Bands that should be huge, but aren't

This thread is simply a list of shit bands.

Over the Rhine
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Steve Burns (the Blues Clues Guy!)
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[QUOTE=corellion;913282]This thread is simply a list of shit bands.[/QUOTE]

then improve the list, shitface

[QUOTE=monkeywright;913287]Over the Rhine
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i got turned on to these guys with their new album Drunkard's Prayer just because the title spoke to me for some reason
now I'm a fan !

If you haven't checked out their double album "Ohio", go get it!

[QUOTE=nathaniel parker;913289]then improve the list, shitface[/QUOTE]

Fuck no.
I don't think any bands should be huge. My favourite bands enjoy enough success to keep them alive, and that does them fine. By huge I'm assuming we're talking about having every b-side with a music video in heavy rotation on some shitty TV channel. No, I don't want that for any band I like. I want them for myself, I don't want to share them with a whole fucking world full of television critics and fat people who have three-piece-suites and televisions in every room in their houses.

If you want a list of albums I'd offer to someone who asked me for some recommendations in music, then feel free to ask me. But I'm not going to sit here and even think about sharing them with the world. Fuck no. Not to mention the shit company they have here. Kids talking arsery about famous bands that they're convinced are deep underground rockers. Meshuggah for fuck sake. I've got a magazine with an interview from them in 2003.

Hurt
Evan's Blue
Isis

[QUOTE]By huge I'm assuming we're talking about having every b-side with a music video in heavy rotation on some shitty TV channel. No, I don't want that for any band I like. I want them for myself, I don't want to share them with a whole fucking world full of television critics and fat people who have three-piece-suites and televisions in every room in their houses.[/QUOTE]

I hear you on this a little bit. I'd like to believe that the reason they'd become huge is because their music moves others the way it moves me, instead of becoming huge for the the way they were marketed, but that won't happen. People's taste in music is just too diverse. And then some people are just consumers. I know a guy that won't listen to anyone I'd reccommend to him unless they've sold at least 10,000 albums. Won't even give em a chance unless 10,000 other people give their approval. Sheesh.

Anyway, I like these guys. Well, their newest album anyway.
[URL=http://www.skillet.com/enter.php]Skillet[/URL]

[QUOTE=Squeek;913346]I know a guy that won't listen to anyone I'd reccommend to him unless they've sold at least 10,000 albums. Won't even give em a chance unless 10,000 other people give their approval. Sheesh.[/URL][/QUOTE]

Can we start a petition for you to punch this guy in the mouth? I HATE people with this attitude. As he lays bleeding, tell him it was what the public demanded...

[QUOTE=corellion;913322]Fuck no.
I don't think any bands should be huge. My favourite bands enjoy enough success to keep them alive, and that does them fine. By huge I'm assuming we're talking about having every b-side with a music video in heavy rotation on some shitty TV channel. No, I don't want that for any band I like. I want them for myself, I don't want to share them with a whole fucking world full of television critics and fat people who have three-piece-suites and televisions in every room in their houses.this is ridiculous! by "huge" we're talking about getting more and more people to listen to some music that moves you. at least that's the way I read the thread. Not sharing some band that inspires you is at best petty selfishness and at worst a form of self-censorship

[QUOTE=the midas touch;913324]Hurt
Evan's Blue
Isis[/QUOTE]

i second Evan's Blue

Fountains of Wayne. Horribly underrated. (pisses me off to no end)
Snow Patrol...I liked them before anyone else, now even I can't stand them, it's madness.
Autolux should be known, amazing band.
Liam Lynch
IQ
Porcupine Tree
There are more...just can't think of them...

deadboy and the Elephantmen
Amen
Ringside
Valient Thorr
Gogol Bordello
Archie Bronson Outfit
Riverboat Gamblers
Damien Marley

The Cat Empire... hands down, no one comes close.

And Billy Talent is huge, at least here, one of the most popular bands. Don't really know anyone that hasn't heard of them.

yeah Billy Talent are pretty big

Spock's Beard
Mendeed
Macbeth

Pogues
Pavlov's Dog
Warm Murder and the Ice Spasms*
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*Okay, I think that one might be fictitious, but if they're real, they should be HUGE.[/I][/SIZE]

Gonzales
Boom Boom Satelites

[QUOTE=Voodoo Dolphin;466345]psychotica (they're not even together anymore)
mindless self indulgence
twizted
coal chamber
amen
deadsy
godhead
cellophane (also broken up)[/QUOTE]
they shouldnt even be alive.

[QUOTE=rossthefireman;466382]Lamb of God

Hands down the best 'metal' band on the planet[/QUOTE]
they already are huge.

i third syl and meshuggah.

im gonna say that megadeth needs to be bigger than they are
orphaned land
necrophagist

[QUOTE=nathaniel parker;913414]does this mean that since they're going on 4 years old now they hold no merit?[/QUOTE]

No. Meshuggah are a huge band and have been for a while. Half of the bands listed here are huge, that's my point. Especially the listed metal bands.

Anyway, a list of albums I think you should all give a listen. They're not uber underground rare bands, but have all sort of slipped short of mainstream success:

[B]Circle Takes The Square: As The Roots Undo[/B]
The inside booklet says: [I]"In a nutshell the concept behind the songs was to document the different points on a path to self-realization. In our interpretation of this journey, the wanderer ends up essentially in the same place that he or she began, if not humbled and even more overwhelmed. In a sense the ending is somewhat tragic, but without experiencing all of the lows how can anyone ever appreciate the amazing subtleties that this world has to offer? And so, if the search for beauty and understanding is cyclical and unending, then at least we'll never stop experiencing the thrill of the hunt."[/I] And from long instrumental sections to spastic drumming frenzies, it's a great album. Definately read the lyrics whilst you listen to it. It's a novel put to music. If anybody wants a sample track just ask.

[B]Tindersticks: Tindersticks (Second Album: 1995)[/B]
On 'A Night In', a simple little drum beat starts off the song. Then comes some basic keyboard chords, and then - wow - a voice. Leonard Cohen pales in comparison. And whilst you're marvelling at this voice, you fail to realise the subtely picking up violins in the background, and the bass, and then a guitar, and before you know there's a crescendo nobody saw soming and you're thrown into an amazing piece of rock music. Slow, but majestic, and not the slightest bit cliché. Tindersticks are the band, and their second self-titled album shouts that name better than any other. Definately worth a listen for everybody. Again, anbody wanting a sample track only needs ask.

I'll provide more later. I'm hungry now.

meshuggah isnt as big as they should be.
trocadero needs some serious attention.
google them.

Shut up. If you want people to know about them, give them links. Not to mention they're crap too.

[QUOTE=corellion;917461]Shut up. If you want people to know about them, give them links. Not to mention they're crap too.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://trocadero.net/[/url]

seriously, dude, why are you such a dick?

I just don't like you. There's lots of people on here I think are intelligent and cool. You aren't one of them. You're just another kid with long hair and wallet chains and black t-shirts that thinks they're a real rebel against the system. Please don't take this as an insult, I make premature opinions about everyone. Please feel free to show me different, or just don't care what I think. Also, try not to call me a 'dick', it's a shitty insult, and you there's a whole host of better ones I think would be better suited.

And on topic, I don't think The Decemberists could ever have too many fans.

I think it's a little sad that more people haven't heard Catawampus Universe (formerly Red Fly Nation). I knew them from the Lexington scene in the early 90's. They played here and in Cincinnati and Louisville, cut their own records, never got a big deal or national attention of any kind, and broke up before the internet became a major new force in promoting bands. You can hear some of their tracks from the following link. Especially, check out the tracks called "Cannabis Dub Generator" and "Soul Connection."

Warning: This is funk/regaee/hippy-pothead jamband music, good for a mellow, world-hugging groove and not designed to appeal to your cynicism or aggression.

[URL=http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=53162576]Catawampus Universe[/URL]

[QUOTE=corellion;917668]I just don't like you. There's lots of people on here I think are intelligent and cool. You aren't one of them. You're just another kid with long hair and wallet chains and black t-shirts that thinks they're a real rebel against the system. Please don't take this as an insult, I make premature opinions about everyone. Please feel free to show me different, or just don't care what I think. Also, try not to call me a 'dick', it's a shitty insult, and you there's a whole host of better ones I think would be better suited.
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i am not here to insult you- dick is a word i use for the way you treat people.

another kid? youre sixteen! youre one of those kids that just sits at his computer all day trying to impress people with your infinitely superior intellect while holding his cock in his hand and a jar of vaseline on the desk.
you remind me of myself at your age.

i dont have long hair. im not rebelling by wearing what i wear. i wear what i wear because it is comfortable and practical.
steal toed boots for work.
army jacket for warmth and pocket space.
wallet chain for weaponry.
dickies pants have scotch gaurd and rip stop and will last a decade.
black band t shirts- i like to wear t shirts, and the bands i listen to dont make t shirts of any other colour.

im not here to impress anybody. i came here thinking that there would be interesting conversations to be had. so far ive found more here than anywhere else.
but ive also found you.
what point is there in impressing anyone you dont know?
what point is there in impressing anyone through the internet?

get a life, kiddo.

I'm not talking about impressing anyone, I simply told you the impression you had upon me. As for your view of me, well, it was a good effort. I should saymost of my day is taken up by looking for a job, not masturbating which to tell you the truth I would prefer. But other than that, I am not too fussed on your opinion. You've already proven to me through a load of posts you know nothing about music, yet still steadfastly declare your views, so yeah, you're just an idiot. However, I do think it's something that after the first time people called you out on your idiocy you didn't run away never to return.

first off, youre the only person on here to call me an idiot, yet.
second off, what is it that i have said that makes you think im an idiot? because i bashed metallica? because i like metal? because i dont like myspace? tell me, please. im curious to know.

im not going to back down until you can prove me wrong.
im doing this in a thread rather than in a pm session because i have nothing to hide. im not going to profess who i am, but im not going to hide it. if you want to move it, just say so.

You two need to calm the fuck down. It's the internet, for chrissake.

I'm sure there are enough intelligent people here to have established this fact already, but as far as a majority of bands that I think "deserve to be huge" go, what should be meant is that I wish more people would get an opportunity to hear their music, not just the local scene.

That being said, there is one band that I feel got slightly robbed in the past. Harvey Danger had a fairly shitty single, "Flagpole Sitta" or something like that. I thought it was okay, but after the first 73,000 times I heard it on the effin' radio, I'd had just about enough. I think the song and their name got burnt out. About a year or so ago, maybe, they released another album, one that they gave away for free on their website. They have the general philosophy that music is free and if you think it's good enough, if you want to hear more, pay the artists for it. I didnt' buy their first one, but I can almost guarantee that this second one (or whatever number it was) is a gazillion times better. One of these days I'll get around to buying the album or sending 'em some money or something. Maybe.

I would say Mastodon, but they are currently on their way up. Their stuff can be heard on the radio . . . just barely.

The Cramps.

[QUOTE=aphonicmessiah;917968]what is it that i have said that makes you think im an idiot? [/QUOTE]

To name but a few: [URL=http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/community/search.php?do=finduser&u=29008]link[/URL]

that doesnt mean, "be an asshole." actually tell me how ive made myself look like an idiot.