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

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

jesus

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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

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

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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