90s guitar college rock indie... The 80s are back now so lets hope this comes next?

I have totally immersed myself in this kind of stuff... specifically The Swirlies, Polvo, Unwound, (early) Lilys, Chavez, 18th Dye, Unrest, Spinanes, Duster, Uncle Wiggly, Multiple Cat, Bedhead, 12 Rods, Red Red Meat, Seam, Hum, Shudder To Think, Smart Went Crazy, etc.

Guitar + 1990s = Love. Anyone have any other suggestions? I have no desire to stop digging into this era and this sound.

this stuff never went away for me. still sounds great. i like to think of this as the 'coloured vinyl' era

guvner.

i know a friend of mine was seeing VERSUS tonight.

^actually jealous

been listening the fuck out of versus lately. also velocity girl (and to a lesser extent, tsunami)

the spinanes "den trawler" is a gift from the angles 2 an undeserving humanity imo

real ramona iirc

AH yes I am excited to see Versus open up for Polvo FOR FREE in NYC this summer. And yeah I've been meaning to get some Velocity Girl...

Has anyone heard of the band Kudgel? A big influence/friends of The Swirlies?

Also whats with The Swirlies not getting the attention and credit they deserve? They are NOT just a shoegaze band. Nobody else has as much variety as they do in the shoegaze scene. They're my favorite. Clearly.

i think i have some cudgel tracks somewhere. i loved swirlies back in the day but went off em fairly heavily after blonder tongue

Wait...nevermind Versus is not opening up. I got confused. They open up for Superchunk. Also for free. I'm no less happy about that.

But They Spent Their Wild Days... is wonderful. That came after. Its a little bit more "out there." Only a little though.

I have a 7" and a CD by The Cudgels, but don't know Kudgel.

they were chimp rock

Of the initial list of bands Bedhead, Swirlies, Unrest & Unwound get lots of love from me. Most of the rest I'm not that big a fan of. I like Versus tho.

Archers Of Loaf: Vee Vee
Anything by Pavement, obviously.
Th' Faith Healers: Imaginary Friend

Two bands that are a little more obscure but worth searching out:
Sammy: Tales of Great Neck Glory

The Glands: Double Thriller and of course, the legendary self-titled record from 2000.

Get yrself some Grifters and dig out the Grifters thread on here where Tripp turned up.

Curious absence of GBV on here. Less curious absence of Trumans Water, but still worth fixing.

http://cd04.static.jango.com/images/pic200/drP000/P097/p09712k675y_lg.jpg
^^^^^ would love if these guys released a posthumous live album from BITD, or even a new record.

Is that Madder Rose?

yes

Yeah I loved them. Saw them at Reading festival once. 1st 2 albums a lot better than the later ones but they were all decent.

Come - Eleven: Eleven

the ropers and lorelei albums are masterpieces. lorelei in particular still sounds fresh

Prefer Ropers singles to album. Lorelei too tbh, stuff like Float My Bed.

I felt like bands like Guided By Voices and Pavement, while I LOVE them, were a bit more obvious so I didn't mention them.

Oh and Mr. Poo if you like Bedhead I'd be a little surprised if you didn't also like Duster. I'd RIYL one if you like the other.

Further?

K I'll check them out, I've never heard of them.

Saw the New Year earlier this year, the nu-Bedhead band.

Also, anyone heard of "Blumfeld"? They are like the German answer to Pavement.

Looked up Duster and their albums are from late 90s which is about the time I stopped making an effort to keep up with indie rock, so I guess that's why I've never heard of them. Not that I stopped listening to indie rock completely.

Yeah the New Year is good but they don't have that same subtly... or something... that set Bedhead apart. Similar though.About Duster I guess that'll do it, they were a late 90s act. I'm still meaning to pick up their album that came out in I think 2000?

Yeah I loved them. Saw them at Reading festival once. 1st 2 albums a lot better than the later ones but they were all decent.

i've come to regard their final LP as their best, though i realise my love for this band goes deep enough to preclude clear-headed decisions

the blumfeld album is decent. drassen auf kaution is a really good single

I missed it if these were mentioned but what about Superchunk or Archers of Loaf? Both two of my all time favorites.

I have a big pile of Superchunk CDs but never got into AoL.

Also tons of AmRep stuff but that might be a bit on the heavy side for this thread.

Really? Archers are just . . . i don't know maybe it's one of those time and place things for me but I was a freshman in college when I discovered Icky Mettle and it just blew my mind. It's still one of my all time favorite albums. Also, they were just great live.

Are the 3D's too obvious a suggestion?

What's the UK equivalent of this? I can only think of stuff like Bivouac and Cable at the moment.

lol midway still

I was going to put Ned's & Senseless Things...

It would be the Delgados and all that.

they're probably a bit later than most of the stuff here

JACOB'S MOUSE they were awesome

First of all... thanks for all of the suggestions so far!!

And yeah Fox, Superchunk and Archers of Loaf are both fantastic.

i saw the archers of loaf/small23 double bill in leeds (the duchess of york pub : rip).
i loved it, but not sure sure the people i took with me (wife and friend) were too into it.
been years since i heard the small23 album...
oh, is that an urge to go a digging in the archives i feel on the rise.

Jacob's Mouse did a mean Britisher Amrep thing but as far as my record collection is concerned the UK didn't really get onto US-style college rocking until '95 onwards: Urusei Yatsura, early Delgados, Ligament, Spare Snare... uh, possibly some bands not on Che as well (Magoo, Scarfo, Pure Morning?)

(although what I might really mean by this is that I didn't really start buying 7"s until '95 onwards)

AoL! Oh man, yes yes yes. I also find it curious that GBV ain't mentioned. Get yourself B000.

My answer to everything: Brainiac. Hah.

Urusei Yatsura was ok.

Urusei dudes have got a new band called Project A-Ko. Their album sounds EXACTLY like Pavement. Not a little bit like UY did, but EXACTLY

I quite like Blumfeld but after the mid-90s they sounded more like George Michael than anything you'd call indie - not a dis per se, it was pretty cool but an acquired taste

dis per se - thought this was some sort of word art on first reading

Heh, nice

tripmaster monkey had a few good tracks

Now there's a name I never got past.

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All records.

JACOB'S MOUSE they were awesome
They did come to mind actually after I posted!

I loved Urusei Yatsura

BRAINIAC yes they were great

that band Wussy is the dude from Ass Ponys, so that's something

don't forget, wussy are playing tonight with 90's guitar hero chris brokaw.

ahem... i think yzall mean 3ra1n1ac, who absolutely ruled.

Who is Chris Brokaw? I saw him this year, at the aforementioned New Year show, and to me it was just some dude with an acoustic, not v memorable at all. Do I need to be schooled?

agree with whoever said this stuff never went away. so many great bands.

chris brokaw was in come, who are kind of a tough listen imo.

He was also in Codeine too.

chris was in come and codeine. two great 90's bands. lots of people owe him money for ripping off codeine so much.

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come are one of my top ten fave bands of the 90's. i love everything they did.

First album is top ten 90's for me too.

AH right yeah obv I know Come & Codeine, but not to the extent I'd know who was in the bands. Apart from Thalia in the former's case.

As per the Colonel's post there, love what he got up to in the 90s but I don't think yr expected to give the same love to his solo 'work'

xp

gotta give a shout-out to this album again, cuz i love it so:

Space Needle - The Moray Eels Eats The Space Needle

Truly were a great pop band, as was Creep. what about Pond?

Glad to see Codeine getting props. My "90s" rock list:

Slint (end of 80s/early of 90s), Rodan, June of 44, Low, Codeine, Acetone, Silver Jews, Radar Bros.

i love this stuff, but i'm not sure i want a resurgence? maybe i do. my band, whenever we get a little press, is referred to as mid-90s-inspired indie/college guitar rock, which makes me cringe, but what the hell. I like Pavement/Guided By Voices/Built To Spill ... has anyone mentioned the first Butterglory album? Eh?

i've got that self-titled glands record on right now. such a minor classic.

I'm not sure I'm ready for a resurgence either - on the other hand I'd vastly prefer it if modern "indie" bands sounded like this that whatever the hell current UK "indie" is try to achieve </old man>

there is already a pretty big amrep/touch&go thing going on right now.

anyway, these threads are good too:

Forgotten 90's alternative rock masterpieces WANTED

Criminially Underappreciated 90's Guitar Bands

overlooked 90's groups

Its not so much necessarily a specific genre that I want to see reemerge... its just that popular music right now is very 80s... that is there is a whole style over substance thing happening. I'm not saying I think artists like Bat For Lashes is "bad," I just feel like theres more of a persona that is being marketed before anyone actually hears any music. Its part of this blog culture where we have to be obsessed with every move an artist makes no matter how insignificant (all TMZ style), and with downloading being so easy there is all of this high consumption and in the end its just songs/an image- and then its on to the next artist next week.

So basically I have just really been gravitating to a time where bands were making cohesive no-nonsense albums where the music was the focus. Shouldn't that always be the case?

Wait that was bad wording...."specific genre that I want to see reemerge" I really just meant 90s resurgence

wait, what the hell is Multiple Cat? i guess i could just look it up.

Haha yeah they're good. the song "Sad, Sad, Sad" is really musically sunny and catchy. Sound like Pavement a bit.

Also, like I said GBV are a given. No worries.

Interesting, not great, and very forgotton band from this era is Vodka. Jenny Wade on distinctive vocals, a couple of indie rock dudes on guitar, and an idiot journalist on drums. About four very nice songs on their album She's My Dream, and they don't sound like everybody else.

Velocity Girl kind of went under in this thread so I just wanna say that the 6-track EP is so so great esp. if u like Unrest as the OP said.

Hey dlp I was just reading your posts about 18th Dye. People should talk about them more.

I got out a box of old CD's the other day and put on Wattle & Daub by the Strapping Fieldhands. It's fantastic! I wondered why I really wasn't into it at the time.

for me this is indie rock, fuck that fleet foxes shit

here i go ~ out the door ~ of my apartment before ~ i miss my train and there is no way that is happening

fieldhands rule!!!!!

This Is The Strapping Fieldhands Thread Cuz I'm Drinking Beers And Feeling Nostalgic

Did Discus ever come out on CD? I think Boo Hoo Hoo was my favorite thing of theirs.

they deserve a boxed set. if my dopey brother can get a 4 disc career overview, then the friggin' fieldhands deserve one for sure.

Just downloaded a Discus rip from some blogspot. Hadn't heard it in a while. Damn, better than I remembered even.

Wow I really like Space Needle.

AH yes I am excited to see Versus open up for Polvo FOR FREE in NYC this summer.

!!!

did not know about this but now i'm excited too.

Or at least the excerpt I heard of "Before I Lose My Stlye"... to early to call maybe?

Yeah though I corrected myself... Versus instead opens for Superchunk for free Polvo has their own free show with Obits opening. Going to both of them no question still.

Space Needle are the coolest! were the coolest.

Heres the schedule for South Street Seaport. If you are in NYC check out the shows relevant to this thread at least.

http://www.ohmyrockness.com/VenueDetail.cfm?VenueID=189

Yeah they are all free.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Qj2_OJsJQ

About Space Needle... I'm leaning towards Voyager. What do you think Mr. seward?

i love their 2nd album best but probably only cuz i heard it first and didn't hear the first album until years later. both worth owning though. and there was a reissue not too long ago that might just have both albums together.

I think I saw that it doesn't look like it includes all of both albums. Thanks though I will look into them further!

timely!!!

this is my show for viva radio tomorrow. all 10"s (until I ran out) (then I found a couple more)

http://deadheatnyc.com/tracks.DH37.mp3

Deadheat No. 37 [6/20/09]
Tiger Trap - Sour Grass
The Breeders - The Freed Pig
Archers of Loaf - Lowest Part Is Free!
Home - Mastermen
Liars - Grown Men Don't Fall in the River Just Like That
Rollerskate Skinny - Cushy Daughter
Further - Quiet Riot Girl
Strapping Fieldhands - Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
Pavement - Debris Slide
Grifters - Whatever Happened to Felix Cole?
Mirrors - We'll See
Moviola - Out to Graze
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - My Mysterious Death
Guided by Voices - Buzzards and Dreadful Crows
Modest Mouse - Convenient Parking
Teengenerate - Dressed in Black
Man or Astroman? - The Vortex Beyond
Flux of Pink Indians - Tube Disaster (JD Twitch Edit)
The Clash - Bankrobber/Bankrobber Dub

ack. bad url

http://deadheatnyc.com/tracks/DH37.mp3

Sort of interested in "That Dog" as well... any thoughts anyone?

Oh phew was about to say. Is there a way to view who is playing when on the link?

Oh
Its in order. Duh.

Thanks this is great!

viva has kind of a weird interface so i put the shows in the own server but it will be here tomorrow at noon and here in the archive

xpost- rad glad you liked

in the own server

on my own server

drunk

totally going to that NY polvo show btw. they were pretty sweet last year at bowery ballroom. also opening band the Obits has members of 90s guitar college rock indie bands ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT and EDSEL

that dog was ok. apparently anna waronker now has a rock opera with charlotte caffey.

"Obits has members of 90s guitar college rock indie bands ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT and EDSEL"

Rick Froberg of the Obits was actually in Drive Like Jehu, a band featuring a member of Rocket from the Crypt --> John Reis.
Both these guys were also in the band Pitchfork (well before the website) who were/are truly under appreciated.

ah right I actually liked Jehu better. ROMEPLOWS

never heard pitchfork should investigate!

Jehu/Pitchfork were major obsessions - still pull those out regularly
The Obits stuff, at least live, was pretty amazing too.

Oh good! I didn't know much about Obits but now I'm looking forward to seeing what they're about.

Also, I'm really excited to get that solo Seana Carmody album. Any Swirlies fans who know whether its good? It sounds good.

Another good band from that era: Eleventh Dream Day. Especially the "Lived To Tell" album, killer.

Let's not forget that Froberg and Reis had a band in the '00s, Hot Snakes, who at times were as good as any of their other bands (at least live, where they just steamrolled relentlessly, just so so good).

heh heh, i told you -- this is the latest write up of my band in the local alt-weekly: "we caught the Magic Mice in the main room at Bar Standard, proving that what used to be called college rock back in the '90s still works in this millennium" HMMM. at this rate, we'll be as big as Kudgel in no time.

I was really crazy about this album by Duster back in the day. Cool to see them mentioned here as I never knew anyone else who liked them. I bought one of their other records as well, but it wasn't nearly as good.

this thread is a really intense time tunnel for me

I saw the Paper Chase last night - if you dug the Chicago/Louisville guitar rock (Rodan, Slint) then you should catch their tour because they brought that vibe

I just lost a bet with myself that J0hn D's post would rep for WCKR SPGT

Duster is really great, if you are into that sort of thing. So far I only have Stratosphere and I'm in love with it.

listening to an old Abilene record...so good

Mr. or Mrs. dmr... person who posted as dmr... please assist me. You posted your radio show, and I love Further. Can you send me any of their stuff? Its way out of print, and I'd love to sample more than just this one track before I can spend the money on a rare copy of one of their albums.

Hope you check back and let me know! Also if anyone else knows!

OH, and I love these kind of low-fi GBVish stuff. Can you recommend anymore or the best albums belonging to the more obscure bands in the mix? I'm already familiar with the bigger names. Thanks! Again that goes for anyone who happens to call themselves experts on this stuff.

dmr!!!

i have two further albums to hand (super griptape and sometimes chimes). if nobody else posts em before this evening i'll load em up for you

Thanks so much! They any good?

i like griptape quite a bit, the other i don't know so well but i don't remember loving it

you may also be interested in the summer hits, they're related.. check out their beaches and canyons comp

is there a youtube thread of this stuff? i seem to remember one

the only Further I have is the Grimes Golden EP (which is great) but I don't have any more of it ripped from the vinyl. aside from Quiet Riot Grrl the tracks Teenage Soul and California Bummer are awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyJubJYkH0g

the best albums belonging to the more obscure bands in the mix?

dunno which ones you consider obscure but I'd go for Strapping Fieldhands - Discus, Wattle & Daub, In the Pineys ... Home - IX, X, XI (Elf: Gulfborewaltz) ... Grifters - One Sock Missing, Crapping You Negative, Eureka EP, Ain't My Lookout ... TJSA - Bait and Switch, Straight to Video

Yeah Grifters... one of those bands I haven't quite dived into yet... but I've got my eye on One Sock Missing used at the record store next door to my place for 4.99. Thats the best thing about this era and these sort of unknown bands... they didn't get enough press in the 90s originally, so all of their albums are dirt cheap used. I'll check out all of those recommendations though thanks!

And c.c. I'll look into The Summer Hits (?) also, I'm open to anything like this.

Also (dmr) is Quiet Riot Grrl off of that EP you mentioned?

Another contributing factor was the 90s birthed so many little record labels that there is tons of material released by these little guys by obscure little acts. And nobody in this town wants these cheap albums but me! Perfect.

Will there be a nostalgic reappraisal of 89-91 over-compressed jangly power-pop? If so, I'm looking forward to the new Judybats & Material Issue.

cuz, you know, girls w/ horn-rim spectacles & dudes w/ wild hair & patterned button-downs bottoned all the way up could really use a comeback (sorry for the lame-o link, but couldn't find this brilliant song on YT for some reason?)

for me this is indie rock, fuck that fleet foxes shit

― latebloomer, Saturday, June 20, 2009 2:10 AM (2 weeks ago)

otfm!

not that it was ever the world's most precise term but it is still annoying to me to hear folks use "indie rock" to describe like, arcade fire.

^^ first world problems

Evan, try the very, very GbVesque Capstan Shafts. there's a lot of it, all of it quite good, if somewhat samey.

that (there even is a) Further vid is really blowing my mind. used to follow the Bros. Rademaker religiously, from project to project, beginning with (ugh) Shadowland. Griptape is just juvenile Dino Jr/seBADoh worship, not too essential. Sometimes Chimes is a fascinating mess that's twice as much album as it should be. but you need Grimes Golden as well as the final Further album, Next Time West Coast, if only for the Primal Scream cover. and that Summer Hits comp is dope. i believe i have everything but the 7"s ripped, if you're having trouble finding these.

The Grimes Golden EP was pretty swank, would definitely recommend that you hunt that fucker down.

further - super griptape lp

http://rapidshare.com/files/252560100/Super_Griptape_L.zip.html

is Quiet Riot Grrl off of that EP you mentioned?

yeah all three of those tracks are on the 10"

this one

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/f42919bb17d15f511307ebf891ab68f9/9654.jpg

er

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/f42919bb17d15f511307ebf891ab68f9/9654.jpg

oh forget it it looks like an apple

This one:
http://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/2007/09/further-grimes-golden-ep-1994.html

further - sometimes chimes lp

http://rapidshare.com/files/252619987/Sometimes_Chimes_LP.zip.html

further! XD

wow.

I like seam's first album and ep a LOT. also codeine, pitchblende and number girl.

In 92 I found a ad for Ajax records, I think it was in the back of Spin. Once that first catalog came, I started buying whatever records sounded interesting. I owe my musical education to whom ever it was that ran Ajax. I treated those catalogs as gold. I wish I had still had them.
Search: The Cannanes, Peter Jefferies, The Dead C, David Kilgour, The Renderers.

I <3 the Cannanes (and those other people, but especially the Cannanes)

That Judybats video was hilarious!

Thanks everybody, c.c., for posting the links. I'll definitely pick up any of these albums if I stumble across them.

Keep the recommendations coming!

I like Seam, a band RIYL Sunny Day Real Estate for sure, and I've been interested in Pitchblende.
I discovered them when I found out they are friends with The Swirlies (my favorite).

Ah yes I've been looking for Arty Barbeque by the Cannanes.

That's a great album, one of their best definitely

Oh my god, yes, Ajax catalogs were big for me too. Not just ajax label releases, but the stuff they distributed and their year-end lists, etc. Like ILM only in 1994.

Speaking of Seam... the second Bitch Magnet album, Ben-Hur, is pretty great. I just picked that up a few months ago after not hearing it for many years. Still pretty great. Their earlier material not so much, but Ben-Hur is great. Also Bastro's Sing the Troubled Beast is a good 'un.

Ben Hur is the third one isn't it? After Star Booty (which is okayish) and Umber (which is fucking awesome).

Yeah, it's the third one. You can get Star Booty and Umber on the same disc--some of it is okay but I think Ben Hur destroys both. That's the album David Grubbs joined the band on... I don't know that it's Grubbs specifically that makes it better, though it does benefit from having a second guitar which makes all the songs a little more epic.

main seam dude had a band called "ee" that a friend of mine was in...similar vein...were weirdly on asian man records

Asian man records... only band on that label that I've pursued was Polysics. They aren't too special nowadays but albums "Hey! Bob! My Friend!" and "Neu" are both great! Hey Bob is still in print (?) or available but Neu is not. Too bad, cause Neu is a little better. Its a little heavier and just so great. Not 90s though...

I'm looking forward to the new Judybats

Oh hell I'd buy a new Judybats record for sure. They made a lot of bad records after Native Son but for "Convalescing in Spain" alone I'd give them chance after chance after chance.

Inspired by the top of this thread I'm listening to The Multiple Cat ("Territory" Shall Mean The Universe) right now. Kind of great, actually -- the guitar sounds like Versus, the singing like Pavement. But somehow it sounds more like Murmur than it does like either of these (or maybe it's just this one song, "Kitty Kan't Figure It Out," where the bass sounds like Murmur.

Whoa, unexpected naive keyboard solo.

And something about "North?" feels like a kind of Iowa indie rock "Lamb Lies Down on Broadway." I really think some of you guys should listen to this record and describe it better than I can, OK?

i have that multiple cat album somewhere, i recall it being decent but nothing mindblowing, i should reassess..

Yes, Ajax records!!! I remember them selling and distributing a lot of wonderful noisy stuff from New Zealand. Everyone knows the Dead C, but more people should hear the Terminals too. They've got that basement Velvet Underground drone down perfectly. The singer, Peter Stapleton, is one of the more distinctive vocalists out there. I also remember picking up one of the first Cannanes releases from then. I still have it and it's great.

No it isn't mind-blowing, Its just catchy and fresh the whole way through. I have that Multiple Cat album and it really is wonderful. As I have mentioned somewhere earlier the song "Sad, Sad, Sad" is just so breezy and fun, and yeah "North?" is a nice slow burning song. My favorite though besides "Sad, Sad, Sad" is definitely "My Planet" for the part in the song where he goes "...now!" as the distortion is turned on- always makes me punch the air above my head.

imo the cannanes are one of the most underrated groups of all time - an extensive catalogue with very very few weak points, particularly during the 90s..

I'm really interested in getting some Cannanes material... not really easy to find everything though. Physical copies that is.

They've been on my list for awhile.

Just to say, this is my current favourite ILM thread. Having purchased records by Red Red Meat, The Multiple Cat and Space Needle off the back of it (all of which I love and had never heard before) I'm really digging the recommendations.

Keep up the good work!

anyone dig raymond brake? poor man's polvo to be sure but that has its charms sometimes.

i second or third the Ajax catalog influence - i still have some in a box somewhere. discovered so many key bands and generated a lengthy wish list because of that distro.

may i mention the spinanes if they weren't already? manos and those early 7" are as good as it gets for me, along with seam and tsunami. and very jealous to the poster who saw versus a few weeks ago.

Barnaby: I'm so glad you are benefitting from this thread just as I am and was intending to upon creation! I've really been excited to talk about great bands that not many people are discussing these days.

Haven't heard Raymond Brake, but I love Polvo!... and if early Trail of Dead material is poor man's Unwound and I love all of that, then I am excited to hear poor man's Polvo for sure. Weird reasoning but whatever.

And yeah Spinanes have been mentioned. Great band! I've been meaning to pick up "Strand" when I find a copy. I have "Manos" and "Arches and Aisles" already. Both are great.

Oh and sknybrg will you be near NYC by any chance next Friday the 17th? Do you like Superchunk? Versus and Superchunk will be playing a free show together at South Street Seaport at 6:00pm.

Re the original question: No, let's hope it doesn't.

Fair enough?

Best almost-bill I saw in the 90s: Polvo/Drive Like Jehu/Superchunk in Boulder, CO. Polvo's van broke down or something, so they didn't show (which now really bums me out, but at the time I had not heard anything). Essentially, I had bought Foolish about a week before this show and then, about 2 days before it, had read a review of Yank Crime in Option Magazine essentially saying it was the greatest guitar record of the year (dates me, huh?). So, I went out and immediately bought it and was just blown away. I went back to buy the first Jehu record and the guy at the store just said "You know they are playing here, right?" Well, I did then. I have never been the same since that show. Gave Superchunk a big kick in the ass as well (I would not have wanted to go on after that band), they were way better on that tour than the other times I saw them. But shit, it was all about Drive Like Jehu. A group of people actually left the show chanting their name after their set, not to return for Superchunk!

just listened to this:

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/270/273052.jpg

for real underrated classic of the waning daze of the Am Rep empire...such a great band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZdimaf-YsE

Even though I came around to her Unicorn stuff, I'm so sad she didn't keep putting out stuff like that!

"will you be near NYC by any chance next Friday the 17th? Do you like Superchunk? Versus and Superchunk will be playing a free show together at South Street Seaport at 6:00pm"

damn - i'm on the wrong coast...but i'll spread the word to my nyc friends. thanks for the info, evan!
i was a fairly big superchunk fan and bought a lot of the merge catalog on sight for awhile. may need to go find those records.

"it was all about Drive Like Jehu"

yessir! i think i recall that option article and was lucky enough to catch jehu when they played in austin - summer of '94. love love love that band

Yesterday I went shopping and I was pleasantly surprised that not only music, but clothing fashion is also moving slowly away from the 80s and into the 90's. More depression and testosterone, less glam and gayness.

great, sign me the fuck up.

right on

No problem sknybrg! Sorry you can't make it.

i've been listening to a lot of jawbox and polvo lately. i don't think jawbox have been mentioned here at all yet.

True.. they have not! Shame. I'm also interested in that Burning Airlines project.

Jawbox were great. I'm still searching for a (used) copy of For Your Own Special Sweetheart, but that's really hard to find over here in The Netherlands (since it's OOP). I have their last selftitled album which I think totally rules.

True.. they have not! Shame. I'm also interested in that Burning Airlines project.

I really really liked (and still do!) the first one Mission: Control!. Never really got into Identikit, thought maybe its due a revisit.

Back when I was a concert promoter I booked Burning Airlines to play on Sept. 11 2001. I've still got the ticket stub somewhere... the crazy thing is they played and a pretty good amount of kids still came out to see the show! (to add to the weirdness, I also had Explosions in the Sky booked for later in the week, but they canceled out of good taste.)

Creepy!

I was a gonna say late Government Issue too. You was a good album in this mode.

Idendikit is underrated IMO

Reviving the thread to thank all of those who helped me discover Further (dmr thats you). The "Grimes Golden" EP is one of my favorite discoveries of the year.

Now I'm going to focus on finding some of that Cannanes material!

Oh, and I recently got myself "Across The Room and Into Your Lap" by Uncle Wiggly and its so fantastic. Recommended.

if there's any cannanes stuff you can't find or buy directly from them, let me know as i have all of it

Does anyone have a copy of Rex's "C" that they would be willing to, uh, "lend" me? eMusic doesn't have it and it's positively un-googleable.

I used to have a copy but no longer, sorry. Amazon.co.uk has it if you are in the UK -- here

Ajax Records!!!

The head honcho used to post on here. He's a top bloke.Last I heard he was riding the Ajax chopper out to the Merge do in North Carolina.

Versus
Shudder To Think
GBV
Grifters
Archers
Polvo
Codeine
Rodan
Bitch Magnet
Seam
Lilys
Slint

All the above mentioned, applauded and seconded.

I've missed loads, I know

Didjits - hey Judester, or was that 80s?

Swell - too many days without thinking

red house painters
american music club for the more maudlin moments

Versus reformed??!!!Fontaine Toups?

Who has seized the baton?
Pissed Jeans, Japandroids, Danananananananananananananananananananann.....aykroyd - what a stupid fucking name

for me this is indie rock, fuck that fleet foxes shit

― latebloomer, Saturday, June 20, 2009 2:10 AM (2 weeks ago)

otfm!

thirded

I really like the Japandroids. Saw them recently and they were very loud but/and very good.

And yeah "Too Many Days Without Thinking" by Swell is also one of my favorite 90s albums!

Hey electricsound, is there some secret way to buy tangible Cannanes material without spending loads? I happened to find and purchase "Short Poppy Syndrome" from an ignorant source for cheap (relative to amazon going prices).

hmm good q.. i'd been lucky to pick it all up either s/hand or from the band over the years.

i'm actually really surprised that their albums are so scarce. it probably doesn't help that most of their former labels are no more.

i can certainly hook you up with copies of anything you can't find at all

there's a $9 copy of 'arty barbeque' on amazon.. their best album imo

Great! Thanks! Do you mean physical copies?

Yeah Arty Barbeque has been on the top of my list so I might go for it.

sure, i can do cdrs

The Grifters were awesome one of my favorites. Crappin you Negative and Ain't My Lookout are the two good starting points. Red Red Meat's Jimmie wine Majestic is also fine.

Girls Against Boys - great sound, two basses w/some synth at points - Cruise Yourself I think is the best album.

Tar - if you like Jawbox, check these guys out. They had a good sound, maybe not as strong song writers compared to some other bands mentioned - Toast or Jackson are both pretty good.

Engine Kid - these guys had a sound a bit ahead of the curve as they would go from kind of mellow to near metal at points - Angel Wings is really good.

Silkworm - I really like the early albums way better than later on - In the West and Libertine are my recommendations from them.

Urge Overkill - they went from very hip to losers in like a summer for indie rock hipsters, but I really can still rep for their best stuff (which is probably the first one on the majors).

Mule - pretty obscure I suppose, but I thought they rawked the couple of times I saw them live. They have a heavy punk blues thing going on with some shouty beefheartian vocals. If you like the JSBX, you probably wouldn't mind them.

Braniac - very manic on record but that was really awesome to see live. I have to be in the mood for them, but they were unique.

New Bomb Turks - Destroy Oh Boy -- Their later records never did anything for me, but I thought this one was some good punk garage rock and kind of funny at times.

Six Finger Satillite - killer live band and Severe Exposure and Law of Ruins both have held up well as records.

Alot of the stuff mentioned here is the more indie pop stuff, but I grew up in the midwest so many of these bands were things I saw and got into.

Grifters is the best band in the world. Check out the mixes I made: use the search thread function for Grifters POX (and I have copies of those mixes if no one objects to me posting the link)

CaptainLorax you've really wanted some feedback on those for awhile now, huh.

Thanks for all of the recommendations earlnash! I love Grifters, Silkworm, Brainiac.

I realized I miss Codeine, I used to make fun of that sound and I sold the two Codeine albums I had.

eavn i love duster. do you listen to their new project, helvetia? not as good but enjoyable.

err, evan

Seconding Arty Barbecue love, my favourite Cannanes album as well.

I've managed to pick up quite a few Cannanes albums fairly cheaply over the years, didn't know they were hard to find nowadays.

No cutty I haven't checked out helvetia, definitely will right now.

Mule - pretty obscure I suppose, but I thought they rawked the couple of times I saw them live. They have a heavy punk blues thing going on with some shouty beefheartian vocals. If you like the JSBX, you probably wouldn't mind them.

Mule was fucking great...but actually I would even more recommend ex-Mule front dude PW Long's two albums on touch & go, with his next band P.W. Long and Reelfoot

here's the songs that were on my grifters mixes:
part 1
part 2

sample song #1 / for those who never heard grifters
one of the darker/harder songs. still very much indie

sample song #2
this one also sung by Dave. But Scott was just as good of a singer

well maybe not

evan, early cannanes cd for cheap, check it out

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300392487196

Thanks! I'm going for it!

Are there any new bands that sound like this?

The new Kate Nash single, improbably enough, sounds like Breeders/PJ harvey by way of Britpop.

I think Real Estate have this kind of vibe.

beach fossils recent 7" possibly fits too

I'm waiting for the next wave of bands to worship June of 44, Slowdive, Swervedriver, Guided By Voices (musically, not just for the sake of lo-fi), Duster, Lilys, etc. (and not look in the mirror so often; cut down on the hipness).

Seriously... fuck mirrors. And enough violins and glockenspiels (sp). Enough of the vocal reverb, and will somebody please just turn up the distortion already? And enough of these acclaimed albums full of songs that sound like Christmas music.

Regarding "fuck mirrors," I love when Hum played on 120 Minutes and the dude was wearing cutoff jean shorts.

As long as Hum counts for this, I'd like to submit the following...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-g8MBq7XW14/SZOqwlmasnI/AAAAAAAAACo/4xNQUP_SSCM/s400/Hum_-_Downward_Is_Heavenward.JPG

Hey.. I just noticed this question was sort of asked earlier in the thread.. Pissed Jeans & Japandroids are both great choices!

xpost

I love that Hum album!

I listened to June of 44's Engine Takes to the Water a few months ago, for the first time in a long time. I thought it was awesome when it first came out, but 15 years later it's really a chore to get through.

I've been listening to Four Great Points and I like it more than ever.

I haven't listened to that one in a long time either... and to be fair, even back in the day Engine was the worst of all their albums.

The 80s were so good nothing else needs to come back. But it's important to keep to the first half of the 80s and not start messing with musical trends from the second half.

Does this count?

listening to strangers from the universe by thinking fellers union right now...so good!

Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONslnArciE0&feature=player_embedded#

Not exactly the thread topic, but 90s coming back none the less...

Fuck, why did I just do that to my own lovely thread...

self-pwn ;(

Man, "The Operation" on Strangers From the Universe is such an incredible song. What a wonderfully bizarre band. Rode many lines as a band that are very difficult to ride while still managing to rock tremendously.

have let's wrestle been mentioned? they sound pretty 90s imo

Man, "The Operation" on Strangers From the Universe is such an incredible song. What a wonderfully bizarre band. Rode many lines as a band that are very difficult to ride while still managing to rock tremendously.

― grandavis, Wednesday, February 17, 2010 6:27 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah they are really odd (as advertised)...like they seem like they will just chase any idea that sounds good to them...like at any point on the album they sound like about 5 different bands, but yet very distinctive personality.

sometimes Pere Ubu circa Raygun Suitcase reminds me a bit of Odd Fellers

Yeah, distinct is maybe the simplest way to describe them. Play them in any room and almost everyone will go "what is this?" Really underappreciated but I guess the oddness goes a long way towards that. The guitars though!

Pere Ubu in some ways sure. For reason I could almost describe them as a mix of the off-kilter aspects of Polvo with "Key Lime Pie" era Camper Van Beethoven.

<3 TFUL282. The Operation is so killr

you know what record SMOKES?

http://prod-assets.mog.com/amg/pop/cov200/dre500/e506/e506443223h.jpg

thrill jockey's token tuff guys! (well them and gaunt)

Listening to The Multiple Cat again! "Der Launch" ist rad.

I think I'm saving Multiple Cat until spring rolls around.

Recently grabbed a nice EP by Crowsdell. Also Capsize 7 album and Pest 5000 album. The great thing about forgotten 90s gems is that I dig them all out of the clearance bin at the record store I work at for next to nothing.

My god, I love Kleenex Girl Wonder.

(Pest 5000 had an ALBUM? How is it? I know only their Harriet comp appearance.)

Multiple Cat! Around 2004 or so I was trying to assemble a band in Ann Arbor & had put up some "musicians wanted" fliers around town & one of the guys who responded claimed to have been in Multiple Cat, who I had never heard of at the time (& still haven't actually heard). Unfortunately the band imploded before we had a chance to meet with the guy, but he did seem really nice.

The Pest 5000 album is called "interbang" and it was pretty good on one casual listen through. I need to hear it again.

Thats a cool story, It'd be fun to jam with one of the Multiple Cat guys!

Multiple Cat was pretty cool from what I remember, but I don't remember much.

I'm first time listening to Motorpsycho
from wiki: Motorpsycho is a band from Trondheim, Norway. Their music can generally be defined as psychedelic rock, but they also mix in elements from metal, jazz, rock, pop and many other musical styles

anyone rep for this band?

Nvm, I ILX searched for them and plenty of people rep. One of the few 90's bands still putting out good music today

Cool man I'll check it out.

Ok so recent finds:

Versus - Let's Electrify!
The Aislers Set - The Last Match (2000 but close enough to 90s)
Jale - Dreamcake
Spent - Songs of Rebellion and Drinking
Eggs - Bruiser
Migala - Arde
That Dog - Totally Crushed Out!
The Spells - The Age of Backwards E.P.
The Amps - Pacer
Libraness - Yesterday and Tomorrow's Shells
Moose - ...xyz

As mentioned above,

Capsize 7 - Mephisto
Pest 5000 - Interabang
Crowsdell - The End of Summer E.P.

if Pavement: America

i recommend

Number Girl: Japan

@ Captain Lorax (and Evan): I can definitely rep for Motorpsycho! They're close to being my favorite band ever. Seen them live numerous times (in fact, I'm going to see them live again on may 27th in Vera, Groningen), every time great. Their earliest stuff is quite noisy metal, from 1994 and onwards they mutated into a more psychedelic indierockband, resulting in 4 masterpieces: Timothy's Monster (1995), Blissard (1996), Angels And Daemons At Play (1997) and Trust Us (1998). The early 2000's were their popfase, from 2006 on they're back to psychedelic rock. Their new album Heavy Metal Fruit, released in january of this year, is pretty great too.

So the new Pains of Being Pure at Heart song sounds just like the Smashing Pumpkins, and they're a heavy enough indie band at this point to help carry others through, so do you think I may get my (thread title) wish?

Fuck mirrors! Time for some messy voice guidance and grifting. Any new bands that anybody can recommend (or old bands) that sound like "Shadow" by Bailter Space? Or "Onion Flower" by Medicine?

Anybody?

OK guys jokes over you can all stop ignoring me (about 95%) on every thread. :)

I like "Belong," but I've either chosen to ignore its Smashing Pumpkin-isms or haven't noticed them altogether. You know, there were other bands in the 90s who played guitars.

Do I ever know it. 90s bands that play guitar are my favorite type of music. Though it has that SP sound to the crunchier parts. Also reminds me of Hum. I'm not just drawing this line because it was produced by the same person who did some SP records.

In reference to the thread title: I fucking hope so. The 80's revival has lasted longer than the actual 80's at this stage.

Thats true, sadly. Some of us are hopelessly nostalgic for periods besides the 80s, thank you.

God the 90s are barely cold in the ground, lets not rush to eulogise just yet.

(Superchunk and Archers of Loaf forever tho man)

<3

both are touring this year tho!

Aw no fair! LOL maybe I should make my trip over whenever they're playing haha.

FWIW, I'm looking forward to the next Eleventh Dream Day album

got my tix for eleventh dream day/come in april (!)

actually, superchunk are playing japan in a week or so if that's easier . . .

The Come show in Brooklyn?

I need to go but I can't figure out if I can until maybe Monday arrggghhh.

If theyre playing in Japan they could blummin well just keep going and come here, too, humf. I havent seen them live since the 90s geez.

The Come show in Brooklyn?

indeed

With all the reunions of 90s greats recently its looking pretty good for a resurgence in nice, messy, straightforward rock again.

I need to make it to that show.

i dunno, i heard you skipped the !!! show so they were probably like, if trayce's not rocking out then what's the point

I only skipped it cause I couldnt afford it! I missed Arial Pink that night too! It was a night of great sadness.

the Swirlies, Polvo, Unwound, (early) Lilys, Chavez, 18th Dye, Unrest, Spinanes, Duster, Uncle Wiggly, Multiple Cat, Bedhead, 12 Rods, Red Red Meat, Seam, Hum, Shudder To Think, Smart Went Crazy

This is a list of made-up bands, surely?

I remember Polvo and the lilys at least!

No no no no no

Not made up bands. 1st, 2nd and 4th are of my all time five favorites, ever.

Haha, well I've never heard of any of them. I was trolling to some extent there, sorry.

I've heard of Polvo, Unrest, and Uncle Wiggly, though I couldn't tell you anything about what they sound like.

Oh, and Shudder to Think, also.

I'll buy Polvo and Uncle Wiggly, but being unable to describe Unrest is just lame.

I think I saw either six or seven of those bands live. I feel old.

Uncle Wiggly is such a terrible name. If I was in a band called Uncle Wiggly I would definitely pretend my band was called something else when I told people about it, like Flaming Death Skull or Crushinator or something.

They were awesome though. And so is the board game.

Spinanes way underrated. Also: the spinanes / rebecca gates

but being unable to describe Unrest is just lame

This is not music I care about.

Doesn't matter. It's still lame.

spinanes were grebt and rebecca gates is still around, in places

"I've heard Fargo, The Beatles, and Green [not the power pop ones, people] though I couldn't tell you anything about what they sound like."

spinanes were grebt and rebecca gates is still around, in places

― mookieproof, Friday, February 11, 2011 11:46 PM (54 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wow I completely forgot about the Spinanes. They were really good!

holy shit dude swervedriver and daniel johnston

If you've not heard much Unrest, trying to describe them would be even lamer. They had about eight different sounds over the course of their career and he might have only heard one or two.

good point, they were willfully eclectic.

The Spinanes 'Imp Years" is one of the best things in this vein that the 90's had to offer.

You guys I am seeing Swervedriver live next week omg.

xpost on Unrest: yes, but I always prefer to believe that people have tin ears rather than that they're just shooting their mouths off about a band with a 24 year recording career that they know nothing about...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnjd939cVWI

I saw Magnapop once and they were unbelievably nice at the merch table after the show.

Sorry that was apropos of nothing but it has guitars and was 90s and was really good.

Never saw them. :( Lay it down is also great. I remember LOVING that album.

'hawaiian baby' was sublime despite having nothing to do with gr8080

OK now I'm just thinking about bands that I listened to around that time but you know who I loved and forgot about until just now? Tilt, that's who.

I do not remember who that is. Were they on Lookout! or something? Memories...fading...

ok but that might not be "guitar college indie rock"

x-post - Yes, initially. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt_(band)

But tbh the first album was the only one I was really into.

Never heard of them, hunh. I think I was all about Pavement and Superchunk at that point. Oh and the 'Muses.

Oh okay, I kind of remember them now. I wasn't as into the Fat Wreck Chords/Lookout!/etc circles as some of my friends were.

So jealous about that Swervedriver show I've got to say.

I might try an' youtube a track if I can do so without getting in ppls way. If they play "never lose that feeling" I'll be able to die happy.

Does anyone else remember Toenut?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT9P9aE-hs8

Regarding Unrest too I saw them at Maxwells some months ago now and they were so great. The Ropers opened! What a show- I was so in my element. Then I saw Guided By Voices there. Life can be great you know.

If they play "never lose that feeling"

Seems likely! I'd be sort of surprised if they didn't.

Aw man the last I was at Maxwells was like 15 years ago or something ridiculous. I think it was to see Buffalo Tom iirc.

shit, you're old

I know!

you want old? I saw Unrest in a bar in 1992!

I saw Sonic Youth in a bar in 1990 do I win?

PS omg buffalo tom! I was so infatuated with those guys!

You all win.

If you've not heard much Unrest, trying to describe them would be even lamer. They had about eight different sounds over the course of their career and he might have only heard one or two.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, February 11, 2011 11:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I thought they started as kind of punky then became distortionless jangly experimenters.
Are you sure you weren't thinking of the Lilys?

I say I thought because I don't listen too much to their really early material and I think it is always healthy to assume someone may know something I don't.

to too*

shit no actually I had it right..

Are you sure you weren't thinking of the Lilys?

Applies to him/them too. You're generally right about Unrest, but they stepped it down from punky to distortionless jangly experimenters in stages.

wow, I'm digging back into my two Toenut cds really hard right now (I never bought the 3rd).

I don't really think Unrest had enough different sounds to have that description apply to them like the Lilys. They were just having fun until they really locked in their signature sound- it wasn't for the sake of constantly reinventing themselves. Many bands go through that.

Okay, have it your way.

No, just voicing my perspective after thinking about it. Thats all!

I can't wait to get my copy of Moonflower Plastic by Tobin Sprout on vinyl in the ail soon!

Mail that is.

Woah this Toenut stuff is awesome.

Some of her reeeealy high notes are a bit wincey but it works anyway.

:)

U have the best taste in tunes JF! <3

Yeah its not bad! Sometimes girl singers from the 90s can sound kind of dated, like later Velocity Girl, but this is pretty good.

If anyone is feeling the 90s mood, may I suggest the Let's Electrify! EP by Versus. Revisiting it now and having fun with it.

vanilla trainwreck, anyone?

I saw Stereolab open for Unrest in '93. Great show.

I saw the same bill in Detroit. yeah, fantastic!

vanilla trainwreck

i was about to mention a song i like of theirs till i realised i was thinking of chainsaw kittens

dear lord

sound kind of dated, like later Velocity Girl

u mad

i r also seeing swervedriver next week, just not the same show as trayce

were i to explain unrest to anyone i wld probably stick to the imperial period but they were p heavily factory influenced the whole way thru so it's not a bad point of ref

venus beads

I hope one of you get to record some of the Swervedriver show

I'll try to - I got a great bit of video @ Wire the other week so its doable.

Thanks!

Just bought some vinyls today:

Strapping Fieldhands - In The Pineys 10" sealed
Ropers - Sunbathe 7"
Ropers - I Don't Mind 7"
Kudgel / Luca Brasi - Split 7"
Duster - Transmission, Flux 7"

I am mourning the awesome 2ndhand viyl store that was like 10 mins walk from my house, it closed last month. SO SAD.

:( Did they have any clearance sales?

Or was it slim pickings at the end.

They did and like a fucking chump I didnt go :(

Its alright there is always online shopping :/

I've been looking for this compilation called "Fast Forward" released on Brinkman records. I'm not sure if it will be as good as I remember. It was a home recording mix with Smog, Dump, and other of my favorites from the 90's. I also recently found a box of tapes at my mom's house from high school with lot's of Shrimper comps and a tape called Huggy Nation. It was fun listening to them again.

I never checked out Dump...

dump is rad. are their/his records still readily available? I Can Hear Music is amazing lo-fi 90s indie.

Shit and I missed them opening for someone at Maxwells... can't remember which show...

Oops I'm dot doting too much here.

think they opened for oneida a little while back. "they" - i don't really know if dump really is a band in a live setting or if it's just mcnew. I guess yo la tengo is potentially doing Dump sets as part of their wheel of fortune tour.

Oh I see. Well I missed them opening for the Clean. But I was lucky to catch the Clean who were so great! That was a lot of fun.

I don't know if Dump's cd are easy to find. They were released on brinkman records, at least Superpowerless and I can hear music were. I did find this http://warehousesongs.blogspot.com/2010/01/dump-james-mcnew-yo-la-tengo-3-albuns.html

pretty sure that prince covers CD is out of print (forcibly, by the purple one's lawyers). it is really really good!

Really? Funny that prince would even bother James Mcnew. Brinkman records folded years ago. I never heard Grown Ass Man but A Plea for Tenderness is just as good as the first two, maybe better.

i could be wrong, but i feel like i heard something about other music being told to stop selling the prince covers thing. funny that the last dump album came out in 2003! guess he is busy enough with YLT.

Have you guys heard aMINIATURE? I remember loving one cd of theirs but haven't heard it in years. I think they sounded sort of like Versus, maybe not as poppy?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q2QfvVeLj9I/SNron9wsVfI/AAAAAAAAAD8/OGssqYKWS3c/s320/Timber.jpg
I would like to hear this album again, I think it would still hold up.

Ha ha, I pulled that out not long ago and it did still sound good. I posted an extra track from that online years back. Also really like their song on the Matador compilation.

What do they sound like?

they are kind of jazz rock with noisy bits. Sort of like Thinking Fellers Local Union 282.
I just found it online here http://panzanblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/timber-parts-and-labor-re-up.html
A lot of the songs do still hold up, really good experimental passages, like "The Real N.Y." and "Bad Education" is a nice faux jazzy lounge number. Also reminds me of a lot of what bands like Run On and Sue Gardner were doing.

I got their cd when I was first discovering Krautrock and they fit in nicely among a lot of those bands, esp with the ears of the 17 year old I was then.

And upthread Madder Rose was mentioned!! I saw them open for the Sundays in high school and their debut was one of my favorites. Their show was better than the Sundays even.

Sounds interesting I'll check it out, thanks!

Another album I got recently is

Should - "A Folding Sieve"

Its very good!

Oh yeah, and I recently won on ebay the "Why Popstars Can't Dance" comp by Slumberland on vinyl, that has more material than the CD version. Very excited to get that one in the mail.

the extra stuff is kinda inessential but nice to have nonetheless

the words on music label that did the should stuff is pretty great overall, and their stuff is available super cheap from the label..

Well the CD isn't going for much less at all so it is worth it just let me be excited GAWD! :)

Anyway, "A Folding Sieve" is out of print, so I got a practically new copy for $10 with my employee discount, since it is going for $35 on Amazon.

i have a tiny suspicion the should stuff might be reissued soon but i don't think it's supposed to include any additional material

Really? I didn't realize there was enough demand! I figured they were forgotten.

Despite the crazy prices for Folding.

actually it looks like i got confused - they have a new album coming out but i think i'd been under the impression they were repressing 'folding' along with it

http://www.words-on-music.com/should/

about Versus, did you guys ever heard Fontaine first ep? I Order it from Chickfactor and played it endless. iIt's worth seeking out. their second cd was ok, very good on certain songs, but the first one was drowning sadness. So good.

"I Want It All" was their first mini album. And Containe, not Fontaine
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rB8bucsUJCo/TB6AsnAYZfI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/wLpajDIgFOg/s320/Containe+-+I+Want+It+All.jpg

i have it, though it's been a very long time since i've heard it. need to pull it out again.

Thats what she

sorry

funnily enough..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HfHGURWVnU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pt2YuvrWYE NSFW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpIVFDFXxdE NSFW

that's funny, i just came here to see if anyone said 'yuck' on this thread.

oh, pitchfork, i c

ppl talking about Dump up ^there just reminded me of this, from a thread I started 1,000 years ago:

Why won't he release the Dump album that has all the Simpsons samples on it? At least leak it onto the Internet or something. PLEASE!!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 18 December 2003 17:50 (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is this a real thing or just Snrub being a wacko??

Hey Yuck is really good! Never had heard of them.

Oh wait I actually have! Didn't realize it till I recognized one of the videos.

Did anyone else hate The Promise Ring as much as I did? I realize you don't have any idea how much I hated them, so I'll just tell you. A LOT.

A decade+ removed, though, I don't remember why. I mean, I'm sure I'd still find them useless as all fuck, but I don't think they'd trigger the rage they used to.

I don't know i remember listening to segments of that EP with the pink cover and being amused at the awfulness of it but otherwise I never even gave them the time of day.

I used to really like Promise Ring, circa the first two albums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MxiRqobPag

^ this was a pretty good Scarfo tune, Jamie from this band ended up in the Kills

i thot scarfo were great, both albums are v tight

The irony of me sitting here getting all misty-eyed over a song which goes "nostalgia must die" (which I probably once nodded along to cz I really meant it, man)

Speaking of mid/late-90s Britisher imitations of US college rock, my hat goes off to the guy who has put a whole bunch of (Urusei) Yatsura vids on the Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9yeYGbugwc

Further away from the thread topic, but no talk of 90s UK indie rock is complete without these guys imo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsU5b6LT0Wk

(was going to post some Ligament too but just got stuck in a loop of listening to the 5 Ligament songs on youtube instead)

who could forget this incredible thread

PROLAPSE: Classic or Dud

ran across a beatnik filmstars cd the other day (boss disque on merge) still sounded p tight

don't think i ever heard a beatnik filmstars disc, but i did see them (and archers of loaf!) open for the flaming lips sometime in the mid 90s. which seems totally relevant to this thread.

my personal BF album of choice is 'beezer' which is more of a comp than a proper elpee but v good

Dammit, I was just about to rave about the Beatnik Filmstars and then I realised that I still get them mixed up with the Flaming Stars

flaming stars are great! they reissued all their stuff a few years ago

Yeah, they were solid! Links to lots of other great but somewhat off-topic bands too....

were they in gallon drunk too?

I'm on a Blake Babies kick today, but I guess they predate the 90s for the most part (though they did creep into the first couple years of the decade). They could really do with a 2-disc anthology set imo.

were they in gallon drunk too?

Max was, also people in the Earls of Suave, Minxus, Terminal Cheesecake.

gallon drunk made some really great bad seeds records! good stuff

Gallon Drunk! Now we're talking.

The Rough Guide Two... chapel hill indie rock

I'm really liking the Yatsura song up there. For some reason it made me want to listen to the Drop Nineteens.

I have a whole lot of Flaming Stars records and 1 Minxus album and had no idea there was any connection! But then I think I bought the Minxus by accident thinking it was someone else (no idea who that would've been) and then didn't really like it.

Same drummer -> Joe Whitney

omg toenut are awesome

seriously, 'two in the pinata' must be one of the great lost 90s records, it's up there with swirlies' 'they spent their wild youthful days...' except much more lost

I'll check it out!

A guy I work with used to be in Toenut (he did the tape loops). They ARE awesome.

Jawbox! Slackjaw! Jawbreaker!

fucking seriously I'm not gonna shut up about this record

the bassist died shortly afterwards in a motor wreck, and he's fucking excellent here, so there's another reason to give it a spin

TOENUT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFT04yJBU0w

I always meant to check out the full album. I got "Test Anxiety" off a comp back in '97 or whenever and I still jam to that song. I can imagine they're awesome.

it's on Spotify. both albums are incredible, but the second more so

Test Anxiety is pretty awesome

first album suffers a bit because 'Seizure' up front is such a staggering standout, I think - second album is an absolute riot all the way thru

Toenut kicks ass.

think two in the pinata might be even better than '...glittering world of the salons', and coming from me that's a monumental call

TOENUT

staggering fucking album. keep saying it until yall wise

New Further comp:

http://cargorecordsdirect.co.uk/products/further-where-were-you-then

YES.

That band needs recognition- no matter how much anyone might think they're a poor man's Dino Jr.

It's all about "Quiet Riot Grrrl" really. Of my top 10 favorite songs in that genre.

they had a lot of filler but super griptape is a great rec

Isn't that their most Dinosaur Jr-y? I don't have that one yet.

their best imo, yeah quite dinoish

does honeyblood fall under the purview of this thread? the album's growing on me

i dunno but that album is excellent imo

see also TS; Alvvays vs Honeyblood

Had this Flower song float into my head today for some reason. Owed a huge debt to Sonic Youth but it's a good album nonetheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg7yG1RazTo

Album was called Hologram Sky btw, came out in 1990. Don't really know too much else about 'em.

Pre-Versus, right?

oh right, i never knew that! can't say i ever listened to versus. any good?

yeah!

This was my favorite Versus song back in the day. I don't know that they've aged all that well. Like Small Factory, they were kind of great in a particular place and time, outside of that...not so much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrVtTwWlw-4

i was looking at some old SPIN issues on Google reader and the writer in there tears apart that Fudge album, the one with the really grotesquely 90's cover.

it's pretty decent though

Oops, missed this revive. That Fudge album is great. "Drive" is all time.

wow, evan, you were a prophet. now i know who to blame!

Don't shoot the messenger

i actually dig a bunch of it. there are a lot of local bands here that do it well. my pal abby made a new video for local heroes potty mouth.

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

my pal sal has a cool new album out too. i've known him since he was a toddler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQG2hK8uLy0

the guys from the band sediment club brought a ton of 90's guitar rock to my store this year. i just like guitars and since regular rock doesn't really exist anymore, i will take all the dino/seb/helium action people want to throw out there.

a new day is dawning...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW2APDMXUOk

just a big ol' stew of 70's/80's/90's/Now in that clip.

Ha, for sure! I liked that they played "Thorn" at that show as well.

What do you mean "regular rock"? I have my own idea, but...

Taxidermists is pretty great! The slow parts sounded like Codeine.

Toenut became Tyro and made an album, Audiocards. I wanted to hear it. It isn't ANYWHERE online so I had to buy the CD. This is the first time I've HAD to buy a CD in what seems like an age.

Anyway, Audiocards arrived today and it's completely wonderful and maybe only a few hundred people ever heard it idk. SO GREAT

fucking amazing

I can't find my Pest 5000 CD :(

It's springtime so I'm injecting the 80s/90s jangle indie into my veins again

And wtf I lost my Pest 5000 CD as of 2016? I totally forgot. It's gotta be around somewhere...

I have both, which one are you missing?

Both as in the lp and compilation? I have a digital copy of the lp but for sure need the compilation!

Palimpsest? OK — DM me your address, and I’ll mail it to you (when conditions are once again favorable for mailing things).

is this the thread with the most Further talk or is it on The Summer Hits thread(s)?

...because I heard Dinosaur Jr's 1997 non-album single "Take a Run at the Sun" and holy shit, that is such a late-era Further song.

Hey I'm down to talk Further all day. I'll have to check out that Dino Jr song... interesting to hear a sentiment where the tables turned involving those two bands.

I know, that's what's so surprising, it sounds like one of Brent's songs from 1995-1996. But it's also pretty-atypical Dinosaur Jr I should add, it was recorded for an Alison Anders film and then released on its own, kinda sunny beach pop. I'd never heard it before today (I fell off the DJr bus around Where Ya Been).