Bands you loved but had sort of forgotten about ... (1 Viewer)

and you have now found you love all over again.

I'm sure we've all got albums we have loved tucked away somewhere and not played for years. Have you revisited any of these artists recently or long after their album's original releases and then suddenly remembered just how brilliant they truly were?

I think we can all say I love such and such a band, but sometimes only when you play their stuff do realise their degree of brilliance or just how much they mean to you.

Have a trip up to the Lake District and back on Monday, so decided to stick a load of new songs on my SD card for the car stereo to listen to on the long journey there and back. It is an 8 hour round trip.

Anyway, always loved XTC, but on playing some of their stuff again I had forgotten just how brilliant they could truly be.

So stuck a load of XTC tracks on there and then came across my Ben Folds/Ben Folds Five collection and remembered just how brilliant they could be and I fell in love with them all over again right there and then.

Loved that stuff so much I immediately went out and downloaded some of his/their new stuff. It's really good and without listening back to the old stuff I wouldn't have come across the new stuff that's out there now.

The Bees are another one. Forgot how good they could really be.

It's like a warm fuzzy feeling of remembrance, but with a new freshness.

Others too of note were Soulwax, Depeche Mode and the Super Furry Animals.

So, have you all come across something you have revisited after a number of years and fell in love with it all over again?

Sky_Blue_Daz said:

There was a Celtic rock group called Toss the feathers, they were from Manchester bloody brilliant

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Never heard of them. What sort of sound do they have, Daz? Akin to any other band so I have some idea?

xcraigx said:

I've been listening to old Radiohead (pre Kid A), Supergrass, Smashing Pumpkins, Mansun and Super Furry Animals a lot recently. Mainly live performances on Youtube.

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Been meaning to dig out all my old Radiohead stuff. Must get on to that asap.

Sky_Blue_Daz said:

Its hard to put them in a bracket Otis, they played some great instrumental stuff I'd say they were influenced by moving hearts and also one of their songs were in my opinion influenced by Dirty old town it's called a requiem for the innocent
They were pretty big on the U.K. Folk and Irish scene early to mid 90s brilliant live
They used to always finish with devil road down to Georgia

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Will check out stuff on YouTube. Cheers, Daz.

stupot07 said:

Listened to Travis debut album the other day for the first time in years. That was quality before they went dreary and mainstream.

Love SFA, Radiohead, mansun too. SFA were quality at the Kasbah 4-5 years a go.

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Totally agree with you on Travis. Their first album was really good and had energy and edginess to it. After that they went all twiddly twirly and only made music a great gran would like.

stupot07 said:

Oh Gomez, their first 2 albums are quality. Love doves and feeder too and some manics and garbage, Idlewild and terrorvision never really did it for me.

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Yeah, Gomez! Got their first two albums too and loved them. Really thought they were going to be massive, but they seemed to just fizzle out after a quick flutter with stardom.

Doves were fantastic too. Must dig their albums out.

I have over 700 CD's so it is going to take me some time to wade through them all.

Have Manics and Garbage albums, so must give them a listen to too. Went off the Manics a bit when they started introducing strings and went a bit mainstream, but there is still a load of good stuff in there to be found.

xcraigx said:

I forgot to add Idlewild, Garbage, Terrorvision, Gomez, Doves, Feeder and Manics (pre 1998). I can tell i'm getting old as there's very little from this century that I regularly listen to!

I've been meaning to give Gaz Coombes a chance so cheers for reminding me, got it playing now!

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Samo said:

Where do I start? ...
I Love Radiohead too but I've been catching up on some of the older stuff from my formative years... Rezillos, Dury, New York Dolls, Talking Heads, etc. Another band I dearly loved were The Waterboys, been revisiting some of their stuff.
Also love Weezer, Suede, REM, Kate Bush, Green Day, Fun Lovin Criminals, The Wonderstuff to name a few.

Does anyone remember an 80's band from Leamington called Mummy Calls? Or a Cov band called The Furious Apples?

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I remember the Furious Apples for sure.