― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Secret Affair were basically the Jam without brains.
Shakin' Pyramids were really crap rockabilly.
Sheena & the Rokkets are Japanese, a bit like Princess Princess.
Sic Fucks, as noted elsewhere, included Trish & Snookie, who were indeed part of the same circle as Chris Stein and Debbie Harry. The only thing they did I can recall was a fairly droll white-soul send up that included a chorus in which a male vocalist sang, "Take me to the bridge," and Trish & Snookie replied, "And drop him off!"
Single Bullet Theory weren't Bostonians (sorry, Chuck); they hailed from Richmond and played the D.C. area quite a bit. Seem to recall them as amped-up new wave, but that may be entirely wrong.
There were two Solid Senders, appallingly enough. One were the post-Dr. Feelgood vehicle for guitarist Wilco Johnson, which was pretty much a fans-only proposition. The other were a by-the-numbers blues rock outfit most notable for the presence of onetime Fabulous Thunderbird Keith Ferguson.
SVT was, specifically, a Jack Cassady project, named after his amplifier.
― J.D. Considine, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Walter Steding's schtick was very cutesy and annoying. Just some dork and his violin. I never understood why he was everywhere back in early 80s New York. I guess he worked his friends.
The Sic F*cks were lots of fun. They were sort of Dictators-ish, I think, circa their first album. The singer Russel Wolinsky was OK, in a Handsome Dick style, but I mainly liked them for Tish and Snooky. They were so charismatic!
Shox Lumania were very Klaus Nomi-influenced, led by a an artist named Lari Shox. Lenny Kaye's wife was in the band. If there was any sort of New Romantic movement in New York, they were it. I think part of their act was to pretend that they were from some obscure Eastern European country called Lumania. Their big hit was called "I Have No Shoes" and it did kind of sound Eastern European. I loved them! Lari Shox died of AIDS in the late 80s.
Armand Schauobreck Steals' albums always seemed like concept albums about his troubled youth, his time in reform school, etc. They were interesting but I never really listened to them much. They had great covers, though, especially the one with the big grinning Armand with a bullet hole through his head. Also, I think he used to run House of Guitars in Rochester, NY. And he was always sending his picture into Rock Scene.
I never knew Don Farndon was in the Sorrows-thank you, Dr. C! "Belfast Boy" is incredible.
― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 14 April 2005 04:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Here's that page w/Shox Lumania videos: http://manparrish.com/video/
"The Stranger" is really catchy!
― mnm, Thursday, 14 April 2005 07:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 14 April 2005 08:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― xhukx, Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― herbie jones, Monday, 12 September 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― HERBIE, Monday, 12 September 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― HERBIE, Monday, 12 September 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
shit, you are right! then i have heard them cuz i own that movie on vhs. it's a good one.
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 12 September 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stu, Friday, 7 October 2005 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 October 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link
I have the video, but there are bits I remember from the ICA screening that aren't on it.
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 October 2005 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes
"If so while on a break from Doctors of Madness he stood in for Dave Vanian in the The Damned (or some offshoot)"
Other way 'round actually: Dave joined / replaced Richard Strange as lead singer of Doctors Of Madness for a while after The Damned split up in '78.
">ShrinkThis lot I'm sure had a bigger label behind them, I can recall seeing a 10" single (?) at record fairs with a mohawked guitarist on the sleeve (the kind of thing that was always priced at 10p)"
I loved Shrink and I'm sure I've waffled endlessly about him here before.
Shrink was actually one guy rather than a band. He had half a head of pink hair and used to cover his entire face with gold paint before going on stage, until his psoriasis got too bad. Absolutely barking bloody mad. He released a couple of singles (including the absolutely phenomenal "Valid Or Void") and a 10" 6-track thing on an A&M offshoot called Oval around '80 / '81 and had a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo in the film Broken Glass. His backing band was The Secret, who were also signed to Oval.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― blunt (blunt), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link
"I went to the delie (sic)and Mr. Selaginiodove right into the cans of peas and carrotsI told him, I'm off dutyI'M here to buy a six pack"
― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 9 December 2005 05:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian W, Wednesday, 25 January 2006 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anton Martin, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 04:00 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.earache.com/catalog/mosh010.html
Back in the day, when we just had filofax users to worry about.
― bendy (bendy), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 04:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― don, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 07:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― corey c (shock of daylight), Sunday, 23 April 2006 05:23 (eighteen years ago) link
It probably wasn't the one Scott didn't know in 2003 (it could be though since they've been recording since 2001) but there's a band that features members of Pizzing Razors and Seven Witches from Philly with that name. They released two unspectacular but listenable thrash/death/core albums on Crash (formerly Pavement) and continue to tour.
www.singlebullettheory.netwww.myspace.com/singlebullettheory
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Sunday, 23 April 2006 05:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Sunday, 23 April 2006 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link
The Secrets were comprised of former members of the band, The Brats .The Brats were a glammy kind of rock band that did the Maxs KC ,Gildersleeves, CBGBs ,circuit in the last 70s .The singer of that band was the infamous Keith West .
The Sic F*cks Are still together ,as are Sheena and The Rokkets .
The Sic F*cks played last night at Don Hills. They are doing 2 shows in Oct ,one of which is Oct 13th at CBGBs with the Dictators .The 2 girls in the band ,are the 2 girls that own Manic Panic .You can buy Sic F*cks stuff here http://www.manicpanic.comhttp://www.manicpanic.biz/ct_CGsicf_cksclothingandmusic.htmhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083542/fullcredits There is a song of theirs here http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/14786http://www.cbgb.com/shrine/shriners/snooky.htmthis shot would be during a song called "Chop Up Your Mother"
Shox Lumania were an inflamous 80s synth ,"we wanna be like The Velvet Underground ,only cooler " kind of band . That crap puts me to sleep .That guy Richard Bone form the band went on to do Broadway music i think .He did lots of stuff .
sheena and the Rokkets opened for Blondie is Tokyo no less than a week ago .
And i bet you never heard of that god awful San Fran "we wish we were japanese ,and we suck" band "Secret Secret"blllearrghh ~~~
― missy moo (missymoo), Sunday, 24 September 2006 08:36 (seventeen years ago) link
or do you mean the sorrows of early '80s cbgb power-pop semi fame? they had two albums, one of 'em produced by shel talmy. very merseybeat-flamin groovies-the knack. the bandleader was arthur alexander, but not THAT arthur alexander. a million or so years later, guitarist/sometimes-singer joey cola wound up as the drummer in my first band.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 25 September 2006 06:07 (seventeen years ago) link
wasn't the guy from mojo guitars on st marks place in the senders? or is that my mind playing tricks on me?
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 25 September 2006 06:08 (seventeen years ago) link
I have never heard these "S" bands from Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums 1955-1996 book:
(At least I don't think I have. At least not much. Unless I'm wrong about a couple, but so what):
Sacred Reich Sadat X The Sandals The San Sebastian Strings Santana Brothers Saraya Saturday Night Band Savage Grace Scarlett & Black Scatterbrain School Of Fish Scruffy The Cat Seatrain Seawind 2nd II None The Serendipity Singers Shadowfax Bob Sharples And His Music Shenandoah Shotgun Shotgun Messiah Shy Shyheim Side Effect Sidewinders (rock quartet from 1989) The Silencers Silk (folk-rock quartet from 1969) Silver Silver Condor Sky (Detroit rock trio from 1970 w/ Doug Feiger) Skylark Sleeze Beez Smif-N-Wessun Smokestack Lightnin' Smoothedahustler Snail Sneaker Sons of Champlin The Sopwith "Camel" The Soul Children Soul For Real The Soulful Strings Souls Of Mischief Sounds Of Sunshine Sounds Orchestral South Central Cartel South Circle The Souther Hillman Furay Band Southern Comfort Special Ed Spider Spiders From Mars (sans Bowie) Splinter Spys Stage Dolls Stallion Starpoint Dakota Staton Steady B Stealin Horses Steel Breez Steelheart Stone Fury The Storm Billy Strange Streets Strunz & Farah Stuff Suga T. Sunny & the Sunliners The Sunshine Company Supersax Susan Sutherland Brothes and Quiver Sweat Band Sweet F.A. Sweet Tee Sweet Thunder The Swingle Singers Synergy
"S" artists who I came close to listing above then decided that'd probably be lying, even though I'm sure I've never heard a Mort Sahl LP, not even "Sing A Song Of Watergate," which may well be hilarious. (There may be a couple of these that I haven't actually heard, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it. Most of them, I've probably only heard one song by. Feel free to discuss them here regardless, though):
Mort Sahl Sailcat Saigon Kick Salty Dog Sea Hags 7 Seconds Shakespear's Sister The Shamen The Silos Soho Soup Dragons Stackridge Stampeders Starcastle (who I still confuse with Stackridge sometimes) Stargard Curtis Stigers Jud Strunk The Sundays Sunscreem Switch
"S" artist who I have definitely heard before (their excellent Australian Joe Jackson imitiation "Who Listens to the Radio" got some radio airplay in Detroit in new wave 1979), but I bet almost nobody else here has (except possibly Australians), and I really wish I had a copy of their album right now:
The Sports
― xhuxk, Friday, 14 March 2008 12:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Scruffy the Cat was Boston's entry in the mid 80's roots-new wave thing, after the Del Fuegos, at least. I remember the singer wearing a bandana over his mouth, like a silent film bandit. Not as good as the Dogmatics.
― bendy, Friday, 14 March 2008 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Shy - Brit attempt at riding on the coat-tails of Journey, Foreigner etc (see also : Magnum). Unsuccessful! I saw them supporting Manowar once in London, the singer sang the last song clad in nought but rollerskates, the audience tittered at his small-to-average size manhood.
The Sopwith "Camel" - somewhat in the vein of Spirit, not quite as good but worth a punt.
Spider - utter rip-off of Status Quo but without the CCR bits. Instead, they'd come up with dumbass catchy choruses containing the words "rock n'roll" - Here We Go Rock n'Roll, Rock n'Roll Forever Will Last ("play it loud, play it fast, rock n'roll forever will last") etc. Pretty good actually!
Steel Breez - is this Sacramento's finest Steel Breeze, who hit with "You Don't Want Me Any More" in about 1985? AOR.
Sweet F.A. was The Sweet after they left Chinn & Chapman and tried to go hard rock, to little success.
Synergy was synth wiz Larry Fast, who played on a few Peter Gabriel albums in the late 70's.
Shakespear's Sister had this massive number 1 hit in the UK called Stay, which was unavoidable for about a year. Imagine a cross between Patricia Morrison-era Sisters Of Mercy and The Eurythmics. Eurgh.
Soup Dragons - jumped ship from shambling to baggy, hit with "I'm Free", disappeared.
Stackridge - prog, I always confuse them with Stackwaddy.
Starcastle - American Yes clones, very wimpish.
― Matt #2, Friday, 14 March 2008 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link
scatterbrain had a big hit (in oz anyway) with "don't call me dude" mainly due to the amusing video
― electricsound, Friday, 14 March 2008 12:55 (sixteen years ago) link
the sundays are probably the best smiths tribute group of all time, in that they managed to completely transcend their influences
― electricsound, Friday, 14 March 2008 12:57 (sixteen years ago) link
that sounded weird in retrospect
Spider - utter rip-off of Status Quo but without the CCR bits.
Probably a different Spider (though your Spider sounds like they'd be good!) This was a NY-based rock quartet with a (female, I assume) South African singer named Amanda; charted with two albums in 1980 and 1981, which means they probably passed as new wave. Drummer was Anton Fig, later of the Dave Letterman show.
Steel Breez - is this Sacramento's finest Steel Breeze
Yep, guess I lost an "e" there.
Sweet F.A.
Seemingly not former Sweet guys, judging from their names. "Hard rock quintet," scored in 1990 with an album called Stick To Your Guns. Never even heard of 'em, I don't think.
Wait, so were Scatterbrain (from 1990) Aussies? (Whitburn doesn't say where they came from.)
― xhuxk, Friday, 14 March 2008 12:59 (sixteen years ago) link
no, americans
― electricsound, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link
The Shamen? "There's a guy in the place He's got a bittersweet face And he goes by the name of Ebeneezer Goode...", no?
The Sports"
I've heard of them (I've got the single "Who Listens To The Radio?" and maybe others, but no album) and I'm a Limey.
― Stewart Osborne, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Shamen info from WP:
When the Shamen appeared on Top of the Pops, it was expected that Mr C should tone down the song [Ebeneezer Goode] due to its being broadcast. The group replaced the final lyrics: "Got any Salmon?" - with "Has anyone got any underlay?". The BBC were furious, and dragged Mr C into a room off-camera, to explain himself, only to be told that it was simply a gratuitous rug reference.
"Has anyone got any Veras" is obv. rhyming slang, Vera Lynns = skins. The salmon reference has always bamboozled me though. Anyone?
― ledge, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Shadowfax
Acoustic New Age. I used to like them at one time. I think they were Bahais. Might have been from the Philadelphia area or had some sort of connection to it, since I remember them being around a lot in the 80s. In fact, I probably saw them.
The Swingle Singers
Someone from the older end of the baby boom generation at work used to talk to me about them. I think they do a capella arrangements of wildly different genres (but with a doo-wop foundation?), or something like that. The name is so horrible that I don't think I could ever give them a chance.
Synergy
I think this was a third-rate electronic music outfit.
7 Seconds
Hardcore punk? I think I may have seen them.
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I think they were Bahais.
D'oh! I was thinking of Do'ah.
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Shadowfax were Windham Hill. Big time.
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link
(I think. Don't trust anything I'm saying here, since this is all about stuff I used to listen to around 25 years ago.)
There was a Minutemen'ish band from the late 80s called Special Ed. By Minutemen, I mean there were like 30 tracks on the LP, and it was sent to the college station where I was DJing. I don't remember what it sounded like now, but I remember it going on my purchase list of the time.
― bendy, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link
"The salmon reference has always bamboozled me though. Anyone?"
Salmon & Trout = snout = tobacco
― Stewart Osborne, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Laaaaaaahvely
― ledge, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:28 (sixteen years ago) link
>>Stackridge - prog.
Not so much, really, more Beatle-y, 10CC-ish pop. I love the two I own ("Friendliness" and "The Man In The Bowler Hat,") the latter produced by George Martin.
As were 2 of the 3 Seatrain albums I used to own. Formed out of The Blues Project, but also featured violinist Richard Greene. Somewhere beween the roots rock of The Band and the art rock of Procul Harum; tough to pigeonhole.
Skylark had a huge hit soul ballad, "Wildflower," in the 70s (Let her cryyyy, for she's a lady, let her dreeeeam, 'cause she's a child) that I'm sure you've heard.
― Dan Peterson, Friday, 14 March 2008 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link