"Any quarter-decent three-chord knobheads could and did get a deal in the ’90s." POLL

I know nothing of this Salad tbh

i might vote Shed 7 because a) i have oddly warm feelings to the odd single as being "decent" and b) fuck off the ILM shoegaze massive

Wik tells me however that one of them ended up in Gay Dad... not the drummer :( (xp)

Cud don't really belong here, post C86 chancers who i'm sure couldn't believe their luck at getting a major deal and probs pished it away without a thought

Please remove CUD and Ride
by I know you dran… - 21 Mar 2013 - 7:04pm
Please remove CUD and Ride from that list. You obviously don't own anything of their music and have probably been trawling through old NME's indie charts for bands around at that time to take a swipe at.

xxxp their Wikipedia entry is really something: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shed_Seven

With five UK Top 40 entries in 1996,[3] Shed Seven had more hit singles than any other act that year,[1]

Robbie Williams' titular description of these is pretty much otm tbf to the lad

iirc did robbie himself not try out an edgy indie alterna-phase for a brief bit

i was gonna say Britpop was his whole shtick when he first left Take That

Robbie Williams still taking potshots at Sophie Ellis Bextor after all these years.

took me 18 months to realise Robbie's songs weren't written by the bloke out of House of Love

Despite Noel Gallagher describing him as that fat dancer from Take That (xxxp)

only when Noel Gallagher tosses a lazy zing in one's direction does one know one has truly arrived

was Symposium that bunch of 13 year-old Finnish psychobillies?

i wonder how long the band meeting was that settled on "Powder"? or if they rejected "Deodorant" and "Toothpaste" and "Old Spice" first?

look back fondly on the heady days of saying rude things about Kingmaker in interviews in our local fanzine

oh god i've wasted my life

Kingmaker, the band perpetually in the shadow of The Wonderstuff.

re: Shed 7..

I was sent a promo of one of their singles, the press release with it stated the proud boast that "all of their singles have hit the top 40"

funnily enough, so did the single they sent me. But that was the last time...

Enticed by the promise of free stuff I filled in a BMG Music questionnaire once and ticked the "indie" box so they spent the next 2 years sending me Northern Uproar and Out Of My Hair badges

i hope you learned your lesson

I learnt the lesson of free stuff but not the lesson you're thinking of, no :(

Someone needs to do a where-are-they-now? feature on all of these bands

there's only so many ways you can write "Call Centre"

I'd love it if Crispian Mills was my Job Centre advisor.
No wait I wouldn't.

In 2010, Spacehog guitarist Antony Langdon gained notoriety for his role in the controversial mockumentary starring Joaquin Phoenix I'm Still Here. Langdon, who was one of Phoenix's assistants as well as a musical partner,[14] staged a falling-out with the actor during the documentary's filming and is shown (in the film's most shocking scene)[according to whom?] defecating on the troubled actor in retaliation for an earlier argument. In an earlier part of the film, there is a similarly shocking scene involving Langdon getting out of the shower.

Pondering The Zutons.. They got dropped by Sony about 6 months after their last (top ten) album, the websites have gone, but no official 'split' as such..

Probably living off "Valerie" royalties..

I hate Ride. Nowhere is just useless rubbish, taking shoegaze and showing how it can also be used to make boring rock songs just like they've always been make. So dumb. So it was hard to vote for anything, but I ended up at Kula Shaker, as I've actually heard their albums... Not good, not really.

Hoping it's past the bed time
by karen490 - 21 Mar 2013 - 10:42pm
Hoping it's past the bed time of the silly idiots who seem to have found their way here today to post their nasty small minded and mainly inacurate crap. Wouldn't you think they would at least get the facts right -----------------------Just wanted to say congratulations on yet another award and i loved your baseball cap.

*yoink*

Anyone who doesn't vote Curve is a disgusting savage iirc

I still have something of a soft spot for 'Tranquiliser' and 'Into The Blue' by Geneva. I remember when they first appeared and the press was all 'lol he sings like a girl' and now you'd be hard pressed to find an indie frontman who doesn't attempt an excruciating falsetto.

That dude must shake his fist at the capricious gods every time Chris Martin appears on TV.

You left off Ocean Colour Scene by the way...

Think they fall short of the quarter-decent requirement

Ride, obviously. Wasn't a massive Salad fan at the time, but their singles do still stand up. Chapterhouse/Cud/Curve/Adorable/Kingmaker I kind of think of as being from the era previous, but I don't know if that's just me? Not all good, obv (though I was a 12-yr-old Kingmaker fan, I confess).

Chorus:
Hey dude
Don't lean on me man
Cause I'm losing my direction
And I can't understand, no no
Hey dude
Well I do what I can
But you treat me like a woman
When I feel like a man

^ these guys were being ironic right?

Adorable for "Homeboy"

xpost to emil.y -

If Chapterhouse etc are a previous era, then so are Ride surely, esp since they predate some of those!

Ride were basically shit by the time the other bands were around.

At some point in my life I have owned things by 12 of these bands :(

It was quite fashionable at the time to diss Salad because their singer was a) female and good looking and b) an MTV presenter but I liked them. Their 2nd album was a bit of a let down though.

Crispy Mills was many things but ironic was not one.

Anyway, I voted for Ride, even though, after the second album, they were exactly the kind of "quarter-decent three-chord knobheads" RW is moaning about.

The frequency with which Slight Return by The Bluetones pops up on 6music does my head in and makes me think it's some kind of NHS prescription for sad sack 30-somethings. Like me.

Col Poo, yes, Ride count as the previous era too, sorry, that really wasn't clear on my part. Salad don't, obviously.

I prefer Drugstore to Salad but I guess it's purely the 'foreign female singer' thing that makes them comparable.

At some point in my life I have owned things by 12 of these bands :(

Hmm, good point, I shall go count up:

Right, my definition here is "Things", i.e. more than one single/album by the artist listed.

Two.

(Menswear (2 singles, one album) and Sleeper(most of their stuff) )...

I'll rep for one other, "Dark Entries" by Echobelly, that were good that..

HI DERE!

i'm not really here, obv, but:

Crispian Mills directed a film with simon pegg in, the early interviews for which entirely failed to mention Peela Tater

Symposium featured young polish lads, not finnish one of whom is now in Thee Faction with Billy Reeves from the audience.

Menswe@r (call them by their name) drummer Matt everett is now the music news guy on 6music

ride and hurricane #1 gtrist andy bell was is oasis and is now in beady eye

pearl from powder is now best known for being Daisy Lowe's mum

any more questions? *britpop face*

Back to Rob:

NOW THIS WAS AT THE HEIGHT OF WHAT WAS BRITPOP AND MAINSTREAM INDIE.

RECORD COMPANIES DON'T/DIDN'T HAVE THE RESOURCES TO GAMBLE?

I THINK NOT …

ANY QUARTER-DECENT 3 CHORD KNOBHEADS COULD AND DID GET A DEAL IN THE 90'S ….

I wouldn't have thought signing 1/4 decent 3chord knowbeds in the age of Oasis and Blur was much of a gamble, we're not talking CabVolt are we?

As long as those bands sold slightly more value than they cost, and could get dropped before the balance sheet got too claret, what gamble are we thinking of?

I have tried searching for some of the more distinctively named minor members of these groups and disappointingly they all seem to be on linkedin and doing respectable music-related jobs.

Things mostly meant singles there but I did have albums by some of these.

In retrospect I'm most embarrassed about owning an album and 2 singles by the Bluetones. That can only really be explained by peer pressure I guess. I didn't even like them then, I saw them twice in 1995 and they were shit both times. But some of my friends liked them. I dunno, the follies of youth.

I'd much rather listen to a Bluetones record than the lumpen laddishness of a lot of these twats.

In other words OTM Robbie.

Why did he feel the need to take a pop, exactly? Obama doesn't have a go at the kids from the debating club in the other school on the far side of his home town.

boost his pop credentials

Auditioning for the role as Morrissey's understudy

Because he thinks that no one ever thought these bands sucked before, and he wanted to be the first one to say it.

He's bitter that he couldn't shift his Shine compilations on ebay.

Thanks, onimo, although surprisingly quite a few of those are unavailable in the US.

One that went missing, Echobelly's "Kings of the Curb":
http://youtu.be/epqZrkxZ3_o

Aargh. It's spelled "King of the Kerb"

Kerb your Enthusiasm

So is the song "Statuesque" by Sleeper built around the metaphor of someone being a statue made of stone?

Kula Shaker is among my most hated ever.

Why the ire? I know they're silly, but Tattva and Hey Dude are jams.

Wait, and Shower Your Love was terrific - everyone forgets that one.

I can't believe I'm forgetting Sound Of Drums! What a band!

Might be inclined to vote for Lush if they had been on this list.

Oh yeah. I just had a big Lush revival and was surprised by how well it held up.

Reviving right now. Forgot about the Jarvis Cocker duet.

the reason why Lush isn't on this list is because even Robbie Williams remembered that they ruled

So he's not all bad?

On December 18 2006, Robbie Williams played the last of 59 stadium shows in a row, announced he was going to spend Christmas at his home in Los Angeles, and then basically disappeared. He was hardly seen at all in 2007. He briefly checked into rehab. He spent quite a bit of time hiking and playing football (he owns a football pitch on Mulholland Drive). Then he stopped hiking and playing football. His record company, EMI, announced he had no plans to release an album in 2008. Today he unexpectedly calls me to ask if I want to go with him to the desert in Nevada to meet UFO abductees.

"I've been spending so much time at home on the internet on sites like AboveTopSecret.com," he says. "I want to do something. I want to go out there and meet these people. I want to be a part of this. I want to do something other than sit in my bed and watch the news. And it starts with the UFO conference in Laughlin, Nevada, on Thursday. We can hear people's testimony about being abducted by aliens. There's an entire family of abductees going to be there, apparently."

I log on to the conference website. It's taking place at the quite down at heel-looking Aquarius hotel and casino. The conference slogan is Educating The World One Person At A Time, which makes it sound as if there won't be many people attending. The speakers will include Ann Andrews, from Lincolnshire, who claims her son Jason has had "disturbing experiences at the hands of many different alien species", and a surgeon, Dr Roger Leir, who claims he has extracted from patients 15 metallic implants that are not of earthly metal.

"I wonder if he'll bring the implants along," I say.

"So you can see with your own eyes whether they're earthly or not?" Robbie asks.

"Yes," I say.

"According to Jon," Robbie says.

He seems a bit disapproving of my scepticism. I tell him that my problem with spaceships is this: if they exist, why do they reveal themselves to the human race only in ambiguous ways? "I think maybe they're making mistakes," he replies. "I think the shield comes off by mistake and they were there all the time." He pauses. "I don't want to hear any debunking because I want to believe."

I wonder if he is a fan of Reality Bites?

now we know why the corrs get a pass

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

One of yr less surprising results.

Kula Shaker 6 votes SMDH

Strange truths

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/401978_10152261293673797_974893272_n.jpg

looking good grady

Top two unsurprising, then it gets refreshingly odd.

did some folk think they were voting for 'worst' not 'best'?

Hallo Spacehog

i still listen to, and enjoy, the first spacehog album ..

revival glam is always going to get airplay @ hq (see that other reviled album by loius xiv !)

OK, Kula Shaker strong showing was a little surprising tbh.

suspect that for others as well as me, the 1st album is massive guilty pleasure ...

Some acquaintances started saying 'kula shaker' for 'cool' around that time; for me that ruined them forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW3LyVPa2gE

"the first time i did Heroin was with Elastica.. " "alex james is the bassist in Blur. my nan could do that" and "here's another song by Damon Albarn, Connection by Elastica."

he likes a laugh and a joke this lad.