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and the bands/artists that just didn't realise it.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(oops, new e-mail correction answers needed!)

― Mtich, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

crucify me if you must, but slint. you can hear traces of something really interesting coming out of spiderland and especially the last ep, but they were never full capitalized on. (i.e. indie- metal.) plus many of the "slint-tribute bands" are BETTER than slint themselves ("mogwai fear satan" for instance is better than anything on spiderland.)

plenty of the original post-rockers who disappeared after one or two records. which is not to say that they didn't live up to their potential...they just gave up/burn out/capsized.

― jess, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kraftwerk. 'Radioactivity' was almost there, but then they got all professional (comfortable?), and the subsequent 'classic' period is 'perfect' and all (the sine-waves get 'rounder', the mix gets fuller and more balanced), but it was left to others to carry on the more experimental (exciting?) aspects of where they were going. (Or maybe they got scared, like in that 'Creem' interview where they talked about 'dangerous' sonic experiments and how they felt responsible for the effects they might have on people.)

― dave q, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

At The Drive-In. They choked at a critical point in the band's career. I doubt that any band they may be in, now or in the future, will capture the imagination like they did when 'Relationship Of Command' came out. They had something many people hadn't felt for a band in practically years. But they succombed to the pressures of hype. Why them and not a lesser band like the strokes or the white stripes?

― Alacrán, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wow, this thread died quicker than one of mine!

I suppose the members of the original line-up of The Byrds might qualify, esp. Clark and Crosby. They did some fine things, sure, but not nearly enough.

For as long as Kevin Shields is content to remain an occasional remixer/guest artist, he qualifies.

A Certain Ratio - one of my favourite bands. But the potential was there in "Sextet" for something truly astonishing next time out. Instead, they decided piss-weak funk-pop was the way forward. Grrr.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Polvo. Math-rock that rocked, Sonic Youth for thrashers, indie for metalheads. "Exploded Drawings" was the beginning of the end, "This Eclipse" really not good, but "New Dark Age" was just unbelievably great. It sounded like the future!

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

but This Eclipse is the best one!

― gareth, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

polvo were shit - i thought we had done them.

― bob snoom, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eleventh dream day. house of love. field mice. idaho. motorcycle boy. sugargliders. jean paul sartre experience. saint christopher. i could go on for ages.

― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Daniel Johnston. Never agian reached the heights of 83-86

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes. If they'd fired Anderson and Wakeman in 1972 they would've been the prototype mathrock/post-punk outfit.

― dave q, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

stina nordenstam should've been bjork

― bob snoom, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

no stina nordenstam should always stay stina nordenstam. björk should just go to hell.

― alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Celebrity Skin. Now they're just a footnote in the Courtney Love story, but they were so much more in late 80s LA. The antidote to G 'n R, LA Guns, Faster Pussycat, et. al.

― Arthur, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And Pat Smear. His first solo record is great! Why was he wasting his time in the Foo Fighters? And where is he now?

― Arthur, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cristina. The Dorothy Parker of early 80s club pop. "Don't Mutilate My Mink"-such a great title. "He Dines Out on Death" reminds me of Morrissey and Patrick Bateman. She covered Michel Polnareff in 1980! And her poor little rich club kid version of "Is That All There Is?" is so classic. Where'd she go?

― Arthur, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She did what lots of smart girls do and married the boss (of Ze records), but yeah truly a great lost talent. Anyone into the Felix Da Housecat album should check her stuff out.

― Billy Dods, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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