Subject: The Lost Gem Thread Fri Nov 07, 2008 4:49 pm
OK, I thought I'd start a thread in which we can all share an artist and album from that artist that we think most people have never heard of. Recently I dug out an album that I listened to throughout the summer of '99 about a million times but I doubt most people have heard of them. It can be any type of music within the rock spectrum (rock, hard rock, metal, etc.). The rules are these: Name the band, the album, the year of release, and a video from the album (if not, a link to one of the songs from the album). I'm in the mood to hear some new music and be exposed to bands I might not have heard of:
Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:03 pm
Band - Crystavox
Album - Bottom Line
Year - 1991 I believe
Cant find any vids, just good straight ahead hard rock, dusted it off a few nights ago & it has aged well.
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Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:19 pm
Band--Dark Half
Album--...Reborn
Year--1992
Mexican death/thrash that put out only this one album on Avanzada Metalica records. Unique, but suffers from bad production. no vids that I know of.
GrandNational Metal is in my blood
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Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:27 pm
Hamer12 wrote:
Band - Crystavox
Album - Bottom Line
Year - 1991 I believe
Cant find any vids, just good straight ahead hard rock, dusted it off a few nights ago & it has aged well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKxd_Zsx6J4
akeldama Metal is Forever
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Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:37 pm
Curved Air. Great band, one of the first rock bands to feature an electric violinist.
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Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Fri Nov 07, 2008 7:58 pm
band - Coffins album - The Other Side Of Blasphemy year - 2006
doom death from Japan. not sure if they've made any videos, but i couldn't find one.
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Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:09 pm
At my age I'm starting to feel like at least 75% of my favorite bands are forgotten. So for what it's worth here's some great cheeese, forgotten or not...Tobruk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUcs5qsWLKg
pretty silly, I'll admit, but I've always loved that band.
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Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:45 pm
Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:47 pm
Band: Bad Biscut Album: THE AMERICAN DREAM? (1994) Home: New Jersey Style: Hard rock/metal/punk
I've pimped this band on this board before so without rehashing myself too much, I'll just say that I saw this band a bunch of times while I was in college, they kicked ass (kind of a GNR/Ramones/Skid Row mix) and everyone thought they were gonna be the next big thing out of Jersey for awhile but they never caught fire outside of our area. Wonder of wonders, I actually found a video for their cover of AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" (which won an MTV contest) on YouTube that I never even knew existed...
After releasing THE AMERICAN DREAM? in 1994 they disappeared off the face of the Earth and haven't done anything since, though an odds-and-ends collection of rare/demo/live stuff called WE STILL BELIEVE THE HYPE was finally released earlier this year.
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Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:48 pm
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/xaustralia (Listen to 'The Feel')
Missed that thread
Keep them coming with the music guys. I haven't heard of any of the bands mentioned so far expect for X.
sam Metal is in my blood
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Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Mon Nov 10, 2008 1:25 pm
Band: Grinder
Album: Dead End
Great German thrash from the 80's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge992l8yyV8
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Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Mon Nov 10, 2008 1:57 pm
Band: Trance Album: Power Infusion Year: 1983
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FogKUbW-HA
GrandNational Metal is in my blood
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Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Mon Nov 10, 2008 2:33 pm
sam wrote:
Band: Grinder
Album: Dead End
Great German thrash from the 80's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge992l8yyV8
SAHB Healer Metal is in my blood
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Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:53 pm
I don't hear enought about The Undertones, who were the Ramones of Ireland I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtUw6lxcis
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Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:01 pm
Band: Mott The Hoople Album: Brain Capers Year: 1972
Hard rock, punk before there was punk
Awesome band, heres a video for one of my favorite songs, The Moon Upstairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQD27hoKaPI
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Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Mon Nov 10, 2008 8:42 pm
GrandNational wrote:
sam wrote:
Band: Grinder
Album: Dead End
Great German thrash from the 80's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge992l8yyV8
They also put out two great albums under the band name "Capricorn" in the early 90's.
manny mini boss
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Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Mon Nov 10, 2008 8:49 pm
Band: The Angels (aka Angel City aka The Angels from Angel City in the States)
Album: The Dark Room 1980
Song: Face The Day
Notes: Known by the name Angel City in the States due to US Band Angel, Great White covered this song in the 80's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndq5Ed-zMsI
rattpoison Metal is in my blood
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Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:00 pm
The Undertones are great.....depends what you call a lost gem though, Teenage Kicks is like praised as one of the greatest singles ever. But probably a lost gem around these musical circles.
Here's one you never heard of before......
Band: Cosmic Psychos
Album: Go The Hack
Year: 1989
File Between: Rose Tattoo and Sub Pop!
(Check out what they use for a Slide) http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=nCLmBHYChuE
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Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:01 pm
Band: Burning Spear
Album: Resistance
Year: 1983
Burning spear AKA Winston Rodney is a reggae roots artist that formed in the mid seventies coming out of the same recording studio as Bob Marley...the legendary one studio, I think they are better then Bob Marley actually. Unique in the fact that a lot of his music ecspecially the 80's era had many synth and keyboard lines...pretty rad IMO for reggae roots music.
manny mini boss
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Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:06 pm
[quote="rattpoison"]The Undertones are great.....depends what you call a lost gem though, Teenage Kicks is like praised as one of the greatest singles ever. But probably a lost gem around these musical circles.
On this side of the pond the Undertones didn't make a ripple but I have to agree " Teenage Kicks" one of the great singles of the Power Pop genre.
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Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:11 pm
Come on RP, back me up on Mott
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Subject: Re: The Lost Gem Thread Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:13 pm
Subject: The Lost Gem Thread 
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