Topic: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up. (Read 30675 times)

Aurjay · « **on:** 16 Dec 2008, 22:44 »

I was reading thru the Archives again and I came across an old newspost where Jeph was talking about how he hated not hearing of some bands before they broke up. I'm not sure if this thread has been done before, but I decided to give it a shot.

Jeph's Choices: Failure, Castor, My Bloody Valentine, and Don Caballero.

My Choices: The Unicorns, Neutral Milk Hotel, Cibo Matto.

Also I fall into the group/cult that still misses Pavement...

Ballard · « **Reply #1 on:** 16 Dec 2008, 23:17 »

Thankfully, all my current flavors of the month (those being The Dandy Warhols, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and Ambulance Ltd.) are still together and I've seen the first two live.

I guess the BJM was broken up for a while but Anton will always get a rowdy bunch of aging hippies together and go on tour every couple of years.

I do wish, however, that I was around to catch those two in their heyday. They're all pushing 45 now and, while this isn't an old age at all, their live shows have suffered as a result. Many simply lose the will to rock the fuck out at that age.

Please don't try and prove me wrong with recent pictures of Pete Townshend or Mick Jagger 'cause they look fucking ridiculous.

Christophe · « **Reply #2 on:** 16 Dec 2008, 23:28 »

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David_Dovey · « **Reply #3 on:** 16 Dec 2008, 23:42 »

Christophe · « **Reply #4 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 00:13 »

Ok, Fugazi too.

Regardless there are a million bands that I love that I will most likely never see live. It makes me feel meh.

Inlander · « **Reply #5 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 03:23 »

Mainly this band.

sean · « **Reply #6 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 06:05 »

Thrillho · « **Reply #7 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 06:17 »

valley_parade · « **Reply #8 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 07:09 »

I got into Mclusky weeks before they split. =(

eddie · « **Reply #9 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 09:56 »

I know they've not broken up but I really wish I'd heard of Against Me! in 2003 or something.

rynne · « **Reply #10 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 10:47 »

tuna ketchup x · « **Reply #11 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 12:03 »

Don Caballero played a show this past weekend. I thought MBV was touring now too.

Jackie Blue · « **Reply #12 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 12:11 »

One of the first shows I ever saw was Failure. They played last in a four-band show that also included Sponge (before their MTV hit), Inch (who were awesome), and Rust (who were even more awesome). At that time, Failure was trying to sound almost exactly like Nirvana, but they were good at it. Then their next album is Fantastic Planet and suddenly everyone is on their jock because it's all "spacey".

imapiratearg · « **Reply #13 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 12:20 »

I'm seconding Fugazi, Silkworm, Neutral Milk Hotel and Pavement. I would have also loved to see a Bear vs. Shark show.

Jackie Blue · « **Reply #14 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 12:25 »

I saw Fugazi in a VFW the size of a large living room in Louisville in '98. Or maybe '99. I was paying more attention to my then-new girlfriend than the band, to be honest.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #15 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 13:00 »

Quote from: tuna ketchup x on 17 Dec 2008, 12:03

Don Caballero played a show this past weekend. I thought MBV was touring now too.

"Don Caballero"

Exarzun · « **Reply #16 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 15:13 »

Quote from: imapiratearg on 17 Dec 2008, 12:20

I would have also loved to see a Bear vs. Shark show.

I'd kill to have seen Bear vs Shark live.

Be My Head · « **Reply #17 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 16:22 »

The Mahavishnu Orchestra

Then again, I wasn't even born.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #18 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 18:47 »

I would say most of the music that I found when I started posting here. Fuck all y'all for being ahead of being behind the curve.

Spluff · « **Reply #19 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 18:51 »

kyuss

De_El · « **Reply #20 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 20:05 »

If it is a question of seeing them live I would much prefer a bizarre and infamous show than just a good old rock show.

Throbbing Gristle

James Chance and the Contortions

PiL

(yes I just finished reading Rip It Up and Start Again, fuck you in the butt)

Inlander · « **Reply #21 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 20:11 »

You now, 90% of the time when you people post a picture of a bunch of people without any kind of caption I have no idea what the hell band they are.

De_El · « **Reply #22 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 20:30 »

I figured out most of the ones I didn't know by opening the image in another tab and fiddling with the url. But I will relent.

Inlander · « **Reply #23 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 21:10 »

That works fine some of the time. But not when you url is, for instance, http://blog.kexp.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/tg1981.jpg.

De_El · « **Reply #24 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 21:19 »

I admit, it is kind of obnoxious. Also, that is not even the worst. You have "TG" and you have "1981" it can be pieced together but of course it is highly unnecessary effort.

rynne · « **Reply #25 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 21:22 »

TG was pretty much the only band here I recognized. And Jeff Tweedy. But yeah, all of the others were *right-click, open in new tab*. Heck, aside from John Schmersal, I don’t even recognize anyone from the Brainiac picture I posted. I just figured everyone else knew all these folks on sight.

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #26 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 22:10 »

Ghosts and Vodka (and while we're in that area, Owls)

Faraquet (Although they still reunite once in a while in D.C.)

Oh yeah, and all those other guys everyone else said already.

KvP · « **Reply #27 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 22:13 »

A moment of silence, please.

De_El · « **Reply #28 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 22:33 »

Man the break up of BYOP is kind of upsetting because were like potential city.

Also: haha fuck Wolfmother and Velvet Revolver.

Inlander · « **Reply #29 on:** 17 Dec 2008, 22:41 »

I didn't know about Wolfmother ceasing to be until I watched that video just now. I feel this is the best possible Christmas present.

Gridgm · « **Reply #30 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 04:52 »

from what i've read the mosh pits at pg. 99 concerts were meant to be awesome...i mean how can you beat show up in your pajamas and have a pillow fight

David_Dovey · « **Reply #31 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 05:04 »

I thought Bad Brains were still together? They released an album last year.

Also crap yesss The Refused

Thrillho · « **Reply #32 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 07:16 »

Bad Brains aren't still together, they reformed, which I don't think people are counting.

And there's no 'The,' just to be pedantic for a second.

valley_parade · « **Reply #33 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 07:25 »

How on earth I forgot to mention The Proletariat is beyond me.

glyphic · « **Reply #34 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 07:40 »

Burning Airlines, Dismemberment Plan

Q and Not U before they released Power. I saw a show in their farewell tour and stopped listening to them for months.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #35 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 08:17 »

Quote from: De_El on 17 Dec 2008, 22:33

Man the break up of BYOP is kind of upsetting because were like potential city.

Also: haha fuck Wolfmother and Velvet Revolver.

This. I saw the Wolfmother bit and I was like: "Thank god that's over." I was bummed when I saw that Be Your Own Pet had kicked it. :[

Seconding (thirding?) Faraquet.

P.S. - Does anyone actually care about The Format? I thought they were a bad Built to Spill cover band for a while. That was only when I had heard "The Compromise" and "Conventional Wisdom" respectively, though.

Ballard · « **Reply #36 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 10:16 »

Unfortunately, Velvet Revolver didn't break up. They just lost their ~~most~~ only talented member - Scott Weiland - assumedly because he got tired of their bullshit.

They still plan to put out second rate cock rock with a different singer.

I'm bummed about Be Your Pet and amused about Phantom Planet.

Melody · « **Reply #37 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 10:26 »

I wish I had seen Godspeed You! Black Emperor before they went on "indefinite hiatus". It's a shame, since I started listening to them about a year after they had finished playing shows in my home city every couple of months...

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #38 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 10:27 »

Quote from: valley_parade on 17 Dec 2008, 07:09

I got into Mclusky weeks before they split. =(

Yeah, second mclusky but Future of The Left go some way to make up for it. Their live shows are great and they're not too different either.

Also, Page France though the not living in the same country/ on same continent would have made it pretty difficult anyway.

glyphic · « **Reply #39 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 12:42 »

Braniac. I wish I had been cool enough in high school to know about those guys. Then I could be lamenting how different Enon got later in their career instead of still jabbering about how good Braniac is.

Damn is Braniac good!

imapiratearg · « **Reply #40 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 12:45 »

I would like to see The Ergs! again, with a better crowd.

Jackie Blue · « **Reply #41 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 12:52 »

That picture of Throbbing Gristle so does not give a good indication of what they sound like.

Also, as big a fan as I am, I was not aware there was such a smokin' betty in the band.

michaelicious · « **Reply #42 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 12:54 »

Quote from: glyphic on 18 Dec 2008, 07:40

Burning Airlines, Dismemberment Plan

Q and Not U before they released Power. I saw a show in their farewell tour and stopped listening to them for months.

I really like Power. "X-Polynation" is such a badass song.

glyphic · « **Reply #43 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 13:06 »

It was such a great divergence from what attracted me to the band, though. Spazzy punk sections punctuated with fantastically obtuse lyrics and dancey noise-rock all crammed together into one song. Then they decided that the direction for their next project should be "nu-disco."

Eh. Different strokes for different folks, I imagine.

De_El · « **Reply #44 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 13:30 »

Quote from: Jackie Blue on 18 Dec 2008, 12:52

That picture of Throbbing Gristle so does not give a good indication of what they sound like.

Better?

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #45 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 14:37 »

Quote from: Jackie Blue on 18 Dec 2008, 12:52

That picture of Throbbing Gristle so does not give a good indication of what they sound like.

Hey, it's alright. One of their album covers doesn't give a good indication either:

spoon_of_grimbo · « **Reply #46 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 15:08 »

Jawbreaker, Carcass, Hot Water Music (they've reformed, but no UK dates that I know of, as yet

), Glass and Ashes (they broke up this year, literally within a week of my realising that their latest album is the most awesome thing I've heard this year. And then I find out they'd just done a small-scale UK farewell tour. Fuck my life).

rynne · « **Reply #47 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 16:42 »

Quote from: KickThatBathProf on 18 Dec 2008, 14:37

Quote from: Jackie Blue on 18 Dec 2008, 12:52
That picture of Throbbing Gristle so does not give a good indication of what they sound like.

Hey, it's alright. One of their album covers doesn't give a good indication either:

I can't see the pic, but I'm assuming it's 20 Jazz Funk Greats? It gives a good indication if you recognize the background as one of the England's top suicide locations.

sean · « **Reply #48 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 17:48 »

Quote from: KickThatBathProf on 17 Dec 2008, 22:10

Faraquet (Although they still reunite once in a while in D.C.)

So hey guess who missed their last reunion show in DC?

20 jazz funk greats · « **Reply #49 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 18:02 »

Quote from: rynne on 18 Dec 2008, 16:42

Quote from: KickThatBathProf on 18 Dec 2008, 14:37
Quote from: Jackie Blue on 18 Dec 2008, 12:52
That picture of Throbbing Gristle so does not give a good indication of what they sound like.

Hey, it's alright. One of their album covers doesn't give a good indication either:

I can't see the pic, but I'm assuming it's 20 Jazz Funk Greats? It gives a good indication if you recognize the background as one of the England's top suicide locations.

it's kinda misleading if you don't know that though.

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