Worst Of These Mid-Late 90s UK Bands?

Crispian: (in reference to his vegetarian beliefs that killing animals is just as bad as killing humans) The principle is we've got a violent society, we always go on about the virtues of peace but we aren't living a peaceful lifestyle

New Musical Express: It's an obvious comparison, but Hitler was a vegetarian who had no qualms about murdering humans, babies included, by the thousands.

Crispian: Right, but Hitler knew a lot more than he made out. Hitler and his whole gang weren't just a bunch of f___ing psychos, they were also into magic and all that. I mean, talking about ruffling feathers with statements in magazines, I love the swastika. It's a brilliant image, it symbolises peace and the sun and illumination - it's everywhere in India. I'd love to have great big flaming swastikas onstage just for the f__k of it. It's like, that was Hitler, don't let him steal something like that from you. I mean the Nazis studied the Vedas, the Scriptures, the Holy Grail, but they were just using it as a power trip.

New Musical Express: You have a sneaking admiration for Hitler don't you?

Crispian: No...but it's a shame the baddies always get the good uniforms. Ha ha! [3].

Truly he was a Bryan Ferry for the 90s.

thing about OCS that everyone forgets: they completely changed their sound! They weren't always this plodding, retro band with no feeling to their music. Their first album was quite different and the song "Sway", a single from it, was pretty good! But it didn't sell and so they went and did something a bit more obvious, which worked for them, but was hell for us (or me, at least).

Wener as a personality was awful but I like some Sleeper singles. V much a singles band tho. Could never maintain consistency across an album.

Reef don't belong here. They prolly belong less than 3 Colours Red to be honest. Sure they may be contemporary with these other bands but they have no real connectivity with them otherwise. I think they had no illusions that they were doing anything at all original, they even called themselves Reef coz it was an anagram of their fave band, Free.

As I remember, the "nazi thing" was that a/crispy had been in a band with some dude who was in a far right org and b/some swastika-redeemer type comments from crispy in an ill-advised NME interview + ooh the nazis, they were into their dark okkult/magick blablabla. Also c/lol, the britishes and their funny class system.

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* 9 Lazy 9
* Airborn Audio
* Ammoncontact
* Amon Tobin
* Animals On Wheels
* Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
* Blockhead
* Bonobo
* Chris Bowden
* Cabbageboy
* Chocolate Weasel
* The Cinematic Orchestra
* Clifford Gilberto
* Coldcut
* Daedelus
* DJ Food
* DJ Toolz
* DJ Kentaro
* DJ Vadim
* DK
* The Dragons
* Dwight Trible
* Dynamic Syncopation
* Fink
* Flanger
* Fog
* Funki Porcini
* Ghislain Poirier
* The Herbaliser
* Hex
* Hexstatic
* Hint
* Homelife
* The Irresistible Force
* Jaga Jazzist
* Kid Koala
* Loka
* London Funk Allstars
* Max & Harvey
* Mr. Scruff
* Neotropic
* One Self
* Pest
* The Qemists
* Rainstick Orchestra
* Roots Manuva
* Sixtoo
* Skalpel
* Spank Rock
* Super Numeri
* The Poets of Rhythm
* Treva Whateva
* Up, Bustle and Out
* Wagon Christ
* Yppah
* Zero db

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Supernaturals deserve a vote just for that Smile song always being used in a bank advert.

What about "At the Link it is easy" by Shed Seven?

HAhahahahahahahaa that was hilarious!

Ultimate sub-Britpop sellouts: Hurricane #1 for allowing a song to be used in an advert for The Sun.

Although, to be fair, most of the members of these bands would be swiftly back to their day jobs, so you can't really blame them for cashing in.

OCS FTW FFS

there are some OK bands on this list.

i wonder if every band will get 10 votes each or if stereophonics will be runaway winners?

space

that fella's voice over their horrible keyboard-preset music, yikes!

gomez sucked too, tho.

didn't they do a tune about how much they hated contemporary r'nb?

I thought other bands would be hated more than Space.

Space combined being a shite Britpop band with being a shite Novelty band with having a singer dude with a hugely annoying face tho.

The one Stereophincs song I heard was indescribably bad.

none of these groups are any good, imo. but space take the biscuit. although i was probably listening to happy hardcore at the time, so i can't really talk.

Space combined being a shite Britpop band with being a shite Novelty band with having a singer dude with a hugely annoying face tho.

Nice to see the Zutons keeping this torch aloft.

Elvis Costello used to love Sleeper, so...

I like Space more than most of the eejits in that list.

Space.
i really hated them - even at the time.
some of the other bands were actually ok for a few weeks.

I don't know that anyone in the US had any conception of Space as a band that would generate this much ill will!

Most of these bands at least had the decency to bugger off after a couple of singles (Bluetones, Reef, Longpigs). I liked Space - most of the others blow. Voted for Stereophonics, because they managed to reach semi-Oasis levels of twatishness and unjustified arrogance in relation to their actual ability. But Menswear (Menswe@r?) come in a close second as a really crap boy band version of Suede.

also, "the glory years of Cool Britannia 1990-98" is stretching a bit far - six months in 1997 is more like it.

i think of britpop as 94-95

at a push maybe 93 for nwonw/auteurs/suede as precursors, and 96 for its fag-end lad rock era.

Space were at least quite funny,in a point and laugh kind of a way. And I like that one with the xylophone in it, cos xylophones are generally good.

if i had to pick one word to describe pop culture in this era in the uk it would be "cosy".

i am vaguely related via marriage to an ex-supernatural. they have at least one good song, and a couple of passable ones. Cast, Reef and the Seahorses are all unremittingly dreadful.

(none of these passable songs were singles, btw)

Reef, because they tried to "rock" and couldn`t. Space, though awful, at least had some kind of musical personality. All those BluetonesGeneCastLongpigs types just blurred into one for me.

The New Smiths™

Can't wait for the equivalent mid-late 00s poll in ten years time. Seems to me the current glut of same-sounding guitar bands is even more widespread than it was back then.

so mant awful music but i really hate kula shaker.

Can't wait for the equivalent mid-late 00s poll in ten years time. Seems to me the current glut of same-sounding guitar bands is even more widespread than it was back then.

Which era has the worst bands?

british indie rock is bad,generaly speaking, since 1990 at least.

if i had to pick one word to describe pop culture in this era in the uk it would be "cosy".

It looked as though something was happening, but actually nothing was happening.

Cast make me so very very angry with their incomparable shite-ness, so no contest for me.

Make sure every band gets one vote minimum!!

Which era has the worst bands?

This was touched on briefly a while ago here - no idea which thread - and I said that the current bands seem even more cynical. I don't think most of the bands in this here poll formed with as self-evident a scene or scenes to assimilate themselves into, and some (Stereophonics, probably Reef) probably spent a lot of time being completely baffled by their success. None of which means the music is actually any better, of course

Bluetones were alright for awhile, but in general yes, these bands were as dull as ditchwater.

if i had to pick one word to describe pop culture in this era in the uk it would be "cosy".

It looked as though something was happening, but actually nothing was happening.

-- snoball, Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:57 PM

after the left/right antagonisms of the 80s had faded into memory, people just got used to high unemployment, low social mobility, etc... the economy recovered to a degree but yeah, nothing fundamental changed.

Seriously, nothing any of these bands did quite comes close to the sheer awfulness of the 'rum old slapper' bit in Love Is The Law by the Seahorses. Except maybe the 'kick-ass angels' bit in Avenging Angels by Space.

If anyone has a vote unswayed, here is the Seahorses doing Love Is The Law at Glastonbury, containing one of the most hilariously bad vocal performances I have ever seen.

This isn't that bad oh shit I just got to the chorus hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

OKAY WHY HASN'T THIS STOPPED YET

Who the fuck does Chris Helme think he is?!

Good grief, I'd managed to blank out all memories of that song. I didn't think I could remember anything by the Seahorses but they might have just won for me.

Always thought it was "romo slapper" and I don't know whether to be relieved or disappointed.

Thing is, every note of that bit is composed to fuck. It's not jammed or improvised. That's EXACTLY the same as the album version. Squire never made up a note onstage in his life.

This is like the first time I heard "EMU".

We lived in a dogfish eggcase
you could barely call it home
Sorry little lot no roof on top
But the fish left us at home
Try a little more said the girl next
door it's time to roam

Mad Lizzy Crumbs blind cobblers
thumbs were a sight to behold
She was a rum old slapper and we always
tried toget her pants off when she phoned
Left her cap by the sink it's not what you think
Oh take me home

Now we know where we are going baby
We can lay back and enjoy the ride
Take in the sights and drown in our senses
Love is the law so take me deep inside

Strap on Sally chased us down the alley
We feared for our behinds
Oasis was a shop with shoes so hot
They were sure to blow your minds
Running so fast I can take the past
Oh take home

These waters run deep it's clear my little one
Blue velvet star sky not a sound
The light in your eyes the smile on your ruby lips
Tells me my lost soul is found

o_O

There's a poll there Dan, ya gotta go for it.