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
Hmm. Everyone else who has a kid and a job has to get by somehow.
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
Horrible sub-par Britpop corner:
33. Northern Uproar32. Heavy Stereo31. Powder
― Neil S, Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, didn't know Stabbing Westward had a album before the famous one.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
hey no slagging off warrior soul now industrial butthurt boy!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaDsh0IZ020
um
― bang (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i must confess, i got the 1st stabbing westward album. I have never heard a single thing that came after it. They had no hit albums here.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
what the world really needed was Queensryche set to a marching band drum cadence (xp)
― bang (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i was actually trying to decide between warrior soul and powermad tbh
― the great aussie ballkicking vids (jjjusten), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
30. Infectious Grooves
can we all agree that Gravity Kills sucked
― Remedial Thug Motivation (San Te), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
omg POWERMAD
xp: to quote Obama, YES WE CAN
― bang (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
how about Powerman 5000?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
29. The Quireboys
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
remember when it looked like Jamiroquai was going to fall into this category ;_;
― bang (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
you're reminding me of an subgenre of music I was happy to have forgotten
― Remedial Thug Motivation (San Te), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
You are digging up some best buried memories here.
Engines of Aggression, ladies and gentlemen!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TS_A0_2TaE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLYYDtIXAwA
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
that was to Herman
Rob Halford's Two
xxpost -- (I saw these doofs open for Curve. An agonizing wait.)
(bonus points for the equally failed major label push on suicidal tendencies around the same time)
xxposts oh man yeah powerman 5000 is pretty good for this
― the great aussie ballkicking vids (jjjusten), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Jimmy's Chicken Shack
― Remedial Thug Motivation (San Te), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
28. The Von Bondies
― the great aussie ballkicking vids (jjjusten), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
wait a goddamned minute
in this Warrior Soul song did they really just say
To the rejectsOr the imperfectTo the retardedOr the brokenhearted
― bang (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
also, how popular did Kittie actually end up becoming?
― bang (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 September 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link