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List bands who should've hit it BIG-ger, but never did?

Blue Rodeo anther Canadian Band that sells out in Canada and has for 30 years.
Sampler
 
An American band who I thought were going to be big. This is as big as they got:

Queensryche - Silent Lucidity

 
ecofarm said:
One song on Spiral, and that for moshing. By Fragile (that's after the singles after Spiral?), I had no idea what language he was speaking.
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Fair. I would try listening to The Fragile again. I think it has some of his better songs on it.
 
ajn678 said:
Fair. I would try listening to The Fragile again. I think it has some of his better songs on it.
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To me it seemed like after Pretty he was artistically spent and just started screaming. I've never been into music, so I'm not a fan of any like some people; I guess that's why more dark pop was what I was looking for.

I've read he crapped on his fans sometime around his peak. Maybe he really didn't wanna be pop.
 
1 bust out album and then basically gone:

Peter Frampton

Billy Squire

Thin Lizzy
 
ecofarm said:
To me it seemed like after Pretty he was artistically spent and just started screaming. I've never been into music, so I'm not a fan of any like some people; I guess that's why more dark pop was what I was looking for.

I've read he crapped on his fans sometime around his peak. Maybe he really didn't wanna be pop.
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Disintegration by The Cure is a really good "dark pop" album. Well some of the songs are pop. Then you have ones that are about 11 minutes.
 
ajn678 said:
Disintegration by The Cure is a really good "dark pop" album. Well some of the songs are pop. Then you have ones that are about 11 minutes.
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Violator.




I don't like the little pic of the person who made the youtube video in the corner of the embed. That's weird. When did that start?
 
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ecofarm said:
Violator.




I don't like the little pic of the person who made the youtube video in the corner of the embed. That's weird. When did that start?
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Very nice album. Haven't listened to it in a while.
 
Irwin Corey said:
J.J. Cale's band was always on the verge but never quite got to Super-Stardom. Which is the way J.J. liked it; so it may have been his fault/choice. There's the tale of him pulling out of a gig on American Band Stand, which almost certainly would have put the group over the top, when he found out that they only wanted them to lip sync. He pretty much said **** that and left. Love he songs (made Clapton a ton of cash … JJ too of course) the way he performed them are, in many cases, my favorite; for instance.



Honarable mentions:

Steelers Wheel
Canned Heat
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Canned Heat hit it big in the late 60s and very early 70s, but the main reason their success wasn't long term, was because the most important members quickly started dying off! Alan Wilson died just 1 year after Woodstock of an accidental(maybe intentional) drug overdose, after attempting suicide a few months earlier by driving his car off a freeway. Afterwards, although Bob Hite attempted to continue playing, his alcohol, drug use and temper caused LOTS of arguments. For that and other reasons, Canned Heat was a revolving door of musicians, most of whom would quit in short order. They never again achieved anything near their previous success, then Bob Hite overdosed & died in 1981. Ironically, they later enjoyed a moderate resurgence of popularity WITHOUT either of their founders.
 
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ecofarm said:
Violator.




I don't like the little pic of the person who made the youtube video in the corner of the embed. That's weird. When did that start?
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Violator is a Depeche Mode album. Its a great 'blotter' album.
 
calamity said:
I thought of posting that (bold) until I saw it in your HM's. I always thought Canned Heat was an awesome name for a band. And, "Going up the Country" was a catchy old tune.

So...

I'll go with Argent.
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My first real girlfriend said that "Hold Your Head Up" was "our song". :)
 
David Lindley - did session work for some of the greatest bands and made some albums of his own with some catchy tunes. But he doesn't have rock star looks or persona and has a weird, nasally voice

Ry Cooder - another session player with some truly great albums of his own. But looks and behaves like a normal person
 
Molly Hatchet

Just kidding

But, I do wonder what the hell ever happened to them.
 
Michael Stanley Band. Huge in Cleveland. Had one top 40 hit but never broke through nationally.


 
Toad the Wet Sprocket, thought they should have been better. Coil and Dulcinea are amazing albums start to finish
 
T Rex comes to mind


A couple smash hits early and then nothing (no pun).
 
Rexedgar said:
:inandout:
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What? It's a great song, especially for a guy like me who plays a Hammond B3 electric organ.
If you know what a B3 is, then you know why that Argent song is an epic jam.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
What? It's a great song, especially for a guy like me who plays a Hammond B3 electric organ.
If you know what a B3 is, then you know why that Argent song is an epic jam.
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Hold your head up.....never mind....:thumbs:
 
Rexedgar said:
Hold your head up.....never mind....:thumbs:
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Hey my head's in the gutter as much as any red blooded male but I AM a musician, so I thought we were talking about actual music, not "humming". :lamo
 
beefheart said:
Gin Blossoms. I have a friend that was in the band, and he left the band....right before they hit it big. But the band had issues, Doug Hopkins, who wrote most of the hits was a raging alcoholic and suffered massive depression. The band kicked him out, and he later committed suicide.
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Good call-I wondered why they never did better. But I remember in about 1990 or so, the British music press was claiming these guys were the next big thing-One noted "FORGET Manchester, this is the future" (in reference to Manchester, England being the source of some successful acts in the late 80s)


 
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