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[Music] Most underated band ever?
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Pogue Mahone
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- Apr 30, 2011
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To be fair, Wah! had some big hits. Who could forget the magnificent 'Story of the Blues' or 'Come Back'?
Pete Wylie was great, and wonderful live.
Wah! (or Wah Heat! or Shambeka Say Wah!) emerged from Liverpool at the same sort of time as Echo and the Bunnymen (also underrated) and The Teardrop Explodes, who had much more commercial success. They were all mates - Wylie, Julian Cope and Ian McCulloch were originally in a band together (The Crucial Three) - but all had massive egos that demanded frontman status - I think they got back together, though, from time to time.
But Wylie, for whatever reason, didn't last. So yes, hugely underrated, especially now.
Pogue Mahone
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- Apr 30, 2011
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And if you're gonna get all 80s pop, I give you the magnificent...Haircut 100.
Pogue Mahone
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Dexys Midnight Runners are often written off as dungaree wearing simpletons who sung 'Come on Eileen', and Kevin Rowland is sneered at for his various idiosyncrasies over the years.
People should listen to Searching For The Young Soul Rebels and, especially, Don't Stand Me Down.
They were a magnificent band.
People should listen to Searching For The Young Soul Rebels and, especially, Don't Stand Me Down.
They were a magnificent band.
Buzzer
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- Oct 1, 2006
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What a fantastic band they were. I always thought The Belle Stars had the talent to go further but they never stood a chance with the way their record company Stiff Records managed their female artists. At the very height of their success they were on a fixed wage of about £50 a week I seem to remember reading. No wonder Kirsty MacColl fell out with Stiff.
boik
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Wow, loved Budgie when I was a young an impressionable teenager. Titles like "Hot as a dockers armpit" and "In the grip of a tyre fitters hand". Here is my bedroom door from that time.....
boik
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Assuming we means bands that weren't unheard of or never charted, I give you XTC. Had a few minor hits, but influenced so many future bands. I'm sure anyone who saw them live would put them right up there with the best. They changed songs almost every time they played them live, adding bits, re-ordering them, and merging them into other songs. A truly fabulous thing to experience.
Buzzer
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- Oct 1, 2006
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Definitely a band who in an ideal world should've, could've, would've....
Wasn't stage fright a major factor in them splitting up?
boik
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Andy P had mental health issues which manifested itself in a fear of going on stage.. His (then) wife threw away his medication before a gig and told him he didn't need it. Bit of a breakdown and no more live shows. Funnily enough, he always seemed to excel when they played live. I have a few live bootleg recordings to remind me just how good they were. Remember them playing the Top Rank when there was a power failure and they came on and played "unplugged".
The Sock of Poskett
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- Jun 12, 2009
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Hugely agree re The Wave Pictures - we popped along to see them at Bar 42 in Worthing last Friday and they were SU-perb. Been around for around 20 years, should be huge.
Here's one of my favourites of theirs:
pearl
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Worried Man Blues
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Yup, that's them heard them on radio 1 in the 70s Great tunes good songs had a couple of tracks on cassette and it took years to identify them. Difficult to find CDs as the boy band keeps getting in the way! Glad you have heard of them
Tyrone Biggums
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My Grandparents lived in a little town called Hopetoun in the north of Victoria. I was about 14 or 15 and up there on holidays when a film crew arrived shooting some scenes for a film clip.
Turns out it was for Streets Of Your Town. There's a shot of a few buildings and one in the Bon Bon Cafe sign flashes past. If they'd panned down we were standing on the footpath in front of it.
Almost famous!
Duran Duran. Dismissed as a pop band for kids, but actually decent songwriters/musicians (with a questionable singer).
Brilliant breakdown of Rio right here: https://soundcloud.com/theklossessions/fhf-rio
Brilliant breakdown of Rio right here: https://soundcloud.com/theklossessions/fhf-rio
Tyrone Biggums
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Well said. The Kinks are imo the most underrated band because Ray Davies is a musical/rock genius and yet he and The Kinks aren't mentioned anywhere near enough for a band who trail blazed so many concepts in music and influenced actual genres of new music.
Betfair Bozo
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- Jul 24, 2007
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Fugazi.
New Fast Automatic Daffodils.
New Fast Automatic Daffodils.
Perry Milkins
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The Flying Burrito Brothers.
Poco.
Kursaal Flyers.
Poco.
Kursaal Flyers.
Tyrone Biggums
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1000 x Yes.
Belle Stars should have gone so much further than they did.
Great musos, good singer and plenty of looks and personality among them.
DavidRyder
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- Jul 23, 2013
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About 20 odd years ago, my colleague was in a band called 'Lose The Mood'. They basically did pubs in East Grinstead sort of area, and I thought they were great. Should've gone on to better things, but didn't get the big break. Not expecting anyone to have heard of them!