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MONSANTA

Darth Icky (DJP), Friday, 22 March 2013 15:33 (eleven years ago) link

Appearing with Nivea at the club

Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 March 2013 15:34 (eleven years ago) link

Earth Song??? I was at the Brits the year Jarvis Cocker stormed the bloody stage...

this is also killing me

Darth Icky (DJP), Friday, 22 March 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link

sometimes respecting our differences is hard

Kontuszówka reverie (Noodle Vague), Friday, 22 March 2013 15:43 (eleven years ago) link

Another one out of Menswe@r defends himself
http://www.nme.com/news/robbie-williams/69348

'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Friday, 22 March 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link

all of this is just making me want to listen to Menswe@r

Darth Icky (DJP), Friday, 22 March 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link

iirc menswear's moment in the sun consisted of ripping off elastica ripping off wire.

Another turning point, a stork fuck in the road (ledge), Friday, 22 March 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago) link

slur

noun

1. an insinuation or allegation about someone that is likely to insult them or damage their reputation

Kontuszówka reverie (Noodle Vague), Friday, 22 March 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago) link

the verb might be a bit closer to the truth mind

This is between Ride and Geneva. I love Ride, but went with Geneva because they were always extremely underrated and are a much, much better band than everything on this list (Ride aside).

The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 22 March 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link

all of this is just making me want to listen to Menswe@r

Rightly so.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 March 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link

Ah, didn't see Adorable there... but could have easily voted for Adorable too.

The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 22 March 2013 17:25 (eleven years ago) link

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

The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 22 March 2013 17:32 (eleven years ago) link

I think I have a couple of geneva cd singles i got for 99p. You have them turrican?

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 22 March 2013 17:34 (eleven years ago) link

Salad were cool. I dig "Motorbike to heaven"

brimstead, Friday, 22 March 2013 17:39 (eleven years ago) link

I didn't buy any of Geneva's singles, I did invest in their albums though... always thought they got a bit of a bum deal from people, I remember the lead singers voice was a bit of a love-it-or-hate-it thing. Surprised that Marion haven't been mentioned once in this thread so far.

The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 22 March 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link

http://static.nme.com/images/article/menswear_photoshot_UKWT_L90409.jpg

they're called menswear and they look like this? okie dokie.

someone i know looks just like the singer from shed 7, that's a lucrative celeb lookalike job there.

Merdeyeux, Friday, 22 March 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link

Have had 'slight return' in my head for the past two days since seeing the RW blog post. A few weeks ago my parents and my o/h's parents unloaded a ton of boxes of our old stuff on us and we saw our CD collections for the first time in years. At least 50% of these are in there somewhere (not Northern Uproar though, never Northern Uproar)
I saw someone doing karaoke to Menswe@r in San Francisco in 2012

kinder, Friday, 22 March 2013 17:47 (eleven years ago) link

btw Republica are playing in my town soon. They're not really akin to the rest but I did raise an eyebrow and furrow a ... brow

kinder, Friday, 22 March 2013 17:48 (eleven years ago) link

Marion's 1st album was good. Saw them live at t in the park 95 too (prob saw a lot of these britpop bands there but most weren't very good live but Marion & Menswe@r were as were Cast)

Voting Ride, even in britpop era Ride's Carnival Of Light was really good, not a patch on earlier albums however.

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 22 March 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link

Saw Marion sometime in the past... 7 years? when they had their massive comeback

kinder, Friday, 22 March 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link

Uh, they had a massive comeback?

Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 March 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link

Linked that upthread.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 March 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link

xxxp huh, according to Wikipedia, almost exactly 7 years ago, I have a pretty finely tuned internal clock ... Which is actually why I'm such a good natural percussionist

kinder, Friday, 22 March 2013 18:25 (eleven years ago) link

i still listen to, and enjoy, the menswe@r album
(wasn't it rumoured that the band had little to do with it, and it was all production/sessioners etc).
well, a couple of times a year.
the rest, except curve and adorable of course, nah ..

mark e, Friday, 22 March 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link

Voted Symposium for their commitment to tune avoidance.

Late night with Amazing Bo (MaresNest), Friday, 22 March 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link

Okay, I'm a bigger fuckin idiot than RW for that

Late night with Amazing Bo (MaresNest), Friday, 22 March 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link

you just realised its a best not worst poll?

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 22 March 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link

*head in hands*

Wonder what Symposium's Spotify stats are.

Late night with Amazing Bo (MaresNest), Friday, 22 March 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link

Who the hell are most of these

robbie otm I'm sure

every time there's one of these polls of a load of lol landfill acts people pop up to say things like "powder don;t belong on this list" or "symposium's first 2 singles were actually quite good" and I just know without checking that this isn't true

dat neggy nilmar (wins), Friday, 22 March 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link

both were utter shite so they do

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 22 March 2013 19:47 (eleven years ago) link

Powder are the fucking worst.

emil.y, Friday, 22 March 2013 19:48 (eleven years ago) link

Well, actually, I'm not sure anything could be worse than Northern Uproar. But they make a good stab at it.

emil.y, Friday, 22 March 2013 19:48 (eleven years ago) link

oh sub in any name here

dat neggy nilmar (wins), Friday, 22 March 2013 19:49 (eleven years ago) link

Powder were one of the bands I saw at TITP 95 and they are by far the worst band I ever saw in my life

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 22 March 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link

Lodger were just as bad.

The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 22 March 2013 20:04 (eleven years ago) link

Tomorrow sees the 18th anniversary of the day I saw Powder live

'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Friday, 22 March 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link

is this Powder the same white-power-looking Powder I found on Spotify? because fuck if I'm gonna listen to the Spotify thing I found

Darth Icky (DJP), Friday, 22 March 2013 20:20 (eleven years ago) link

iirc this was their album

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/725/MI0001725114.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 22 March 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link

so... no

Darth Icky (DJP), Friday, 22 March 2013 20:25 (eleven years ago) link

wins otm

Kontuszówka reverie (Noodle Vague), Friday, 22 March 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link

Am I reading this right? Was there really a band named Salad?

Mr. Snrub, Friday, 22 March 2013 21:52 (eleven years ago) link

Am I reading this right? Was there really a band named Salad?

Indeed there was. If memory serves, the singer was an MTV Europe presenter (or something like that)

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 22 March 2013 22:14 (eleven years ago) link

yes. they werent very good though.

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 22 March 2013 22:18 (eleven years ago) link

On the 2nd day of titp 95 i walked past her in the street on my way down to strathclyde park. Also bumped into Martin Carr and John Power (who said "alright La" ).
Also saw Rick Witter and Joe Strummer walking past me inside the festival.

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 22 March 2013 22:20 (eleven years ago) link

i'm not big britpop dude but ride fucking rules

ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 March 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link

Ride seem quite out of place in this list, but then again he mentions Hurricane #1 in the same breath. I think it's an Oasis thing

'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Friday, 22 March 2013 22:41 (eleven years ago) link


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