Should have Been Bigger

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THE KiNG OF POP

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Ever found one of those CD's back in the back row of all of them and they were awesome yet nobody has heard of them? Heres a place to suggest which of these cd's should of been bigger

Simon and Garfunkle
Buffalo Springfield

are my personal favorites
 
Grand National-Kicking The National Habit (2004). A gorgeous pop album with Police influences.
James Hardway-Moors And Christians (2000)- A fantastic little Jazz/Funk album with lot's of African influences that is easily accessible.
Kings X-Gretchen Goes To Nebraska (1989)-A fantastic hard rock album that eschews a formulaic sound and incorporates soulful harmonies and a slight funk edge.
 
Maybe I'm just old, but Simon & Garfunkel are very well known & highly influential. As for Buffalo Springfield, you might have one there.

Perhaps it's only because I've been thinking of this lately - but the album Secret Swingers by Versus was great & the band should be a more well known 90's indie rock band. (By the way, since I only have the album on - well, album - I would appreciate anyone hooking me up with mp3's).

Another band - Follow For Now, they were a late 80's funk-metal-hip hop band that were awesome. Unfortunately Living Colour & 24-7 Spyz stole much of the thunder of the genre leaving FFN just "another Black funk-metal band".
 
Redd Kross

Made the most perfect punk / psychadelic influenced power pop album ever made in Third Eye at a time when people were only really interested in listening to crap like Alice In Chains & Pearl Jam.
 
Err no. You answered it all in the same sentence. Many great albums get lost in the dense fog of history but they were big at that particular time. Gorillaz have just released d-sides after they have split and they are still selling ecorRAB.
 
Vashti Bunyan, seriously Just Another Diamond Day is one of the greatest folk albums of the 70s and one of the greatest British folk albums ever and she's never received much attention. She's recently released an album in 05 and a compilation this year as well as an EP with Animal Collective and she's worked with other artists like Devendra Banhart and so on but it still hasn't amounted to much.
 
Not entirely overlooked: Travis. If 'Invisable Band' had'nt been so bad, they would have done better. Coldplay's 'Parachutes' was a better album released the same year. But 'The Man Who' is better than the bulk of Coldplay's output to date.

The search for: "A kinder, gentler, Radiohead" (RS) continues...
 
House of Love - Self Titled from 1991

Their second self titled album, Coldplay before there was a Coldplay, Oasis before there was an Oasis, sadly overlooked, came a little too soon for the Britpop explosion to make it big
 
Grant Lee Buffalo...

especially their first three albums (they attempted to appease WB when they bought out their label with their fourth album & they got canned anyway).

~ josh
 
Dunno about that , House of Love were the next big thing pre-Oasis.
Pick up any music magazine between 1988 & 1991 you could guarantee House Of Love & My Bloody Valentine would be featured somewhere.
 
You know - I actually typed out Fishbone, but figured I would get flamed for calling them metal when they aren't really. Still - same typecast band.

Follow For Now was out of Atlanta & only had 1 album, though the album sounRAB very tame b/c the producer replaced the drummer with a more sedated session drummer. I would recommend the Public Enemy cover She Watch Channel Zero as an introduction if you happen to find any of their songs.
 
I think The Gorillaz - Demon Days was too quickly passed up. It had 2 big radio singles, and went platinum and all, but it seems like people have already completely forgotten about it. I think it might be the album of the decade.
 
Circulus :D also Therapy? and Bill ****ens, also Neuroticfish they did the soundtrack to that film, er it was kind of like the matrix but it was after the third world war the human race got rid of all emotions and there were some pretty cool fight scenes in it too with that gun Kata stuff. So if you know what film I'm talking about....yeah them.
 
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