What "unheard-of" bands do you like?

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Back in 1999, I used to love The White Stripes. That was long before anyone had heard of them!

So what rare bands do you like?
 
Quite a few, actually. I don't know why but my taste tends to line up with me listening to quite a lot of unheard of beands.

I'm still trying to work out if this means I have excellent taste or awful taste.
 
Mohinder said:
Quite a few, actually. I don't know why but my taste tends to line up with me listening to quite a lot of unheard of beands.

I'm still trying to work out if this means I have excellent taste or awful taste.
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I couldn't list them all, but I often go to small gigs and the odd (non-rubbish) open mic nights in the area, and there are plenty of bands that I've quite liked. I'm usually far too lazy to remember who they are and chase up getting a cd off them afterwards though. :o
 
im really digging the new Yellowcard album atm. I think they are popular in the US but not in the UK
 
There used to be a local promoter who put on gigs under the name 'Reaction'. They started of in a pub in my local village, Wendover and then went to the civic centre in Aylesbury. Saw loads of bans play during the early 90's before they made it bid. To name a few; Primal Scream, Prodigy, James, Wonderstuff, Carter, Wedding Present, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, Blur.

Reminds me of kicking around wearing my DM's and some torn combats and blagging the bar for Snake Bite & Black with my fake ID. I feel old now :(
 
Stephen Fretwell - not quite so unknown anymore, and rightly so

Liam Frost & The Slowdown Family - saw him supporting Stephen Fretwell a bit ago and he was amazing. Like Fretwell deserves to be much bigger than he is.

David Kitt - Irish singer-songwriter who has some top tunes, remind me of summer kind of like Jack Johnson's stuff

I had also been a big fan of the Arctic Monkeys for some time, still like their music, but I hate how they seem to be constantly touted as 'The Great White Hope' of British music - they are a decent band. Nothing More.
 
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Let's be honest here. I was listening to Arcade Fire before even Arcade Fire had heard of Arcade Fire.

j00ni said:
David Kitt - Irish singer-songwriter who has some top tunes, remind me of summer kind of like Jack Johnson's stuff
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He is so utterly, utterly not unknown ;)
 
These sort of conversations are almost always futile, anyway. You can say "I was listening to X before anybody knew who they were" but the fact remains that becase you've heard of them, then lots of other people already have and were listening to them before you. The only exceptions would be

(i) They're a band local to you who later make it big. I went to see The Cooper Temple Clause a couple of times in Reading, for example. I also saw Hard-Fi before the NME picked them up, although they were starting to get publicity by then... and to be honest I thought they were a bit rubbish.

(ii) You happen to see them supporting an artist you like on tour. But to be honest, the fact that they've got a decent support slot means that there must be a whole bunch of people loving them already. I saw Hundred Reasons supporting Muse, for example, but they were pretty big then even though they'd only released one EP.

(iii) You're an obsessive music nerd who posts on every local music site you can, just so that you can claim you were listening to X before everybody else was. You probably boast to your friends about how you were hanging out with Conor Oberst back in 1998, because you think that makes you cool. It doesn't. Conor Oberst is a whiney little scag.
 
I was joking. These threads normally lead to the types of posts that you've just ridiculed, so I thought i'd jump the gun and post that t-shirt. I thought you'd understand :o :(
 
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