Bands/ Artists You Don't Hear About Anymore

[lester1/2jr]

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.

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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.

[zombie no.one]

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

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Spin 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.

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Wild 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.

[lester1/2jr]

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.

[zombie no.one]

Spin 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

Wild 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...

[RCMerchant]

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

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.

[Allhallowsday]

URIAH HEEP

[zombie no.one]

You don't hear about the Beatles or Elvis anymore, either.

who?

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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.