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  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,256
    fadgadget said:
    Stig said:
    Fad Gadget and Blancmange

    Yup , but i am a bit Biased , Blancmange have been very prolific over the past 6 years , and their albums highly recommended , WUNDERLUST is a great album .


    The only thing I ever heard of theirs was The day before you came, just played it on youtube for a bit of nostalgia & was shocked & ashamed to discover it was an Abba original !!! I never knew :-) A great song.

    All the same will have to check out a bit more of Blancmange 


  • Swerve
    Swerve Posts: 1,238
    bolloxbolder said:
    The Rifles
    The Enemy

    Never understood how they never really made it.

    Great shout on those, I'm taking the boy to see The Rifles at the Roundhouse after we get back from West Brom. Last time we saw them was at Borderline in January, great seeing a band that good in such a small space.
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,256
    SuedeAdidas said:
    The Shins
    Bombay Bicycle Club
    Strange, loved their first two albums didn't care much for the third. Just skipped through it again & don't understand why I didn't like it :-:smile:
  • Midland_Red
    Midland_Red Posts: 22
    Mega City Four 
    Ludicrous Lollipops 
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,256
    edited October 2019
    PeakieRocket said:
    bigman backstick said:
    The Wedding Present - cracking live band never got the recognition they deserved.
    Was about to post the same thing
    Seamonsters tour was awesome but never came away disappointed from the many times I saw them.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    fadgadget said:
    McBobbin said:
    Depeche Mode have a very loyal and fanatical support, but don't get much mainstream coverage that's for sure, considering their support
    Not that well thought of in the Uk , in Europe and the US They are gods .  150 million Album sales and counting .
     
    42 top 40 singles in the UK but never a number 1. I believe that's a tally that is only beaten by Morrissey's 51/0 but that's counting his solo and Smiths releases all together.
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,388
    Stig said:
    fadgadget said:
    McBobbin said:
    Depeche Mode have a very loyal and fanatical support, but don't get much mainstream coverage that's for sure, considering their support
    Not that well thought of in the Uk , in Europe and the US They are gods .  150 million Album sales and counting .
     
    42 top 40 singles in the UK but never a number 1. I believe that's a tally that is only beaten by Morrissey's 51/0 but that's counting his solo and Smiths releases all together.
    Last 3 Albums not that great but still a great live Band , they have a fanatic following .
  • LennyLowrent
    LennyLowrent Posts: 2,705
    lolwray said:
    PaddyP17 said:
    lolwray said:
    Don MacLean 
    As in "American Pie"? If so then there's not really any situation we can say he's underrated, surely? It's one of the great songs.
    Indeed But I think the wider body of his work has been overlooked..in that regard I see him as underrated. And still performing brilliantly into his 70s...
    Oh yes, a few musicians/bands fall into the category of: 'victim of his own success'...
    (Defined by one big hit)
    Antonio Carlos Jobim is one that close to my heart.

  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Steven Wilson , once of Porcupine Tree.
    Once called by the Daily Telegraph 'the most successful British artist you have never heard of'
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,140
    charltonbob said:
    fadgadget said:
    Stig said:
    Fad Gadget and Blancmange

    Yup , but i am a bit Biased , Blancmange have been very prolific over the past 6 years , and their albums highly recommended , WUNDERLUST is a great album .


    The only thing I ever heard of theirs was The day before you came, just played it on youtube for a bit of nostalgia & was shocked & ashamed to discover it was an Abba original !!! I never knew :-) A great song.

    All the same will have to check out a bit more of Blancmange 


    My favourite Abba song. Will have to check out the Blancmange version.  
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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    Algarveaddick said:
    charltonbob said:
    fadgadget said:
    Stig said:
    Fad Gadget and Blancmange

    Yup , but i am a bit Biased , Blancmange have been very prolific over the past 6 years , and their albums highly recommended , WUNDERLUST is a great album .


    The only thing I ever heard of theirs was The day before you came, just played it on youtube for a bit of nostalgia & was shocked & ashamed to discover it was an Abba original !!! I never knew :-) A great song.

    All the same will have to check out a bit more of Blancmange 


    My favourite Abba song. Will have to check out the Blancmange version.  
    Blancmange have several recorded versions. All good. All better than Abba, which is still good. Best though is the (original?) with the little Coronation Street pastiche. 
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,388
    https://youtu.be/435Tj7YEeJY
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,890
    White Lies.
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,933
    cafc-4-life said:
    McFly. Simple as.

    If the Beatles wrote their song All About You, we'd still be raving about it to this day.
    Got a point on the Beatles thing.... imagine Paul singing that track. It would indeed be a smash hit.
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,933
    My suggestion - Weezer.
  • kimbo
    kimbo Posts: 2,995
    Either Go-Betweens, The Claim or Ryan Adams 
  • harveys_gardener
    harveys_gardener Posts: 7,038
    edited December 2019
    Johnny Cash. 
    Elvis Costello
    Carter Family
    Tom Robinson
    Jake Budd
    Status Quo
    Dusty
    Q Tips
    Gram Parsons
  • bigman backstick
    bigman backstick Posts: 76
    James
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    harveys_gardener said:
    Johnny Cash. 
    Elvis Costello
    Carter Family
    Tom Robinson
    Jake Budd
    Status Quo
    Dusty
    Q Tips
    Gram Parsons
    Great acts, but underrated????
  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    harveys_gardener said:
    Johnny Cash. 
    Elvis Costello
    Carter Family
    Tom Robinson
    Jake Budd
    Status Quo
    Dusty
    Q Tips
    Gram Parsons
    Can I add John Lennon to that list?
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  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,761
    fadgadget said:
    https://youtu.be/435Tj7YEeJY
    I know you’ve mentioned this being an ABBA tune, but is that one of the ABBA girls in that video? (Agnetha?)
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,735
    Lambchop
    Brian Jonestown Massacre
    Catfish and the Bottle men
    The Black Angels
    Silversun Pickups
    Sugar (Also Bob Mould)
    Grandaddy
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,388
    I would say so in the Uk , In the USA And Some Parts Of Europe They Have Almost a God Like Status .   
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Mode are massive in the States apparently 
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,471
    Camel.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,361
    BeeGees. I know they’re a big household name, but too many people think of them as some sort of novelty disco act, when actually they songwriting credentials are up there with the likes of John and Paul.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    Porcupine Tree
    Pineapple thief

    hadn't heard of either of them until recently.


  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,832
    PopIcon said:
    harveys_gardener said:
    Johnny Cash. 
    Elvis Costello
    Carter Family
    Tom Robinson
    Jake Budd
    Status Quo
    Dusty
    Q Tips
    Gram Parsons
    Can I add John Lennon to that list?
    And also that little known band he used to be in too.
  • harveys_gardener
    harveys_gardener Posts: 7,038
    edited December 2019
    Stig said:
    harveys_gardener said:
    Johnny Cash. 
    Elvis Costello
    Carter Family
    Tom Robinson
    Jake Budd
    Status Quo
    Dusty
    Q Tips
    Gram Parsons
    Great acts, but underrated????
    Never played on radio these days. Popular when having hits, but not since. I'd add two Amy's, Winehouse and MacDonald Teenage Fanclub and Mary Coughlan.
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,676
    Belle & Sebastian
    Tindersticks

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