underrated indie bands no longer in tact

donfers

they never made even when producing great music, now they're gone, let's remember some of them


gene

shed seven

the beta band

revelino

the hormones

whipping boy

I wouldn't include the likes of pulp or suede because they were rated and got loads of attention

HavingCrack

Yellowcard would be the first one to spring to mind !

And Test Icicles if you're into that sort of music

HavingCrack

Well neither are indie bands but definately under rated

Joe_Dull

I would also add The Upper Room, but they might be veering more towards guitar pop

mosstin

donfers wrote: »

they never made even when producing great music, now they're gone, let's remember some of them


gene

shed seven

the beta band

revelino

the hormones

whipping boy

I wouldn't include the likes of pulp or suede because they were rated and got loads of attention

I laughed out loud when I read Shed Seven. Without a doubt, they epitomised the very reason the word indie today has so many negative connotations. Tuneless, artless chancers riding the crest of whatever musical trend would sweep them up. They made Flowered Up and The Farm seem like the harbingers of a new musical dawn. Shed Seven were Dawn of the Replicants without the Scottish accents.

kev9100

I always thought Elastica's first album was pretty good.

SilverScreen

Whipping Boy were just brilliant, 'Heartworm' is one my favourite irish albums of all time (even though it was released on a major rather than an indie label). 'Submarine' is a great album as well, it has a less commercial and almost shoegaze feel to it. 'Whipping Boy' was a good album but is probably my least favourite of the 3, still it was a pity that it wasn't more successful.

BarryCreed

rollerskate skinny anyone...?

A Disgrace

donfers wrote: »

they never made even when producing great music, now they're gone, let's remember some of them


gene

shed seven

the beta band

revelino

the hormones

whipping boy

I wouldn't include the likes of pulp or suede because they were rated and got loads of attention

Agree with Gene and Whipping Boy.. would also throw Babybird into the mix, but it depends on what 'made it' means

Howard the Duck

A Disgrace wrote: »

Agree with Gene and Whipping Boy.. would also throw Babybird into the mix, but it depends on what 'made it' means

As far as i know babybird are still going. They released an album not so long ago that Johnny Depp played on ..if i remember correctly

Miguel_Sanchez

BarryCreed wrote: »

rollerskate skinny anyone...?

Loved them when I was younger. A few years ago you couldn't buy Horsedrawn Wishes new - I had to get another copy of it 2nd hand from San Francisco. I met Steve Murray, the guitar player from the band, and he said even he couldn't get copies of it any more.

It must have been re-released or something though cause you can pick it up new off Amazon now. Speed to My Side off that album was brilliant and I always loved Miss Leader off their first one too.

pappyodaniel

The Chalets.
I thought they were great for the time they were around. The girls and the guys paired off in seperate directions Talulah does the Hula and Warlords of Pez respectively.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Z95cPQWxw

Woodstar
From Limerick, signed to Parlophone in the early noughties and tipped for greatness...never happened for them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHvvl7rDF7Q

Turn
One of my favourite Irish bands of the noughties, Ollie Cole took it pretty bad when things failed to happen for them though not through lack of ambition. He's bounced back and his solo stuff is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v33BnJIhKkI

AnonoBoy

The Chalets were fun - always made great videos.

Turn were alright, Oliver Cole solo isn't up to much I don't think though.

I was big into the Auteurs in the 90's. Don't think they ever got the recognition or the success they deserved.

Here's Lenny Valentino by them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B5es1l9pk4

Howard the Duck

The Chalets haven;t broken up.

They are playing one gig this summer as far as i know so there is hope for new material

pappyodaniel

That's a great tune Anonoboy, thanks for the recommendation.

Valmont

The Beta Band's Three EPs is a work of genius. One of my favourite albums of all time. I wouldn't have heard of them if it wasn't for that scene in High Fidelity.

super_furry

mosstin wrote: »

I laughed out loud when I read Shed Seven. Without a doubt, they epitomised the very reason the word indie today has so many negative connotations. Tuneless, artless chancers riding the crest of whatever musical trend would sweep them up. They made Flowered Up and The Farm seem like the harbingers of a new musical dawn. Shed Seven were Dawn of the Replicants without the Scottish accents.

I'll see your Shed Seven and raise you Northern Uproar.

mosstin

super_furry wrote: »

I'll see your Shed Seven and raise you Northern Uproar.

Ooof, Menswear. I win.

sweetie

mosstin wrote: »

Ooof, Menswear. I win.

gay dad
ultrasound
echobelly
sleeper
dodgy
supernaturals

pants the lot of 'em

punchdrunk

sweetie wrote: »

gay dad
ultrasound
echobelly
sleeper
dodgy
supernaturals

pants the lot of 'em

not true!

Amazotheamazing

The Stars of Heaven

Howard the Duck

sweetie wrote: »

gay dad
ultrasound
echobelly
sleeper
dodgy
supernaturals

pants the lot of 'em

I'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree with some of those bands too Ok they weren't great but they had a few really good songs. They were all "britpop" bands. I remember the mid/early 90's and all these kinda bands were the popular music of the day. If you turned on any radio station this is the kinda music you heard. Beats the crap out of the stuff you hear today. But it is true that record companies were throwing contracts at any band that sounded kinda indie. But some good bands got contracts. These songs make me yearn for hot summers of the past and mtv europe.... i must go look for my Shine compilation albums now

EchoBelly- King of the Kerb . (Embedding Disabled)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XquIZi8AIg8

Sleeper - Nice Guy Eddie. (Embedding Disabled)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIekF_VyuMY

Supernaturals - The Day Before Yesterdays Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb1DC0akmFE

Dudess

The Blue Aeroplanes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWF09T_62Bk

Well they're not disbanded, but not recognised enough.


Moose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VewHeOXqu0

Bang Bang Machine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzD5e3lQKhg

pickarooney

Grandaddy

Howard the Duck

Hefner - We Love the City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz9WnTUIKJ0

Dudess

Kitchens of Distinction (Editors sound like them, not like Joy Division):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JXk_oV4nbo

The Chameleons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBjJIInF26Y

Howard the Duck

Another Darren Hayman Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDNsJQP7XqQ

I love this live version even if he forget some of the lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbjMpdW-i-8

Howard the Duck

pickarooney wrote: »

Grandaddy

They deserve a video here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX-_yLyU1fU

bossa_nova

pickarooney wrote: »

Grandaddy

+1

one of my favorite bands for sure, not a bad album from them, and Jasons solo stuff is pretty good too, wish they stuck around longer so i could see em live

Awful_Bliss

+1 on the Chameleons. I'd also add The Organ.

take everything

Fountains of Wayne.

Just on the Britpop theme- bands like Mansun, Republica and Longpigs anyone?
Not sure about underrated but whatever happened to those British bands?

Miguel_Sanchez

take everything wrote: »

Fountains of Wayne.

Fountains of Wayne are still going.

Dozen Wicked Words

The Longpigs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0dowFS--gE

Gene

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

Candyskins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faFKDF8PJJw

(love this version!!)

Octopus

The Wannadies (Are they still going actually, not sure.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl2VJUykYhg

take everything

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

Fountains of Wayne are still going.

Yeah i know- i probably should have read the thread title properly.
Kinda read it as "whatever happened to...".

Captain Darling

dooferoaks wrote: »

The Longpigs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0dowFS--gE

Very young Richard Hawley in that vid.

mewso

New Fast Automatic Daffodils. I remember paying a fiver to see these guys play one of the best live gigs I've had the pleasure to attend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkDhJ_m9XXI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh1YJHNcVWo

MsMoo

I used to like Marcy Playground. Anyone else remember them? They had one great album 'Sex and Candy.' According to wiki they're still around, but not doing anything of merit.

Also liked A-House, they didn't last long either.

lordgoat

Howard the Duck wrote: »

The Chalets haven;t broken up.

They are playing one gig this summer as far as i know so there is hope for new material

Last i heard they were well and truly broken up. The girls have a new band and some of the guys are doing their own thing. Two of them are in Pez but Pez are Pez and no one really knows when they'll be back or for how long.

I do hope they play a gig or two, decent people and nice pop summery tunes.

Theme was the first and prob best tune.

I also miss turn alot. Made me sit up and listen which takes alot more now than it once did. Find memories of Beretta and Beewax in Cuba in Galway... and the old turn message board. Good good times.

Dudess

mewso wrote: »

New Fast Automatic Daffodils. I remember paying a fiver to see these guys play one of the best live gigs I've had the pleasure to attend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkDhJ_m9XXI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh1YJHNcVWo

I was thinking about them actually. Also James. They're mostly known for Sit Down, which is a pretty weak song IMO. They have far better numbers...

kagni

Beulah

Soul Coughing

loyatemu

Inspiral Carpets - they got a lot of stick because they weren't the Roses or the Mondays, but they were a great singles band on their own terms:

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

Howard the Duck

lordgoat wrote: »

Last i heard they (The Chalets) were well and truly broken up. The girls have a new band and some of the guys are doing their own thing. Two of them are in Pez but Pez are Pez and no one really knows when they'll be back or for how long.

I do hope they play a gig or two, decent people and nice pop summery tunes.

Theme was the first and prob best tune.
.

Yea i think you're right. I was going by their website but i don't think it's been updated in over a year. Agree with you on The Theme being their best song.. but the first version i didn't like the album version.. it was too clean.. the first version was dirty and it suited the song.

MsMoo

loyatemu wrote: »

Inspiral Carpets - they got a lot of stick because they weren't the Roses or the Mondays, but they were a great singles band on their own terms:

You've just reminded me of these guys..
Great song.

Ride - Leave them all behind.

lordgoat

Howard the Duck wrote: »

Yea i think you're right. I was going by their website but i don't think it's been updated in over a year. Agree with you on The Theme being their best song.. but the first version i didn't like the album version.. it was too clean.. the first version was dirty and it suited the song.

The website is definitely out of date. If there are Chal's gigs i'll post it up here but as it stands it's a 'not a chance!'

mewso

Dudess wrote: »

I was thinking about them actually. Also James. They're mostly known for Sit Down, which is a pretty weak song IMO. They have far better numbers...

Yeah funny though in the early 90s I would have considered James - and others mentioned here - Inspiral Carpets and even RIDE to a certain extent as being rated very highly by many. RIDE were class I must say. Another cheap top notch gig was RIDE in McGonagles on the day they released their debut album.

BarryCreed

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

Loved them when I was younger. A few years ago you couldn't buy Horsedrawn Wishes new - I had to get another copy of it 2nd hand from San Francisco. I met Steve Murray, the guitar player from the band, and he said even he couldn't get copies of it any more.

It must have been re-released or something though cause you can pick it up new off Amazon now. Speed to My Side off that album was brilliant and I always loved Miss Leader off their first one too.

I picked it up off ebay myself a few years back. pretty good album...

The longpigs album is a great album. I picked up a "best of" of the Inspiral Carpets recently. pretty good too...

A Disgrace

MsMoo wrote: »

Also liked A-House, they didn't last long either.

Well they knocked out 5 studio albums, and a BBC live record - so whilst they didn't reach the expected highs (whatever about a couple of UK chart placing) I think they left behind enough of a legacy not to be considered failures, however, as the thread says, they were underatted.. criminally so. To quote NME 'The best Irish band ever, including U2'

Dave Couse (the front man) has an album out now on 1969 records and boy oh boy, it's a revelation...

Anyway, on topic

The Field Mice
Seafood
Pony Club (Altho they're techinically still intact)
Babybird
Revelino
Sunbear
National Prayer Breakfast
Chicks
Sack

Miguel_Sanchez

A Disgrace wrote: »

The Field Mice
Seafood
Pony Club (Altho they're techinically still intact)
Babybird
Revelino
Sunbear
National Prayer Breakfast
Chicks
Sack

Revelino were great, they wrote some brilliant songs in their time - Happiness is Mine is still, in my opinion, one of the great Irish songs ever.

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

Liked NPB a lot although I only got to see them once.

Chicks - never got into them, saw them support Sonic Youth in the late 90's, not a good gig for them. One of them is in The Radio with Stevie M from Rollerskate Skinny now I think.

Sack - another great band that I would never have known about if it wasn't for No Disco. Morrissey loved them and their song Laughter Lines was featured on the Carrie 2 soundtrack for some reason:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFPR9hpiaPc

take everything

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

Revelino were great, they wrote some brilliant songs in their time - Happiness is Mine is still, in my opinion, one of the great Irish songs ever.

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

Liked NPB a lot although I only got to see them once.

Chicks - never got into them, saw them support Sonic Youth in the late 90's, not a good gig for them. One of them is in The Radio with Stevie M from Rollerskate Skinny now I think.

Sack - another great band that I would never have known about if it wasn't for No Disco. Morrissey loved them and their song Laughter Lines was featured on the Carrie 2 soundtrack for some reason:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFPR9hpiaPc

Love Happiness is Mine.
And Speed to My Side.
A few others worth a mention from the No Disco days (yes some of these are are still together AFAIK).
Compulsion, Lir, That Petrol Emotion, Kerbdog.

sweetie

three of the guys from revelino play in beatclub
they do great cover versions, check 'em out on youtube

ctrl-alt-delete

Well i would have said

22-20's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wjZDX7Ij8M

But they have gone to America a couple of years after breaking up, relaunched themselves, and have this cracker doing well on itunes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18O9SWCiyrA