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

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daddy freddy
daddy g
dahl/anderson/heral
dambuilders
dancing cigarettes
sam d'angelo
the daou
dario g
darwa
daude
linda davis
thornetta davis
days of the new
db function
dc snipers
deadbird
death comet crew*
death in vegas
death of marat
decoded feedback
def cut
junior delgado*
delinquent habits
del ray & the sun kings
desorden publico
d generation
DHT
died pretty*
die toten hosen
dillinger*
dirty halo
disco biscuits
the dishes (late '70s canuck punk, not the recent grrrl punks)
dj enuff featuring thirst
dj jester
dj thomas
paul dolden
donna the buffalo*
dose one*
dozer
the dragons
dusty drake
dream syndicate*
dr. feelgood
dr. bombay
dr. israel
dropkick murphys
drop the lime*
drunk injuns
the dubliners
duice

* -- maybe these ones (and maybe some other ones) shouldn't be here, but they are anyway.

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Dr Bombay! This is a Swedish 'hip-hop' thing no?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

More like a Swedish, um, "bhangra" thing (i.e., he dresses up as a taxi driver from India, more or less.) Over-the-top bubbleEurodisco synths a la Aqua or Toy Box or Los Umbrellos. Totally kicks ass.

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

(Actually, it doesn't *sound* bhangra at all, come to think of it. And I guess maybe he *sort of* raps, if you wanna call it that. He's an absolute goofball, either way.)

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Dropkick murphys are complete and utter shite.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Days of the New might be the worst rock band in history.

"Listen to Your Heart" and "Dazzey Dukes" are cool songs.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Did Duice ever do anything after "Dazzey Duks"? I bought the full-length a year or two ago for a dollar in a thrift store in Tampa. Let's just say it's...representative of the times.

I really, really like that DC Snipers CD-R - I actually think their live show's even better, but I've been meaning to get that 7" that's floating around.

― d4niel coh3n (dayan), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Die Toten Hosen did a CD of fun punk/wave covers, including a carbon copy of Eddie and the Hot Rods' wonderful "Do Anything You Wanna Do."

I seem to recall a Trouser Press review of The Dishes from ages ago that made them sound more like Tin Huey than standard-issue punk, but I may be totally misremembering. Woman in the band? Sax?

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Die Toten Hosen are still going - they played the German leg of Live8. I'm very fond of their 1984 rap single "Hip Hop Bommi Bop", recorded as The Incredible T.H. Scratchers featuring Freddie Love... "Freddie Love" being a pseudonym for the NYC rapper Fab Five Freddy (yes, the one namechecked on Blondie's "Rapture"). I particularly like the way that Freddie gets completely pissed off with the whole venture towards the end of the track... you can just sense the lack of cross-cultural understanding in the air. (Also, his attempts at rapping in German are touching in their awfulness.)

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Dr. Feelgood's Sneaking Suspicion was a great bit of pub rock -- ya gotta love Wilco Johnson's rhythm guitar.

Disco Biscuits are an OK jam band, but the music still isn't as good as the name.

Die Toten Hosen, though ... I remember thinking their stuff was pretty passable when they (briefly) had a US deal with (I think) Atlantic. But then I saw a clip of them from the most recent Live Aid, and was stunned at how corny they'd become, as if Green Day had somehow taken a wrong turn and ended up as the punk rock Journey.

― J.D. Considine, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Dario G had a big Eurodance hit with "Sunchyme", which sampled the "hey mama hey" bit from Dream Academy's "Life In A Northern Town", to tedious effect. (This cropped up on another thread a few days ago.) All my A-gay coke-snorting party-boy friends thought it was Fab, but I thought it was flipping awful.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

There was a lot of UK press hype about Death In Vegas - dance press and rock press alike. Lots of impressive sounding guest stars on their albums. I tried really really hard to like them, but never quite got there. They probably have plenty of supporters round these parts, though...?

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

The received wisdom about Dr Feelgood was "they're much better live than on record". Accordingly, they had a UK #1 album in 1976 with the live album Stupidity, which snuck out just before punk and hence fulfilled many of my needs for punchy, no-nonsense, straight-down-the-line, r&b-based latter-day pub rock. Dr Feelgood and Graham Parker & The Rumour were like my John The Baptist figures, before the Year Zero watershed of punk.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

xpost

Yes, first album was one of my favourites of that year (97?) but it's been more of the same with diminishing returns ever since.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

The Dubliners had a UK hit single with The Pogues called "The Irish Rover" - sorta old school meets new school, wild & raucous, went down well at wedding discos (and I really don't mean that in a sneering way).

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

>Did Duice ever do anything after "Dazzey Duks"? I bought the full-length a year or two ago for a dollar in a thrift store in Tampa. Let's just say it's...representative of the times.<

Yes, but in a good way! I only have the album, though, nothing after.

>I seem to recall a Trouser Press review of The Dishes from ages ago that made them sound more like Tin Huey than standard-issue punk, but I may be totally misremembering. Woman in the band? Sax?<

Yeah, that sounds right, at least the Tin Huey part. They were definitely weirdo off-kilter artpunks of that stripe. The woman and sax sound right, too, though I'd have to check the CD (which is at home where I'm not) to make absolutely sure. The reissue's from a few years ago, and it's been a couple years since I put the thing on.

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

D-Generation -- no profits, no honor

Died Pretty -- a good band whose records I never play (even though I'm pretty sure I did most of the AMG reviews).

Dream Syndicate -- the first album is still killer but if only it had been more Karl Precoda's band than Steve Wynn's in the end.

Dr. Israel -- the one album I had of his was good but I ended up selling it back recently anyway. Hadn't heard it in years.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

D-Generation? Wasn't k-punk in them or something? Or did I dream this?

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Dr Bombay resurfaced as Dr Macadoo (IIRC), which was exactly the same except with a comedy Scottish accent instead of a comedy subcontinental one. And no blacking up on the cover I assume.

xpost there are two D-Generations I think.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Yay, Google! Sax in the band, no female vocalist. "Fashion Plates" would indeed be the record I remember, recently reissued on a compilation that I will seek out forthwith.

"In February 1976, the Dishes - now featuring Murray Ball (vocals), Michael Lacroix (saxophone)... original material that owed much to art-rock pioneers Roxy Music, David Bowie, and the Kinks, the Dishes were an immediate sensation with Toronto's burgeoning avant-garde art scene.

In May 1977, The Dishes released their EP 'Fashion Plates' on their own Regular Records label."

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

there are two D-Generations I think.

There are and I must assume Xhuxk has the NYC version.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Yep, NYC version; their first and best (their only good, really) album. (I never knew there was a different D Generation til now. What kind of music did the other one do?)

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

>Disco Biscuits are an OK jam band, but the music still isn't as good as the name<

Nor as disco, which is sad. But there is *some* dance music in there, which is interesting and entertaining, and not in the totally aimless "ravers dance as shitty as hippies so let's mix some techno in" way jam bands usually do it. Plus, these guys sort of have songs.

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Fab 5 Freddy is the nephew of Max Roach, I think. Where are Eric Mingus, Karen Mantler (she made at least one good album, with assistance from Eric and My Cat Arnold [co-billed with Karen]), Neneh Cherry, Nas? Nas is maybe performing somewhere with his Dad, Olu Dara. Donna The Buffalo's been discussed on both Rolling Country Threads, I think. (I like Tara Nevins' solo album better, though it's very bluegrassy, but in a wild, sometimes dizzy way, so some rock appeal.)Yeah, Disco Biscuits had their moments: see my ancient monster jamband roundup in Voice, "Bearfoot In The Head" re their macabre humor and punky tendencies; also, Richard Gehr in Voice cited their unusual-for-jambands use of techno & other, but their best stuff was always on their website, not their albums, far as i ever heard.(Hey, where's Richard?!) xxxhuxx's psychodramatic Creem Metal review of Free Dirt ("I've got a kid and I'm still a kid myself!") remains the most memorable thing about Died Pretty. Yeah, I need to dig up my Dr. Israel album!

― don, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

The only thing I remember about Dambuilders is their language-barrier college-radio hit "Shrine," with the clever couplet, "I ask her if she'll dye my shoes/She tells me they're already dead." That and the Hawaiian-pride "Kill Haole Day" song.

I also played in a band that opened for them once at the Grog Shop in Cleveland. They were pretty standoffish.

― monkeybutler, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Dubliners' "Wasn't That A Party" was a Top 40 hit, wasn't it? I used to hear it fairly often on Top 40 Oldies station while on way to work and really not giving a shit about parties, and it sounded alright then. Couldn't get into Death Comet Crew so much: had all the right NYC Noise groove elements, but somehow less than sum (but I'll listen again)

― don, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Eric Masunaga from Dambuilders explained to me in 1990 how to rid of most of the hiss when recording from my Mac Plus to my boombox. Therefore, Dambuilders are classic.

― Guayaquil (eephus), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

a co-workers had a dambuilders cd on her desk last week. it allowed me to remember "idaho" and that my old copy was never returned by a high school friend. listening allowed me to forgive that friend.

not a bad record, if a bit bland after all

― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

I am a bit bummed to find that I no longer have my copy of that Dishes EP. I guess at some point I must've thought it wasn't very good, but there was one song in particular on it that I wanted to check. : (

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Paul Dolden = pretty unsatisfactory mix of (New-Age-leaning) post-rock and (Montreal-school) musique concrete. More dud than classic.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

(x-post) The reason The Dishes stuck in my back-brain was that Roxy influence/ sax player thing; I always figured they might sound a bit like Deaf School, another of my favorite art-rock bands from the mid to later 70's, before "punk" became more codified.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Death in Vegas's "Girls" is really what the rest of the Lost in Translation soundtrack should've sounded like.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

There was a fair bit of discussion about Death in Vegas on a recent NEU! thread.

Dr. Israel lost a certain ghostly quality when he stopped making records for Wordsound, but I still like him.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

jesus donna the buffalo ...

jesus...

no..no need for no love...

― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

The Dambuilders: I remember them vaguely from a CMJ sampler.
Thornetta Davis is yet another of those Detroit musicians that you keep tossing out here that's so much better live that her albums are annoying (just like the Clone Defects).
Die Toten Hosen: The Dead Pants! Never got into them, despite my teutonic love.
Donna The Buffalo bored the hell out of me.
I have a friend who loves Death in Vegas, but I get them mixed up with the Crystal Method.
Is that Dose One from the Anticon crew? I know that I've seen him, but I'm struggling to think of in what context.

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that Dose One.

The one time I saw Clone Defects live (at Siberia Bar in NY) they were nowhere near as interesting as on their CDs, but who knows, maybe the soundman just sucked. Never saw Thornetta live; wouldn't know. Her album (the one on SubPop) doesn't annoy me, though.

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Thornetta Davis has a great name, at least. Wonder if she's related to Angela. Who is Deadbird?

― don, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

http://www.myspace.com/deadbird

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

re: Death In Vegas - I loved Dead Elvis when it came out. i don't think they've been able to top that album since tho.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

The Dishes made a big--albeit brief--impression on me as a teenager when they appeared on a TVO (TV Ontario) broadcast (some short-lived in-studio program that also featured a performance by David Wilcox, back when he was affecting a Salvador Dali look and singing about "bad apples"). The Dishes were very nasally, very Roxy-sounding new wave--the Strokes, more or less (with a sax), if I recall. Don't remember a woman (the singer was definitely a guy, with farily memorable eyebrows). Art-nerd stuff: the way the Feelies looked, the Dishes sounded. Had the 7" at one point but no idea of its whereabouts. I didn't even know there was a reissue!

― s woods, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

I give the love to the Dancing Cigarettes. Great lost classic band. I should start a thread on them tonight when I get home.

― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

The Dishes were kind of power pop, though, too, weren't they? They were probably into Roxy Music and had the saxophone, but I don't know how much they actually sounded like Roxy Music - maybe I'm wrong. The singer had a weird new wave voice. God, I swear there was one song on that EP that I liked! I got that record in a five dollar grab bag from Bomp mailorder. I think the only one I kept besides that was Earle Mankey's "Crazy" b/w "Mau Mau" single.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

I don't recall them being "power pop"--at least not in the jangly/starry eyed sense--but I'm sure I heard 2-3 songs by them, max so I could be way off. The Roxy thing is probably being overstated a bit--they were way sloppier I'm thinking--but it sounded like they were aiming for something close to that. (The sax was maybe a little more like first Psychedelic Furs album.)

― s woods, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Maybe powerpop in the The Pop sense (only weirder, and punkier) (though then again, I've never heard that first The Pop album).

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

I enjoyed seeing D Generation opening for KISS on the '96 reunion tour at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, but I don't remember anything in particular about their music.

― John Fredland (jfredland), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

Love the Dambuilders, their last three albums should get them more respect in the critical arena than they do get. I still play them.

And it was "...dye my hair..." monkeybutler.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 24 November 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

The best show I ever saw from the Clone Defects was at a Detroit Blowout, I think at Paycheck's. They were just an unholy ball of energy, with Vulgar playing his Iggy attack the crowd schtick to the hilt. They had much better sound than they deserved, and I picked up Blood on Jupiter and have played it a few times, but it's meh.

Thornetta Davis plays probably about 10 times a month here, and has a fullness and a richness that just doesn't come through on the records. She's also really loud in person, just able to project even unmiked all the way to the back of a club with total clarity.

I dunno. Maybe it's just that I prefer live music nearly every time over records, but if you find yourself in the Detroit area, you should give her a shot in person.

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 24 November 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

revive

― skogsturken, Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:54 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUxADCsPV8s

― revive, Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:02 (fifteen years ago)

― sturkskogen, Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:13 (fifteen years ago)

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