Artists amazingly not popular

Gordon Giltrap (solo) and Horslips (group).

I have virtually every album Harry Chapin released and love his music. Harry is a story teller and that is what I think really makes a song. I love a good story and much prefer it to somebody moaning about how bad their life is. I'm sure I've mentioned HC in a thread or at least in the what are you listening to saga. The Mayor of Candor lied is a great track. 

Sorry I know nothing of Blackfoot though. 

I like Horslips too, SJB recommended them. 

Planxty hardly ever get a mention and are the best live band I've ever seen. The studio albums are magical too. 

As a solo artist I've seen precious little of Melanie (Safka), who recorded some truly great records with super arrangements. 

What about Spirit who were a truly stunning band or 10CC or Supertramp or C.O.B. 

Not many Cradle of Filth fans on here either or even Napalm Death - don't folk like bands from Suffolk? 

When I've started threads of Delia Derbyshire nobody seemed to care. 

Thankfully there are a few fellow Sandy Denny fans on the forum and so the greatest singer/songwriter of them all does get some mileage. 

I would start one of those top 100 threads, but I'm unsure if it would be of much interest as my top 100 has no post-Syd Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Dire Straits or Genesis in it. 

When I've started threads of Delia Derbyshire nobody seemed to care. 

Dear Guy,

I cared, but certainly only knew her work from BBC productions, and not enough to make a sensible contribution in addition to what you wrote. It was just memory of my childhood, rather than something that I actually knew any details of. I did not even know her name when you mentioned her, but Radio Four made some programmes about her just after your posts, so I listened to them!

As for pop music after the early seventies, I really stopped listening to it at all once I discovered Radios Three and Four as a ten year old.

One of the last "hits" that I was aware of was the Bealtes, "Oh, Blady, ..."

So that kind of restricts what I might usefully add on this thread as well.

I did like "Lilly The Pink," from the Scaffold though, and I have never seen that mentioned here!

"Bridge Over Troubled Waters," is still something that I'll never forget ...

ATB from George

From Wiki...

Charlyn Marie Marshall (born January 21, 1972), also known as Chan Marshall or by her stage name Cat Power, is an American singer/songwriter and occasional actress and model. Cat Power was originally the name of Marshall's first band, but has come to refer to her musical projects with various backing bands. Over a twenty year career she has produced eight studio albums, one live album and two EPs.

• Dear Sir (1995)
• Myra Lee (1996)
• What Would the Community Think (1996)
• Moon Pix (1998)
• The Covers Record (2000)
• You Are Free (2003)
• The Greatest(2006)
• Jukebox (2008)

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Perhaps the best bet to try first is Moon Pix or Jukebox, but they're all on Spotify for a free listen.

Her albums tend to differ greatly, but i like them all, so far have 5 on vinyl and 1 on CD.

The Matador vinyl from the RTI factory is quality made too : )

Debs

Agreed Debs

Moon Pix - One of the best albums I have ever had the pleasure of hearing. 

I've never heard of Spirit or Cat Power, so I'll check them out first. Any artist with cat in their name has got be good.

10CC and Supertramp not popular ??  Surely two of the biggest bands of the 70's.

George

You could tell us which composers are amazingly not popular with forum members. There must be a few composers that you like that only get a few hits when you search the music room.

The which CD or LP have you just bought/listened to is littered with Beethoven, Mozart, Bach etc but no mention of Franz Berwald. I picked up Symphony No. 2 in C major (Berlin Philomonic/Markevitch) a couple of years ago. I know very little about music, but i certainly enjoy this piece of music over a lot of works by Beethoven, Mozart, Bach etc.

It's not about how popular artists where, it's about popularity amongst forum members. Jim Croce was very popular but only a handful mentions in the music room. Although 10cc and Supertramp do have 40 or 50 mentions.

Marcello [Bach was a great admirer!], Pergolesi, Purcell, even Haydn, your quite right about Berwald, Humpedink, even Sibelius actually. Yes there is a long list of great classical music and composers who rarely get a mention here.

Perhaps when I put such music on, I should post it on the listening thread explaining that it is fantastic if a little out of the way!

Best wishes from George

Another Blackfoot fan here. I've seen them a few times and, I agree, better than Skynyrd.

steve

No one plays any Blind Lemon Pie on here.

He discovered the Everly brothers and Lawrence Walsh.

Stu.

The Cardiacs, I know they are not everybody's cup of tea but their music thrills me. There is so much going on, it is a veritable szmorgasbord of complex rythmns. One music critic once said " there is more going on in one song by the cardiacs than there is in most other bands full repetoire" nuff said.

Why does nobody on here (seem to) like Throbbing Gristle? One of THE poineering bands from '75 to '81...

And on a classical tip, there's this guy...

This man is a wizzard and he could really do the brontosaurus, but apart from me, nobody seems to mention him. 

And why does nobody else seem to like Chas & Dave, Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias, Pearls Before Swine or the Desperate Bicycles or even Richard Digance: at least if they do like them then they keep very quiet about it. 

I really think you do actually know why.   

Not sure why this isn't more popular.

I bet his Mum told him off for looking like that!

Mr Wood was in the Move, whilst his friend Jeff Lynne was a member of the Idle Race.

Perhaps opposites attract, well at least until the electric light was turned on. 

Bill Fay, who recorded two fantastic albums for Deram in the early 1970s, then disappeared from sight.

A bit like Nick Drake, but he's still alive (and largely ignored) these days.

Naim really ought to release his 'comeback' LP soon. 

 

There are a few bands musicians that i havent seen on here and are suprised,

Mull Historical Society AKA Colin Mcintyre ,, singer songwriter ,producer,multi instrumentalist from the hebridies  . He has made some interesting  albums over the last 10 years , sometimes described as indie power pop , though he also has made   stripped down guitar albums as just Colin Mcintyre  ,, such as the island .Any one else on here a fan?

Also there dont tseem to be many fans of John Peel favourites such as the Delgados , another fine scottish band from the nineties . The album Domestiques well worth a listen.

On the theme of the great John  Peel ,, there must be other admirers of The Fall ,, surely.

and Guido Fawkes ,Napalm Death ,Im with you on them , what is there not to like.

Alberto y Lost Trios Paranois -brilliiant call. I remember seeing them on OGWT getting tangled up in guitar leads - I was in hysterics. No one else I knew ever rated them so great to see them mentioned here. Brings back great memories

> They were supported by an unknown trio who had died blond hair and played reggae influenced songs.  their singer was called "Stink" or something. Now, what were they called?

There is no justice in the world, the Albertos were a terrific band who made some great records ... Stink and his band went on the make a fortune, though god knows why .... in fairness Andy Summers  was good in Dantallion's Chariot. 

I still think the saddest line in ant song is in HMHB's A Country Practice, which relates of a lonely elderly woman dying in her flat on the eve of the millennium and the last thing she hears is the aforementioned Stink 

She died with her telly on, eighty-seven and confused
With not enough hospital beds ‘cos all the money’s been used
On the end of the century party preparations
And they reckon that the last thing she saw in her life was
Sting, singing on the roof of the Barbican
Sting, singing on the roof of the Barbican

If only she had been watching the Albertos she'd have known that

Living is a cliché, it's all been done before 

Here is a classic from Lost Trios Paranoias.