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Re: Un-google-able bands

indieshins — Wed, 9 Jan 2019 20:47:23 GMT

Author: indieshins

Posted: 01/10/2019 01:47

A while back I was putting together a playlist of all the albums reviewed by Julian Cope in his book Copendium. There were a few in there that were really hard to find, anywhere. Not on Spotify, or YouTube. The New Lou Reeds, for example. Not ungoogleable. They have a Bandcamp, and a Facebook, but it has very few likes. The second search result is Cope's website talking about them. And the album that he talks about I could only find a few tracks from. They'd be my pick.

Re: Un-google-able bands

kickerofelves — Wed, 9 Jan 2019 14:00:23 GMT

Author: kickerofelves

Posted: 01/09/2019 19:00

sethmadsen wrote:

haha - people are still commmenting on un-google-able bands (as in difficult to search for) instead of bands with easy names to search and just don't have a web presence. Oh well.

Also if you just add the word band after these difficult to google band names like F5 becomes a google search of "F5 Band", and voila... you now probably have a hit.

Thank you for making an effort to steer this thread back to the actual topic 😄

Re: Un-google-able bands

kickerofelves — Wed, 9 Jan 2019 13:57:55 GMT

Author: kickerofelves

Posted: 01/09/2019 18:57

Tap wrote:

Hi I'm a professional googler, I found this https://www.discogs.com/Lollipop-Factory-Soon/release/7777308 and searching for songs off that led me to their myspace page where they appear to have a lot of songs https://myspace.com/lollipopfactory/music/songs

Cheers Tap 😄 I did find the myspace but couldn't get any of the songs to play (I tried in multiple browsers). I thought it was because myspace lost a bunch of audio files due to a server transfer error. Did you manage to get any sound?

Re: Un-google-able bands

MickLord — Wed, 9 Jan 2019 09:24:07 GMT

Author: MickLord

Posted: 01/09/2019 14:24

Pond.
Not the contemporary australian psychedelic band but the american alt/grunge band from the 90's who were on Sub Pop

Re: Un-google-able bands

Tap — Wed, 9 Jan 2019 04:54:52 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 01/09/2019 09:54

ah yeah looks unavailable for me too. well it looks like their webshop https://www.musicglue.com/sophia/ has some new release for sale as digital download, no physical or digital but you could email them via their site http://www.sophiamusic.net/ and ask about that, there could be the same rights issues that keep it greyed out on spotify though. there is someone selling a used cd copy for cheap and a vinyl copy for a very high amount of money via amazon https://www.amazon.com/People-Are-Like-Seasons-Sophia/dp/B0000YWHT8

Re: Un-google-able bands

carpents — Wed, 9 Jan 2019 04:20:36 GMT

Author: carpents

Posted: 01/09/2019 09:20

Tap wrote:

carpents wrote:

OH yeah, another one which is frustrating, and I'm not going to search this unless I'm on a VPN for obvious reasons, but Teenage Snuff Film by Rowland Howard. I want to buy it, but where? Nowhere.

You can stream it on YouTube, but I'm pretty sure the places where it is uploaded are not legit. (Granted, he's dead, so he doesn't care.)

Also had trouble finding People Are Like Seasons by Sophie. (Another impossible-to-search band name.) But I couldn't even cobble together the whole album without resorting to some live tracks to fill in the gaps.

for the latter, isn't it this? https://open.spotify.com/album/5lVVT0ku5h6n9GYXjayZEy

That’s the album. For me there are no songs on it; it must be available in a different country from me. Do you see songs on it in the US?

Re: Un-google-able bands

Tap — Wed, 9 Jan 2019 00:48:29 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 01/09/2019 05:48

carpents wrote:

for the latter, isn't it this? https://open.spotify.com/album/5lVVT0ku5h6n9GYXjayZEy

Re: Un-google-able bands

Tap — Wed, 9 Jan 2019 00:35:23 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 01/09/2019 05:35

kickerofelves wrote:

About half of their songs are up somewhere (otherwise I couldn't have discovered them) but no full albums.

Re: Un-google-able bands

RoundTheBend — Wed, 9 Jan 2019 00:24:38 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 01/09/2019 05:24

haha - people are still commmenting on un-google-able bands (as in difficult to search for) instead of bands with easy names to search and just don't have a web presence. Oh well.

Also if you just add the word band after these difficult to google band names like F5 becomes a google search of "F5 Band", and voila... you now probably have a hit.

Re: Un-google-able bands

Fischman — Tue, 8 Jan 2019 14:32:57 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 01/08/2019 19:32

I also have a disc by a group called F5.

Googlilng only returns about tornadoes or fighter jets.

Re: Un-google-able bands

DanielNunes93 — Tue, 8 Jan 2019 14:26:15 GMT

Author: DanielNunes93

Posted: 01/08/2019 19:26

This category is easily won by the Dutch band Gold 🧱 🧱

By the way, amazing band!

Re: Un-google-able bands

RoundTheBend — Sat, 5 Jan 2019 23:35:34 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 01/06/2019 04:35

Sometimes google results differ from user to user, searching the exact same keywords.

Also I know this isn't super obscure, but I find it hard sometimes to find things I knew existed in the 90s from big bands, like The Smashing Pumpkins (heck even trying to prove Teargarden by Kaleidyscope which was in 2009 was a legit release on a bands website is hard to prove). Or finding a video I know I ha(d)ve for a Foo Fighters or Radiohead thing I know was on the CD and thought it would be easy to find on YouTube... but it's not.

But I'm ok with not having EVERYTHING on the internet. I mean it's convenient, but I'm not sure I like the direction of having everything on the internet, especially with how things are going lately on many different levels.

Re: Un-google-able bands

carpents — Sat, 5 Jan 2019 14:39:53 GMT

Author: carpents

Posted: 01/05/2019 19:39

OH yeah, another one which is frustrating, and I'm not going to search this unless I'm on a VPN for obvious reasons, but Teenage Snuff Film by Rowland Howard. I want to buy it, but where? Nowhere.

You can stream it on YouTube, but I'm pretty sure the places where it is uploaded are not legit. (Granted, he's dead, so he doesn't care.)

Also had trouble finding People Are Like Seasons by Sophie. (Another impossible-to-search band name.) But I couldn't even cobble together the whole album without resorting to some live tracks to fill in the gaps.

Re: Un-google-able bands

Fischman — Sat, 5 Jan 2019 13:11:25 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 01/05/2019 18:11

I once encountered a French prog band called eN.

Yep. Just a little e followed by a Capital N.

Google is no help.

Re: Un-google-able bands

kickerofelves — Sat, 5 Jan 2019 13:07:45 GMT

Author: kickerofelves

Posted: 01/05/2019 18:07

Hayden wrote:

Not to be a buzzkill kickerofelves, but I Googled Lollipop Factory with ease and found an album titled 'Soon', as well as two tracks off of it. If you want to start a thread of complete albums that haven't been uploaded online, I have a whole slew of Asian and African records I could hit the thread with.

kickerofelves wrote:

I've searched high and low, and aside from a handful of tracks on youtube and soundcloud I can't find their albums anywhere, neither for sale nor dodgy download.

About half of their songs are up somewhere (otherwise I couldn't have discovered them) but no full albums.

And yes please post those records you mentioned 😄 I started this thread for the purpose of sharing stuff like that.

Re: Un-google-able bands

Hayden — Sat, 5 Jan 2019 11:52:39 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 01/05/2019 16:52

kickerofelves wrote:

Clearly I picked the wrong title for this thread.
I probably should have called it something like:
Amazing Super Obscure Bands That You Can't Find Online, What Are Some Of Your Favorites?

🤔

Not to be a buzzkill kickerofelves, but I Googled Lollipop Factory with ease and found an album titled 'Soon', as well as two tracks off of it. If you want to start a thread of complete albums that haven't been uploaded online, I have a whole slew of Asian and African records I could hit the thread with.

Re: Un-google-able bands

kickerofelves — Sat, 5 Jan 2019 11:46:49 GMT

Author: kickerofelves

Posted: 01/05/2019 16:46

Clearly I picked the wrong title for this thread.
I probably should have called it something like:
Amazing Super Obscure Bands That You Can't Find Online, What Are Some Of Your Favorites?
Oh well my bad.
On the topic of "Bands Who's Name Is Too General Sounding To Yield Useful Result When Entered Into The Search Engine Developed By Everyone's Favorite Data Hungry Mega Corporation" I would have to go with Free.

Re: Un-google-able bands

Skinny — Sat, 5 Jan 2019 11:38:56 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 01/05/2019 16:38

Hayden wrote:

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Re: Un-google-able bands

kickerofelves — Sat, 5 Jan 2019 11:38:54 GMT

Author: kickerofelves

Posted: 01/05/2019 16:38

carpents wrote:

Not impossible to find, but a PITA:

There is a 90s/00s post rock band named Tone. They opened a show for Come (same problem here too) we saw in DC. Crazy band, they had some outrageous number of guitarists -- like 10 or more.

I tried finding them on Spotify, and they do have snippets of some albums there, but Spotify is horrid when bands share names or common words. (It doesn't help that Tone named their albums common words too.)

Even after finding the right band & album, if you click the band name in Spotify to find their discography it gives you a hodgepodge of other bands named 'Tone'. Really annoying, especially since this is supposed to be what Spotify was built to do. (It's not like I'm looking for 'Tone' on a shopping site or something, which I could understand returning muddied results.)

Whatever algorithm spotify is using to organize their content is not working. My friend was hit with a cease and desist from spotify claiming that his song was plagiarizing another song by a different artist. Both songs and artists were him.

Re: Un-google-able bands

Hayden — Sat, 5 Jan 2019 11:30:05 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 01/05/2019 16:30

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