# Have you rediscovered old bands that you'd completely forgotten? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [February 4, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872 "2025-02-04T15:00:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/1 "2025-02-04T15:00:49Z")
Some old bands aren’t played regularly on the Oldies stations. Once in awhile I stumble across a band that I’d forgotten about. That happened a couple days ago. The Little River Band They had almost ten songs that cracked the Billboard Top 20. _Lonesome Loser_ and _Take it Easy on Me_ are probably they’re best know singles. My favorite is _The Night Owls_. You can hear the similarities to The Eagles. Both bands used wonderful layered vocal harmonies. Have you rediscovered old bands that you’d completely forgotten? Then gone to Amazon to grab their greatest hits? Sometimes it’s on Amazon Music if you have Prime. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/rO3g_VpaWD4/maxresdefault.jpg "Little River Band - The Night Owls (Official Music Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO3g_VpaWD4) ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/2 "2025-02-04T15:25:40Z")
While going thru a box I came across my 45 “collection”. Just a handful of stuff. Looking thru I found a record I completely forgot about. The A-side is _[Stoned Cowboy](https://youtu.be/oP1lD0763M8)_ by Fantasy, a FL-based band. It’s an instrumental that is a bit trippy. It’s the closest they came to a hit. Strangely, their fortunes had improved earlier once they got a new female lead singer but of course she doesn’t sing on this. Some fans have recreated the local rock station I listened to as a kid. It’s a low-power AM station but it is on the Web. They are always surprising me with stuff that I hadn’t thought of in years. The exact opposite of those crappy oldies stations that play the same 50 songs over and over. Several of the bands have stuff posted on YouTube and it’s fun to explore them there. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/3 "2025-02-04T15:36:09Z")
Maybe not “forgotten” per se, but in the past year I’ve been getting into Madonna, of all artists, who I generally stopped paying attention to ages ago. A friend posted some phone video of a few concerts of hers he saw last year, and I was absolutely blown away by her performance, then started working my way through her back catalog. I was surprised just how damn good her last few albums have been (and how _American Life_ is the most godawful piece of dreck I’ve heard in many moons). ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/4 "2025-02-04T16:59:31Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > That happened a couple days ago. > > The Little River Band I learned everything I know about LRB from the movie _The Other Guys_. And, I agree with Wahlberg’s character on how to classify LRB. I don’t know that I ever rediscover bands I had forgotten about, but I often hear a song and think “I should revisit them”. I just posted in the great songs with bad lyrics thread and T-Rex was one of the bands I brought up (it was about the early glam rock bands in general) and just last night I listened to _The Slider_. I haven’t really listened to T-Rex in many years but good lord is that album great. I’ll be listening to others over the next weeks. Too bad Bolan died so young. > **[Other Guys LRB](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2YByJcCPHU%2F)** ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/5 "2025-02-04T17:09:31Z")
It’s funny how memories work. It can be 50 years ago and I’ll usually recognize a song after a few bars. It’s a nice feeling and brings back a lot of memories from school. It’s different with music on the oldies stations. I’ve never stopped hearing those songs. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/6 "2025-02-04T17:26:21Z")
I made a Pandora playlist for the 90s music I liked during my teenage years. Turns out I should have been way more into The Offspring and Gin Blossoms. I didn’t know I was lost at the time, and now I’m longing for what used to be. Cake, too. ---
**Author:** ![Disinfectus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/disinfectus/32/11085_2.png) [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/7 "2025-02-04T17:33:22Z")
Every few years, I “rediscover” the Beatles. Granted, I know all of their material like the back of my hand, but after being away from the majority of it for a while, it all ends up sounding fresh again. I can’t say that about very many artists. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/8 "2025-02-04T18:29:03Z")
The Outfield from the 80s has come back for me recently. I’m loving that voice of Tony Lewis. Added: here is a sample [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qvKJ8_7vBxs/maxresdefault.jpg "The Outfield - All The Love In The World") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvKJ8_7vBxs) ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/9 "2025-02-04T19:32:55Z")
I have a small number of bands that I knew about I’ve “discovered” recently, I don’t know if that fits. One of them is The Little River Band. I knew them and their songs but didn’t appreciate them until recently. They went from a band I know to one of my favorites. Another is T Rex, also mentioned. I’ve been listening to Electric Warrier a lot. The person mentioned The Slider. Something to check out later today. Another for me is Dr. Hook. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/10 "2025-02-04T19:39:59Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > They had almost ten songs that cracked the Billboard Top 20. > > _Lonesome Loser_ and _Take it Easy on Me_ are probably they’re best know singles. Oh, wow, “Lonesome Loser” is a song I haven’t heard in a long, long time. There are a few singers/bands who I remember from the radio but don’t hear them a whole lot. There’s Clint Holmes’ “[Playground in My Mind](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BolPQL83hFA)” from 1972. My Uncle Mike hated this song for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/11 "2025-02-04T19:50:55Z")
There are an awful lot of songs I remember hearing on the radio but have no memory of who actually sang them. Sometimes I’m I misidentify the singer like I did with “Lonesome Loser” thinking it was the Eagles. “[Sausalito Summernight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YILvKkCckhw)” by Diesel is a song I hadn’t heard in a great many years until it come up on my YouTube feed for some reason. If someone had asked me about the band Diesel I would have shrugged my shoulders saying I never heard of them. Now that I think about it, there’s probably going to be a lot of one-hit wonders on this list. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/12 "2025-02-04T20:17:57Z")
In my “heavy metal” days my friends and I were fans of a band called [**Metal Church**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBP_mdB2RUE). Just took another listen for the first time in decades. Cool stuff. Somewhat related, but every now and then I will discover an “old” band I had never heard of while growing up in the 1970s/1980s. One such band is [**Babe Ruth**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYsI0xlApvw). The guitarist was phenomenal - not sure why they weren’t bigger. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/13 "2025-02-04T20:33:05Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > not sure why they weren’t bigger. Shitty band name? ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/14 "2025-02-04T20:39:38Z")
I’ve got a wall full of CDs. Occasionally I’ll bring a bunch to one of the fewer and fewer used CD shops in town, but I still have the majority of what I’ve amassed since I got my first player back in 1988 (except for what got lost in a house robbery in 1995…the quaint old days when burglars bothered with one’s disc collection). And I’ll once and a while deliberately look to one of the lower shelves and dig up something I haven’t played in a decade. And all of a sudden, “Wow, that TV On The Radio record was pretty awesome…wonder what happened to them?” “Hmmm…maybe Datblygu don’t sound as much like the Fall as I remembered.” “Sigh. There really only were one or two good tracks on that Yeah Yeah Yeahs album.” Occasionally I’ll literally stop and go, “Okay, I don’t actually remember owning any by this artist.” which is a tad unsettling. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/15 "2025-02-05T01:22:36Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > I learned everything I know about LRB from the movie _The Other Guys_. And, I agree with Wahlberg’s character on how to classify LRB. John Lennon was a fan of that song. > **[John Lennon Played It on Repeat and Frank Sinatra Called It the Best Song of...](https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/Little-River-Band-Reminiscing-Graeham-Goble)** > > “It was a spiritual download that just flowed through me”: guitarist Graeham Goble explains how learning this extended chord unlocked LRB's “pinnacle song” in half an hour ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/16 "2025-02-05T01:46:08Z")
[LRB had a lot of potential.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_River_Band) They were just getting established in America when members began quitting. The band touring today doesn’t have any original members. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/17 "2025-02-05T01:53:49Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Just took another listen for the first time in decades. Cool stuff. Their eponymously named song off their first eponymously named album (I hear Metal Church were huge Bad Co fans 😉 ) is a certified banger! I’m a fan of that early era thrash metal, most of it Bay area, and that is where Metal Church started before moving to my neck of the woods. 🤘 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/18 "2025-02-05T13:46:23Z")
My 3-y/o grandson asked me about all the vinyl I have in a corner of my den. So I pulled one out and put it on the turntable - it was the Cowsills first album. Man, did that take me back!! It’s got me wondering what else is on that shelf. Some day when I don’t have a ton of chores, I’ll have to flip thru. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/19 "2025-02-05T14:24:09Z")
A few years back I made a big push to rip all my old vinyl albums to mp3. There were a few that I hadn’t listened to for at least 25 years that it was good to hear again. Lake - their debut album Montrose - their debut album Mike Rutherford - “Smallcreep’s Day” INXS - “Shabooh Shoobah” Like @aceplace57 says, it’s weird how you can put on an album you haven’t heard in decades and the words and music all come flooding back like it was yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/20 "2025-02-05T20:52:15Z")
I was into **Slade** a bit way back in high school in the 80s, loved a few songs but that was it. I recently stumbled across them anew, and went on a voracious consumption binge of their songs, performances, etc. They really had some amazing performance chops and pop composition sense. It’s a real shame they never caught on here in the US, which I understand was mostly due to poor promotion and touring opportunities, they just couldn’t get a finger into the payola pie here to get significant airplay. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872.md?page=2)