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Best Irish groups who never made it

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 194 ✭✭Stretchryan


    Cyclefly and Scheer are 2 great bands that i stilll listen too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 520 ✭✭✭batari


    Cyclefly all the way, Generation Sap is a great album


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭problemchimp


    Any of you older people remember Free Booze, The Atrix or The New Versions ?

    Talking '78 - '81 I think.

    Also, Winter's Reign or Zero Zero for the rockers.
    The Atrix, saw them supporting The Boomtown Rats once. Belfast band Soul Survivor were also playing, but they were shiit. Never heard of them since.
    The Outcasts, Paranoid Visions and The Keltic Possie for the punks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Kingdom Bhoy


    That Petrol Emotion and Protex.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭Feelgood


    Cry Before Dawn, they kindof half made it and then dropped off the radar for some reason. Might sound dated now but back in 89' they were the business. Still listen to them regularly. :)






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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭endabob1


    That Petrol Emotion and Protex.

    The Petrols did okay for themselves, not as successful as they might have been but Babble & Chemicrazy both charted in the UK


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78 ✭✭ASBO


    juniper!!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭yknaa


    Votes from the yknaa jury are in:

    Fatima Mansions and Microdisney 'made it' to an extent but never sold zillions of records so my vote would go for The Would Be's - deadly Donegal pop.
    Also special mention to Emperor of Ice Cream and LMNO Pelican.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,365 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Saville. I honestly thought they would be huge after hearing their album Is Anybody Happier Today? Sadly they never really got any bigger than being just another Whelan's band.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    boscoroxx wrote: »
    Whipping Boy & An Emotional Fish would stick out to me.
    I used to love JJ72, not sure what ever happened to them.

    JJ72 split about 5 years ago


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    ASBO wrote: »
    juniper!!!!!

    Didnt they become bellx1 (and then Damian Rice of course)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Depends on what you mean by making it I suppose but the redneck manifesto are one of the best irish bands of the last decade (and longer).

    Sack were a great band also


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 613 ✭✭✭4Sheets


    Looking back kerbdog where ok..the music now if you listen is dated nirvanna type grunge rock..
    Revelino patchy some good songs..but really the only album to stand the test of time get more popular and more admired is whippings boy heartworm ..a masterpiece that can stand alongside anything radiohead have ever done IMHO.

    Still love this as well..must get an album.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 sid77ie


    emo72 wrote: »
    just read the whole thread. some nice memories there. i notice microdisney was mentioned and cathal coughlan but no mention of the fatima mansions. berties brochures was a great song. really anti english.
    Agree, Fatima Mansions were class.
    Anyone remember a band called The Elite, they used to play all of Live and dangerous in slatterys of capel street on fridays.(I think)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 865 ✭✭✭A Disgrace


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Depends on what you mean by making it I suppose but the redneck manifesto are one of the best irish bands of the last decade (and longer).

    Sack were a great band also

    agreed


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 sambos


    Stand, still going, should be bigger than they are though...

    Check them out on www.standland.com


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,365 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    The Hitchers from Limerick were catchy as hell.



    Great band and responsible for the best song ever written about football.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭Hippo


    Any of you older people remember Free Booze, The Atrix or The New Versions ?

    Talking '78 - '81 I think.

    Remember them all, but don't think any of them were ever likely to trouble the judges!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭gman2k


    Feedback were great, back around late 76. I think they may have renamed themselves later as 'The Hype' or something...never heard of them since.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭Adiaga 2


    Anyone mention the Marbles yet? Some great indie pop songs from the late 90s and early 00s. Good shout with Sack above. I remember a band called Bloom too from the late 90s I think, surprised they never made it further than these shores too.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    Andwellas Dream - I wonder what happened to them?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭jpfahy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 lady of the flowers


    Has anyone mentioned The Greenbacks? I loved themhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o779ujwdyqA


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭sarkozy


    The Satan Clause.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 613 ✭✭✭4Sheets


    http://www.templehousefestival.com/line-up.html

    Whipping boy and Kerbdog! for e50 ..Sligo the place to be this weekend.
    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 936 ✭✭✭Fentdog84


    For me, the greatest Irish band who never made it has got to be A House. They released five albums, all with different a sound, all masterpieces. They had offbeat songs with pop sensibilities, clever lyrics, mixed with interesting and often odd experimentation. They Just too good for the mainstream.

    Also ''stuck together with gods glue'' by something happens was a wonderfully ambitious album, with a big sound that veered towards U2. should have been bigger.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 scoobyjack


    Fentdog84 wrote: »
    Also ''stuck together with gods glue'' by something happens was a wonderfully ambitious album, with a big sound that veered towards U2. should have been bigger.

    My 2nd ever cassette, and still one of my very favourite albums from start to finish.

    Bedlam-a-go-go wasn't really up to standard as a follow-up though and it was probably too late by the time Planet Fabulous came out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭endabob1


    Something Happens like That Petrol Emotion were unlucky in that their best work came out when Virgin were falling apart at the seams, those 2 albums (Chemicrazy & Stuck together) got no promotion worth talking about outside Ireland, if they did I'm sure both would have sold bucketloads.
    Any record company that couldn't make Parachute a hit record needed their head examined.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭Hippo


    endabob1 wrote: »
    Something Happens like That Petrol Emotion were unlucky in that their best work came out when Virgin were falling apart at the seams, those 2 albums (Chemicrazy & Stuck together) got no promotion worth talking about outside Ireland, if they did I'm sure both would have sold bucketloads.
    Any record company that couldn't make Parachute a hit record needed their head examined.


    Can´t agree. It´s true that the guy in Virgin who´d signed the Happens had gone by the time the album came out, but they played plenty in the UK and beyond at the time and it still didn´t take off. They certainly had the exposure at the time, maybe it just wasn´t the right time.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    Auto-de-Fe I can only remember one or two of their singles but they had a nice sound to them.



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