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

12. Los Lobos

11. Mind Over Four

Northern Uproar reminded me a band i saw on the same NME tour

12 Fluffy

Make that

10 Fluffy

9. the firm (jimmy page and paul rodgers' 80s-collaboration)

8. 60 ft dolls

12. Los Lobos

? the purpose of this thread has lost me. Bands with decades of output got megahyped then failed spectacularly?

9. The Beatles - all that hype then nothing for 40 years. You don't even hear them on the radio any more.

12. Los Lobos

? the purpose of this thread has lost me. Bands with decades of output got megahyped then failed spectacularly?

at the time rolling stone, other american music press made them out to be the best rock'n'roll band in america, blah blah blah. in contrast to how much they were hyped, what avg person would know any of their output other than the la bamba cover?

Los Lobos became a long lasting cult band, which is more than you can say for Lone Justice or other similarly-hyped peers.

May as well rename the thread 'one hit wonders' if we're going to write off decades running artists as failures because they had a hit. I thought we were looking for something else here. Los Lobos were active for over ten years before La Bamba and are still active more than 20 years later.

Did Kix have a long lasting successful career?

i think of lone justice as being more of a cult band than i do los lobos

i'm thinking levels of failure as commensurate to levels of hype

los lobos just a one hit wonder if they hadn't been heralded at the time as second coming of "real" american rock'n'roll

afaict this thread pretty much instantly devolved into 'hey let's just name some bands we remember from when we were teens' so I wouldn't really sweat it xp to onimo

Faust. From the point of view of Polydor who were convinced they had the new Beatles and Virgin who must have lost a lot of money on The Faust Tapes.

Faith No More, after that one hit "Epic" what happened? where did they go? who talked about them? NOBODY. screw this whole "being around for 10 years or more and being in the rock canon", THEY WER UNSUKXUCKESSFUL

(sadly there are people I know who have said the above about FNM!)

i bet the los lobos dudes own really nice houses

...that Paul Simon claims ownership of.

hahaha Kelly Osbourne pretty much owns this thread

Melody Maker, Jul 1972

The Faust Tapes, Virgin's cheap album currently at number 18 in the MM chart will be deleted on July 20. Reason? Well, it was too popular.

At 48p a go, the album costs more to produce than the price it sells for. So, on 60,000 sales Virgin have already LOST £2,000. Such are the crazy economics of the business... or so they say.

Carly Hennessy

Kenna?

if you can malcolm gladwell as 'megahype'

er, if you can count

From Fluffy's Wikipedia page: "The band was regularly featured in several magazines; Kerrang, Q, Select, Melody Maker[1] and NME. They also appeared on several UK television shows, including Top of the Pops, The Big Breakfast and Hotel Babylon."

Chart positions:

"Husband" (1996) Parkway - UK #58
"Nothing" (1996) The Enclave - UK #52

Ouch.

Kenickie had all that too but I think they did get a few top 40 singles.

That Bingo track isn't half bad.

Yeah, I loved that Catch song at the time. Normally I hate 'so bad it's good', but you just had to admire the way they managed to encapsulate so much that is reprehensible in a career that only lasted one song.

I owned and listened to CDs by Stabbing Westward, Filter, Gravity Kills, and Goldfinger, though it was obvious at the time that Goldfinger kind of sucked. There were a bunch of hypey punk revival bands like Millencolin that came and went -- who would have thought that the Blink-182 of "M&Ms" would be the one to hit it big. Portions of 1994-1995 were pretty ugly looking back on it.

Carly Hennessy

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was waiting for this one. she was a huuuuuuuuuge bust before appearing on Idol.

Coal Chamber

I was thinking anything-post-Zep-involving-Jimmy-Page, but it seemed like the first Firm album did well.

The Egg!
And that mid-90s band with the astronauts on the cover!

can i just give a shout out to nerf herder

from an aussie perspective: Mandy Kane. upwards of $70K on an album that sold pathetically (i picked it up for $5 in the sale bin on its WEEK OF RELEASE)

los lobos are totally not failures by any stretch

if you can still play carnegie hall, you're really not a spectacular failure

Deaf School? You are mad. If by 'hyped' you mean that anybody outside of the UK 76-79 ever heard of them, you are incorrect. If by 'failed spectacularly' you mean they didn't make three endlessly enjoyable albums that I still listen to frequently, then you are delusional and incorrect. If you mean they never got the acclaim and popularity they deserved, you are quite right.

Dear Deaf School, I love you for all eternity. RIP Eric Shark.

What a way to end it all.

Frickin' Lone Justice.

Some ILX talk on this thread about them a while back. Great post by Alfred following up on it.

Wow -- thanks! It's amazing how much The Industry had invested in them.

If you mean they never got the acclaim ...

... is the point of this thread.

7. Northern State
6. Barbara Manning

Barbara Manning got megahyped and failed spectacularly?

i know that they had a vague hit and all, but jesus the level of hype + the lack of return of luscious jackson as the beastie boys but oh wait THEY LADIES fits for my own definiton

5 : regular fries

a lot of money. a lot of hype.
some great records (imho of course).
total lack of sales.

cornelius hope, the bands spokesperson a few years back :

"alas, such chaos has meant that labels are even more straight-laced now in the wake of the Fries legendary million pound debts…"

4. Blue Mercedes

^ wasn't their album called Rich and Famous or something?

3. Bif Naked

2. The Parkinsons (jesus fucking christ)

From Fluffy's Wikipedia page: "The band was regularly featured in several magazines; Kerrang, Q, Select, Melody Maker[1] and NME. They also appeared on several UK television shows, including Top of the Pops, The Big Breakfast and Hotel Babylon."

Chart positions:

"Husband" (1996) Parkway - UK #58
"Nothing" (1996) The Enclave - UK #52

Ouch.

I don't recall Fluffy's hype being particularly memorable or mega, they just seemed like another London scenester band who got coverage because they socialised w/ppl from MM and NME, I dunno.

I have "Husband" and another one of their singles (checks that shitipedia page) "Hypersonic", I think they were 50p each. Classics, both of them, "Husband" is fierce!