Usher - he had his moment but I thought he would be relevant for a long time
Nelly
Blues Traveler
Spin Doctors
Nelly
Blues Traveler
Spin Doctors
Music artists you thought would be bigger (or last longer)
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Sister hazel
Usher was pretty big for a decadeTxmoe said:
Usher - he had his moment but I thought he would be relevant for a long time
Nelly
Blues Traveler
Spin Doctors
Oasis
SJEAg said:
Oasis
They certainly thought they would be bigger.
The Darkness
The Sundays
Her voice was just so pure
Her voice was just so pure
MGMT
The Killers
Jet
The Darkness has a ton of great songs.... that never get played on air.
Jet
The Darkness has a ton of great songs.... that never get played on air.
Republica from the mid 90s. Only one album and had a couple of hits. Never made another record.
Toadies
You guys have a pretty big ceiling for big.
Oasis - Around 75 millions albums sold worldwide seems pretty damn successful to me. Outside of them breaking up, nothing really got in their way. They were the biggest act in an entire country (England) for a decade.
Killers - 22 million sold worldwide. Headlines a few big festivals last year.
MGMT - I'd say one of the bigger indie bands of the last decade. Festival headliner at some shows.
Oasis - Around 75 millions albums sold worldwide seems pretty damn successful to me. Outside of them breaking up, nothing really got in their way. They were the biggest act in an entire country (England) for a decade.
Killers - 22 million sold worldwide. Headlines a few big festivals last year.
MGMT - I'd say one of the bigger indie bands of the last decade. Festival headliner at some shows.
I look forward to the "wish he/she/they had been a one hit wonders!" thread!
Make Mental Asylums Great Again!
Rubberneck came out 25 years ago today! Makes me feel old.
Still one of my all time favorite bands.
Still one of my all time favorite bands.
Marvelous 3
Borealis
Borealis
...but I thought he'd be relevant for 11 years.PatAg said:Usher was pretty big for a decadeTxmoe said:
Usher - he had his moment but I thought he would be relevant for a long time
Nelly
Blues Traveler
Spin Doctors
Guster never got as big as I thought they should.
Jim01 said:
You guys have a pretty big ceiling for big.
Oasis - Around 75 millions albums sold worldwide seems pretty damn successful to me. Outside of them breaking up, nothing really got in their way. They were the biggest act in an entire country (England) for a decade.
Killers - 22 million sold worldwide. Headlines a few big festivals last year.
MGMT - I'd say one of the bigger indie bands of the last decade. Festival headliner at some shows.
Oasis - huge first/second album and not much since, including both brothers having 3 or 4 terrible bands. People expecting them to continue or exceed the first two albums isnt really a "big ceiling", especially if you were alive when this happened.
Killers - dont really disagree. Considering how weird flowers is and how soulless those musicians are, it's kind of amazing they have had the success they've had, and I would say they have met any expectations one could have had the first time you heard mr briteside and somebody told me.
MGMT - again, similar to Oasis but much much smaller scale. Huge early album blew up in 08 moving them from mid level festival to headliners in 2010. That mega album went from indy rock to top 40 rock to target commercials to oldies/mom radio.
The follow up album wasnt great and they fell off the face of the earth around 5 yrs ago when the next albums were worse.
So just like oasis they fit perfectly with the idea of the thread. If you were at a festival in 2008 watching them play those songs and the watching the crowd react you'd have expected them to have a similar run to what vampire weekend (who basically popped that same year) have had.
Zebra
Triumph
Triumph
What's weird about Brandon Flowers?
I freaking love Guster.mrmill3218 said:
Guster never got as big as I thought they should.
Overexcited is my new favorite song, other than the Avett Brothers High Steppin
It was a surprise to me that Hootie and the Blowfish weren't around longer.
They had one of the biggest albums of the 90's, couldn't match it with their second and then just kinda faded away quietly.
They should have been around much longer.
They had one of the biggest albums of the 90's, couldn't match it with their second and then just kinda faded away quietly.
They should have been around much longer.
Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights. They were awesome on their first album, it must have been independently produced because it's almost impossible to find. They put on a great show and really seemed to be going somewhere, and then just disappeared.
MGMT had to have someone leave their writing or production team after Oracular Spectacular (or the guys got off the good drugs?)... Because aside from the middling Flash Delirium single, talk about a free-fall in quality.
The Killers being on anyone's list is surprising. They are selling out shows now and were selling out shows 15 years ago. I can see not liking their music, but from 2004-2017 they put out 5 straight Top 10 albums. And they are even bigger in the UK. Can't see how anyone thought they would be any bigger.
The Killers being on anyone's list is surprising. They are selling out shows now and were selling out shows 15 years ago. I can see not liking their music, but from 2004-2017 they put out 5 straight Top 10 albums. And they are even bigger in the UK. Can't see how anyone thought they would be any bigger.
The Posies
Milli Vanilli
Such great vocals
Such great vocals
Ok so the Killers wasn't a good choice to answer the OPs question. I will say I thought their first album was great and the rest have been pretty meh. Carry on
The Revivalists
I wonder how huge Guns N Roses would have been if Axl hadn't been such a jerk and run off all of his talented bandmates.
I'll agree that they peaked with Hot Fuss, but that's one of the best albums of the 00's.
I thought Sam's Town was very good, and Day & Age was also solid.
The ones after that have been pretty hit or miss.
I thought Sam's Town was very good, and Day & Age was also solid.
The ones after that have been pretty hit or miss.
expresswrittenconsent said:Jim01 said:
You guys have a pretty big ceiling for big.
Oasis - Around 75 millions albums sold worldwide seems pretty damn successful to me. Outside of them breaking up, nothing really got in their way. They were the biggest act in an entire country (England) for a decade.
Killers - 22 million sold worldwide. Headlines a few big festivals last year.
MGMT - I'd say one of the bigger indie bands of the last decade. Festival headliner at some shows.
Oasis - huge first/second album and not much since, including both brothers having 3 or 4 terrible bands. People expecting them to continue or exceed the first two albums isnt really a "big ceiling", especially if you were alive when this happened.
Killers - dont really disagree. Considering how weird flowers is and how soulless those musicians are, it's kind of amazing they have had the success they've had, and I would say they have met any expectations one could have had the first time you heard mr briteside and somebody told me.
MGMT - again, similar to Oasis but much much smaller scale. Huge early album blew up in 08 moving them from mid level festival to headliners in 2010. That mega album went from indy rock to top 40 rock to target commercials to oldies/mom radio.
The follow up album wasnt great and they fell off the face of the earth around 5 yrs ago when the next albums were worse.
So just like oasis they fit perfectly with the idea of the thread. If you were at a festival in 2008 watching them play those songs and the watching the crowd react you'd have expected them to have a similar run to what vampire weekend (who basically popped that same year) have had.
Vampire Weekend's new song is pretty good.
Oasis was the first band I thought of but only because they were so incredibly cocky. When they claimed they were bigger or were going to be bigger than the Beatles I wrote them off. I also hated that one famous song they had early on.AgHawkeye said:SJEAg said:
Oasis
They certainly thought they would be bigger.
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The Hives
The Strokes
The Vines
The White Stripes
The Strokes
The Vines
The White Stripes
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The Hives
The Strokes
The Vines
The White Stripes
But not The Yeah Yeah Yeahs or The Natural or The Pixies?
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The Police (from a last longer standpoint), especially coming off the success of Synchronicity.
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