Humbled

From a list I'm on, someone wrote:

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80s artists that never got their due:

1. Oingo Boingo
2. Wall of Voodoo
3. Colourbox
4. The Armoury Show
5. Strawberry Switchblade
6. Neon Judgement
7. Fad Gadget
8. Wolfgang Press
9. Didjits
10. Scratch Acid
11. Rational Youth

90s artists who were ignored because they weren't 'grunge':

1. The Gits
2. New Duncan Imperials
3. Hammerbox
4. Giant Sand
5. Sister Double Happiness
6. Masters of Reality
7. Lard
8. Buffalo Tom
9. Forbidden Dimension
10. Killdozer
11. Attrition (goth)

Newer Indie/obscure stuff I've discovered (or produced ;')):

1. Maximo Park
2. Witch (stoner rock by Dinsaur Jr. members)
3. Mendozza (Vancouver Doom kings)
4. Sunn (o)))) (doooooom)
5. Betty Kracker (pop/punk rawk)
6. Camera Obscura (60s Britpop)
7. Pipettes (same)
8. Dan Mangan (indie pop)
9. She Wants Revenge (postpunk)
10. Bettie Serveert (Dutch pop)
11. Triggerfinger (Belgian rock)
12. SOLDOUT! (Belgian electro)
13. Dana Fuchs (Dutch blues/soul)
14. Burial (ambient dub)

Vancouver bands (props to my EastVan friends!):

1. Motorama (mathcore)
2. Hawaiian Bibles (if Japandroids hadn't blown up everyone would be talking about these guys instead)
3. Gnash Rambler (punk)
4. The Hathaways (garagepunk)
5. Cadaver Dogs (roots punk a la Supersuckers)
6. Little Guitar Army (9-12 piece punk spectacle)
7. Piggy (punk feat. former members of Black Flag)
8. Rumsfeld (drone/sludge a la Killdozer)
9. The Rain and the Sidewalk (darkwave/goth)
10. Collapsing Opposites (indie loopers)
11. Role Mach (jazzpunk)
12. The Jolts (punk rawk - Classic Rock(UK) gave their CD 8/10)
13. Big John Bates (psychobilly Vegas burlesque show)

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And I thought I had a lot of bands that no one had ever heard of. To be far, Master of Reality and New Duncan Imperials are at least familiar names to me, though I can't tell you why.