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El Pibe

El Pibe

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Camel, wishbone ash, good shouts.

Fleetwood Mac have long had a bit of retro chic, so Im not sure they count.


The eagles are perennials aren't they.


Fairport Convention? Though they are hugely influential in a current crop of bands like Midlake, the Decemberists, Joanna Newsome et al. Mind you, not sure they're fashionable enough to negate this.


Am I over thinking this?


If we're going 'deeply unfashionable' how about Simple Minds?

ibilly99

ibilly99

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red devil Wrote:

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> 'Unfashionable' as in naff...

>

> Carpenters

> Chicago

> Neil Diamond

>

>

> 'Unfashionable' as in no massive commercial

> success...

>

> Aztec Camera

> Cocteau Twins

> Durutti Column

> Everything But The Girl

> Gang Of Four

> Kirsty MacColl

> Lloyd Cole

> Prefab Sprout


Neil Diamond did Glastonbury (Pyramid) so needs to be removed from the naff list unlike the wombles who did a minor stage and therefore still naff.

Jeremy

Jeremy

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Iron Maiden is a good call, rarely has there been a dafter band - yet they've stood the test of time and have penned a fair few classics.


Duran Duran... easily dismissed at the time at teen-pop pretty boys, but really good quality songwriting. I would stop short of calling them pioneering, but definitely influential.

Annette Curtain

Annette Curtain

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Jeremy Wrote:

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> Duran Duran... easily dismissed at the time at

> teen-pop pretty boys, but really good quality

> songwriting. I would stop short of calling them

> pioneering, but definitely influential.


I saw them live ( before auto tune ) in the 80's & they were appalling.


How about the band, JAPAN


*pokes knitting needle up nasal cavity*

Jeremy

Jeremy

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Maybe true (I'm way too young) but the criteria is "a decent body of work", which DD definitely have.


A lot of people mentioning ELO, but I was under the impression that they'd come full circle and been embraced by the in-crowd (at least Mr Blue Sky was a favourite in the usual Shoreditch haunts back when Shoreditch was trendy).

Annette Curtain

Annette Curtain

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Jesus & the Mary Chain ?



Shoreditch at the weekend is cark not so nice now. I work up there quite a lot but make for it early on Friday


????'s mates, sporting John Terry hair-doos and pastel coloured clothes flood the area from Friday night onwards.


In the week it's bearable

El Pibe

El Pibe

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In my day it was full of pretty Essex girls who work in the city trying to act all sophisticated in order to bag rich city types being preyed upon by Essex boys who work in the city trying to act all sophisticated in order to pretend to be rich city types.

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