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

Etron Fou Leloublan fantastic French(?) Avant-Garde nutters. Members of Rock In Opposition.

Drawing blanks on most of the rest but Egoslavia is an awesome name!

(They appeared on one or two solo Fred Frith albums though and did nice work there.)

Empire: This one could also have have been Peter Banks' prog band after Flash broke-up. Not as good as Flash, who were going downhill fast when they split.

Etron Fou Leloublan -- Weirdo post-prog French art-rock, maybe? Like Art Zoyd from your A list? (How do I know this? Old issue of *Op*? Anyway, if I ever saw a cheap LP, I'd be curious enough to buy it.)

Exude - Makers of "Boys Just Want to Have Sex," novelty parody answer to "Girls Just Want To Have Fun," I believe. Found a 12-inch last year; have spun it in DJ sets to much aclaim. Greil Marcus listed both that song AND the Lauper song in this 1984 top ten singles list.

There's also a fantastic 3CD comp. which basically consists of everything Etron Fou ever recorded available from ReR Megacorp.

The track should also be available soon through itunes etc. If there is enough demand for it then a reissue CD will be available.

THAT'S who did this song! thanks xhuxk!

Released 3(?) singles: "Macho Man" (which is fantastic btw); "Downhill"; "Watching You"; and one album: Square One)

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):

Earth Opera
East Coast Family
Ebonee Webb
Eden's Children
Graeme Edge Band featuring Adam Gurvitz
Edward Bear
Egg Cream featuring Andy Adams
The 8th Day
Eleventh House with Larry Coryell
Larry Elgart and his Manhattan Swing Orchestra
Les Elgart and his Orchestra
Enchantment
Ty England
Preston Epps
Eruption
Esquire
Eurogliders
Every Mother's Nightmare
Every Mother's Son
Exotic Guitars
Eye To Eye
Ezo

Oops, those are "E" bands, not "D" ones, obviously.

And I have probably heard a couple of them (like Ty England and Ezo and Eruption) at least for a minute or two. But if so, I sure wasn't paying attention.

Also very curious about The Essex, whose "Easier Said Than Done" is a great oldie from 1963 (later covered by Sha Na Na), but otherwise I'm clueless.

Also, I just realized that I have Preston Epps's "Bongo Rock" on a Rhino compilation of rock instrumentals, and I guess the Incredible Bongo Band covered him. Don't think I've heard him beyond that, though.

Never heard anything else by Eruption but their take on "I Can't Stand the Rain" is disco cluelessness at its best.

Eurogliders were Australian female-fronted mid-80s New Wave whose big hit in '86 was "Heaven" (chorus - Heaven - must be there/Well it's just got to be there/I've never, never seen Eden/I don't want to live in this place"). They also did a good song about the MOVE disaster in Philadelphia that happened just before Live Aid.

^^Kevin on Eruption, it's awful.

Edward Bear

canadian early '70s group who had a monster early '70s yacht-rock hit with the ballad "last song" ("it's the last song i'll ever write for you..."), which surely you've heard on the radio somewhere along the way.

Yeah, that sounds kinda familiar. (May even have it on a K-Tel comp somewhere, come to think of it.)

EZO -- fucked-up and very stiff Japanese metal band who wore Kabuki make-up. Discovered and produced by Gene Simmons, they were a regular undercard at the Allentown Music Hall one year. They were very short and very polite. Lead singer went into Loudness and did a number of albums with that band. These records were never released in the US, getting a first look a year or two ago from Wounded Bird and I reviewed them for the City Pages in Minneapolis. I still have them. Ditched my EZO records, though, of which there were two.

I still have one EZO album. I like it. Haven't played it in a zillion years, but i like it.

I like the two Earth Opera albums I have too.

Did you ever get round to The Embarrassment?

They were pretty special. There are a couple of excellent You Tube vids too.Check out the geek glasses. Way before their time!

Never realised they morphed into Big Dipper

I have some Eleventh House tracks on a Larry Coryell comp and a Jazz Fusion comp. Not as cool as whatever band he had with John McLaughlin & Billy Cobham, but there's some funky Alphonse Mouzon shit.

http://www.drummerworld.com/pics/drum/drummerpictures10/Alphonse_Mouzon2.jpg

so bad ass

(lol cymbal angles)

Every Mother's Son were a late 60's one hit wonder with "Come On Down To My Boat." Had that clean bubblegum sound but with some Association style harmonizing. Still can be heard occasionally on oldies radio.

Eleventh House was Coryell with Phillip Catherine doing jazzwonk dual guitar stupidity. My dad did sound for them for a while, and still swears that Alphonse Mouzon is the best drummer he ever worked with. By the time he was touring with Coryell, he was using a rolling drum stool due to STOOPID HUEG kit.

lol

mouzon is mindblowing on some of that 70s mccoy tyner stuff, like enlightment.

I am wrong on the Phillip Catherine connection, that was twin house or something.

Eleventh House was actually coller than I'm remembering, lots of Proggo moogy synth fusion (keys were Mike Mandell, not sure if I'm spelling that right)

Eleventh House stuff is awesome! But then I love technical death metal.

I like the two Earth Opera albums I have too.

I've only heard two of their songs - "The American Eagle Tragedy" and "The Red Sox Are Winning," both from a Bosstown Sound compilation - and find them kind of embarrassing. I love hippie music and sentimentality but I want the words to work hard, and I cannot STAND the brief fascination with old-timey 78 sounds. Are the other album tracks better than those? I'd actually like to know more.

'we will together' is the better eurogliders song

"Are the other album tracks better than those?"

yeah, they really are.

one of the members of Every Mothers Son was my dentist during the 80s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxKnnK7CVy8