Much (not all) of the Lovely Eggs stuff is pretty wonderful. They might have been my favorite old band discovered last year.
― dlp9001, Monday, 19 May 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
Okay, 20 years on from that stupid chart battle:
BlurPulpRadioheadSuedeSuper Furry AnimalsSupergrassVerve (pre-A Northern Soul)
Fuck the rest.
― Turrican, Monday, 26 October 2015 22:19 (eight years ago) link
surely we can move on from this list of standards ?
― mark e, Monday, 26 October 2015 22:21 (eight years ago) link
That seems, to me, pretty much it for what has endured in terms of '90s British guitar pop. The rest of the stuff I listen to from the '90s these days seems to be electronic/dance music and US alternative rock.
― Turrican, Monday, 26 October 2015 22:27 (eight years ago) link
i realise ILM hates them now but surely any list without Oasis is somewhat skewed.
ps. glad you made the difference re electronic/dance - hence my original miffed groove !
― mark e, Monday, 26 October 2015 22:34 (eight years ago) link
Being from the US, I didn't get any of the negative press/attitude that seemed to hang around Dodgy, but I loved their Homegrown album. Haven't listened to it in 20yrs, but it sure was fun in 94/95.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 26 October 2015 22:37 (eight years ago) link
did you know that the Bluetones have recently extended their 20th anniversary reunion tour by 18 dates due to popular demand? I'm not going because I don't like going to gigs, but I love the Bluetones
― soref, Monday, 26 October 2015 22:41 (eight years ago) link
here's what the 'tones have been up since the band broke up
Four years ago The Bluetones, one of the last surviving foot soldiers of Britpop, took their bows and went their separate ways, spitting up - we assumed - for good. Singer Morriss became a wandering troubadour, on a never-ending solo tour, acoustic in hand, playing old hits and new tunes. He’s just put out his third record, The Taste Of Mark Morris. They’ve all been very good. His brother, bassist Scott, moved to Japan to utilise a nifty skill for graphic design and animation; drummer Eds Chester is an osteopath, while guitarist Adam Devlin has carved out a new identity as a guitarist for hire (most notably with excellent Socialist supergroup Thee Cee Cees) and, despite being genuinely sweet in real life, has a neat sideline as a superbly effective twitter troll (according to his profile “BLOCKED by: @piersmorgan @DailyMailUK @KTHopkins @KayBurley @Nigel_Farage @Scientology @lancearmstrong @Joey7Barton @U2 @Sting and @gwenstefani. Twice”.)
http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4149443-album-by-album-with-the-bluetones
― soref, Monday, 26 October 2015 22:46 (eight years ago) link
xxpost:
Oh yeah, while Britpop undoubtedly got a lot of coverage at the time, it would be beyond stupid to even imply that it was the only thing that happened/was happening in the '90s.
Oasis were undoubtedly at their best from 1994-1996, and incredibly huge in the UK for a couple of years, but I really struggle to find the enthusiasm to listen to one of their albums in 2015. I'm pretty much the same with other bands from the time, too, even Manic Street Preachers.
― Turrican, Monday, 26 October 2015 22:48 (eight years ago) link
Turrican, have you listened to Mark Morris' latest solo album, 'The Taste Of Mark Morris'? it includes a cover of OMD's Souvenir
― soref, Monday, 26 October 2015 22:52 (eight years ago) link
Eh!?
― Turrican, Monday, 26 October 2015 22:55 (eight years ago) link
i'm with turrican on that particular demand !!?
― mark e, Monday, 26 October 2015 23:02 (eight years ago) link
oh shit, that album is full of crazy covers. gonna play now.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 26 October 2015 23:03 (eight years ago) link
it wasn't a demand! just an enquiry
― soref, Monday, 26 October 2015 23:05 (eight years ago) link
I like his versions of Souvenir and Love Comes Quickly, I'm going to go ahead and say that say that covering Duchess from Scott 4 was a mistake, though
― soref, Monday, 26 October 2015 23:07 (eight years ago) link
he was a worse singer than the prat from the seahorses (which says a lot)
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 26 October 2015 23:07 (eight years ago) link
fair enough.
note (as cosmic et al know) : i aint no brit pop hater, as i have a LOT of the 2nd/3rd tier level stuff hidden away in the archive - just i get bored with the same names being dragged out ..
― mark e, Monday, 26 October 2015 23:11 (eight years ago) link
it wasn't a demand! just an enquiry― soref, Monday, October 26, 2015 11:05 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― soref, Monday, October 26, 2015 11:05 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Nah, I haven't heard it, but I am surprised to hear that he's done an OMD cover.
― Turrican, Monday, 26 October 2015 23:42 (eight years ago) link
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/kill-your-friends-where-did-it-all-go-wrong-for-britpop-a6706716.html
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
that select cover is the answer obviously
Listeking to Lovelife by Lush right now, holds up imo
― Leonard Pine, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 20:04 (eight years ago) link
wtf at the views for this thread
http://i.imgur.com/Rjsy7Ug.png
― LAST HOUR to vote in ILM Lifetime heavy Rock & Metal Poll! (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 9 September 2016 22:31 (seven years ago) link
This is one of the threads that got me into ILM, I used it as a source for this article / compilation - https://haonowshaokao.com/2015/09/20/britpop-nuggets-part-one-some-people-are-born-to-dance/ - thought I had posted it here, but evidently I was too embarrassed or something. That's almost certainly not the reason for the page views.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 10 September 2016 00:52 (seven years ago) link
Enjoyed that thx. Don't know most of that stuff Lol at Pullover. Of course there was a Britpop band called Pullover.
― everything, Saturday, 10 September 2016 03:53 (seven years ago) link
lol, Ive never heard of Pullover
― Cosmic Slop, Saturday, 10 September 2016 13:20 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/5puLlO1.jpg
― Odysseus, Monday, 20 February 2017 08:41 (seven years ago) link
Jesus fucking christ.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 20 February 2017 09:02 (seven years ago) link
I find it hard to believe anyone likes those bands. Especially My Life Story. Who were even worse than The Divine Comedy.
― Odysseus, Monday, 20 February 2017 09:11 (seven years ago) link
I almost - almost - checked out the new Dodgy album last year
― imago, Monday, 20 February 2017 10:42 (seven years ago) link
all of these bands were sometimes quite good, apart from Dodgy who were never good
― soref, Monday, 20 February 2017 10:52 (seven years ago) link
Dodgy were good. Homegrown is a decent album. They had a handful of singles that were really good. Then they did Free Peace Sweet and that was just fucking awful, all of it.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 20 February 2017 10:55 (seven years ago) link
nah, has some good stuff on it
good enough might be the worst song by any of these bands though
― imago, Monday, 20 February 2017 10:59 (seven years ago) link
I thought Space were sort of endearingly/entertainingly crap at the time, I think I was probably wrong.
― chap, Monday, 20 February 2017 11:08 (seven years ago) link
guys, guys
― Treesh-Hurt (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 February 2017 11:09 (seven years ago) link
Salad is probably my favourite of these groups, but apparently Salad Undressed is "Marijne & Paul from Salad, acoustically unleashing songs from then...and now...." which I'm not so sure about
― soref, Monday, 20 February 2017 11:10 (seven years ago) link
i wanna get off this endless nostalgia treadmill now, cheers
i did lol at the graphic designers' evident difficulty finding suitably dynamic and/or glamorous pictures of mark morriss and fucknuts from space for the poster. look at those dull bastards standing there grimacing
― for sale: steve bannon waifu pillow (heavily soiled) (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 20 February 2017 11:26 (seven years ago) link
6 bands 4 cities 1 massive celebration of b-to-c-tier britpop
― for sale: steve bannon waifu pillow (heavily soiled) (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 20 February 2017 11:27 (seven years ago) link
I know someone who was really excited for the last Space album. I can't believe Space fans exist.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 20 February 2017 12:21 (seven years ago) link
Looking at that poster I have just realised that I've been confusing Louise Wener with Louise Mensch for several years.
― byebyepride, Monday, 20 February 2017 12:26 (seven years ago) link
ahah what a poster. that's almost as sad as the "swagger of oasis" thread !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 20 February 2017 12:27 (seven years ago) link
my friend did something to do with the sp@ce website for a long time, possibly still does
― kinder, Monday, 20 February 2017 12:34 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSn_nbVz0xA
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 20 February 2017 12:55 (seven years ago) link
Man, that's dire. I'm also slightly depressed for them it's been up for two years and managed less than 10,000 views.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 20 February 2017 12:57 (seven years ago) link
― kinder, Monday, 20 February 2017 13:09 (seven years ago) link
new social network called sleepr, boring nostalgia posts only
― imago, Monday, 20 February 2017 13:14 (seven years ago) link
Sleepr is a "spooning only" hookup ap, surely.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 20 February 2017 13:28 (seven years ago) link
menshn riff tbf
― imago, Monday, 20 February 2017 14:56 (seven years ago) link
Britpop will never go away. These bands will be playing nightclub with chicken or scampi in a basket for another 30 years like those 60s and 70s bands.
― Odysseus, Monday, 20 February 2017 16:29 (seven years ago) link
FAP?
― kinder, Monday, 20 February 2017 16:43 (seven years ago) link
Yawn.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Monday, 20 February 2017 19:27 (seven years ago) link