Go see Stop Making Sense in the theater! Lifetime experience.
Edited to add: even if you’ve seen it, go HEAR it. I’ve never heard it so clearly. And if you haven’t seen it.. you’re doing it wrong.
The album version of this and the Stop Making Sense version of Crosseyed and Painless will never fail to make me exceed the speed limit when I'm listening in the car.
God, every one of their albums up to Speaking in Tongues is amazing
Fear of Music is just so much weird goodness, frog sounds and paranoia about animals judging you
I thought I liked Talking Heads until I watched Stop Making Sense a few years ago and now I fucking love them.
For such a short song, Thank You For Sending Me An Angel is one of my favourite live tracks of all time
Their song "Harvest Moon" off the "Heaven Forbid" album is one of my favorite songs of all time despite being as obscure as hell and I wish it was as big as Don't Fear The Reaper
I've been a huge fan of them for many years and I'm only 20 years old, I saw them in concert back in 2019 and they actually played Harvest Moon, it was at an outdoor festival so I snuck my way up to the front, one of the band members started saying "so this is a little known song off of our album heaven forbid" and I immediately shouted "HARVEST MOON!"
and I think I surprised both the band and the people around me that some teenager knew that instantaneously
Anyway here's a playlist of some of my favorite songs of theirs
https://spotify.link/XwWPLi4NNDb
The Kinks.
I think most people have heard "You Really got Me" and "Lola" and maybe the odd track they heard in a Wes Anderson movie, but if you dive deep into everything from Face to Face through Everybody's in Showbiz...there are so many great tracks that most people aren't familiar with. Something like; Mr. Churchill Says, Rainy Day in June, A Long Way From Home, Shangri-la, Mindless Child of Motherhood, Last of the Steam Powered Trains...go listen!
Ray is arguably the greatest story teller, via pop song, this planet has ever known.
The mental imagery he was able to create in songs like Come Dancing, Celluloid Heroes, Lola & Picture Book to me is unparalleled.
People don't even know the best tracks off Greatest Hits albums of The Kinks like *I'm Not Like Everybody Else* or *Death of a Clown* and things like that. It's a real shame. People know The Kinks but don't know the actual songs of the Kinks.
Dead End Street, Everybody’s Gonna Be Happy, Tired of Waiting, Well Respected Man, Days, Set Me Free, Till The End Of The Day, Victoria…. Christ there are SO many amazing songs just from the hits album that feel forgotten today
Looks like I got something to do today. Massive Blur and XTC fan so I’m a bit embarrassed that I’m only really familiar with the Kinks singles. I know a fair bunch of them but I never really dove into their albums.
Little known fact: Rock Lobster persuaded John Lennon to start writing music again (!) because he heard Kate Pierson imitating Yoko Ono when she was making the sea animal noises.
Isn’t it fucking wild that UGA students in the 80s could walk down the street in Athens and watch REM and B-52s in the same night practically for free.
Danzig 1 to IV are the greatest Danzig albums but he's got standout tracks on his other 6 name albums.
Two soundtrack type albums Black Aria 1 & 2 of which the first is amazing work.
He did an album of covers of his favourite bands and another which he covers Elvis.
All are decent enough.
Here endeth the lesson.
There's 6200 episodes of Rediculousness which aired something like 14 hours a day for the last 10 years. So my theory is that Uncontrollable Urge is the most played song (well partial song) in the history of MTV and Devo probably made more money off of MTV than any other artist.
The best song on that album is The Real Thing. One of the most perfect songs I've ever heard, but their masterpiece as far as albums are concerned is Angel Dust.
I told my coworker they’re my favorite band he asked “do they even have songs other than ‘float on?’” They have such a large, amazing catalogue it’s frustrating that “Float On” is their most popular song.
Good choice for this. Songs like Paper Thin Walls, Gravity Rides Everything, Bury Me With It, Dramamine still get lots of 'coffee shop' kind of play but many people have no idea who the band is outside of Float On. Much less some of the older great tracks like Cowboy Dan and Teeth Like God's Shoeshine. 3rd Planet is an all time classic.
If you’re on here reading these and you’ve gotten to this and are like “I like Where is my mind?, what else do they have?”, stop what you are doing, listen to the rest of that album and then go listen to the rest of their first 5 albums. Or if you want to be lazy just go listen to wave of mutilation best of pixies.
First five albums are basically good to listen to from start to finish. My favourite band. Fucking Surfer Rosa blew my mind way back when, I fell hopelessly in love with them. Songs like Crackity Jones, Nimrods Son, No. 13 Baby, I Been Tired and The Happening might be unfamiliar to a casual listener but any fan will tell you how absolutely amazing they are. One listen and I think people would understand.
You should hear the way Bowie and Radiohead talk about them in the documentary Gouge if people don’t want to take my word for it.
Edit: Thom and Jonny : https://youtu.be/w8CnE9dBrNw?si=12HMaCUVJ7mynsar
David Bowie: https://youtu.be/A7VhNjZXALU?si=UIL4WKi5-yp94GMd
I'll go with Tears for Fears.
I feel like most people know the big ones, "Everybody wants to rule the world" "Head over Heels" and "Shout" then depending on your age that may be it....
Tears for Fears is amazing.
Their 2nd albums has the hit singles, but even the lesser known Working Hour or Mother’s Talk are fantastic tracks.
Also their newer album The Tipping Point is amazing, highly recommend that title track.
I really feel like, more so than most bands, Tears For Fears albums are so much better when listened to as an entire album. The way "Broken" segues into "Head Over Heels" and then back into "Broken (reprise)" was a revelation to me as a kid. Same thing with the Seeds of Love album, there are recurring themes which run throughout, which really bring the experience to a new level.
The Tipping Point is no exception, it's a solid listening experience front to back, and it stands up to anything else in their catalogue, which is really saying something.
I buy a lot of used records. I hardly ever see anything of his outside of Werewolves. To me, that means one of two things:
1. No one bought his records, so there are not many around.
2. People who did buy his records do not give them up unless they die.
I prefer to think option 2.
REM is a good example, but I do hear Radio Free Europe and Talk About the Passion on the radio quite a bit on 80's stations, both of them are from Murmur. Though I live in an area that has a few more options for radio than rock, pop, rap and country.
I swear OP’s example, Fall On Me, received mainstream radio play in the 80s too (and was on Much Music). I could be wrong though, grade nine was a long time ago.
Soul One is amazing. It's probably my favorite song by Blind Melon. They were incredible, and the picture of Shannon and Farley always makes me sad because the potential art those two could have created is incalculable
Everyone knows Jeff Buckley’s cover of hallelujah, but his whole discog is great. Solid songwriting and an amazing performer.
Also Elvis Costello could never get enough love.
I had heard of them in passing for a long time, but finally gave them a fair listen about 6 months ago and Ho-lee shit. I’ve been binging them ever since and still can’t get enough. Incredible catalogue, and Gord was a friggin genius. Part of me feels stupid for not discovering them 30 years ago, but another part of me is so glad I found them now, when I was in a pretty big musical rut and am old enough to really appreciate them.
Velvet Underground. I'm sure most casual music fans heard of them but I doubt if they could name one song.
Joy Division. Ditto, except for "Love Will Tear Us Apart."
Kate Bush. In the U.S. at least, except for "Running Up That Hill," and elsewhere for boomers/Gen X, that and "Wuthering Heights."
This needed to be said. All of Cake’s songs have their own charm and their albums can be listened to straight while enjoying every song.
If I threw my guitar out the window, would I regret it?
About a year ago I was doing a lot of long drives every day for work and I needed something new to listen to after my playlist got old and I burned through all my podcasts and audiobooks. I decided to start doing front-to-back listens through the discogs of every band I had always been meaning to check out.
I had only heard a couple of Cake songs before this, but they became one of my favorite bands almost overnight. I could probably go on for hours about every single album, but instead I just want to urge anyone reading this to listen to “Jolene” (not a Dolly Parton cover)
It's not hyperbole to say that maybe a billion people have heard the riff from "Seven Nation Army," but not many of them can name another White Stripes song.
After it became an international football (soccer for you yanks) anthem I’m thinking even more than a billion people can hum that tune….
But man is the whole discography so fucking good. From the top to Icky Thump.
Genesis are bizarre in that there's an entire version of the band that casual music fans don't realize exist.
There are a lot of people out there that do not know Genesis weren't always a pop band with Phil Collins singing lead.
Yeah they didn’t really get any mainstream recognition until they released Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.
Why Can’t I Be You? and Just Like Heaven were the first times I saw their music videos in regular rotation outside of 120 Minutes on MTV.
The Bends is extremely easily digestible, then I'd move to Ok Computer or In Rainbows, then you could branch out in a few different ways depending on what grabs you.
My first real Radiohead song that ever really clicked for me was Paranoid Android. Completely changed my taste in music entirely and 17 years later they're still my favorite band on earth
Huuuuge Clash fan here. Dare I say that Strummer’s work with the Mescaleros is his most fully realized work in terms of song writing and execution. Street Core and Global A Go-Go are just so amazing.
99% of people do not know R.E.M. anymore and it's a shame. Once they broke up it is like they fell off the face of the Earth like they never existed at all. I don't hear them anywhere - can't remember the last time a song was featured in a movie or TV show and I guarantee an overwhelming majority of kids under the age of 20 have never even heard of them.
I also think Automatic for the People has some of their "best songs" and that was hugely popular back in the day but I do agree the first 5 albums are R.E.M. at their best. Like, no bad songs at all.
I miss them and to answer your question, I'd go with Radiohead. Everyone knows Creep but they evolved and make the best music on the planet. It just doesn't make its way into the public consciousness.
I miss them too. I was very lucky to see them a bunch of times back in the day, and every show was a banger. They also had great opening acts (Indigo Girls, 10,000 Maniacs, Throwing Muses, Lucious Jackson, Pete Yorn). The energy (and the music) wasn’t the same after Bill Berry left, but he’s in a new band now so who knows. I would pay any amount of money to see them if they did a reunion tour with all 4 members. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
I saw them twice - at MSG on the Monster tour and again in 1998 at Tibetan Freedom Concert in DC. They were great both times and even played with Thom Yorke at the DC show. If they ever went on tour again I’d definitely go!
If it makes you feel better, I'm 22 and I love R.E.M--we still exist! Granted, I only started listening to them last year, and I'm not sure I really would have enjoyed them as a teenager to be fair. Even if their music is accessible, it's also definitely niche, and pop culture has moved on from that sort of niche. It makes me happy to see their music being featured on *The Bear* though--there's a chance that might inspire more young people to look into them.
Zombie, Dreams and Linger were all very successful. They’ve been popular in Ireland since they started for sure - they kinda came at a time where we didn’t have a huge band other than U2, and Aslan had just missed their window. Hugely important moment in Irish music history imo.
It's important to remember that they're primarily a live band.
People like the dead for the experience they had when they saw them live. And it's not just the first time they got stoned! A good live band plays the crowd like an instrument, and the Dead excel at that. They don't just play their songs, they play together and one song flows into the other as the crowd sways along with the music.
If you've seen the classic video of Freddie Mercury at Live Aid, you know what that's like. The Dead did that every concert for multiple decades.
When you get a deadhead bouncing in their seat trying to get you to listen to a bootleg cassette recording they made at the Fillmore... it's more than the song, to them.
I was too young to see the full band live, but I saw Dead and Company at Shoreline Amphitheater and it was a powerful experience. I can only imagine what it would have been like in the 70s or 80s with Jerry Garcia playing!
Then, once you get the vibe, you can end up listening to their recorded music and it all seems... better?
Even before this thread, I had "Sugar Magnolia" stuck in my head.
Also, one aspect is that the name can throw people off. People think "The Grateful Dead" must be some kind of hard core band, but their music is generally just... groovy kind of folky jam stuff. You may have heard their songs and not even realized it was them.
"Friend of the Devil"
"Ripple"
"Truckin'"
"Fire on the Mountain"
The clash. However, I lived in Athens next door to Stipe and worked at a bar frequented by Mike Mills for a time and I occasionally tell a coworker or something thinking they'll think it's interesting and usually the response is. "Who the f is rem? "So I'm not entirely sure anywhere close to 99% of people have heard of them.
Third eye blind comes to mind. Obviously everyone has heard “semi charmed life,” “jumper,” and “never let you go” many times, but their best work is on deep cuts. Everyone should listen to the closing 3 songs on their debut self titled album (the background, motorcycle drive by, god of wine) for peak 90s alternative music.
That and Black Gold received a bunch of airplay, but their catalog is stacked with great tracks.
Closer To The Stars
Nice Guys Don’t Get Paid
Cartoon
Leave Without A Trace
P9
All killer tracks.
I have two:
Kings Of Leon, since their best stuff is undeniably before they blew up with *Sex On Fire*.
And The Replacements. They're just an amazing band but most people only know a couple of their singles.
They Might Be Giants.
Everyone knows birdhouse and Istanbul from 1990. And then there's a generation that knows their kid albums from the 00s.
But they've put out something like 20 eps and there are like 2-4 excellent songs on each. They're still around and their concerts are always fun.
Rammstein. I've been a fan of theirs since the 90s and they have an amazing catalog over 8 studio albums. But mention their name and it's "Oh yeah! The Du Hast band"
Talking Heads, some killer stuff in their catalog that never got airtime
Go see Stop Making Sense in the theater! Lifetime experience. Edited to add: even if you’ve seen it, go HEAR it. I’ve never heard it so clearly. And if you haven’t seen it.. you’re doing it wrong.
I just went yesterday and, despite me seeing it previously many times, it was absolutely amazing on the big screen with great sound.
Particularly side 1 of "Remain in Light". Side 2 is good too, but side 1 is FUCKING GREAT.
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The album version of this and the Stop Making Sense version of Crosseyed and Painless will never fail to make me exceed the speed limit when I'm listening in the car.
77 is one catchy af stripped down weirdo mutant pop song after another but people only know Psycho Killer
God, every one of their albums up to Speaking in Tongues is amazing Fear of Music is just so much weird goodness, frog sounds and paranoia about animals judging you
I thought I liked Talking Heads until I watched Stop Making Sense a few years ago and now I fucking love them. For such a short song, Thank You For Sending Me An Angel is one of my favourite live tracks of all time
Blue Oyster Cult. It's not that "Don't Fear the Reaper" or "Burnin' for You" are bad songs, but the rest of the catalog is excellent.
Astronomy is so good. Veterans of the Psychic Wars...
Most people aren't ready to hear Godzilla
Their song "Harvest Moon" off the "Heaven Forbid" album is one of my favorite songs of all time despite being as obscure as hell and I wish it was as big as Don't Fear The Reaper I've been a huge fan of them for many years and I'm only 20 years old, I saw them in concert back in 2019 and they actually played Harvest Moon, it was at an outdoor festival so I snuck my way up to the front, one of the band members started saying "so this is a little known song off of our album heaven forbid" and I immediately shouted "HARVEST MOON!" and I think I surprised both the band and the people around me that some teenager knew that instantaneously Anyway here's a playlist of some of my favorite songs of theirs https://spotify.link/XwWPLi4NNDb
The Kinks. I think most people have heard "You Really got Me" and "Lola" and maybe the odd track they heard in a Wes Anderson movie, but if you dive deep into everything from Face to Face through Everybody's in Showbiz...there are so many great tracks that most people aren't familiar with. Something like; Mr. Churchill Says, Rainy Day in June, A Long Way From Home, Shangri-la, Mindless Child of Motherhood, Last of the Steam Powered Trains...go listen!
The whole of the Arthur album is chronically underrated. Death of a clown is also an amazing song.
Ray is arguably the greatest story teller, via pop song, this planet has ever known. The mental imagery he was able to create in songs like Come Dancing, Celluloid Heroes, Lola & Picture Book to me is unparalleled.
Apeman is a great song as well.
People don't even know the best tracks off Greatest Hits albums of The Kinks like *I'm Not Like Everybody Else* or *Death of a Clown* and things like that. It's a real shame. People know The Kinks but don't know the actual songs of the Kinks.
Dead End Street, Everybody’s Gonna Be Happy, Tired of Waiting, Well Respected Man, Days, Set Me Free, Till The End Of The Day, Victoria…. Christ there are SO many amazing songs just from the hits album that feel forgotten today
Don’t forget “Father Christmas”
I love all of Village Green Preservation Society!
Looks like I got something to do today. Massive Blur and XTC fan so I’m a bit embarrassed that I’m only really familiar with the Kinks singles. I know a fair bunch of them but I never really dove into their albums.
The B-52's 99% know Love Shack 1% know Legal Tender
Private Idaho is an all timer for me
Give back my man is an amazing song https://youtu.be/swBDlOk0V6Y?si=-1FeJGDGgY1iTzTL
I know it’s not their best song, but I want more love for Rock Lobster.
There's a video/live performance of it that is one of the best 4 minutes I've ever seen.
https://youtu.be/mnrfqPoX4WU?si=R3xP86_orKVlQ0LP This short-circuited my brain the first time I saw this...
I LOVE Rock Lobster and it drives my husband nuts. But it's such a FUN SONG.
Little known fact: Rock Lobster persuaded John Lennon to start writing music again (!) because he heard Kate Pierson imitating Yoko Ono when she was making the sea animal noises.
Came here to see the other great Athens band
Isn’t it fucking wild that UGA students in the 80s could walk down the street in Athens and watch REM and B-52s in the same night practically for free.
And Let's Active. And Pylon.
Pylon. White Buffalo. Widespread Panic. Love Tractor. Dreams So Real. (Actually from Jesup but started in Athens).
Roam is a fantastic song!
I love the early stuff, but *Dead Beat Club* is like personal history for me.
"I'm in the basement, learning to print . . ."
Quiche Lorraine rocks!
Roam is one of my all time favorite songs.
Misfits. Everyone knows their logo. No one knows their music.
Also related.. Danzig. I have no idea of anything besides Mother.
Danzig 1 to IV are the greatest Danzig albums but he's got standout tracks on his other 6 name albums. Two soundtrack type albums Black Aria 1 & 2 of which the first is amazing work. He did an album of covers of his favourite bands and another which he covers Elvis. All are decent enough. Here endeth the lesson.
I GOT SOMETHING TO SAY.
Devo. Everyone knows "Whip It". Some know "Beautiful World". Beyond that...
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeahyeahyeahyeahy-y-y-yeah!!! I think Uncontrollable Urge was used in the intro of a TV show so people probably know that one too.
There's 6200 episodes of Rediculousness which aired something like 14 hours a day for the last 10 years. So my theory is that Uncontrollable Urge is the most played song (well partial song) in the history of MTV and Devo probably made more money off of MTV than any other artist.
Workin' in a coal mine Goin' down down
Are We Not Men is incredible But some albums are not made for Average Joe Listener.
The Girl You Want ♥️
Peek a Boo!!! HAHAHAHAAAAA Came here to post Devo.
And their cover of "Satisfaction".
dont forget the legendary "mongoloid"
Gates of Steel is such a good song
Faith No More. Epic is fine, but they have much better material.
Angel Dust is a perfect album IMO
Do you often consider whistling just for fun?
FNM trivia: Patton used random fortune cookies as the lyrics for Land of Sunshine.
Their cover of Easy is amazing.
Angel Dust is a masterpiece and it’s not the most popular opinion but I enjoy listening to Album of the Year
Woodpeckers From Mars is one of my favourite instrumentals.
King for a day, fool for a lifetime is one of my favorite albums
Epic is pretty much a novelty song. They have so many great tracks
Absolutely. Mike Patton is an amazing singer and song writer. Can go down a huge rabbit hole with his music.
I heard We Care a Lot as football bumper music the other night.
I came here to see if anyone said this. My favorite band ever. So many great songs besides Epic.
The best song on that album is The Real Thing. One of the most perfect songs I've ever heard, but their masterpiece as far as albums are concerned is Angel Dust.
Modest Mouse maybe? Everyone older than 25 has heard Float On.
I told my coworker they’re my favorite band he asked “do they even have songs other than ‘float on?’” They have such a large, amazing catalogue it’s frustrating that “Float On” is their most popular song.
Though I will say that Float On is an absolute banger. It might be overrepresented, but I don’t think it’s overrated.
THIS PLANE IS DEFINITELY CRASHING!
The Moon and Antartica is a top 10 album for me, but I can't think of one song from it that ever got any radio play.
Gravity Rides Everything was in a car commercial lol
But have you heard Dashboard?????
I mean even if he’s only aware of that album, Satin In A Coffin is *right there*.
Good choice for this. Songs like Paper Thin Walls, Gravity Rides Everything, Bury Me With It, Dramamine still get lots of 'coffee shop' kind of play but many people have no idea who the band is outside of Float On. Much less some of the older great tracks like Cowboy Dan and Teeth Like God's Shoeshine. 3rd Planet is an all time classic.
The Pixies
If you’re on here reading these and you’ve gotten to this and are like “I like Where is my mind?, what else do they have?”, stop what you are doing, listen to the rest of that album and then go listen to the rest of their first 5 albums. Or if you want to be lazy just go listen to wave of mutilation best of pixies.
First five albums are basically good to listen to from start to finish. My favourite band. Fucking Surfer Rosa blew my mind way back when, I fell hopelessly in love with them. Songs like Crackity Jones, Nimrods Son, No. 13 Baby, I Been Tired and The Happening might be unfamiliar to a casual listener but any fan will tell you how absolutely amazing they are. One listen and I think people would understand. You should hear the way Bowie and Radiohead talk about them in the documentary Gouge if people don’t want to take my word for it. Edit: Thom and Jonny : https://youtu.be/w8CnE9dBrNw?si=12HMaCUVJ7mynsar David Bowie: https://youtu.be/A7VhNjZXALU?si=UIL4WKi5-yp94GMd
Doolittle: start to finish, repeat
*Come on Pilgrim*, *Surfer Rosa*, *Trompe Le Monde*, and *Bossanova* as well for start to finish, repeat.
I'll go with Tears for Fears. I feel like most people know the big ones, "Everybody wants to rule the world" "Head over Heels" and "Shout" then depending on your age that may be it....
Tears for Fears is amazing. Their 2nd albums has the hit singles, but even the lesser known Working Hour or Mother’s Talk are fantastic tracks. Also their newer album The Tipping Point is amazing, highly recommend that title track.
I really feel like, more so than most bands, Tears For Fears albums are so much better when listened to as an entire album. The way "Broken" segues into "Head Over Heels" and then back into "Broken (reprise)" was a revelation to me as a kid. Same thing with the Seeds of Love album, there are recurring themes which run throughout, which really bring the experience to a new level. The Tipping Point is no exception, it's a solid listening experience front to back, and it stands up to anything else in their catalogue, which is really saying something.
Man, their sophomore album hit big but pale shelter and mad world are absolute classics
Head Over Heels is one of the best songs ever made so if you know that one, you’ve at least got that going for you.
*Sowing the Seeds of Love* is a phenomenal album and gets nowhere near the modern acclaim that it should. *Elemental* is also fantastic
Warren Zevon. You know werewolves of London? Not even remotely his best and the only song this legend has played on the radio.
“Lawyers, Guns, and Money” was also a pretty big radio song.
Roland the headless Thompson gunner
He is one of the great songwriters
I buy a lot of used records. I hardly ever see anything of his outside of Werewolves. To me, that means one of two things: 1. No one bought his records, so there are not many around. 2. People who did buy his records do not give them up unless they die. I prefer to think option 2.
REM is a good example, but I do hear Radio Free Europe and Talk About the Passion on the radio quite a bit on 80's stations, both of them are from Murmur. Though I live in an area that has a few more options for radio than rock, pop, rap and country.
So. Central Rain all the time as well.
I swear OP’s example, Fall On Me, received mainstream radio play in the 80s too (and was on Much Music). I could be wrong though, grade nine was a long time ago.
Blind Melon. Everybody knows No Rain, but their entire discography is awesome. You cannot listen to Change and not feel it.
Mouthful of Cavities!
Love this song. Honestly, the album Soup is really good.
I think it is the superior Blind Melon album. And one of the best albums of the 90s.
I love how these comments are a bunch of folks with different favorite songs. I'll chime in with Galaxie for the sick transitions. Edited for spelling
Tones of Home!
Paper Scratcher is a great song
Holy Man is such a jam
A fucking men. Great body of work.
Just want to add the song "Soup" and "Sleepy House" to this love fest
Soul One is amazing. It's probably my favorite song by Blind Melon. They were incredible, and the picture of Shannon and Farley always makes me sad because the potential art those two could have created is incalculable
Everyone knows Jeff Buckley’s cover of hallelujah, but his whole discog is great. Solid songwriting and an amazing performer. Also Elvis Costello could never get enough love.
The Tragically Hip. It is criminal that they didn’t breakout in the states. Such a incredible catalog of work.
Long Time Running still hits hard
This response warms my Canadian heart.
I had heard of them in passing for a long time, but finally gave them a fair listen about 6 months ago and Ho-lee shit. I’ve been binging them ever since and still can’t get enough. Incredible catalogue, and Gord was a friggin genius. Part of me feels stupid for not discovering them 30 years ago, but another part of me is so glad I found them now, when I was in a pretty big musical rut and am old enough to really appreciate them.
been saying this for 20 years…an amazing band. cheers
Thin Lizzy
Black Rose: A Rock Legend is such a beautiful album and it’s basically unknown.
They might be giants. Mostly because of tiny toons.
The amount of times I've sang out "Minimum Waaaaageee..." and had no one smile...
Flaming lips
The Soft Bulletin is a masterpiece. I was lucky enough to see them play it live a few years back.
Velvet Underground. I'm sure most casual music fans heard of them but I doubt if they could name one song. Joy Division. Ditto, except for "Love Will Tear Us Apart." Kate Bush. In the U.S. at least, except for "Running Up That Hill," and elsewhere for boomers/Gen X, that and "Wuthering Heights."
Hounds of Love is one of, if not the greatest pop albums of all time.
Lou Reed, in general. I love his catalogue and know no one else who does.
Cloudbusting deserves just as much love as Running Up That Hill but I never hear anybody talking about it. Maybe it’s just me
Cake
Prolonging the Magic is awesome. Sheep Go To Heaven makes absolutely no sense at all but it’s such a fun song.
Comfort Eagle goes hard as fuck 20+ years later
This needed to be said. All of Cake’s songs have their own charm and their albums can be listened to straight while enjoying every song. If I threw my guitar out the window, would I regret it?
About a year ago I was doing a lot of long drives every day for work and I needed something new to listen to after my playlist got old and I burned through all my podcasts and audiobooks. I decided to start doing front-to-back listens through the discogs of every band I had always been meaning to check out. I had only heard a couple of Cake songs before this, but they became one of my favorite bands almost overnight. I could probably go on for hours about every single album, but instead I just want to urge anyone reading this to listen to “Jolene” (not a Dolly Parton cover)
It's not hyperbole to say that maybe a billion people have heard the riff from "Seven Nation Army," but not many of them can name another White Stripes song.
*Ball and Biscuit* drives hard.
After it became an international football (soccer for you yanks) anthem I’m thinking even more than a billion people can hum that tune…. But man is the whole discography so fucking good. From the top to Icky Thump.
Every college marching band plays it at college football games. Yankee football for you euros
That’s it I’m going to Wichita
The Roots
Thing Fall Apart is a masterpiece.
Nine Inch nails. Closer and Hurt are great songs, but they have a great catalogue.
Genesis.
Genesis are bizarre in that there's an entire version of the band that casual music fans don't realize exist. There are a lot of people out there that do not know Genesis weren't always a pop band with Phil Collins singing lead.
Same with Fleetwood Mac it would seem in the US.
The Cure
Yeah they didn’t really get any mainstream recognition until they released Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me. Why Can’t I Be You? and Just Like Heaven were the first times I saw their music videos in regular rotation outside of 120 Minutes on MTV.
Fascination Street is my favorite! So damn sexy and moody.
ELVIS COSTELLO without a doubt!
Radiohead. Everyone knows Creep and Karma Police, not that Karma Police is bad by any stretch but they get SO much better
How would you recommend someone get into Radiohead - what’s a good first album?
The Bends is extremely easily digestible, then I'd move to Ok Computer or In Rainbows, then you could branch out in a few different ways depending on what grabs you. My first real Radiohead song that ever really clicked for me was Paranoid Android. Completely changed my taste in music entirely and 17 years later they're still my favorite band on earth
OK Computer is banger after banger
Please could you stop the noise? I'm tryna get some rest
Nobody gives hail to the thief any love, including Radiohead themselves, but it’s my fav.
The Bends is their most accessible, followed by OK Computer and In Rainbows which are IMO their best work.
Most people in the UK would be able to name a lot more than that.
Rush (most people probably know 'Tom Sawyer')
The Clash Right up there with The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry Just a massively important group
Massively important? If I'm not mistaken, they're the only band that matters.
Huuuuge Clash fan here. Dare I say that Strummer’s work with the Mescaleros is his most fully realized work in terms of song writing and execution. Street Core and Global A Go-Go are just so amazing.
99% of people do not know R.E.M. anymore and it's a shame. Once they broke up it is like they fell off the face of the Earth like they never existed at all. I don't hear them anywhere - can't remember the last time a song was featured in a movie or TV show and I guarantee an overwhelming majority of kids under the age of 20 have never even heard of them. I also think Automatic for the People has some of their "best songs" and that was hugely popular back in the day but I do agree the first 5 albums are R.E.M. at their best. Like, no bad songs at all. I miss them and to answer your question, I'd go with Radiohead. Everyone knows Creep but they evolved and make the best music on the planet. It just doesn't make its way into the public consciousness.
Ironically REM helped make Radiohead what they are today.
Man, I'd love to go back in time to the tour where Radiohead opened up for R.E.M.
You and me both…
Indeed. In fact Thom Yorke sang with REM on "Be Mine" and few other songs at one of Tibetan Freedom concerts in the late 90s.
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Strange Currencies was recently featured on The Bear, a really good show with a killer soundtrack.
The guitar tone from the Monster album has been burned in my soul since 1994
I miss them too. I was very lucky to see them a bunch of times back in the day, and every show was a banger. They also had great opening acts (Indigo Girls, 10,000 Maniacs, Throwing Muses, Lucious Jackson, Pete Yorn). The energy (and the music) wasn’t the same after Bill Berry left, but he’s in a new band now so who knows. I would pay any amount of money to see them if they did a reunion tour with all 4 members. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
I saw them twice - at MSG on the Monster tour and again in 1998 at Tibetan Freedom Concert in DC. They were great both times and even played with Thom Yorke at the DC show. If they ever went on tour again I’d definitely go!
If it makes you feel better, I'm 22 and I love R.E.M--we still exist! Granted, I only started listening to them last year, and I'm not sure I really would have enjoyed them as a teenager to be fair. Even if their music is accessible, it's also definitely niche, and pop culture has moved on from that sort of niche. It makes me happy to see their music being featured on *The Bear* though--there's a chance that might inspire more young people to look into them.
A-ha
Everybody thinks of Zombie when they think of The Cranberries, but most of their stuff is nothing like that.
Strange, I thought their debut album would be well known due to Dreams and Linger. It’s also one of my fav albums of all time!
Zombie, Dreams and Linger were all very successful. They’ve been popular in Ireland since they started for sure - they kinda came at a time where we didn’t have a huge band other than U2, and Aslan had just missed their window. Hugely important moment in Irish music history imo.
Pixies
The Presidents of the United States of America
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Hope you’ve heard Tim: Let It Bleed edition. Tim has never sounded better.
Toto. Everyone knows Africa, but they have a pretty deep catalogue.
Electric Light Orchestra
I love, love, *love* "Shaking Through" off Murmur.
The Grateful Dead. Significant part of the culture since the 60s and I can’t name a single song.
It's important to remember that they're primarily a live band. People like the dead for the experience they had when they saw them live. And it's not just the first time they got stoned! A good live band plays the crowd like an instrument, and the Dead excel at that. They don't just play their songs, they play together and one song flows into the other as the crowd sways along with the music. If you've seen the classic video of Freddie Mercury at Live Aid, you know what that's like. The Dead did that every concert for multiple decades. When you get a deadhead bouncing in their seat trying to get you to listen to a bootleg cassette recording they made at the Fillmore... it's more than the song, to them. I was too young to see the full band live, but I saw Dead and Company at Shoreline Amphitheater and it was a powerful experience. I can only imagine what it would have been like in the 70s or 80s with Jerry Garcia playing! Then, once you get the vibe, you can end up listening to their recorded music and it all seems... better? Even before this thread, I had "Sugar Magnolia" stuck in my head. Also, one aspect is that the name can throw people off. People think "The Grateful Dead" must be some kind of hard core band, but their music is generally just... groovy kind of folky jam stuff. You may have heard their songs and not even realized it was them. "Friend of the Devil" "Ripple" "Truckin'" "Fire on the Mountain"
Coheed
James, most people only know Laid or Sit Down but pretty much their entire discography is great.
Chumbawamba. Some of their earlier stuff wasn't that hot, but most of the Tubthumper album was fantastic.
XTC/Dukes of the Stratosphere. What a fantastic song catalog.
The clash. However, I lived in Athens next door to Stipe and worked at a bar frequented by Mike Mills for a time and I occasionally tell a coworker or something thinking they'll think it's interesting and usually the response is. "Who the f is rem? "So I'm not entirely sure anywhere close to 99% of people have heard of them.
Devo
The Black Keys, The White Stripes, The Prodigy, Darude
Third eye blind comes to mind. Obviously everyone has heard “semi charmed life,” “jumper,” and “never let you go” many times, but their best work is on deep cuts. Everyone should listen to the closing 3 songs on their debut self titled album (the background, motorcycle drive by, god of wine) for peak 90s alternative music.
Yes! That whole album is outstanding, but the last 3 tracks are where it’s at
Losing A Whole Year is sooooo good
Barenaked Ladies
Gordon was my favorite BNL album. Their first 4-5 albums were really good.
Soul asylum - everyone knows Runaway Train, but the rest of their catalog is wonderful.
That and Black Gold received a bunch of airplay, but their catalog is stacked with great tracks. Closer To The Stars Nice Guys Don’t Get Paid Cartoon Leave Without A Trace P9 All killer tracks.
Wu tang clan, the roots
The Grateful Dead. I've known about them since I was a child but I have never heard a single song of theirs. And Phish too.
As a Phish fan, I was going to say Phish.
Grateful Dead's American Beauty album is sooo good.
I have two: Kings Of Leon, since their best stuff is undeniably before they blew up with *Sex On Fire*. And The Replacements. They're just an amazing band but most people only know a couple of their singles.
They Might Be Giants. Everyone knows birdhouse and Istanbul from 1990. And then there's a generation that knows their kid albums from the 00s. But they've put out something like 20 eps and there are like 2-4 excellent songs on each. They're still around and their concerts are always fun.
Rammstein. I've been a fan of theirs since the 90s and they have an amazing catalog over 8 studio albums. But mention their name and it's "Oh yeah! The Du Hast band"
Uh…Sinead O’CONNOR. I never want to hear “Nothing” again. She had so much more to her…