The next VU or Big Star

[mumpcake]

When I was in my early 20s, a lot of power pop bands came out that I liked and most of them were heavily influenced by Big Star. I was a little perplexed not to have heard from them because I thought I was fairly familiar with the music of that era.

Similarly, we know the expression about the VU where not many people listened to them but those that did formed bands.

Who do you think is going to be the next band that not a lot of people know about but will somehow become influential?

[BertKoor]

Interesting, never heard of Big Star before.

What/who do you mean by VU. Please don't use cryptic acronyms.

[vurt]

velvet underground i assume?

[Forgotten]

I sometimes think the influence that Big Star had is overstated, and there are a lot of other bands that were more impactful. Their first two albums weren't that dissimilar to other bands around at the time (Badfinger might be a good example of the same direction), but Third/Sister Lover was much more of a dark album that probably did less to influence popular music, and more to influence darker genres.

Sometimes I wonder if there will be the same situation where bands that flew under the radar are later recognized as having an impact greater than their popularity. It definitely happened during the 60s and 70s, but I can't think of bands from later than that who really had a big impact on later music but had little or no success during their active period.

[BertKoor]

velvet underground i assume?

Well yeah, assumption is tha motha of all feck-ups, as they say.

[thecontrolcentre]

I thought Big Star was a clothing brand. I had a pair if their combat pants at one time. Never heard or heard of the band ...

[Forgotten]