The Sugarcubes started as a very noisy, avant garde band called KUKL. From those early albums it would've been laughable to think that singer Bjork would become virtually a household name by the 1990s.
The only successful revivalists go all in. You have to. You can't be a weekend warrior and make a career of it. Stray Cats did it right and are one of the few to go retro with authenticity.