Your favorite bands none of your friends have heard of

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polkablues

March 19, 2003, 12:45:00 PM
What are some of the bands that you love, but whenever you try to tell other people about them they say, "Who?"

Black Lab: The best rock band in the world right now.  They kick ass, write amazing songs, and even have a really hot female bass player.  If Matchbox Twenty kicked more ass and borrowed some of the epic quality of U2, they might sound like a halfway decent attempt to be this band.  Their first album, "Your Body Above Me" flew in under the radar, but they've had songs on a couple of high profile soundtracks, notably the "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" tv show and the "Spider-man" soundtrack.  Their second album should be coming out anytime now.
Required listening: "Anything", "Horses", "Can't Keep the Rain", "Wash Away".

Placebo: Another great rock band that doesn't get the exposure they deserve.  Most people who've heard of them know them from the song "Pure Morning", which got a little airplay back in the late nineties.  They appeared in the movie "Velvet Goldmine", where they performed a cover of the T-Rex song "20th Century Boy".  They also write insanely clever lyrics.  "I'm unclean, a libertine/And every time you vent your spleen/I seem to lose the power of speech/You're slipping slowly from my reach/You grow me like an evergreen/You've never seen the lonely me at all." - from "Without You I'm Nothing".
Required listening: "Bruise Pristine", "Every You Every Me", "Special K", "Days Before You Came".

David Poe: A New York-based singer-songwriter who it sometimes seems like I'm the only person in the world that has heard of him.  His songs alternate between quiet/reflective and loud/explosive, intensely personal to overtly political.  He has a very warm, lush voice, an inventive guitar style, and the best sense of melding lyrics and melody of anyone.
Required listening: "Reunion", "Blue Glass Fall", "The Drifter", "Settlement".

Spoon: Clever indie-rock band from Texas.  Sounds kind of like Pavement, but with a more accessible songwriting sense.  Their most recent album, "Kill the Moonlight" has been well-reviewed, but its reliance on keyboards and its more polished studio sound undercut the low-fi grandeur of their earlier albums, like "Telefono", "Girls Can Tell", and "A Series of Sneaks".
Required listening: "Plastic Mylar", "Anything You Want", "Reservations", "Advance Cassette".
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Pwaybloe

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March 19, 2003, 01:09:43 PM
Love that cover.

phil marlowe

#2
March 19, 2003, 01:12:13 PM
Love half of that cover.

polkablues

#3
March 19, 2003, 01:22:05 PM
Badass!  I didn't know they had a new one coming out so soon.
My house, my rules, my coffee

Sigur Rós

#4
March 19, 2003, 01:49:16 PM
Wauw that is one cool photo!!!  :-D Analyze that!

phil marlowe

#5
March 19, 2003, 02:03:57 PM

From now on I will exploid  every chance i get to post pictures of huggies.

Sigur Rós

#6
March 19, 2003, 02:13:29 PM
How come De Niro looks like a pirat? plastic-surgery???

BonBon85

#7
March 19, 2003, 02:37:06 PM
I agree that Spoon's great. That's what's funny about this board. People are always bringing up bands I like that none of my friends listen to. My current favorite by Spoon is "Paper Tiger"

Another cool band is The Velvet Teen. Check out "radiapathy"

Born Under Punches

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March 19, 2003, 05:30:15 PM
i'm a fan of placebo too.  i'll admit that i only heard about them and got the album after hearing pure morning, but i've become a fan.  another band that i like that my friends have never heard of are the dirtbombs.  a bad analogy i known, but imagine motown soul numbers being performed by iggy and the stooges and that's kinda what they sound like.

penfold0101

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March 20, 2003, 02:44:04 AM
I've been getting into The Libertines recently, no one i know has herd of them! they released a single in the UK a wile ago that got a little air play, i downloaded a couple more of there songs decided i liked there style so i went and brought he album.

there's also a new band called Athlete i quite like.

Placebo are quite cool some songs are excellent, but i find that some songs are very Whiny.
"There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high - water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back." - Hunter S. Thompson.

life_boy

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March 20, 2003, 03:48:48 AM
The Bad Livers are a band I really enjoy that not too many people have heard of.  They have a very eclectic group of influences so their music is hard to put a finger on.  If I had to put them into one category though, it would probably be bluegrass.

Pubrick

#11
March 20, 2003, 06:23:01 AM
Placebo yeah their new album is dope, as is the first single from it, "Bitter End".

shit my ppl don't know but rule:
mum.
the notwist .
alec empire .
gemma hayes.
SupremeEx.
under the paving stones.

nevereven

#12
March 20, 2003, 09:23:38 AM
Hmm...

Taking Back Sunday
Thursday
Mineral
Biffy Clyro
Jetplane Landing
The Copperpot Journals
Day of the fight
Further seems forever

all these bands rule... but no-one seems to have heard of them. Anyone else fans?
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BonBon85

#13
March 20, 2003, 02:24:31 PM
Thursday seems to be getting pretty big. Further Seems Forever is getting a lot of attention too, since Dashboard Confessional had that hit over the summer.

joke08

#14
March 20, 2003, 09:29:04 PM
mogwai, love that cure quote.
placebo is cool, david bowie likes them. i think they opened for him a couple times.

some bands i like:
Fuck - mellow indie
The Owls - an incarnation of Joan of Arc, the Kinsellas
Pretty Girls Make Graves - punky / girl indie
Kid Dynamite - Punk Rock
Stiff Little Fingers - Punk Rock (old school)
Screeching Weasel - Punk Rock

and hey marlow, is that avatar a pic of frank?
i've been drinking more wine lately.
it's good for you pop.
yeah, well anyway, i've been drinking more wine
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