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

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.

The beginning of the end for the music press in the UK http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/mmlists_p2.htm#1998

how did that get voted album of the year?

That gimp Sutherland was in charge?

tbh it's all downhill after #7

at melody maker?
xp

8. Ash – Nu-Clear Sounds
9. Fun Lovin’ Criminals – 100% Colombian

jesus

xp yes

More evidence to support my claim that the late 90s was the worst era overall in the history of music.

Another track i dont remember
Shine 9- Ruth : Fear Of Flying

who???

worst song on any of these must be Dubstar. Worst band ever? They were as equally as bad as Toploader.

nah Dubstar were aight.

Was gonna say.

Maybe not 'great', but c'mon, Toploader?

at least toploader fucked off after one atrocity, Dubstar hung around like a bad smell

i fail to see what was so terrible about them AG - they had some neat tunes and the lyrics were good and their album covers were kinda funny and their singer was verrry cute and at least they weren't just bland guitar-pop like so much other stuff in the pages of (new) Raw.

surprised to find they're still going though... really?

oh god the reinvention of RAW magazine. One Britpop Bible Select was bad enough but we didn't need a shittier fortnightly one.

Toploader are still touring now fwiw

I thought they officially split up, announcements, everything.

I thought they disappeared after about '97....dunno, thought they were decent, at least singles-wise, hard to see for example how Saint Etienne fans wouldn't take a shine (ho ho) to them

(Dubstar, I meant)

Probably one of those bands doing nostagia britpop in a basket tours (toploader)

Didn't Dodgy reform? and of course Northern Uproar are getting fans to finance their 4th album.
http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/northernuproar

and their singer was verrry cute

why they get a free pass from some i think

I bought one on double cassette at aservice station during a long trip. Can't remember what number it was but it was mostly wall to wall Britpop iirc.

I bought another similar compilation on a different trip called something like "True Brit Anthems" that was all Shed Seven and Supergrass and was indistinguishable from a Shine compilation.

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

I like how someone decided to go through that page and link every artist and song to their wiki entries then chucked it after the first album.

9 hits for ctrl-f "Shed" on that page. 13 Oasises and 10 Blurs in the Battle of Britpop. 11 Casts.

I cant actually decide which of the shine albums was the worst
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine_%28compilation_series%29

Do we judge it on the highest number of worst songs per album or discount that album if it actually has some good songs on it?

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

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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