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

funnily enough, the second gig i ever went to was motorhead who had a band called weapon supporting. i tried to buy one of their records the week before the gig and got sold a weapon of peace record instead by the lovely girl at the edinburgh virgin megastore checkout desk. it was indeed reggae but not very good from what i recall. but hey, i was 12 and a half so what did i know?

White Animals were from Nashville, and I vaguely recall them being enthusiastic but mediocre.

Scott Wilk & the Walls were from L.A.? Smug, keyboardy new wave, in any case.

The Wanderers short-lived pre-DamnedDeadShamBand / Lords Of The New Church amalgam of Dave Tregunna, Dave Parsons and Mark Goldstein (basically the final incarnation of Sham 69 excluding Jimmy Pursey) and former Dead Boy Stiv Bators

http://www.waiting4louise.de/cover/Cover-NickLowe-Bowi.jpg

White Animals - From Nashville, I think. Rare for new wave bands!

White Boy - Another crazy band or guy (or wait, wasn't it like a father/son duo or something?) who put out his own records, Jandek/ Nicodemus (was that the name of the Detroit guy?)-style, for years and years. Beloved in Forced Exposure. Potentially intriguing.

Wombats - Adorable Australian marsupials, quite chubby, similar to our American woodchuck (also known as a "marmot") (the woodchuck, that is, not the wombat.) Also a garage revival band I never heard.

Johanna Went was a performance art/no wave-type figure in L.A in the 80s. Not much recorded output--maybe a 7" and a few compilation appearances. Great appearance on New Wave Theater.

He's a onetime Captain Beefheart drummer. Or two times, possibly.

Also, thinking of Z'ev reminds me of Zwol...anybody remember him?? A bald guy, like Right Said Fred 15 years early, doing what was billed as disco-punk fusion (in '78 or so maybe?) Maybe even had a small hit.

I'll buy that. A Z'ev solo record, which I had, was on Subterranean. And he had a live one with Monte Cazazza, if I'm recalling my collection correctly, that sounded similar. Lots of banging and thumping, some screams. Had them about the same time as SPK's "Slogun" which supports pre-Neubaten ideas. Now gone. No desire to get them back. It was a stage when I was nuts for industrial noise, so much so I even started a noise band which got on a record in France.

Pre-Neubauten, but not pre-"industrial music". That term was used at the time to refer to Z'ev, Cazazza, Factrix, and other acts. I bet if you checked fanzines you'd see references to "industrial" bands and music. Most seen as imitators/epigones of TG & Cabaret Voltaire. Z'ev was distinguished in focusing on percussion, so yeah, pre-Neubauten/Test Dept. I believe SPK's first release came out when all the above-mentioned were already active.

-- dave225 (right.knewi...), April 15th, 2005.

Perhaps. But Wild Horses "Funky Poodle" >>> Wild Giraffes "Burning Love", both of which can be found here: http://www.esquirerecords.com/citimusic/ii.asp

Went over to the Euclid Tavern afterwards to see Mr. Stress, all the while thinking "Chrissie Hynde and Mark Mothersbaugh played with this guy?", then back to the Agora, or actually the club in the basement, to see the Cramps: Lux, punching holes in the ceiling, exposing himself, picking fights with the audience. Good times.

Trapped in a world he never made,

I bought this album yesterday! I like it. such a weird lost stiv moment. it's almost like it never happened. and they really do sound like an actual band, not just some one-off goof, you know?

I have never heard these "W" 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):

The Waikikis
Walter & Scotty
Walter Wanderley
Warlock
Wa Wa Nee
Wax
Fee Waybill (solo)
Waysted
WC and the Madd Circle
Dennis Weaver (of McCloud fame, singing)
Orson Welles (comedy album)
Wet Wet Wet
What Is This
When In Rome
The Wichita Train Whistle
Widowmaker
Wilburn Brothers
Wild Man Steve
The Wild Ones
Wild Turkey
Will and the Kill
Willie and the Poor Boys
Wilmer and the Dukes
The Wind In The Willows
Wire Train
The Womenfolk
Woody Woodbury
Wrabit
Wrathchild America

the first wild turkey album is great. the second one is not that great. wind & the willows was a psych/pop group that debbie harry was in in the 60's. the album is good, but liteweight for fuzzfreaks.

you must have heard wire train at some point. their albums aren't bad at all. 80's guitar new wave.

Wet Wet Wet

you lucky bastard

Waysted = UFO bassist Pete Way's band. Generic 80s Hard Rock, me and my mates were really into them at the time. Probably a bit boring in retrospect.

Wa Wa Nee - Australian pop act of the 80's heavily influenced by Prince and (pure pop period) Scritti:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx5h2Qsors4

Wire Train, good lord I haven't thought about them in ages. They weren't bad at all. They were on the same label as Romeo Void & Translator. I don't remember enough about them to be able to really describe their music, though. I'd like to hear something of them again. I just vaguely remember them as pretty and poppy.

whenever i pull out the wire train album i still own, it's just me wanting to hear "Chamber Of Hellos". which always sounds great to me. especially if i'm drunk and feeling nostalgic.

You know When In Rome's 1980s comp fodder "The Promise" (chorus: "I promise, I promise you").

I'll give it a whirl, thanks Scott.

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Wet Wet Wet

you lucky bastard

LOL. Lucky indeed. Awful Scottish adult pop band huge in the late 1980s/early 1990s UK. Imagine Spandau Ballet's "True" as boilerplate (although nowhere near as fetching as that might suggest). Not beloved by Simon Reynolds in Blissed Out. Wiki says they scored a top ten hit THIS YEAR.

Who the hell bought this shit? (Um, adults, I guess.)

Waysted: I actually dug out my CD conversion of Vices yesterday, played and liked most of it. Waysted were Pete Way's band after he left UFO, ostensibly because the latter weren't rocking hard enough anymore. I didn't hear it. UFO's Making Contact -- their last effective LP is better than Vices although not as hard. Way picked up another ex-UFO dude, Paul Raymond, and with a singer named Fin and a guitarist from southeast Pennsyltucky, Ronny Kayfield, they were in business. In the same general vein as mid-period UFO and Fastway, which Way was also involved in. After the debut did fair business, Kayfield left or was kicked out and replaced by UFO's Paul Chapman. They did a couple more records I used to have. I kept the first one, as it's the most distinguished in sound of the bunch. Way did a solo album called Amphetamine a few years ago and it had almost the exact some tenor as Waysted. And that was a good record within the genre of violent and socially unredeeming hard rock Way writes for.

Widowmaker -- earlier violent-sounding and socially unredeeming hard rock band. Started by Ariel Bender, nee Luther Grosvenor of Mott the Hoople and Spooky Tooth. Not to be confused with Dee Snider's Widowmaker. First album, s/t, churlish and jolting mid-tempo white boy blooz thud and shriek. Bender had a guitar tone second to none and when it's on, as it was for most of the debut, the album is consistantly fair to good. That's pretty good in that it'll do nothing for you if you don't like mostly hookless hard rock except for the one or two cops from Roy Harper and English busker folk. Made a second album, changed singers, became dull. Repackaged as a double CD or so a couple years ago with some live stuff proving they were a good cheap night out, but you probably knew that if you've read this far.

Who would be stupid enough to name themselves Willie and the Poor Boys? A band which wished to be immediately deleted.

That was a real nice track by Wire Train, Scott! Thanks! It sounds familiar, too. But I never had that album. I had the one with the blue sleeve, whatever that was.

http://www.drunkard.com/issues/08-04/images/woodbury-hdr.jpg

The Wind In The Willows - 60's hippy folk-rock band who released one self-titled album (can't comment too much because I've only heard it once, many years ago - although it evidently failed to make a lasting impression at that time) and who are best (only?) remembered because they included a brunette backing-singer by the name of Debbie Harry.

Warlock - German 80's metal, Accept-lite if I recall (if you can imagine such a thing). The singer was Doro Pesch, beloved of Kerrang! staff and readers at the time as she was just about the only woman in metal back then, apart from Girlschool.

Wax - 10cc spin-off?

Orson Welles (comedy album) - I have to hear this.

Wet Wet Wet - just to make it plain, this is the most horrendous, indefensible band of all time. They made me yearn for The Kane Gang! And if you're British there was NO ESCAPE from Marti Pellow and his anonymous backing musicians for a few years back there, not least because that fucking Troggs cover they did was at number one for about 4 months. Ah good god wasn't it something to do with Four Weddings & A Funeral? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH

Wrathchild America was bad pseudo-thrash metal from the late 80s, known primarily for their cover of Pink Floyd's "Time." Their original (I use the term very lightly) song "No Deposit, No Return" was middling, but a high point on the album.

Their bassist (Wratchild America's, that is), Brad Divens, used to be in Kix, which made me curious at the time. But maybe it's good I never got around to checking them out, if they're as lousy as EZ says.

Orson Welles (comedy album) - I have to hear this.

Title is The Begatting of the President; hit #66 in 1970. Whitburn calls is a "tounge-in-cheek history of contemporary America (biblical style)"!
Track titles include "Book of Hubert," "Raising of Richard," "L.B. Jenesis," and "Paradise Bossed."

Who would be stupid enough to name themselves Willie and the Poor Boys?

Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Andy Fairweather Low, and a couple guys I never heard of, apparently. Album went to #96 in 1985. Proceeds were donated to Action Research into Multiple Sclerosis.

Walter Wanderly was the boss of the bossa nova!...Rain Forest is classic bachelor pad muzak, along the lines of Martin Denny/Arthur Lyman, et al...

I also have not heard Walter and Scotty, who I assume to be the twin lead singers of The Whispers...

I was in the Wire Train fan club in high school. They sent me a badge printed with the title of their single "I'll Do You", and I was naive then. Hilarity ensued.

oh, and What Is This won an MTV contest in like 1983...they had a cover of "I'll Be Around" that was not hideous

Wilmer and the Dukes was a doo-wop band fronted by Wilmer "That 70's Show" Valderrama...they originally appeared in a Fez "dream sequence", and were meant to promote "That 50's Show", an ill-conceived Fox sit-com conceit whose pilot never saw the light of day...

You almost had me there except for the fact that Fox already flopped with That 80's Show and no way in hell would they have tried to hit with another decade nostalgia show.

For those interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmer_and_the_Dukes

Although it's not promising that the first paragraph pads out their bio by mentioning that they were an influence on Eric Bloom.

P.S. Simpsons fans will note that one episode imagined what That 30's Show might look like.

just warming up for tomorrow!

Will and the Kill--Will Sexton's (brother of Charlie) band.

Windbreakers were Tim Lee's band. He's still pluggin' away.

"Walter Wanderly was the boss of the bossa nova!."

i missed him on that list. i was just listening to some of his records yesterday.