Name few artists/bands (famous) that you are sure no one else here likes/knows !

[edmonddantes]

2 scottish bands and 1 english:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBW8Vnp8BzU

The Blue Nile - The Downtown Lights (Official Audio) - YouTube

Through the Sky -- Swing Out Sister - YouTube

Somewhere deep in the night - YouTube

[Mojo Blue]

Originally Posted by edmonddantes

The Blue Nile - The Downtown Lights (Official Audio) - YouTube

Great pick.

This great album always felt like the eighties’ curtain call to me. These synth sounds were practically passé by then, but this album came out as a reminder of how incredible the decade’s synth pop was. I don’t think there’s a bad track on the entire release, and it all works together as a complete composition. One of my favorites and takes me back to my college days.

[edmonddantes]

Originally Posted by Mojo Blue

Great pick.

This great album always felt like the eighties’ curtain call to me. These synth sounds were practically passé by then, but this album came out as a reminder of how incredible the decade’s synth pop was. I don’t think there’s a bad track on the entire release, and it all works together as a complete composition. One of my favorites and takes me back to my college days.

listening to blue nile late at night its one of my most vivid memories of my younger self. The possibilities! It was also like carrying a secret, a personal treasure that you would only share with a few chosen ones. Dont think anyone knew in spain or colombia of these guys, so I usually used them as a way to filter girls from casual interest to "this is the one". If a girl appreciated and liked BN, I knew she was something special. If she found them boring, I knew we'd never click.

more than 30 years later I still find them like a newly found treasure. Also I dont know if its just me or you do the same, but I never, Ever play these guys during daylight. Its night music, music to take you back and dream. Paul Buchanan has that celtic ability of being manly but incredibly sensitive at the same time. I admire this so much. He's one of the great musical poets of our time, just like mike scott.

[Spiderwalk]

^ I'm guessing you're familiar with Paul Buchanan's collaboration with Craig Armstrong.

craig armstrong - let's go out tonight - YouTube

[BiggusDickus]

[QUOTE=nefilim;5976186][CENTER]The The

I'm a huge The The fan, There was a program on UK TV called The Chart Show which was an independent TV music show equivalent of the mainstream and massively popular BBC Top Of The Pops, but The Chart Show had alternate sub-charts like Indie and R&B and stuff not in the conventional Top 40, so they played some stuff the TOTP would never have shown. In 1986 i think, I was watching, and they played a few mins of the "Sweet Bird Of Truth" vid, that was my first introduction, and that was enough to get me hooked on them.

I suppose some of my more obscure favourite bands would be:

Au Revoir Simone
VAST
Felt (only just discovering them)
Robots In Disguise

[Spiderwalk]

Originally Posted by BiggusDickus

I'm a huge The The fan, There was a program on UK TV called The Chart Show which was an independent TV music show equivalent of the mainstream and massively popular BBC Top Of The Pops, but The Chart Show had alternate sub-charts like Indie and R&B and stuff not in the conventional Top 40, so they played some stuff the TOTP would never have shown. In 1986 i think, I was watching, and they played a few mins of the "Sweet Bird Of Truth" vid, that was my first introduction, and that was enough to get me hooked on them.

I suppose some of my more obscure favourite bands would be:

Au Revoir Simone
VAST
Felt (only just discovering them)
Robots In Disguise

I've listened to The The's Soul Mining more than any other album, which probably makes it my all-time favourite.

Love Felt too. I can highly recommend Lawrence's other project Denim, and Maurice Deebank's solo stuff as well.

Martin Duffy went on to join Primal Scream as their keyboard player.

Denim "The Osmonds" - YouTube

Maurice Deebank - So Serene - YouTube

Get Duffy - YouTube

[Steelmaker]

Before Lemmy went on to form Motorhead, there was Hawkwind!

[red_5ive]

Jonny Lang

First time I heard him was the album Lie To Me. My favorite album of his, which I still listen to regularly. Released in 1997, but I think he was 15 or 16 when he recorded it.

[Barry_NJ]

Placebo is a favorite of mine, they're pretty big out side of the US, but have little presence or promotion here.

[kernelpanic]

Neal Morse and all his various prog bands: Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, Flying Colors
Haken
The Flower Kings

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by Barry_NJ

Placebo is a favorite of mine, they're pretty big out side of the US, but have little presence or promotion here.

My girlfriend was a big Placebo fan and got me into them! Meds is where we, well she fell off.

[BiggusDickus]

Originally Posted by Spiderwalk

Love Felt too. I can highly recommend Lawrence's other project Denim

Tried to find some Denim stuff (i'm retro and mainly buy CD's) but the CD's were expensive and mainly on ebay, will have to wait til they get reissued (hopefully)

It was really weird how I discovered Felt; back in the day i used to collect Figurini Panini sticker albums, mainly football, but the last one i did was Smash Hits 1987, and there was only one artist in their i'd never heard of - Felt (even The The were in there!). Spin on 30 years and I remembered them and found all 10 of their albums were being reissued, so i got them. Pretty interesting stuff, but looking on YouTube one day found a clip of something called "Lawrence Of Belgravia", which was a biopic of Lawrence, released on blu-ray by the BFI which i subsequently got. It dates from around 2012, when his latest album from his new band Go-Kart Mozart (Now Mozart Estate) had just been released, called "On The Hot Dog Streets". Like most music biopics, they played snippets of his songs from his career during certain scenes, and one came on that instantly hooked me - turned out to be a song called "Reto-Glancing" from that OTHDS album. Got the album via a torrent and its probably one of my favourite albums now. They released one on a few years ago, which i got, not quite as good, but still quite quirky. As usual, his earlier albums under Go Kart Mozart are OOP and quite expensive to obtain. Hope they, along with the Denim stuff, get a re-issue ...

Smash Hits Sticker


Retro-Glancing

Go-Kart Mozart "Retro-Glancing" - YouTube