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Blue Moon Playlist Review Club - Season 2 - Episode 32 - threespires - Could have been a Contender (pg 472)
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Can i get a check on the thread rules?
I thought we were supposed to submit nominations in week two?
Of can you do so now at free will?
First week people nominate to add to the initial 5, second week we listen and comment. Though I always comment as I go.
Follow-up question for consideration. Should there be a recency timeline limitation to think about. For example, bands like Midnight Ambulance, Snash, Soapbox, etc.. they are underrated and haven't made it big. But then, they have only been going say 3 years or so, nothing to say they won't make it big any time in the next say 3-5 years.
Is the tense in the OP important?
Could have - Past?
Are we strictly looking backwards here?
Thought similar myself as above. Think that might be a thing in itself perhaps, promising bands expected to yet make it big. But happy to go either way.
I think someone like the aforementioned Rory Gallagher ' qualifies'. He's mega influential and sold a lot around the world but I think spent the sum total of 1 week in the top 10 of the UK album charts. He comes under the category of if you know you know and he remains under the radar for lots of people. Someone who is described as 'the greatest guitarist you've never heard of' must fit, even if most on here have thanks in part to you.
I agree. But also think a voluntaty 'proselytising' FR-type exclusion should apply here ;).
In all fairness and joking aside, I think with this one both Eamo and myself would be better off saving our picks for artists we haven't mentioned multiple times before, and focus on some that might be a real surprise in themselves to others involved. Which we both have enough to pick from.
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Prompted by a couple of new singles and a new album next month I went back and reminded myself why I liked this band.
Not even a NME album of the year for Hidden enabled them to make a dent in the charts
This is from their 3rd album Field Of Reeds.
Likened to later period Talk Talk. That will do for me.
Could still be big but I doubt it
These New Puritans - Fragment Two
Not even a NME album of the year for Hidden enabled them to make a dent in the charts
This is from their 3rd album Field Of Reeds.
Likened to later period Talk Talk. That will do for me.
Could still be big but I doubt it
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Thought similar myself as above. Think that might be a thing in itself perhaps, promising bands expected to yet make it big. But happy to go either way.
I think extant bands should qualify too, if they've got one album that only came out 6 months ago that's pushing it but apart from that I think you don't have to be (musically or literally) dead to qualify.
Thinking about this some more as I come up with a longlist, I think I may well take spires' loose suggestion as my own guidance on here. In that I will avoid puttong forward artists I have nomimated before. Because the first say 10 that occured to me, i've already nominated almost all of them. Unless there is a very good reason, will avoid it, but may do a mention of them for anyone that might welcome a reminder or extracurricular input.
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How about bands who showed real promise on their debut and then produced a right load of cobblers thereafter?
How about bands who showed real promise on their debut and then produced a right load of cobblers thereafter?
Perhaps, if that's the reason for them not making it big?
Given Jazz as a genre is not considered big - technically any jazz artist qualifies by default.
I am finding my initial longlist here very indie dominated fyi.
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I agree. But also think a voluntaty 'proselytising' FR-type exclusion should apply here ;).
In all fairness and joking aside, I think with this one both Eamo and myself would be better off saving our picks for artists we haven't mentioned multiple times before, and focus on some that might be a real surprise in themselves to others involved. Which we both have enough to pick from.
Lol, happy to leave you and Eamo to self-censor any evangelising tendencies but if it ends up that the spirit moves you too much I won't hold it against you!
How about bands who showed real promise on their debut and then produced a right load of cobblers thereafter?
I didn't know you were a fan of Original Pirate Material ;-)
Such bands probably don't warrant a separate theme so I say chuck them in.
I think extant bands should qualify too, if they've got one album that only came out 6 months ago that's pushing it but apart from that I think you don't have to be (musically or literally) dead to qualify.
Surely literal death disqualifes them, if it is the reason that stopped them making it big. Be odd to for example bracket Jeff Buckley and the Delgados as never having made it big.
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Thinking about this some more as I come up with a longlist, I think I may well take spires' loose suggestion as my own guidance on here. In that I will avoid puttong forward artists I have nomimated before. Because the first say 10 that occured to me, i've already nominated almost all of them. Unless there is a very good reason, will avoid it, but may do a mention of them for anyone that might welcome a reminder or extracurricular input.
Yes, my rationale was to get as close as possible a playlist of stuff that very few of us knew any of on the basis it would be interesting to see how many ended up sticking with people.
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Surely literal death disqualifes them, if it is the reason thatbstopped them making it big. Be odd to for example bracket Jeff Buckley and the Delgados as never having made it big.
Think I mangled the English language there. I guess depends where they were in their career at the point of demise, someone who'd had five albums but didn't make it before they expired would count I think.
Yes, my rationale was to get as close as possible a playlist of stuff that very few of us knew any of on the basis it would be interesting to see how many ended up sticking with people.
My problem is I kinda try to do that a lot of the time anyway. I may well have used up a lot of my top 'obscurites'.
Skies Fell
Seryn
The Boxer Rebellion
Peat & Diesel
And it keeps going on so..
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Perhaps, of that'sthe reason for them not making it big?
The band I have in mind are an English indie band, it's just that I found most of what followed unlistenable (at least not worth listening to). However, I have no idea whether they are considered big or whether their debut was their creative peak. I'll have to do some research.I didn't know you were a fan of Original Pirate Material ;-)
Such bands probably don't warrant a separate theme so I say chuck them in.
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I know i'm not on here often but Rory Gallagher is not underrated. Anybody that knows just a little about Rock music knows and has listened to Rory. He is recognised as one of if not the greatest rock/blues guitarist to have drawn breath. Global sales of his albums top 30million.I think someone like the aforementioned Rory Gallagher ' qualifies'. He's mega influential and sold a lot around the world but I think spent the sum total of 1 week in the top 10 of the UK album charts. He comes under the category of if you know you know and he remains under the radar for lots of people. Someone who is described as 'the greatest guitarist you've never heard of' must fit, even if most on here have thanks in part to you.
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For someone truly underrated, how about Joanna Newsom. My favourite album of hers is Ys. Favourite track, Emily.
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My problem is I kinda try to do that a lot of the time anyway. I may well have used up a lot of my top 'obscurites'.
Wintersleep
Skies Fell
Seryn
The Boxer Rebellion
Peat & Diesel
And it keeps going on so..
Yes, I think you and OOB6 would have the toughest job given how much new music you introduce people too. But OOB6 has managed to come up with one already so I think you just need to try harder ;-)