Ooh, ooh, I got a USA one!
49. Johnny Cougar.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
if the media and public hadn't turned on those nme acts, the country could have been taken over by nme indie acts & ms dynamite and the lex could have been happy.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Lex OTM. And I doubt Ms Dynamite lost the label money, whereas famous flops like Brinsley Schwarz, Moby Grape, Fischerspooner, etc lost a packet. Imo, if someone's had one acclaimed, strong-selling album and a handful of hit singles then they shouldn't be in this thread.
Nicole - no, we asked Cliff and one other member but didn't work through the whole line-up - either we didn't have the contact details or we didn't have enough time, I can't remember exactly.
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
48 : VV Brown
― mark e, Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, god, elephant in the room time:
47. The Woodentops
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
haha. were they that hyped ?
― mark e, Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
46 : CHAKK - MCA funded them to build hi-tech studio/FON records etc. Sly and Robbie on production. no-one bought the album.
[but i'd still love a cd copy .. ]
― mark e, Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
(fwiw when i interviewed ms dynamite earlier this year, she basically said she deliberately took a few years off to be a mother, and now her son's at school she's able to devote herself full-time to music again)
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Is that Chakk record any good Mark? Just asking as a Moloko fan...
― jesper olsen twins (NickB), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
A lot of money was spent, I believe. (re: The Woodentops)
And great things were expected. So many people I knew were "this is going to be big"
But I'd say, no one liked them enough to go buy.
75% 'wanted' not enough to break the threshold.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
(i suspect that's true of many female artists who "disappeared", too; and ms dynamite also said that motherhood didn't just affect the time she could devote to her career but, w/r/t her genuine flop second album, how much she was committed to even making the music - she said she'd go into the studio and wonder how her son was instead of thinking about the music)
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
re chakk : honestly. no.
the band shot their load with the early 12" records (Out of the Flesh and They Say 12") which were great distorto-funk.but, as an album of its time, i still play the odd track when in the mood.
― mark e, Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
she said she'd go into the studio and wonder how her son was instead of thinking about the music
Hmm. Everyone else who has a kid and a job has to get by somehow.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
hello "Bosstown Sound"
45. Beacon Street Union44. Ultimate Spinach43. Orpheus
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
42. Robbie Williams (in the USA)41. Nikka Costa
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
40. The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
39. Rosie Vela.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Nikka Costa's a good one. She had a ton of money thrown at her more than once iirc. What was her claim to fame again?
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
38. O-Positive (1990; Epic) | "Most popular artists aren't interested in doing anything worthwhile. I don't want success on any terms. I don't care about being a guy in leather pants with no underwear. We just play what we like, we don't try to write songs for anyone else. We haven't really worried about how we're going to be received."
Imagine that.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
sophie b hawkins got the most hype ive ever seen in the uk, 3 or 4 weeks a row on top of the pops all for getting no higher than #23.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Nikka Costa is the daughter of Don Costa (arranger for Sinatra etc...)
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Sophie B. Hawkins is mortally otm #1.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i just cant recall any more hype in the 90s on anyone else
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, no mention of?
37. Jimmy Ray
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
its one thing being hyped up by the nme to a 100,000 readers at most, but sophie b hawkins was on adverts, every chat show, every music show, every commercial radio/r1 A playlist ,all the papers, those totps performances despite not even being in the top 20 and it still didn't crack the top 20.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha completely forgot about Jimmy Ray - he was all over MTV for about two weeks.
― seandalai, Thursday, 23 September 2010 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
well, she did get by!
polyhex says sophie b hawkins had two top 20 hits - i remember both (and still play "damn i wish i was your lover" occasionally), had no idea of the hype though! i guess it's similar to the florence & the machine hype now...always thought florence was a c-rate SBH.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, speaking of F&tM, my wife is now obsessed with them/her after the VMAs this year, going so far as to call her performance the best of the evening
― bang (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
36. Max Q
― the great aussie ballkicking vids (jjjusten), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
xp: I think that there were a number of mainstread media calling f+tm the best performance of the evening too.
― kkvgz, Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
mainstream
― kkvgz, Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
lots of industrialish stuff in the wake of NIN that got sorta this treatment, but not enough hype to get them a number imo (lookin at you spahn ranch, etc.)
― the great aussie ballkicking vids (jjjusten), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
(stabbing westward & filter?)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Filter was actually successful, though
Stabbing Westward... well they had their fans
― bang (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
those were both reasonably large bands with hits, HGN.
xp
― kkvgz, Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually maybe Sister Machine Gun and/or Machines of Loving Grace are the best examples of what jjj's talking about?
― bang (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Stabbing Westward had a couple of big radio songs on the first record.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
theres a slurry of grunge/ska failures too to be mined for gold here, speaking of which
35. Goldfinger
― the great aussie ballkicking vids (jjjusten), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Gravity Kills maybe? I dunno, that kind of stuff is never really hyped over here (NIN aside, obv).
xposts
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha i just remember course of empire. that didnt go well.
― the great aussie ballkicking vids (jjjusten), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
lol I have a Gravity Kills CD5 that I think I've played once
― bang (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
swing industrial fusion HOW CAN IT POSSIBLY FAIL xpost
― the great aussie ballkicking vids (jjjusten), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
so dan & jj fell bigtime for lol major label industrial @ college?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
this surely isn't a secret to, like, anyone?
― bang (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
nah i worked at a record shop so i got to watch it fall flat on its face over and over again
― the great aussie ballkicking vids (jjjusten), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought you guys were old enough to fall for the non-false industrial that scraped the barrel, lol
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
btw, I am remembering why I played my Gravity Kills single only once:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8S0_DppB14
― bang (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
actually Stabbing Westward's major singles were on their second album. "Ungod" was the first one, and didn't have any. So that's even more a suggestion that the hype helped build them from unknown to MTV darlings methinks.
― Remedial Thug Motivation (San Te), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
essentially the years between 1988 and 1996 were essentially one long industrial freefall combined with rave/trip-hop/new jack swing detours
― bang (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
34. Warrior Soul
― the great aussie ballkicking vids (jjjusten), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link