Band you love but no one else has heard of

InHiding80

Marvelous 3
Pup
Flying Colors

Massara133

Dredg - Any time I get into this type of conversation with a friend this is the band I bring up. In 2003 I went to see Perfect Circle and I read someone's complaint about Danny Carey's side project Pygmy Love Circus opening th shows. They were disappointed Dredg was not opening the shows as they felt they were a good fit with APC's fan base. This was enough for me to go out and buy Dredg's current album at the time - El Cielo. I absolutely love it, top 5 favourite album of all time. It will likely take 3-4 good listens to get into it, but if you give it time you will grow to love it. (Side note - Pygmy Love Circus sucked when I saw them open, and Dredg's other albums don't compare to El Cielo, it's an absolute gem)

josevolution

Palace
They are for realzz !

dudeman

I know that they were big in the UK but Kula Shaker is pretty obscure.

Great band.

pj8

pj8 said:

The Church and pretty much every Steve Kilbey side project, especially Kilbey Kennedy and Jack Frost.

Chris Smither is another one. Rediscovering Dead End Angels at the moment too, good stuff. I saw them live in Gruene, TX back in 2003 and haven't heard about them since.

Zod

Hemming

She opened for Chris Cornell last year (or maybe it was 2015). She was insanely good. Bought her record any quite enjoyed it. No one else seems to know about here. Hope she gets another album out.

pj8

MysteryTrain said:

Alejandro Escovedo, Jesse Malin, Willie Nile

Alejandro Escovedo is another good one. I'm seeing him next month with Peter Buck of R.E.M. playing guitar.

curmudgeoness

pj8 said:

The Church and pretty much every Steve Kilbey side project, especially Kilbey Kennedy and Jack Frost.

YES!!!


Sorry. I've been a rabid Church fan since... 1983, I think? True story: bored out of my mind in the flatlands, I read an article about the Church in Creem magazine (yes, I am old) -- an article that said, hey, this might be the greatest band in the world, if there were any justice these guys would be as big as the Beatles. So I had to check them out of course (I had a protracted Beatles phase when I was very young). First song I ever heard was "Shadow Cabinet," and it sounded as if someone had climbed inside my head and turned the chaos into music.

I spent most of the '80s saying, no, NOT "Lords of the New Church," "The Church." Then "Under the Milky Way" hit and everyone thought they were one-hit wonders.

I actually made a trip to Australia (this was before iTunes, YouTube, etc.) to hunt down rare Church B-sides.

They're still killing it live -- amazing post-punk prog rock.

PJ_Soul

Paolo Nutini

BettrMan21

The Weeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHQ9awOvH48

The Wild Reeds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TiEO149Ydc

pj8

curmudgeoness said:

pj8 said:

The Church and pretty much every Steve Kilbey side project, especially Kilbey Kennedy and Jack Frost.

YES!!!


Sorry. I've been a rabid Church fan since... 1983, I think? True story: bored out of my mind in the flatlands, I read an article about the Church in Creem magazine (yes, I am old) -- an article that said, hey, this might be the greatest band in the world, if there were any justice these guys would be as big as the Beatles. So I had to check them out of course (I had a protracted Beatles phase when I was very young). First song I ever heard was "Shadow Cabinet," and it sounded as if someone had climbed inside my head and turned the chaos into music.

I spent most of the '80s saying, no, NOT "Lords of the New Church," "The Church." Then "Under the Milky Way" hit and everyone thought they were one-hit wonders.

I actually made a trip to Australia (this was before iTunes, YouTube, etc.) to hunt down rare Church B-sides.

They're still killing it live -- amazing post-punk prog rock.

That's awesome! I was hoping there would be another Church fan on here. Sadly I never got to see them with MWP but saw them in 2015 and then again in 2016 doing The Blurred Crusade in its entirety - that show in particular was mindblowing. Kilbey wasn't in the best mood that night and the show ended with him storming off the stage but still, an awesome performance. They are some of the nicest guys in music too.

reesdog

Speaking of Post Punk, there is one band you must hear if you're into the genre, they're called Wire. Such an important band, theyre from the UK, they started in the late seventies and are still playing and releasing records today..

Their first three albums are absolute must haves..

Pink Flag
Chairs Missing
154

It's punk, but more artfully done, tuneful with an agressive edge and really interesting lyrics. If you like Television and early Talking Heads then you'll enjoy Wire..

curmudgeoness

pj8 said:

That's awesome! I was hoping there would be another Church fan on here. Sadly I never got to see them with MWP but saw them in 2015 and then again in 2016 doing The Blurred Crusade in its entirety - that show in particular was mindblowing. Kilbey wasn't in the best mood that night and the show ended with him storming off the stage but still, an awesome performance. They are some of the nicest guys in music too.

I've only seen them a few times: GAF tour in Boston -- 1990? (third row!); early '90s, San Francisco, when it was just Steve and Marty; and last year in New York, when I literally ran into Steve outside of his bus (awkward!). He is not a large man.... But he was in a decent mood that night, and they sounded great, I thought.