11. Mind Over Four
― dude (del), Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Northern Uproar reminded me a band i saw on the same NME tour
12 Fluffy
― sonofstan, Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Make that
10 Fluffy
9. the firm (jimmy page and paul rodgers' 80s-collaboration)
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
8. 60 ft dolls
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― meta the devil you know (onimo), Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― dude (del), Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Los Lobos became a long lasting cult band, which is more than you can say for Lone Justice or other similarly-hyped peers.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― meta the devil you know (onimo), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Did Kix have a long lasting successful career?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i think of lone justice as being more of a cult band than i do los lobos
― dude (del), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― dude (del), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Heurelho Gomes & The Scene (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Duran (Doran), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Remedial Thug Motivation (San Te), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
(sadly there are people I know who have said the above about FNM!)
i bet the los lobos dudes own really nice houses
― my balls and my nerds (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
...that Paul Simon claims ownership of.
― Sterling, Cooper, Nash & Young (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha Kelly Osbourne pretty much owns this thread
― bang (HI DERE), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― fit and working again, Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Carly Hennessy
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Kenna?
― goole, Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Kenickie had all that too but I think they did get a few top 40 singles.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
That Bingo track isn't half bad.
― skip, Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― skip, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, September 23, 2010 3:33 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
was waiting for this one. she was a huuuuuuuuuge bust before appearing on Idol.
― Remedial Thug Motivation (San Te), Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Coal Chamber
― Gavin in Leeds, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― Excluding Skits and Such (Eazy), Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
can i just give a shout out to nerf herder
― the great aussie ballkicking vids (jjjusten), Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
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)
― deep-fried cigarette (electricsound), Friday, 24 September 2010 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
los lobos are totally not failures by any stretch
― Muscus ex Craneo Humano (forksclovetofu), Friday, 24 September 2010 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Friday, 24 September 2010 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
What a way to end it all.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 September 2010 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 September 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
If you mean they never got the acclaim ...
... is the point of this thread.
― Mark G, Friday, 24 September 2010 06:39 (thirteen years ago) link
7. Northern State6. Barbara Manning
― ^^^that's lightweight jammin (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 24 September 2010 06:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Barbara Manning got megahyped and failed spectacularly?
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Friday, 24 September 2010 06:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― the great aussie ballkicking vids (jjjusten), Friday, 24 September 2010 07:07 (thirteen years ago) link
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…"
― mark e, Friday, 24 September 2010 07:58 (thirteen years ago) link
4. Blue Mercedes
― My glowbo's ain't half itchy (NickB), Friday, 24 September 2010 08:12 (thirteen years ago) link
^ wasn't their album called Rich and Famous or something?
3. Bif Naked
― the who cares (okamax), Friday, 24 September 2010 08:23 (thirteen years ago) link
2. The Parkinsons (jesus fucking christ)
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Friday, 24 September 2010 08:28 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― Pashmina, Friday, 24 September 2010 08:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Spacehog? A no.1 out of the gates, of course, but I think they must have got turned into glue shortly afterwards.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Friday, 24 September 2010 08:45 (thirteen years ago) link