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Tom Kitten

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2. Hey I just bought a casette tape by them!

Reply to cemaphonic (Original post)

Fri Oct 24, 2014, 02:36 AM

Oct 2014

Don't Eat the Dirt, for 25 cents at the Goodwill Store! I like it a lot, sorta trancey shoegazer sounds. It's definitely coming with me when I hit the road soon!

Another Seattle area band I liked was Kill Sybill. Also Love Battery, although they did get onto a major label.

As for Portland bands, I love Napalm Beach, plus their alter ego, Sno Bud and the Flower People. I'd even say The Wipers never really hit it big, but they were one of the most seminal bands ever!

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Post some cool local or regional bands that never hit it big. [View all] cemaphonic Oct 2014 OP

Joe Grushecky and The Houserockers.......... mrmpa Oct 2014 #1

Hey I just bought a casette tape by them! Tom Kitten Oct 2014 #2

Oh yeah, that's from before they went in a more rock direction. cemaphonic Oct 2014 #8

Pylon, Kilkenny Cats, Jack O Nuts, Japancakes Tom Ripley Oct 2014 #3

and the Coolies from ATL jpak Oct 2014 #14

Fat pipi_k Oct 2014 #4

Afraid Of Figs. Aristus Oct 2014 #5

There was a really cool Tucson band called The Sidewinders Coventina Oct 2014 #6

Their "What She Said" was a great song Tom Ripley Oct 2014 #12

Iused to see these guys opening shows in Orlando/Tampa OriginalGeek Oct 2014 #7

The Good Rats tk2kewl Oct 2014 #9

Root Boy Slim Kingofalldems Oct 2014 #10

The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, Sparks, Fear, X, kwassa Oct 2014 #11

I'd say Oingo Boingo hit it fairly big cemaphonic Oct 2014 #15

Oingo Boingo made it big. Arugula Latte Oct 2014 #24

The Michael Stanley Band from Cleveland... Callmecrazy Oct 2014 #13

This was my favorite band when I lived in Miami. RebelOne Oct 2014 #16

Shroedinger's Cat... late 1980's alternative JCMach1 Oct 2014 #17

Off Broadway from late 70s in Chicago AngryAmish Oct 2014 #18

UJ3RK5 Monk06 Oct 2014 #19

A couple of garage bands in the 1960s who had records out aint_no_life_nowhere Oct 2014 #20

Deadbolt Joe Shlabotnik Oct 2014 #21

..."and then the Beatles came and got us hooked on LSD!!! Rorshach Test (Seattle band too?) chknltl Oct 2014 #22

The Uptones -- great Berkeley ska band Arugula Latte Oct 2014 #23

I swear there's some kind of standard template for band pictures for 80s-90s ska cemaphonic Oct 2014 #25