So we've done favorite and most influential how about most underappreciated Band...
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I will agree with Squeeze. Throw in The Smithereens.
I watched a show on the changing influence of music and one they pointed out, although not a band, was Donna Summer. "I Feel Love" and "Love to Love You" were pointed out as really high tech in terms of technoMusic and blending sounds digitally. They pointed out her music as well as Devo (from the same time period). I am not a big music fan enough to know, really, but I would never have put her and Devo into a historically ground-breaking category.
Dire Sraits- best live performances of the era.
Cheap Trick
The Replacements
XTC
Split Enz
Bruce Hornsby and the Range
The Replacements
XTC
Split Enz
Bruce Hornsby and the Range
Here is an article on it:
Donna Summer will be remembered as the queen of disco, but in fact her best records transformed not just dancefloors but the course of pop music. Released in 1977, the year of punk, her single I Feel Love was as radical as any record that has got to No 1. Sparks were a glam rock band until they heard I Feel Love, when they decided to throw their entire musical direction in the dustbin and make pulsing, synthesised disco records with its producer, Giorgio Moroder. Seeking to assert his credentials as a man of impeccable musical taste, Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream used to boast that he had bought both I Feel Love and the Sex Pistols' God Save the Queen on the same day. The combination of silvery female soul vocals with state-of-the-art electronic production, which has been responsible for some of pop's greatest and most groundbreaking singles, from Janet Jackson to Aaliyah to Beyoncé, was pioneered right there by Summer and her two Italian producers - Moroder and Pete Bellotte.
Working from the unlikely location of Munich, the trio managed to fuse soul with the surgical precision of Kraftwerk, creating a record so far ahead of its time that pop took a good 20 years to catch up. Like the Beach Boys' Good Vibrations, I Feel Love is a studio recording so perfect that covering it – or even playing it live – would be pointless, though many have tried. The sparsest ingredients – lyrics that could be written on the back of a beermat with room to spare, a bassline that, in theory, a three-year-old could play – are turned, in Summer and Moroder's hands, into an entire world of futuristic wonder. Moroder took a Moog Modulator synthesiser and put a delay on the bassline, creating the "dugga-dugga-dugga" sound that has galvanised dancefloors ever since. Summer's vocal is no less wonderful – ethereal and otherworldly.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/may/17/donna-summer-disco-pop
Working from the unlikely location of Munich, the trio managed to fuse soul with the surgical precision of Kraftwerk, creating a record so far ahead of its time that pop took a good 20 years to catch up. Like the Beach Boys' Good Vibrations, I Feel Love is a studio recording so perfect that covering it – or even playing it live – would be pointless, though many have tried. The sparsest ingredients – lyrics that could be written on the back of a beermat with room to spare, a bassline that, in theory, a three-year-old could play – are turned, in Summer and Moroder's hands, into an entire world of futuristic wonder. Moroder took a Moog Modulator synthesiser and put a delay on the bassline, creating the "dugga-dugga-dugga" sound that has galvanised dancefloors ever since. Summer's vocal is no less wonderful – ethereal and otherworldly.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/may/17/donna-summer-disco-pop
Nice picks. Love XTC and Split Enz, just sold some vinyl of them.
Georgio Moroder. He was one of the main producers in the disco era
Husker Du and the Replacements. Just another part of the Twin Cities Music Scene!
Used to be a fair number of Punk/ Punk metal bands as well.
I know the singer/ guitar player with glasses in the video.
Not exactly my scene, but I admire their energy. Super cool guy! I think he was looking at starting a new band. I think of him when I think about Husker Du, the Replacements, and then all of the bands that never really made it.
I’ll show my age-
The Kinks
The Ramones
Roxy Music
The Kinks
The Ramones
Roxy Music
Cheap Trick is also great live
The Kinks, Velvet Underground, Moody Blues.
I totally agree with The Smithereens. One of the best bands in the US.
The New York Dolls
Gun Club
The Stone Roses
Gun Club
The Stone Roses
My list in this category will always begin and end with Los Lobos.
I don't think they really fit, because many would argue that they've made it, but I'll add them anyway.
Mint Condition
They are one of only a few if not the only self contained R&B Band. What kind of makes them stand out, is they did it alone. Many groups in that era adopted the Flyte Time (Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis) sound.
Agree on The Smithereens and Cheap Trick.
Also Blues Traveler, Little Feat and Living Colour are my favorites that are sometimes forgotten.
Also Blues Traveler, Little Feat and Living Colour are my favorites that are sometimes forgotten.
Nine Inch Nails. I listen to my Pretty Hate Machine album about twice a week.
Ah, you know I'm lying. I'll go back in time and say The Magnificent Men.
Many great innovators on the synth music scene.
Kind of off from high tech synth, but I'll add Roxy Music. Mostly because of Brian Eno.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxy_Music
Back when Reel to Reel recorders were used widely in the studios Brian Eno did many cool things by dubbing/ recording multiple tape loops. Ambient morphed from that and synth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno
SuperTramp
Replacements
I really don’t understand how all the bands that sound like them made it big while they didn’t. There is not a better, more creative lyricist than Paul Westerberg.
I really don’t understand how all the bands that sound like them made it big while they didn’t. There is not a better, more creative lyricist than Paul Westerberg.
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