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

deniece williams -> Do you mean the one who did that Footloose track? Let's Hear It For The Boy?

yeah, but is there another one?

Deniece Williams does have a thread here on ILM. I remember gettin' piled on because I stupidly asked if her name was misspelled.

And Wumpscut kinda suck. I've got a Haujob vs. Wumpscut ep kicking around here somewhere, but I think I sold off all the other stuff I had from them...

David S Ware - spiffing.
Is Wolf the NWOBHM band formerly known as Black Axe? Don't remember a thing about them apart from that.
I was hoping Warlord, Wizard or Witchfinder General might've turned up in the W's.

i was figuring it was the scandahoovian wolf who do straight up heavy metal of modern vintage. pretty good stuff, too.

Betty Wright showed up in a thread recently -- might even have been the Deniece Williams thread, now that I think about it.

I do have Witchfinder and Witchfinder General CD-Rs that George burned for me, I think! (Or, at least one or the other). I guess they're in the storage garage.

And yes, the modern scandinoovian volf i mean wolf.

Wumpscut are fairly well-known in EBM circles (or whatever genre you want to call it). It's cookie-cutter stuff for the genre -- standard beats, synth leads, raspy vocals, and so on -- but they do it amazingly well. Their sound is reliably stuck in a rut, but in a good way. "Golgotha" is one of my fave 90's singles.

I do have Witchfinder and Witchfinder General CD-Rs that George burned for me, I think! (Or, at least one or the other). I guess they're in the storage garage.

Yeah, I know I remastered "Death Penalty" by the General for you. And Witchfynde's Stage Fright. The latter which is not a live album but their second studio, totally different than the first -- Give 'Em Hell - and has one of the best, maybe the only, metaphor song linking going to the gallows on getting up onstage at the club to play heavy metal. Also contains the great pop tune, "Would Not Be Caught Dead In Heaven." And both Witchfynde CD's were reissued this year and I should have mentioned them on Rolling Metal (or maybe I did and forgot the thread's so damn gargantuan) and reviewed them but didn't. Because Witchfynde albums are true and honest art, better than the shit from the Eagles farewell tour on Bravo last night that aggravated me so much I muted the sound and put on Loudness CDs.

Same with Cream reunion on PBS. Boy, that ate it. PBS local used it as part of their pledge drive with "hosts" who reminded me of my mom and dad when they were in their late 40's going on about how it was so great and don't you want to underwrite us to see more of this great ROCK. Short answer: No! --F'in Ay, Witchfinder General and Witchfynde will never be on PBS or Bravo, I tell ya.

I never have anything useful to say in these threads beyond organizing tips.

The "World Famous" in "World Famous Beat Junkies" is merely cosmetic, and the Beat Junkies assuredly belong under "B."

Also, I have nothing to say about Bob Wills that hasn't been said more eleoquently dozens of times over the last, oh, 70 years.

And the Willowz apparantly had some major labels sniffing around them for a while, but the bottom fell out of the "Detroit guitar rock bands" market. I'd consider them one of the best (and certainly one of the most fun) if I can remember they exist, which i can rarely do with most guitar-rock bands these days.

Warren Brothers--last couple of albums pretty decent country that's also rockhead friendly. (They once had a xxtrisian hair metal band yclept St. Warren, but nary a trace of that now, 'cept for the decently-clad ambition, though more likely to be Levis than spandex.)Ones I heard before that mostly fumble the Mellentemplate: raspy li'l phrases and creased beats are spozed to get you past the musty woolgathering, not vice-versa.Warsaw Village Band--something happened in that village, and something else happened in the next century, and the next one, and five years ago, and I'm glad I wasn't there to see any of it in person, but I'd pay to see the movie. Also,I'd like to hear the tracks Johnny "Guitar" Watson recorded with (American) Kaleidoscope.Wide Right--headbanging family values, and they've got something to say, especially her. Lari White--haven't heard her, but Green-Eyed Soul is an alluring title. xxeez, another Larry King column. Bob Wills--one of the best tribute albums is The Majesty Of Bob Wills, except he'd have a helium hee-hee for the title. The vocalists (Bloodshot associates) do not get too retro, they sound like they always sound, which is not like the Wills balladeers, who were a bit avuncular even when fairly young. So no Ray Benson-type blandouts going Asleep At The Wheel (although my hero Neko does disappoint.) Will To Power--Kogan to thread! The Works--keyboards kinda ponderous, but I'll listen again. World Famous Beat Junkies--if "World Famous" is a fib, what about "Beat," maybe they're just Junkies. Betty Wright--used to really like that LP, Danger:High Voltage! with "Tonight Is The Night"(mash it with Neil's "Tonight's The Night" and The Borough Famous Zit Junkies' "Tonight Tonight" and West Side Story's too). Also on there was a killier cover of the Rascals' "Come On Up"--WHERE IS THE LOVE FOR THE RASCALS cough cough. Chely Wright--did at least one damn good song, where she's finally leaving him, and relieved, and then light-headed, and then a bit wavering, and starting to question the whole situation, and her own judgement ( about pickin' men, but come to think of it, also about leavin'; if she was wrong about the former, mebbe the latter, maybe she's being too negative, like he said...) Then yells at herself, "Shut up and drive!" That's the title. Made for an usually good video , at the time. Though "Single White Female" had her edited into a different outfit every 2 seconds, the country video usual, at the time. Current one is about some triumphantly stupid bumper sticker, I'm told. But she got it right once.

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They are not anywhere on my shelves. And they do get mentioned enough. So....no.

I remember one Wumpscut alb with sex sounds and mystery amid the growling, then another worse one where they became sensitive in that "we are now trying to sound like Depeche Mode" way that is afflicting their genre.

(Unless I'm thinking of someone else. The sex sounds alb was them all right. One track, anyway.)