The Band You Love That No One Else Seems to Care About

[blacktiger]

For me, it's got to be Butterfly Child. Love them, especially The Honeymoon Suite, but my wife is the only other person I've managed to turn on to them, and she's probably just humoring me.

[timbo_93631]

Maybe Robyn Hitchcock. Nobody else I know seems to get him except for one of my mother-in-law's old hippy girlffriends. Other than that I'd say Skankin Pickle.

[stig]

Oh God... so many! Guided By Voices/Robert Pollard, XTC, Jellyfish, The Red Button, Tame Impala, Urge Overkill, The Tubes, Robyn Hitchcock, Mitch Easter, Matthew Sweet... Can you tell I'm cycling backwards through my iPod? The Loud Family/Game Theory, The Move, Julianna Hatfield. OK, I'll stop.

[blacktiger]

Oh God... so many! Guided By Voices/Robert Pollard, XTC, Jellyfish, The Red Button, Tame Impala, Urge Overkill, The Tubes, Robyn Hitchcock, Mitch Easter, Matthew Sweet... Can you tell I'm cycling backwards through my iPod? The Loud Family/Game Theory, The Move, Julianna Hatfield. OK, I'll stop.

Really? I know a lot of people who dig a lot of those bands.

[shadowplay]

For me, it's got to be Butterfly Child. Love them, especially The Honeymoon Suite, but my wife is the only other person I've managed to turn on to them, and she's probably just humoring me.

I like the H.Ark stuff (and the singles club record), after that he got a bit too Beatley/proper music for me. If you don't know them check out the Papa Sprain (in this case check the Afrobeat influence to the guitars which is cool for time) records on H.Ark.

Not sure if folk don't care about them but myself and a few friends all love The Flowerpot Men (not the cuntish hippies that went to San Francisco) but you hardly see them mentioned. Pretty remarkable that all the guitar is actually...cello.

Joe's So Mean to Josephine.

Melting Down On Motor Angel

A few years ago I would have said all the synthpop/minimal wave bands I collected but they are well and truly reappraised these days. Same with Kosmische and the rarer side of Post Punk, the internet has had me losing my edge as it were.

I agree with the Blacktiger I know loads of folk that like those bands, hardy annuals for guys into indie rock IMO.

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[blacktiger]

I like the H.Ark stuff (and the singles club record), after that he got a bit too Beatley/proper music for me. If you don't know them check out the Papa Sprain (in this case check the Afrobeat influence to the guitars which is cool for time) records on H.Ark.

I dig Papa Sprain too, though I tend to prefer Butterfly Child. Big fan of A.R. Kane, as well, who never really seemed to get their due.

[stig]

Oh God... so many! Guided By Voices/Robert Pollard, XTC, Jellyfish, The Red Button, Tame Impala, Urge Overkill, The Tubes, Robyn Hitchcock, Mitch Easter, Matthew Sweet... Can you tell I'm cycling backwards through my iPod? The Loud Family/Game Theory, The Move, Julianna Hatfield. OK, I'll stop.

Really? I know a lot of people who dig a lot of those bands.

Oh, I know. Just none of my friends or family.

[shadowplay]

Big fan of A.R. Kane, as well, who never really seemed to get their due.

They get a lot of love in this parish (and they were nuts live, nothing like the records) and the best regular club (since Optimo isn't on every week at the moment) in the UK at the moment is called Love from Outer Space. Andrew Weatherall has even had a pop at Love From Outer Space (as The Asphodells) and I think it's a fine effort at tackling a sacred space cow.

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[dinosaurkale->]

army of lovers, cause and effect, pm dawn, crash worship, satan, atomkraft, kix, jejune, magnapop, long hind legs...i could probably think of more later

[blacktiger]

Just discovered this is coming soon:

http://indian.co.uk/shop/complete-singl ... ction.html

I already have a lot of it on vinyl, but Jah only knows where the records are tucked into my collection. It will be nice to have it all in one place.

[izifizi]

I listen to a lot of unsigned bands who post their music on facebook, etc. and some of them are really great, but no one seems to care about them.

[shadowplay]

Just discovered this is coming soon:

http://indian.co.uk/shop/complete-singl ... ction.html

I already have a lot of it on vinyl, but Jah only knows where the records are tucked into my collection. It will be nice to have it all in one place.

I was told that the masters for Lolita EP and Haunted were lost years ago, perhaps they have been found. Hopefully they managed to get the rights to the third album and attendant single, very forgotten about; Sea Like a Child (and the remix) and Snow Whites World are as good as any AR Kane IMO.

Btw Alex's solo record is OK (Black African Comet King is brilliant) and the first Sufi record is brilliant in parts if not all the way through, the second is weaker but still worth having. The In Rain singles club record with Allison Shaw is good too.


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[TalkingBook]

I don't know anyone personally who also enjoys Berlin school electronic music or things like Terry Riley, Tonto's Expanding Head Band, etc. Also, I had to go to the Jimi Tenor / Tony Allen show alone last year.

[shadowplay]

Also, I had to go to the Jimi Tenor / Tony Allen show alone last year.

All I can say is the peasants missed a treat, Jimi is a bit of an International treasure.

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[eggwheat]

Crass. Well no-one I know anyway. They were important as a collective..art, free thinking, experimentation etc...records like Psychocandy would probably not have happened..