Obscure Band Poll
 

Not obscure band anymore, but they were then. Barenaked Ladies played at my friend's birthday party in 1989. I barely remember them - I think they had just met each other and hadn't played any clubs yet. I didn't meet them - I remember thinking they were pretty goofy. but catchy.

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I saw Marshall Crenshaw in college. He played on our campus in college. I would be amazed if half the people on board had even heard of this guy.

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I saw Howard Jones in concert in a college gym. It took me 15 minutes to remember his name for purposes of this poll.

Neither of these artists is obscure, but I saw both Lou Reed and Warren Zevon during somewhat obscure tours, that is, when they were touring college campuses. Warren Zevon did a promotional bit in the student union -- I forget the product that was being promoted, but the contest involved howling and was co-sponsored by a fraternity. It was all terribly dignified.

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Fine Young Cannibals were half of the English Beat.

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She played after a hockey match here last season (what was she thinking?). She fawkin rawked. Joan Jett is the epitome of a hard rockin bitch icon. She is also hot in a way that I think some people were trying to lay on Pink and XTina -- but Joan Jett really is. What was that band flick she did with Michael J. Fox??? Damn, I can't remember -- but I saw it the other day and it was a bit better than I recalled.

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Are you kidding??? His greatest hits CD "This is Easy" is in my briefcase as we speak... "Whenever You're On My Mind" and "Someday Some Way" are two of my favorite 80's songs. Consummate songwriter. Deserves more fame than he got...

Little known fact -- he played Buddy Holly in the movie "La Bamba".

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I thought that was General Public.

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I loved Marshall Crenshaw.

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My first concert was Frankie Goes to Hollywood. I won the tickets on the radio, and was just shocked! I tell you, shocked! when the corridors of the Memorial Coliseum were packed with leathermen.

Their encore was a cover of "Born to Run," and they came out in big hair-band wigs.

I won a bunch of concert tickets when I lived in Hell's Kitchen--they always seemed to give them away on WNEW about 7:30, when I had just turned my radio up and settled in for a productive evening at work. I won Jewel/Deep Blue Something (talk about your one-hit wonders!), PUSA, and Foo Fighters. Very fun. Also in NYC, I saw Pond at CBGB (so obscure you've never heard of them), Mudhoney at Town Hall, and The Ramones at Carman Hall ($5!).

I saw Nu Shooz at Willamette University on the eve of the release of "I Can't Wait."

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I saw the Ramones at an under-age club outside of Buffalo (SPIT - Special Place in Town) and they let me help them with their gear after the show cuz I knew the club manager or DJ or some such thing -- I was on cloud nine. :grinning:

This was also a place that I saw Platinum Blonde. I cannot recall what their one hit was but if I could I would do a write-in on VH1.

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I can name that Marshall in four notes . . .

For obscure shows - in another life, I spent about ten hours in a Zep backstage after-show drugged-out party. Various luminaries were wandering in and out. At one point, I was listening to Page on guitar, Muddy Waters singing, and Tiny Tim gamely plucking away on his little . . . thing.

Now, THAT was obscure.

Obscure bands
 

Yikes - Platinum Blonde. They were at least a 2 hit wonder in Canada.

Standing in the Dark
It Doesn't really matter

I am very embarrased to be remembering that, but because of Cancon we were blasted with this stuff and Corey Hart all through the 80's, so I guess I have an excuse.

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Light of Day, if memory serves. She and Michael both sang the title track.

About the only other thing I remember from the movie is that Fox's character worked in a factory that was making commemorative plates for the wedding of Fergie and Prince Andrew.

Ack!
 

Re: the 1HW with the dark-haired chick in the hat with the paint.

It just came to me. Swing Out Sister. "Break Out." Utter pablum. Based on the video stills, apparently I was wrong about the hat, but not about the resemblence to Maude Lebowski.

http://www.swingoutsister.com/galler...out_video1.jpg http://www.swingoutsister.com/galler...out_video6.jpg

Apropos of nothing, I'd say that the Blow Monkeys was a great name for a band.

Mirror in the Bathroom
 

You are thinking of the English Beat

and now, off to steak dinner

not7y(adieu)S