List unknown music artists or bands that nobody needs to know about

[jpgray]

Solar Radio is one (what a pile of shit), Soft Machine is another, and I'd say XTC is one as well.

[Wickerman]

1. Un-friggin believable

dissing Solar Radio?

XTC I understand, but SR? What the hell?

[jpgray]

2. Not dissing XTC, just don't think anyone NEEDS to know about them

Solar Radio does blow ass, though.

[Wickerman]

3. Hard to argue the blowing

ass part - but they played great music.

[jdots]

6. from what era ?

the 80's produced some real shit the ever flowing disco dribble gets my vote,vacumous pop is allways around......Sting is a dweeb with his
one phrase minor vocal masterbation.......don't get me started !

[jpgray]

8. "I want my close to me"?

:)

edit: From both "Money for Nothing" and "Don't Stand So Close to Me"--same exact melody.

[donheld]

5. Except for their song Dear God.

Dear God
Artist: XTC
Album: Fossil Fuels: The XTC Singles

Dear god, hope you get the letter and...
I pray you can make it better down here
I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer
But all the people that you made in your image
See them starving in the street
'Cause they don't get enough to eat from god
I can't believe in you

Dear god, sorry to disturb you but...
I feel that I should be heard loud and clear
We all need a big reduction in amount of tears
And all the people that you made in your image
See them fighting in the street
'Cause they can't make opinions meet about god
I can't believe in you

Did you make disease and the diamond blue?
Did you make mankind after we made you?
And the devil too!

Dear god don't know if you noticed but...
Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book
And us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look
And all the people that you made in your image
still believing that junk is true
Well I know it ain't, and so do you
Dear god
I can't believe in
I don't believe

I won't believe in heaven or hell
No saints, no sinners, no devil as well
No pearly gates, no thorny crown
You're always letting us humans down
The wars you bring, the babes you drown
Those lost at sea and never found
And it's the same the whole world 'round
The hurt I see helps to compound
That father, son and holy ghost
Is just somebody's unholy hoax
And if you're up there you'll perceive
That my heart's here upon my sleeve
If there's one thing I don't believe in

It's you
Dear god

[jpgray]

7. Don't really like it. I like Grass better off that album (nt)

[eyesroll]

11. Son of a bitch....

"Dear god, I hope you get this letter and..."

:argh:

At least "Charles in Charge" is outta my head now.

[drumwolf]

4. My picks: Chik Chik Chik and Polvo

"Chik Chik Chik" is actually how they pronounce their name -- the actual spelling of their name is "!!!" They are a truly lame band that's currently popular with the indie hipster crowd and play the kind of post-punk over funk and dance beats that Gang of Four did in the early '80s. If you like that style of music, then either check out Radio 4, who are in the same subgenre but infinitely superior, or the original bands like Gang of Four or an obscure band called APB.

Polvo were also well-known among indie hipsters in the '90s. I had the misfortune to see them live, twice -- in SF in 1993 and NYC in 1998 -- and both times they were excruciatingly boring.

Both bands were and are completely obscure to mainstream listeners -- and in my view, that's not a bad thing. They are proof that not all lame shit bands are found in the Top 40.

[jdots]

9. Who here were In deservably obscure bands ?

i try to forget the list it brings back bad memories of having No day gig to keep.

[jpgray]

10. Seeing as we were called Caligula and his Ramrods

Obscurity was a close friend.

[no name no slogan]

12. Hey, that's better than "Benito and the Bluegrass Fascists"

That was the name a banjo-playing roommate of mine used when he played with a flatpicker in a country/bluegrass duo. The name itself guaranteed at least a couple of curious folk at each show.

[Squeech]

13. Nobody needs to know about my band

We're called Tim Mungenast and his Pre-Existing Conditions. We're a power trio (although our claim to power is debatable). We get to play gigs with some fairly serious people, and the other musicians usually like us, but nobody else does. I'm getting kinda tired of this state of affairs.