Forgotten 80s

Other forgotten 80s bands (maybe best so ...)
HooDoo Gurus, Bell Jar, Salem 66,

Depends how easily you forget ....

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Screaming Blue Me-fucking-ssiahs
fuck-fucking yeah.

where the f-ck are they now?

i loved them like brotheers aged 13.

Also, HooDoo Gurus. Hell yeah. I just realized Mars Needs Guitars is an album I own/ed on all formats.

Had no idea that Jazz Butcher stuff was worth anything, I see quite a lot around here in the bargain bins. Woo-hoo, Ebay here I come... Of the Butch I have, 'Southern Mark Smith' is the song for me.

I *love* some early Blue Aeroplanes stuff. I'd recommend most things up to Swagger when they started trying a bit too hard for my tastes and some of the guitars got a bit bombastic. Must've been the stadiums they were playing with REM. Angelo in particular had a sound not unlike Charlie Burchill in later Simple Minds (he turned up again on Massive Attack's Mezzanine). Maybe they turned things around again after that, but I never stuck around to find out. Anyhow, they were pretty good pals of the Jazz Butcher.

In a similar sort of vein (and I daren't wander too far off the path or else I'll be here forever), also look for stuff by the Bodines ('Therese'!), What Does Anything Mean Basically by the Chameleons, the first Wolfhounds album (Unknown Ripples From A Pebble)... maybe the June Brides too.

Anything by the Chameleons is worth looking for, for that matter.

lost to the ether. luke vibert is the only person i've heard mention it on some site somewhere.
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yes.
yes.
NOOOOOO. Actually, their first album, Hang Ten (when they were basically trying to be the Buzzcocks) is alright. After that....yipe.

"Just One Solution" by the Lime Spiders is a classic single!

no argument here. but they were a pretty good fake buzzcocks for a short while.

The "dreadfulness" in question didn't set in until later on, if you ask me.

I'm kind of late with this, but a bunch of early (=great) Jazz Butcher stuff was reissued not long ago on Vinyl Japan. I'd be surprised if it was already out of print again, but you never know...

the whole Pal Judy record is great. see also Snatch.

In no order...
1."All That I Wanted", Belfegore
2."Bears", Zebra
3."Geraldine I Need Money More Than I Need You", Classic Ruins
4."Unbearable", The Wonder Stuff
5."Good To Be The King", Janitors

http://www.nashtheslash.com/

*reminds self to go to GEMM for acquisition of album*

Another totally forgotten thing, or never known about...my friend brought over a record called Brain Waves or something, a comp, that featured Zeus B. Held, under his own name or not, can't remember, covering Fool on the Hill w/ vocoded vocals. It's great.

The Monroes: Sunday People
The Monroes: Arabian Night
Matchstick Sun: We Seem To Vanish
Little Eden: April Nights
Little Eden: Time For Laughter
Beranek: It's So Strong

The Monroes are Norwegian?!?! The same group who did "What Do All The People Know?" You're kidding!! Dude. The things one learns. *laughs* And, yeah, a-ha are the group most people would think of when they think of Norwegian groups, I would think. Nothing wrong with that, though; they did one of my absolute favorite movie themes evah, i.e. "The Living Daylights", and their Hunting High & Low album was one of my teenaged favorites.

Other rare-ish New Wave tracks to remember and love: Beargarden, "A Seaside Song"; Bolland, "Overture/You're In The Army Now" (covered by, of all groups, Status Quo); and Combo Audio, "Romanticide".

Also:
DFX2: Emotion (sounds like Some Girls era Stones)
Translator: Everywhere That I'm Not (also mentioned earlier in this thread, great song about John Lennon)

Alex is cool, I got Nash the Slash "children of the night" at a garage sale.

Are these all considered too well-known to mention, or are they truly forgotten?

And they're among my absolute favourite albums ever.

http://www.monotremata.com/skull/disc/ramleh_disc.html

power electronics, sludge metal, improv noise etc

There was a period in the 90s where the music got REALLY weird and intense and interesting, the 1995 release Be Careful What You Wish For is kind of insane and sounds like nothing else ever maybe.

There's also a pretty good solo Gary Mundy album on Freek under the name Blind Alley.

From the Skullflower discographies page:

BREATHLESS

Ramleh guitarist Gary Mundy has, concurrently with Ramleh and his other skronk projects, played in the UK pop/darkwave band Breathless since the early eighties. They have an extensive discography that I'm not going to get into here; check the link for more details. WARNING ACHTUNG FNORD: Breathless sounds absolutely nothing like Ramleh or Skullflower, so be forewarned if you go out investigating the discs....

There were two different Monroes. The Monroes that I am speaking of sounded very much like a more pop oriented Madness.

Would we consider Loop as apropo to this thread?

Kampec Dolores!

Just last night, I was listening to some stray Danielle Dax tracks, and found myself wondering what happened there. She fit between Kate Bush and the Sugarcubes, more confrontational than Bush, but more compositional than Bjork. Seems like she'd still be a sex symbol among the art-art-art crowd, but she's just faded away. Into interior design work, apparently.

I used to own her 1991 album Blast the Human Flower (the one with the cover of "Tomorrow Never Knows"). Unmemorable.

That's because it sucked. Everything else she did is classic - go find the 2 disc comp.

MR ODD YOU RULE YOU TRYNA HUM LONG TO THE PSEAERT 2< YRS?

Taking Sides: Lene Lovich vs Danielle Dax

I was just rocking out to "Bed Caves" today.

Northumberland's janglepoppers The Nivens - 'Yesterday' was their iNDIECHART tOP 10 HIT but they had loads of great tunes all collected on 'From a Northumbrian mining village comes the sound of summer'. Much better than the tunes on CD86.

http://www.thenivens.co.uk/history.htm

Listen Mr. Odd, Alfred.

Put better:

Alfred, listen to Mr. Odd.

Green, pop/punk/soul band from Chicago, on the cover of CMJ a few times, Ira Robbins tried to do a Jon Landau/Springsteen-style review in Spin (ended with "the greening of America starts here"), ferocious live shows, untouchable singer/songwriter in Jeff Lescher. Put out 6 albums and 3 EPs from 1984 through 2001, and supposedly there's a new one in the works.

Link plz Bob - they must be pretty nigh on unsearchable.

Thanks for the Nivens mention, Geordie. I don't remember them and feel like I should! I will check them out.

MR ODD YOU RULE YOU TRYNA HUM LONG TO THE PSEAERT 2< YRS?

Ummmm, what?

As for the opening post of this thread, I'm clearly a huge Jazz Butcher fan. Max Eider's two solo albums are also gold (one from the 80s, one from a few years back).

LOVE Jazz Butcher. Also, I just re-remembered the pseudo-jazz-indie subset, including but not limited to Big Sound Authority, Carmel, Yargo, and Big Heat

I have a Jazz Butcher EP that I think was an Aus special, the "Shirley McLaine" ep that has that, and "She's on Drugs" and some other tracks. "She's on Drugs" is an awesome song.

Man so much of whats listed above I loved! Wolfhounds, early Soup Dragons, all that fun indiebuzz.

Anyone remember Head of David? Did they do anything apart from "Dustbowl", that album was pretty intense, though at the time I was really not-into metal so maybe it'd be more standard metal than I remember.

Link plz Bob - they must be pretty nigh on unsearchable.

Whoops, sorry. Here's their myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/groupgreen

Almost completely forgotten 80s band: Red Guitars. Brilliant debut and early singles, then the singer left and it wasn't the same band. Search the song "Good Technology".

Homestead Records Comp, Human Music:

Doomsday - Verlaines
He Is God - Big Dipper
Alive Again - Live Skull
Naked Wife - Honor Role
I'm Like You - Urinals
Standing At The Crossroads - Great Plains
Charmed Life - Half Japanese
Red Barn (Live) - Salem 66
I'm In Heaven Now - American Music Club
Coming Through - The Pastels
Aberration - Nice Strong Arm
Flesh-Colored House - Bastro
Quest - Phantom Tollbooth
Gravity - Tall Dwarfs
Ultravixen - Volcano Suns
Stanley - Antietam
I Wish I Was Adopted - Happy Flowers
Party In My Heart - The Chills
Somebody's Baby - Yo La Tengo
Two-Week Vacation - The Embarrassment
Oddity (Live) - The Clean
Do It - Death Of Samantha

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre400/e402/e40237cffzd.jpg

Live Skull - Positraction (Caroline, 1989)

reminds me of a slightly darker Sonic Youth's EVOL

I keep reading about the crappy sound of prime SST, fidelity-wise. But they're freakin' Steely Dan compared to most Homestead releases. I was pretty enamored of Nice Strong Arm in the day, but the last time I put on Reality Bath most of it didn't hold up. But "Truth Comes Around" still does.

Around 84 or 5 there was a huddle of bands who were a wee bit too post-punk to be dancable, a wee bit too 'industrial' to be commercial or get cross-over success.

Hula, Chakk, 400 Blows are names that most come to mind, obviously they had strong pre-cursors - ACR, post-Yashar Cab V, 23 Skidoo circa Coup, even The Pop Group etc...

I did wonder for a short while these bands would actually gel into a coherent and interesting genre of their own, but I think I was delusional.... shame, I was so looking forward to claiming that 'get the habit' was a tipping point and telling adoring incredulous youngsters that I bought no one leaves the fevercar the day it come out.

Actually I do tell youngsters this - all the time, but they aren't adoring and the incredulity is mainly about me not taking the hint that they aren't interested.

Hula and especially Chakk are anything but forgotten in the this house.
Chakks early pre-MCA Records 12" singles were (and still are) absolutely amazing. totally fucking brilliant.
the album may have blowed the big one, but for Out of the Flesh, and Timebomb 12"s alone their records will always be close to hand.
i'm amazed this band have yet to be given the reissue treatement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bvPaON4waM

^ fucking tune

Mentioned it in the Weezer thread, but this song rules:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG1F0KasHeM

From this interview from last year (!):

Jeff Oliphant: I remember Gary and Bill bringing in a 4-track demo of Klaus to rehearsal one cold evening. The demo was very simple and catchy. The song sounded like an anthem. In my mind, I could hear audiences in massive arenas belting out the chorus.

Maybe a couple of obvious choices, but

David J, Crocodile Tears and the Velvet Cosh

David + David, Boomtown