What bands 'should' have been bigger?

[AlvinSultana]

Small Faces.

https://youtu.be/5ihicvJcHTY

[Welshbeef]

Foo foghters?

I mean they are epic and huge already but the smash Green Day / linkin park


Boney M

[K12beano]

AlvinSultana said:

Small Faces.

https://youtu.be/5ihicvJcHTY

Funny you should say that.

From another thread I was inspired to listen to “Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake” on my walk this morning.

I discovered an extended anniversary edition.... over 2 hours (walk just paused at coffee shop and it’s still not finished)

I was thinking about how they absorbed a lot of influences. Their styles must surely have influenced people as diverse as Blur and Bowie, Genesis, Jam and Weller and so many others!?

Of course, with an “extended” version you do just get three or four different takes of the same thing, but oddly enough I’m not fed up with anything (or Stanley Unwin) so far!!

[Trophy Husband]

They Might be Giants?

[jet_noise]

What a fine thread.
Have you all been going through my tunes?

From Budgie to the Bible. I've liked so many of the bands mentioned. And that's just the Bs!

A couple from me:
The Railway Children - jangly guitars, swirling keys, catchy hooks, driving bass. Wonderful.
The Enid - classical meets prog. Saw them several times at the Marquee in the '70s.

[Ultuous]

Japveesix said:

Japveesix said:

Animal said:

Silver Sun.

The first Silver Sun album is one of the catchiest and best poprock records ever. It's got some absolute gems on it.

For me The Wildhearts should have been far bigger, I'd genuinely rate Ginger as one of the best songwriters of our time. He's prolific and can write stomping riff laden rock monsters, alongside 3 minute pop songs, meandering ballad style stuff and folk numbers. And his lyrics are regularly great, witty and relevant.

Edited by Japveesix on Thursday 3rd September 20:28

Thought I'd update this rather than start a new thread but the lead singer of Silver Sun, James Broad, sadly died of cancer a couple of days ago. He was still singing and releasing music as Silver Sun at the start of this year and was only 50, leaving behind a wife and young daughter.

Really sad as their first album was one of the main soundtracks to my teenage years.

For those who haven't heard them now's the time to go listen to any one of the following tracks on YouTube:

I'll see you around:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-nLWLxHYYyw

Lava:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UVja3OCbXs8

Last day:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FYtbr86cjaM

Too much, too little, too late:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wDBncxWtLd8

New song Big Wheel from April this year:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GAhpwzJT0l4

RIP James Broad, seemed like a nice dude and knew how to write a catchy tune!

Edited by Japveesix on Tuesday 3rd November 20:28

I was going through drawer of my stuff at my parent's last week (that one every 43 year old man has had a mother asking him to clear out for the last 2 decades, right?...) and found a signed Silver Sun poster that I don't remember acquiring, but I guess it must have been at a gig I saw them at when 'Lava' came out (what a tune that was - have very fond memories of a mate and I being obsessed with it for a few weeks, which is just how pop music should be!).

What a horrible coincidence it was when I read the awful news the very next day - RIP

[Hub]

I have to say I've been listening to a lot of Silver Sun this week - rediscovered you could say. The sheer joy of that first album, the way the tracks segue into each other etc - just great. I didn't know there was so much recent material either.

Seems James Broad was a bit of a car enthusiast too from his twitter feed. (and PH follower)

https://mobile.twitter.com/lordmelbury2/status/131...


I also for some reason associate Silver Sun with Spearmint - speccy front man peddling poppy indie perhaps! They were decent too though... (bit milder perhaps!)

https://youtu.be/n-mDcm0vThw

[General Price]

Extreme

I think Nirvana and the like stomped all over their glory.

[RichB]

AlvinSultana said:

Small Faces.

https://youtu.be/5ihicvJcHTY

I loved the Small Faces back in the day but I would argue they were actually pretty 'big'. After the Beatles (obviously) and the Stones, you had the Who, the Kinks and the Small Faces. Can't get much bigger than that...

[Grrbang]

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers were always big, but they totally deserved to be in the same league as the Beatles and the Stones.

[Fittster]

janelle monae. Famous but add a couple of catchy singles and you have a potential mega star.

[dandarez]

Grrbang said:

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers were always big, but they totally deserved to be in the same league as the Beatles and the Stones.

I'd agree with that.
One of the best live bands ever - in the fact that anything they played live sounded better than their record.
One of their best sets imo was at the Isle of Wight in 2012.

I'd watched them since first seeing them at Oxford Poly in March 1980 - christ, they were good that night. And I got in free!
I still recall (was at the front - member of staff privilege!) and I already had their 'Damn the Torpedoes' LP - yet that evening when they played 'Refugee' the ending was different - the actual record did not have Mike Campbell's wailing guitar at the end. I was really hooked.
Luckily saw them at Hyde Park shortly before Tom died.

Oxford Poly 1980 - Refugee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNQQl8gs0wI

Isle of Wight 2012 - Refugee (32 yrs on!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCdKRp98qag

Hyde Park - Refugee 9 July 2017 (37 yrs on!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArK4sjIkF5c

Then Tom died and I thought, sod. Never gonna hear him live again, nor see them again, or that wailing guitar ending of Mike's.
But out of the ste Mike Campbell joined (another fave band) slightly reformed Fleetwood Mac. So could again watch that wailing guitar genius live and did so at Wembley last year.

Then came the interruption of some ste bug called covid.
Roll on 2021.

[Leicester Loyal]

Various Artists
Danny Dyer's Chocolate Homunculus
Curse These Metal Hands
Man Feelings
13 bds
All the wes of Malta
Coming up for Blair
Mama's Kumquat
Spunk Bubble

[Grrbang]

dandarez said:

Then Tom died and I thought, sod. Never gonna hear him live again, nor see them again,

RIP Tom

[gizlaroc]

coppice said:

The Bible - a wonderful songsmith in Boo Hewerdine , wonderful live but , cruelly , never quite made it. See also Danny Wilson - terrific band,

Eureka!

That was the band I was going to mention.


The Big Supreme - Another band from that era that was amazing. The album that never was.


Swansway, Hipsway as well. There were so many good bands that passed through.

[coppice]

In similar vein King L , who came out of the ashes of Danny Wilson , were terrific .,.

And a bigger success, if far less than they deserved , were the eclectic and uber smart Prefab Sprout - those lyrics and melodies from Paddy McAloon were
every bit as clever as Morrissey at his best

[Chubbyross]

I always felt Tears for Fears should have been as big as U2.

[Roofless Toothless]

Moby Grape.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Grape

[epom]

dandarez said:

Grrbang said:

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers were always big, but they totally deserved to be in the same league as the Beatles and the Stones.

I'd agree with that.
One of the best live bands ever - in the fact that anything they played live sounded better than their record.
One of their best sets imo was at the Isle of Wight in 2012.

I'd watched them since first seeing them at Oxford Poly in March 1980 - christ, they were good that night. And I got in free!
I still recall (was at the front - member of staff privilege!) and I already had their 'Damn the Torpedoes' LP - yet that evening when they played 'Refugee' the ending was different - the actual record did not have Mike Campbell's wailing guitar at the end. I was really hooked.
Luckily saw them at Hyde Park shortly before Tom died.

Oxford Poly 1980 - Refugee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNQQl8gs0wI

Isle of Wight 2012 - Refugee (32 yrs on!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCdKRp98qag

Hyde Park - Refugee 9 July 2017 (37 yrs on!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArK4sjIkF5c

Then Tom died and I thought, sod. Never gonna hear him live again, nor see them again, or that wailing guitar ending of Mike's.
But out of the ste Mike Campbell joined (another fave band) slightly reformed Fleetwood Mac. So could again watch that wailing guitar genius live and did so at Wembley last year.

Then came the interruption of some ste bug called covid.
Roll on 2021.

Ah Tom, was late enough to the party. It all changed when I went along with my brother to see him live. Not that I didn't want to I just hadn't really thought about going being honest. That gig changed everything.

[nonsequitur]

Semi Sonic. Broke up because it never happened.