Most ILM'ers tend to think that pop music is about groove and rhythm and "soul", which is completely misguided. Good pop music is about really great choruses that you can sing along to, and a classic Beatlesque build-up to that chorus before it.
R&B had hooks. And choruses. That you could sing along to. Dude.
― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 29 May 2008 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh well, Geir's idea that there's roughly one or two acceptable types of pop music isn't exactly new I suppose...
― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 29 May 2008 11:45 (sixteen years ago) link
The Sensational 60s Show - Fri 30th May (7.30pm) Hosted by Steve Walls
Totally read this as Steven Wells.
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 29 May 2008 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
How can you like The Seahorses a lot and hate Dodgy, who, until 1995, were basically the same band but not shit?
I just really like listening to and playing along with Squire's guitar on that album - he does some pretty standard classic rock moves really, really well and the tunes are good. The lyrics are dire, but I don't much care.
All I've heard of Dodgy has been wretched in a drippy, beany-hatted ordinary guys rockin out in the sunshine kinda way - I haven't paid any attention to whether it was pre or post 1995. Sorry I can't be more specific :)
― Dr.C, Thursday, 29 May 2008 12:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Me too (xp).
Is there any palpable point to a Dreamers without Freddie?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 29 May 2008 12:01 (sixteen years ago) link
R&B had hooks
Using past tense is correct here. 60s Motown certainly did.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 29 May 2008 12:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Dodgy had one good song - In a Room.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 May 2008 12:02 (sixteen years ago) link
what album was that off?
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 12:44 (sixteen years ago) link
seahorses, didn't need to even think twice
― electricsound, Thursday, 29 May 2008 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Free Peace Sweet
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 May 2008 12:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Where's the hate for the poor mans indie version of the wildhearts, 3 Colours Red? ILM raise your game!
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Who the feck are they?
― Tom D., Thursday, 29 May 2008 13:12 (sixteen years ago) link
http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=3+colours+red&search_type=&aq=f
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Alan McGee thought they were better than the sex pistols or something
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 13:14 (sixteen years ago) link
alan mcgee thinks his bowel movements are the second coming of george gershwin
― electricsound, Thursday, 29 May 2008 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Dislike of 3CR's "This Is My Hollywood" tempered by mild enjoyment of "Copper Girl" (NB probably not heard since Lamacq left R1, certainly not going to bother watching the youtubes), lost in wondering if China Drum should've been on britrock poll, whether I'd still like Stony Sleep, and alarm at suddenly remembering My Vitriol.
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 29 May 2008 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
ugh my vitriol. They were terrible.
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 13:45 (sixteen years ago) link
A bit later on though, weren't they, around the time of JJ72, another stinker of a band. Early 00s: worse than mid 90s?
― Neil S, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Christ on a bucket, JJ72 - did the world really need the Cranberries at 78 rpm?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
They were really big for a short while weren't they. Looked they might do a Coldplay and conquer the world.
― Neil S, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember reading somewhere about how JJ72 became bitter and twisted by the cynical music industry when their label wouldn't issue their second (or was it third?) album - so they split up in protest!
RESULT!
― Rob M v2, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Steve Lamacq never recovered from the trauma.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
How dare that label not have recognised their unimpeachable genius!
― Neil S, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Although my love for them is large and enduring, I'm surprised not to see My Life Story on this poll.
Also, Rialto.
― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Rialto formed out of Kinky Machine, right? We should do a Worst Of These Early 90s UK Bands poll for them.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
London ilxors please help - who were the shitty early 90's band that constantly plastered the tube network with their crappy stickers? Not Underneath What, the other one. I'm racking my brains here.
― Matt #2, Thursday, 29 May 2008 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
They'd have to be on that poll anyway, is what I'm saying.
25th of May?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 29 May 2008 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
No, it was The (something)s.
― Matt #2, Thursday, 29 May 2008 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
The Nubiles?
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 29 May 2008 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
The Nubiles' 'Layabout' was Justine Frischman's single of 1994, FACT! (and possibly also mine)
― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 29 May 2008 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Most sparsely attended gig I've ever been to = the Nubiles at Reading After Dark c1995. I (and seemingly everyone else) went to see the support band (some local dudes) and then promptly left after they finished.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 29 May 2008 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not sure they ever actually released anything. I keep thinking it was The Lollies, but...no. Anyway, carry on with excoriating 3CR, don't mind me.
― Matt #2, Thursday, 29 May 2008 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
The Divine Comedy should have been on this poll.
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Not a UK band
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 29 May 2008 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Isn't he from Norn Iron?
― Tom D., Thursday, 29 May 2008 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
So he is, from Derry. I always assumed he was from Eire.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 29 May 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Posh boy, not much of an accent
― Tom D., Thursday, 29 May 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Also I imagine it'd be more accurate to say he's from Londonderry, if you know what I mean
― Tom D., Thursday, 29 May 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuck a 3 Colours Red. That's like one color dude. I know I know, that's so three hours ago, but I had to post this:
skippy646 (6 days ago) Show Hide 0 Poor comment Good comment Marked as spam Reply the first time i heard this was during their gig at leeds where they announced their first split ! ending the gig on this song was what made me wanna be a writer ! its epic
― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 29 May 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, and the son of a Protestant vicar to answer Tom D's insinuation, but I always think of him as Éireann too, maybe for the Father Ted thing or maybe just because the press always called him "Irish". Meanwhile, didn't even blink at fellow NIers Therapy? and Ash on the Britrock poll.
Knowing bookish singer-songwriter: try to assemble Joycean lineage; noisy rock dudes: front cover of Kerrang! says WHOA NEW BRITROCKKKKK REVOLUTION (some participants may be not British)?
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 29 May 2008 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Dig a bit deeper into Northern Uproar's site and you discover they had a spot supporting on Mark Owen's tour. Ha!
I was on the guest list for the Glasgow show on that tour! Then I went to the pub with Northern Uproar. They were really annoying so I left and went home. The end.
― ailsa, Thursday, 29 May 2008 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
SEAHORSES!
It was obvious then, and even more obvious now, that Squire had intentionally surrounded himself with a bunch of absolute no-hopers who would never, ever outshine him musically. NME were unusually spot-on when they said the only reason Squirehorses existed was so he could be Special Guest Guitarist in his own band, forever.
― Pheeel, Thursday, 29 May 2008 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Great song, but their best single moment was "Staying Out For The Summer". Those fantastic backing vocals in the chorus: Classic all the way!
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 29 May 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Reef were great. They get my vote. Place Your Hands on a pair of sharp scissors you floppy haired wankers. Almost as good as Toploader.
All of that list is cunt, bar 3 colours Red - for 'Copper Girl' only.
No wonder I was a Yankophile
― Fer Ark, Thursday, 29 May 2008 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I forgot about Toploader. They would've ran away with the poll though so maybe it's best I didn't remember them.
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
My girlfriend still reps for My Life Story, Rialto, The Divine Comedy and the like. It's the type of stuff she has on pre-recorded cassette.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 29 May 2008 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link
mls were worse than the divine comedy IIRC
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link
GENE are the worst. Really.
― edwardo, Thursday, 29 May 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link