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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #50 on: 18 Dec 2008, 18:34 »

Of course, the back cover is slightly less misleading:

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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #51 on: 18 Dec 2008, 21:43 »

Happy to see my thread hit a second page. All choices are great!! I see people are also expanding my orginal concept to include bands that were dead before you were born and so obviously you didn't get a chance to see them before they broke up. My addition to that thought would be to include Robert Johnson. Definitely one of the best blues guitarist of all times and sadly was wayyy before my generation.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #52 on: 19 Dec 2008, 07:06 »

I think that Throbbing Gristle album cover is one of my favourite album covers of all time.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #54 on: 19 Dec 2008, 15:30 »

i'd like to add rocket from the crypt.  i'd heard a coupla songs but never realised their true awesomeness til it was too late :(
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #55 on: 19 Dec 2008, 16:17 »

The Ergs!
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #56 on: 19 Dec 2008, 17:04 »

I'd like to say that I saw Wesley Willis before he died, and he was such a nice guy and put on a fun show, far more entertaining than most of his recorded material.

Also I hate people who like him ironically.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #57 on: 19 Dec 2008, 19:58 »

At the Drive-In, Pavement, Blind Melon, Neutral Milk Hotel, Screaming Trees, Sublime, the Beatles, Pink Floyd

I'm surprised no one said ATDI or Sublime.  The Beatles & Pink Floyd were done way before i was born.  Everyone else was around in my childhood but i was either too young to comprehend music/not listening to music.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #58 on: 19 Dec 2008, 20:05 »

ATDI got a lot of airplay on the main radio station I listened to in middle school.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #59 on: 19 Dec 2008, 20:46 »

Really?  I had never heard of them until right before the Mars Volta's first album came out (but in an unconnected way).  I always felt they were too overlooked.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #60 on: 19 Dec 2008, 22:44 »

Yeah, I must have heard One Armed Scissor on the radio about 30 times over a period of 6 months.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #61 on: 19 Dec 2008, 22:50 »

At the Drive-In, Pavement, Blind Melon, Neutral Milk Hotel, Screaming Trees, Sublime, the Beatles, Pink Floyd

I'm surprised no one said ATDI or Sublime.  The Beatles & Pink Floyd were done way before i was born.  Everyone else was around in my childhood but i was either too young to comprehend music/not listening to music.

I actually got a chance to see Sublime before Brad killed himself which to this day is one of my greatest achievements. 
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #62 on: 19 Dec 2008, 23:41 »

Hunchback, art-punky and the creators of one of my favourite albums of the year.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #63 on: 20 Dec 2008, 05:15 »

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

Sorry, I meant I wish I had gotten into Bad Brains when they made good music.

...which is why I didn't mention that they were together.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #65 on: 20 Dec 2008, 11:08 »

I guess you can read this as

"Bad Brains are not 'Still Together' as it implies that the band has been an ongoing affair with no hiatus or breakups, which is not true. They are reformed and currently together, which is not the same thing. They have also been making horrible music for a much longer time than the time they were a good band."
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #66 on: 20 Dec 2008, 12:54 »

Yeah, I must have heard One Armed Scissor on the radio about 30 times over a period of 6 months.

there was also a video that mtv played a few times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpdZMuDFEt0
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #67 on: 20 Dec 2008, 14:49 »

Bad Brains aren't still together, they reformed

I didn't mention that they were together

Maybe this is crazy talk because of me being terrible at English, but... what?

I meant that as soon as someone mentioned Bad Brains, I was going to say that they'd reformed a few years back - but I also knew someone would point out that they only make shitty music out and it doesn't count. So I meant, I didn't mention they were together in previous posts because of that.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #68 on: 21 Dec 2008, 06:32 »

The Ergs!

Crikey, they broke up less than a month ago!
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #69 on: 21 Dec 2008, 08:59 »

Braid
Boys Life
Drive Like Jehu
Jawbreaker
pretty much a grab bag of 90s emo bands along with this (cap'n jazz american football etc)

THE WARMERS OH MY GOD THEY RULE

though i guess i would need a time machine for most of these. seeing DLJ would suck when i was 2.

good call!  i forgot about braid, american football and DLJ!!!  never could get into cap'n jazz though...  vocals sucked tbh.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #70 on: 21 Dec 2008, 17:09 »

Braid
Boys Life
Drive Like Jehu
Jawbreaker
pretty much a grab bag of 90s emo bands along with this (cap'n jazz american football etc)

Jesus, for a minute I thought I was in the "Horrible bands that time forgot" thread and felt the urge to throttle you.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #71 on: 22 Dec 2008, 18:12 »

Faith No More
Pavement
Fugazi
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Screaming Trees
The Libertines
Bikini Kill
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #72 on: 22 Dec 2008, 19:07 »

Mainly this band.
Yeah basically. That, and...



Death From Above FREAKING 1979
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #73 on: 22 Dec 2008, 19:29 »

Faith No More
Pavement
Fugazi

Care if I ask how old you are? These bands were everywhere during the 90's. If you were too young then I must apologize as you truly missed out on some of the best music ever.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #74 on: 22 Dec 2008, 19:45 »

Faith No More
Pavement
Fugazi

Care if I ask how old you are? These bands were everywhere during the 90's. If you were too young then I must apologize as you truly missed out on some of the best music ever.
I accept your apology. :cry:
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #75 on: 23 Dec 2008, 01:31 »

Definitely Neutral Milk Hotel and Olivia Tremor Control...
And also the Boredoms, but I'm not exactly sure what the deal is with them. Are they technically the 'V∞redoms"?
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #76 on: 23 Dec 2008, 08:06 »

Faith No More
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Tell me about it.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #77 on: 23 Dec 2008, 09:00 »

Oh hey I got another good one.

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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #78 on: 23 Dec 2008, 09:52 »

Lindsey Leigh Harbour is so cute.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #79 on: 23 Dec 2008, 18:13 »

Did The Foster-Walker complex break up? I heard one of their shows sucked, but I still want to see them.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #80 on: 23 Dec 2008, 20:45 »

The Lost Concept. Though I have heard a rumor they got back together.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #81 on: 31 Dec 2008, 01:16 »

i wish i would have saw latterman live. i got into them like, a month before they broke up and they changed my life.
jawbreaker, but i that would have meant i would have been listening to them when i was 6, which would have made me the coolest 6 year old ever.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #82 on: 02 Jan 2009, 01:45 »

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Blink 182
 
Jawbreaker

Jets to Brazil

I am going to try my damnedest to see thorns of life if they come anywhere near me.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #83 on: 02 Jan 2009, 01:52 »

wait, you got into blink 182 after they broke up? i mean, i love blink, they were integral to my childhood, i just find it a little weird. or are you just talking about bands that you want to see live?
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #84 on: 02 Jan 2009, 01:53 »

wait, you got into blink 182 after they broke up? i mean, i love blink, they were integral to my childhood, i just find it a little weird. or are you just talking about bands that you want to see live?

Well I got into them before they broke up, but I never got to see them.
I'm not that young.

All the others I got into after they broke up.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #85 on: 02 Jan 2009, 04:41 »

It used to be Rage Against The Machine but they got together again and I caught them live.
Now it's Floyd, Led Zeppelin (not happening in the original setup but what the hell) and J5.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #86 on: 02 Jan 2009, 07:09 »

Hello everyone this is my first post lol so be kind... :-), This is a tough one for me, Not to go off topic but it would also have been great to have seen some bands in their prime i.e. The Sex Pistols, But i would have to say....
The Nation of Ulysses, I'm not sure to how many people know about this band, But "Plays Pretty for Baby" is definitely one of those albums changed my life, the kinetic energy and the ideologies (to which this day i still have no clue what they were on about). They just seemed to be on fire all the time, It would be great to hear if anyone from the board might have seen them, I would love to hear what they were like, But yeah that's mine for sure.

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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #87 on: 02 Jan 2009, 08:41 »

The Sex Pistols
Strong first post.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #88 on: 02 Jan 2009, 09:28 »

Well i didn't mean the sex pistols in particular, i'm not really a fan. But i'm talking about a band that were probably better to watch in their prime than say they would be now. Like the birthday party for instance i was very lucky to see nick cave this year and it's was amazing, but i can imagine the birthday party would have been alot better back in the day, i'm mean they were insane if you ever get a chance to view some of their performances on youtube it's so dark, meanacing and abhorrent you literally thought cave might kill someone. So yeah perhaps the sex pistols aren't the best example. I would have rather seen Iggy & the Stooges in their prime who to me were more of punk band than the pistols could ever be.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #89 on: 02 Jan 2009, 10:16 »

A bunch of friends recently saw Iggy's reunion tour and the verdict was unanimous that Iggy still has it nearly like he did back in the day, but The Stooges are fucking ancient.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #90 on: 02 Jan 2009, 10:25 »

They were pretty good when I saw em but Iggy's voice is going a bit
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #91 on: 02 Jan 2009, 11:05 »

A bunch of friends recently saw Iggy's reunion tour and the verdict was unanimous that Iggy still has it nearly like he did back in the day, but The Stooges are fucking ancient.
Well put it this way man i would rather watch the stooges over alot of these new bands around today, not to say that all modern music is tripe because there are some really exciting things going on right now in music...but alot of it is. And the stooges even past their prime could knock most of these young whipper-snappers off stage. Lol I'm only 20yrs old I sound like a really old man who ranting about the fact that "It's not like it used to be", Anyway i digress.

They were pretty good when I saw em but Iggy's voice is going a bit
That's good to hear man, hope you had a good time yeah i saw them on t.v. awhile back playing the v fest, it weren't that great i think they might just be to jaded to rock it like they oust to, but they've already done enough and have influenced a countless number of bands and hopefully will be remembered in history. P.S. Love the cramps avatar man, Cramps F'in Rock, Hey man have you ever heard of the scientists?

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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #92 on: 02 Jan 2009, 12:10 »

Whoever said blink-182 - I saw them on their last UK tour. They were actually pretty fucking good, considering they were terrible in all the footage I saw of them (which raises the question why I went...)

Your avatar is Nick Cave, and as such I like you.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #93 on: 02 Jan 2009, 14:55 »

Audio Adrenaline
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« Reply #94 on: 02 Jan 2009, 23:38 »

Your avatar is Nick Cave, and as such I like you.

Well thanks man Nick Cave is my god for sure. You're avatar's good too, Yeah i was going to see blink-182 once when i was alot younger and more naive but i didn't thank god.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #95 on: 03 Jan 2009, 03:43 »

Neutral Milk Hotel.

I end up hating threads like these because they get me into all this good music I know I'll never see live or will never get any more of.
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« Reply #96 on: 03 Jan 2009, 04:34 »

I dunno, there are so many bands that have broken up then got back together I think you can have some hope.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #97 on: 03 Jan 2009, 05:51 »

Any that come to mind are composed of guys who've gained a hundred pounds and have a deeper voice than they did twenty years ago.

Imagine Jeff Mangum fused with the Elton John of today.  Sure, I'll go to the concert, but I'd probably cry tears of sadness for days once past.  If that's hope, I'm fine with seeing the glass half empty...
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #98 on: 03 Jan 2009, 06:07 »

Maybe the ex members will go on to form just as good bands like Fugazi, Rollins Band, PiL or New Order.
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Re: Bands you wished you had heard of before they broke up.
« Reply #99 on: 03 Jan 2009, 07:05 »

The man makes a good point.
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