"Any quarter-decent three-chord knobheads could and did get a deal in the ’90s." POLL

I didn't buy any of Geneva's singles, I did invest in their albums though... always thought they got a bit of a bum deal from people, I remember the lead singers voice was a bit of a love-it-or-hate-it thing. Surprised that Marion haven't been mentioned once in this thread so far.

http://static.nme.com/images/article/menswear_photoshot_UKWT_L90409.jpg

they're called menswear and they look like this? okie dokie.

someone i know looks just like the singer from shed 7, that's a lucrative celeb lookalike job there.

Have had 'slight return' in my head for the past two days since seeing the RW blog post. A few weeks ago my parents and my o/h's parents unloaded a ton of boxes of our old stuff on us and we saw our CD collections for the first time in years. At least 50% of these are in there somewhere (not Northern Uproar though, never Northern Uproar)
I saw someone doing karaoke to Menswe@r in San Francisco in 2012

btw Republica are playing in my town soon. They're not really akin to the rest but I did raise an eyebrow and furrow a ... brow

Marion's 1st album was good. Saw them live at t in the park 95 too (prob saw a lot of these britpop bands there but most weren't very good live but Marion & Menswe@r were as were Cast)

Voting Ride, even in britpop era Ride's Carnival Of Light was really good, not a patch on earlier albums however.

Saw Marion sometime in the past... 7 years? when they had their massive comeback

Uh, they had a massive comeback?

http://images.theage.com.au/2011/07/12/2488339/liveaidmain-600x400.jpg

sorry wrong picture

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-af5AeyMpRWg/Tf8dWbGpg-I/AAAAAAAAFFM/TlzLQos-mr4/s1600/20-06-11+011.jpg

The plot thickens:
http://www.nme.com/news/devendra-banhart/69350

Linked that upthread.

xxxp huh, according to Wikipedia, almost exactly 7 years ago, I have a pretty finely tuned internal clock ... Which is actually why I'm such a good natural percussionist

i still listen to, and enjoy, the menswe@r album
(wasn't it rumoured that the band had little to do with it, and it was all production/sessioners etc).
well, a couple of times a year.
the rest, except curve and adorable of course, nah ..

Voted Symposium for their commitment to tune avoidance.

Okay, I'm a bigger fuckin idiot than RW for that

you just realised its a best not worst poll?

*head in hands*

Wonder what Symposium's Spotify stats are.

Who the hell are most of these

robbie otm I'm sure

every time there's one of these polls of a load of lol landfill acts people pop up to say things like "powder don;t belong on this list" or "symposium's first 2 singles were actually quite good" and I just know without checking that this isn't true

both were utter shite so they do

Powder are the fucking worst.

Well, actually, I'm not sure anything could be worse than Northern Uproar. But they make a good stab at it.

oh sub in any name here

Powder were one of the bands I saw at TITP 95 and they are by far the worst band I ever saw in my life

Lodger were just as bad.

Tomorrow sees the 18th anniversary of the day I saw Powder live

is this Powder the same white-power-looking Powder I found on Spotify? because fuck if I'm gonna listen to the Spotify thing I found

iirc this was their album

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/725/MI0001725114.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

so... no

wins otm

Am I reading this right? Was there really a band named Salad?

Am I reading this right? Was there really a band named Salad?

Indeed there was. If memory serves, the singer was an MTV Europe presenter (or something like that)

yes. they werent very good though.

On the 2nd day of titp 95 i walked past her in the street on my way down to strathclyde park. Also bumped into Martin Carr and John Power (who said "alright La" ).
Also saw Rick Witter and Joe Strummer walking past me inside the festival.

i'm not big britpop dude but ride fucking rules

Ride seem quite out of place in this list, but then again he mentions Hurricane #1 in the same breath. I think it's an Oasis thing

Of course Williams' old drummer is now in BDI with Bell

I still have a Powder single but that's only because no-one will buy it off me.

I seem to remember really liking the main Powder single at the time, but I'm sure its actually terrible. I think a lot of my admiration was for how the singer looked as well.

yeah. Ride don't belong here.

sorry, but rudebox is way better than anything these bands released ..

I really love Echobelly's second album "On". I never saw a video until tonight, and never heard them on the radio. I must have bought it from clearance dollar bin of Columbia Record Club. Really good CD.

It's one of those records that I like in a vacuum.

lead singer of powder

http://www.vh1.com/celebrity/bwe/images/2011/01/Powder.jpg

aw, I haven't heard motorbike to heaven since the 90s... it's so nice! lyrics are complete cocaine nonsense.

Never cared for Ride. Liked Echobelly at the time and they sound OK this evening via Youtube. Liked "Daysleeper" by Menswear and that still sounds OK this evening too, though nothing else by Menswear ever has.

Went with Adorable in the end. "Homeboy" got a lot of play on the olde walkman back in the day, though it's a bit soft-loud-soft-loud innit.

At least Robbie had the good sense to leave Elastica the fuck alone.

Kula shaker obv

There are at least 5 artists with the name Powder:

1) Britop, 1994-1997

Fronted by Pearl Lowe, with songwriters Mark Thomas on guitar and Tim McTighe on Bass. They released three singles, “20th Century Gods”, “Afrodisiac” and “Deep Fried” in 1995, and toured in the UK. They released a retrospective album, MCMXCV in 1997 before breaking up.

2) Californian Turbo-Pop, 2001 onwards

Formed in 2001, they appear to be a two-piece made up of singer Ninette and Guitarist Phil X, they are still active as of July 2009. The albums Sonic Machine, Powder and nothing are theirs.

Official site: http://www.powdermusic.com/

3)Mod, 1967-1968

Formed in San Francisco in 1967. They’re early power pop band which influenced by The Who and folk rock. The album Biff! Bang! Powder, released in 1993.

Others?

4) rapper from Long Island, New york

5)An English Drum and Bass artist from Bristol

Released one album named sense in direction(1999) and did the production on a number of artist Roni size’s albums. Sadly he remained undiscovered as his trance influenced D&B is unique and soothing.

Kingmaker had that 'Queen Jane' tune which sounded like a bit of a steal from the Hard Rain version of 'Shelter From The Storm'. That's pretty much the only thing I know from any of these bands and it's not completely awful so I spose I'll vote for them.

Where do Animals That Swim fit in with all this sort of stuff? I quite like 'Faded Glamour' but haven't heard anything else remotely encouraging from them I don't think.

The only Kingmaker song I used to hear a lot was 'Saturday's Not What It Used To Be', did not make the top 40 despite being played a lot on daytime Radio 1

No room for Thousand Yard Stare, NME's "brightest hope for the future" in 1990?

Who could turn down that body.

http://www.rockofages.uk.com/stock/20262.jpg

Love those also rans to the side there too. Wonder what became of those bands?

Band photos where one member refuses to play along... unfortunately