Dodgy were sort of not-completely-shit pre-Free Peace Sweet. Also they're from Worcestershire.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Phil Collins thought Dodgy were the best Britpop band.
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
They were fucking shit live though.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
This lot all had at least a few good songs, often more: Dodgy Shed 7 Travis Longpigs Bluetones Gomez Meanswe@r
These three I either had a vague soft spot for despite myself, or else don't know enough to comment: Reef 3 Colours Red Gene
These are all fucking shit: Catatonia Ocean Colour Scene Stereophonics Cast Sleeper Kula Shaker Seahorses Space Supernaturals
Where's Embrace?
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 16:13 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
None of these bands ever did a song a tenth as good as "Jesus He Knows Me"
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Mod req question but is there any chance that LouJag will return before this poll ends?
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
LJ will be too busy dissecting Amy Winehouse lyrics for his degree
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7422730.stm
lol @ just having noticed "CHRIS EVANS" at the bottom of that cover
xpost just read that and that did briefly cross my mind!
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Fucking Cantab Cool Police.
"The Riverboat Song" is worse than 9/11.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL never saw chris evans on it. I actually did watch TFI Friday everyweek. x-post
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Pretty sure Ljag's return is within the next five days.
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Stereophonics. I thought you said this was going to be a difficult choice? Are you just baiting Geir here?
Bad, but too mediocre to be memorable in any way other than vague memory of some signature "quirk":
Catatonia Cast Reef Seahorses 3 Colours Red Shed 7 Space
One or two half-decent tunes in their repertoire (not that I'd choose to listen to them, I'd probably not turn them off id they came on the radio though):
Dodgy Sleeper Bluetones Menswear Kula Shaker Space
Horrible:
Ocean Colour Scene Stereophonics Gene Reef
No memory of whatsoever beyond vague recollection of seeing name in Melody Maker:
Gomez Travis Longpigs Supernaturals
On the money. The tune for JHKM is at least memorable. For all it was supposedly a genre based on alleged "classic" "songwriting" "beatles" "are kid" it's very hard to actually call up any of these band's tunes beyond a couple of lines from the odd chorus. EG I cannot remember a single one of Cast's songs. Not one. And they were on the radio all the time. Also, you forgot the lightning seeds.
― Pashmina, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 16:19 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
AFTER ALL THE THINGS YOU'VE SEEN TELL ME WHY DOES YOUR RIVER RUN GREEN
Where is Silver Sun useless straight-to-MVE band?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I never got why Bluetones were so hated. Was it because they were seen as bandwagon hoppers?
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I once watched Stereophonics at Glastonbury, in one of the rainy years and around the 11am slot, and pretended not to hate them to curry favour with the girl I was with. While watching them she dismissed my very tentative advances. Thinking about it this may well be a definitive low point in my life
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't know whether to put Embrace on it or not. All these bands were probably worse. I nearly put Placebo & Ash on.
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Ocean Colour Scene. Special award to Sleeper's Louise Wener for being fucking irritating.
― Neil S, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
BLUE TONES - early warning of latent Thatcherism in belly of New Labour!
Also "Slight Return" was basically tonight Matthew we're going to be Aztec Camera.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Bands who I like to some extent: Catatonia Gene Travis Longpigs
Bands who are just there: Cast Dodgy Sleeper Menswear Gomez Kula Shaker 3 Colours Red Space Supernaturals
Bands who actively suck:
Ocean Colour Scene Stereophonics (though Dakota was agreat single) Cast Reef Seahorses Shed 7
Reef are the worst of that last bunch, they don't even have decent haircuts.
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
3 Colours Red should really be in a different 'Britrock' poll, which I'm considering doing but for the fact that the bands that would feature don't get enough recognition on ILM
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
"You don't have to have the solution You've just got to understand the problem"
Fit this lyric in a song. No, that does not fit.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
It's not fit either.
Octopus and Heavy Stereo fan will be disappointed with this list.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.absoluteagogo.com/ultrapromo.jpg
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Do it!
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Perfume, anyone? And how could we forget Northern Uproar? Or Hurricane #1?
― Neil S, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
lol Hurricane #1 were a particular hate of mine cos I was a big Ride fan pre-Britpop.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I've listened to The Bluetones several times over the last year, having not listened to them for about 8-10 years prior, and they're actually alright. Good guitarist, good drummer, by the second album actually doing some quite interesting not-Britpop-at-all-really things.
Gomez's first album was alright; again, not really Britpop. More Beck goes proper blues. I guess they were seen as "inauthentic student scum" though. One of their later albums, forget the title, is really good, very eclectic, great production, electronics and brass and pop hooks.
Embrace and Ash I guess both survived way beyond Britpop and kept knocking out charting singles for years afterwards.
Travis' first album was actually pretty good, when they still rocked a bit.
Longpigs had about three great singles on the first album. A mate swears blind the second album is a lost classic.
Shed 7 at least had some decent singles, Dolphin and a handful off the second record.
Homegrown by Dodgy is, I'd say, a pretty classic Britpop record; embodies a lot of the spirit of that without the nastiness, sounds very of its time rather than being totally retro, still hasn't dated that badly, great production, some awesome arrangements. Shame Free Peace Sweet is FUCKING HORRIFIC.
Kula Shaker amusingly goofy until nazi breakout.
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Space are the most obnoxiously scouse act in history. And obnoxious scouse <<<<<<<<< obnoxious any other region.
― ledge, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Space were fucking horrific. OCS fucking horrific and sneeringly unpleasant and snobbish too. Catatonia uergh uergh uergh.
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:28 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Would vote in this poll too, FWIW.
― Neil S, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Why do the Britishes hate Sleeper so much? Granted, their presence in the US was small, but everyone who knew who they were kind of liked them.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Louise Wener's horrific media persona, at a guess.
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
"Where is Silver Sun useless straight-to-MVE band?"
Everything else they ever did is pretty useless but Lava is better than anything by anyone on this list.
(but don't listen to me, I still have way too many AC Acoustics records)
Where is awful Feeder band, or is that one for the 3CR Britrock poll?
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I think you had to have read interviews with the singer in MM, NME etc to feel the tr00 hate. She was pretty obnoxious to say the least.
― Pashmina, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I still like Gene. No guilt.
― ledge, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I liked Sleeper when I first heard Delicious at the indie disco, I still have that one. But yeah subsequently became annoying extremely quickly.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Her voice sounds like her challops too, which doesn't help.
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
That "Alice" 7" is still one of my favorite singles ever.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
This is quite hard, but the Sterophonics trump it for still turning up to bother me on occasion.
― chap, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Bands who have something, however tiny, that makes me not utterly despise them: Dodgy, Gene, Longpigs, Travis, Seahorses at a long stretch.
Scum de la scum: 3-way tie between Kula Kubes, Ocean Colour Scone and Space. I'm legally obliged not to vote for Space so I think I'm gonna vote OCS for not only being shit above and beyond but for simultaneously invoking the smug twattery of Paul Weller and Chris Evans.
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Ocean Duller Scene
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I fell asleep standing up at a Hurricane #1 gig. according to my mates I was actually snoring!
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Very true. I'm shuddering thinking of her.
― I am using your worlds, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
http://vu.morrissey-solo.com/sleeper/2000/news/040527.jpg
One of the big problems with Sleeper was that this was the kind of malnourished, chicken-in-a-basket breast & thighs, 14-year-old boy with a vagina aesthetic that passed for sexy in the Britpop years.
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Urgh, please mark thread NSFW
― I am using your worlds, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Top three acts my sister and I loved to hate come their appearance on The Chart Show: OCS, Weller, Northern Uproar
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
A lot of these bands came around as I was at an entry-level point in listening to music, and did most of that via Radio 1 in the evening, so the only bands on here I can honestly say I NEVER enjoyed AT ALL, not even one song aged 14, are OCS, Stereophonics, Gomez, Kula Shaker, Travis and Supernaturals. I'm lowering the bar here to, let's say "lol blind cobbler's thumbs"
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
the second album had 'diary of a wimp' on it which i really liked
― i'm the unban spaceman (electricsound), Thursday, 1 October 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
dont recall that at all
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 1 October 2009 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Fer Ark, Thursday, 1 October 2009 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― i'm the unban spaceman (electricsound), Thursday, 1 October 2009 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Kula Shaker -- as indefensibly silly as they were -- were WAY better than most of these crappy bands, and Gene's debut was great.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 1 October 2009 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 1 October 2009 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh i can't remember how it goes!
alex otm about gene, love that first album
― i'm the unban spaceman (electricsound), Thursday, 1 October 2009 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 1 October 2009 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― New Wavves (sic), Friday, 2 October 2009 02:01 (fourteen years ago) link
haha!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 2 October 2009 12:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 2 October 2009 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
the ballad of tom jones is funny if you're 13!
― kell surprise (country matters), Friday, 2 October 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
im glad i wasnt 13!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 2 October 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― a misunderstanding of Hip-Hop and contracts (HI DERE), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
the seahorses vocalist was by far the worst in britpop
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
mind you, the worst singing in that clip is the drummer
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha the chorus on that Glastonbury link is still fucking hysterical
― a misunderstanding of Hip-Hop and contracts (HI DERE), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah and the worst part is by the drummer. I thought it was chris helme until i realised he had stopped and it was the drummer who was even more out of tune.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha I am having the exact same reaction I had the first time I played this; WHY IS IT STILL GOING
― a misunderstanding of Hip-Hop and contracts (HI DERE), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
so you can hear the solo!!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
The drummer out of Space died recently, i think. (he was the Teardrops anecdote guy wasn't he?)heard Catatonia's Road Rage on the radio today, somewhat surprisingly.
― j.o.n.a, Friday, 2 October 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
who on earth was playing that?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 2 October 2009 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
every now and then I stumble across or search out this thread and listen to that wretched Seahorses video
it is always hilarious, and then tedious
― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Thursday, 20 October 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
you talking about ilx?
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Thursday, 20 October 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Thursday, October 20, 2011 3:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
me OTM
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 12 May 2016 21:05 (seven years ago) link
link? fucked if I'm going through this whole thread
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Thursday, 12 May 2016 21:17 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18w84rpaqlg
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 12 May 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link
Some quality vocals there
― real orgone kid (NickB), Thursday, 12 May 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
Not sure i've ever actually heard some of those notes before?
― real orgone kid (NickB), Thursday, 12 May 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link
Oh god, this shit again!?!
― But... could you imagine a formation in your lemonade? Ho! (Turrican), Thursday, 12 May 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
'Tis the season!
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 12 May 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link