Countdown 100: Bands that got megahyped that failed spectacularly...

mainstream

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.)

(stabbing westward & filter?)

Filter was actually successful, though

Stabbing Westward... well they had their fans

those were both reasonably large bands with hits, HGN.

xp

Actually maybe Sister Machine Gun and/or Machines of Loving Grace are the best examples of what jjj's talking about?

Stabbing Westward had a couple of big radio songs on the first record.

theres a slurry of grunge/ska failures too to be mined for gold here, speaking of which

35. Goldfinger

Gravity Kills maybe? I dunno, that kind of stuff is never really hyped over here (NIN aside, obv).

xposts

hahaha i just remember course of empire. that didnt go well.

lol I have a Gravity Kills CD5 that I think I've played once

swing industrial fusion HOW CAN IT POSSIBLY FAIL xpost

so dan & jj fell bigtime for lol major label industrial @ college?

this surely isn't a secret to, like, anyone?

nah i worked at a record shop so i got to watch it fall flat on its face over and over again

I thought you guys were old enough to fall for the non-false industrial that scraped the barrel, lol

btw, I am remembering why I played my Gravity Kills single only once:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8S0_DppB14

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.

essentially the years between 1988 and 1996 were essentially one long industrial freefall combined with rave/trip-hop/new jack swing detours

34. Warrior Soul

Horrible sub-par Britpop corner:

33. Northern Uproar
32. Heavy Stereo
31. Powder

Wow, didn't know Stabbing Westward had a album before the famous one.

hey no slagging off warrior soul now industrial butthurt boy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaDsh0IZ020

um

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.

what the world really needed was Queensryche set to a marching band drum cadence (xp)

i was actually trying to decide between warrior soul and powermad tbh

30. Infectious Grooves

can we all agree that Gravity Kills sucked

omg POWERMAD

xp: to quote Obama, YES WE CAN

how about Powerman 5000?

29. The Quireboys

remember when it looked like Jamiroquai was going to fall into this category ;_;

you're reminding me of an subgenre of music I was happy to have forgotten

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

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

Jimmy's Chicken Shack

28. The Von Bondies

wait a goddamned minute

in this Warrior Soul song did they really just say

To the rejects
Or the imperfect
To the retarded
Or the brokenhearted

also, how popular did Kittie actually end up becoming?

just as popular as they deserved to be

27. Mushroomhead

Northern Uproar in twice at #60 & #33

Kittie were reasonably big (not huge or anything), but the second album did a good job of finishing them off.

26. These Animal Men

I remember them because they were especially traumatic -- I had to miss a Red Wings play-off game to drive my sister to their concert.

http://www.poplife.info/Bilder/210142.JPG

Actually that really is a tragic cover -- all this horribleness on the page and then at the bottom 'Oh by the way Nick Cave and Rocket from the Crypt, are they any good?'