Lord Mhoram
Hero
Canadian hip hop artist that dips into other genres. I wish he had been huge.
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Bands with hit singles that were not hit singles
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Chilliwack did pretty well in MTV’s battle of the bands contest. Got signed. Never did get much popularity outside of their native Canada.
Zebra. Thought these guys were going to be huge. But it wasn’t to be. They had a few solid albums, but never got a lot of traction after their first single:
David + David had a debut album many of the people I was hanging with should have been in contention for album of the year. It wasn’t. The two studio musicians then parted ways for the most part. They reunited to do some good stuff for Sheryl Crow.
Baerwald tried his hand at doing his own stuff again, with a damn good solo album.
Baerwald tried his hand at doing his own stuff again, with a damn good solo album.
Ryujin
Legend
Due to the CanCon (Canadian Content) rules in Canadian broadcasting, however, they did remarkably well up here.
Jane Child…
Her first single was in heavy rotation when I got BRUTALLY shot down asking for a date. How heavy? I went running errands with my roomie an hour later and it came on the radio. I changed the channel. It came on a few seconds later. I changed to a third channel. It came on; I turned off the radio. My roomie said, “The universe hates you.”
This was off the second album. Again, got significant play, but no commercial success. More than a decade later, she released a third album. Nothing.
Her first single was in heavy rotation when I got BRUTALLY shot down asking for a date. How heavy? I went running errands with my roomie an hour later and it came on the radio. I changed the channel. It came on a few seconds later. I changed to a third channel. It came on; I turned off the radio. My roomie said, “The universe hates you.”
This was off the second album. Again, got significant play, but no commercial success. More than a decade later, she released a third album. Nothing.
Wendy & Lisa, aka Girl Brothers- what a duo!
They were protégés of Prince, and appear in several of his early videos. They had a couple of moderately successful albums, but never really had a breakthrough. However, like a lot of talented musicians, they have been in demand for soundtrack/scoring for TV and film.
Side note: music is in Wendy’s blood: dad Mike Melvoin was a pianist and member of studio musicians known as The Wrecking Crew, brother Jonathan Melvoin was a touring keyboardist with the Smashing Pumpkins, and her twin sister is singer and composer Susannah Melvoin.
They were protégés of Prince, and appear in several of his early videos. They had a couple of moderately successful albums, but never really had a breakthrough. However, like a lot of talented musicians, they have been in demand for soundtrack/scoring for TV and film.
Side note: music is in Wendy’s blood: dad Mike Melvoin was a pianist and member of studio musicians known as The Wrecking Crew, brother Jonathan Melvoin was a touring keyboardist with the Smashing Pumpkins, and her twin sister is singer and composer Susannah Melvoin.
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Lanefan
Victoria Rules
Meanwhile here in Canada they've been overplayed on the radio for the last 4 or 5 decades...
I remember that MTV video. As I recall, Basement Tapes was what broke Chilliwack and/or Zebra in the USA. The story reminds me a little bit of how Vangelis got his big break.
He started of in Aphrodite’s Child, a prog band started with members of his family. Their song “The Four Horsemen” from the double album 666: The Number of the Beast is a staple for “deep cut“ classic rock stations, and you can clearly hear traces of his unmistakeable style.
Note: Portions of this song were “sampled“ without credit by The Verve on the same album that gave us “Bittersweet Symphony”.
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