Where is the Love For All These Bands from my "A" CD Shelves Who Don't Get Mentioned Nearly Enough on ILM?

I have their first 'indie' single "Yesterday's Love", where they 'did an elvis costello' to get on, then slowly went back to being folk club stalwarts, right?

The Any Trouble best of CD I have is way more "pub rock" than "folk," I'd say.

I've got Angel In Heavy Syrup IV. Great stuff! Which of the rest are best?

Atomic Swindlers, you know I like 'em. No idea why more people don't. They're legitimately glam, have a good singer who looks tremendous. And their album is still one of the best pieces of production I've heard this year. Plus, the video is amusing art anime lesbo biker weird stuff.

Atomic Rooster, one of my favorites of all time. If stoner rock brands developed brains, added a good Hammond player and emulated some of Vincent Crane's moves, they'd reinvigorate the genre. The man owned the mix of mental illness, suicide and hard rock. Currently my favorites are when Crane picked up Chris Farlowe, a soul-belter, for Made In England and Nice 'n' Greasy. The latter is particularly choice, combining Crane-ism, hard rock and a singer imitating James Brown.

*Strict.* (I used to own *Brutality* on cassette, along with all those old O-Type and Half-Life and Gizzards {is that what they were called?} tapes, but they're all long long gone.)

ooh, i have a couple 'antarctica' CDs which are good.
'arling & cameron'? pants.

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0009,kogan,12869,22.html

I should probably get rid of that Aqui CD, the more I think about it.

Haven't seen any mention of the new album, however. Based on what I've read about it, I'm expecting a step in the direction of nu-metal, which I'm not sure I'll like.

known to to guided by voices fans as the dayton hard rock band in which robert pollard and mitch mitchell first played together. but i assume xhuxk has the other anacrusis sitting on his A shelf. why robert pollard didn't eventually form a band called "angel in heavy syrup" is a mystery for the ages.

Sold the first Angel In Heavy Syrup, just sounded like lame psych to me.

Can't say I've heard any of the others, apart from occasionally enduring Almighty videos on some late night metal show that was on UK tv a few years back.

I have their first 'indie' single "Yesterday's Love", where they 'did an elvis costello' to get on, then slowly went back to being folk club stalwarts, right?

Indeed, Any Trouble Costello lookalike Clive Gregson is viewed by some as a kind of new-wave Richard Thompson though he isn't anywhere as good as that.

Alpha are Massive Attack type trip-hop though rather more cinematic in nature. Jarvis Cocker features on one of the albums they did. High end dinner party music, rather good with a glass of sauvignon blanc.

Almighty were a Glaswegian metal band, not especially memorable.

I've got an Appliance cd which I've only ever listened to once, must dig it out and give it a second chance based on MindinRewinds praise.

Haven't heard of anyone else, I hope the B's are more inspiring.

yes - that arling and cameron (see kogan link above)

no - not that anacrusis. these are voivodoid metal guys.

Antartica, on the other hand, were nice enough. I wish they'd stuck around for more than an EP and an album.

Perfect Sound Forever has an interview.

And JD, I file "A" bands via the A Flock of Seagulls rule. (Doesn't Xgau do that in the Consumer Guide, too? Not positive, but I think so. And yes, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs are in the L's, not the F's. So sue me.)

wow. two dutch bands!
a & c are nice. apparently working on a new album now, cameron is living in berlin, involved in a lot of projects including terrorgruppe schwarzenraben and cowgum, he also made a rather laidback and not very good solo-album last year. more info here: http://www.mrandmrscameron.com.
after forever are one of those godawful gothicmetal bands. we seem to have zillions of them. big in brazil apparently. or was that the gathering? or epica? or etc...

Hm Appliance, I've got a CD of them as well. Will give it a spin.

Actually, he puts them under "F." But Los Fabulosos Cadillacs under "L" is fair enough; I think the rule about ignoring direct and indirect articles only applies for English words.

i'd say angel'in heavy syrup's discography gets better as you go on, IV being best and III next. as mentioned above, fusao is in christine 23 onna, plus mineko participated in the awesome slap happy humphrey with jojo hiroshige. all douji morita covers = greatness.

>after forever are one of those godawful gothicmetal bands. we seem to have zillions of them. big in brazil apparently. or was that the gathering? or epica? or etc...<

Maybe all three. One of the amazing things about some of the Mexican CD stores in Queens is the number of Continental European goth metal CDs they stock on their walls; honestly, the line between Moonspell (from Portugal, so quite possibly huge in Brazil for all I know) and Caifanes or La Castaneda is really not that huge, sonically. Lots of Latin American rock is pretty goth too, in other words. Anyway, the Gathering are a couple hundred times better and more important than After Forever, who are almost as generic as Evanescence as far as that kinda stuff goes, but I like their *Exordium* EP, which features an Iron Maiden cover I'd rather listen to than Iron Maiden any day.

Also, I realized this morning that I accidentally left Atomic Soul Experiences from the list at the top of this thread--whoever they are, but they do have two CD singles on my shelf that I missed.

Didn't notice 'Alpha' in the list, which I also like. Billy OTM about them being Massive Attack-ish.

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