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

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?'

I could write a story about my sister's groupiedom w/low-level Britpop bands, but I would probably get sued. Plus, I have a sneaking suspicion she lurks on ilx sometimes.

Skin
http://991.com/NewGallery/Skin-Tower-Of-Strength-31739.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsoB9v6FJdo
Little Angels
http://www.heavyharmonies.com/bandpics/littleangels.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFbcdXpgf-A

just for San Te & Chap (and dan & jj)

One track off the first Stabbing Westward album was the theme tune to MTV Europe's metal show for a while.

This one, to be precise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRphqu0lDYw&ob=av2e

Me and loads of mates had the first album.

Super Rock?

Chap> We all bought Kerrang or RAW then.

Wither Blister Burn and Peel was the 2nd album.

anybody else remember when Melt Banana was going to take the alternative world by storm?

Haha, Metal Hammer for me. A higher standard of journalism altogether.

xposts

I'd forgotten that Northern Uproar looked like such twonks.

24 or so?) I remember from back in my one-stop days hearing about the biggest advance ever given: to Lone Justice. Think they may have sold a few records here and there but nothing to justify the million bucks or whatever it was they were handed in the mid-'80s, when that was a fair amount of money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungod

though from the review i'm guessing "Ungood" woulda been a better title.

Metal Hammer higher standard? lol dont make me laugh. I remember they wanted to drop the "metal" from the name of the magazine as metal was very unhip in the days of alternative & nu-metal.

Double plus ungood...

I remember from back in my one-stop days hearing about the biggest advance ever given: to Lone Justice. Think they may have sold a few records here and there but nothing to justify the million bucks or whatever it was they were handed in the mid-'80s, when that was a fair amount of money.

I acquired a huge collection of 80s Rolling Stone magazines back when I worked at a public library and they were going to get rid of them -- there were a *lot* of articles devoted to hyping Lone Justice.

chaps getting nostalgic for those vids i posted, i can tell. He's digging out his Symposium & Midget cds as we speak.