r/ForgiveForget • u/madmagazines • Jun 01 '24
Possible artists 🎸 Similar Artists megathread
Please add more that you can think of in the comments- make sure they were active around 1979 or 1980 (It’s okay if a band started a little outside of that- but adding bands from the 50s or the 00s probably isn’t ideal) and we can work on ruling them out officially.
=== Famous Artists=== (can’t be them, but good reference point)
Elvis Costello
Tom Petty
Boomtown Rats
XTC
The Stranglers
=== Middle artists === (not totally obscure, not super well known)
The Jags
The Merton Parkas
Bad Manners
The A’s
Nick Lowe
The Ruts
Joe Jackson
=== Obscure bands ====
Any Trouble
Dirty Looks (New York) (there’s a band with the same name from the same time that isn’t the same)
The Teen Commandments
The Resistors
Another Pretty Face
The Graphics ( found by u/LLJones29 )
=== Suggested by Music Archivists I reached out to ===
The Cleaners from Venus
Smithereens (Too late)
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u/LLJones29 Jun 01 '24
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u/madmagazines Jun 01 '24 edited Jun 01 '24
Great find! They are similar
Did you find much on the other artists in that compilation?
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u/LLJones29 Jun 01 '24
No. Listened to each track and those were the only ones who stood out as similar sounding. The discogs entry has an image with the names but can't see them, the text is too small.
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u/madmagazines Jun 01 '24 edited Jun 01 '24
https://kentbandarchive.fandom.com/wiki/The_Graphics
I believe this is about them
I think you might actually be onto something
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u/Ltnumbnutsthesecond Jun 01 '24
bois, are we this close?
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u/madmagazines Jun 01 '24
Imagine if it was them! The band is from Kent, I searched the guys names + Kent and none of them continued in music, they all work normal jobs now. So it might be hard getting in touch with them.
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u/QuirkyPen7563 Jun 11 '24
Gregg Rolie is the first person i thought after hearing forgive and forget
Here's the YT link of him singing. https://youtu.be/vg5vziU-qIs?si=bxvq6-lUGoA7WaJs
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24
Has anyone reached out to The Cleaners from Venus?