bands who never released an album

[Eggy Mess]

Betty Boo and Alex James' duo Wigwam seemed to fizzle out after releasing their eponymous debut single.

See also Me Me Me - cheesecunt has form in this regard.  The Me Me Me single entered the Top 20 iirc. Simpler times.

[The Late Satoru Iwata]

Oh plenty!

- On A Friday
- Smile
- Warsaw (I could get buzby'd on this one)
- The High Numbers
- Genesis (no not that one)

If we're doing that, let's do the pre-Queen bands:

Smile
1984
Ibex (later Wreckage)
Sour Milk Sea
Bubblingover Boys
The Reaction
The Opposition (later Art)
Larry Lurex (this one doesn't really count)
Deacon

[Brundle-Fly]

There must be hundreds of punk/indie bands from the 70s, 80s and 90s who only managed a couple of 7"s. One joy about the internet, and in particular Bandcamp, is some of them get to finally "release" albums and things they recorded thirty or forty years ago.

I was surprised today to see power pop, one-hit-wonders, The Jags actually released TWO studio albums.

[Shaxberd]

Seeing the two-tone documentary/concert film Dance Craze last year brought The Bodysnatchers to my attention. Great bunch of lasses who never released an album, although their lead singer Rhoda Dakar went on to work with the Special AKA, notably on "most unsettling song you've ever heard" favourite The Boiler.

[Jim_MacLaine]

Great bunch of lasses who never released an album, although their lead singer Rhoda Dakar went on to work with the Special AKA

and the rest became The Belle Stars.

[Jockice]

Speedy. Recorded one that was never released. As also happened to another Sheffield band from a few years earlier called Respect.

Actually, Speedy's News From Nowhere LP was finally released in 2014. Still never heard it though, although I did go to one of the two shows they did to promote it before returning to the day jobs.

[Brundle-Fly]

Seeing the two-tone documentary/concert film Dance Craze last year brought The Bodysnatchers to my attention. Great bunch of lasses who never released an album, although their lead singer Rhoda Dakar went on to work with the Special AKA, notably on "most unsettling song you've ever heard" favourite The Boiler.

As mentioned this morning on page one of this thread, rudy.

[Deskbound Cunt]

Fat Les never released an album. Isn't that a shame.

[scarecrow]

The Subway Sect released a few albums, but the original punk incarnation's album was pulled by Bernie Rhodes, and the master tapes were lost.

A couple of rough monitor mixes were included on a compilation, hinting that the record would've been bloody great. Vic Goddard redid a version of a few years ago but it was crap

Years ago, someone whom I thiiiink was maybe the guy behind the Tiny Global label told me that the master tapes had been found, and that there was legal toing and froing taking place.

[PaulTMA]

MARRS
Yell

[famethrowa]

MARRS

True that... you might even say the chances of anything coming from MARRS are a million to one, my friend?

[Enzo]

See also Me Me Me - cheesecunt has form in this regard.  The Me Me Me single entered the Top 20 iirc. Simpler times.

Alex James seemed to have some interesting songwriting ideas although he was rarely allowed to showcase them with Blur. Far Out and Alex's song were both released with weird effects over the vocals, but were catchy.

[The Late Satoru Iwata]

Fat Les never released an album. Isn't that a shame.

The Alex James curse. See also:

AND

At least Bad Lieutenant got an album out, but Alex James was only a guest bassist on that record rather than being part of the band, which is probably why they managed it.

[The Late Satoru Iwata]

Betty Boo and Alex James' duo Wigwam seemed to fizzle out after releasing their eponymous debut single..

See also Me Me Me - cheesecunt has form in this regard.  The Me Me Me single entered the Top 20 iirc. Simpler times.

I completely failed to see these posts. Please call me a twat.

[Kankurette]

The twat is on its way, sir.

[Lordofthefiles]

Camp Freddy


I'm sure they were recording in the studio at one point, but nothing was ever released.

[The Late Satoru Iwata]

The twat is on its way, sir.

Fantastic.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

that wigwam song was and remains absolute fucking rubbish. truly beneath you, betty.

[markburgle]

Years ago, someone whom I thiiiink was maybe the guy behind the Tiny Global label told me that the master tapes had been found, and that there was legal toing and froing taking place.

Fascinating, and exciting (that's The Nightingale's label too!) Must've been since the redo, which was 2007.

[Bad Ambassador]

A post-Queen band - The Immortals, formed by John Deacon to record the theme for Biggles: Adventures in Time. One single and done.

[buzby]

MARRS

There was a massive falling out between Colourbox, A.R. Kane and Ivo Watts-Russell over the recording and release of the two tracks on that single. Not only did it mean the chances of a follow-up were nil, the ill feeling it generated meant both bands left 4AD and Colourbox never released anything again.

Alison Clarkson on WigWam:

I met Alex at the Groucho Club and we just got on. Blur were working with Ben Hillier on Think Tank and Ben's a brilliant producer, he thinks outside the box. I think we wanted to make it into a project, but nothing quite gelled because, to be honest with you, Alex is a really good bass player in his group, but not necessarily a songwriter, so there wasn't enough for us to make it work as a proper project. So it was just a bit of fun really.

Like most things Cheeseknob has been involved in, it came from the Groucho (see also Bad Lieutenant). The video, directed by Dom Joly, was filmed on the roof of a building directly opposite the Groucho too.

At least Bad Lieutenant got an album out, but Alex James was only a guest bassist on that record rather than being part of the band, which is probably why they managed it.

He got co-writing credits for the 2 tracks he played on on the album, and another 2 tracks that were only released on the limited edition version as bonus tracks.

[jobotic]

Formed in the Groucho Club by Alex James....

As appetising as Formed in the bowels of Geoff Capes after a pickled egg eating competition

Fucking hate Alex James and, by extension, Blur.

Not Betty Boo though.

[Critcho]

Reni from The Stone Roses started a band called The Rub, who got a gig review in NME in the early 2000's. I remember them saying they had some occasionally nice three part harmonies but were otherwise just a bit lame. I don't think they ever released any recordings at all.

Out of curiosity I looked them up and their whole gig is on youtube:

I'm mildly curious to hear what they actually sounded like.

[Minami Minegishi]

There was a massive falling out between Colourbox, A.R. Kane and Ivo Watts-Russell over the recording and release of the two tracks on that single. Not only did it mean the chances of a follow-up were nil, the ill feeling it generated meant both bands left 4AD and Colourbox never released anything again.

Yeah, that was messy and a real shame. It coincided with 4AD getting all bolshy and major labely in their attitudes. My friend Russ who occasionally played in AR Kane and MAARS said that they started treating their non-USA acts like dogshit.

Just a sad story all round for everyone.

[The Culture Bunker]

Reni The Stone Roses started a band called The Rub, who got a gig review in NME in the early 2000's. I remember them saying they had some occasionally nice three part harmonies but were otherwise just a bit lame. I don't think they ever released any recordings at all.

I'm mildly curious to hear what they actually sounded like.

Friend of mine saw them in Sheffield, along with about 15 others, one of whom was Rowetta.

He didn't rate the band either.

[Gurke and Hare]

I saw The Rub in Leeds, I think. It was a full house, not the poor Sheffield turn-out but I remember very little about it. The most memorable thing was Reni asking at the start if anyone in the crowd had a spliff they could chuck up to the stage for him. They did.

[copa]

Boys Wonder never managed an album.
Saw them at ULU without knowing anything about them and they were fantastic.
Like nothing else. Which was probably their problem.
Brit pop before it existed.

[soaking wet, mate]

The Southern Death Cult
Death Cult

These definitely qualify as both had different line-ups (which changed again by the time they lopped a bit more off their name)

[curiousoranges]

Ming Tea

One True Voice

[Brundle-Fly]

Boys Wonder never managed an album.
Saw them at ULU without knowing anything about them and they were fantastic.
Like nothing else. Which was probably their problem.
Brit pop before it existed.

As mentioned by me on page one of this thread. I saw them at The Marquee.