When I was in middle school and high school INXS was huge. Their singer apparently got conked on the head at one point and began a slide into depression that ended in suicide. There was a sordid, but unsubstantiated rumor that he had done it via autoerotic asphyxiation.
Also, not as forgotten but remember how ubiquitous Coldplay was in the 2010's? Not just their own music, but other bands and even ads appropriating their style.
The White Stripes haven't released new music since 2007.
System of a Down. Their last album was in 2005.
Lauryn Hill, Nelly Furtado, Macy Gray.
Apparently changing musical tastes is a contributing factor why they haven't done new music in years or decades.
Others like Janelle Monáe are now focused on acting.
I clicked on an msn article that was kind of about this subject a couple of days ago...
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/entertainment/music/once-popular-bands-that-are-now-totally-forgotten/ss-AA1GmvXt
- if you can't be bothered to read it here's their list:
(* = bands I've never heard of)
J Geils Band
Quiet Riot
Blues Traveller*
Average White Band
Live
Jethro Tull
Three Dog Night
Traffic
Culture Club
Dave Clark Five
Kansas
Spin Doctors
Alan Parsons Project
Faces*
Air Supply
Eurhythmics
Wild Cherry*
Warrant
The Cars
April Wine
Extreme
The Marshall Tucker Band*
Hootie And The Blowfish
10CC
Grand Funk Railroad
Hanson
Simply Red
Cake
The Black Crowes
Quote from: zombie no.one on June 21, 2025, 12:30:57 AMSpin Doctors
One of my favorite 90s bands. After the success of their first album, they were plagued by bad luck. Album sales were dwindling, no strong hits in the charts. They were dropped by their record company. The lead singer lost his voice for two years. Three members left the band but reunited 20 years later.
They still tour and make albums, though.
Quote from: zombie no.one on June 21, 2025, 12:30:57 AMWild Cherry*
Immortalized with one song, the funky disco classic Play That Funky Music from 1976. You most likely heard it.
The band broke up in 1979.
Lauryn Hill and Spin Doctors are good examples of what I mean.
I saw that Dawn from En Vogue was broke the other day. I'm not the biggest r n b fan but they were one of the most overtly talented groups in pop music and had a bunch of hits. That was the album era so they had actual units sold. Someone has a lot of their money.
J Geils have had infighting the guy J Geils doesn't want to tour, the other guys are to the point of suing him so they can do so.
Quote from: claws on June 21, 2025, 02:16:01 AMQuote from: zombie no.one on June 21, 2025, 12:30:57 AMSpin Doctors
One of my favorite 90s bands. After the success of their first album, they were plagued by bad luck. Album sales were dwindling, no strong hits in the charts. They were dropped by their record company. The lead singer lost his voice for two years. Three members left the band but reunited 20 years later.
They still tour and make albums, though.
probably like a lot of people I only know Two Princes.
put them in the same category as Crash Test Dummies and Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Quote from: claws on June 21, 2025, 02:22:40 AMQuote from: zombie no.one on June 21, 2025, 12:30:57 AMWild Cherry*
Immortalized with one song, the funky disco classic Play That Funky Music from 1976. You most likely heard it.
The band broke up in 1979.
Oh yeah I know that song...
Quote from: zombie no.one on June 21, 2025, 12:30:57 AMI clicked on an msn article that was kind of about this subject a couple of days ago...
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/entertainment/music/once-popular-bands-that-are-now-totally-forgotten/ss-AA1GmvXt
- if you can't be bothered to read it here's their list:
(* = bands I've never heard of)
J Geils Band
Quiet Riot
Blues Traveller*
Average White Band
Live
Jethro Tull
Three Dog Night
Traffic
Culture Club
Dave Clark Five
Kansas
Spin Doctors
Alan Parsons Project
Faces*
Air Supply
Eurhythmics
Wild Cherry*
Warrant
The Cars
April Wine
Extreme
The Marshall Tucker Band*
Hootie And The Blowfish
10CC
Grand Funk Railroad
Hanson
Simply Red
Cake
The Black Crowes
The reason you don't hear about most of those bands anymore is their old as dirt. GRAND FUNK RAILROAD, MARSHALL TUCKER, and most of the others are from the 70's. Most of those guys are likely in their 70's now. Or dead. You don't hear about the Beatles or Elvis anymore, either.
Of course you don't hear about them anymore.
URIAH HEEP
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 21, 2025, 03:48:53 PMYou don't hear about the Beatles or Elvis anymore, either.
who?
Time frame for this thread should've been 25 years or something. You don't hear about bands anymore that broke up in the 1970s or 1980s. duh.
The Moody Blues unfortunately.
Only two members left in the band after the passing of Ray Thomas, Graeme Edge and Mike Pinder.
I have all their albums and still listen to them.
Quote from: claws on June 22, 2025, 12:47:25 PMTime frame for this thread should've been 25 years or something. You don't hear about bands anymore that broke up in the 1970s or 1980s. duh.
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Quote from: zombie no.one on June 21, 2025, 12:30:57 AMI clicked on an msn article that was kind of about this subject a couple of days ago...
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/entertainment/music/once-popular-bands-that-are-now-totally-forgotten/ss-AA1GmvXt
- if you can't be bothered to read it here's their list:
(* = bands I've never heard of)
J Geils Band
Quiet Riot
Blues Traveller*
Average White Band
Live
Jethro Tull
Three Dog Night
Traffic
Culture Club
Dave Clark Five
Kansas
Spin Doctors
Alan Parsons Project
Faces*
Air Supply
Eurhythmics
Wild Cherry*
Warrant
The Cars
April Wine
Extreme
The Marshall Tucker Band*
Hootie And The Blowfish
10CC
Grand Funk Railroad
Hanson
Simply Red
Cake
The Black Crowes
Youtube regularly presents me with ads for the current tour of Jethro Tull (with Ian Anderson being a lot less hairy now)
Quote from: Dr. Whom on June 24, 2025, 01:04:04 AMYoutube regularly presents me with ads for the current tour of Jethro Tull (with Ian Anderson being a lot less hairy now)
yeah I've never been into em, but they clearly have an active fanbase in 2025...
for better or worse, "totally forgotten" and 'the internet' don't mix.
That first Tull album has some cool stuff. The local music geek type radio show used to play "Reasons for Waiting" sometimes.
I do like some 70s prog, but not really Jethro Tull... Yes, Genesis, ELP, Camel and Pink Floyd don't do it for me either... the 'canterbury scene' bands tend to be the ones I like
Journey is still alive in popular culture due to "Don't Stop Believing" and a few years ago they had a Filipino sound alike singer for a minute.
Foreigner on the other hand you don't hear about. Also Styx are punching under their weight they need a campy cameo in a Adam Sandler movie or something.
I could care less if I ever hear about some bands anymore. Most of the garbage that gets airplay in the 2020's is the equivelant of Andy Williams or the Captain and Tenille. No originality or balls.
Rock is dead. Most rap music now is repitious junk. And don't get me started on country music.
Quote from: lester1/2jr on June 26, 2025, 04:24:22 PMJourney is still alive in popular culture due to "Don't Stop Believing" and a few years ago they had a Filipino sound alike singer for a minute.
Foreigner on the other hand you don't hear about. Also Styx are punching under their weight they need a campy cameo in a Adam Sandler movie or something.
couldn't tell you a single track name or even hum a tune by Journey, Foreigner or Styx...
never heard those guys played on radio growing up in England. they strike me as properly US-centric artists. - bit like Dave Matthews Band, who are practically unheard of over here but massive in the states apparently
QuoteI could care less if I ever hear about some bands anymore. Most of the garbage that gets airplay in the 2020's is the equivelant of Andy Williams or the Captain and Tenille. No originality or balls.
Rock is dead. Most rap music now is repitious junk. And don't get me started on country music.
I once talked to a guy who did sound for K pop tours. He had really come to dislike the music, which he described as really based on extracting money from the audience and created to emulate whatever sells. Modern country does a bit of that I think. They know what people want to hear so they churn it out.
to quote Boogie Nights "It is what it is"
Everclear seems to have fallen out of the public eye. They were popular when I was in school. Saw them in Atlantic City about ten years ago.
Marilyn Manson is touring but playing smaller venues.
Quote from: Dr. Whom on June 24, 2025, 01:04:04 AMQuote from: zombie no.one on June 21, 2025, 12:30:57 AMI clicked on an msn article that was kind of about this subject a couple of days ago...
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/entertainment/music/once-popular-bands-that-are-now-totally-forgotten/ss-AA1GmvXt
- if you can't be bothered to read it here's their list:
(* = bands I've never heard of)
J Geils Band
Quiet Riot
Blues Traveller*
Average White Band
Live
Jethro Tull
Three Dog Night
Traffic
Culture Club
Dave Clark Five
Kansas
Spin Doctors
Alan Parsons Project
Faces*
Air Supply
Eurhythmics
Wild Cherry*
Warrant
The Cars
April Wine
Extreme
The Marshall Tucker Band*
Hootie And The Blowfish
10CC
Grand Funk Railroad
Hanson
Simply Red
Cake
The Black Crowes
Youtube regularly presents me with ads for the current tour of Jethro Tull (with Ian Anderson being a lot less hairy now)
Collect Co. runs live streaming record sales/auctions 6 - 7 nights/week on Facebook and YouTube. They frequently sell records (and sometimes CDs, cassette tapes and 8-tracks) from many of these artists. Over the past several months I've purchased at least one album from each of these artists either from the live stream or Amazon:
J Geils Band
Jethro Tull
Culture Club
Air Supply
The Cars
Big Audio Dynamite
Gym Class Heroes. They were pretty popular in the 2000s=2010's. Came up during the emo/punk/pop punk era that was pretty popular with teens and people my age in their early 20s. Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Paramore and the like were all over Hot Topic, malls, dying days of MTV and they just disappeared while the rest stayed fairly popular.