Good 80's band's that never really made it..........

[accountantpete]

'Another Girl Another Planet' is one of my favourite tunes.

1978 that mate!

Pedanticpete

 

[jig-sore]

don't really know if "Climie Fisher" qualify for this as their first album was quite successful, however their second album kinda flopped and most people have never heard of Simon climie's solo album.

they are still one of my favorite bands

and i still listen to haircut 100 / nick heyward, but again, a little too successful to qualify for this topic

lots of climie fisher on my you tube account... http://www.youtube.com/user/theanorak73

Danny's Wilson is a good one

 

[threebikesmcginty]

1978 that mate!

Pedanticpete

Now then pendantpete - I never mentioned them, I just said that I liked that tune - so nah!

 

[shouldbeinbed]

The Kane Gang were excellent and deserved bigger success.

the bad and lowdown world of.... is still one of my favourites

One group that never really made it was North of Cornwallis. they were 3rd on the bill behind The Housemartins and The Farm at the City Hall in Newcastle but blew them both away.

Danny Wilsons 'Meet' album was top notch

 

[upsidedown]

The Bolshoi and the Virgin Prunes were quite good, but both sunk without trace.

 

[Greedo]

The The
Big Audio Dynamite
Blue Nile

This is an excellent tune


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhiQ-a8CkPY

 

[Happiness Stan]

The Icicle Works

 

[Greedo]

Aztec Camera.

They were good. Before they became poppy.

I liked Good Morning Britain, though.

Was listening to them the other day on my ipod

Walk out to winter came on shuffle and then just changed and listened to a few other tracks.

My oldest sister was in love with Roddy Frame when she was about 16. It was a bit scary

 

[goo_mason]

1978 that mate!

Pedanticpete

Just found that it's on Spotify, and it is indeed a bloody good track.

 

[goo_mason]

Fischer Z - "Going Deaf For A Living" is a great album.

The band was a vehicle for the singer/songwriter John Watts, who's still going to this day and still a top bloke. So much so that he's let me play his stuff on my podcast, which is such a honour for someone who's been into them since 1983!!

 

[StHuck]

Oh so mainstream. Did none of you listen to Peel, have a copyof C86 or vinyl Scank Bloc Bologna by Scritti et al? To add to the list Stump - 'A Fierce Pancake' Best tune was Buffalo - a Beefheartian stomp to be proud of. Danny Wilson?? Please!

 

[StHuck]

or The Birthday Party 'Deep In The Woods'? or The Fall 'How I Wrote The Elastic Man'? or even PIL 'Metal box' or Caberet Voltaire 'Just Facination'?

I strongly recommend Simon Reynold's book 'Rip It Up And Start Again' which chronicles alternative/indie/post punk from 1979 to 1985.

 

[tony_s]

Wah Heat
Josef K
The Nightingales

 

[Sig SilverPrinter]

Early 80s
Black Flag,Misfits,Minutemen
later 80s
The Mighty Lemondrops
The Jazz Butcher
also most of what StHuck has said,which has reminded me that I have a picture of me at 15 wearing a scritti politti skank bloc bologna t shirt ripped jeans leather jacket and HUGE DMs ,my parents were not keen on the look

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Oh so mainstream..

To be fair most non-mainstream acts were never going to 'make it' - I saw both the Birthday Party and Cabaret Voltaire in the early 80s and excellent they both were but they were never going achieve anything more than they did - CV made the charts IIRC. There are boxes of records in my garage with bands who were never going to make it but not that many people will have heard of them, where as Danny Wilson...

PIL's Metal Box still gets a run out in my house - classic!