Bands you somehow missed for years to discover later

[imJonWain]

As the title says, any good ones for you?

I JUST learned about Pack a few weeks ago. I have two records where other bands cover them and still somehow never heard of them or heard anyone talk about them. Might be one of my favorite late 70s punk record.

[moid]

I can't comment on the Pack music (although it sounds exactly like what I think punk sound like), but I would like to thank you for one of your links - I listened to some of the tracks from one of your radio shows and you played Drivin' on 9 by Ed's Redeeming Qualities, which I had no idea was the original - I'm really like the Breeders and it was wonderful to hear where that track came from!

[Chankgeez]

Ed's Reedeming Qualities was a great, if little know, Boston band. They were writers first (in the literary sense), musicians second.

This was their big "hit":



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5yfQ_VGq0g

This band is relatively new to me (not sure how I'd never really listened before):



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNm-KFY41-w

Love that YouTube channel.

[Phosphene Audio]

I was always aware of The Human League's pop hits and had heard that earlier stuff was good. I was lazy about checking it out, though, until I found a copy of Travelogue at a nearby junk store and I I love it.


Here's a good one with some speaker shredding dissonance shoehorned in around 41 seconds:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfv34V4DchM

[Phosphene Audio]

That Human League record briefly led me down a Jeff Wayne rabbit hole. They covered his Gordon's Gin jingle music, and the original is solid:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWfvOqGsbDE


That led to, uh, whatever this is:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdRpSuOzpCY


Why yes, that is Richard Burton and Phil Lynott:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhguuOTjHp4