Where is the love for all these bands from my vinyl 12-inch "H" 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!

Hassan & 7-11
Herry's (who obviously do not understand the use of apostrophes)
Hilary
Hi Sherrifs of Blue
Hitmasters
Adolph Hofner
Rupert Holmes
The Holy Cows
The Horrorist
Horslips

― xhuxk, Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I got Rupert's Widescreen at a thrift store in NY years ago. "Cinema rock"! Nothing on it as memorable as "Escape."

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Rupert Holmes? Mr Pina Colada man?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Cold Rock Stuff.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Horslips -- Celt hard rock, started around '72. Their album length edition of "The Tain" as rock opera is probably the best, if only for novelty value. It even rocks in places in a Jethro Tull kind of way. "Dancehall Sweethearts" is probably next. "The Man Who Built America" is another opera about the Irish immigrant in America and is probably the one seen most in the States. It's kind of sappy and fundamentally, I thought it sucked after a couple listens.

― George Smith, Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I own a Hilary 12" single, on clear vinyl. I think she was a cutie, in an early Madonna stylee. The music? Guess I'll have to relisten to mine, too.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Sheriffs of Blue made a handful of records, but if the one you have is the 12" EP with the blue sleeve, it's worth playing "19*80*Now!" to hear JUST HOW MUCH the Blues Explosion got from them, in vocal and instrumental style and songwriting...

Was Hilary the one who did "Kinetic"? Good synthpop-style new wave.

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay the Horrorist -- because he was one of the bus kids in Depeche Mode 101.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep, that Hilary, Douglas! And that is the EP I've got. And that is the blue Hi Sheriffs of Blue EP I have as well. (I don't own my copy of the Peripheral Vision comp anymore, but I wish I did. Didn't they do a really cool Civil War song on that one or something?)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I am amazed nobody has asked me who the hell is Adolph Hofner is yet!

But here he is anyway:

http://www.geocities.com/~jimlowe/western/hofner.html

― xhuxk, Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Hilary's "Drop Your Pants" is way catchier than any song with that title has a right to be. And "Kinetic" is one of the sweetest bits of synthpop around. I *did* manage to Google this 1996 e-mail that Hilary sent to a Gary Numan mailing list, where she proclaims Numan's brilliance and confesses to being struck with this throat ailment that had the potential to be fatal. But, according to her website (which someone else set up), she appears to be going strong.

(This is a link to the aforementioned website.)

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 12 May 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

p.s.: You can find MP3s of four Hilary songs on that site! Including "Goose Step, Two Step", which reminds me of a DD Seven & The Ragged Tiger-era outtake.

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 12 May 2005 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always dug the Buoys' "Timothy," written by Mr. Holmes. Did he ever come up with anything similarly demented?

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Friday, 13 May 2005 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

That was "Himmm Himmm Himmm" was it? I'm now officially impressed.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 13 May 2005 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

um, where is House of Freaks? Oh, wait, not on your vinyl 12" shelf. Never mind

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 01:54 (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)

― sturkskogen, Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:12 (sixteen years ago)

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