Unknown Bands

Rayne · Newb Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 16

I love a lot of bands that nobody has heard of. I really like industrial, unusual, and underground music, so I decided to list some of the lesser known things I listen to.

If anyone has any underground stuff they listen to, I'd love to hear it. Or just anything they think is cool..

Juno Reactor
Godspeed you Black Emporer
Alena Apina
Covenant
Elbow (especially the Independant women song..)
The Future Sound of London
Nightwish
One Up Studios (for game music.)
Ruki Vverh
Seabound
Stomken
::wumpscut::
X Japan

iamem0tionless · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 2:12 pm Post subject:

I've never listened to Juno Reactor, but I've heard of them.

BAMFManiac · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 3:18 pm Post subject:

hmm i don't know any of those bands, but i've heard of juno reactor, also.

uhh i like a lot of underground punk-type bands- i'm not sure how popular they are actually, but most of my friends haven't heard of them. Also, i'm really kind of oblivious to what music is more well-known, so you might have heard of these bands....

Boink!
The Goops
The Reunion Show
Brigade Rosse
The Partisans
Flip the Switch
The Exploding Hearts
Fu Manchu
Harvey Danger (um i think they're kinda popular b/c their one song "Flagpole Sitta" is on some soundtracks and stuff, but no one actually knows who they are)
The Hellacopters
Mustard Plug
Dead Milkmen
The Network (they're actually green day with a different name or something)
Stiff Little Fingers
Switched

that's all i can think of- um several of these bands are from mp3.com, so some of them might be local bands (sorry i don't know which are)

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fallenangel · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 8:00 pm Post subject:

I can honestly say I've never heard of any of those bands. Razz

Well, a couple sound kinda familiar, but I may be thinking of something else I heard of.

I don't really listen to much underground current stuff, but I'm sure I listen to a lot of bands (some of which used to be at least semi-big) that no one's ever heard of. Pardon my shameless promotion, but anything to help my boys sell a few more records.

Faster Pussycat - biggest hit (does the fact they have hits mean they don't count? Oh well, blow me): "House of Pain" ('I didn't write these pages and my script's been rearranged, oh there's no one home in my house of pain')

Samantha 7 - C.C. DeVille of Poison fronts/ed the band, so the members aren't completely unknown, but the band is. Their awesome debut barely sold 5,000 copies. Grr!

And I have a little internet downloading rant that always goes with that, but I'll spare you. Sammy 7 is great, pop-power-punk as C.C. puts it. Their debut's still on most store shelves. And demos are here! http://www.samantha7.com/news.html

Ashba - I'm sure at least some of you have heard of Beautiful Creatures, and Dj Ashba used to be in that band. Then he kinda did a solo thing for awhile, and now he's put together a new band, Ashba. There's song samples at http://www.ashbaland.com by clicking on "Dj TV" near the bottom. Really really good, and the demos are free, so check it out. I showed Kate, and she loves him and will hurt you if you don't.

Metal Shop - They play the Sunset Strip and are carrying the glam metal torch proudly. They just put out a really funny debut, Hole Patrol, with hilarious songs. Available in the merch section here.

Danger Danger - Old band. Awesome singer.

BulletBoys - I shouldn't admit I like them, but I do and won't deny it. Another awesome singer.

TUFF - All I can say about them is they rock, and for Stevie: "Sellin' my s**t 'cause I'm not ashamed. Buy the TUFF box set at http://www.tuffcds.com !"

There's about 50 other glam bands I could name, but I'm lazy. Maybe I'll continue this list later (without the promotion, I swear! Sammy 7! ok, that was the last one Cool

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Boss_Man7089 · Still very bored Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 301

Once again i shall say i love the prodigy cos they are just the daddies. I also listen to juno reactor a lot, but i can only really just find the songs with don davis from the matrix. Can somone define to me what underground is cos im thinking of loadsa stuff but i dunno whethers it is underground Uneasy

BAMFManiac · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 5:23 pm Post subject:

haha most of those bands were unknown to me until you talked about them, fallen. sooo i'd say

hmm i dont know the specific definition of underground. umm the way i was thinking of it was bands that weren't really on the radio and were on minor record labels- basically unknown bands, like "underground punk bands". but now that i think of it is underground actually a genre of music? like ska or rock and whatnot? hmm sorry if i got the definition wrong in my previous post. uhhh Rayne could you please explain what you meant?
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fallenangel · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 6:53 pm Post subject:

Underground's not a genre...I don't think. 'Cause any genre band could be an underground band.

In my opinion, I've always considered underground to be any band that's not mainstream. Local bands, bands on minor record labels with next to no radio play except in their home towns, club bands, etc. And lately with the internet, bands that have a large online following.

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BAMFManiac · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 7:23 pm Post subject:

yea that's what i was thinking when Rayne said underground, but i wasn't sure. thanks!

hmm well then to add a couple more, i have some cool local bands

Airkake
The Interceptors
Westbound Sign (they're more popular i believe, at least w/ the people around here)
Harkkonenn
A.S.O.B. (they're a little bit more popular, too, i think, b/c they're going on a U.S. tour)
Guys on Couch
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Boss_Man7089 · Still very bored Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 301

Heres some local bands of people from my school

Under judgement
Bingo Tonight
Santonica

I doubt if any of you have heard of them or ever will because they are just local bands, just thought id mention them

fallenangel · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 3:25 pm Post subject:

I don't even know any of the local bands around here. One played in the talent show and were B.A.D.. Extremely. The drummer couldn't keep time with a watch, and the guitarist sounded like he was raping a cat. The bassist was the only decent one in the group....not even mentioning the singer. The song they wrote had one line over and over "White guys got no rythm." No, it's just YOU four white guys that have no rythm. Then they brought out a bunch of guys dancing badly to try and cover up the fact they sucked and no one was digging it.

It's kinda funny, though, because there's such a huge lacking of decent musicians in this town, any good bassists/guitarists/drummers end up playing in two or three bands.
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Hanami · Member Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 104

At my school, there is one particularly good band, The Johnson Borthers Band. They can't sing very well, but they have a great lead guitarist. He can play Led Zepplin like no other. Jake Johnson is lead Guitar, Bobby Johnson is... bass, i think, Dylan Kraus is Drums. They may have someone else. But Jake is godly with his guitar.

I'm in Pittsburgh, PA, where Anti-Flag started out. Anyone ever heard of them? I dunno where else has heard of them, but they're a great punk band from Fat Wreck Chords records.

fallenangel · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 8:33 pm Post subject:

Heard of them, but never heard their music.
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BAMFManiac · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 3:14 am Post subject:

hmmm i don't think anti-flag is that "underground," Ed. De. they're pretty popular on the "punk" scene, anyway. (they're cool- i have a couple of their albums. i like [i]a new kind of army[/i])

hehe cat-raping...
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Blairs_Darkness · Very bored Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 172

Just name some bands or singers that not many people have heard of! Or your favorites. whatever....
[list][*]Daft Punk[*]Mr. Bungle[*]Oingo Boingo[*]Utada Hikaru[/list:u]
You [u]MUST[/u] list to Mr. Bungle!! Or the flying monkies will get you!!!!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fallenangel · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 4:47 pm Post subject:

There's 2 threads like this. Check the archives n' add yours to it. Else everyone has to relist 'em all. Smile

(woo, Girls of Porn...)
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rachey · Still very bored Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 330

Ive heard of Utada Hikaru and Daft Punk. My brother likes Daft Punk. I prefer Utada Hikaru tho.

BAMFManiac · Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 8:03 pm Post subject:

yea i've heard of all those bands too

but here is the link to the 1st "unknown bands" forum

Musical Oddities
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chux · Member Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 66

Yeah, I quite like Daft Punk...
Havent heard of the others though

demonshadow · Very bored Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 168

dry cell
shinedown
demon's domain
pyroz (the 'r' iz bakward Very Happy

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BAMFManiac · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2004 6:09 pm Post subject:

guys, guys, post in the musical oddities thread. that is a thread for unknown bands started quite a while ago. the link is there, so you can add to it. it just saves us from repeating ourselves
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