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

OOPS! I knew that! No offense, Momus! But heck, I've still never heard them. And they are all real, Jez.

BTW - the NYC Honeymoon Killers on there put out an album in 1984 and I think there was ANOTHER Honeymoon Killers with Pussy Galore/Jon Spencer doodz in it.

Hybrid Kids - wasn't that Daniel Miller? (I may be v.wide of the mark here).

I saw Hey Elastica once, supporting Simple Minds at Reading Top Rank.

I hope we reach the letter L soon 'cos that'll give me an excuse to wax lyrical at insane length about the godlike Leisure Process...

Actually it's Les Tueurs De La Lune De Miel (Honeymoonkillers - Belgian). Don't know anything about'em, only that they were on Crammed...

Honeymoon Killers from Belgium - now, they were good. Kind of in the vein of Allez Allez (see previous thread), all very Disques de Crepuscule arts-centre chic. I saw them live at The Loft in Berlin in 1984 and enjoyed them so much that I've forgotten everything about the show.

I know Jerry Teel, who was in Honeymoon Killers (NYC) and subsequently in Chrome Cranks and then the Knoxville Girls (w/Kid Congo, hence the Cramps connection...). Haven't actually heard the band, though!

i started thinking that this was probably the case. it was kind of silly of me to think that there were two bands within a couple of years of each other in the same place.

Hitmen? There were two. Hitmen (no article) were Brits, I think; did two albums of raucous pub-rocking material similar to the Inmates for Columbia in the early 80s, of which Aim for the Feet was the better. The Hitmen is an Aussie act, which I haven't heard but which appears to have been around quite a while.

The Australian Hitmen featured ex-members of Radio Birdman and the Lime Spiders with a Handsome Dick Manitoba-like frontman named Johnny Kannis. Unlike Dick Manitoba, Kannis could sort of sing.

The Heaters were a real young-looking new wave combo. By real young, they looked about the same age as the McDonalds when Red Cross started up. As far as I know, one album and done. Never played it much. Energetic L.A. pop rock (no idea any longer if they were from L.A. but they sounded it).

Their best album is their final one from 1991, Hung Far Low, (which I think is dedicated to the downtown Portland restaurant of the same name), and that album is a quasi-JSBX album. I actually like it more than anything Jon Spencer has fronted... even Pussy Galore. The "Vanna White/You Can't Do That" double track is pure fuzz heaven.

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Artist team from Boston. A proto "Chicks on Speed" conceptual art project. Released a 45/ep on Beggers Bdt. As the "Rentals" with Pseudo Carol on guitar they opened for the Clash at Harvard Square Theatre in 77 or 1978.

Their 1979 DIY 7" "Gertrude Stein" was a regional "hit" at that time.

VG

Horizontal Brian were a goofy pub-rock band in the style of very early XTC or R. Stevie Moore or other cutesy Bonzo Dog-type groups. Their lyrics were pretty lame workingman-humor songs (like Colin Moulding influenced by They Might Be Giants) but they had some really lovely, gleaming melodies that got unfortunately buried under the plastered-on grins. They had one album on Gold Mountain, making them labelmates with Bruce Cockburn at the time.

meanwhile, they aren't on this list, but now i have heard The Headboys and their album from 1979 RULEZ!!! and i haven't even heard the 2nd side yet!!

Happy Family is also the name of a rather decent japanese prog band.

I have never heard anything by husker du.

Bonnie Hayes With The Wild Combo were featured on the Valley Girl sdtk (they got a name for girls like me...)

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

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

John Hall Band
Harmonicats
Keef Hartley Band
Annie Halsam (solo)
Havana 3 A.M.
Hear N' Aid
Heavens Edge
Heintje
Hello People
Heltah Skeltah
The Hesitations
Hi-C featuring Tony A
Hindu Love Gods
Hipsway
The Hollyridge Strings
Hothouse Flowers
House Of Freaks
House Of Lords
Hurricane
Paul Hyde and the Payolas

But I've definitely heard Hum, right? (I don't think I liked them.)

And I should probably buy a Honeymoon Suite album someday. (I think I did like them.)

Hipsway = shite Glasgow soul/funk/oh fuck who cares band from the late 80s

Hindu Love Gods = this is Warren Zevon + REM?

Hear N' Aid was that Ronnie James Dio all-star metal charity record. Worth getting the 12" to hear the drummer from Rough Cutt talking about the Ethiopian famine on the b-side.

Hindu Love Gods - crappy REM offshoot? With Warren Zevon? xpost

Hothouse Flowers - eurgh. More Celtic sub-World Party bullshit.

House Of Freaks - there's a thread on ilx somewhere about the guitarists unfortunate demise, it's really horrible though so be warned.

Hothouse Flowers = crappy Van-the-Man copyists from Oirland

House Of Lords - more Greg Guiffria fun! The man didn't know when to give up, for sure.

Keef Hartley Band = one of those English blues rock bands who sold about 3 records in the UK and 3 trillion in the US and more or less lived in the Fillmore(s - East and West)? See Humble Pie, Ten Years After, Chicken Shack, John Mayall, Foghat...

... and Savoy Brown!

Havana 3 AM was rootsy post-Clash Paul Simenon project...

Yeah, Hindu Love Gods put out a cover of "Raspberry Beret" as a single, which sounded good on paper (Zevon + REM + Prince, woo), but I think it was more of a pub-rock/soundcheck jam in reality.

Hipsway reached the dizzy heights of a Record Mirror front cover. The singer was quite cute.

and the NME...

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paul hyde and the payola$ is the second band on this thread featured on valley girl. one the best on there too. "eyes of a stranger."

bonnie hays and the wild combo had two: the first tune in the movie (mentioned above by pappa wheelie) and the best tune in the movie! "shelly's boyfriend."

Look at that NME line up, Hipsway, Redskins, Bodines, Atlantic Starr, Pete Shelley, Tory Students. No wonder Conor McNicholas doesn't believe in trying to relive past glories.

Hey now, the Hindu Love Gods were pretty decent. Their album was all covers, and they did a respectable job with most of 'em (though it was totally an inessential one-off). Their version of Battleship Chains is pretty good.

Heaters -- LA power pop band, young people who dressed in suits. Two girls in line-up. Were said to be a great live act. When signed, label and management took them into the studio and had ringers play on their debut album which, as a consequence, sounded nothing like they did live. Dispirited, they quit. Album was recut last year and issued by the band in the form they thought it should have been in. James Demeter, the band's guitarist, became known for his company -- Demeter -- which makes high end guitar and studio effects boxes and racks.

Heaven's Edge -- Philly hair metal act, arriving very late in the game. Debut album was good but immediately deleted as the genre had become unfashionable. Big at the Empire Rock Club, might have been managed by the Mountains, who ran the Hooters and the Cabaret clubs.

Heintje - dutch schlager-(child)singer. very famous in germany in the sixties.

Hindu Love Gods put out a cover of "Raspberry Beret" as a single, which sounded good on paper (Zevon + REM + Prince, woo), but I think it was more of a pub-rock/soundcheck jam in reality.

OTM. the album was more of the same. but warren zevon's album sentimental hygiene, which has the identical lineup, is great.

House Of Freaks

alt-rock guitar-drums duo who were both fantastic players (lefty guitarist bryan harvey, who indeed met a horrible horrible death a couple years back) and drummer johnny hott) but whose songs were never quite up to snuff. good live band, though. later they became part of gutterball along with steve wynn, a long ryders dude, and others like that.

Hear N' Aid is out of print unfortunately (or not).
Every year at Christmas I kick myself for not having bought it.

I have never heard these bands under "H" in J&O's International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock & Heavy Metal

Hammer
Hammersmith
Handsome Beasts
Harlequin
Head Machine
Heavy Load
Heavy Metal Army
Heldon
Hellanbach
Hellfield
Heritage
Jimmy Hibbert
Highstreet
Home
Hotel
Hot Roxx
Hush (Australia)
Hush (US)

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