Deeply unfashionable groups who have a decent body of work...

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The Monkeees stuff got me thinking......I know, I know, but these music threads are ok once in a while.

Anyway, for starters

ELO

10CC

[El Pibe]

Dire Straits

[Salsaboy]

What Quids said - ELO & 10CC - superb back catalogue and way ahead of the crowd at the time.

[El Pibe]

Jethro Tull

[MrBen]

I've always been a massive ELO fan and now thanks to this thread I can admit it.

[Brendan]

Aqua

[*Bob*]

Boney M

[MrBen]

The Quo

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Am I allowed to admit that Matt Goss is a decent drummer? Shite songs though.

ELO, 10CC, Dire Straits, Jethro Tull all good in my book. And let's hear it for Slade.

[MrBen]

Did you know that the Quo have had more hit albums (32 in total) in the UK charts than any other band apart from the Rolling Stones?

Also 64 hit singles and 118 million total units shifted.

If by "decent" you are referring to quantity not quality they take some beating pop pickers

[*Bob*]

Anyway, 10CC, ELO, Jethro Tull - unfashionable during their time, amongst their contemporary peers certainly - but to a certain degree they've all been rehabilitated now.

Add to that the touch of obscurity they have amongst the younger generation and no doubt some of their stuff will be finding its way into Hipster playlists in halls of residence up and down the land.

(ok, maybe not Jethro Tull)

[womanofdulwich]

Does Thin Lizzy qualify?

[*Bob*]

Lord no!

[Salsaboy]

No, but Abba do. Listen to the words and melodies of their songs. In some cases, but not all, quite superb.

[*Bob*]

Abba don't count either!

[Salsaboy]

Yes they do.

Jethro Dull don't count.

[*Bob*]

If there's one group which has been re-appraised more than any other over the last couple of decades, it's got to be Abba.. c'mon!

[Townleygreen]

*Bob* you can be certain that Boney M DEFINITELY do not count!

[MGolden]

Abba and Dire Straits - many songs that I only have to hear the opening bars to and I am singing along - word (if not pitch) perfect.

[*Bob*]

Townleygreen Wrote:

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> *Bob* you can be certain that Boney M DEFINITELY

> do not count!

In respect of fashionability, or 'body of work'?!

[steveo]

Mud?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Def not Thin Lizzy - they were always cool.

You can only have Mud if I can have Showaddywaddy

[Townleygreen]

Bob asked

In respect of fashionability, or 'body of work'?!

My answer is on neither count do they qualify

[*Bob*]

So Boney M are fashionable?!

I must have missed that one.

How about REM? Got to a be a winner there, surely?

[Annette Curtain]

Dollar

C'mon, you know you love them.