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

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!

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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.

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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.