the car earlier.
I had a friend Steve who introduced me to the Comsats... played the album near to death. Funny how some sounds just strike that chord. Bit like Kylie's evil twin (above). Heard her for first time in 1982 and am hooked.
I've got a ToH collection. Probably the most complete of any band I've listened to. Was, god I'm sad, listening to them in the car earlier.
I had a friend Steve who introduced me to the Comsats... played the album near to death. Funny how some sounds just strike that chord. Bit like Kylie's evil twin (above). Heard her for first time in 1982 and am hooked.
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
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Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
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I honestly think that Kirk Brandon is the most underrated frontman in the history of music....
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For me, one band I stumbled across that did not really meet many people into were Dispatch. Really rate them, but didn't hit the heights I initially thought they would
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Sofa Head &
Joyce McKinney Experience
As a fresh faced yoof the front women of both bands did something for me that Lee from Napalm Death just never would...HarryHotspur2008-09-04 22:38:01
Joyce McKinney Experience
As a fresh faced yoof the front women of both bands did something for me that Lee from Napalm Death just never would...HarryHotspur2008-09-04 22:38:01
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Default-Canadian guys with a lead singer who started singing to try and spend more time with his mates. Bloody legends.
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For me, one band I stumbled across that did not really meet many people into were Dispatch. Really rate them, but didn't hit the heights I initially thought they would
where were they from?
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Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
20/5/20
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
20/5/20
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Alex Zilinski owns a recording studio and plays lead guitar, he appears in several not well known groups. Check his site out and listen to some clips.
He and Robby Thomas Walsh (vocals - Is very similar to Ian Gillan) formed Blue Jade . Robby also sings for Purpendicular Whom are a Deep Purple tribute band.
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
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For me, one band I stumbled across that did not really meet many people into were Dispatch. Really rate them, but didn't hit the heights I initially thought they would
we had a few americans in our hostel in first year who we got on with quite well and they introduced us to dispatch. they're huge with american college kids apparently. never signed to a big label, and they also had the biggest independent concert of all time from what i just read on wikipedia.
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Yea their American (Dairyflat), and the last concert they had was canned food donation, so they are pretty cool people. The fact they didnt want to and did not sign a big label kept them out of the mainstream of music, but I guess that is what they wanted! The album Bang Bang rules, if you can get your hands on it.
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Leatherface are the most underrated band of all time.
Lots of people can't get past Frankie Stubb's gruff vocals (he makes Jake Burns sound like a choirboy) and the crappy production on some of their LPs, but underneath the surface lies pure gold.
The interplay between Frankie Stubbs and Dickie Hammond's guitars is easily the best dynamic between two guitarists in a band that I've ever heard. And they are great song-writers to boot.
One of the very few bands that I can listen to over and over again and never get tired of.
Leatherface. F*ck yeah.
Lots of people can't get past Frankie Stubb's gruff vocals (he makes Jake Burns sound like a choirboy) and the crappy production on some of their LPs, but underneath the surface lies pure gold.
The interplay between Frankie Stubbs and Dickie Hammond's guitars is easily the best dynamic between two guitarists in a band that I've ever heard. And they are great song-writers to boot.
One of the very few bands that I can listen to over and over again and never get tired of.
Leatherface. F*ck yeah.
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Joe Pernice
You know we belong together...
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Leatherface are the most underrated band of all time.Lots of people can't get past Frankie Stubb's gruff vocals (he makes Jake Burns sound like a choirboy) and the crappy production on some of their LPs, but underneath the surface lies pure gold.The interplay between Frankie Stubbs and Dickie Hammond's guitars is easily the best dynamic between two guitarists in a band that I've ever heard. And they are great song-writers to boot.One of the very few bands that I can listen to over and over again and never get tired of.Leatherface. F*ck yeah.
I get goose pimples everytime I hear 'Peasant in Paradise'. Brilliant live too, 'cos they just get on with it. HarryHotspur2008-09-05 19:29:38
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Not a band but I kind of thought that Neneh Cherry deserved more of an audience than she got (which was pretty big anyway). I saw her first in Rip Rig & Panic way back in 1982. She was well pregnant and started off one track by having all the lights off, a single white light on her, and screaming "you shot your sperm into me..." Silenced one bolshie crowd in one go.
Then five years (was it) later popped up with Buffalo Stance. In my book "pop genius".
dairyflat2008-09-08 22:48:15
Then five years (was it) later popped up with Buffalo Stance. In my book "pop genius".
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Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
20/5/20
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
20/5/20
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Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
20/5/20
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
20/5/20
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Foo Fighters! oh wait, that's overrated...
I like tautologies because I like them.
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BLO
African funk band-70's -80's
nope, i'd never heard of nthem either bought their cd in op shop for 2 bux-legends
typify the 70s love generation in Africa-
"i look around, find someone to love, gonna be a good day"-good day
African funk band-70's -80's
nope, i'd never heard of nthem either bought their cd in op shop for 2 bux-legends
typify the 70s love generation in Africa-
"i look around, find someone to love, gonna be a good day"-good day
Salmon swim upstream
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Foo Fighters! oh wait, that's overrated...
great vids though-learning to fly- lulz
(did i just lulz?)
Salmon swim upstream
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yeah but music videos = directors, not band. I've never really understood the point of music videos tbh = an ad for a song?
I like tautologies because I like them.
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yeah, fair call. but the foo fighters act in their videos and they are whacked out- the home video one where Dave Gohl and Jack Black are gay lovers in a cheap motel=genius- for that alone i resepct the foo fighters.
true its probably not there idea, but theya re game to parody themselves
heres the vid-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw2h10iExWQ
Salmon072008-09-12 21:15:54
true its probably not there idea, but theya re game to parody themselves
heres the vid-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw2h10iExWQ
Salmon072008-09-12 21:15:54
Salmon swim upstream
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Foo Fighters! oh wait, that's overrated...
Fall out boy now that's overrated
My most underrated band was going to be Elbow from manchester but they just won the mercury award for best album "the seldom seen kid"
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Grammys? do they still have those..."and the record label with the most money goes to..."
I like tautologies because I like them.
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There's a guy in Christchurch called Tom who runs a mail-order music thingee and has a Punishment of Luxury tattoo.
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There's a guy in Christchurch called Tom who runs a mail-order music thingee and has a Punishment of Luxury tattoo.
Unreal!
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
20/5/20
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
20/5/20
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