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Artists Whose Name or Work Predicted Their Future Status

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1. Living in a Box

SB OK (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 July 2011 10:13 (fifteen years ago)

2. Dire Straits

Mark G, Thursday, 7 July 2011 10:13 (fifteen years ago)

3. The Grateful Dead

SB OK (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 July 2011 10:15 (fifteen years ago)

4. Lostprophets

SB OK (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 July 2011 10:17 (fifteen years ago)

5. The Godfathers
6. Madness

mark e, Thursday, 7 July 2011 10:17 (fifteen years ago)

7. Charlie Rich

Mark G, Thursday, 7 July 2011 10:18 (fifteen years ago)

8. Grym Reaper (of Gravediggaz), sadly.

Tuomas, Thursday, 7 July 2011 10:29 (fifteen years ago)

9. JJ Fad. They even released an album called "Not Just a Fad".

Tuomas, Thursday, 7 July 2011 10:36 (fifteen years ago)

Rolling Stones (they keep going)

mmmm, Thursday, 7 July 2011 10:36 (fifteen years ago)

Placebo - no substance, some people seemed to derive a short term benefit but this soon faded

zappi, Thursday, 7 July 2011 10:40 (fifteen years ago)

Dead, from Mayhem

Rebekah Brooks Ate My Country (Doran), Thursday, 7 July 2011 10:40 (fifteen years ago)

13. John Lennon - "Nowhere, Man"

SB OK (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 July 2011 10:42 (fifteen years ago)

14. The Cult

ledge, Thursday, 7 July 2011 10:43 (fifteen years ago)

lol @ placebo

ledge, Thursday, 7 July 2011 10:43 (fifteen years ago)

Sixpence None The Richer

brian da facepalma (NickB), Thursday, 7 July 2011 10:44 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, someone asked me "what you think of Placebo" to which I replied "Well.. they did nothing for me"

Mark G, Thursday, 7 July 2011 11:02 (fifteen years ago)

16. INXS - Disappear

SB OK (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 July 2011 11:04 (fifteen years ago)

17. Frank Beard (eventually grew beard)

Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Thursday, 7 July 2011 11:27 (fifteen years ago)

18. Wavis O'Shave (eventually grew a beard but changed his name)

Mark G, Thursday, 7 July 2011 11:30 (fifteen years ago)

19. Midway Still

Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Thursday, 7 July 2011 11:30 (fifteen years ago)

nirvana

thomp, Thursday, 7 July 2011 11:31 (fifteen years ago)

the smiths

thomp, Thursday, 7 July 2011 11:31 (fifteen years ago)

lynryd plane crash skynyrd

thomp, Thursday, 7 July 2011 11:32 (fifteen years ago)

the beatwoofthemaredeadandoneofthemisaknightles

thomp, Thursday, 7 July 2011 11:32 (fifteen years ago)

Garry Gary Methylated Spirits

Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Thursday, 7 July 2011 12:21 (fifteen years ago)

do you remember Husker Du?

President Keyes, Thursday, 7 July 2011 13:14 (fifteen years ago)

Failure

Alex in NYC, Thursday, 7 July 2011 13:17 (fifteen years ago)

A band called themselves Failure?

blimey, what could they expect?

Mark G, Thursday, 7 July 2011 13:25 (fifteen years ago)

7 Year Bitch

lasted 7 years

little mushroom person (abanana), Thursday, 7 July 2011 13:51 (fifteen years ago)

There was a band in the 80s called Cant. Don't know anything about them, I only remember a two-word J Burchill review in the NME: "Cant won't."

ban this sick stunt (anagram), Thursday, 7 July 2011 14:41 (fifteen years ago)

I thought Failure did okay.

The one that makes me laugh really hard are the absolutely 100% humour-free avant-black metal band Weakling.

Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Thursday, 7 July 2011 14:42 (fifteen years ago)

I also thought Failure did ok.

billstevejim, Thursday, 7 July 2011 16:30 (fifteen years ago)

Gerry And The Pacemakers.. well thats a joke from Waynes World so i'm not very original

billstevejim, Thursday, 7 July 2011 16:30 (fifteen years ago)

dumbest thread

69, Thursday, 7 July 2011 16:58 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

I also thought Failure did ok.

Yeah, but where are they now, eh?

Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 13:41 (fifteen years ago)

Cardiacs

Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 13:43 (fifteen years ago)

lol sadly that one is all too true :(

frogbs, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 13:47 (fifteen years ago)

Queen

Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 13:49 (fifteen years ago)

Negativland (whose releases increasingly got more depressing and lacked humor)

frogbs, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 13:50 (fifteen years ago)

The Outfield (the only time you hear them is as walk-on music for random outfielders like Frank Catalanotto and Mark Kotsay)

frogbs, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 13:50 (fifteen years ago)

Say it isn't so!

Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:47 (fifteen years ago)


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