Bands who are more popular than you'd imagined
Just outside the album top 75 this week is the new one from The Sunshine Underground. Did you even know The Sunshine Underground had a new album out? I didn't think anyone had really noticed the first one.
Then there's the Rifles and their top 30 album last year...
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Everyone pooh-poohed me when I said I found it surprising that Vampire Weekend
went to #1 in the US, but I stand by that
That surprises me too
And that Franz Ferdinand were the most listened to artist on Last FM in 2009.
And that Brand New, whoever they are, sold out Wembley (Arena?)
Brand New are pretty big in the emo pop punk scene
and they played with Thrice and Glassjaw, who are also pretty darn big. i know a few people went jsut for those two.
?
Franz - http://www.last.fm/bestof/2009/chart/5
Gaga - http://www.last.fm/bestof/2009/chart/1
Definitely Brand New
Never realised they were that popular.
The thing with Brand New
is that although they probably haven't sold a great deal of records over here they do have a very net savvy fan base which encompasses a few different types of music fan.
They are a pretty big deal
over here in the states. They kinda transcended the 'emo' tag, somehow keeping that base crowd and grabbing new fans as well.
One of the few bands my wife and I can agree on.
Wilco have more listeners on last.fm than Pavement
Not entirely a surprise
Wilco have released new albums during last.fm's rise to prominence.
And one of them got a 10/10 on Pitchfork
I'm still surprised though. It's Pavement. Paaaaaaavement.
Pavement wish they were as good as Wilco.
Phoenix
I was surprised that they're big enough to headline Field Day.
I was more shocked to find out they were headlining Brixton Academy last year
even more so when I listened to their music
they've won a grammy!
yeah fuck
me, phoenix have steadily been chugging away now for years. remember they have made 4 albums which are all brilliant and wolfgang was massive and very good. perfect field day headliners! and yeah they won a grammy recently
they're my option too
I hadn't heard of them until last year and apparently they headline big venues and now a festival all the time... Well I dunno if a beleave it to be honest, I've never met a real human that said, 'oh yeah, you heard that new Phoenix? Its really good'. It just doesn't happen. *I've not gone to an indie disco in 4 years*
Surely you've heard
*bad french accent*
Think I better run, run, run,
Couldn't catch me falling, falling, falling etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
It was probably on an advert/played to death by Jo Whiley or something.
White Lies,
and Glasvegas
I still can't see a single appealing thing about them, let alone thousands of people jumping up and down to them at Glastonbury
i suppose at least white lies are kind of catchy
glasvegas though, well that was a live experience i never want to have again. tedious.
Every band that gets announced for ATP?
And some band who someone started a thread about on here and I was just about to shout 'JAG!' when I realised that it wasn't. I think they were called Beach Hut or something.
You mean Beach House?
Who?
I was moore than surprised when I found out Local Natives
were headlining Heaven, I was watching them at Hoxton Bar & Kitchen at the time
death cab for cutie
suprised me when they sold out manchester apollo, they havnt had any big singles/albums over here and when i saw them around photo album era it was in the tiny academy 3 in manchester , from that to the mega stardom they seem toi get now is unjustified
i might add i also
saw them in night and day cafe shortly before the academy 3 show and it wasnt even sold out
Fratellis second-headlining Glastonbury in 2008
ummmm, wut?
Da-da-da-da-da etc. song is v popular.
probs one of the most recognisable songs of the last decade.
BJM
They sold out the Academy 3 in Manchester recently and it's been moved to a bigger venue.
I know it's only a tiny place initially but I know literally 1 person who likes them.
Pains of Being Pure at Heart
I couldn't get into the last London show they did as it was sold out. Was proper pissed off about that
I was in Cafe Nero
and the girl serving me complemented my shirt, despite only 'ains of' being visible...
After I joined the Navy
I was shocked by how many squares there are. I thought there were other people like me, interesting types with at least decent taste in music that just do this job for a gig. But no, it's mostly close-minded, dumb people. Anyways....
I couldn't believe how many people I work w/ like Arctic Monkeys. This is even before Humbug came out.
Did I mention I'm American and these are Americans I'm talking about. People that don't know The Libertines and think Oasis ended long ago.
they sound like
sensible people
Oasis did
end long ago. After definitely maybe. What's to even know about the Libertines? Talk about the band that is surprisingly famous.
My friend's brother is in the USMC (they've got dual-citizenship)
...I was somewhat amazed to find out he loves Belle & Sebastian. He's built like a tank.
I misread and thought you meant
he was Carter USM!!
That would be way more impressive!
Bloc Party
seem to sell out huge venues in the US which is very surprising.
Also Maximo Park.
yeah that's cos Maxïmo Park are fucking good
Maximo Park
Are not good. I'm also surprised at how popular Bloc Party is. They used to play "Banquet" on the big screen/stereo in American Eagle.
nar m8
that first album is untouchable
matchbox twenty
and bands like that - huge following in the states.
hoobastank
maroon 5
bilge
Paolo Nutini
I assumed everyone else figured him for a joke too but he's having no1 albums and such. But yknow, endless crudbucket bands are more successful than you'd think. The one that continues to irritate me is Florence and the Machine since it's essentially Paolo Nutini with feathers and yet people with decent music taste seem to dig it
nah, Florence is alright
With you on Paulo Nutini though. I didn't think anyone would give a crap about his second album. I suppose it is so middle of the road that it is likely to appeal to Radio 2 listeners, your gran etc.
I think part of the reason for it appearing to sell so well is that it has been in the sales for ages - I'm sure I keep seeing it for about £5. At that price people will buy any piece of turgid shite that is put in front of them...
F&TM have a toat of 'cred' though..
With her ties to Dev Hynes n all that scene, etc.. she's not just overnight, out of the blue, in the sense that Paolo is, really..
The Courteeners
I mean, NME seem to hail them as the 'new oasis', and they sell out a 9000 capacity venue, yet they've had one album. (Oh, and NME only gave it 7/10 when it was released anyway.)
Oh, that's what I meant to mention elsewhere
The NME - the all new, post-Conor hype NME - calling the Courteeners a "cult band". NO NO NO.
I still get surprised
that they're not really called the courteneers.
'The people have spoken louder than the critics'
it never means they are right.
'New Oasis' ???
brand new is a good call
When I first discovered how big Modest Mouse are
esp. on last.fm... constantly elbowing it out with the likes of Rage Against The Machine in the top 100 of last.fm
Modest Mouse
Sure are more popular than one would think. Both indie and mainstream types like them. I've also noticed lots of hardcore and metal heads like them (probably the dark lyrics/screaming/guitar god aspects of them).
surely kings of leon is the prime example
i know i'm not the only one who thought they released two semi-decent rock albums and then faded somewhat into obscurity. only to find they hadn't at all and were in fact selling out several nights at wembley. wtf?
What? They headlined Glasto and didn't they headline Reading & Leeds the year before
And Four Kicks and The Bucket were on a lot of video games so they were always going to be huge as long as they produced turgid piles of rubbish.
Is it really that hard to be "just outside the top 75 albums"
Even "Strange House" got to number 38 or something.
...Placebo...
playing the O2 was a serious WTF moment, I have no idea what capaicity they sold out but there sure was a lot of people going there on that night (it's on my way home) - see also michael buble. Or don't.
I don't know, there's loads of acts that crop up on the gig lists playing Shepherd's Bush Empire or Brixton Academy that make me go "how did they get so big?", when they don't appear to have made much of a dent in record sales. Who the hell are the gaslight anthem?!
Placebo have concentrated on
mainland Europe and, in France and GAS especially, they are HUGE. I know a lot of people from abroad who came over for the o2 gigs from there.
Gaslight Anthem are, for want of a better description, Springsteens protegees, he played with them at Hard Rock Calling last year. One's for the 50+ male.
Why would Placebo concentrate on playing to the
mid 90s Blackburn striker partnership of Gallagher And Shearer?
Sorry GAS = Germany, Austria and Switzerland (sometimes called GSA too)
it's how its defined in terms of distribution. Benelux = Belgium, Holland & Luxembourg etc.
With these popularity things as well bands sometimes sell the big venues really poorly so they aren't as popular as you'd think.
Only one band that I'm aware of has ever had to not open the upstairs of Brixton Academy due to underwhelming sales, despite putting it on sale with a really long lead time unfortunately. That was The Rifles.
Hee...!
"due to underwhelming demand the rifles have moved their brixton date... to the windmill..."
Peter Andre
just announced an arena tour.
Wasn't he playing clubs in Scunthorp six months ago.
those dates
are in December, plenty can change ...
Sold out the Leeds O2 Academy
at £28 a pop! Just baffling really!
SPOILSPORT!
counting crows
sold out wembley arena twice now. obviously they are big in the states but they never get pkayed on the radio or anything over here. and they headlined that festival in hyde park last year too.
They're not that big in the states
Nostalgia thing, mostly
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i find
bands like fat freddy drop, powderfinger, and various other bands like that playing hammersmith/brixton size levels, depsite not really hearing them on the radio or in the music media.