Bands that should have broke the mainstream but never did
 

Pavement

"Cut Your Hair" was a freaking top ten hit.

supposedly shonen knife

supposedly sonic youth

supposedly, hm, someone else.

why?

ha ha. this thread is going big.

Kak (60s west coast psych, very good, totally accessible)

EDIT: that was stupid

Clipse, but they still may. Produced by the neptunes, so I would assume they will sooner or later

Pentagram should have been huge in the mid 70s-early 80s.

Loop

oooh! pentagram! poor guys...

i was outside their last concert buying tickets. when i heard it was them i opted to say outside. and a good thing it was, aesthetic reasons aside/; the guy apparently was taken away in an ambulance.

You music taste really knows no fear, does it?

Urusei Yatsura and Stony Sleep would've been enormous if they came out about 5 years after they did. In fact, there was a load of bands that weren't britpop bands that should've been huge over here. It always surprised me that Gene weren't bigger. I know lots of people hate them, but I think they're as good as a lot of things. Certainly more appealing to me than Suede, who had a better image but, to my mind, not the tunes. "The Britpop sins of Glice, episode 1".

I tell you what, shall I say MBV ironically so that everyone can have fun calling me a cunt?

MBV should've been bigger.

How could Pentagram not have been a good candidate for arena-rock success in the 70s and early 80s? Loud as shit, evil, not good-looking, heavy riffage? They were better than Dio Sabbath for sure.

Helen Love! Fucking Helen Love. In a just world they'd be where Oasis are now. And Bis. FUCK OFF. I like Bis.

Gene bigger than Suede?Someone is just being contrary.

Glice, I didn't know you liked such cutesy music.

I learnt to be contrary from the best, sweety.

I LIKE GENE. Is that such a crime?

It's not cutesy. There's the beating black heart of a goth underneath Helen Love's oh-so-indie exterior.

Or, alternately, I was 14 once, and I'm not going to pretend I don't still have a little 14 year old in me [insert pederast inference].

Yeah, well one can be goth and cutesy at the same time. I give you this "Autumn" comic as proof. This is a fine comic series, by the way.

Nope,but they aint better than Suede.Still love you.

Actually(i know you hate that expression),i will dedicate you 'The Wild Ones' which i'm playing right now.

Many thanks for that dedication. I'm going to dedicate Sleep Well Tonight to yourself in return.

Ohhhhhhh if you staaaaayyyyyy........

Sleeeeep welllll tooooonight/ tomooooooorow we fly....

Weeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllll''''''''' bbbbbbbbbbbeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee thhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeee wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwiiiiiiiiiiiiiildddddddddddddd oooooooooneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssss

I think the problem I have with Suede is very similar to the thing I have about the Manics. I don't mind Richey-era Manics, but I would never, ever say that in public (well, apart from here, obviously). Manics and Suede fans are a dire breed. Not as in people who like the music, but those weird little culty types. All leapard print, horrific eyeliner and anorexia chic.

the pooh sticks

practically all suede songs start the same way and the singer (forgot his name) always starts the song with a 'well'.

Are we forgetting Placebo fans?They live,breathe and reproduce in Camden.

He loves using 'She' in the lyrics,i'd give you that.

dont get me started on them.

Actually Clipse is mainstream, they were all over the top ten about 4 years ago. ('' Grinidin' '', ''What Happened To That Boy'' and a few others...

The Beatles.

A lot of them still sign on in their 40s.

Oh yeah. I used to be a fan of theirs (bare in mind I was a hormonal teenager around the time of their first album) but their fans pissed me off. And the second album didn't have a ghost writer, so it wasn't as good. Little known industry fact there.

The Shop Assistants

vaselines

Tululah Gosh!

No, I don't mean that. They were terrible.



EDIT - I just tried to find a picture of Tululah Gosh, but sadly couldn't. If anyone has one, please could they post it. I won't ask why you had it, honest.

what do you mean, i love talulah gosh!

There's still time for you to delete that post, you know. It can be our little secret.