Great Bands that aren't "well known"

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  • red mos
    red mos Posts: 4,953
    To this day, I still play "Epic" by Faith no more; that song is the shit. Can't remember what the other radio song was though, Fallen to pieces?? maybe?
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  • ThreeBigFish
    ThreeBigFish Posts: 10
    *ARCADE FIRE
    I wonder if they still count as the Great Unknown Band... they've had my love since I first heard them a couple of days ago... their CD won't get out of my player for many days to come :)

    *THREE FISH
    I absolutely adore this little side project of Jeff!! Deserves at least 50 times as much attention than it actually receives... I'm often sad to learn many visitors to this place never heard of them... Robbie Robb is just magnificent. Together with Jeff they constitute PURE MAGIC.

    *BRAD
    Are these guys as unknown as I think? Another Love Of Mine that, together with Three Fish, remains in the shadow of the Seattle Giant (=PJ).
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    PJ Habit wrote:
    This board has turned me on to some kick ass bands. Just wanted to ask some fellow jammers (w/ excentric tastes) WHAT ARE THE BEST BANDS I HAVEN'T HEARD???

    Lately I've been really in bands like:
    Drive by Truckers
    Kings of Leon
    Gov't Mule

    Thanks, all responses are appriciated :D
    Saw the Truckers last night in Tuscaloosa, Alabama....what a kick-ass 2 1/2 hours of Rock and Roll-Dirty South Style. They were gooder than snuff.
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  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    The Tragically Hip.

    These guys are arguably the greatest Canadian rock band of all time, and they've got one of the best live shows you'll ever see. They've sold millions of records and they've routinely sold out stadiums and arenas in Canada for over 15 years, but in the U.S. and the rest of the world they're still relatively unknown. Whenever they tour the States, Canadian fans (myself included) are known to follow the band from show to show Grateful Dead style just so they can see them up close and personal in small clubs and theatres. When their first full-length album came out in 1989 they were classified as hard-rock, but then when the grunge thing happened, the media started calling them "alternative" and they kind of rode the wave along with Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, etc... Since then they've released 10 kick-ass albums, won countless awards, and started up their own travelling rock festival (which will apparently be revived next summer). Earlier this year they were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, officially putting them in the same company as Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, The Guess Who, Gordon Lightfoot, and Rush. Next week they're opening for the Rolling Stones in Moncton. Basically they're the biggest undiscovered band on the planet.
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    Of course, how can I forget the greatness of the Hip!
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • ThreeBigFish
    ThreeBigFish Posts: 10
    direwolf74 wrote:
    The Tragically Hip.

    These guys are arguably the greatest Canadian rock band of all time, and they've got one of the best live shows you'll ever see. They've sold millions of records and they've routinely sold out stadiums and arenas in Canada for over 15 years, but in the U.S. and the rest of the world they're still relatively unknown. Whenever they tour the States, Canadian fans (myself included) are known to follow the band from show to show Grateful Dead style just so they can see them up close and personal in small clubs and theatres. When their first full-length album came out in 1989 they were classified as hard-rock, but then when the grunge thing happened, the media started calling them "alternative" and they kind of rode the wave along with Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, etc... Since then they've released 10 kick-ass albums, won countless awards, and started up their own travelling rock festival (which will apparently be revived next summer). Earlier this year they were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, officially putting them in the same company as Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, The Guess Who, and Rush. Next week they're opening for the Rolling Stones in Moncton. Basically they're the biggest undiscovered band on the planet.

    I definitely have to dig deeper into them, as I've had this incredible thing for Canadian bands lately... Everything Canadian that I stumble upon inevitably turns out to be brilliant... I'm currently bathing in my admiration for Arcade Fire... Stars & their "Set Yourself on Fire" is great as well.. Thanks for bringing this one up, I would have forgotten..!! It's definitely worth rediscovering :)
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  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    more...

    The Tea Party
    The Dears
    Metric
    Alexisonfire
    Pilate

    Hawksley Workman
    Bif Naked
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • JamnPearl
    JamnPearl Posts: 204
    Mayfield 4
    Submersed
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    mariposa wrote:
    more...

    The Tea Party
    The Dears
    Metric
    Alexisonfire
    Pilate

    Hawksley Workman
    Bif Naked


    Since we're talking Canadian bands, here's a few more:

    The Weakerthans
    Sam Roberts
    Matt Mays & El Torpedo
    The Constantines
    Cuff the Duke
    Greg Macpherson Band
    Sarah Harmer
    Matthew Good
    Sloan
    C'mon
    Kathleen Edwards
    Lowest of the Low
    Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir
    The Trews
    The New Pornographers
    Joel Plaskett
    The Stills
    Ron Sexsmith
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • pychosinlove
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  • !!!
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    Explosions In The Sky
    Do Make Say Think
    Quickspace
    Q and Not U
    The Sea And Cake
    Shrimp Boat.
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  • Grungeblood
    Grungeblood Posts: 64
    Black Rebel Motorcycle club
    My Morning Jacket
    Spoon
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  • psycosmic
    psycosmic Posts: 504
    i know at least 90% of the bands mentioned in this thread...
    some of them are rather well known, i'd say...
    but you're right, there are so many bands that don't get the recognition they deserve... i wouldn't even know where to start...
    ~~~
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  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    PJ Habit wrote:
    Drive by Truckers

    We'll, you took my main recommendation in the DBT. Also check out Robert Randolph & The Family Band. And the Flaming Lips if you haven't heard any of their stuff, although they are somewhat well known.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • Jellyrolls
    Jellyrolls Posts: 523
    Ben Fucking Kweller!!!
  • pychosinlove
    pychosinlove Posts: 205
    Jellyrolls wrote:
    Ben Fucking Kweller!!!


    he's pretty known.
    "Remember that extremism in the defence of liberity is no vice ,and moderation in the time of parell is no virture" -goldwater
  • Urban Hiker
    Urban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    direwolf74 wrote:
    Since we're talking Canadian bands, here's a few more:

    The Weakerthans
    Sam Roberts
    Matt Mays & El Torpedo
    The Constantines
    Cuff the Duke
    Greg Macpherson Band
    Sarah Harmer
    Matthew Good
    Sloan
    C'mon
    Kathleen Edwards
    Lowest of the Low
    Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir
    The Trews
    The New Pornographers
    Joel Plaskett
    The Stills
    Ron Sexsmith

    Kathleen Edwards - I love Back to Me. I knew it was Kathleen something, but couldn't remember her last name. Thanks!
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    I did forget to mention Magenta lane....
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • hodge
    hodge Posts: 519
    matthew good
    the tea party
    http://www.myspace.com/chriskoster
    ..and you will come to find that we are all one mind, capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable
  • bladworth116
    bladworth116 Posts: 344
    The Catherine Wheel (now defunct)

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