Who is your favorite not well known band?

[glacierbay]

Mine would be Brother Firetribe, the song called Runaways.

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[Sedona]

1. Kings X

[sadbear]

7. King's X was kinda big in the Houston area during the 90's.

Doug Pinnick, by the way, came out in the late 90's and most Christian fans left. Good riddance.

[Mopar151]

16. Those guys rock!

I Am not convinced that Doug is native to this planet..... and is likely the better for it.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. Stir

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. Crack The Sky....from my formative years!

They still play - this is two of their better known songs from a recent concert. Great guitar work!

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[glacierbay]

4. Before I became a cop

A friend and I formed a band called General Grass, I was the drummer and my bass drum had a pic of the Zig Zag man on it. Needless to say, we didn't get very far, but we did have some good times.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. I wish I played in Crack the Sky. I was in a perfectly awful cover band in my teens....

Reign - played in an absolute dive in Attleboro MA. Really nasty. (but getting drunk between sets and meeting "interesting people" was...well, interesting!)

[OriginalGeek]

24. I used to be friends with a guy who joined the Army

JUST so he could be an MP.
He wanted to be an MP so that when he got out of the Army he could become a cop.
He wanted to be a cop so that he could drive around and bust kids smoking weed.

And he wanted to bust kids smoking weed so he could confiscate it to make up for all the effin times we had cops come bust us and take our weed. (It happened pretty often in the early 80s Texas. Cops never took us to jail - they just took our stash).

I lost track of him after I moved away but I know he did join the army. Don't know for sure about the rest of his plan but I'd wager heachieved at least some part of it.


My favorite bands (Other than Led Zeppelin and Rush) are all underground death metal bands so most of them would be obscure to people not into metal but are probably all well known among people who are.

Here's one band I love that doesn't get much recognition:

Portal live at Maryland Death Fest in 2010 - This is a "you had to be there" moment because it's hard for some little vid-cam to truly capture how intense this show was - I was in that blackness somewhere.

[Tom Ripley]

31. "Robots for Ronnie" is a great song

[sadbear]

5. I don't know how well known my favorite bands are

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[glacierbay]

8. I know UFO well

my favorite album was their live album, favorite song off that album was Love to Love, never heard of Zebra.

[sadbear]

9. Neither get (or ever got) much radio play in the Houston radio market.

I've known Zebra for nearly 30 years, but I just discovered UFO a few years ago.

[glacierbay]

10. Michael Schenker, who was the lead guitar with UFO

also had his own band called The McAuley Schenker Group and also called MSG. They put out some pretty rockin albums, MSG-Live-One Night at Budokan was a particularly good album. I was really bummed when I heard that the drummer, Cozy Powell, was killed in an auto accident in the UK some years ago.
He was also the lead guitarist for The Scorpions.

[OriginalGeek]

35. His Brother Rudolph

stayed with the Scorpions. They were both in the band for a little while at the beginning but after recording their first album they went on tour with UFO and during that tour UFO offered Michael the lead guitar gig.

Mike and Rudy are both great guitar players. Love them!

[TwilightGardener]

11. I have heard the Zebra song.

I don't know why, but I know that song. Must have gotten some radio play way back when.

[OriginalGeek]

36. I rmeember a time in the early 80s when Zebra was touted

as the next Led Zeppelin. I never heard anything other than their radio hits but they did get a lot of rock radio airplay in the late 70s/early 80s...

[cyberswede]

12. Flook

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[FredStembottom]

59. That was great!

Reminds me of a band I was crazy about in the 90's called Swap.

[kwassa]

13. I wish I looked a little better

Sparks

[EastTennesseeDem]

14. The Twilight Sad might be my favorite band period.

Saw them in Chicago. The loudest thing I've ever heard.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

15. Deadbolt!

"Deadbolt's music combines surf rock, goth, psychobilly and blues sound with unusual and offbeat lyrics, a style the band dubbed "voodoobilly."" -from Wikipedia.

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The band has produced such memorable (essential driving music) classics as:
Roadside Cross
Swahili Bob
I should have killed you
The day I got spine back
Burn, Lil' Debby, Burn
It's a Creepy World
Hell Dorado
Creepy and Weird
Tijuana hit-squad
Dad Why Did My Friends Explode?

[Mopar151]

17. Longryders

Tell me these lyrics from the 80's ain't true today - and an awesome sound!

Nails Rmoney, from 25 yrs ago

[Populist_Prole]

18. Riot

[Mopar151]

19. Guadacanal Diary

Watusi Rodeo

[Populist_Prole]

21. I like that

Heard of them, but never heard them yet till now.

[Arugula Latte]

54. I like them too.

Litany

[WestWisconsinDem]

60. They look like cows but they're water buffaloes...

Ropin' and a ridin in the Watusi Rodeo


Great band.

[WestWisconsinDem]

61. Rainmakers and Gear Daddies

...from Kansas City, Mo. and Austin, MN respectively

[WestWisconsinDem]

63. U2

Sorry, I had to...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

20. Brave Combo! The Band From Denton!

The Peter Gunn theme:

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The Mission Impossible Cumbia:
Jeffrey plays sax, clarinet, pennywhistle, whatever you can toot. When I see him we talk about Prokofiev or other classical guys:

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[WestWisconsinDem]

62. What about Slobberbone?

...also from Denton

[HopeHoops]

22. Camel - "Down on the Farm" in the body of the post...

[cyberswede]

23. Camel's great!

Thanks for posting the video.

[HopeHoops]

25. "Slip out the back way with Nellie the barmaid (OOhh-waaa) to the woods..."

[tk2kewl]

26. The Good Rats

[hifiguy]

27. Hatfield and the North

A great prog band that emerged from the Canterbury Scene in the mid 1970s. Progressive, whimsical, ferociously talented and generally brilliant.

[FredStembottom]

28. Hey! I was going to post them.......

Can't hardly believe someone else even knew of them.

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Ok... So, I'll post:

[FredStembottom]

29. Soft Machine.

Instead.


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[Scuba]

30. The Lamont Cranston Band, of course...

[av8rdave]

32. Johnnie Bassett and the Blues Insurgents

Sadly, Johnnie passed away last month. RIP

One of the greatest unknown blues guitarists ever.

[Xithras]

33. The Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, occasionally Passion Pit.

My "favorite" varies wildly depending on my mood. That list also tends to change a bit month to month.

Pandora has seriously fucked with my listening habits.

[TwilightGardener]

38. I'd say The Black Keys are getting pretty well-known by now.

[Xithras]

40. True

I guess it's hard to argue that they're still unknown when they've won a grammy. I saw them on tour in 2004 back when they were just two guys and a van, and I guess that I still have that mental image of them. Time to update my mental image.

Passion Pit is kinda in the same boat, now that I think about it.

[TwilightGardener]

45. Yeah, by the time I know who bands are, they've usually been around

quite a while--I have never been on the cutting edge of anything! My husband has been listening to them for a couple years now (Black Keys), he's usually ahead of me in terms of "adopting" new music (he's a guitarist), and then I grow to appreciate it by osmosis. Same as when I was a kid--my older brothers' music became my music just by being constantly exposed to it. I am bad at absorbing new stuff--it always has to grow on me.

[Xithras]

46. Pretty much the same here.

I'm not usually on the cutting edge of anything, but my wife has always had a thing for indie bands and checking out new groups when they tour our area. I learned about the Black Keys many many moons ago when she shoved a burned CD into my hand and said "Listen to this, you'll like these guys". She was right, as she usually is.

[Tom Ripley]

34. The Monks...

[LynneSin]

37. Carbon Leaf and Dr Dog

They've got a celtic rock sound but not as hardcore as bands like Flogging Mollys or Dropkick Murphys

Also a big fan of Dr Dog

[Xithras]

44. Carbon Leaf still makes music?

Good to hear. I was a fan and saw them in concert about a decade ago, but I stopped following them after LLHR. It wasn't a bad record, but it didn't have the celtic vibe and just couldn't hold my interest. I haven't heard a thing about them since and assumed they'd folded.

[TwilightGardener]

39. My sons are big fans of this Korean metal band (Seo Taiji), they're pretty good--

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I don't know if they're well-known or not.


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[OriginalGeek]

52. I'm finding more and more Asian metal I like

Your sons might also like:
Intestine Baalism (I believe from Japan)

and
Rudra (from Singapore)

[TwilightGardener]

57. My oldest son in particular is a huge metal head, I will pass along

these suggestions, thanks!

[hibbing]

41. Bright Eyes

Hi,
I'm not sure how to imbed the videos. I like a lot of their songs, some more popish than others.

Lua - Great tale of drinking, drugs, and regret?
Poison Oak - Not sure what all this one is about, but I like it a lot.
Waste of Paint -

Two off their most recent album-
Haile Selassie
One for you, one for me

Peace

[geardaddy]

42. Super Furry Animals

[Rambis]

43. Danu

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[Rambis]

51. The Stunning

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[KamaAina]

47. Michael Franti and Spearhead

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hugely popular here in the Bay Area, just starting to catch on elsewhere.

[TwilightGardener]

48. Hey, I know this song! I think it was used in an ad or movie.

Nice harmonies.

[KamaAina]

50. Indeed it was.

Actually, more than one (maybe one of each).

[Fix The Stupid]

49. Uncle Walts Band - props to anyone else who likes them :) n/t.

[Pendrench]

53. Swampcandy

[TwilightGardener]

56. Resonator--cool, don't hear that too often.

[Mr.Bill]

55. Of all time?

They're not around anymore, but back in the day it was The Tubes.

[glacierbay]

67. The Tubes were a great band

the song, What do You Want From Life, was a great song, especially the end of it-or a baby's arm holding an apple.

[lame54]

58. Moonshine Still...

[aikoaiko]

64. The Dolly Ranchers.

I cant find much of their stuff online anymore, but they really were great.

Their myspace page is still up with some songs.
http://www.myspace.com/thedollyranchers

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

65. Most of my favorite bands are fairly unknown.

I can give you a whole laundry list, but I'll try to be brief:

My favorite band now for nearly twenty years is The Wildhearts. You can't really pin them down genre wise, they mix pop, punk and metal into something that sounds like neither, but musically makes perfect sense (at least to me).

Here they go from screamy heavyness to total poppy melody:

Or their catchier side:

In '94 CJ, the second guitarist of the band was fired (he has since returned, the bald guy in the video above), and he formed a band with Willie Dowling called Honeycrack (terrible name, I know, makes them look like they're 14 years old). Three guitars, five voices, incredibly catchy stuff. Unfortunately they only published one album, but it was a gem.

Live:

Album track:

I got plenty more, but I don't want to monopolize the thread.

[bif]

66. Bark Psychosis

[byeya]

68. The Fall; Wilko Johnson; The Handsome Family; Johnnie Dowd