American bands/music artists who are huge there but not over here..

Rothko · 03-02-2022 04:28PM

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Lol, yeah. I'm sure you're not the only person who hadn't heard of him but he was hugely successful years before all that.

loyatemu · 03-02-2022 04:34PM

Journey.

Prior to Don't Stop Believin' becoming ubiquitous because of it's use in the Sopranos, I don't think I'd ever heard one of their songs.

03-02-2022 04:41PM

Firehouse

Warrant

Mr. Big

Damn Yankees

Ash.J.Williams · 03-02-2022 09:40PM

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I was trying to think of Dave Matthews name earlier , good call , I work with loads of American middle aged academics and their “”wild days “”would involve that band 😂😂😂😂

riclad · 03-02-2022 11:30PM

99 per cent of country singers, no one in Ireland gives a damn, garth Brooks was the last big country singer to have Irish fans buying cds, 90 per cent of USA rappers no one cares or knows who they are, I presume you are talking about current bands, singers, not bands from the 80s.The average zen z person probably thinks reo speedwagon is a type of car

to have a hit now new singers need to have a tik Tok trending song or team up with Bieber or some popular singer who has millions of fans

tik Tok has now more watch time among young people under 30 than YouTube

The top 5 cent of singers bands make 95 per cent of the income from streaming royaltys digital downloads

Record company's are reluctant to spend millions promoting a band that might not have a smash hit song

Timing belt · 03-02-2022 11:41PM

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The Wallflowers lead singer was Bob Dylan’s son,not a bad band.

I would also agree that Ben Folds is massively under rated in Ireland

silliussoddius · 03-02-2022 11:46PM

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Jacob Dylan.

Timing belt · 03-02-2022 11:50PM

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yes Bob Dylan's Son.

PsychoPete · 04-02-2022 12:04AM

Could you add Tom Petty or the Allman Brothers to the list? One genre that's massive in America is the Christian rock thing that doesn't travel outside of America

riclad · 04-02-2022 01:04AM

I think Tom petty had a few hits in Europe , he made music videos that were popular on MTV , he's hardly unknown here. Of course there's Christian rock groups that are unknown in Europe.

Manic Moran · 04-02-2022 04:01AM

I'm surprised to see KISS has been mentioned a few times. I picked up a taste for them in Ireland, and I never had the impression I was outside of the norm.

04-02-2022 05:31AM

We could add Widespread Panic to the Phish/Grateful Dead bundle... not once I have heard them mentioned in Ireland... but, in the noughties at least, they were well known Stateside.

04-02-2022 05:37AM

How about MC5? (First few seconds are not NSFW in case anyone has got lost and found themselves in an office)

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

Hangdogroad · 04-02-2022 05:45AM

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Wouldn't be as well known as Iggy And The Stooges but you often see them in the pages of music mags like Uncut on articles about acts who influenced punk etc. They were never a mainstream act even in the States, one of those bands whove probably become better known retrospectively than when they were together.

Riddle101 · 04-02-2022 08:07AM

Living Colour - Cult Of Personality - Most people know this song but not many people ever talk about their other songs.

https://youtu.be/7xxgRUyzgs0

pjordan · 04-02-2022 08:25AM

Jimmy Buffet - Until wee Daniel came along and covered Down at the La Di Dah!!!

Badly Drunk Boy · 04-02-2022 08:57AM

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Yeah, I've seen Sonic Youth play 6 times in Ireland over the years, and there are some of their gigs that I missed, but they always had a strong enough following (in the low-level way that you'd expect from a band with that sort of music.)

04-02-2022 10:18AM

Sufjan Stevens

loyatemu · 04-02-2022 10:23AM

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Tom Petty was big in the US for years before he made any inroads on this side of the world - his international success came on the back of his participation in the Travelling Wilburys. His next album Full Moon Fever was a big hit everywhere, whereas his previous albums had only sold well in the US.

sweetie · 04-02-2022 10:29AM

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equally known on both sides whilst not massively popular in either. I was at his first gig in Trinity College many years ago, Seven swans tour IIRC

gmisk · 04-02-2022 10:37AM

John mayer?

RayCon · 04-02-2022 10:43AM

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Great band but I don't think they'd fit the category of "huge" in the US either

piplip87 · 04-02-2022 10:49AM

Silver chair, the screaming trees and mother love bone would have had big enough followings in the States but no real massive success over here. Stone Temple Polits would be very similar too.

Would all have a following here but wouldn't be selling out mid sized venues.

AndyBoBandy · 04-02-2022 11:03AM

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I went to a Dave Matthews Band gig in Saratoga, NY about 17 years ago, and it was almost cultish the way the crowd adored him/them.....

I wasn't really feeling the gig myself (I was there with some local friends), but then I noticed a funny 'herbal' smell that was close to me, and the guy causing the funny smell noticed my Pink Floyd t-shirt, and I asked for a few 'herbal hits', and from that point on the gig was actually quite enjoyable..

They do their 3-4 minute songs, but then spend about 10-15 minutes jamming the end of each song, and it was actually quite good (once the herbal was taken). The highlight of the gig was a song called Smooth Rider, which is only about 2 minutes long on the album, but it goes on for about 15 minutes when they play it live.

Gregor Samsa · 04-02-2022 11:20AM

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Nobody's saying that they don't have fans here, but it was never anything like the level that they are (or at least were) at in the US.

They've had their own breakfast cereal, comics, TV movies - there's a 13,000 square-foot indoor Kiss branded crazy golf course in one of the biggest hotels in Las Vegas. They're cultural icons in the States. They never were here.

As far as I can tell, they only ever played here once (O2, May 2010). According to this Kiss fan site (Internet Archive link, because the site itself isn't working), the attendance was about 8,000. The capacity of the O2 was 14,500.

AndyBoBandy · 04-02-2022 11:22AM

My first recollection of Kiss was when they did the song for the Bill & Ted sequel.

MTV played it to absolute death...

Hotblack Desiato · 04-02-2022 01:49PM

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Sonic Youth and some other US indie bands would have a proportionally much bigger following in Europe than in the US. Nirvana were playing festivals in the UK (down the bill, but still) long before they were near that in the US.

How Kiss ever became famous (in the US, they're regarded as a parody act here) I'll never know.

NSAman · 04-02-2022 01:57PM

Jimmy Buffet

Immortal Starlight · 04-02-2022 02:23PM

Twisted Sister. I’ve only heard of them a couple of times in Ireland.

Badly Drunk Boy · 04-02-2022 02:35PM

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According to setlist.fm, Kiss also played Belfast in October 1988, but that's in the UK. 😉

American bands/music artists who are huge there but not over here..

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