what semi-forgotten band will be critically resurrected/ripped off leftright¢re next?

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I'm hoping for roxy music, they're way way overdue for a huge revival.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

listening to "still falls the rain".

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Primitive Radio Gods

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The Chameleons

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

oh wait, they got ripped off already.

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

well, I guess it's The Bolshoi then.

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I assume you mean which group will be the Joy Division/Gang of Four of 2005 or 2006?

It all depends on where you want to see music go because then the influences will be hip to cite. I'd personally love to see Baroque rock come back in some sort of new (but different) form and the Left Banke be a "cool" group that people will get into.

― Cunga (Cunga), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

didn't that happen a couple of years ago?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

the durutti column (please oh please)

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

There was a Baroque rock revival in the mid-90s with Richard Davies, Eric Matthews, Zumpano, etc, all of whom to varying degrees pillaged the ideas of The Left Banke and The Zombies. I don't think we'll see another one so soon.

How about another Paisley Underground sorta thing? Dungen and The Works are off to a head start. Paisley shirts will come back. People will wax prosaically about The Rain Parade. Prince "Around The World In A Day" will be cited as a pillar of the nu psych canon.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

that i would also like to see (re: paisley u/g)

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Sex Gang Children.

It is done.

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Glossy 80s pop revisitation. I know there's Phoenix and 33hz, but there's gotta be more. And with all these soft synth vsts, people could make their own H20.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

anything with a burundi beat would be fine by me.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

C30 C60 C90 GO!

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

WCKR SPGT if this were a better world.

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

hell yeah. or some fun boy three action.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been working hard on bringing attention to Noel Williams. Everybody loves Connie Case's "Get On Down" and Ex Tras "Haven't Been Funked Enough". Time to dig to the bottom of these I hope...

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

tears for fears
happy mondays/farm/beloved-style madchester shit

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

the golden gate quartet

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Simple Minds
Talk Talk
"Heart of Glass"
U2's "Your Blue Room"

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

hunters & collectors
(i'm kinda serious, not just saying it b/c mully is here)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I am very excited about the upcoming wave of young bands that all sound a bit like White Lion.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The Ron Johnson sound (bIG fLAME, the Shrubs, Great Leap Forward, A Witness Stump, Mackenzies). Either that or the Nyah Fearties (I wish).

― everything, Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

tad i just listened to the firemans curse the other day its fantastic why o why did they get rid of perano and go all sensitive macho rock songwriterish? have you heard it? produced by connie plank!!!!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

its like some outback version of the pop group gone stoned walkabout in a junkyard.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

the name hunters & collectors comes from a can song.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I am very excited about the upcoming wave of young bands that all sound a bit like White Lion.

i'd be more excited if those upcoming young bands sounded a bit like Mad Lion.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i think hunters & collectors was a common phrase before can used it, although you never know.

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

re: mad lion

A fair point.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

mully: i've only heard bits and pieces from their self-titled 1st one & jaws of life (on this internet radio station that has that stuff) -- maybe i have heard fireman's curse, but it doesn't ring a bell.

anyway, when i heard "talking to a stranger," i said to myself "someone is gonna discover this and rip 'em off!"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

yes donut but i used to work with the guy who used to bash the metal cyclinders

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

the allmusic bio on them REALLY makes them sound great -- about the live shows where they encouraged people to start banging on shit!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw them back then! i didn't bash shit. mark seymour drank glasses of steaming water.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i dunno if i'd quite put 'em in the same league w/ gang of four, but they compare favorably to stuff like a certain ratio or APB. they deserve better than obscurity outside of australia.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Chrome [Saul Williams, of all people, sampled them on his latest album]
Rip, Rig + Panic [heard rumors of a Soul Jazz reissue campaign]
Comus [this is already underway, but I hope it'll pick up even more steam]

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

they are really well known here eisbar. tha hunnas. i think that early stuff is pretty much ignored though.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i vaguely remember fate getting some publicity over here, at least on college radio. it's a shame that the early stuff is ignored -- from what i've heard, it's great!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i will ysi a firemans curse track to you tomorrow.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"ysi"?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

It's shorthand for "why, SI, Señor"

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

or maybe this

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

or even this

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks, donut (and mully)!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Fad Gadget or The Birthday party

― Anthony Lombardi (CCPO), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

freaky chakra

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Aphex and some Autechre kinda nixed Fad Gadget circa 1995 or so. Birthday day was taken apart by 90s San diego hardcore kids. Freaky Chakra is kinduva weird choice, butmmmkay.

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i dunno donut. it was the first thing that came to mind. i mean, a lot of people are just throwing up more post punk names and i wanted to move it somewhere else.

i really wanted to mention like some crazy funk band from the 70's or something.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The Ron Johnson sound (bIG fLAME, the Shrubs, Great Leap Forward, A Witness Stump, Mackenzies). Either that or the Nyah Fearties (I wish).

hmmm, it'd be great if someone put out a Ron Johnson CD sampler.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Not as much the Left Banke, but there was a period where the Zombie's Odesey and Oracle was THE record to name-check and their were bands like the Essex Green and Ladybug Transistor. Some of that seems swept up in the current neo-folk craze. Maybe I'm just saying that because Gary from Ladybug lived/lives with Kevin from Currituck Co.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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Haven't heard the Madison Strays, and The Rapture always sounded like they were going for more of a PIL sound.

Instead of ripping off a sound, maybe there should be a band that rips off 1980s political causes. When was the last time somebody wrote a great song about El Salvador? Or the Falklands?

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Roxy Music is already pretty acceptable "influence" fodder... I'd say kosmische/kraut rock is next, it's already kinda there with groups like Black Mountain and Caribou.

Six Finger Satellite, in certain circles, is finally getting a lot of attention, which means that it's only a matter of months before people get on the Chrome train.

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Rush
-- The Sensational Sulk (jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj...), May 26th, 2005.

Heard Malkmus solo?

I'd like to see some bands that are genuinely influenced by Stax artists, or a big old-school rap revival.

― Kill lips, Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

ELO

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Nuno has a new album coming out! Um, sometime.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

ELO had a song on the Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind soundtrack, and Last Train To London gets a good response from a drunken crowd when I DJ.

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Killing Joke!

Stump

Prolapse (especially anything from their Classic or Dud period)

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

ELO had a song on the Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind soundtrack, and Last Train To London gets a good response from a drunken crowd when I DJ.
-- Jay Watts III (goldkick...), May 26th, 2005 9:23 AM. (jaywatts)

"Twilight" has been getting HEAVY rotation in my immediate neck of the woods.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Bring on the P-Furs soundalikes!!

oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please...

Instead of ripping off a sound, maybe there should be a band that rips off 1980s political causes. When was the last time somebody wrote a great song about El Salvador? Or the Falklands?

kornrulez6969, you are pwning this thread

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Dif Juz

― j fail (cenotaph), Thursday, 26 May 2005 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

re above a bit- When I saw the Zutons a couple of years ago me and their publicist (he was paying for the drinks) couldn't resist rising to their dated Red Wedgery (sonic, not political) and started chanting 'Maggie Maggie Maggie Out Out Out' at them, and heckling with lines like 'Boo! Get off! Get Billy Bragg on!'. We were however, very very drunk. Does this count?

― snotty moore, Thursday, 26 May 2005 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

HELDON!
MAGMA!
LARD FREE!

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Friday, 27 May 2005 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Bailter Space, I'm hoping

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Friday, 27 May 2005 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Goddamn were Bailter Space ever a great live band.

So cavernous.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 27 May 2005 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

At some point, someone will point to Cerberus Shoal and Pg. 99 as influential. Eventually. I think.

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Friday, 27 May 2005 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Rip, Rig + Panic [heard rumors of a Soul Jazz reissue campaign]
-- Dave Segal (djvein...), May 26th, 2005.

I could definitely see that.

― - (smile), Friday, 27 May 2005 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i second Freaky Chakra. and the whole 94-97 ambient techno thing. also Klaus Schultze and TANGERINE DREAM.

― deru, Friday, 27 May 2005 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Dif Juz

my band has been known to play Re!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 27 May 2005 06:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan Reed Network
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Screaming Blue Messiahs
Black Oak Arkansas

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 27 May 2005 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

well, they are hardly semi-forgotten, but i wonder if the doors will sail into this position again soon

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 27 May 2005 07:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't erally see how a band could rip off the Screaming Blue Messiahs .. but if there's a way, I kind of hope they do, so that all of those Messiahs CDs can be remastered/rereleased and silly reunion tour to follow. And even if some hacks wrote 20 songs that sounded like All Shook Down, I guess that would be a bit of alright.

― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Friday, 27 May 2005 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The Communards.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 29 May 2005 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

(I have a sudden, overwhelming urge to hear 'You Are My World' again)

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 29 May 2005 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Cindytalk

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Sunday, 29 May 2005 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I would hope so, Banana, and same with the Dif Juz suggestion! And, as I was going to suggest, The Teardrop Explodes.

― Ian Riese-Moraine's Plateau Rouge! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 29 May 2005 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Slovenly (I hope)
Crash Worship, Vasilisk, and other goaty dionysiac pagan noise rites type stuff (I hope)

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 29 May 2005 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no idea which band will be the source point, but I'm banking on a big goth comeback. And I can't wait to see goth girls in force again!

The Roxy Music thing is already under way: Junior Boys.

― KingOfAmerica (King Of America), Sunday, 29 May 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

At some point, someone will point to Cerberus Shoal and Pg. 99 as influential. Eventually. I think.

-- Alan Conceicao (deadandrestles...), May 27th, 2005.

But before that, the influence of Portraits of Past will be heralded.

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Sunday, 29 May 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Late-era Specials (circa AKA). Split Enz. Au Pairs. Adam and the Ants. The Feelies.

There is no way Roxy Music has been remotely semi-forgotten.

x-post the new British Sea Power sounds just like the P. Furs.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Sunday, 29 May 2005 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

(Jaywatts are you Canadian?)

― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Sunday, 29 May 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"Dif Juz

my band has been known to play Re!"

-- kyle

Who's your band, Kyle? That track rules.

I second Slovenly. We need more rhythmically askew, thesaurus rock.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Monday, 30 May 2005 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The Minutemen. They've even got a new documentary to get the ball rolling.

― stuber, Monday, 30 May 2005 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

doggy's angels

― jones (actual), Monday, 30 May 2005 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Savage Republic

― Ian Riese-Moraine's Plateau Rouge! (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 30 May 2005 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Nirvana UK (Hal sound a lot like them btw)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 30 May 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

even though they're not really "forgotten," after listening to some midge ure-era ultravox i think that it might be time for a re-think of that stuff --> there's a good bit of sample/hip-hop friendly stuff there (e.g., "the thin wall").

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 11 June 2005 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The Past Seven Days
The Comsat Angels
Hugo Largo

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Saturday, 11 June 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Thompson Twins

(probably not, but they'd have deserved it)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 12 June 2005 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Any day now I'm expecting Can or early Eno to end up in some popular car advertisment or popular movie and experience a Borders-shoppers-Nick-Drake-style revival.

Although this well could've already happened and I missed it.

I am hoping for a lot of hip-hop sampling Can.

― I.M. (I.M.), Sunday, 12 June 2005 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Lush

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 12 June 2005 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

also: Altered Images

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 12 June 2005 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

EARLY Verve

― PB, Sunday, 12 June 2005 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

(Jaywatts are you Canadian?)

-- Cool Hand Luuke (showroo...), May 29th, 2005.

Yep!

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Sunday, 12 June 2005 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

DID YOU POST ON MOC?

― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Sunday, 12 June 2005 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

WINGTIP SLOAT
TRUMANS WATER
STAR PIMP

YOU HEARD HERE 1st, BITCHES!

― donut e-goon (donut), Sunday, 12 June 2005 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

let's cross fingers for a wave of dif juz/durutti etc mid 80s retrospective, as hinted at earlier in this thread. that'd be lovely.

drew daniel's slovenly suggestion is fantastic.

hey mr. electricsound, your nom de plume is from severed heads' "big car" right? now THERE'S a group that's due for some theft and pillage, particularly 86-90 era.

― jwd, Sunday, 12 June 2005 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

yes and very much agreed.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 12 June 2005 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

A Flock Of Seagulls

What the Edge hasn't already taken away remains ripe for the picking...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 12 June 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Thompson Twins

Does that mean Babble will be re-examined, too?

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Sunday, 12 June 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Savage Republic

my band rips them off too! I hope all these things come true but I'm afriaid not.

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 12 June 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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