the rectal prolapse of norman lamont: terrible post-britpop/dadrock ephemera

everyone vote for kenickie to annoy ilms true indie kids ;)

sb'ing you if they get a single vote now

Wasn't Number One Cup a Chicago band?

Whither These Animal Men? (shudder)

Fuxake. No Way Sis were great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_XQdBWjQ1g

voted kenickie

I see whatshername from Sleeper virtually every morning when I drop my kids off at school.

No Kula Shaker?!

No Skunk Anansie

No Catatonia.

i hate these kind of polls.

Rialto are by far the worst of these bands that i have heard.

the best album is Embrace Drawn from Memory with Unbelievable Truth and the Bluetones having some good moments.

I see whatshername from Sleeper virtually every morning when I drop my kids off at school.

She's doing the same?

Yeah, she's one of the other parents there.

every dubstar vote will make LJ cry, not that i'm trying to influence anyway..

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 01:44 (5 hours ago)

srsly why are they here, they started in like 1994 and sound a bit like a computerised Smiths gone dancepop

dodgy were really not too bad. the album 'free peace sweet' has some great moments, just needs trimming. 'good enough', 'ain't no longer asking', 'trust in time' can get to fuck but the rest is pretty sweet. 'one of those rivers' is epic cheese of the best kind, 'ukrip' is genuinely kickass etc etc

You're so off the mark there regarding Dodgy, LJ; Homegrown is a very good album but FPS is fucking bilge. Horrific nastiness.

this is probably the best song by any band listed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utMIlafWab8

let us never forget skunk anansie headlined the last night of the last glastonbury of the 20th century.

http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/churchill.jpg

come on son

re: marion, i think 'time' is vastly better than 'sleep'

had an ex who adored them so i know far more about their catalogue than i should

These Animal Men were pre-Britpop if anything xpost

My personal hall of shame - I have owned stuff (one-off singles mostly, if that's any excuse) by the following:
dodgy
dubstar
echobelly
gene
kenickie
longpigs
marion
powder
sleeper
bluetones
number 1 cup
60 ft dolls
warm jets

I've never owned anything at all by anyone on this list, didn't mind Tiger though

Disgraceful omissions in this thread, should have been a public consultation first, tempted to overturn this thread. Nakhchivan you are the Michael Gove of shit indie.

^^

Mansun written out of history.

some of it's a bit dodgy (geddit): 18 wheeler weren't post-britpop, dubstar weren't really part of dis ting [or is this a callback to the florence machines in the other poll?], etc

18 Wheeler were on Creation, they definitely count.

guys, guys, let's just agree that they're all shit and move on

(xpost re Tiger) They sounded like Wreckless Eric. On "Puppet Pal", or whatever it was called.

yeah iirc oasis's first tour was supporting them? im just debating the use of 'post' here. this is ilm, sir. it's what we do, endlessly.

xposts

You've done quite well on the Geirbait but poorly on the Jaggerbait, cf leaving off MANSUN and ULTRASOUND. Also including Razorlight in the other thread and not featuring Cast and Ocean Colour Scene is wrongwrongwrong.

Also including Razorlight in the other thread and not featuring Cast and Ocean Colour Scene is wrongwrongwrong.

i am not engaged by this list in the same way as the las: many of them were harmless infatuations of young manhood to me; some I still enjoy. Even the crap… it is more like handling curious fossil fewmets, where the landfill poll was like picking up fresh human shit, without gloves.

I'll think some more, and listen. Northern Uproar/Heavy Stereo seem the default answer, but I should check. Maybe they are lost classics. I dimly remember wanting to like Powder (based on images, Pearl obvs has indie-boy crush genes) and failing, so they must be fairly bad.

last, not las. I am not engaged by The Las at all.

I see whatshername from Sleeper virtually every morning when I drop my kids off at school.

― ka£ka (NickB), Thursday, 24 February 2011 06:45 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://tonyvalderama.com/acatalog/profanisaurus-1-s.jpg

that's "drop the kids off at the pool", shurely?

this surprises me, in a way, but i cannot remember anything by heavy stereo

meanwhile, no seahorses no credibility

King Adora
Gay Dad
Shed Seven
Babybird

didn't want to think about who to vote for, just wanted to make a poop joke :/

oh man the Seahorses would have been proper contenders here, just for that slapper line alone. and, y'know, for sounding like Special Brewed-up buskers.

Used to be a big My Life Story stan; ok, well, we all make mistakes. Will still rep for Div Com (except for the last album, yeah that was bilge).

why do i get the feeling that that smug cock Babybird is still probably making albums somewhere? or y'know posting to ILX or something

he'd be one of the butthurt indies, obv

was about to post that there was a Babybird album last year actually

problem with Mansun is that everything pre-Six is very dated and sometimes awful (Stripper Vicar) (though at least kind of fun and very imaginative - they weren't just lumpen lazy meat and potatoes embrace shite), and everything post-Six is a complete mess. whereas that album itself = one of the bestest things ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0DaAphOjw4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF94428VXsk

They also did a couple of great tracks with Howard Devoto that also win big time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oyokZ3PyHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvf609OvWMk

The Divine Comedy are probably the worst band on this list, most of the real shit on this list is kind of forgettable because the bands are clearly made up of neanderthal morons but Neil Hannon SHOULD KNOW BETTER.

The National Express is probably the worst record of the 90s.

who remembers when NME interviewed Symposium and made 'a thing' about the fact they were pro-life

xp well i skip that one obv.

The National Express is probably the worst record of the 90s.

― Matt DC, Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:15 AM (23 seconds ago) Bookmark

someone dear to me 'thought i might like this'. still hurts after nearly 13 years.

"National Express" is a metaphor for Britain being shit where the form expresses the content

Jake Shillingford from My Life Story once accidentally pissed on my hand while standing at a urinal in the King's Cross Water Rats. That's probably the most 90s sentence I've ever typed.

a viewpoint that needed to be sought xp to self