Your favorite bands that no one has heard of

[red]

Bang Tango, Shotgun Messiah, Crash Test Dummies, Days of the New, 4 non-blondes

[Monique Martinez]

Art of fighting,  asobi seksu, band of skulls (fleeing new york), beangrowers, bluebottle kiss, buffseeds, chapterhouse, cranes, dirty on purpose, easyworld, idaho, jawbox, leaves, mirah, phaser, readymade, secret shine, the aliens, the chameleons, the crabs, the open, the softies, the spinanes, water fai.

[Stella Blue]

The Fleet Foxes!!! (amazing band) I'll add more later

-Heather

[michael 19 jones]

Within Temptation

[Stella Blue]

Blur (alot of people in the US never heard of them)
The Felice Brothers
The Redwalls
Judee Sill
Ani Difranco (She is pretty popular though, just not mainstream)


-Heather

[Jester]

I've heard of Within Temptation.  They're like if Nightwish or Lacuna Coil were overtaken by Cannibal Corpse.

Gamma Ray and Helloween (power metal)
Seikimatsu (Japanese Power metal)
Balzac (Japanese horror punk)

[AmySmiles]

Hmmmm.  Most people I know haven't heard of them, so... VAST.

Was first turned on to them when I heard a song called Touched.

[Constance]

MC 900 Foot Jesus

[r.morgan]

Lush
Blue Oyster Cult -- This one seems weird to me but folks around here just don't know them...
The Ramones -- Another shocker.  This one people around here may know by reputation but none seem to know their songs.

[Constance]

I've heard of Blue Oyster Cult, but don't know if I've ever heard anything by them.

I've heard stuff by both Lush & the Ramones.

How about these:

Hazy Fantazy
Altered Images
Lene Lovich
Laurie Anderson

[Pica Pica]

I thought everyone knew ramones and blur
...as for fleet foxes, after a poster at every tubestation I have ever been in, definitely heard of them.

Lush are great -

what about Dubstar or Sleeper?

In britpop then we have Gaydad, Kula Shakr, Longpigs, Menswear, Gene,

Also -  HAL, The Witch and the Robot, Maybe Mrytle Turtle, Candypants, The Stool Pigeons, Sleepy Jackson,

Of course the wonderful Little Birdy and The Sleepy People (Precursor to Ultravox)
Post Merge: October 26, 2009, 06:33:57 PM
Or the Oi! root
Cock Sparra, Intensive Care
etc....

or Outsider stuff
Shooby Taylor, Irvin Gross

or just old stuff
Connie Francis, Kitty Kallen

Then of course all the Joe Meek bands
Honeycombs, Screaming Lord Such etc....

[Constance]

I've only heard the song "Tattva" by Kula Shaker, but I've heard of them

Here's another: the Revolting Cocks

[Monique Martinez]

I love lush |(I'm a huge shoegazer fan), and Sleepy Jackson they come from the city I currently live in.

[Moira Midnigh]

Swallow The Sun
Blue Oyster Cult
The Offspring
Culture Club
Meat Loaf
The Cure
Eels

Are all pretty unknown around here, sadly. I'm madly in love with The Cure at the moment!

[Pica Pica]

Robert Smith started off his musical career setting up by uncle'd drums for him.

[Jaimey]

Swallow The Sun
Blue Oyster Cult
The Offspring
Culture Club
Meat Loaf
The Cure
Eels

Are all pretty unknown around here, sadly. I'm madly in love with The Cure at the moment!

...out of curiousity, where's "here"?  Because those are pretty well known bands here...well, my "here".    Btw...I'm a geography nerd. 

[Moira Midnigh]

That'd be Denmark.

Usually when I ask people about Meat Loaf, they go "Who?" "Yeah, hmm, I think I've heard about them." "Anything for love, that was them?"

Meat Loaf is a person, people.

And I guess The Cure is a bit too old for people my age (1987), as are Culture Club and Blue Oyster Cult.

Everyone knows "Pretty Fly for a White Guy", but that's it. Nothing else by The Offspring.

Eels, nobody has a clue. They've heard "My Beloved Monster" when they watched Shrek, but not one person I've asked could tell me what band made it...

Oh, a few more that nobody's ever heard of.

Massive Attack
Everything But The Girl (and consequently also Tracey Thorn)
Grandaddy
Feist

~Moi

[Stella Blue]

Syd Barrett
Laura Marling
Explosions in the Sky
Stardeath and White Dwarves
Tea leaf Green

[tekla]

Syd Barrett, like the guy who founded The Pink Floyd?  That Sid?  Yeah, no one knows him at all.  Group he started, no one ever heard of them.

And the Offspring sold a pile of records back in the last century, enough to keep their founder going to his concerts by flying his own Gulfstream.  Yeah, no one ever bought that stuff either.

[justmeinoz]

Hi all,  there are a few names her that ring a bell, I am surprised anyone overseas had ever heard of The Swingers. Lena Luvich was just very, very weird!Cat Empire are great.
I can go way back- Master's Apprentices, Max Merrit and the Meteors, JoJo Zep and the Falcons, Goanna Band, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, The Loved Ones, Tamam Shud, Tully, Chain.
More currently- Butterfingers(hip-hop with a sense of humour), John Butler Trio, Wolfstone, DIG, Tame Impala.