overlooked 90's groups

Bugskull
Hochenkeit

Supreme Dicks

Follow For Now. The story of that band still makes me very sad.

And was I the only person in the universe who loved Moonshake?

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, February 8, 2003 6:43 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark

Probably not so unsung around these parts, but overall: yes. Before Fiedler/Fixen left, they were phenomenal. I still play Eva Luna about once a month or so.

also, randomly: 12 Rods, Th' Faith Healers, Jale, Venus Beads, Ganger

and Lanterna

G*Park
18th Dye
Slovenly

Moose. Moooooooooooooose.

Moped. awesome band from Seattle i think, summershine put out their album which was rockin' from start to finish. like a (much) better sleepyhead

Xpost. 18th Dye are also a forgotten 00's group, since nobody seemed to notice their rather good reunion album/tour from last year. Oh well.

He's not a group, but I'm more and more convinced that Colin Lloyd Tucker is one of *the* most overlooked 90's artists on the basis of Remarkable and Songs of Life, Love, and Liquid. Great lost Bowie/Hitchcock/Ayers hybrid.

Barely 90s, but DICKLESS

oh man i just remembered the album "succumb" by the virgin-whore complex ... if anyone owns this and wants to up it for me i would die a thousand deaths, it doesn't appear to be online anywhere, no tracks on youtube even

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, February 16, 2009 4:26 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

finally found the video for the song "speakerphone," which is what i used to play on my college radio show - i totally forgot about the creepy zodiac killer parts of the song: http://music.yahoo.com/videos/Virgin-Whore+Complex/Speakerphone--2148785

Superconductor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIliXLa_u7A

The Moon Seven Times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL8LE0muXzY

King Black Acid

i just jammed some New Radiant Storm King in the car today, so i had to check if they'd been mentioned itt and they have

I have to go back and see if I still think the Small Factory version of "Everyone's Happy for the First Time in Weeks" beats the NRSK original... I wonder if they'll play it at the chickfactor show. Hope so.

Gallon Drunk are playing here soon. Maybe they do this all the time, I don't know, but seeing their name in the listings was a weird flashback. Still like Some Fools Mess.

superconductor

fuck, yes. hit songs for girls is easily one of my favorite albums of the 90s. LOVE this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DZxYoO4d1Q

and king black acid! and his womb star orchestra! unspeakably beautiful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=252WkzeWE_4

this is my asylum records

Tripmaster Monkey. I'm currently under the impression that only myself and the lucky few I've played their fantastic "Goodbye Race" album to know who they are. It's the great lost classic grungepop album, up there with "Frosting on the Beater" and "Bandwagonesque" for great tunes and burnt out guitars. I urge anyone who has a love for that sort of stuff to check it out. Utter classic.
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, January 13, 2003 3:38 PM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

been wondering who they were since going through a copy of melody maker from around the time Kurt Cobain died that sits on a pile on the shelf near my toilet.
thought I recognised the name but maybe its cos they were named after a book I read in the early 90s?

rRope
Jellyfish Kiss
Charlie McAlister
Powerdresser
Diskothi-Q
Lovechild
The Beguiled
Star Pimp
Plainfield
Adickdid
Hammerhead
The Great Unraveling
Phleg Camp
Good Horsey
Pork Queen

everyone on Slabco: Land Of The Loops, Sukpatch, Sientific American, Explosion Robinson, Dynomite D, Buckminster Fuzeboard, Volume All*Star

Overlooked *since* the 90s: Hovercraft
They sound more amazing today,

The Kent 3

Then criminally underappreciated and now all but forgotten Seattle band from the late 90s. They recorded a string of excellent albums and singles for Steve Turner's Super Electro Sound Recordings (among other labels, including a 7" for Sub Pop). After knocking around for a while, they came into their own with their second album, 1997's Stories of the New West, when guitarist Viv Halogen took over the vocal duties. I can honestly say without exaggeration that it's of my all time favorite rock n roll records, flawless from front to back. "Mad About the Boy" is a late-album highlight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I08j_s2ogq4

god, there's basically nothing about the kent 3 on the internet. frustrating...

You ever hear the Night Kings? They had an album on Super Electro also. That guy was a good songwriter.

Reading this thread last night was fun, remembering so many of the groups mentioned here. I composed a list in my head to add here but I fell asleep. I fell like Barbara Manning is overlooked?

King Black Acid

― John Nestle Harding (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, March 14, 2012 4:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

also pre-KBA group Hitting Birth, 1 great CD and 2 great tapes to their credit.

wow @ mackro's list, I still have time for Pork Queen & Love Child.

Barbara Manning is great but probably higher profile than a lot of this stuff, what with LPs on Matador etc.

ha of course I namechecked Walt Mink but didn't say anything about K's Choice or They Eat Their Own

Didn't Love Child have an album on Matador? Or was it one of the last albums on Homestead?

both LPs were on Homestead, yeah.

I think I still have a Diskothi-Q tape somewhere, lost of great shrimper stuff, Paste, Refrigerator. I also had a record by a group called Plover that I remember liking.

are God Is My Co-Pilot overlooked?

(speaking of Shrimper)

You ever hear the Night Kings? They had an album on Super Electro also. That guy was a good songwriter.

yeah, i dug the night kings and associated bands: kings of rock, fall-outs, nights & days. especially the fallouts, whose "zombie" is a lost 90s nw garage classic. single version, so great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5QjBElYyQg

fantastic song, but as a band, they weren't a patch on THE KENT 3, by far the greatest 90s band to have fallen entirely from view. i tell you true.

God Is My Co-Pilot were great! I liked Straight Not on Outpunk, I think?

Houston had a great noise scene that's overlooked, Richard Ramirez/Black Leather Jesus, Pain Teens, and other groups I can't remember.

Culturcide!!!

love the pain teens, though mostly for the born in blood LP. dunno none of the others. associated them with texas psyche more than noise proper, prob due to their being on trance syndicate.

Jesus Penis?

the pain teens' finest hour, imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_F2k7SVR1Y

sadly not with bliss blood, their vocalist/star. here's the album version w bliss:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzsBSX9lluc

better sound, but damn i do love the sampled preacherman vocals on "it will"

I remember seeing a side project of the pains teens, the girl and guy with other people playing a straight noise set in Houston,TX with Richard R. It was painful but awesome.

whoah yeah Jesus Penis' Stick In The Mud LP? never heard that.

Destroy Me Lover is another good Pain Teens record.

were Kangaroo Kourt from Houston?

Anastasia Screamed

Dead Horse were a fucking awesome live band, the're overlooked?

Cherubs were a cool band

speaking of noisy/heavy texas psyche on trance syndicate, THE CHERUBS. never loved the band, but this song, "CARJACK FAIRY" is another of my alltime 90s favorites. absolutely pulverizing, but in the hypnotic, mush-brained way i love best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8TqL1SMPyA

"i can't steal this car alone..."

recently covered by red fang, and so maybe due for a reappraisal?

xp grandavis

Freedom Fighters - My Scientist Friends

super raging but yet poppy at the same time noise punk....they were from Mpls were actually on AmRep right at the time that everyone stopped caring about AmRep, love that band and it's much harder to find/more obscure spinoff Capital! Capital!

both HIGHLY recommended

Just listened to Dead Horse on youtube, maybe they should be forgotten

Yeah, good Cherubs song above. Can't even remember the names of the songs I like, just one of those bands I would play on radio shows in the 90s. That Pain Teens clip above reminded me that they existed!

Speaking of AmRep, here's a track from one-hit-wonder Manchester, UK outfit The Powers That Be, released as a picture-disc single as part of the label's loss-leader "Research and Development Series". Love this song to death, though it's arguably kind of goofy/affected. As far as I know, the band never released anything else, save a compilation track that i've never heard. IT'S A CRUDE SOUND: