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[Gangster Octopus]

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No mention of the cricketing Carol In The Deep Midwicket?

[Andy C]

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Third slip's stinding a bit wide for my liking there.

[Mumpo]

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Purves Grundy wrote:

I intend to be the svengali for lewd boyband Good Length

Only if you can get them to autograph my copy of Full Toss.

I wonder what happened to Brit Pop also-rans Yorker?

[oscar mike]

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The other day on You Tube I watched an old TOTP performance of Waqar Khan, she was one of the pioneers of Reverse Swing.

[oscar mike]

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Does anyone remember Lathwell? He was heralded as the "new Marvin Gaye" in some quarters, he sparkled briefly before succumbing to stage fright and becoming a recluse. His classic Lost In The Corridor of Uncertainty still gets the occasional spin in my house.

[Wyatt Earp]

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E10 Rifle wrote:

Whatever happened to tedious prog-rock outfit Hawkeye's Verdict, whose 1975 concept album Negotiating The Middle Overs was widely derided?

Ah, now, you say that, but their early stuff was great. Teatime Declaration is a lovely piece of English psychedelia. They only started going downhill with Four Men Saving One.

[Ray de Galles]

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I know little about cricket but always think Flat Track Bully would be a good hardcore/nü metal band.

[Wyatt Earp]

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Nightwatchman should have been better known than he was; surely one of Kingston's most innovative dub producers. Possibly A Bit High was a classic.

[E10 Rifle]

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I was briefly a bit of a fan of American grungy hardcore types Shirtfront, whose 1991 album The Pitch Is Cracking Up remains a bit of a classic I reckon.

[Sits]

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There's been a fair amount of metal already here but it would be churlish not to at least mention the almost mythical stoners Merciless Sledger.

Their rare white label album Every Time I Make Love to Your Wife, She Gives Me a Biscuit was nothing short of genius.

[nmrfox]

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80's soft rock band Slow Turner's cover version of Stuck in the middle with you still gives me nightmares.

[Andy C]

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It often cones as a surprise to discover how far back the roots of this music go in north america - one of the oldest rivalries is betweeen American and Canadian musicians. Of the former, perhaps the archetype was Garfield "Duke" Balls, whose Pickin' At The Seam (c/w Ole Sticky Dog) finally spread his fame wider than the dusty joints of his native Longhandle, Iowa.

[Levin]

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I can't believe that no one has mentioned 60s singer Dolly Catch. Well I say singer but she's probably best known for beign the love interest in 'Farm the Strike' a union bashing farce.

[E10 Rifle]

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And how can we forget lovelorn indie miserablists For Two Declared, whose mournful Dropped (Off My Own Bowling) was something of an anthem for a generation of sensitive adolescents c1986

[Vicarious Thrillseeker]

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Or the white rapper Shit-T (real name Curly Sandwich). Budgetary constraints on his first album, 'I Like It White (With 4 Sugars)' meant that he couldn't hire the services of seasoned veterans Salt 'n' Pepa, and had to make do with journeyman producer MC Ceee.

[E10 Rifle]

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I should also add that soul-funk act Deep Cover's sleazy lurve anthem Let's Take This One Upstairs still hits the spot