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Wait a second. There wass a BAND called Cotton Mather????

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 23:52 (twenty-three years ago)

there still is. much praised by Noel Gallagher

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 23:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Do they burn witches on stage?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 January 2003 00:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd prefer to burn them on stage.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:20 (twenty-three years ago)

No love for Cotton Mather, Ned? Do tell. I'm biased, as I knew the guitarist in his pre-fame days.

― paul cox (paul cox), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Was he in a band called Increase Mather at the time?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Celebrity Skin. They were mainly a late 80s phenomenon here in LA, but their records came out in '90 and '91. Too bad they didn't stick around, they would have made the perfect antidote to grunge-type band.

Also, the Geraldine Fibbers. Were they ever popular anywhere else? And Tiger and the Stiffs and Congo Norvell.

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Ladies and Gentleman, I give you...

http://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/g00536.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:03 (twenty-three years ago)

His girlfriend was an art student at the University of North Alabama, and he followed her around.

I bought a Celebrity Skin tape for $1 because I read a good review of them somewhere. I should have bought a candy bar instead.

― paul cox (paul cox), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Zumpano rules.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Correction: Zumpano's first album rules.

― paul cox (paul cox), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember reading about the Geraldine Fibbers, but I never actually heard them.

Now would be as good a time as any to say WALT MINK, at least for their first album.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Mmm, Geraldine Fibbers are great great great. I guess I never thought of them as "overlooked."

― paul cox (paul cox), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

trashmonk is seriously awful it's all expensive production and faux soulfulness and actually mostly a perfect match for poptones.

pah - you like the rutles of canadian pop - zumpano - fucking beachcombers stew, more like. let's put a few more ba ba bas. hit! well, a can-con hit, maaaybe.

― doom-e, Friday, 17 January 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

No love for Cotton Mather, Ned? Do tell. I'm biased, as I knew the guitarist in his pre-fame days.

Just seemed bland, really -- not active hate, more sorta, "Oh, right, whatever."

Celebrity Skin were engagingly ridiculous. One of the odder things Don Bolles has done over the years.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Rollerskate Skinny fans in the London area may be interested to know that Jimmy Shields is playing at the Water Rats tonight, and also at the Notting Hill Arts Club in the not too distant future...

I nominate/second: Shack, Swirlies, Seam, Smaller and lots of other bands beginning with S...

― reclusive hero (reclusive hero), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Drop Nineteens then.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

The Swirlies
Seam

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Geraldine Fibbers were v. good indeed. Mostly known in SoCal rock circles, I think -- almost everyone I know who's praised them has been from out there.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 17 January 2003 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I never saw them but I enjoyed them. I like Ethyl Meatplow more, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 January 2003 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I've only ever heard one Ethyl Meatplow song (the name escapes me), but found it lacking. Did you ever hear Buccinator?

― paul cox (paul cox), Friday, 17 January 2003 17:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Yup, odd stuff but enjoyable. Ethyl were all about the live experience, though I appreciated the fact Barry Adamson produced their album.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 January 2003 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Blue Man Group.

― Curtis Stephens, Friday, 17 January 2003 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

this thread could alternately be titled "used bin hit parade" or "i used to work at the college radio station"...

YES to the ropers, fibbers, and medicine. how bout the trash can sinatras? spain?

― bijoux (bijoux), Friday, 17 January 2003 22:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Ethyl Meatplow were great live. The album? Eh, not so much. The first Geraldine Fibbers album was great (LOST SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE EARTH & MY HOME), but I kinda lost interest after that. Whatever happened to Carlo Bozulich?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 January 2003 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I guess she went from Carla to Carlo, if your info's correct, Alex.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 17 January 2003 23:57 (twenty-three years ago)

carla's been doing performances of willie nelson's "the red-headed stranger" in its entirety.

no, i'm serious! she did a small tour last year.

― bijoux (bijoux), Saturday, 18 January 2003 00:11 (twenty-three years ago)

She plays around town with Nels Cline every so often. They're, you know, an item. They just did a tribute to Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger album somewhere, Spaceland, I think. They had a post-Fibbers band called Scarnella, perhaps they still do. I saw them once, they were noisier, not as melodic. They did something at the Schindler house a couple of years ago, some sort of art party/installation happening.

This should tell you more.

― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 18 January 2003 00:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Or maybe not. Where's the html guide when I need it. Well, just go to carlabozulich.com

― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 18 January 2003 00:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Polvo
Ween (of course)
pre-AQUEMINI Outkast
Dump
The Dead Milkmen
The Golden Palominos
The Jazz Butcher
Neil Hamburger

― Evan (Evan), Saturday, 18 January 2003 01:24 (twenty-three years ago)

The Jazz Butcher were really an 80's band originally.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 18 January 2003 01:26 (twenty-three years ago)

They had a post-Fibbers band called Scarnella, perhaps they still do.

Pretty bleah, them. Saw 'em open for Labradford and Godspeed, and how odd was it (or not) that Labradford blew the others off the stage with the least amount of volume.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 January 2003 04:11 (twenty-three years ago)

this *is* like reading a list of the worst bands of the 90s...

― doom-e, Saturday, 18 January 2003 06:44 (twenty-three years ago)

but...well, no-one's said orlando yet.
when you think of those bands from the 80's/90's
who really had a certain *something*, there's usually a lot
that was lacking too: star quality, decent vocalist,
songwriting skills, a vision of some kind etc.
none of that's true about orlando.
i still think it's a crying shame.
if i was in a band doing a big tour, i'd give the
2 of them a fortune of money that they couldn't refuse,
to reform as the support act.

disco inferno i keep hearing about but i heard
'the last dance' and i thought it was dead borin'.

― piscesboy, Saturday, 18 January 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

Alice Donut!

― autovac (autovac), Saturday, 8 February 2003 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Allah, what good band in the 90s WASN'T overlooked?
Only a select few bands make it to widespread exposure,
and many great indie groups only release 1 or 2 albums,
then break up and go out of print.
The fractalizing of popular music in the 90s is one
of my biggest joys and one of my biggest frustrations.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Saturday, 8 February 2003 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, the yummy fucking fur!
Where are THEY now.

― edmund, Saturday, 8 February 2003 22:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Levitation a few have already mentioned (I could never understand why the rock press slagged them off so much)
No one's mentioned Crow - seminally cool Aust band who were feted by the likes of Pavement and then seemed to disappear. "Railhead" was a fucking ace single.
And was I the only person in the universe who loved Moonshake?

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 8 February 2003 23:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Nope. Great band.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 February 2003 23:44 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

i hope i catch lots of shit (come on you fukkerz, bring it!!!!):

knapsack

[listening to a mix cdr from an old friend... wowowowowowowowowowowow]

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Although they were quite "known" during the 90s, I think Blind Melon was a far better band than they are generally remembered as. Their album Soup was phenomenal and beautiful and surprised me very much at how creative it was. It makes me very sad to hear them now. I miss Shannon Hoon's voice.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:30 (twenty-three years ago)

nick... blind lemon was in no way overlooked, i believe the term that you're applying here is "under-rated".

i'm only telling you this because i love you.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)

oh and say something personally insulting to me about knapsack you coward. this is so good.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Jellyfish
Cotton Mather

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

nick... blind lemon was in no way overlooked, i believe the term that you're applying here is "under-rated".

That's what I figured and was kinda trying to say.

oh and say something personally insulting to me about knapsack you coward.

Um...If not for your tiny tiny penis I would have some clue who Knapsack are. [sticks out tongue]

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:56 (twenty-three years ago)

translation = never heard 'em

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:56 (twenty-three years ago)

has anyone said take that yet?

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Picasso Trigger

― scott m (mcd), Thursday, 13 March 2003 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

if I didn't post on this before, Trash Can Sinatras, best band of the 90s. 3 great records. Now, maybe they will release something this century...

― g (graysonlane), Thursday, 13 March 2003 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Trash Can Sinatras were fantastic g! 'Killing The Cabinet' is one of the best songs of the 90s.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 13 March 2003 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

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