# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**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, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/21 "2025-02-05T21:53:24Z")
I liked them better when they renamed themselves Quiet Riot! šŸ˜‰ If you havenā€™t yet, check out some of the live recordings of Slade. They were also a visual treat. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/22 "2025-02-05T22:46:41Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Montrose - their debut album Ronnie Montrose! šŸ˜¢ I liked one of the projects he was involved with in the early 80s - _Gamma_. [Voyager](https://youtu.be/kGbBkq1Mfek) really showed how great a guitarist he was. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/23 "2025-02-06T01:57:12Z")
I saw Montrose at The Often Talked About and Seldom Seen T-Car\*, in-between Demolition Derbies. Ah, Back in the Dayā€¦ \*I suspect you will be the only Doper who might get this Tahoe-Carson Speedway, Carson City Nevada ---
**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 6, 2025, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/24 "2025-02-06T03:40:30Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > 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!! Itā€™s got me wondering what else is on that shelf. Some day when I donā€™t have a ton of chores, Iā€™ll have to flip thru. I was convinced I had never heard of that group before, but after listening to ā€œRain, the Park, and Other Things,ā€ I realized they were one of those groups I used to hear on the radio without really knowing who they were. ---
**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 6, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/25 "2025-02-06T13:49:50Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > > [@Shoeless](#): > > > > Montrose - their debut album > > Ronnie Montrose! šŸ˜¢ And a young Sammy Hagar (credited as ā€œSam Hagarā€ IIRC). ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/26 "2025-02-06T14:42:50Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > A few years back I made a big push to rip all my old vinyl albums to mp3. There were a few that I hadnā€™t listened to for at least 25 years that it was good to hear again. I did the exact same thing in about 2010 or thereabouts. Two bands that I rediscovered, to my delight, were New Riders of the Purple Sage and Canned Heat. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/28 "2025-02-06T16:40:32Z")
On Tuesday this week, I found myself in the dreary depths of the Walmart in suburban Addison, Illinois and heard a few familiar beats from the storeā€™s PA. That singsong ticktock, a little behind the beat. Wait, is thatā€¦ ? CANā€™T HELP IT, THE GIRL CANā€™T HELP IT [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tf_gPZSDIxI/maxresdefault.jpg "Fergie - Clumsy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf_gPZSDIxI) Fuck Yea! I was all but jumping around the Walmart aisle, wildly looking to the other patrons: ā€œAre you _hearing_ this?! Who want to dance?ā€ They were not and nobody. But the damage is done. Earworms for a week, I spend 45 minutes researching the song, origins, samples, the Animals version of She Canā€™t Help It (not good), Fergieā€™s resume, will.i.amā€™s whereabouts, etc. IinnLove. InIn. LoveLove. Loove. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/29 "2025-02-06T16:56:57Z")
Shawn Mullins is the one that comes to mind for me, though Iā€™m not sure it fits the spirit of the thread. ā€œLullabyā€ was a huge hit back in 1998, and he had one other minor hit that I knew of at the time, ā€œEverywhere I Go.ā€ They were decent songs, but I was a teenager, and his sound was too mature for my tastes at the time. But 25 years later, I re-discovered his music and now his songs hit the spot. ā€œBeautiful Wreckā€ was my most played song of the year on Spotify a couple years ago, and ā€œWe Runā€ is my currently most played song. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872/30 "2025-02-06T17:17:09Z")
Ahh. My theme song. Love that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-rediscovered-old-bands-that-youd-completely-forgotten/1013872.md?page=1)