Where is the love for all these bands from my vinyl 12-inch "G" shelf who have rarely if ever been mentioned on ILM?

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Inspire me to pull them out and listen to them again!

Gamma
Gary's Gang
Gem
Gibson Brothers (the Euro fake-Caribbean disco guys, though if you want to talk about the later Ohio punk fake-blues guys, go for it; I have a cassette by them I haven't listened to in years, too!)
Gilles
Girls Can't Help It
Glasses
Peter Godwin
Grandmixer D. St.
Diva Gray & Oyster

― xhuxk, Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i've only heard one Gamma track, 'Killer Apps'. it's very good, so do they have any other top tracks?

― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

the other gibson brothers are one of my favorite punk fake-blues bands, or were ten years ago when i last heard them. my favorite was jack o'fire.

― dan (dan), Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Different Gamma. Real Gamma for the hard rockers will always be Ronnie Montrose's band after Montrose and the "Open Fire" solo album. Known for excellent cover art. Cover of Thunderclap Newman's "Something in the Air." Mitchell Froom was in the band for a short while and contributed to their most electro-art-pop record. Wasn't he a big deal at one time for producing (Crowded House?!?) or in some other act?

I liked all three albums.

― George Smith, Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

If the Gem record is a 12-inch EP w/ the original version of "I Am a Tree," it is quite good--Doug (Death of Samantha/GBV) Gillard's '90s band...

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep, Douglas, that's the one. (I may have a CD by Gem somewhere, too, but more likely that is long gone).

― xhuxk, Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Girls Can't Help It (like the Hilary 12" in the "H" thread) looked like Bananarama glamour-dolls; the music wasn't much. I have an EP ("Baby Doll?"); I think there's also a full-length.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Gary's Gang followed their big disco hit "Keep On Dancing" with almost exactly the same song, minimally re-jigged: "Let's Lovedance Tonight". I remember feeling terribly outraged about this.

Gibson Brothers' "Cuba" is obviously classic, but my real love is reserved for "Que Sera Mi Vida (If You Should Go)" - it's just so deliriously UP.

Grandmixer D St. did the scratching on Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" before releasing his own single "Crazy Cuts", which I admired rather than loved. Great wrist technique no doubt, but the track was a bit all over the place.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 12 May 2005 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The one I have is "Grandmixer Cuts It Up" (B-side, I think, "Grandmixer C.I.U."), from at least a year or so before "Rockit," I believe. It is beautiful.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"Baby Doll" by Girls Can't Help It was the best track by a studio project fronted by unsuccessful models ... ever!

― J.D. Considine, Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Peter Godwin! "Baby's In The Mountains"! Smooth (some might say "slick") early '80s synthpop lurve! Er -- I don't know anything else he did! What else did he do and was it as great as "Baby's In The Mountains"?

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 13 May 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

The Gibsons' "It's the Singer Not the Song" is also great, though not always true and I'm not sure how it's supposed to apply to Greater Truths.

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Friday, 13 May 2005 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

revive

― skogsturken, Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:57 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUxADCsPV8s

― revive, Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:04 (sixteen years ago)

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