Bands/ Artists You Don't Hear About Anymore

[lester1/2jr]

That first Tull album has some cool stuff. The local music geek type radio show used to play "Reasons for Waiting" sometimes. 

[zombie no.one]

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

[lester1/2jr]

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.

[RCMerchant]

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.

[zombie no.one]

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.

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

[lester1/2jr]

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.

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"

[HappyGilmore]

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.

[The Burgomaster]

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

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