clash77 wrote:there are always those that are chasing success but struggle in bands that people dont know or dont care about.that's what this thread deals with..I have a few to stsrt with..feel free to add any others.
Johnny and the self abusers become Simple Minds
Seventeen become the Alarm
Graduate become Tears for Fears
The Killjoys ( kevin Rowland) forms Dexys midnight Runners
and of course i cant leave out the 101ers..and we know the rest
Obviously, the latter was pretty sad except for Strummer..
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
JGJR wrote:clash77 wrote:there are always those that are chasing success but struggle in bands that people dont know or dont care about.that's what this thread deals with..I have a few to stsrt with..feel free to add any others.
Johnny and the self abusers become Simple Minds
Seventeen become the Alarm
Graduate become Tears for Fears
The Killjoys ( kevin Rowland) forms Dexys midnight Runners
and of course i cant leave out the 101ers..and we know the rest
Obviously, the latter was pretty sad except for Strummer..
Billy Idol (Generation X) is an obvious one here.
I'm not sure if anyone else in Talk Talk aside from Mark Hollis was in The Reaction, but they did record the original version of "Talk Talk" back in '77 and it, of course, was very different from the better-known '82 hit version.i know what your saying matt but I cant put PIL in the same category as The Clash..And i dont consider the Mescaleros a success..we differ on opinions..but thats ok
I'm also not sure what you mean about the 101'ers. Some of those other guys were later in bands ranging from PiL to Strummer's Mescaleros and Tymon Dogg was on Sandinista! (of course).
clash77 wrote:i know what your saying matt but I cant put PIL in the same category as The Clash..And i dont consider the Mescaleros a success..we differ on opinions..but thats ok
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
JGJR wrote:clash77 wrote:i know what your saying matt but I cant put PIL in the same category as The Clash..And i dont consider the Mescaleros a success..we differ on opinions..but thats ok
I think PiL were amazing in the late '70s and pretty good in the early to mid '80s. I can't imagine them being your thing, though. Or am I wrong?
I really liked Streetcore, the last Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros album, but didn't care much for the two before it (they were OK).
JGJR wrote:clash77 wrote:i know what your saying matt but I cant put PIL in the same category as The Clash..And i dont consider the Mescaleros a success..we differ on opinions..but thats ok
I think PiL were amazing in the late '70s and pretty good in the early to mid '80s. I can't imagine them being your thing, though. Or am I wrong?
I really liked Streetcore, the last Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros album, but didn't care much for the two before it (they were OK).
JGJR wrote:clash77 wrote:i know what your saying matt but I cant put PIL in the same category as The Clash..And i dont consider the Mescaleros a success..we differ on opinions..but thats ok
I think PiL were amazing in the late '70s and pretty good in the early to mid '80s. I can't imagine them being your thing, though. Or am I wrong?
I really liked Streetcore, the last Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros album, but didn't care much for the two before it (they were OK).
JGJR wrote:clash77 wrote:i know what your saying matt but I cant put PIL in the same category as The Clash..And i dont consider the Mescaleros a success..we differ on opinions..but thats ok
I think PiL were amazing in the late '70s and pretty good in the early to mid '80s. I can't imagine them being your thing, though. .
Janelle wrote:JGJR wrote:clash77 wrote:i know what your saying matt but I cant put PIL in the same category as The Clash..And i dont consider the Mescaleros a success..we differ on opinions..but thats ok
I think PiL were amazing in the late '70s and pretty good in the early to mid '80s. I can't imagine them being your thing, though. .
Ha oh this just reminds me, I'm playing SSD right now and I just think of Matt all the time with "How Much Art"!!!!!!!!!!!! can you take?!!!!!!!!!
I wanna hear Clash77 go off on Wire (I know you like Pink Flag but nada after that) and the whole post-punk moniker that they were called (even though Pink Flag came out in '77). And the potential Bauhaus had and squandered (not! in my opinion! - I mean, I LOVE it)
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
JGJR wrote:Janelle wrote:JGJR wrote:clash77 wrote:i know what your saying matt but I cant put PIL in the same category as The Clash..And i dont consider the Mescaleros a success..we differ on opinions..but thats ok
I think PiL were amazing in the late '70s and pretty good in the early to mid '80s. I can't imagine them being your thing, though. .
Ha oh this just reminds me, I'm playing SSD right now and I just think of Matt all the time with "How Much Art"!!!!!!!!!!!! can you take?!!!!!!!!!
I wanna hear Clash77 go off on Wire (I know you like Pink Flag but nada after that) and the whole post-punk moniker that they were called (even though Pink Flag came out in '77). And the potential Bauhaus had and squandered (not! in my opinion! - I mean, I LOVE it)
Sorry clash77, but we'll have to agree to disagree here. My favorite Bauhaus album is The Sky's Gone Out, but I'm not much of a fan of Burning from the Inside other than a few songs. It's really a Love and Rockets album in disguise. Anyway, their first two albums are the ones that everyone seems to jock and they are great, but TSGO is the one I got first, so...Plus, it has that awesome Eno cover on it!
And Pink Flag is awesome and massively influential, but Chairs Missing and especially 154 are my favorites of theirs. Stunning stuff. I love punk and hardcore, but maybe when it comes down to it, I prefer post-punk (especially as I've gotten older)? It depends on what mood I'm in, really.
akissfan wrote:Wasn't Brian Johnson a bit successful in another Australian band before joining AC/DC?
clash77 wrote:Johnny and the self abusers become Simple Minds
Gary wrote:Dave Murray and Adrian Smith were in Urchin
Bruce Dickinson was in Samson
Janick Jers was in White Spirit
Nicko Mc Brain was in Trust (who were pretty big themselves)
All from Iron Maiden (of course!!)
the mean wrote:akissfan wrote:Wasn't Brian Johnson a bit successful in another Australian band before joining AC/DC?
Geordie. They were British, not Australian, though.
Janelle wrote:Sky's Gone Out is awesome (just for that cover photo! I know, not really)!!Then if I can admit to "you people!" and know I can cause even if I say stupid things or meanly, I don't mean anything badly towards anyone! - and I noticed this we can have tiffs and disagree with people but its not
personal you know? Okay, anyway, Ew listen to this - the first Bauhaus song I heard was a "video" of "Bela Lugosi 's Dead'!!!!!!! I heard that baseline and needed it like that time right now! ha. Then I got stuff at some record stores that bought/sold used stuff and got 'Crackle' a best of and Bauhaus 'Volume one' and then the only one full album I have is that 'The Sky's Gone Out.' And there's so much good stuff on all this stuff... That's the nutty part...
Hate to burst the Clash77 haters bubbles (I think I'm kidding?!) he showed me "Hair Of The Dog"!!!!!!!!!! And I'm like!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhh I didn't have that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it's like one of the best songs
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
the mean wrote:akissfan wrote:Wasn't Brian Johnson a bit successful in another Australian band before joining AC/DC?
Geordie. They were British, not Australian, though.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
WrEtcH wrote:Avengers guitarist James Calvin Wilsey eventually joined Chris Issak's band Silvertone
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
patient_ot wrote:clash77 wrote:Johnny and the self abusers become Simple Minds
I'm sure many of the people on this board are already aware of this, but Simple Minds put out a slew of good to great records in their early years, that are nothing like the mid '80s sellout stuff. I think "Empires and Dance" (from 1980) is one of the best post-punk records of the early 80s and is my favorite by them by far. To anyone that's not heard it, you're missing out big time.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
WrEtcH wrote:Madonna was in the Breakfast Club
Courtney Love was in Faith No More and Pagan Babies
which also included Janis Tanaka who played with Hammers Of Misfortune, L7 and some vocalist named Pink
Belinda Carlisle briefly was a member of the Germs
Avengers guitarist James Calvin Wilsey eventually joined Chris Issak's band Silvertone
Bryan "Brain" Mantia played in the Limbomaniacs and Primus before joining Guns N Roses
JGJR wrote:
Change the above to New Gold Dream and I concur 100%. Regardless, you are clearly after my heart with these kinds of posts.
patient_ot wrote:JGJR wrote:
Change the above to New Gold Dream and I concur 100%. Regardless, you are clearly after my heart with these kinds of posts.
Well, I think pretty much everything they did through "Sparkle in the Rain" is worth hearing. After that is when they went crap.
You're not on Rateyourmusic by chance, are you?
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
JGJR wrote:patient_ot wrote:JGJR wrote:
Change the above to New Gold Dream and I concur 100%. Regardless, you are clearly after my heart with these kinds of posts.
Well, I think pretty much everything they did through "Sparkle in the Rain" is worth hearing. After that is when they went crap.
You're not on Rateyourmusic by chance, are you?
I am not. Why? I am familiar with most of their stuff up to and including New Gold Dream, but when they started to wanna be U2 is when I get off their train generally speaking. They were great when they wanted to be Roxy Music, though!
clash77 wrote:correction..The Alarm were a great band!!! I think they still tour occasionally..saw them once in '89 or '90..Great gig
john stabb wrote:And am I wrong that both Ian McColluch & Julian Cope had a band before Echo & the Bunnymen + Teardrop Explodes? Version? JGJR? I bow down to yr knowledge.
And Simple Minds were amazing early on & the first 3 Echo & Bunnymen albums were brilliant esp: Ocean Rain & Porcupine.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
john stabb wrote:Thank you, JGJR. I should've remembered our own Peter Cortner titled a Dag-song "The Crucial 3" in reference to that short-lived project.
And I wasn't a huge fan of "Heaven up Here" so I prefer: Crocodiles, Porcupine & Ocean Rain. I thought "Lips like Sugar" was ok but never really dug any other Bunnymen albums much after that song.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
patient_ot wrote:The thing with Heaven Up Here is that the middle section of the record drags a bit. It's also my favorite Bunnymen record despite that, but I can see why some people might not like it.
I've read the Ian Mc. lost his voice primarily due to smoking cigarettes. Not sure if that's true, but it seems plausible.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
patient_ot wrote:Just remembered this...
Neil Young and Rick James were in a band together.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mynah_Birds
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
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