What bands do you listen to that aren't popular in the mainstream

[effowe]

Living Legends
Rifleman

 

[TheAdvocate]

Originally posted by: Snagle

If Wilco and The Arcade Fire are obscure than EVERY band except for those that have current top 50 hits can be considered obscure.

What top 50 Billboard singles has either band had? Even more on point, which has had a single that ever reached top 50 status on Clearchannels rotations/airplay?

The few college and independent stations and satellite radio may consider them mainstream, but by definition, those listeners are not the "95%" we were discussing.

 

[whistleclient]

Arcade Fire is all over Los Angeles radio, so if you live here they're in no way obscure. Great band, though.

 

[IndieSnob]

Devandra Barnhart
Of Montreal

 

[imported_Snagle]

Originally posted by: TheAdvocate

Originally posted by: Snagle

If Wilco and The Arcade Fire are obscure than EVERY band except for those that have current top 50 hits can be considered obscure.

What top 50 Billboard singles has either band had? Even more on point, which has had a single that ever reached top 50 status on Clearchannels rotations/airplay?

The few college and independent stations and satellite radio may consider them mainstream, but by definition, those listeners are not the "95%" we were discussing.

That's my point. The top 50 is so controlled and popular that if that's all you consider not obscure, than there are hardly any bands that arent obscure. If any band that is not known by 95% of listeners is obscure, than a better thread would be "What bands ARE obscure". Wilco is popular, The Arcade Fire is popular, and several others that have been mentioned (OAR, Sufjan Stevens, and Motion City Soundtrack) are not obscure...hell, Motion City Soundtrack played on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Is Bruce Dickinson obscure enough?

 

[RBBRMADE]

Bain Mattox

 

[djheater]

Songs: Ohia
the Delgados

 

[Cpt Cupcake]

Originally posted by: Aquila76
Juno Reactor
KMFDM

Good stuff.

First, OAR is mainstream.

Second, I like:

Hanzel Und Gretyl
Velvet Acid Christ

 

[HomeAppraiser]

The Crazy 8's These poor guys from my alma mater never did hit it big.

 

[Sphexi]

Left Pencey

 

[LikeLinus]

Failure
Far
Willhaven lately

 

[BillyBatson]

Mindless Self Indulgence

 

[LordMaul]

Slick Idiot

 

[RbSX]

Sweatshop Union
Projet Orange

 

[RbSX]

Originally posted by: ballmode
Stroke 9
Third Eye Blind

Third Eye Blind is so main stream some of their stuff made it onto mix cd's by Much Music and MTV

 

[RbSX]

Originally posted by: anxi80
k-os

underminded

K-OS sure as hell isn't main stream anymore after all the awards he got last year.

 

[mezrah]

Guster

The Shins

 

[BurnItDwn]

Isacaarum
Gorerotted

 

[GaiDaigoji]

Bomb the Music Industry!

We vs. The Shark

 

[n7]

Imogen Heap (Frou Frou's female half)

 

[ScreamingJesus]

40 Below Summer - broke up recently but still check out their stuff
The Dears - awesome canadian band...I find them alot like the Smiths

 

[ntdz]

PINBACK

 

[agentbad]

Pinback
No Use For A Name

 

[eits]

pretty much everything in my itunes folder

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