Bands that should have been huge but never got that popular

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin
Sublime...they had a couple hits but nothing like a little death to hold you back from really making it big.

Are you fucking joking me? They have sold 17 million records.

 

[child of wonder]

I nominate Garbage.

They've always gotten SOME attention despite putting out killer music but have never been all that popular.

 

[Tommouse]

Rustic Overtones
Local band out of Portland (Maine ... the original ) This was one of their firsts, I can't find anything else of theirs on youtube that isn't live.

Dredg is good too

 

[91TTZ]

The Toadies

I saw them in concert and they played very good live.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: Tommouse
Dredg is good too

Dredg was great, but I found their most recent album quite disappointing aside from a couple of highlights. Leitmotif and El Cielo were both amazing albums though. :thumbsup:

For good old Punk R&R one band I thought should have been much bigger than they were was RFTC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=777kGx7-qLw I just love these guys; great energy and fun songwriting.

related to RFTC, but more hardocre (I guess that's the word) is Drive Like Jehu Not sure exactly how to describe these guys, but I have always thought they were one of the greatest "post-hardcore" type bands. It's a shame they only released two full albums.

KT

 

[paulxcook]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent

Originally posted by: shortylickens

Originally posted by: KeithTalent

Originally posted by: Chiropteran
Nirvana

Did you read the thread title?

KT

I dont think you're a mod.
Yur sarcasm meter should have been issued to you upon assignment.


For me:
Poets of the Fall.
I know a lot of folks have heard of them, but I dont think they are as big as they should be.

Bah, I thought the sarcastic responses were covered a few posts ago and we had moved on to serious responses only.

Ah well, fail by me.

KT

Chiropteran has a knack for posting stupid crap, I doubt it was sarcasm. See his insistence that German websites should be viewable in English when visited from a computer in the US for confirmation. I think he's a clever troll posing as a moron, personally.

Originally posted by: thomsbrain

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: rocadelpunk
to the person who said jimmy eat world.

um, what?

They got mildly popular based on one of their worst songs of all time, which was part of their weakest album, then (as far as I can tell) faded back into obscurity. Hell, the local rock station just played something from their new album during their "edge of the X" session. Which means the Clear Channel-owned station considers JEW an up-and-coming band on the fringe of becoming well-known.

Or are you arguing that they shouldn't be big because they aren't good? If that's the case, well, you're entitled to your opinion.

Jimmy Eat World has multiple new songs in regular rotation on both the local Clear Channel rock station and the local independent station, and three or four older songs in occasional rotation on the same stations. Their last album was produced by Butch Vig, who is probably one of the top five most expensive and most respected producers in rock music (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, etc). They are headlining an arena tour and have Paramore opening for them, who are already a wildly popular MTV and radio staple in their own right. Hardly obscurity. They aren't up there with U2 or Dave Matthews Band, but they are comfortably in the next tier of fame.

1- Maybe I'm just out of touch with what is "in", or perhaps it's just being in the midwest where cool stuff takes 2 years to get here, but they don't get anywhere near that much play here.

2- The topic doesn't ask what band should have been relatively well-known, it asks what band should be huge.

 

[rasczak]

I thought the Cardigans could have gone a little bit bigger.

 

[Ryan]

I really like Better than Ezra - been going through their catalog of work, or whatever I can drudge up online - color me impressed, I like it