Worst ever Irish band?

[razor]

They maybe had a loyal following but I don't think you can call it a big fan base.
I do believe they were "Big in Japan".

[Lionel Ritchie]

A "huge" following!? :D Considering you can get into the UK top 30 and I suspect the Irish top 10 with a couple of thousand sales, now I'd hardly call that huge.

They maybe had a loyal following but I don't think you can call it a big fan base.

Okay we're into the semantics of looking for an agreed definition of "huge" now so I'll avoid the use of the term and instead say "considerable".

Would you then agree that The Frames, purely for example and illustrative purposes, have a "considerable" following or fan base and would be known outside their own home town? Well Glen and the boys can probably match the Sultans three Irish top 10 singles (well they do have about 10 years more to play with) -but would have to fold when the Sultans raised them a UK top 30 single.

[drinkfeckarse]

Okay we're into the semantics of looking for an agreed definition of "huge" now so I'll avoid the use of the term and instead say "considerable".



"Huge" to me would be a massive band i.e. U2. If you class the Sultans as having a "huge" following then U2 would have to astronomical!!

I don't think I'd even call it considerable but definately fiercely loyal as you're proving ;)

A couple of top 30 hits doesn't really amount to much in the grand scheme of things.....jaysus the Cheeky Girls can top that one ;) :D

[Fr. Murphy]

The Rev's - Utter ****e

[Lionel Ritchie]

"Huge" to me would be a massive band i.e. U2. If you class the Sultans as having a "huge" following then U2 would have to astronomical!!

I don't think I'd even call it considerable but definately fiercely loyal as you're proving ;)

A couple of top 30 hits doesn't really amount to much in the grand scheme of things.....jaysus the Cheeky Girls can top that one ;) :D

aye but the cheeky girls probably didn't write the tunes. You don't have to have a massive seller to have a tidy earner for many years after.
Wheres Me Jumper and Veronica still turn up fairly frequently on Irish compilations and on Irish Radio (Ironically -their biggest seller and highest chart placed record You Talk To Much doesn't :confused: ).
Add to that the fact that they were bone fide stars in Japan (twice the size of UK) and that's a fair few royalty cheques coming in the door to this day. ...and the nineties revival can only be just around the corner. :D

[drinkfeckarse]

aye but the cheeky girls probably didn't write the tunes.



True, the Cheeky Girls can barely string a sentence together never mind write a song :D

[the 12 th man]

declan nerney band
the indians :eek:
kaye twins
in tua nua

[Neish]

Anyone remember thre name of a group consisting two girls who made a vain atempt at rapping. One of them was Keith Duffy's sister.

They made bewitched look good :eek:

[exiled_gufc_fan]

Anyone remember thre name of a group consisting two girls who made a vain atempt at rapping. One of them was Keith Duffy's sister.

They made bewitched look good :eek:

the reynolds girls wasn't it?

[Éanna]

With all time classics like the N17 and Joyce Country Ceili Band :eek:

They put Tuam on the map...

Best Irish band of all time :D
well said Although, I guess you wouldn't be as fond of "The green and red of mayo" :eek: Sawdoctors are a band I only started listening to a few years back, but they've quickly become one of my favourites. Equally can't believe that anyone would name the Sultans (a bit mad, but highly entertaining) or Ash (IMO, one of the best bands around) in this.

as for the worst- anything involving louis walsh, obviously, but the Corrs get my vote. pure unadulterated pap from start to finish. I nearly went on strike from the bar I worked in in Germany over them, if I ever hear that Unplugged album again....... sweet baby jesus and the orphans* :mad: Horrible wailing sellafieldian banshees the four of them :mad:

* prize for the first one to tell me where that came from (except ruairi)

[gustavo]

the reynolds girls wasn't it?

id say this is who you are talking about , buffalo g.

Saints Preserve Us! (http://www.sonymusic.co.uk/uk/bio.php?id=5008211&lang=eng&ze=sag)

[Lionel Ritchie]

As well as Shanes utterly kicked little sister doing a mean line in sub blazing squad high pitch low brow knack rap in the afformentioned Buffalo G -there was also an equally kicked but much, much, much older sister in a failed "girl"* band who's name avoids me.

* the four "girls" involved had a combined age of about 135-140. :D

[SligoRoversfan]

paddy casey(tripe) revs (just ****) Westlife (*******!!) Damien Dempsey,hate his voice!!!

[Éanna]

paddy casey(tripe)
:eek: No no no.

[aberharp]

Anyone remember thre name of a group consisting two girls who made a vain atempt at rapping. One of them was Keith Duffy's sister.

They made bewitched look good :eek:

was that buffalo g? or am i confused with somebody else?

[IsMiseSean]

Glad to see I'm not the only Doc's fan on the forum ;)

Obviously all the boy/girl band thing is crap, but Paddy Casey and Damien Dempsey are awful too.

[Neish]

id say this is who you are talking about , buffalo g.

Saints Preserve Us! (http://www.sonymusic.co.uk/uk/bio.php?id=5008211&lang=eng&ze=sag)

Thats the one.

Did anyone see the time they were on Adam and Joe. They just let them play the musical intro into the song and cut them off. :D

[Partizan]

I'd ride the a**e off them though.

[The Good Son]

U2 as worst Irish Band ever would suggest that your whacked off your head imo.......son
No Dad I consider myself quite sane. I remember going to see U2 in Cork City Hall in 81 or 82, support the same night was an atrocious Cork hardcore band The Unknown Wrecks and even they were better than U2 and their pompous,overblown codology. You have OTT down as your worst, you may be right, but I couldn't possibly comment as all I know absolutely nothing about them. On another note surely Virgin Prunes and their arty, "aren't we completely mad" rubbish should be on worst band list.

[CollegeTillIDie]

The Corrs. By a mile. Pure unadulterated vomit.

Jeez man a bit harsh on three of the few actually attractive women in Ireland! :rolleyes:

[CollegeTillIDie]

Here is the key to finding the answer to this question....
If they were not Irish would the media here say they are sh1t?
And that applies to some of the bands listed here so far.

As regards the most overrated band of all time I nominate the Hothouse Flowers... because they were so hyped around 1986 and 1987 that not even the Beatles could have lived up to that. To be fair they were not completely crap but nowhere near as good as they were made out to be.

Their best album was produced by David A Stewart of the Eurthymics and was largely ignored by the Great unwashed Irish public. Cannot remember the title now come to think of it! :p

[CollegeTillIDie]

bUFFALO WHO? :confused:

[GavinZac]

u2 post 1996

[tetsujin1979]

I'd like to say The Frames, just to make some arteries pop, but I'll go with Six

[Gareth]

There are many bands hailed for these shores that have come on stage, redefined the definition of tragic and faded away. To those, I say thank you, because be it down to commercial failure or the self realisation that were muck, they left us never to reappear. Some bands never got the hint. I'd say the following:

The Revs - Donegal lads that for a period of time around 2000 I think seemed to appear everywhere. I saw them in Tower for the first time, and got an album for free. I subsquently lost it in the bin.

Bands like The Hothouse flowers are not the worst band ever. They are bands that suffered from single exposure and never produced the radio hits to back their success up. (Don't Go)

I hate Aslan. I hate Aslan for who they attract, for the fact their album seems to reappear more times than Tracy Chapman and that I just don't care about whether they can blast the roof off the Hartstown Inn. I know a coverband in Galway that would be better, but I don't go claiming they are superstars!!

Boy bands, girlbands, novelty bands I will not waste time listing.

I do not knwo HOW someone can say Whipping Boy are the worst band ever and no one to say they are mad. Whipping Boy Heartworm is a superb album. Have you got the album, why do you say they are the worst Irish band?

On the U2 question, I don't like them for their albums are substandard in my opinion. They had great albums (which are overplayed to death) but I could forget them the last 10 years or so.

[skitz3]

it's got to be aslan so bad they sometimes make me want to be from cork but then i hear that langer song and i'm back to being a proud DUB again.

[Pauro 76]

Thats the one.

Did anyone see the time they were on Adam and Joe. They just let them play the musical intro into the song and cut them off. :D

Heh heh, brings back bad memories... anyone remember the name of the girl band in the mid nineties that Liz Bonnin was part of? dont think they even released a single, they just took space in newspapers most days... now they were nice!

[speedking]

The Frames. ****e, absolute ****e.

[speedking]

speedking im not gone on them, but i like the fact they have remained underground and have always kept their following and built on it, which is something i really admire.

MOST people here wouldnt have a clue who primordial or cruachan, or for that matter that shane mcgowans last produced album and album he sang on was theres ( i.e. frank skinner asked him a question before and failed to mention that he had actually produced and sang on an album since the pogues last album ) , but the thing is if they did they would probably say that they are the worst irish band ever. even though like the frames they have played russia and all europe etc.

so although i agree with you they are ****e, i appreciate them.
That is fair enough I guess. I agree that all bands that keep to their roots have to be admired for that. I still don't like their music and I think their singer is a bit of a ponce though! :D

[jebus]

it was to be an OTT or Six type band, all between those two I can't quite decide. Probably OTT since I feel bad for terrorising the Cork girl from Six with my mates on a drunken night in Cork one night