I Have Never Heard These Bands That Start With The Letter D

They sound as you would expect...

Dogmatics - Had a minor college radio hit with "Sister Serena" (About a nun, not about Samantha Stevens's cousin.)

Defunkt were bloody amazing live, although very intense and something of an endurance test by the end. "The Razor's Edge" - classic classic classic, adopted by "Hard Times" trendies. Hard full-on gritty maximalist improvisational funk; long numbers, squalling solos.

Delta 5 - two lead bass guitars! Unimpeachable! Saw them live in 1980. Punk/funk. Seek "Mind Your Own Business" and "You".

Dirty Looks - played on the third(?) Stiff tour with Joe King Carrasco, Any Trouble and others. Dull, lumpen new-wave power-pop.

Distractions - jangly lovelorn new-wave pop originally on Factory, a bit too nice and polite at times (the mystique was rather blown after seeing them live), but "Time Goes By Slow" = utter classic. I was also fond of the major label follow-up single "It Doesn't Bother Me", for... um... personal reasons.

Drones - largely imitative 77 Gumby-punk band briefly managed by Paul Morley. "Confessions Of A White Collar Worker" EP was pretty forgettable, but "Bone Idol" was kinda cute 'n catchy.

The Diodes are another Toronto band of about the same vintage, but a little bit more new wave. Their hit was "I'm Tired Of Waking Up Tired", a pretty catchy lil number.

That or the Darkside? As the latter is an intermittently great Spacemen 3 spinoff.

Diodes

Canadian New Wave/punk dudes who thought they were an arena Ramones. But sometimes worked. xpost w/Fritz

Dramatis

Gary Numan's backing band from Them Classic Days.

Peter Dayton -- guitarist/singer in La Peste, put out an EP around 82 with a decent song I can't remember title.

Defunkt-- were erratic but pretty great. Led by Joe Bowie brother of Lester. Defunkt and Razors Edge/Strangling Me w/Your Love on Hannibal are well worth it. Knotty Blood Ulmer-ish psychedelic funk

Diodes --Canadian pop/punk with one great song, "Tired of Waking Up Tired." (xpost)

Drongos -- used to write their name all over NYC sidewalks years ago. Right around the same time as the Bongos, unfortunately.

and dow jones and the industrials are totally great. you can probably find "ladies with appliances" or "let's go steady" on a high-quality mp3 search engine.

i've probably heard a few more of these but i don't remember which.

Right, but.... 'Persecution Complex' on Short Circuit Live At The Electric Circus is absolutely fantastic. Their one moment of genius and for that they deserve their place in punk's footnotes.

Distractions - classic, not only for the Factory single, but also The Nobody's Perfect LP on Virgin. Was 'It doesn't Bother Me' rereleased on Virgin too, mike? I have the original on the 'You're Not Going Out Dressed Like That' EP on TJM records.

Demics "New York City" is fucking great. They reissued the single with a load of live tracks on CD. I think the band did release an album, not sure if that's been reissued, I only have the NYC CD.

Depressions - pretty crap from the one song I have on the British Punk Rock 1977 comp CD.

Durango 95: Kind of a cross between Ramones-punk and speedy 50's-rock.
Filed close to Teenage Head.

Dalek I -- artsy post-Roxy Brits. I have an album by them at home. More ambient than Doll by Doll I guess, but I kept the album anyway.

Dance - half-assed punk-funk from new york. possibly biracial

Dark Day - Robin Crutchsomebody from DNA's dark doomy post-no-wave noise band, I remember liking them ok

Dawgs - shitty boston quasi-garage? or maybe not

Peter Dayton - from boston. their EP finished in the pazz and jop poll once! I assumed they were boring and never checked them out

Defunkt - lester bowie's bro (?) joe doing sub-contortions/ulmer funk wank, totally leaden whenever i tried to check them out, though sasha frere jones said a couple years ago they were better than i remember

Del-Byzanteens - uh, didn't they have some famous guy in the band?

Delta 5 - england's answer to the bush tetras. covered by chicks on speed. can i have a taste of your ice cream? no, mind your own business. a couple great singles (incl one on wanna buy a bridge); supposedly an album, too, but i never saw a copy

Diodes - from canada - toronto, i think. covered red rubber ball by the cyrcle or circle or whoever on some old new wave comp i owened

Dirty Looks -- quasi-stonesish something or others? probably not as good as no dice

Dogmatics - or maybe they were the shitty boston garage band? why do so many bands from boston start with D? signed with homestead, i believe, and put out one of the many bad albums on that label.

Doll By Doll - were good! roxy-ish but kinda hard rocking! i have a single album by them and a double, both of which i highly recommend

Dow Jones & The Industrials - bloomington indiana artpunk weirdos, which should be all you need to know. on *hoosier hotshots,* i think

Dramatis - weren't they connected with gary numan somehow?

Drongos - vaguely hard-rocking, in an vaguely byrds-into-boc-like way as i recall, hacks who passed as garage revivalists. i think richard riegel at creem used to like them, but i might be wrong. actually come to think of it i might be confusing with an entirely different band whose name started with dr and ended with os, or maybe not

Good comparison. I'd also add in some Only Ones comparisons too. Most of the Dogs stuff has been reissued and is worth the track down.

no no no, the dogmatics were a pretty good boston garage band who put out a couple of quite-good-for-what-they-were albums on homestead. they did a kinda loose, stonesy send-up of hardcore, kinda like early replacements, not nearly as good, but still good. they had a sense of humor. "hardcore rules" is a great memento of the era.

Tom Dickie & The Desires

boston new-wave also-rans, kinda boston's version of pub rock, very much in the early joe jackson or graham parker vein. maybe too much, in fact. their album competition was produced by martin rushent and i just listened to it for the first time in at least a decade, and i'm happy to report it doesn't completely suck. they would've been a good opening band for, say, the motors.

Chuck, I'm pretty certain from your garage/Byrds/BOC description that your actually thinking of THE DROOGS, who were indeed an okay band. I had one of their albums called Stone Cold World which I don't remember all that well, but it certainly didn't suck.

DAF, another band that just don't get enough love. Christ, yes of course he was - Gabi Delgado Lopez! Always wondered if he was related to Eduardo Delgado Lopez who was a member of Caspar Brotzmann Massaker amongst other things.

Dizzy & the Romilars played Max's/CBGB a lot in the late 70s. Never heard em, but always loved the name.

The Dark started out typical 3rd generation shouty punk but later jumped on the Bauhaus / Killing Joke / Theatre Of Hate / UK Decay proto-goth / proto-industrial bandwagon and actually made some rather good stuff as I recall.

The Depressions came from Brighton and were actually pretty good live although they never seemed to be able to capture that and do themselves justice in the studio. They had apparently been gigging before punk, playing Kinks, Small Faces and Who covers etc. (sound at all familar?) and were consequently accused of being bandwagon jumpers by those people who habitually accused anyone who'd had the timerity to start playing something that broadly approximated to punk before Malcolm McLaren had given them permission to do so (cf.: The Stranglers, The Vibrators....) although, in fairness, they were rather a bunch of identikit-punk poseurs with their uniformly bleached hair, and were managed by the same people who managed Slade! Disaster struck at a gig at Preston Poly in May '78 however, when they were on tour supporting The Vibrators, when a fight broke out during their set and someone was killed. They subsequently tried to reinvent themselves as The DP's but the ensuing bad publicity effectively destroyed them and they split up in Feb '79.

Oh and another vote for Delta 5 if anyone's counting.

yep, that was them! I remember one ok album in the mid '80s, though I think they put out their first self-released single in pre-punk days.

Dislocation Dance: check "You'll Never Never Know" from their BBC sessions on Vinyl Japan. Breezy post-punk/new wave/jazzy pop, or something like that. An influence on the (even more obscure but great) Wayfarers from NYC.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/OOO/005.jpg

Formed by Ramona Jan (ex-Comateens). New wave pop!

A danish garage rock band, active today.

I have never heard these "D" bands from Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums 1955-1996 book:

(At least I don't think I have. At least not much):

da'Krash
Damnations of Adam Blessing
Dark Angel
Darling Cruel
The Dartels
Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass
Da Youngsta's
Dead On
Deja
Delegation
The Desert Rose Band
Device
Frank DeVol and his Rainbow Strings
DFC
Dig
The Dillards
The Dillman Band
Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen
Doctor J.R. Kool & the Other Roxannes
Don and the Goodtimes
Double Exposure
Dove Shack
Pete Drake And His Talking Steel Guitar
Dreamboy
D.R.S.
Duke Jupiter
Dukes Of Dixieland
Holly Dunn
Dynamic Superiors

Double Exposure had a minor hit with "Ten Percent", which was one of the first 12" extended disco remixes

Dig - grunge band.

Part of the major label madness prior to it all going bang.
Produced by Dave Ogilvie.
Not that bad, but nowt to write home about either.

Dynamic Superiors - Motown act with openly gay lead singer Tony Washington

Frank DeVol and his Rainbow Strings - Don't know about his Rainbow Strings but Frank DeVol (aka DeVol) is best known today for The Brady Bunch theme song.

The Demons were garage rockers from Sweden in late 90s early 2000s.
I liked their first one on Gearhead records but after that I could live with 'em. If you're using the TPG I guess it's a different Demons.

Duke Jupiter released an awesome single called "Little Lady" sometime around 1984, a bit ZZ Top-ish. Couldn't tell you anything else about them.

"Damnations of Adam Blessing"

this is so sad that you've never heard the damnation of adam blessing. one of my fave bands of all time.

"Don and the Goodtimes"

awesomeness! oh man chuck this is your new favorite band for real. they ruled, they just never hit it as big as the raiders or the kingsmen. they shared members with those bands too.(don played keyboards on louie louie) they were featured on the where the action is show a bunch. true pacific northwest grunge!

http://pnwbands.com/DonGT.jpg

dynamic superiors were awesome too.

dark angel - 80s thrash metal band that gene hoglan was in. i think i had one of their cds in high school.

the logo looks familiar:

http://news.wacken.com/news_images/1_darkangel_logo.jpg

The Dillards were a bluegrass band ... 60's/70's era.

Oh wow, I didn't see Damnation of Adma Blessing on Chuck's list
I picked up a couple reissues on Akarma and love 'em.
Not as heavey as I hoped but still a good time.

that's "live with out 'em" in my earlier post.