# Songs/Bands that no one seems to remember **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 18, 2008, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-no-one-seems-to-remember/445887 "2008-04-18T14:10:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-no-one-seems-to-remember/445887/81 "2008-04-25T15:36:12Z")
[QUOTE=Christopher] **Ugly Kid Joe** **Nitzer Ebb** **The Wonder Stuff** **Veruca Salt** **The Stone Roses** **Faith No More** **Ministry** The early nineties were ripe with these bands. [/QUOTE] The Stone Roses were HUGE in Britain and are stilled regularly played on the radio and cited as influential by younger bands. Ministry I think still have a steady fan base and tour regularly and Faith No More are hardly a band that no one seems to remember. The Wonder Stuff have done gigs in recent years too. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-no-one-seems-to-remember/445887/82 "2008-04-25T15:42:16Z")
I’m not really sure what criteria we’re using, but how about some of these (songs available on request :))? Trapeze Wet Willie Sugarloaf Lighthouse Cactus Jo Jo Gunne Ozark Mountain Daredevils Head East Argent Wishbone Ash (Frank Marino and) Mahogany Rush Tower Of Power Sea Level Rare Earth Jon Butcher Axis ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-no-one-seems-to-remember/445887/83 "2008-04-25T15:48:13Z")
[QUOTE=DfrntBreign] Sugarloaf [/QUOTE] “Green Eyed Lady” still gets decent airplay, I think. I prefer “Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You,” but I don’t think I’ve ever heard that on the radio. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-no-one-seems-to-remember/445887/84 "2008-04-25T15:56:05Z")
[QUOTE=Bayard] “Green Eyed Lady” still gets decent airplay, I think. I prefer “Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You,” but I don’t think I’ve ever heard that on the radio. [/QUOTE] I think most of my list is like that. A song or two that still gets played once in a while, but nobody seems to remember they had a whole body of work. I had another list but realised it wasn’t really “Oh, I remember them!” so much as “Who the hell is that?” ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-no-one-seems-to-remember/445887/85 "2008-04-25T16:06:19Z")
[QUOTE=DfrntBreign] Jo Jo Gunne [/quote] Good one. I just heard “Run Run Run” on the radio a few days ago and thought, “Now _there’s_ a band I haven’t thought about in a long time.” I think this album cover probably killed their career: > **[JO JO GUNNE - Jumpin' the Gunne ( USA 1973)](http://gardenofsounds.blogspot.com/2007/11/jo-jo-gunne-jumpin-gunne-usa-1973.html)** > > Fine Hard Rock with ex Spirit members. Personnel: Matthew Andes: guitars, vocals Jay Ferguson: keyboards, steel drums, second guitar lead v... (link disabled, NSFW) > [@](#): > > Tower Of Power Very well remembered here in the Bay Area, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-no-one-seems-to-remember/445887/86 "2008-04-26T06:42:19Z")
As a fan obviously I think this isn’t right, but I do think **Level 42** were going to be massive in the US after the album _World Machine_ came out in '85, and of course they were huge in the UK and Europe for many years. They recorded albums with two of the four original members and a revolving cast including Alan Murphy, Allan Holdsworth, and Gary Husband up until the mid 90s. Then the lead singer/bassist, Mark King, put together a new band with Husband and some other dudes and called it Level 42 as well. They just released an album in the UK last year with contributions from all of the original members, though. I think virtually everybody in the US thinks, “Oh, they were that ‘Something About You’ group” and they’re totally unaware of their fairly impressive post-_World Machine_ catalog. As much as I liked the Gould brothers, I thought the two later lineups might have been as good, if not better… sort of unusual for a band losing half the original membership, as well as the major lyricists. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-bands-that-no-one-seems-to-remember/445887.md?page=4)