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

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

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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

Funnily enough, though, the video for that song resonated with me. (DivCom NatExp)

If anyone can find me Steven Wells' review of the National Express I'll be very happy incidentally.

SHED SEVEN? WHERE ARE SHED SEVEN? THIS IS A DISGRACE.

I think Hannon's often brilliant; Promenade's an album I like a lot. But he does have a knack for writing worst-shit-ever contenders - National Express and that Indie Disco thing from last year.

This was my youth ;_;

Tiger were great, fuck all the haterz. OK, they were quite good, sometimes. Well, they had two songs I like (Friends and On The Rose), that's more than most of the list.

My 7" collection is full of many worse and/or more forgotten bands from this era, from the days when I'd go to HMV every Monday and buy new release 49p 7"s by anyone I'd vaguely heard of. Worst one I can currently recall: Annie Christian.

Worst from list: I can't recall a note of most of the ones I hated at the time but seeing the word Gomez brings the awful ear-scraping noise of their singer immediately to mind, so I may have to vote for them even though they're not the real worst.

18 wheeler - are these one of those sub-Teenage Fanclub tribute bands to Big Star? probably dire
werent they more shitty indie dance?

You are both right! 18 Wheeler started out twee mumbly indie-jangle on the first album and then added some dancey! beats! for the next one. They were rubbish but they are quite useful for laughing at David Keenan whenever he gets on some skronkier-than-thou screed.

(He left before the indie-dance phase; possibly he left before they were signed, actually, but I won't let that get in the way of laughing at him.)

I see there are youtubes of the two singles I remember, "Steel Guitars" (jangly phase) and "The Hours and the Times" ("there's always been a dance element to our music" phase), but I can't listen at work and I'm fairly sure embedding them would just be cruel.

shut the thread down Matt, it is indeed fucking awful

These Animal Men were pre-Britpop if anything xpost

absolutely, they were exEMplars of NWONW and disappeared once Britpop took over, Elastica were the only survivors afair

Babybird were genuinely split for about ten years, with S Jones doing solo things, until HUGE FAN JOHNNY DEPP personally paid for them to take time off their dayjobs and fly to LA to record a new album last year

^^ again, this story is 100% solid gold truth

except for the dayjob bit, that's just inference

didn't even realise they was a "band" tbh

Two words = the solo act, one word = band.

*points and laughs at this list, everyone on it & everyone who was taken in by it at the time*

between them i think the bands on this list were responsible for maybe two acceptable songs? neither of which i remember in any great detail

Annie Christian, Anti-Christ
Until U're crucified
I'll live my life in taxicabs

unh? That's rubbish!

Good: Dubstar, Kenickie
Tolerable for a song or two: Divine Comedy, Sleeper, Supernaturals
Ugh/eh: the rest

Sad I can't vote for the Seahorses because this right here is the ignominious death of Britpop. lex, for you this is what hell sounds like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18w84rpaqlg

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.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 24 February 2011 09:54 (2 hours ago) Bookmark

the list was contributed by someone more knowledgeable in this field

cast/ocs/kula shaker get the kicking they deserve already, wd skew the poll

not sure abt mansun

Gay Dad
Shed Seven

accepted, but hey i think yall have enough to chose from

Gay Dad seem a bit late for this poll?

Gay Dad was first formed in 1994 by former Mojo and The Face journalist Cliff Jones

Add it to the list of things they were late for.

Mojo and the Face would be an A+ band name

Better than Gay Dad anyway

i thought the face was meant to be cool ;_;

On second thoughts, Tiger don't really belong here. This is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQXJ0SL44Ac