Worst Of These Mid-Late 90s UK Bands?

I never got why Bluetones were so hated. Was it because they were seen as bandwagon hoppers?

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

I didn't know whether to put Embrace on it or not. All these bands were probably worse. I nearly put Placebo & Ash on.

Ocean Colour Scene. Special award to Sleeper's Louise Wener for being fucking irritating.

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.

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.

I never got why Bluetones were so hated. Was it because they were seen as bandwagon hoppers?

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

"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.

It's not fit either.

Octopus and Heavy Stereo fan will be disappointed with this list.

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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

Do it!

Perfume, anyone? And how could we forget Northern Uproar? Or Hurricane #1?

lol Hurricane #1 were a particular hate of mine cos I was a big Ride fan pre-Britpop.

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.

Space are the most obnoxiously scouse act in history. And obnoxious scouse <<<<<<<<< obnoxious any other region.

Space were fucking horrific. OCS fucking horrific and sneeringly unpleasant and snobbish too. Catatonia uergh uergh uergh.

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

Do it!

-- Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:28 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Would vote in this poll too, FWIW.

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.

Louise Wener's horrific media persona, at a guess.

"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?

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.

I still like Gene. No guilt.

I liked Sleeper when I first heard Delicious at the indie disco, I still have that one. But yeah subsequently became annoying extremely quickly.

Her voice sounds like her challops too, which doesn't help.

That "Alice" 7" is still one of my favorite singles ever.

This is quite hard, but the Sterophonics trump it for still turning up to bother me on occasion.

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.

Ocean Duller Scene

lol Hurricane #1 were a particular hate of mine cos I was a big Ride fan pre-Britpop.

I fell asleep standing up at a Hurricane #1 gig. according to my mates I was actually snoring!

Her voice sounds like her challops too, which doesn't help.

Very true. I'm shuddering thinking of her.

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.

Urgh, please mark thread NSFW

Top three acts my sister and I loved to hate come their appearance on The Chart Show: OCS, Weller, Northern Uproar

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"

The Stereophonics?

Save for their "Dakota" which I still like, and "The bartender" for that crash crash intro and sounding like (it should have been recorded and sung much better by) the Sex Pistols...

... yeah.

Now I'm thinking maybe I should've voted for Travis.

Why does everyone talk about the mid nineties all the time?

I give Travis a bye cause they dissed Oasis in Writing to Reach You.

I think I still sort of love "Local Boy in the Photograph" but luckily "Mr Writer" was bad enough to render them permanent war criminals.

I hated Sleeper when I had to see them in the music press every week, but I probably wouldn't be too bothered either way by the first few singles now, I thought a couple of them were a'right before I'd read anything about the band. At the time Space and Gomez made me most angry but I think now it's got to be Reef or the Stereophonics. Helps that I don't remember anything Gomez recorded.

There is no Echobelly or Tiny Monroe, for I suppose fairly obvious similar reasons.

(Though NV's post reminds me that maybe OCS deserve it for being the first band to be quite so blatant about removing any hints, however slight they were already, of FUN or LOUD or pretending to sound slightly NEW in favour of total Weller-worshipping drear, thus paving the way for Travis or the Stereophonics to ditch their dirgier rockier beginnings for utter ear-sandpapering ubiquity, or... something)

Why does everyone talk about the mid nineties all the time?

-- Free Peace Sweet!, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 16:52 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

We miss Enrique.

http://www.mojoko.com/tutorial/candle/candle.jpg

Someone please do a US equivalent poll.

Enrique is really into Photek. He's made 1998 last 10 years. This year being the last month of 1998 he's a little concerned about what '99 will bring.

I hated Sleeper when I had to see them in the music press every week, but I probably wouldn't be too bothered either way by the first few singles now, I thought a couple of them were a'right before I'd read anything about the band. At the time Space and Gomez made me most angry but I think now it's got to be Reef or the Stereophonics. Helps that I don't remember anything Gomez recorded.

I suppose that a lot of the hate on my part just comes from them and the other bands above being "NME music" and it was the media ubiquity rather than the music itself that was the problem. Now that I don't work in a record store or listen to the radio I never have to hear these bands again, and if I did accidentally hear them it probably wouldn't bother me that much

But at the time they were pure audio evil

Her voice sounds like her challops too, which doesn't help.

what does this mean?

US equiv is, what, Everclear and bands like that?

Pavement

ok everyone probably thinks of this as old news and I'm not the Anglophile I used to be, so could someone please explain/point me towards the Nazi outburst from KulaShaker because this is the first time I've heard of it and it explains so much about why ppl loathe them

mind you, the worst singing in that clip is the drummer

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha the chorus on that Glastonbury link is still fucking hysterical

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.

hahaha I am having the exact same reaction I had the first time I played this; WHY IS IT STILL GOING

so you can hear the solo!!

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.

who on earth was playing that?

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

you talking about ilx?

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, October 20, 2011 3:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me OTM

link? fucked if I'm going through this whole thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18w84rpaqlg

Some quality vocals there

Not sure i've ever actually heard some of those notes before?

Oh god, this shit again!?!

'Tis the season!