MC Tunes
― The blue-green world is drenched with horse gore, Thursday, 17 January 2008 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Freddie Garrity that dead bloke out of Lush Mika Jack White
― The blue-green world is drenched with horse gore, Thursday, 17 January 2008 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Freddie's Dead
― Tom D., Thursday, 17 January 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Phill Jupitus COMEDIAN
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 17 January 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost
So's that dead bloke out of Lush.
― The blue-green world is drenched with horse gore, Thursday, 17 January 2008 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Is he?
― Tom D., Thursday, 17 January 2008 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link
This is how it goes: Pop star states a liking for some TV show. TV show exec gets overexcited, releases press statement about getting them on the show. Pop star says no.
Morrissey : Eurovision was the last one.
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 January 2008 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Not when I saw him at Edinburgh festival.
― Billy Dods, Thursday, 17 January 2008 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd like to see an "all dead people" edition of TWL. Especially with Anne Robinson hosting.
― The blue-green world is drenched with horse gore, Thursday, 17 January 2008 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Jamie Oliver Jamie Bell The Bridewell Taxis Aleister Crowley Dr Albarn
― The blue-green world is drenched with horse gore, Thursday, 17 January 2008 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Shampoo PJ & Duncan Sean Maguire
― Tom D., Thursday, 17 January 2008 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
The not famous Gallagher brother.
― chap, Thursday, 17 January 2008 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Pete Best Pete Burns Pete Hooton Pete Noone Pete's Dragon
― The blue-green world is drenched with horse gore, Thursday, 17 January 2008 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
PD Heaton FTW
― The blue-green world is drenched with horse gore, Thursday, 17 January 2008 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
take that
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 17 January 2008 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Jaz Mann Leeroy out of The Prodigy
― chap, Thursday, 17 January 2008 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Jimmy Nail The Mad Stuntman John Selwyn Gummer
― Tom D., Thursday, 17 January 2008 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Jyoti Mishra Scatman John Sylvester Stallone's mum the one out of Atomic Kitten who isn't a crackhead
― The blue-green world is drenched with horse gore, Thursday, 17 January 2008 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I hate to break it to you jim, but the scatman has gone to the great jazz club in the sky.
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 17 January 2008 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh no! Say it ain't so!
― Tom D., Thursday, 17 January 2008 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
He's scatting for Jesus now.
― chap, Thursday, 17 January 2008 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
FUCK
RIP Big Fella. Heaven needed some dude with a big moustache.
― The blue-green world is drenched with horse gore, Thursday, 17 January 2008 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
"Scat Paradise" (EP) [*] (1995) #45 Japan
^^^ This was epic
― The blue-green world is drenched with horse gore, Thursday, 17 January 2008 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Scatman John RIP
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 17 January 2008 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Shocker
― Tom D., Thursday, 17 January 2008 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link
The show's bosses...
"bosses"?? lol britspeak
― dell, Thursday, 17 January 2008 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
its an american term tho, like poobah
― blueski, Thursday, 17 January 2008 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Christopher Biggins Guru Josh Someone out of the Longpigs who isn't Richard Hawley Someone out of Hepburn A COMEDIAN you've never heard of but the BBC have this deal they can't get out of
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 18 January 2008 09:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Calum Waddell
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 18 January 2008 10:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Really am counting down the days until Calum turns up as a talking head on some BBC3 list show.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 18 January 2008 10:05 (sixteen years ago) link
ILILX?
― Mark G, Friday, 18 January 2008 10:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Dressed in a banana suit.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 18 January 2008 10:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Why is Norway performing so well culturally in the 00s? Why are their musicians willing to be more creative? Does a smaller country facilitate music to thrive more easily compared to other larger European countries?
We surely have our share of really bad copies of English/American teen pop/MOR. It's just that you guys never get to hear that shit. It stays all over the radio here, without ever reaching abroad.
(Even if Idol is a completely ridiculous concept that does music no good, the acts that have come out of the Norwegian Idol are probably better than the average Idol act though - Margaret Berger has even released two excellent albums)
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 18 January 2008 10:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Let us discuss the group "Boys Wonder".
http://downwithtractors.blogspot.com/2008/01/boys-wonder-shine-on-me-expanded-second.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pagLNqe_eUg http://www.myspace.com/boyswonder
OG proto britpop from 1987!
I mean, they weren't actually good or anything... but, still.
― Bodrick III, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
But this is not run of the mill rock’n’roll, it is decidedly English in flavour. Big Ben’s cockney vocal charm reflects everything that was essentially English about Anthony Newley, early Bowie (‘Love You Till Tuesday’) and the Small Faces on ‘Lazy Sunday’, while the hard and loud guitar pop has been compared to the finest moments of this country’s yob rock: The Who, Slade and the Sex Pistols. The national identity of their music is very important to the Boys.
“We want to sound as English as possible,” explains Ben. “A lot of people think it’s hard to sing in an English accent but I don’t find it hard at all. I think it’s more exciting… we’re from London and we want to get that London sound.”
― Bodrick III, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.chrishunt.biz/features38.html
I have only the vaguest memory of this shower, but I think they did get quite a bit of coverage when they were current? The singer in his get-up was something you saw a lot for a month or two back in the day. I suppose they were a bit proto-britpop in retrospect. Music was a bit nowt-nor-summat thought.
― Pashmina, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Weirdly, I just came across them again on youtube myself. They seemed to be featured in every single issue of i-D magazine between 86 and 88... but no one was 'aving it.
― Stevie T, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/6/1325942/boys%20wonder.mp3
http://premium.fileden.com/premium/2007/8/6/1325942/boys%20wonder%20dean%20final.mp3
― Bodrick III, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Very interesting! I can't figure out why I don't remember this band at all. I'm not sure whether I think they're all that good or not, but I can see how they would have seemed markedly different to what else was going on at the time.
― Bimble, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link
That myspace is puzzling. Who would set up a page about this band just to zing them?
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 10 July 2008 09:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Boys Wonder!
At the Panic Station all dayer, they played. During an interval between the afternoon and evening sessions, a different band played on top of an awning that was the front entrance of Dingwalls. They were average. Then Boys Wonder backed their bus into the square playing uptop themselves, the drummer shouting abuse to the other band's drummer, at which point the bus pulled off. To which the other band downed tools and set after them.
At which point, an entirely different band jumped up to the awning and upped tools, and were actually great.
Meantime, the two drummers reappeared knocking bells off each other.
At which point, someone got the third band off the top for insurance reasons (I believe this was Jake Shillingford, who was a git (prob still is) for not letting me stand in the lobby while the interior was megahot and I was only 8.5 stone in those days due to an ongoing illness which eventually got operated on, anyway back to the tale) so they climbed down.
Meantime, the two drummers reappeared again, arm in arm, off to the bar to buy each other pints.
― Mark G, Thursday, 10 July 2008 09:45 (fifteen years ago) link
We just say what we think, look food, play loud and if people like it – fantastic!”
― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 10 July 2008 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link
They must have been hungry and got distracted!
― Mark G, Thursday, 10 July 2008 10:29 (fifteen years ago) link
"That myspace is puzzling. Who would set up a page about this band just to zing them?"
lbzc m.o, no?
― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 10 July 2008 10:30 (fifteen years ago) link
(I believe this was Jake Shillingford, who was a git (prob still is) for not letting me stand in the lobby...
-- Mark G, Thursday, 10 July 2008 09:45
Funny you should mention him because My Life Story is one of the bands these guys remind me of.
― Bodrick III, Thursday, 10 July 2008 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link
and so, here it is; the definitive list of the ultimate 90s genre :
NEW RELEASE
Ooh... it seems like only yesterday we were young & carefree, with our Union Jack T's, alco-pop fuelled Camden nights and that TV show Top of the Pops was crammed with power-chord loaded indie-pop heroes... Tuning in once more, in these grim recessionary times, it all sounds like rather a lot of fun. With the 2012 charts roadblocked by flappy corporate pap and well-schooled posh pop, there's something very refreshing about these geezers, scallies, art-school types & ravers uniting in a very disparate-but-it-worked way to create what became Britpop. Download, play loud and sing along... and be pleasantly suprised as you realise you know pretty much every song. Anthems indeed - Brit Pop will make you smile. So before the Queen's Crew pull rank with her Tea Party and the Olympic Posse get shouting, wave the Union Flag and salute the real good times.
FULL Running orderCD 1Blur - ParklifePulp - Common PeopleThe Verve - SonnetSuede - Animal NitrateEmbrace - Come Back To What You KnowElastica – ConnectionCast – SandstormShed Seven - Going For Gold Catatonia - Road RagePaul Weller - Sunflower Space - Female of the SpeciesThe Farm - Groovy TrainInspiral Carpets - This Is How It FeelsEMF - UnbelievableThe Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It?Morcheeba - Tape LoopDubstar - AnywhereThe Soup Dragons - I'm FreeFatboy Slim - Gangster Trippin'New Order - Fine TimePF Project Featuring Ewan McGregor - Choose LifeCD2Supergrass - AlrightRadiohead - JustUnderworld - Born Slippy (NUXX)Chumbawamba - TubthumpingThe Supernaturals - SmileAsh - GoldfingerDoves - PoundingGarbage - Stupid GirlThe Lightning Seeds - The Life Of RileyTerrorvision - TequilaThe Levellers - One WayTravis - DriftwoodBabybird – You’re GorgeousThe Sundays - Here's Where The Story EndsThe Thrills - Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far)Mansun - Wide Open SpaceFeeder – Buck RogersGomez - Whippin' PiccadillyStereo MC's - Connected Jesus Jones - Real Real RealJames - Sit Down
90 minutes of hell, or a bearable b-b-q soundtrack ?
― mark e, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
This track list should be a poll. There are a few good songs here, but so many contenders for ear bleeding misery.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
There's a maximum of four things on that list i wouldn't run screaming from these days. Oddly, i'm listening to some Czech pastiche Britpop at this very moment and really enjoying it.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
i suspect radio 2/x factor hero dermot o'dreary has been using this list for the last 5 years and emi have just paid him a few quid for the list.
― mark e, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link