What bands 'should' have been bigger?

[BigMon]

spikeyhead said:

Good call, cracking band

Yeah, I liked them too. I don't think their subsequent albums were as good as their first though.

[StevieBee]

Anyone thrown Half Man Half Biscuit in the ring yet?

[Gary29]

Hian said:

The Wildhearts

Agree with many others already mentioned, so would also add the above.

I friggin love The Wildhearts!

[lauda]

The Boo Radleys. Only really known for Wake Up Boo, which really wasn't very representative of the rest of their stuff.

I saw them live supporting either Suede or the Manics and they were absolutely brilliant.

[spikeyhead]

The Heart Throbs

[Brave Fart]

paulguitar said:

Del Amitri.

Ridiculously good band, never got anywhere near where they should have been.

Yes! Justin Currie is one of our best songwriters (4 solo albums since the Dels) and Del Amitri were fantastic. I remember seeing them in a gig circus tent in Gosport in the early 1990's and the whole place was going crazy; it seemed like everyone there knew every word of every song. Good times.
"It Might As Well Be You" is one of my favourite songs of all time.

[Riley Blue]

Decameron - late '60s / early '70s Cheltenham based folk / rock band, imagine Lindisfarne with Gloucestershire accents but musically better. They made three or four good albums, managed by Jasper Carrott for a while.

[marcosgt]

hepy said:

The Real People - late 80's early 90's Liverpool band. Allegedly taught Noel Gallagher how to write songs.

"Heh, Noel, it's easy, listen to some 60s and 70s stuff and fit some new words around the tunes...."

M

[Johnnytheboy]

The Screaming Trees - not pretty enough

Kyuss - too niche I guess

[tuscaneer]

so... the singer from this criminally underrated band....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1E2nPKMG10

put me onto this criminally underrated band.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEbCEX_Zy6o

who sound a bit like (from the same time period) as this criminally underrated band...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NYbojdoAQE

[tuscaneer]

oh.... and how kerbdog never blew up i will never know...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imf76JNPsYo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OupA5wt3IKQ

every song off that album was an absolute masterpiece.. just wave after wave of catchier and catchier verses, pre choruses and choruses..

[SomersetWestie]

BigMon said:

bern said:

Milburn.

Sheffield band, around just before the Arctic Monkeys came on the scene. Very similar music. AM went stratospheric and Milburn just sort of petered out. Joe Carnell kept going doing Christmas gigs at local venues, i went to the first one at The Greystones pub, ended up filling the O2 academy a few years later and then they reunited on stage at the end of one of the Christmas gigs, that was incredible!. Did a big gig at the Don Valley Bowl released another album but appear to have gone quiet again.

Great band, who I prefer to the Arctic Monkeys, especially considering they disappeared up their own arse with the last album.

When I was heading out to gigs in Sheffield (late 80's\early 90's) there was a band called Various Vegetables who had some cracking tunes and signed to a record label called Gift but never got anywhere.

Pulp also signed to the same label at the same time. Funnily enough, all through the 80's most people in Sheffield thought Pulp weren't going to get anywhere.

Mate from Sheffield follows Milburn, great band....... Love this track..............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6w8dulTQKE

[davey68]

Screaming Trees
Cud
Kingmaker
Skin
Fu Manchu

[andySC]

davey68 said:

Screaming Trees
Cud
Kingmaker
Skin
Fu Manchu

Cud...I think they certainly tried to go mainstream but signing to A&M probably buggered it for them. I went to see them a year or so ago & had a great night.

[heisthegaffer]

From a metal perspective, Xentrix

[PBCD]

Some real 'blasts from the past' on this thread!

Can a suggest a few more in a similar vein...?

- Campag Velocet
- Curve
- Dreadzone
- Fluke
- Into Paradise
- The Chameleons
- The Thrashing Doves
- The The


In the more recent era, these four stand out for me as criminally underrated;

- Cigarettes after Sex
- Exit Calm
- Public Service Broadcasting
- Still Corners

[Sebastian Tombs]

PBCD said:

- Curve

I was a big fan when they came out but what was mindblowingly novel for the first 3 or 4 EPs turned into quite samey stuff by the time their album was released. Seeing them live really brought it home that every song was basically the same.

[robwilk]

V8covin said:

White Spirit were another band who should have been bigger

Edited by V8covin on Thursday 6th August 18:34

Edited by V8covin on Thursday 6th August 18:40

Did you ever see them live?

[PBCD]

Sebastian Tombs said:

I was a big fan when they came out but what was mindblowingly novel for the first 3 or 4 EPs turned into quite samey stuff by the time their album was released. Seeing them live really brought it home that every song was basically the same.

You're probably right!

Interestingly, following Curve, Dean Garcia launched a new band (SPC ECO) with his
daughter on vocals, which sounds like a trip hop version of Curve, and his daughter
was doing the 'Billie Eilish thing' years before Billie Eilish did:

[Pastor Of Muppets]

Testament...Although still a pretty sucessful band they should have been considered one of the 'Big four of Thrash',
superior band to Anthrax who are generally regarded as being the 4th, the technical genius of Alex Skolnick in particular
is comparable to virtually any other highly regarded name in Metal.