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

There might be a member of this very band on this very board. (They were American and slightly older than the period you describe.)

does have a certain new wave synth pop kinda look to it.

i await more details as to whether its worthy of my sons pocket money.

Me go off now.

Quincy -- utterly rotten Philly/northeast Pennsy extension band. Were not very rocking bar rockers who dawned New Wave clothes. One album. They were managed by a guy who was also a graduate student with me at Lehigh. Was persuaded to see them once. Much much worse than similar or slightly similar Philly stuff of the era, like the A's -- who were good, or Johnny's Dance Band. P.U.

revola put out a comp a couple of years ago ("untold rock stories") that has early demos and a second album (never came out). it's easy to find and very worthwhile--a lot ballsier than mondo deco.

here's a video

http://www.naturalenergylab.com/old_gospels/danny_7_03.html

search "touch control", "don't you want it", "pretty please me".

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0340,tracker_writer.inc,47223,.html

The British Quick, I believe, were connected with the early '80s post-disco Brit-funk of Linx, Junior, and the Nick Straker Band. Okay maybe not the Nick Straker Band, but definitely Linx and Junior. They were white guys though I think. I briefly owned their album once.

Oh. Okay. I sorry. I was skimming through and thought maybe you were referencing the latter-era group. And I would've never figured that about the former-era group, not from the brief bio I pulled up once while looking for information on the UK Quick.

I've watched the video for "The Rhythm Of The Jungle" once before. On VH1 Classic. It was pretty cheesariffic IIRC.

I'm sure the first time I bought one of their singles it was because I didn't have any records by any bands whose name began with "Q" (see also / maybe later on the "I Have Never Heard These Bands That Start With The Letter Z" thread, if we ever get that far: The Zones) but actually it was pretty good and I ended up with about half a dozen of them. Power-pop really although they later tried to re-invent themselves as Mods to jump on that bandwagon - yes, they really were that desperate to get noticed! Song titles that spring to mind: "There's Never Been A Night", "Still Moment In Time", "There Must Be Thousands", "UFO"

I'm looking forward to the "I Have Never Heard These Bands That Start With The Letter S" thread now, just to see if The Smirks are on it (and talk about them anyway even if they aren't).

Pretty sure that's her only recording. J Demme heard her sing in a club and got her in the studio for that one song. Mysterious...

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

(At least I don't think I have. At least not much. Unless I'm wrong about a couple, but so what):

Bill Quateman
Quazar
Quicksand
Carmel Quinn

Okay, I probably did hear Quicksand once or twice, but this list is REAL short so I included them. (Didn't they sound sort of like Helmet or somebody?)

Also, I may well be the only person on earth who really likes both bands called The Quick a lot.

Bill Quateman -- singer/songwriter/guitarist. He always got cut a bit of slack on FM radio and I had a couple of his records. A darker, harder sounding Jackson Browne. That's sort of bad, not a good thing.

No clue on those four but a brief word on Quincy. I can remember watching the notorious punk episode of Quincy (where Quincy tells a punk girl his name and she responds "Oh yeah - I've heard of that band") and then being so excited to discover that there actually was a band called Quincy. But lo - George is right. They made The Knack sound like G.B.H.

yeah, quicksand was one of those posthardcore borderline metal riff machines... they had a couple of records and a single that got some play on mtv back in the early 90s

I have the LP by the Question Men "We Could Be Wrong" from 1983. I'm considering putting it up on my blog. It's not essential, but rather charming new wave with quirky lyrics. They were from San Fran.

Wasn't there also a band called Quincy Punx after the Quincy episode? I believe they also had a song called "I Hate Everyone" named after the episode

That sounds familiar. Is the episode on DVD?

And I just realized I've heard one of Quicksand's albums. Awful. Or not awful enough as the case may be.

I have never heard these bands under "Q" in Jasper & Oliver's International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock & Heavy Metal

Q
Queen City Kids
Quest

Q were a disco act! Famous for a hit called "Dancin' Man". Thought it was weird that Jasper and Oliver included them, but they compare them to Mothers Finest! The single wasn't all that rock, I don't think.

Quazar was an OK P-Funk offshoot featuring a disgruntled Glen Goins and Jerome Brailey, nothing terribly earth-shattering. I have no idea what the "G" in their "Funk With a Capital 'G'" referred to, but presumably Dr. Dre was taking note.

So George - Whitburn calls Q a "pop quartet from Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania"; I was gonna ask "that's near Pittsburgh, right?" when I noticed that the guitarist and bassist used to be in the Jaggerz, who were indeed from Pittsburgh. Looks like they beat ex bandmate Donnie Iris to the album charts. (But wait, Whitburn also says Iris toured briefly with Wild Cherry, who did "Play That Funky Music." He doesn't seem to have played on that record, though.) (Wild Cherry were from Steubenville, Ohio, by the way.)

dean martin was from steubenville. he was pretty funky for a white boy too.

I've finally put up the Question Men LP on my blog.

Q vs Q vs Q:

http://idolator.com/399245/numbers-letters-exclamation-points-real-world-alums-and-the-countercultural-reclamation-of-ike

i was just watching the quick on youtube this very minute!

this clip is so awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-8Nv9RVNqE

also watching milk 'n' cookies live in 1976:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOAbUGJgphM

the other quick, 1982:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg5_o1YVCuY&feature=related

Holy shit batman, that Quick video "It Won't Be Long" is HOT STUFF, man. HOT STUFF>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The other Quick isn't too bad, either. Gotta love that danceable 12" mix kind of stuff.

But the other Quick video is absolutely beyond words. WOW. Doesn't that just kick Roxy's ass?

Also notice how the guitarist in the background looks just like Robin Trower from Procol Harum.

Yeah, someone in the Quick was like Robin Trower. Sure. Spread that news. Maybe it'll get their one record back in print, eh? With a sticker: Underappreciated Kim Fowley-clan power pop band, with guitarist like Robin Trower.

Oh man, I totally fucked up the Question Men link on my blog. I'm so sad about this. I've never fucked up a link before. I really didn't know. And I waited the whole time for that album to upload and now it's gone. Sigh. :( I'm working on fixing it, but man...

Gorge, you are funny. :) I would like it very much if I COULD GET A STICKER WITH MY 7" RECORD PLEEEZ

Fixed the Question Men link now.