91. Black Kids
― seandalai, Thursday, 23 September 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
90. Jobriath
... artists count too?
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 September 2010 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
re: 93. They had a gig at the Filmore, supporting Van Morrison I believe, they ferried the UK press out with a "free trip to the best new band ever" ticket, but the trip was a nightmare and the gig was over when the press got there. no forgiveness.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 September 2010 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
89. Tapes N Tapes
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 23 September 2010 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
88. Supercharge
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 September 2010 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link
87. Nasty Rox Inc.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
86. Campag Velocet.
85. Sigue Sigue Sputnik
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
84. Spelt Like This.83. The Roaring Boys.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
(Not Sigue Sigue Sputnik though, a number two hit, followed by a bunch of stuff that did OK, as well as could be expected)
xpost, funnily enough!
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
92. Puddle Of Mud― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, September 23, 2010 9:56 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, September 23, 2010 9:56 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
only 5 million copies? FAIL
― ^^^that's lightweight jammin (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
82. Ultrasound.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
3 Sigue Sigue Sputnik Love Missile F1-11 Single Mar 1986 20 Sigue Sigue Sputnik Twenty-First Century Boy Single Jun 1986 10 Sigue Sigue Sputnik Flaunt It Album Aug 1986 31 Sigue Sigue Sputnik Success Single Nov 1988
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
81. Fischerspooner
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
80. Fischer-Z
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
79. Animal Collective
79. Jimmy the Hoover
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
78. Advertising
The EMI band that was going to save them after the Sex Pistols debacle.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
83. The Roaring Boys.
Wow, had forgotten that lot!
― jesper olsen twins (NickB), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Tot Taylor, right?
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
77. King Trigger
― jesper olsen twins (NickB), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
76. Doctors of Madness
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
75 a) Orlando; b) Plastic Fantastic; c) Dex Dexter; d) and so forth
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
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
no it definitely is, if you look at most of the bands posted itt they're all either average or fucking awful.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link
Terris still remain the best example - endless hype in the UK music press from 1999 to 2001, even landing an NME cover without having released all that much. Their singer, if I recall, was giving it the big licks onstage a lot and totally thought his band were the mutts nutts. They didn't have a Top 10 single, the album performed dreadfully and they got dropped. The NME suddenly were like "meh, fuck 'em" and moved onto The Strokes.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link
yeah that's a perfect example
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 20:44 (six years ago) link
idk Sheer Mag seemed to be getting a push from p4k and Rolling Stone in 2015 and 2016 and they dropped a debut album this year that I'm not seeing on any EOY lists
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 20:45 (six years ago) link
To this day, I've still never heard a Terris track. Gay Dad were similarily hyped, and utterly shit, but I still managed to hear the singles from the first LP without even trying.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
I was going to say--hippie alert--Blind Faith, but I didn't realize their debut hit #1 in both the States and the UK. They didn't get a second album out, though.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
How about Rita Ora's US career? (I know she's actually had success elsewhere but I don't think "hook singer on the Iggy Azalea single people barely remember" qualifies in the US as spectacular success.)
― Embalming is a flirty business (DJP), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
Well the NME had just came from helping these guys take over the world:http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Yksb7SyiQWQ/UHf4digZMxI/AAAAAAAAL64/nsUwk2Pf7xE/s1600/tiny2.jpg
― everything, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
I don't think the NME were banking on them putting out overblown, progged out double CD debut album, which they promptly gave a middling review to.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
They certainly crashed and burned quite spectacularly. Split up about a year after that cover - which may have contributed to their demise.
― everything, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:06 (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), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
I want to say JJ72, but they managed to make it to a second album. God, the late '90s/very early '00s were a fucking strange time.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
Then how about Kelly Clarkson?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, December 5, 2017 3:27 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
is this trolling
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
Sheer Mag = jury is still out, but yes I could definitely see them becoming one of these bands. Another contemporary that absolutely fits the bill is Downtown Boys.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 22:06 (six years ago) link
oh!! and METZ. huge p4k push circa 2012, nice festival slots, solid tours, each album has essentially been ignored. when I was in Toronto recently (their hometown), I saw a poster for their new record and realized I hadn't thought about them in years.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 22:07 (six years ago) link
Sheer Mag not capitalising on large rock publications writing about them probably has something to do with their having zero interest in the perceived benefits of that
― thirst trap your hare (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 23:54 (six years ago) link
or their profound stupidity
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
yeah those idiots probably think they're actually enjoying being in their band
― thirst trap your hare (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 00:02 (six years ago) link
FISCHERSPOONER
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 00:06 (six years ago) link
^otm
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 00:08 (six years ago) link
yeah moka imho yr thing is interesting and might yield some good groans and lols, but different enough to have its own thread. equivalent or overlapping with bands that got megahyped and it was enough to give them a moment of success but the public didn't really buy it and they disappeared back whence they came - your duncan sheiks and jimmy rays, and their indie equivalents (where mgmt miiiiiight qualify but idk then we're just doing one-album wonders... they have fans and still put out music).kelly clarkson is ludicrous though.
― the pleather of pleather paul (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 00:36 (six years ago) link
Not trolling on Kelly Clarkson it’s been years since I heard about her didn’t know she was still huge in the US.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 04:19 (six 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
― 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