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Artists where you can't name a single song

Postby GoogaMooga » 28 Apr 2022, 16:35

Echo and the Bunnymen
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Postby The Slider » 28 Apr 2022, 16:55

Pavement
Husker Du
pretty much all US college rock bands from the 90s
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Re: Artists where you can't name a single song

Postby robertff » 28 Apr 2022, 17:33

Just too many to even mention Googa.


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Re: Artists where you can't name a single song

Postby Hightea » 28 Apr 2022, 19:08

just saw this article
I know none of these bands let alone a song :lol:

https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-10-best-uk-punk-bands-from-1982

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Postby Purgatory Brite » 28 Apr 2022, 20:23

Neutral Milk Hotel

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Postby Purgatory Brite » 28 Apr 2022, 20:25

Hightea wrote:just saw this article
I know none of these bands let alone a song :lol:

https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-10-best-uk-punk-bands-from-1982



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Postby trans-chigley express » 29 Apr 2022, 01:02

Foghat
Grand Funk Railroad

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Postby BARON CORNY DOG » 29 Apr 2022, 15:07

Cliff Richard
take5_d_shorterer wrote:If John Bonham simply didn't listen to enough Tommy Johnson or Blind Willie Mctell, that's his doing.

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Postby The Fish » 29 Apr 2022, 16:26

der Freiherr wrote:Cliff Richard


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Postby GoogaMooga » 29 Apr 2022, 16:27

der Freiherr wrote:Cliff Richard


That sounds impossible. He had over a hundred hits.
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Postby BARON CORNY DOG » 29 Apr 2022, 16:33

GoogaMooga wrote:
der Freiherr wrote:Cliff Richard


That sounds impossible. He had over a hundred hits.


Not in America in my lifetime. And if he had older hits they vanished from the airwaves by the time I was paying attention in the early 80s.
take5_d_shorterer wrote:If John Bonham simply didn't listen to enough Tommy Johnson or Blind Willie Mctell, that's his doing.

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Postby ChrisB » 29 Apr 2022, 16:46

I looked at the Top 20 for this week......I rest my case

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Postby robertff » 29 Apr 2022, 16:53

slightbreeze wrote:I looked at the Top 20 for this week......I rest my case



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Postby trans-chigley express » 30 Apr 2022, 00:58

Hightea wrote:just saw this article
I know none of these bands let alone a song :lol:

https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-10-best-uk-punk-bands-from-1982

I've only heard of two of them, and could not name a song by either.

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Postby fange » 30 Apr 2022, 11:59

trans-chigley express wrote:Foghat
Grand Funk Railroad


You've never heard 'Slow Ride', Ray? Was pretty ubiquitous as a 70s Classic Rock staple in many countries.



And you should check out some Grand Funk!

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Postby BARON CORNY DOG » 30 Apr 2022, 12:23

fange wrote:
trans-chigley express wrote:Foghat
Grand Funk Railroad


You've never heard 'Slow Ride', Ray? Was pretty ubiquitous as a 70s Classic Rock staple in many countries.



And you should check out some Grand Funk!



Both glorious examples of Peak Rock and Roll. A full extension of the form.
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Postby fange » 30 Apr 2022, 12:31

Testify, Baron!
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Postby The Slider » 30 Apr 2022, 13:55

Durutti Column
Throbbing Gristle
Psychic TV
all those terrible goth bands (except Bauhaus and Sisters of Mercy)
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Re: Artists where you can't name a single song

Postby mudshark » 30 Apr 2022, 14:33

Klaus Schulze, unless Moodawn is also a song on that album

EVERYBODY knows GFR's Some kind of Wonderful, right?
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Re: Artists where you can't name a single song

Postby trans-chigley express » 01 May 2022, 07:14

mudshark wrote:Klaus Schulze, unless Moodawn is also a song on that album

It's the album title only.

mudshark wrote:EVERYBODY knows GFR's Some kind of Wonderful, right?

Just checked it out on YT and never heard it before. I don't think the band did anything in the UK so they were never on my radar.


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