I will mainly spend this thread attempting to defend Ned's Atomic Dustbin, particularly Are You Normal. I'd also posit that grebo tended to spit out decent / interesting / refreshing singles: PWEI's "Ich Bin Ein Auslander," Carter's "Only Living Boy in New Cross," or the Levellers' "One Way." As for the Wonder Stuff, a friend gave me a cassette of one of their records and I didn't speak to him for a week.
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― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
SEARCH: DRILL YOUR OWN HOLE by Gaye Bykers on Acid DESTROY: Fuckheads who talk shit about the Wonder Stuff.
EIGHT LEGGED GROOVE MACHINE by the Wonder Stuff was fucking brilliant, and you're a thankless twat if you think different!
― ...Motel Hell..., Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
EIGHT LEGGED GROOVE MACHINE by the Wonder Stuff was fucking brilliant, and you're a thankless twat if you think different! -- ...Motel Hell
-- ...Motel Hell
― Kodanshi, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
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― cw, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
I like Carter, though. They don't count.
― Nick, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
PWEI rock. 'Beaver Patrol' is one of the best songs ever. As is 'Def Con One'. I think it's unfair the Poppies have been forgotten when they were a very innovative and entertaining pop band.
The Wonderstuff, on the other hand: are godawful shite. I don't understand what anyone sees in them. Nor do I see any stylistic links between them and the mighty Pop Will Eat Itself.
― The Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
Ned's, PWEI, Wonder Stuff, MC4, Senseless Things, Carter - good tunes, good fun, good memories.
Problem?
BJ
― Baine Jakey, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
Does anyone sound like Gaye Bykers on Acid on acid?― Andy, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Bookmark
this question is still up for debate.would love to hear of bands in '10 being influenced by this lot.playing their debut album for 1st time in years, and loving it way more than i ever expected.never noticed the driving bassline on the excellent, but dreadfully titled track, after such there's blow.sounds amazing ..
― mark e, Thursday, 4 March 2010 11:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
after suck there's blow i meant of course.
― mark e, Thursday, 4 March 2010 11:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Saturday, 6 October 2012 22:33 (7 months ago) Permalink
This is the most bizarre thing:
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Saturday, 6 October 2012 22:36 (7 months ago) Permalink
this is the rubbish you get reminded of clearing out old cupboards on a saturday night
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Saturday, 6 October 2012 22:41 (7 months ago) Permalink
Ah, I didn't realise that Andrew Eldritch was their manager for a spell, that might explain the bizarre and terrible Sisters cover. It sounds like Primal Scream trying to write a song in the style of early Third Eye Foundation.
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:01 (7 months ago) Permalink
― lag∞n, Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:02 (7 months ago) Permalink
haha! god, why am i even interested in this shit?
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:03 (7 months ago) Permalink
its kind of hard to look away
― lag∞n, Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:04 (7 months ago) Permalink
Reminds you of your misspent youth.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:04 (7 months ago) Permalink
only grebs i ever really liked were crazyhead, but not sure i even want to hear them again now
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:05 (7 months ago) Permalink
took me a while to figure out this thread isn't about greta garbo.
― We demand justice: who murdered Chanel? (Matt P), Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:06 (7 months ago) Permalink
so it's about methy barenaked ladies bands?
― We demand justice: who murdered Chanel? (Matt P), Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:07 (7 months ago) Permalink
greta grebo!
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:07 (7 months ago) Permalink
the name grebo is p incredible, also bambi slam, can you imagine having to tell people the name of yr band is bambi slam
― lag∞n, Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:07 (7 months ago) Permalink
http://youtu.be/rf6-5-9efM8
― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:08 (7 months ago) Permalink
Dang.
― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:09 (7 months ago) Permalink
is it pronounced gree-bo or greh-bo, plz say gree-bo, although tbf theyre both p sweet
― lag∞n, Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:09 (7 months ago) Permalink
in that first bambi slam song you can hear that they started off sharing gigs with my bloody valentine, but there was something always so crudy and cackhanded about them
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:11 (7 months ago) Permalink
it is pronounced gree-bo as it is apparently derived from the epithet "greasy bastards"
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:12 (7 months ago) Permalink
i have listened to "black planet" four times now. it is mesmerizingly bad
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:14 (7 months ago) Permalink
so still. so dark all over europe.
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:15 (7 months ago) Permalink
haha yes it incredible, the video too my lord stay off drugs everyone
― lag∞n, Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:15 (7 months ago) Permalink
it was nice of andrew to lend them his hat though
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:19 (7 months ago) Permalink
If it's actually possible to be "the poor man's Crazyhead" these guys were it
― ~ (Matt #2), Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:29 (7 months ago) Permalink
lol @ "poor man's crazyhead". were they something to do with the bomb party?
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:37 (7 months ago) Permalink
― fistula-la-la (sic), Sunday, 7 October 2012 04:11 (7 months ago) Permalink
^ pronunciation guide
The Batfish Boys were what Simon Denbeigh did after The March Violets. The Bomb Party stand alone although I think there's a GBOA connection after both bands split up?
I never really saw what put any of them together in a scene apart from mainly all coming from the Midlands.
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Sunday, 7 October 2012 10:05 (7 months ago) Permalink
I thought they were all supposed to come from Leicester, though maybe it is just MIdlands since PWEI were from further east, was it Brum?& I thought there was supposed to be some attempt at something approaching a heavy rockish thing to tie in with the name Grebo. As in Grebo being what people called rockers, motorcycle loving hardrock listening individuals.So when I was just looking at Grebo I was thinking pre-stoner rock but done wrong but that don't really seem to work. Think there was some psychedelic fixation with people like GBOA, Crazyhead & Bomb Party and some references to harder rock. Though not so sure with GBOA. Also influences from punk & Pop.Wouldn't have cited Wonderstuff, Ned's and definitely Levellers as having to do with Grebo. Levellers was more crusty folk & wasn't Fraggle used for at least one of the others?
I used to go and see GBOA in '90 and get lifts back to London from them.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 7 October 2012 10:45 (7 months ago) Permalink
PWEI were from further West, not East.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 7 October 2012 10:46 (7 months ago) Permalink
Wonder Stuff, Pop Will Eat Itself and Ned's Atomic Dustbin were from StourbridgeCrazyhead, The Bomb Party, and Gaye Bykers on Acid were from Leicesterall i can remember were those awful longsleeve t-shirts everyone seemed to wear at the time
― zappi, Sunday, 7 October 2012 11:14 (7 months ago) Permalink
Is this like the UK equivalent to third-wave ska?
― Clarke B., Sunday, 7 October 2012 16:25 (7 months ago) Permalink
do i have to dig out my scorpio rising album to figure out if those guys were part of the grebo scene as i seem to recall they were connected to pwei in some way (same label)
also tomorrow i am digging out my GBOA cds, however, i suspect an hour later when i remember why they're all buried so deep, i'll put them back.
― mark e, Sunday, 7 October 2012 17:12 (7 months ago) Permalink
To answer the thread title: Search: The first three PWEI singles, released as "Now For A Feast".Destroy this:
― everything, Sunday, 7 October 2012 19:15 (7 months ago) Permalink
The Sandkings are not part of this whatsoever. They were a baggy band. I guess the connection may be that their appeal was largely based around getting drunk and diving around like a nutter at their gigs, which is a big thing which seperated these bands from the previous generation of indie bands where gigs were more of a standing around affair.
― everything, Sunday, 7 October 2012 19:22 (7 months ago) Permalink
Before they put out Circles they were similar in tone to early PWEI & Stuffies and kinda sixties influenced, but I guess not in that garage/nuggets fashion.
― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Sunday, 7 October 2012 20:44 (7 months ago) Permalink
I think Scorpio Rising had at least a logo design by tDR as well as being on Chap 22? Of course the Designers Republic / PWEI team-up was post-grebo, so
― fistula-la-la (sic), Sunday, 7 October 2012 21:13 (7 months ago) Permalink