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Thanks for the tip on the cd! Grass records is gone (Im getting old too, all the good labels are no longer good). I actually saw mousetrap with sunbrain. Good band.
as far as NMA stiletto, GREAT BAND! I tried to force them on some people on SDMB with no luck. Thunder and consolation is one of my favorite albums.
Fun fact Sepultura covers the song “the hunt” by new model army on their cd Chaos AD. Scary stuff 
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Gee, Pezpunk, I never had to force them on anybody. Seriously, just about everybody I’ve played them for has loved them. And Thunder and Consolation is one of my top three favorite albums of all time. Though B-sides and Abandoned Tracks is in the top five. And yes, Sepultura did a cover…though I could have sworn it was “The Charge”, rather than “The Hunt”, but I wasn’t at all impressed with it, so I could be intentionally misremembering. 
-Stil
My sociology teacher used a Judy’s song as an example when he was explaining “no dogma is dogma”. I believe the chorus was “Don’t be a hippie”, while the bridge was “no dogma is dogma”. The rest of my class thought it was the stupidest song they’d ever heard, but I kinda liked it.
I don’t know if anyone around here has heard of The String Cheese Incedent , they are getting pretty popular among the “ex-dead-head,phish phan, neo-hippie” sorts of folks (such as myself, I suppose).
Since this thread has been related to some heavier music, I’ll have to nominate Bad Religion and Inspector 39 to the list, even though one is probably well known and the other is a shitty shitty punk band I played drums with for about two weeks. Can you guess which is which?
For a boomer era bubbling-under-shoulda-been-a-hit, check out Illusion but, um, be sure you get the right one. According to allmusic.com there were four of them, two British and two American. You want the earliest American band, about which the AMG says:
“By some standards, the Illusion were one of the most successful unknown psychedelic bands of their generation-unknown, yes, but three LPs to their credit on the Steed label. Their personnel were Mike Ricciardella (drums), Richie Cerniglia (guitar), Chuck Adler (bass), Mike Maniscalco (guitar, keyboards), and John Vinci (vocals). The Steed label released Illusion, Together, and If It’s So, in 1969-70. Illusion was interesting enough to observers to merit a release in England in 1969. By 1971, the Illusion’s albums were being sought by kids who’d never heard the band play. One of their songs, “I Love You,” has made it on to compact disc.”
To which I’d add, well-crafted songs crisply executed and with soul to boot.
And for fans of the even more obscure, the band’s core (Riccoardella. Cerniglia and Vinci) reformed with a couple of other musicians to form Network in the 70s (not the rap or jazz bands of the same name from the 90s)
Whoa, you played drums for bad religion? KICK ASS!
United States Of America
Gandalf
Peanut Butter Conspiracy
Blodwyn Pig
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
Arzachel
Lothar & the Hand People
Mother Gong
Gong
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Did I mention that I am only 15 years old?
If you’d have asked that question four years ago, I’d have said Barenaked Ladies. So there’s always hope…
There is an obscure British band called the Candy Skins, who created three albums. All good, but their first was great.
Also, a really fun loud cowpunk band called Old 97’s–they’re making a play for pop success, so maybe they’ll hit it big someday. If you have the chance to see them live, take it.
Old 97’s rock! Rocks. Uh, That’s a band that rocks! Right before I left Albany, New York their new single “King Of All The World” was sneaking into heavy rotation on the area rock stations. I was happy for them, yet… y’know… the other bands on that station? Creed, Incubus, A Perfect Circle? Their fans aren’t going to like the rest of the Old 97’s stuff…
How about another cowpunk/prog band - Dolly Varden? Or Vigilantes of Love, although sometimes the lead singer’s pronounced lisp distracts me from the lyrics.
Or pop - Blinker the Star.
Initech, I loved the Candyskins. Their only radio hit was “Wembley”, I think. They also did a cool remake of “For What it’s Worth”
My nominations are probably too regional. Two Philly bands, both made national appearances on Conan O’Brian.
Marah- good old-fashioned rock and roll band, along the lines of Springsteen with a bluegrass infusion.
G. Love and Special Sauce- funk, hip-hop, jazz, acoustic rock. Very eclectic, kick ass live show.
This band not from Philly, but does anyone remember Therapy?
Fish Karma! Coolest band in the world. A friend of mine back at my old school had a CD and it was freaking awesome, but I can’t find it now… 
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I DO I DO!!! I still have some of their cds. Apparently they are still around but I haven’t heard much of them.
Then you must be one of the hippest 15 year olds on the planet or have access to a first class record collection by someone with a distinctly avant garde cast.
Back in the 60’s I was a DJ at a small Oregon radio station and for many years treasured my copy of United States of America, whose “Love Song for the Dead Che” was a haunting melody and whose “Hard Coming Love” with the ever-increasing synthesizer beat was daringly shocking at the time.
( So was Al Stewart’s album “Love Chronicles” which came with a letter from the record company explaining that we probably really wanted to listen to one cut before we played it, beause it used the dreaded F word. That, by the way, would have probably meant instant loss of job and possibly loss of your license to broadcast. Have times really changed for the better?)
How about the “Squirrel Nut Zippers”? Then there is my personal favorite “David Childers and the Mount Holly Hellcats”. Five or six albums. The last one “A Good Way to Die” is on the FSX Americana Roots Chart.
Well since I am bringing up some others
The Aquabats seem to be the only one ppl remember by “the goofy ass band”. Ska-ish, good and tight musically, and the strangest bunch of guys to wear matching costumes (sorta look like poor Power Rangers mixed in a frat boy band). Listen to their lyrics and you practically know they grew up watching the same Saturday Morning Cartoons you did.
Besides, how many bands you know wrote their own themesong?