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Post by smokeyb on May 6, 2011 21:35:02 GMT 1
Down the years there have been lots of singers/bands who were hyped up by the media, as the next big thing, only to dissappear after one single or one album. Some lasted a year or two. What artists would you put into this category.
I can think of a few:
Frankie goes to hollywood
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
The Darkness
Can you think of any others, who either never reached their expected potential or just weren't as good as the critics thought?
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Post by suedehead on May 6, 2011 22:34:14 GMT 1
FGTH's first album was brilliant. The follow up wasn't. Sigue Sigue Sputnik were always dreadful and The Darkness peaked with their Christmas song which was gloriously OTT.
Other over hyped bands would include Menswear and Northern Uproar.
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Post by Panda on May 6, 2011 22:40:37 GMT 1
Gay Dad
The Bravery
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Post by bellboys on May 6, 2011 22:51:32 GMT 1
Hard Fi (that wazzock on lead vocals is the worst singer I've heard this side of Cilla Black)
The Enemy (they managed to get by being a very poor The Jam tribute band for a while but it deservedly all fell apart pretty soon)
I totally agree with Sigue Sigue Sputnik - awful band who couldn't have hoped to live up to the hype even if it was a thousandth of what it was. And IIRc one of them did his credibility no good by copping off with janet street-Porter. Yuk)
The Darkness - oh dear. C*ck rock at its very worst. They were getting away with all beautifully until ppl realised they were actually being serious!
Kaiser Chiefs - as above but they weren't c+ck rock.
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Post by evansabove on May 7, 2011 7:21:54 GMT 1
From the pop genre Mika was a one sound wonder for a year or so
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Post by raliverpool on May 7, 2011 9:44:52 GMT 1
Add to the list the NME more over-hyped landfill indie from:
The Vines
The Ordinary Boys
The Thrills
Razorlight
The Kooks
Babyshambles
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Post by borneoman on May 7, 2011 10:45:53 GMT 1
basically, anything that NME endorses... makes me laugh everytime they claim one band is the best band in the universe after the one single (ehem*Arctic Monkeys)  |
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Post by Smurfie on May 7, 2011 11:42:44 GMT 1
Sandi Thom
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Post by vastar iner on May 7, 2011 13:39:48 GMT 1
Gay Dad - wasn't one of them an NME writer or something?
The most overhyped though is Michael Jackson. Zombie line-dancing does not an innovative video make. And since "Thriller" the record industry cottoned on that you don't need actual tunes, you just need massive budgets and complaisant media.
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Post by Panda on May 7, 2011 20:46:58 GMT 1
Gay Dad - wasn't one of them an NME writer or something? Quite possibly. The music was actually OK but To Earth With Love got so much attention, people were bored by it before it was even released. A classic example of death by airplay. |
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Post by Earl Purple on May 7, 2011 23:46:50 GMT 1
To Earth With Love sounded like something from the mid-70s. It came at a time where there was very little "indie" in the chart and very very few new artists being allowed to break in. Came out just after Christmas where it was typically slow to pick up and rock acts often got their best chance to get a decent sized hit then. I seem to recall it entered in the top 10 the same week the Offspring were #1. I can't recall them ever releasing a follow-up.
I remember at the time saying that they would overplay one or two songs to death whilst ignoring everything else like they didn't exist.
The Darkness were the saviours of rock causing the mid-00s resurgence! And their peak was not just one single, they had a massive-selling album. Maybe they couldn't follow it up, but they were good for that moment and it did lead to a load of other rock acts getting into the charts again.
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Post by Panda on May 8, 2011 0:18:24 GMT 1
To Earth With Love sounded like something from the mid-70s. It came at a time where there was very little "indie" in the chart and very very few new artists being allowed to break in. Came out just after Christmas where it was typically slow to pick up and rock acts often got their best chance to get a decent sized hit then. I seem to recall it entered in the top 10 the same week the Offspring were #1. I can't recall them ever releasing a follow-up. The follow-up was called 'Joy' and went top 30, I think. It was later used on a car advert. Then things went quiet for a while but they released this in 2001, missing the top 40 by one place: |
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Post by Earl Purple on May 8, 2011 15:30:57 GMT 1
I just looked up what I charted at the start of 1999. "To Earth With Love" entered my chart on 23 January, which means it entered the UK chart on the Sunday of 24 January with the chart dated 30 January. It would have been released on Monday 18 January - very early in the year. I had 4 new entries on 9 January, 2 on 16 January and 8 on 23 January. The standard of 9 January was very poor indeed, I was so desperate that "When You Believe" by Whitney Houston & Mariah Carey slipped into the lower end of my chart as the 4th new entry. It didn't last there long, and I think it had been around for a few months. Billie charted higher than it with "She Wants You". Probably deserved to, it must be a better song, can hardly be a worse one. And compared to these Gay Dad is a classic...
On the week of To Earth With Love I also had Pretty Fly... and Tequila and a song called "When I Wake Up" by Umajets, which peaked at #5, plus "They All Laughed" by Fank Sinatra, "Flame" by Sebadoh, "Polyester Girl" by Regurgitator and "Malibu" by Hole. So I had songs called Malibu and Tequila enter my chart on the same week.
"National Express" by Divine Comedy was the following week and got him his only top 10 hit.
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Post by thehitparade on May 9, 2011 21:47:49 GMT 1
Andy Bell from Ride/ Hurricane #1 was in Gay Dad - for about a week before the vacancy in Oasis came up. And now he's in Beady Eye of course.
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Post by Smurfie on May 9, 2011 21:51:46 GMT 1
Hurricane #1
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