Minty!
― jesper olsen twins (NickB), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
There's almost like a whole subgenre of just-before-punk British flop bands from 1975-1977, when the record companies had no idea what they were doing anymore. About 5 of them have already been mentioned. Almost all the Pub Rock bands for a start
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
73 RPLAThe RPLA Debacle
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
72. Canibus
― ^^^that's lightweight jammin (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:13 (thirteen years ago) link
71. Mick Jagger solo
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:13 (thirteen years ago) link
78, yep.
The biz being so london-centric, a whole host of pub rock bands got signed because they worked well in a pub, but outside of that, no-one cared. none got megahyped though, aside from the Brinz, as mentioned. Oh, Dr Feelgood did, but hey: Success or what?
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:14 (thirteen years ago) link
70. Theaudience
― jesper olsen twins (NickB), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't realise Deaf School got megahyped - they were a brilliant band!
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
69. Lone Star.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
68. S*M*A*S*H
― meta the devil you know (onimo), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
67 Blue Rondo a la Turk
66 Animal Nightlife
65 King
― sonofstan, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
64. Funkapolitan
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
63. Ultrasound
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
63 already 82.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
63. FMB
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/lottery-win-inspires-failed-band-to-reform-514521.html
― ledge, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
62. Campag Velocet
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
^ been done
62. Slade (in the USA)
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link
61 : Tiny Dancers
the sheer extravagence on the promos etc (and weren;t they famously one of the last big ££ signings prior to the big EMI shakeup), but did anyone buy the album ?
― mark e, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
60. Northern Uproar
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
59. These Animal Men
― ledge, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
do american mags not hype up anything?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm trying to remember the last actually hyped American band that had zero success; even The Click 5 had like one hit song.
― bang (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't know if Christiana DeBarge was actually megahyped but she performed on So You Think You Can Dance once and then was never heard from again
even big n rich sell records right?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
they sell FUCKTONS of records!
― bang (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
58. Andrew WK
― Aqua Buddha (herb albert), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
^ yeah!
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Not sure I understand the meaning of the word "megahyped" in re: half these bands
― Mo Tucker Mo Problems (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
57. Dave Matthews Band (in the UK)
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
but dmb were never hyped in the uk. Probably never even written about. Noone outside of ilm has probably heard them in the uk!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I remember a huge poster campaign! 'Who is Dave Matthews?'
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
56. clap your hands and say yeah
― Zeno, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
55. kula shaker
Andrew WK was fairly successful. WTF
― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
That really worked, didn't it?
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
^ a million selling album is a failure?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
John Mayer is consistently regarded as the hit singer over here, except his hit total is one album on the chart here for 1 week.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Check: Dreamworks roster circa 2000. Cupcakes (industry hype), Palo Alto (Rick Rubin producing)...
― Excluding Skits and Such (Eazy), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Kula Shaker did alright!
54. Joe Lean and the Jing Fucking Jang Fucking Jong.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
^ thanx for nothing there, mike
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
^ had erased them from my memory till then
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
In the interests of useful info rather than self-plugging, here's a piece I co-wrote five years ago where the likes of Orlando, Birdland and Brinsley Schwarz explained what went wrong. We got curt refusals from Gay Dad and Terris.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/jan/28/2
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I have a promo copy of Joe Lean's unreleased debut. It will be worth literally pennies one day.
Oh man, World of Twist :(
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Any band that gets megahyped in the US is already popular. Milli Vanilli is probably the closest I can think of to a group that turned hype into spectacular failure.
― skip, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Proteges and familiar relations of successful artists/industry-folks have that big push and fail in the U.S. all the time.
― Excluding Skits and Such (Eazy), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I have an ultra-collectible six-track promo CD of the self-same lost masterpiece! Unfortunately, it is unplayable on any CD player which I possess.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
where the likes of Orlando, Birdland and Brinsley Schwarz explained what went wrong.
Birdland were successful! They brought me and my wife together.
― meta the devil you know (onimo), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
so in the US, hype from indie mags doesn't count as hype? cuz that's just what most of the UK examples are.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
32 Birdland Sleep With Me Single Feb 1990
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Color me underwhelmed...from Justin to this!??
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 04:20 (six years ago) link
But yeah my examples are on the wrong thread was thinking of diminishing returns rather than undelivered promises.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 04:23 (six years ago) link
Kinda happens with most artists
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 10:49 (six years ago) link
I've not listened to it in donkeys years but I remember quite liking the Terris debut EP. Live they were very good too, in an intense way. The debut album was fucking awful, though.
I've literally never heard of Voxtrot before today.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 13:43 (six years ago) link
me neither.i am going to have to try and find that terris album this weekend aren't i.pretty sure i found a skinny promo cd-r in the bins around the time they were being hyped, but not sure i ever actually listened to it.
― mark e, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 13:52 (six years ago) link
I'd say the fact that they didn't get on too well with each other was the main reason they split.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican)
maybe. they got back together some years back. they do pretty well as a cult prog band appealing to the cardiacs set - they were just never going to be the Monsters of Britpop the NME thought they were after hearing "Kurt Russell".
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 14:21 (six years ago) link
Jimmie Ray..... my god, flashbacks
― brimstead, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
What was that guy all about
― brimstead, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
who wants to know
― the pleather of pleather paul (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
Metz seems kind of unfair to list here. They have a niche and they fill it.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 6 December 2017 15:06 (six years ago) link
I'm guessing the new freebie NME doesn't have the space to hype obvious chancers any more, I kind of miss that now it's gone.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:16 (six years ago) link
I'd always assumed The Vines were an answer to this question but fuck me their debut sold 1.5m copies. How big do you need to be to do that these days?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:19 (six years ago) link
ha, the Vines were my first thought when I saw this thread title, too.
Would someone like Jay Electronica count? He got a ton of hype and co-signs back in 2007 but then has released 2 solo songs and about a dozen guest verses since then.
― methanietanner, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link
Jay Electronica is a great pick for the niche level of hype he got
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Thursday, 7 December 2017 09:22 (six years ago) link
Jimmy Ray was hyped? Moreso than those other 90s one-hit-wonder acts like Marcy Playground or the “This is the story of a girl who cried a river and drowned the whole world” band?
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 7 December 2017 12:12 (six years ago) link
Obie TriceLupe Fiasco
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 7 December 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link
Did anyone care about Obie once?
― President Keyes, Thursday, 7 December 2017 13:47 (six years ago) link