a poll for britishers - Did you own any of the "Shine" compilation cds?

wtf is a Shine compilation?

They were very popular when most of ilx were teenagers

I'll take your word for it, I've never seen one before

Pop into a charity shop and I bet you see plenty

I must have blanked them out through some arcane mental process

used to be on pub jukeboxes a lot

i'd rather've gnawed my own testes off than bought one of these

The top one looks ok (..scans for token US band). The one in the review sounds godawful

collectively they make a convincing case for banning the sale of musical instruments in the UK

"anthems" are for wankers is another convincingly made argument

I don't know anything about these either. Looks a bit rubbish.

most records shd be erased from history within 30 days of release is another

ok, i'm done, the simple answer is to shut yr eyes and walk away

nuke history imo

yeah they were in pub jukeboxes everywhere as nv said. Lots of adverts on tv too. People actually get nostalgic for them

I never owned one, but plenty of my mates did. I remember the first one (track listing in the photo top) very well indeed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine_%28compilation_series%29

click that for tracklistings for all (the horror)

Well that's me schooled, kinda wish i hadn't been tho

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Possibly the best compilation C.D ever made! 27 May 2001
By Dog Latin*

Format:Audio CD

I bought this c.d about 3 years ago when I was a huge fan of indie music and the very popular "Shine" series. Now that I'm a bit older though I tend to listen to NU Metal (Deftones,KoRn etc.), however when I get a bit bored with NU Metal and fancy something different to listen to I always put on "Shine 10". The reasons why "Shine 10" is such a great compilation c.d is because it boasts most of the late 90's best indie tracks and some of Britain's best talent. Amazing tracks include 2 of garbage's best songs from "Version 2.0", Stereophonics best track from "Word gets around", Fatboy slim's best track of all time! - "The Rockafeller Skank" and the biggest one hit wonder of the 90's - Cornershop's "Brimful of asha" (Norman Cook Remix).If that isn't enough for you then this c.d also contains Radiohead, Pulp, James, Reef, Space, Catatonia, Travis, Ocean Colour scene and Eagle-Eye Cherry. My Verdict - 10/10 (A Must Buy)

*Not Really

What the fuck, I never wrote this?

Shine 10

Shine 10

Released 17 August 1998
CD One

Garbage : I Think I'm Paranoid
Catatonia : Road Rage
Eagle-Eye Cherry : Save Tonight
Ian Brown : My Star
Embrace : All You Good Good People
Dandy Warhols : Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth
Fatboy Slim : The Rockafeller Skank
Space : Begin Again
Natalie Imbruglia : Big Mistake
Mansun : Closed For Business
Rialto : Untouchable
Reef : Yer Old
Garbage : Push It
Warm Jets : Hurricane '98
Super Furry Animals : Ice Hockey Hair
Primal Scream : Burning Wheel
Mighty Mighty Bosstones : The Impression That I Get
Chumbawamba : Amnesia
Cornershop : Brimful Of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)

CD Two

Pulp : A Little Soul
Radiohead : Karma Police
Bernard Butler : Stay
James : Destiny Calling
Seahorses : Love Me And Leave Me
Travis : More Than Us
Shed Seven : She Left Me On Friday
Silver Sun : Golden Skin
Drugstore featuring Thom Yorke : El President
Puressence : This Feeling
Theaudience : A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed
Gene : Where Are They Now?
Babybird : Bad Old Man
Ocean Colour Scene featuring PP Arnold : It's A Beautiful Thing
Stereophonics : Local Boy In The Photograph
Space & Cerys Matthews : The Ballad Of Tom Jones
Lilys : A Nanny In Manhattan
Levellers : Celebrate
Symposium : Blue
Comfort : The Proof Of You

wtf were Comfort?

I only ever owned the first Shine album. haha...

lol dog latin check the *

edit:

By Dog Latin*

*Not Really

xpost

o h i see! very funny mr goalie.

The trouble with these is for every bunch of tracks you love, there's a whole lot that make you want to strangle bunnies.

tip: buy singles.

Then you end up with a roomful of lots of cds singles/7"s nobody will take off you 15 years later though

discogs is full of these

you end up with the same shite only it takes up more space

Just this morning I pulled out all of our CD singles to go in a box in the loft.

Lets' chop Shine10 down to singles I bought at the time..

Hmm...

Super Furry Animals : Ice Hockey Hair
Cornershop : Brimful Of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)

There you go.

I can chop it down more than that

go!

This was the period where every band released cd1 and cd2 versions of singles where fans had to buy both to get the extra tracks. Its why blur beat oasis to that #1.

what a rip off

oh and the 7" had a different b-side too. And of course the cassingle did too

I recall a few CD3s, too.

Babybird : Bad Old Man

Is that the track title or just a description of Babybird?

It is both.

xposts, yeah but all those tracks made for a quite nice mini album in some cases.

A bunch of cack in others.

I recall a few CD3s, too.

I had 3cd singles by Orbital that made a nice mini live album.

Space & Cerys Matthews : The Ballad Of Tom Jones

this alone was enough justification for anyone ever involved in indie music to apply the old shotgun to the face.

that was one of the worst songs ever made.

And then Tom Jones turned up and everyone had to sing with him.

And the resultant album got a nomination for "best indie album" that year.

Remember the line

Cerys - I've never thrown my knickers at you!
Tommy - And I don't come from Wales!

I actually liked the first Space album when it came out - it was fun!

And then Tom Jones turned up and everyone had to sing with him.

And the resultant album got a nomination for "best indie album" that year.

tom jones vs santana

I can't believe the free pass Shatatonia got at the time

I'm very glad that at 16 I thought music was too serious to be fun, and thus avoided Space.

Catatonia were absolutely fucking godawful.

I bought "Sweet Catatonia" at the time, it was as good as they got.

Shine 1 (which I bought on holiday at about 15), isn't so bad. Fuck the Cranberries though. I didn't even mind the Dodgy song on there either.

Shine

Released 27 April 1995
Blur - Parklife
Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol
New Order - Regret
The Cranberries - Zombie
Suede - Animal Nitrate
Elastica - Connection
Pulp - Do You Remember The First Time?
Dodgy - So Let Me Go Far
Shed Seven - Speakeasy
Green Day - Welcome to Paradise
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
James - Sit Down
Electronic - Getting Away With It
The Wonder Stuff - The Size Of A Cow
The Farm - All Together Now
Inspiral Carpets - Dragging Me Down
Charlatans - Weirdo
Jesus Jones - International Bright Young Thing
Dinosaur Jr. - Feel The Pain
The House Of Love - Shine On

oh god i just noticed what the 2nd in the series is called

Shine Too: 20 New Brilliant Indie Hits

Released 1 August 1995

Oasis : Some Might Say
Paul Weller : The Changingman
Ash : Girl From Mars
Stone Roses : Love Spreads
Edwyn Collins : A Girl Like You
Boo Radleys : Wake Up Boo!
Lightning Seeds : Change
Dodgy : Staying Out For The Summer
Cast : Finetime
Elastica : Waking Up
Cranberries : Ridiculous Thoughts
Sleeper : Vegas
Gigolo Aunts : Where I Find My Heaven
Gene : Haunted By You
Belly : Now They'll Sleep
Teenage Fanclub : Sparky's Dream
Suede : Stay Together
Happy Mondays : Kinky Afro
Joy Division : Love Will Tear Us Apart '95
Pulp : Underwear

Dinosaur Jr. - Feel The Pain

ex+

There's definitely some good songs on those 2 albums. The real horror comes later

Gigolo Aunts : Where I Find My Heaven was on the cd because it was the theme tune to Game On
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CA4FZGBDL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

you know what I aint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOFT253yNHQ&feature=related

I have a friend that's a CD only kind of guy and a habitual buyer of compilations. I think he has every one of these.

I never owned any myself but those I knew who did tended to be those who never ever bought albums that weren't compilations. They just wanted to buy songs they already knew. I was like that up until I was about 14 but these guys went to gigs, some were in bands and were in their early 20s. It felt strange.

Honestly don't see the problem with buying compilations of things that you like. That's what they're for.

yeah if this was your kinda thing a Shine comp would've been p functionally useful in 1996 or whatever

There was another similar series entitled "The best ..... Album in the world", again dbl CD and mostly Britpop but they always had a dance element, so they'd chuck on Underworld or Prodigy or Massive Attack as well. I've got two of those in my attic.

I think I have a couple of those.

You see one, think "oh, I like a lot of those", get it and find it's all over-played stuff, so you never play it past the 2nd time..

Britain /= British Isles

I had Shine Too once upon a time...

With hindsight they were useful given how singles-driven Britpop was, ie. instead of shelling out 13 quid for crap/patchy full lengths

you're conflating Britpop with pop music in general

In answer to the original question: oh dear God no.

I had (and still have) that SHINE 10, or at least I have a SHINE comp with that tracklisting but I thought it was 5. Anyway, this was from a time when you had to pay for music or at the very least tape stuff from friends. It was worth it to get 5 or 6 good tracks and maybe 5 or 6 more that were pretty good. Rather than, as someone pointed out upthread, shelling out for patchy albums. They are much better than eg. the Big Shiny Tunes series where there is normally only one or two acceptable tracks.

ILM threads where everyone agrees how terrible Britpop was are some of the most boring threads ever btw.

i dunno its a twice yearly bit of fun for most of us

Fuck no. They used to be handy in pubs pre decent jukes tho'. There was always one or two saviours on there

I owned the first one on tape. I could only afford about one tape every 6 months so this was good value considering I never heard Suede, Green Day, Elastica or the Smiths on the radio and it introduced me to em. I didn't know what 'indie' was, though.

Sit Down is always going to be the worst song on any compilation though, as I realised even at that tender age.

Ruth : Fear Of Flying

who???

They performed this song on Blue Peter.

i have absolutely no recollection of that band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv90y_ZQLDE

nope, nothing

Weirdly, some guy from that band (the singer, presumably) has a website with a very extensive archive of Ruth information: http://vanitypress.co.uk/intro.php

Here is a track-by-track guide to that single in the video for instance: http://vanitypress.co.uk/alan/5single.html

The ALAN Archive

ALAN was the name of the RUTH fan club, and was originally conceived as a way of having personal contact with fans without having to reply to individual letters, which always leads to trouble.

RUTH fans were known as 'Children of ALAN' and embraced the concept enthusiastically (apart from those who found the whole thing inexplicable and grotesque), especially the correspondance area known as Readers' Wives.

I never owned any Shine compilations but I did buy hundreds of singles by bands featured on there. Garbage, Space, Embrace, Catatonia, Ian Brown, Bernard Butler, Seahorses, Symposium, Shed Seven plus loads of bands that didn't make it on to these albums.

Anyone remember Mum's Gone to Iceland by Bennet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtAunxgEP_k

I owned every single they put out. So much money wasted!

There are plenty of bands I still rate highly on there, SFA, Boo Radleys, Mansun, Pulp, Supergrass, Elastica but the shit things I bought outweighed the good.

Oh and the first Dubstar album is great as is No More Talk from the second album. Embrace are the worst band mentioned on this thread so far, the fact they made that big comeback in 2004 makes it even worse.

Pretty sure the singer from Ruth went on to be Aqualung.

ILM threads where everyone agrees how terrible Britpop was are some of the most boring threads ever btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc

Someone told me 'Das Boot', the closing track on Bennett swansong 'Street Vs. Science', is an early example of beta male misogyny

Anyone remember Mum's Gone to Iceland by Bennet?

I do remember the title but not sure if I ever heard the song.

Never bought a Shine compilation but I do admit to buying this:

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=634435

http://s.discogss.com/image/R-634435-1142005755.jpeg

Weird - I was listening to the Heart Throbs' 'Dreamtime' for the first time in 20-something years only this morning. Solid band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_l_7-vRsbs

They are too good for this horrible thread btw. Listening now they sound like a cross between the Go-Betweens and Lush.

i think we supported the Heart Throbs one time after caning vodka all day, leading to probably the most fucked-up cover of Nick Drake's "Parasite" ever

Because they were friends of friends, we got to see them at their first gig, supporting Zodiac Mindwarp at the After Dark, Reading. They were excellent already.

I never knew the sisters were actually sisters of Pete Defreitas really.

noodles vag, that sounds beyond fab thumbsup.jpg

I have a couple of Indie Top 20s from around the '88-'90 era picked out of bargain bins a decade after that. Maybe it's just because they were from a little before my indie-time, whereas the Shine series was ubiquitous when I thought I knew everything about music already, but the Indie Top 20s seemed a much more interesting prospect, or at least more varied and less crushingly lads-bants-innit

xps what I'd give to hear the fucked-up Nick Drake covers of vodka-addled pre-www ilxors

not in a good way i promise

I never owned a Shine compilation CD, but I know a hell of a lot of people who have owned at least one at some point in the mid to late '90s.

Re: Ruth,

I'm only really familiar with one song of theirs, which was called 'I Don't Know'... I have a very very vague memory of them performing it on The National Lottery(!) - (very very vague because I never actually watched The National Lottery, so chances are it was on in the background while someone else was watching it).

If memory serves one of the guys from Ruth ended up "becoming" Aqualung...

And another bit of trivia: Daf Ieuan, drummer from Super Furry Animals, was a member of Catatonia briefly. He played drums on roughly over half of Way Beyond Blue (including the aforementioned 'Sweet Catatonia') and left to focus on Super Furry Animals.

I thought I'd heard of Ruth bcz I thought they were on a (uhh) Metal Hammer CD I got in 1995, but it turns out to have been a song called "Ruth" by the Wrens, and it is weirding me out that a) the Wrens were on a Metal Hammer CD and b) I didn't realise this until now despite somewhat liking the Wrens a few years after that

(obviously Ruth aren't metal but nor are the Wrens or basically anyone else on the Metal Hammer CD in question)

anyway I have never heard that song before and none of their other song titles ring a bell, but on that evidence 90s Britpop band Ruth < annoying-vocalled 80s French synthpop band Ruth (youtube)

Ruth put me in mind of bands like The Poppyheads who even had a single called 'Wake Up, America'
http://s.discogss.com/image/R-1441522-1219962065.jpeg

i'm assuming the Sarah Records Poppyheads are a different band

I only realised there were two Poppyheads recently. I have multiple singles by the 90s one, they were like a teen Wonder Stuff, definitely not the same as the Sarah records lot.

Sadly it seems this thread was custom made to cover my teen years.

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