Worst Of These Mid-Late 90s UK Bands?

Dom can you pretend to be him

Fighting talk there.

Yeah ok Lazarus can go in then if it did get a re-release.
Im not sure about changing dodgy. Staying Out For The Summer can go in as long as its 1994

u gonna get yr ass kicked by lex AND dom!

Also plz to change "The Drugs Don't Work" to "Bittersweet Symphony"

ok so far

Spice Girls - Wannabe
Manic Street Preachers - Design For Life
All Saints - Never Ever
Dodgy - Good Enough
Ocean Colour Scene - Day We caught The Train
Reef - Place Your Hands
Stereophonics - Mr Writer
Blur - Girls And Boys
Cast - Alright
Gene - For The Dead
Oasis - Live Forever
Boo Radleys - Lazarus (re-released 1994 according to Nick)
Menswear - Daydreamer
Lush - Lady Killers
The verve - Bittersweet Symphony (By request of LJ)
Pulp - Common people
Travis - Why Does It Always Rain On Me
Gomez - Bring It On
Bluetones - Slight Return
The Auteurs - Chinese Bakery
Paul Weller - The Changingman
Kula Shaker - Tattva
Space - Avenging Angels
Embrace - One Big Family
Seahorses - Love Is The Law
Catatonia - Mulder And Scully
Suggs - Cecilia
Hurricane #1 - Step Into My World
Shed Seven - Going For Gold
Sleeper - What Do i Do Now
Supernaturals - Smile
Longpigs - She Said
Northern Uproar - From A Window
Echobelly - King Of The Kerb
Dubstar - Stars
Lightning Seeds - Lucky You
Heavy Stereo - Sleep Freak
18 Wheeler - Stay
Elastica - Connection
Divine Comedy - National Express
My Life Story - 12 Reasons I Love Her
Babybird - You're Gorgeous
Bis - Kandy Pop
Geneva - No One Speaks
Space With cerys Matthews (Catatonia) - The Ballad Of Tom Jones
Republica - Drop Dead Gorgeous
Levellers - What A Beautiful Day
Feeder - High
3 Colours Red - Sixty Mile Smile
James - Shes A Star
Silver Sun - Julia
Stone Roses - Love Spreads
Warm Jets - Hurricane
Monaco - What Do You Want From Me
Mansun - Being A Girl
Powder - Afrodisiac
Terrorvision - Tequila
Suede - Shes In fashion
Moloko - Sing It Back
Supergrass - Alright
Portishead - Glory Box
Tricky - Black Steel
Ian Brown - My Star
Kenickie - Punka
Charlatans - How High
Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar
Belle & Sebastian - Legal Man
Fatboy Slim - Praise You
Gay Dad - Joy
Campag Velocet - To Lose la Trek
Black Grape - Reverend Black Grape
Primal Scream - Kowalski
Fat Les - Vindaloo
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Massive Attack - Protection
Prodigy - Breathe
Underworld - Born Slippy (Nuxx)
Leftfield - Open Up
Super Furry Animals - God Show Me Magic
Beta Band - Dry The Rain
Orbital - The Box
Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats
Earl Brutus - The SAS And The Glam That Goes With It (nominated by LJ)

but please nominate some pop

Madonna - Ray Of Light might as well be British. What about William Orbit - Water From A Vine Leaf?

Massive Attack perhaps ought to be Risingson.

Maybe, but Protection was their big, mid-90's signature song.

Probably best to stick to best known songs.

Probably should put some Beautiful South and M People songs in as there's fans of them on ILM

Spice Girls - Wannabe
Manic Street Preachers - Design For Life
All Saints - Never Ever
Dodgy - Good Enough
Ocean Colour Scene - Day We caught The Train
Reef - Place Your Hands
Stereophonics - Mr Writer
Blur - Girls And Boys
Cast - Alright
Gene - For The Dead
Oasis - Live Forever
Boo Radleys - Lazarus (re-released 1994 according to Nick)
Menswear - Daydreamer
Lush - Lady Killers
The verve - Bittersweet Symphony (By request of LJ)
Pulp - Common people
Travis - Why Does It Always Rain On Me
Gomez - Bring It On
Bluetones - Slight Return
The Auteurs - Chinese Bakery
M People - Moving On Up
Paul Weller - The Changingman
Kula Shaker - Tattva
Space - Avenging Angels
Embrace - One Big Family
Seahorses - Love Is The Law
Catatonia - Mulder And Scully
Suggs - Cecilia
Hurricane #1 - Step Into My World
Shed Seven - Going For Gold
Sleeper - What Do i Do Now
Supernaturals - Smile
Longpigs - She Said
Northern Uproar - From A Window
Echobelly - King Of The Kerb
Dubstar - Stars
Lightning Seeds - Lucky You
Heavy Stereo - Sleep Freak
18 Wheeler - Stay
Elastica - Connection
Divine Comedy - National Express
My Life Story - 12 Reasons I Love Her
Babybird - You're Gorgeous
Bis - Kandy Pop
Geneva - No One Speaks
Space With cerys Matthews (Catatonia) - The Ballad Of Tom Jones
Republica - Drop Dead Gorgeous
Levellers - What A Beautiful Day
Feeder - High
3 Colours Red - Sixty Mile Smile
James - Shes A Star
Silver Sun - Julia
Stone Roses - Love Spreads
Warm Jets - Hurricane
Monaco - What Do You Want From Me
Mansun - Being A Girl
Powder - Afrodisiac
Terrorvision - Tequila
Suede - Shes In fashion
Moloko - Sing It Back
Supergrass - Alright
Portishead - Glory Box
Tricky - Black Steel
Ian Brown - My Star
Kenickie - Punka
Charlatans - How High
Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar
Belle & Sebastian - Legal Man
Fatboy Slim - Praise You
Gay Dad - Joy
Campag Velocet - To Lose la Trek
Black Grape - Reverend Black Grape
Primal Scream - Kowalski
Fat Les - Vindaloo
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Massive Attack - Protection
Prodigy - Breathe
Underworld - Born Slippy (Nuxx)
Leftfield - Open Up
Super Furry Animals - God Show Me Magic
Beta Band - Dry The Rain
Orbital - The Box
Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats
Earl Brutus - The SAS And The Glam That Goes With It (nominated by LJ)
Beautiful South - Don't Marry Her

Ok it's up BEST SONG Of These Mid To late 90s UK Bands.

It's one poll Stereophonics wont win on ILM. Maybe the Bluetones will walk that one ;)

Seriously, why did no-one vote Bluetones?

because they were too inoffensive to be truly awful. and 'are you blue or are you blind', 'slight return' and 'if' have their enduring charms.

They said that about M People.

and hitler

But he didn't like the Bluetones

disliking the bluetones and not hating them as much as you hate reef/OCS/stereophonics are not the same thing. I can't imagine a world with reef in it where someone hates the bluetones more. perhaps if there were a ranking systems rather than an OPO situation, it might have been different. but hey, that's polls for you. if a thread with 300+ answers doesn't explain stuff, maybe polls aren't the way to settle this shit?

^ ignore grammatical errors there, my abilities in that area disappeared along with my will to live somewhere upthread.

I actually thought Bluetones were worse than Reef. Each to their own I guess.

But presumably you thought someone else was worse still. you didn't vote for them, why assume someone else is going to?

do you understand how polling even works?

obviously not :)

Actually I've just been reminded why I hated The Bluetones. They were on the cover of Raw Magazine when it changed from an open minded Heavy Rock/Alternative/Metal mag to a full on Britpop mag. I loved that magazine and it lasted about 2 or 3 issues tops because of that change, and The Bluetones symbolizes the whole thing for me just like Limp Bizkit on the cover of the last Melody Maker does for others.
Obviously that's just for me though and no reason why anyone else should have voted Bluetones.

You guys just dont hate britpop as much as americans hate nu-metal.

ocs were robbed

no. no they really really really really really fucking weren't.

stereophonics never recorded a fun, silly, 7-minute rave-up like 'get away'. they sucked precisely 100% of the time.

i agree that OCS sucked precisely 100% of the time.

i forgot Dom hated Space so much. Whatever happened to Space? they've been forgotten more than the others.

Surely someone on ILM liked Space?

louis?

space allowed their keyboardist to write precisely one song ('Piggies') and it was by 10,000 miles the best thing they did, hence they suuuuuuuck (and yeah, their main body of work is craven)

wonder if they will be doing the chicken in the basket clubs in 20 years time

following in the footsteps of gerry and the pacemakers

I confess to liking Space at the time. Some of their songs anyway. Dark Clouds for sure. You and Me Against The World is on an old mixtape that's still in my car so I must've enjoyed it at one point. I also recall being annoyed that I could never find their second album. On reflection that seems like a lucky situation.

I cant even remember them having a second album. The singles must have bombed. I do remember one of the band leaving though.

the second album had 'diary of a wimp' on it which i really liked

dont recall that at all

Every single one of those bands on that list were absolute turgid clunkers.

I scanned down the list in ten seconds and they were all there.

Copper Girl by 3 Colours Red was a good song though. Sorry

i think with the exception of seahorses (who are one of the worst groups of all time) and longpigs (who i've never heard), all these bands have one song (or more) i like. in most cases it's only one though.

Kula Shaker -- as indefensibly silly as they were -- were WAY better than most of these crappy bands, and Gene's debut was great.

funnily enough esoj, i thought love is the law by the seahorses was good (everything else was crap).
I actually saw the seahorses at the glasgow garage before the single was out. Love Is the Law was the only song anyone had heard.

tbh i can't remember how it goes!

alex otm about gene, love that first album

it sounded like it was off the second coming. I love that album but if you didnt then you wont care for love is the law.

space allowed their keyboardist to write precisely one song ('Piggies')

didn't he get one techno-noodle whoosh-out per album too? I liked Space at the time. They had the schoolkid whose mum let the Teardrop Explodes rehearse in her house in 'em.

haha!

i found the 1st space cd single "neighbourhood" that i got for 50p from Impulse Records in Hamilton. I barely remember it. I mostly rememember female of the species and that horrid track with catatonia.

the ballad of tom jones is funny if you're 13!

im glad i wasnt 13!

Worst Of These Mid-Late 90s UK Bands?

Just wanted to point out that shortly after this sequence of posts I encountered a British counterpart at work who was at this Glastonbury appearance and proclaimed it to be the greatest concert experience of his life; it took everything I had not to laugh in his face what with my memory of this clip.