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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
what i love is that @ reading '90 the stereo mcs "joked" about how they were the only hip hop act of the festival.and here their outburst is confirmed.
baggy beats do not count as hip hop
― mark e, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
what are the Thrills doing on there. that doesn't seem right.
― kid steel (cajunsunday), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
What is all this baggy / Madchester stuff doing on a "BritPop" comp? Inspiral Carpets? EMF
And stuff that is way too early to be BritPop? The Sundays?
And stuff that was in the original BritPop Select issue - St Etienne, The Auteurs - is nowhere to be seen?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
The Thrills were considered Britpop? 2003 seems pretty late for most of that tracklist.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
the thrills were considered Britpop? crap.
fixed.
― mark e, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
well, yeah. i just never thought they were lumped in with britpop.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
^^
as has been pointed out, the thrills along with many many others.
such a mad random list.
still, if i went to a bbq this summer and this was playing in the background i would be in a relatively good mood.
― mark e, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
Nice one ithappenshttp://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/apr/24/britpop-cultural-abomination-music-blur-oasis
― ۩, Thursday, 24 April 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
Matt Scott
24 April 2014 7:11pmRecommend0
terrible article from a jealous virgin
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Thursday, 24 April 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
Probably not going to pay close attention to he comments on that one.
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
goodoldcause
24 April 2014 7:13pmRecommend40
I remember Britpop as a huge relief. Sure, there was a lot of hype and some of the bands weren't able to live up to it. But the time before Britpop, the early 90s, was so dull. Lots of manufactured pop and half-hearted US imports.
Britpop was a much-welcome burst of energy and a resurgence of interesting guitar-led bands, many of them still hugely under-rated. Just go back and listen to anything from that period by The Bluetones: it still holds up.
― ۩, Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
half-hearted?
lol bluetones
There was some good stuff, there was some bad stuff.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/uk/02/landfill/img/landfill_map.gif
― xelab, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
good stuff ithappens.
and i say that as a defender of the nwonw groove that britpop killed, and despite the fact i still listen to the menswe@r album on a regular basis.
― mark e, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
I thought menswe@r were a pile of arse even at the time!
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
ha .. yeah .. i know. everyone did.but the album is a case of session musicians making a fine glam pop album.(i never ever believed that anyone in the band had any input other than the vocals)
― mark e, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
are menswe@r the monkees of the 90s then?
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
good call .. i would totally put them in that category.
― mark e, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
except for the fact that they never got a chance/skill to progress out of that corner, unlike the monkees.
― mark e, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
Britpop saved the 90s from being a Spice Girls wasteland
it also invented the idea of a band with guitars being any good in the 90s, apparently
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
That bastard Cowell has ruined EVERYTHING....look at where we are now compared to the days of Northern Uproar
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
In the britpop timeline I had started getting into Miles, was loving the golden age of rap and house/techno, certainly didn't need none of that garbage. It's like the art equivalent of going to see Rothko, Warhol + Nauman and then pretending that Howard Hodgkin, Peter Blake and Damien Hirst are anything but the talentless arseholes that turned up.
― xelab, Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
It's like the art equivalent of going to see Rothko, Warhol + Nauman and then pretending that Howard Hodgkin, Peter Blake and Damien Hirst are anything but the talentless arseholes that turned up.
― imago, Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
You fucking young british people.
― xelab, Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
i thought i cd read those comments for the lulz but there was no lulz, just deep sadness, then despair, then the rising urge to take off and nuke the country from orbit
― you poll a lot, but you're not saying anything (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link
this would be a lovely place to discuss the oasis reunion
― imago, Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link