El Pibe Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 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? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527363 Share on other sites More sharing options...
red devil Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 'Unfashionable' as in naff...CarpentersChicagoNeil Diamond'Unfashionable' as in no massive commercial success...Aztec Camera Cocteau TwinsDurutti ColumnEverything But The GirlGang Of FourKirsty MacCollLloyd ColePrefab Sprout Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibilly99 Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 red devil Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> '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 SproutNeil 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annette Curtain Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 Godley & Creme(+1 for the spelling alone)Nette(tu) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Medic Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 Horslips..........Celtic rockers Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527442 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huguenot Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 http://www.takethepiss.com/forums/attachments/music/7488d1231545810-swedish-dance-bands-70s-swedish-dance-bands-010-jpg Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527450 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Medic Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 C'mon H. What decent body of work do Zenits have? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527711 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otta Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Marianne FaithfullAlison MoyetDare I say, Kate Bush... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527722 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Medic Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 They are individuals Otta, not groups. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527731 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527875 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 On the subject of unfashionable (and I'm not just referring to lurid pink leopard print leotards) 80s metal, I occassionally have a nostalgic yen for some Def Leppard!! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybee82 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Simple Minds Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 ELO10CC Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527906 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annette Curtain Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Jeremy Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> 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* Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527912 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 How about ELO? Or perhaps even 10CC? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527915 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 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). Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Or Simple Minds? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527918 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Can you define trendy Jeremy? Shoreditch seems more popular than ever these days.Is it:trendy = when I used to go out therepass? = i used to go out there and now lots of people like it i wont go;-P Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527924 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Not totally sure how you define trendy. But I'm quite confident that once train loads of Essex boys descend on an area every Friday and Saturday, it is no longer trendy. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527930 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Have we had Jethro Tull yet? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527931 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 Wot Jeremys said, sort ofTrendy = my Essex mates saying "What the fack you doing in thst shithole?"Passe= "We were all up Shoreditcch Saturday" Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527933 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Fair enough. As long as it's good old fashioned snobbery ;)What about ELO and 10CC *Bob*? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527937 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annette Curtain Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 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 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527938 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 *trying hard to picture El Pibe with Hoxton Fin back in the day* Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/22270-deeply-unfashionable-groups-who-have-a-decent-body-of-work/page/3/#findComment-527945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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