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Their (only?) disc came in an arty cardboard sleeve with a map on it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Slint!

― mallory bourgeois (painter man), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 19:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Velocity Girl
Seam

― Michael Bourke, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 22:16 (twenty-three years ago)

laddio bolocko.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember Poole - they were fantastic, although their album had a little too much melody, if that's possible. Near-impossible to sit through without feeling sick from sugar intake.

Velocity Girl weren't overlooked. At one point they were Sub Pop's second biggest selling act.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

ROC

― alexfack (alexfack), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 22:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Scarce. (I just realized that it's been nearly 7 years since they broke up.)

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Zumpano

― mosurock (mosurock), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Motherhead Bug.

Ooh. Velocity Girl. I don't know if they were "overlooked" per se, but y'know.....where are they now, eh?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh. Velocity Girl. I don't know if they were "overlooked" per se, but y'know.....where are they now, eh?

They reunited for a benefit show last year, and I think they may be working on something new.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Is that the same Julia-Louise I know from El Fiyahwattuhsirkuzz?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Has anyone mentioned Honeycrack yet? I remember quite digging them back in 96 or whenever it was their album sold three copies or whatever... Nice cover of Hey Bulldog by the Beatles too.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, someone covered "hey Bulldog"? That's worth hearing, I reckon.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Scarfo

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, Alex.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 04:46 (twenty-three years ago)

zumpano were marvelous! Lisp rock so great make me wonder why anyone would bother with new pornographers.
trashmonk is seriously awful it's all expensive production and faux soulfulness and actually mostly a perfect match for poptones.
swirlies best album is 'they spent their youth...', blonder was extremely disappointing at the time and it hasn't gotten much better with age.

― keith (keithmcl), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 05:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Already mentioned: Loud Family
Not yet mentioned: Shack

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 05:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Shack were pretty overlooked for a while, but I felt this was redressed by all the press/attention around "HMS Fable". I think they screwed their chance by not following that album up.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 05:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah Jim I guess they got some attention -- I always hoped they'd get more, and in more "mainstream" forums (U.S. radio play ... no idea actually if they ever showed up in Rolling Stone ... that sort of thing.)

Clearly they didn't seize the moment.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 06:10 (twenty-three years ago)

It's a damn shame too - HMS Fable is a really, really good record that beats Doves, Elbow, et al at their own game.. it's a shame to think they might not make another. But then there was years in between Zilch and HMS so you never know..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 06:12 (twenty-three years ago)

HMS Fable is a really, really good record that beats Doves, Elbow, et al at their own game

spot on! well, sort of. HMS Fable is the *only* record of that ilk I've ever really liked apart from (and here's the sort of) Elbow's Asleep In The Back which is just lush.

Please don't anybody lump in Elbow and Shack with the truly terrible, resolutely earthbound Doves, whose appeal I have simply *never* understood. Mmmm, pudgy hod-carriers wailing like sealions? No ta. ditto Puressence.

― Charlie (Charlie), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 06:35 (twenty-three years ago)

There was Waterpistol in between Zilch and HMS (unless I'm remembering them out of order)?

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 06:38 (twenty-three years ago)

true but it was unreleased for aaaaages and then only in France

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 07:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Sweep the Leg Johnny. Though mostly for their (amazing) live shows. Albums are ai-ight.

― original bgm, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 07:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Moped. They released one excellent pop album that sold virtually nothing.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 07:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Indian Summer is by far one of the most over rated bands! I can not begin to explain how horrible this band is, especially when compared to bands like Current or Embassy. Indian Summer is only popular because they were the first, and their records are hard to find and "obscure". I don't understand why this band continues to give kids with black hair huge boners.

― mallory bourgeois (painter man), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 08:32 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yeah i know: THE MIGHTY YUMMY FUR

― gi66y, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

this thread reads like a list of the worst bands of all time.

(except len. and d.i., i guess.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

D.I. as in Casey Royer's band? "Richard's Hung Himself", "O.C. Life" and "Johnny's Got a Problem"? They were 80's, man.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

jess, something tells me you'll be giving the rim jobs instead of receiving them

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 23:02 (twenty-three years ago)

YUMMY FUR!
SKINNED TEEN!
AVOCADO BABY!

― Jens (brighter), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 23:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Wait a second. There wass a BAND called Cotton Mather????

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 23:52 (twenty-three years ago)

there still is. much praised by Noel Gallagher

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 23:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Do they burn witches on stage?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 January 2003 00:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd prefer to burn them on stage.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:20 (twenty-three years ago)

No love for Cotton Mather, Ned? Do tell. I'm biased, as I knew the guitarist in his pre-fame days.

― paul cox (paul cox), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Was he in a band called Increase Mather at the time?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Celebrity Skin. They were mainly a late 80s phenomenon here in LA, but their records came out in '90 and '91. Too bad they didn't stick around, they would have made the perfect antidote to grunge-type band.

Also, the Geraldine Fibbers. Were they ever popular anywhere else? And Tiger and the Stiffs and Congo Norvell.

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Ladies and Gentleman, I give you...

http://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/g00536.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:03 (twenty-three years ago)

His girlfriend was an art student at the University of North Alabama, and he followed her around.

I bought a Celebrity Skin tape for $1 because I read a good review of them somewhere. I should have bought a candy bar instead.

― paul cox (paul cox), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Zumpano rules.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Correction: Zumpano's first album rules.

― paul cox (paul cox), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember reading about the Geraldine Fibbers, but I never actually heard them.

Now would be as good a time as any to say WALT MINK, at least for their first album.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Mmm, Geraldine Fibbers are great great great. I guess I never thought of them as "overlooked."

― paul cox (paul cox), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

trashmonk is seriously awful it's all expensive production and faux soulfulness and actually mostly a perfect match for poptones.

pah - you like the rutles of canadian pop - zumpano - fucking beachcombers stew, more like. let's put a few more ba ba bas. hit! well, a can-con hit, maaaybe.

― doom-e, Friday, 17 January 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

No love for Cotton Mather, Ned? Do tell. I'm biased, as I knew the guitarist in his pre-fame days.

Just seemed bland, really -- not active hate, more sorta, "Oh, right, whatever."

Celebrity Skin were engagingly ridiculous. One of the odder things Don Bolles has done over the years.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Rollerskate Skinny fans in the London area may be interested to know that Jimmy Shields is playing at the Water Rats tonight, and also at the Notting Hill Arts Club in the not too distant future...

I nominate/second: Shack, Swirlies, Seam, Smaller and lots of other bands beginning with S...

― reclusive hero (reclusive hero), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Drop Nineteens then.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

The Swirlies
Seam

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Geraldine Fibbers were v. good indeed. Mostly known in SoCal rock circles, I think -- almost everyone I know who's praised them has been from out there.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 17 January 2003 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

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