Bands that should be huge, but aren't
Nashville Pussy and The Detroit Cobras.
with the exception of the people I have introduced to these bands, nobody I know has heard of either of them. But IMO they're the two best bands around. Nashville Pussy got nominated for a grammy a few years back for Best Heavy Metal Act, but (surprise, surprise) that lost out to Metallica. And the Detroit Cobras have been on a diet coke advert. I don't know how big they are in the states, but in the UK they're almost completey unknown.
Anybody recommend any other bands in the same kind of situation?
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They are a band from the south bay area of LA. Kind of a cross between Dispatch and Sublime. More of a surf sound than it seems like people on this site are into, but they are outstanding. They're the band I always here and then think, "How are they not HUGE?"
White Buffalo. Poor man's Cat Stevens, but with more power. He's a big ass dude with some serious chords. His website is [url]www.onewhitebuffalo.com[/url].
Both very SoCal, very surf culture. If you are into that sort of thing, check them out!
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Snow Patrol
Filter
The Vivers
2 Weeks Notice
Kula Shaker
Nine Days
Terris
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I've heard of Nashville Pussy, but can't remember how.
Surely Dream Theatre *are* big (at least within their own genre)? I'd say 80% of people I know have heard of them - this may be more telling about the type of people I know, but whatever.
Bands I think deserve to make it big include:
[URL=http://www.beecher-online.com]Beecher[/URL]
[URL=http://www.sikth.com]Sikth[/URL]
[URL=http://www.aconitethrill.com]aconitethrill[/URL]
[URL=http://www.jolly-not-so.cjb.net/]Jolly Not So[/URL] (the only "local" band on this list, though Beecher actually come from quite near me as well. these guys must have an average age of 14, yet they kick out the most amazing "horror-ska" I have ever heard. Seriously, they're awesome, and I really hope the only way is up for them)
[QUOTE=Neglected Spoon]Porcupine Tree
Opeth
Super Furry Animals
Spock's Beard
Dream Theater[/QUOTE]
Dude, Super Furry Animals are [B]massive[/B] over here, and have been for near enough decade. They are pretty darned good though. I have no idea if they're even heard of in the USA.
And [B]Spock's Beard[/B]! There's a name I haven't heard in a good few months 
Awesome.
psychotica (they're not even together anymore)
mindless self indulgence
twizted
coal chamber
amen
deadsy
godhead
cellophane (also broken up)
[QUOTE=Neglected Spoon]Porcupine Tree
Opeth
Super Furry Animals
Spock's Beard
Dream Theater[/QUOTE]
There's a band called Spock's Beard?
That's up there with Sweep the Leg and Save Ferris.
I was here. Then I wasn't. Then I was again.
Lamb of God
Hands down the best 'metal' band on the planet
I'm looking some of the bands you guys mentioned. Thanks. I'm a big CKY fan though, I'm not sure if any of you are or not. Just thought I'd share that lil tidbit of info with yall.
I always thought Zwan should have been bigger. They're so catchy and poppy and Top 40 radio-friendly.
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pj harvey (never gets props)
placebo (never caught on in america for some reason)
frontline assembly
junior senior
meshuggah
strapping young lad
the yeah yeah yeahs take alot of slack for that shitty slow single, meanwhile alot of the cd is upbeat and poppy
Define huge?
Rambin' Jack Elliott
Utah Phillips
Ani DiFranco
Paul Motian's E.B.B.B.
Dave Holland Quintet
The Jolly Rogers
Mary Gauthier
Then there's the opposite, bands that aren't huge but don't even deserve to be bands...
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The Mars Volta
Denali
The Flaming Lips
Team Sleep
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ah the flaming lips are sweet
so i assume team sleep finally released something
thats johna and chino right?
[QUOTE=phlegmatics]pj harvey (never gets props)
placebo (never caught on in america for some reason)
frontline assembly
junior senior
meshuggah
strapping young lad
the yeah yeah yeahs take alot of slack for that shitty slow single, meanwhile alot of the cd is upbeat and poppy[/QUOTE]
Good call on Strapping Young Lad & Meshuggah
also Bleeding Through- check them out
sneaker pimps, only thing ever played in the US was 6 underground from their first album.
touche to placebo and denali
autolux, will probably be big soon...
dresden dolls
angie aparo
abandoned pools
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Mindless Self Indulgence? HUGE underground band. Serj Tankian(SoaD) loves them.
godhead? no.
zwan? corgan's failed attempt at a new Smashing Pumpkins. Want some SP flavor? try James Iha's guitar work on A Perfect Circle's 13th Step.
my picks? Billy Talent. They're a whole lot better live in my opinion. Similiar to Something Corporate(i'm not comparing their actual sound, just cd and live sound)
My Chemical Romance(they just rawk)
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Pavlov's Dog got the biggest (at the time) advance in history, made an album, got fucked over by their management and almost broke up, made a second album with fewer members. Then Kansas, Rush and Triumph made millions just a few years later doing the exact same thing.
When we call soccer 'football' the terrorists have won.
[QUOTE=sixteentimes]I always thought Zwan should have been bigger. They're so catchy and poppy and Top 40 radio-friendly.[/QUOTE]
i always thought zwan only had two good songs... and they're both covers and neither of them are on their album, they're on the spun soundtrack, which doesn't even exist (as far as i can tell)
Papa M, Pernice Brothers, The Happies, Things in Herds, Corgan's solo career, fuck APC
the mars volta
scissor sisters
franz ferdinand
the gift
antes ser rico e saudavel do que pobre e doente
Black Lab
Roger Clyne and The Peacemakers
Caroline's Spine
Gloritone
Feeder
Earshot
The Dreaming (stabbing westward revisited)
Zwan was actually a pretty good little upbeat project for Corgan, but it's probably a good thing that only one album will ever come from that.
As for small bands that should be huge, try out 'Dust for Life' if you're a fan of Alice in Chains. They have that same feel and every review I've ever read of their major label debut said that it was essentially the third full LP that AIC should've done. Too bad Wind-Up records screwed them over and decided to focus on utter shit like Creed and Drowning Pool. Check 'em out at [url]www.dustforlifemusic.com[/url].
Also, and I'm not sure if they even have a website as I'm pretty sure they faded out completely, there's 'pete.'. These guys were a great hard rock band, and the singer has got to have ripped his throat open to sing some of what he has.
[QUOTE=jACKs c0Ld sWEAt]my picks? Billy Talent.[/QUOTE]
did they do that awful "Try Honesty" song? Or am I thinking of someone else?
Each to their own, I guess.
scissor sisters are very cool - i dig the elton john thing. they sold out a boston club very quickly, way in advance. i think they're on the verge of something.
andrew bird is a fucking genius, but like many of the people i'd like to pitch as underappreciated, who am i kidding? he's way too strange for widespread public consumption. you've got to be a snotty, blonde, 15-year-old fake punker to get airplay in this country.
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Scissor sisters are incredibly popular (I quite like them). Franz Ferdinand are so popular that they’re overrated.
I agree with Six about Ani di franco.
[QUOTE=SnowWhite]Scissor sisters are incredibly popular (I quite like them). Franz Ferdinand are so popular that they’re overrated.
I agree with Six about Ani di franco.[/QUOTE]
i never picked up franz ferdinand's ripples... they remind me of all those hot hot heat bands that i ran out to get and then never seemed to do much more than one sparkly album - which is ok - there's nothing wrong with one hit wonders - but by now, i've had all the hipster electroclash i can swallow.
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Kind of like the Strokes... I'm going to get slated fo this aren't I?
[QUOTE=SnowWhite]Kind of like the Strokes... I'm going to get slated fo this aren't I?[/QUOTE]
well, not by me. i agree. if i had the parental connections of julian casablancas, i'd have a hit single too. (this is not to say there haven't been great offspring in music - bebel gilberto, i guess you could make an argument for the lennon kids, etc.) the strokes are just as engineered as any dreamstreet boy band, and they don't impress me enough to give much of a shit. in my changer these days: morphine, vetiver, the fiery furnaces, jeff buckley, chocolate genius. i listen to the corporate stuff too - i happily own outkast records - but don't try and tell me the strokes are the new face of rock and roll.
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I can't stand the strokes. Pile o' shit in my humble opinion. Or Franz Ferdinand for that matter. Horribly overrated.
I envy Julian Casablancas's name though. If I had a monicker like that I'd be in L.A. right now snorting coke in the ladies room at the VMA's while simultaneously fucking Courtney Love hard in the ass.
i remember black lab. i liked them
earshot is OK at best. their "let go" as a whole wasnt that impressivie
my picks:
finger11 [url]http://fingereleven.com[/url]
oleander [url]http://oleander.net[/url]
craving theo (now defunked) [url]http://cravingtheo.com[/url]
tri-polar [url]http://tripolarmusic.com[/url]
spout [url]http://spoutmusic.com[/url]
rayno [url]http://rayno.net[/url]
12 stones [url]http://12stones.com[/url]
big dismal [url]http://bigdismal.com[/url]
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-James Baldwin
[QUOTE=Earthbound]I can't stand the strokes. Pile o' shit in my humble opinion. Or Franz Ferdinand for that matter. Horribly overrated.
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you forgot modest mouse and yellow card
holy christ they suck
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-James Baldwin
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finger11 [url]http://fingereleven.com[/url][/QUOTE]
finger elevens first two cds are fucking great
the greyest of the blue skys is so poetic and deep and dark the lyrics are incredibly well written and the music conveys so much emotion its insane,
but this new cd that just came out last year is terrible, its cliche to say its them trying to be radiofriendly, but in this case its completely true. thiers no way around it
[QUOTE=Six On The Dot][I]"placebo (never caught on in america for some reason)"[/I]
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
[I]"mindless self indulgence
twizted
coal chamber"[/I]
Just like every goth kid under the age of 15's pants aren't huge.
[I]"The Mars Volta
The Flaming Lips"
This is every college radio station ever's complete playlist.[/QUOTE]
placebo still havent caught on in america, thier not nearly as huge here as they are in france or london, to the french placebo are like the freaking beatles or something.
look at the album sales of black market music in france compared to the sales in america its ginormous!
coal chamber,twizted & msi- blah. terrible lryicist,image obsessed, and whored out by the early teens who treat it all like a religion more than a musical choice.
the mars volta are phenominal on cd but not so much live. the crowd just has no idea how to react to the music literally. thats why thier not that big is thier live show isnt nearly as good as thier cd
and the flaming lips are phenominal all around phenominal, the music though will never get too big, its too different. the biggest thei'll ever get is were portishead is
[QUOTE=phlegmatics]finger elevens first two cds are fucking great
the greyest of the blue skys is so poetic and deep and dark the lyrics are incredibly well written and the music conveys so much emotion its insane,
but this new cd that just came out last year is terrible, its cliche to say its them trying to be radiofriendly, but in this case its completely true. thiers no way around it[/QUOTE]
yeah i know i heard "good times" and i was PISSED
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-James Baldwin
[QUOTE=Atomos]yeah i know i heard "good times" and i was PISSED[/QUOTE] eh i wouldnt go so far as pissed. i seen it coming when i heard the song they had on the daredevil soundtrack
cant say as i blame them. they kicked around canada for years, and they wanted to get the sort of attention that they deserve.. but they went to pandering for it and thats disapointing
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-James Baldwin
Flogging Molly... well at least in NA
alexisonfire .. from my home town w3rd
Closet Monster
Protest The Hero
Irish Car Bomb
The Super Suckers
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[QUOTE=Atomos]you forgot modest mouse and yellow card
holy christ they suck[/QUOTE]
finally, someone else who realizes both these bands SUCK.
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[QUOTE=jACKs c0Ld sWEAt]finally, someone else who realizes both these bands SUCK.[/QUOTE]
I thought we were all sane enough to have established taht for ourselves.
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"... got this store bought way of saying I'm ok..."
apperently not.
most people seem to love these shit hole whiner ass bands i could out perform while sick, stoned, and drunk.
and if they dont like them they probably like new metallica or slipknot
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-James Baldwin
another great band no one knows is UPO
cold isnt bad either
and if your into punk you cant go wrong with bad religion or 800 octane
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-James Baldwin
my picks? Billy Talent. They're a whole lot better live in my opinion. Similiar to Something Corporate(i'm not comparing their actual sound, just cd and live sound)
My Chemical Romance(they just rawk)[/QUOTE]
I totally agree with you. I've never had the pleasure of seeing Billy Talent live, but dear god how I wish. My Chemical Romance is a new favorite for me.
[QUOTE=Six On The Dot]I hate Bad Religion.
I saw them live like 6 times. I can't get over how old they are.
Everyone knows who they are. They're mega-havingtheirownmostpopularpunklabelever-huge.[/QUOTE]
i dunno where your from my friend. but a good percentage of the "punks" here give me funny looks when i mention the violent femmes. or they notice the bad religion patch i put over a big hole in my field jacket. thats right i have a patch on my jacket for a reason!! holy shit!!!
ny guess is that if you have seen BR six times then you have known of them for a few years. like back when punk music was still punk music, no? now days punk is shit like good charlotte, and fenix, and we all know about their cock sucking ability, dont we?
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-James Baldwin
[QUOTE=Crazedmusicfan24]I totally agree with you. I've never had the pleasure of seeing Billy Talent live, but dear god how I wish. My Chemical Romance is a new favorite for me.[/QUOTE]
um... I don't know what you're saying. I saw BT live and they were AWESOME. They just put on a really good live show. Same with Something Corporate. I had never heard either band before so I didn't know any of their songs but they put on a good show. Then I get home and d/l some songs and they sound HORRIBLE. Both of them.
MCR kicks ass both live and on cd though.
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seems like a good enough thread to revive
my list ...
BT
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Steve Earle
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the Twilight Singers
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Fluttr Effect
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neko case... she's fucking amazing.
Clutch
Tenhi
Tenacious D...[B]NOT[/B]
This is a really good idea.
Porcupine Tree
Opeth
Super Furry Animals
Spock's Beard
Dream Theater
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