I Have Never Heard These Bands That Start With The Letter S

shit, you are right! then i have heard them cuz i own that movie on vhs. it's a good one.

I have the video, but there are bits I remember from the ICA screening that aren't on it.

Yes

"If so while on a break from Doctors of Madness he stood in for Dave Vanian in the The Damned (or some offshoot)"

Other way 'round actually: Dave joined / replaced Richard Strange as lead singer of Doctors Of Madness for a while after The Damned split up in '78.

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This lot I'm sure had a bigger label behind them, I can recall seeing a 10" single (?) at record fairs with a mohawked guitarist on the sleeve (the kind of thing that was always priced at 10p)"

I loved Shrink and I'm sure I've waffled endlessly about him here before.

Shrink was actually one guy rather than a band. He had half a head of pink hair and used to cover his entire face with gold paint before going on stage, until his psoriasis got too bad. Absolutely barking bloody mad. He released a couple of singles (including the absolutely phenomenal "Valid Or Void") and a 10" 6-track thing on an A&M offshoot called Oval around '80 / '81 and had a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo in the film Broken Glass. His backing band was The Secret, who were also signed to Oval.

"I went to the delie (sic)
and Mr. Selaginio
dove right into the cans of peas and carrots
I told him, I'm off duty
I'M here to buy a six pack"

http://www.earache.com/catalog/mosh010.html

Back in the day, when we just had filofax users to worry about.

It probably wasn't the one Scott didn't know in 2003 (it could be though since they've been recording since 2001) but there's a band that features members of Pizzing Razors and Seven Witches from Philly with that name. They released two unspectacular but listenable thrash/death/core albums on Crash (formerly Pavement) and continue to tour.

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The Secrets were comprised of former members of the band, The Brats .
The Brats were a glammy kind of rock band that did the Maxs KC ,Gildersleeves, CBGBs ,circuit in the last 70s .
The singer of that band was the infamous Keith West .

The Sic F*cks Are still together ,as are Sheena and The Rokkets .

The Sic F*cks played last night at Don Hills. They are doing 2 shows in Oct ,one of which is Oct 13th at CBGBs with the Dictators .The 2 girls in the band ,are the 2 girls that own Manic Panic .
You can buy Sic F*cks stuff here
http://www.manicpanic.com
http://www.manicpanic.biz/ct_CGsicf_cksclothingandmusic.htm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083542/fullcredits

There is a song of theirs here
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/14786
http://www.cbgb.com/shrine/shriners/snooky.htm
this shot would be during a song called "Chop Up Your Mother"

Shox Lumania were an inflamous 80s synth ,"we wanna be like The Velvet Underground ,only cooler " kind of band . That crap puts me to sleep .
That guy Richard Bone form the band went on to do Broadway music i think .He did lots of stuff .

sheena and the Rokkets opened for Blondie is Tokyo no less than a week ago .

And i bet you never heard of that god awful San Fran "we wish we were japanese ,and we suck" band
"Secret Secret"
blllearrghh ~~~

or do you mean the sorrows of early '80s cbgb power-pop semi fame? they had two albums, one of 'em produced by shel talmy. very merseybeat-flamin groovies-the knack. the bandleader was arthur alexander, but not THAT arthur alexander. a million or so years later, guitarist/sometimes-singer joey cola wound up as the drummer in my first band.

wasn't the guy from mojo guitars on st marks place in the senders? or is that my mind playing tricks on me?

I have never heard these "S" bands from Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums 1955-1996 book:

(At least I don't think I have. At least not much. Unless I'm wrong about a couple, but so what):

Sacred Reich
Sadat X
The Sandals
The San Sebastian Strings
Santana Brothers
Saraya
Saturday Night Band
Savage Grace
Scarlett & Black
Scatterbrain
School Of Fish
Scruffy The Cat
Seatrain
Seawind
2nd II None
The Serendipity Singers
Shadowfax
Bob Sharples And His Music
Shenandoah
Shotgun
Shotgun Messiah
Shy
Shyheim
Side Effect
Sidewinders (rock quartet from 1989)
The Silencers
Silk (folk-rock quartet from 1969)
Silver
Silver Condor
Sky (Detroit rock trio from 1970 w/ Doug Feiger)
Skylark
Sleeze Beez
Smif-N-Wessun
Smokestack Lightnin'
Smoothedahustler
Snail
Sneaker
Sons of Champlin
The Sopwith "Camel"
The Soul Children
Soul For Real
The Soulful Strings
Souls Of Mischief
Sounds Of Sunshine
Sounds Orchestral
South Central Cartel
South Circle
The Souther Hillman Furay Band
Southern Comfort
Special Ed
Spider
Spiders From Mars (sans Bowie)
Splinter
Spys
Stage Dolls
Stallion
Starpoint
Dakota Staton
Steady B
Stealin Horses
Steel Breez
Steelheart
Stone Fury
The Storm
Billy Strange
Streets
Strunz & Farah
Stuff
Suga T.
Sunny & the Sunliners
The Sunshine Company
Supersax
Susan
Sutherland Brothes and Quiver
Sweat Band
Sweet F.A.
Sweet Tee
Sweet Thunder
The Swingle Singers
Synergy

"S" artists who I came close to listing above then decided that'd probably be lying, even though I'm sure I've never heard a Mort Sahl LP, not even "Sing A Song Of Watergate," which may well be hilarious. (There may be a couple of these that I haven't actually heard, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it. Most of them, I've probably only heard one song by. Feel free to discuss them here regardless, though):

Mort Sahl
Sailcat
Saigon Kick
Salty Dog
Sea Hags
7 Seconds
Shakespear's Sister
The Shamen
The Silos
Soho
Soup Dragons
Stackridge
Stampeders
Starcastle (who I still confuse with Stackridge sometimes)
Stargard
Curtis Stigers
Jud Strunk
The Sundays
Sunscreem
Switch

"S" artist who I have definitely heard before (their excellent Australian Joe Jackson imitiation "Who Listens to the Radio" got some radio airplay in Detroit in new wave 1979), but I bet almost nobody else here has (except possibly Australians), and I really wish I had a copy of their album right now:

The Sports

Scruffy the Cat was Boston's entry in the mid 80's roots-new wave thing, after the Del Fuegos, at least. I remember the singer wearing a bandana over his mouth, like a silent film bandit. Not as good as the Dogmatics.

Shy - Brit attempt at riding on the coat-tails of Journey, Foreigner etc (see also : Magnum). Unsuccessful! I saw them supporting Manowar once in London, the singer sang the last song clad in nought but rollerskates, the audience tittered at his small-to-average size manhood.

The Sopwith "Camel" - somewhat in the vein of Spirit, not quite as good but worth a punt.

Spider - utter rip-off of Status Quo but without the CCR bits. Instead, they'd come up with dumbass catchy choruses containing the words "rock n'roll" - Here We Go Rock n'Roll, Rock n'Roll Forever Will Last ("play it loud, play it fast, rock n'roll forever will last") etc. Pretty good actually!

Steel Breez - is this Sacramento's finest Steel Breeze, who hit with "You Don't Want Me Any More" in about 1985? AOR.

Sweet F.A. was The Sweet after they left Chinn & Chapman and tried to go hard rock, to little success.

Synergy was synth wiz Larry Fast, who played on a few Peter Gabriel albums in the late 70's.

Shakespear's Sister had this massive number 1 hit in the UK called Stay, which was unavoidable for about a year. Imagine a cross between Patricia Morrison-era Sisters Of Mercy and The Eurythmics. Eurgh.

Soup Dragons - jumped ship from shambling to baggy, hit with "I'm Free", disappeared.

Stackridge - prog, I always confuse them with Stackwaddy.

Starcastle - American Yes clones, very wimpish.

scatterbrain had a big hit (in oz anyway) with "don't call me dude" mainly due to the amusing video

the sundays are probably the best smiths tribute group of all time, in that they managed to completely transcend their influences

that sounded weird in retrospect

Spider - utter rip-off of Status Quo but without the CCR bits.

Probably a different Spider (though your Spider sounds like they'd be good!) This was a NY-based rock quartet with a (female, I assume) South African singer named Amanda; charted with two albums in 1980 and 1981, which means they probably passed as new wave. Drummer was Anton Fig, later of the Dave Letterman show.

Steel Breez - is this Sacramento's finest Steel Breeze

Yep, guess I lost an "e" there.

Sweet F.A.

Seemingly not former Sweet guys, judging from their names. "Hard rock quintet," scored in 1990 with an album called Stick To Your Guns. Never even heard of 'em, I don't think.

Wait, so were Scatterbrain (from 1990) Aussies? (Whitburn doesn't say where they came from.)

no, americans

The Shamen?
"There's a guy in the place
He's got a bittersweet face
And he goes by the name of Ebeneezer Goode...", no?

"S" artist who I have definitely heard before (their excellent Australian Joe Jackson imitiation "Who Listens to the Radio" got some radio airplay in Detroit in new wave 1979), but I bet almost nobody else here has (except possibly Australians), and I really wish I had a copy of their album right now:

The Sports"

I've heard of them (I've got the single "Who Listens To The Radio?" and maybe others, but no album) and I'm a Limey.

Shamen info from WP:

When the Shamen appeared on Top of the Pops, it was expected that Mr C should tone down the song [Ebeneezer Goode] due to its being broadcast. The group replaced the final lyrics: "Got any Salmon?" - with "Has anyone got any underlay?". The BBC were furious, and dragged Mr C into a room off-camera, to explain himself, only to be told that it was simply a gratuitous rug reference.

"Has anyone got any Veras" is obv. rhyming slang, Vera Lynns = skins. The salmon reference has always bamboozled me though. Anyone?

Shadowfax

Acoustic New Age. I used to like them at one time. I think they were Bahais. Might have been from the Philadelphia area or had some sort of connection to it, since I remember them being around a lot in the 80s. In fact, I probably saw them.

The Swingle Singers

Someone from the older end of the baby boom generation at work used to talk to me about them. I think they do a capella arrangements of wildly different genres (but with a doo-wop foundation?), or something like that. The name is so horrible that I don't think I could ever give them a chance.

Synergy

I think this was a third-rate electronic music outfit.

7 Seconds

Hardcore punk? I think I may have seen them.

I think they were Bahais.

D'oh! I was thinking of Do'ah.

Shadowfax were Windham Hill. Big time.

(I think. Don't trust anything I'm saying here, since this is all about stuff I used to listen to around 25 years ago.)

There was a Minutemen'ish band from the late 80s called Special Ed. By Minutemen, I mean there were like 30 tracks on the LP, and it was sent to the college station where I was DJing. I don't remember what it sounded like now, but I remember it going on my purchase list of the time.

"The salmon reference has always bamboozled me though. Anyone?"

Salmon & Trout = snout = tobacco

Laaaaaaahvely

>>Stackridge - prog.

Not so much, really, more Beatle-y, 10CC-ish pop. I love the two I own ("Friendliness" and "The Man In The Bowler Hat,") the latter produced by George Martin.

As were 2 of the 3 Seatrain albums I used to own. Formed out of The Blues Project, but also featured violinist Richard Greene. Somewhere beween the roots rock of The Band and the art rock of Procul Harum; tough to pigeonhole.

Skylark had a huge hit soul ballad, "Wildflower," in the 70s (Let her cryyyy, for she's a lady, let her dreeeeam, 'cause she's a child) that I'm sure you've heard.

I only know people from the second list. Or is it the third list?

Anyway, the Silos are boring-as-all-get-out Americana with a violin that Weisbard liked in the SPIN guide, so I wound up with two of their cassettes. I can't remember anything about them, except I think there's a song about a wedding that reminded me of "The Deer Hunter." But that could've been 10,000 Maniacs.

My wife really really likes Shakespear's Sister, and I remember "Stay" and one other song from when they were big. One of the ladies was from Bananarama, right?

I really liked slow dancing to "Love Is on the Way" by Saigon Kick. Their green-covered CD is widely available in dollar bins, last I checked.

Curtis Stigers made Nick Lowe filthy rich by covering "What's So Funny 'Bout Peace Love and Understanding" on the Bodyguard soundtrack. He had a hit around the same time as Shakespear's Sister, but I forget what it was called.

Oh, shit, and Sons of Champlin! I have a buddy who's wayyyyyyyy too into Chicago, and he has all the Sons of Champlin albums. Bill Champlin joined Chicago in the '80s, I wanna say, and sang lead on "Look Away" and "I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love," and won a Grammy for writing "After the Love Has Gone" for Earth Wind and Fire. But before all that, he played in this tasty West Coast chop-rock band. I think their albums are rare and expensive now.

I've only heard one song ("Border Town") from the Souther Hillman Furay supergroup, but it's just great...makes me think of what Laura Nyro might have written had David Geffen successfully recruited her to Asylum Records and Laurel Canyon...

I should add that Sons of Champlin are not good, if my description tempted you to spend a lot of money on one of their albums. (xp)

Soho were those twin black chicks who scored with "Hippychick", constructed from samples of "How Soon Is Now"? back in '90 or so...

I'm surprised you haven't heard Savage Grace, who played the Detroit bar circuit sporadically in the 70's...I wanna say they had something to do with either Frost or the Amboy Dukes, but I could be wrong about that...so I won't...

"The Storm" I'll hazard a wild guess that this isn't the band I was in which gigged sporadically around Reading for a couple of years in the early '90's.... anything to do with Pauline Murray & The Storm???

School of Fish had a "modern rock" hit in 90/91 with "Three Strange Days." I remember liking it at the time but haven't heard it in forever.

Sadat X - Brand Nubian rapper. I heard his debut (I think) which was pretty snoozeworthy.

Smif-N-Wessun - Brooklyn rappers best known for "Bucktown." Later became Cocoa Brovaz due to hounding by the copyright stormtroopers at Smith and Wesson (cf. Kleenex ------> LiLiPUT).

Souls Of Mischief - Jazzy, Native Tongues-esque Oakland rappers who get a lot of love. Their '93 'til Infinity frequently shows up on best hip-hop albums lists. Mutated into Hieroglyphics.

Steady B - Bland 1980s Philly rapper currently serving life.

Streets - Not THE Streets, right? Teachers of the fine art of hotel expressionism?

Sweet Tee - Was JUST listening to her not even half an hour ago in the form of "The Feeling" by Tin Tin Out featuring Sweet Tee. Good late 1980s rapper.

The Shamen - Classic early ravers from Scotland. "Move Any Mountain," "Make It Mine," etc. Vocalist Mr. C (cute!) always reminded me of The English Beat's Dave Wakeling (cute too!).

Stargard - Funky disco which Escort does much better today. Best known for being sampled in Peter Heller's majestic "Big Love." And didn't they have something to do with the odious Sgt. Pepper flick?

Sunscreem - I saw their name last night on a thread about bands that will never be discussed on ILM. Alors... Trancey, very white Brit dance. "Love U More" was a hit. I used to spin their "Catch" towards the end of the night since it was speedy but felt quite "driving home along in the rain."