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

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

Mojo and the Face would be an A+ band name

I'm going to start a Mod revival just use it

Yay!

You can be Mojo

3 colours red - lame gumby punk, ZZzzzz
18 wheeler - no memory of what these sounded like
divine comedy - vaguely remember these, seem to think the singer put too much of his creative enercy into his MM interviews, not enough into the band
dodgy - couple of half-decent tunes
dubstar - likewise
echobelly - ridic hott singer clouds my judgement of these, IIRC they sounded like the smiths a lot?
embrace - singer was almost as bad as BBY GLSSP, sounded like a wounded animal whining in pain, band could have been awesome and therecords wd still have been dreadful bc of this
gene - bad smiths clones, could not figure out why these got so much press
gomez - remember the band name, nothing else
hurricane #1 - totally forgettable and forgotten
kenickie - likeable kiddiepunk, can actually remember (and remember w some fondness) a couple of their singles
longpigs - seem to remember seeing these on tfi friday or something, can remember what the singer looked like, but not the music
marion - another sub smiths band iirc?
menswe@r - sounded like a bunch of primary school kids trying to ape wire. might have got good after like 3 albs but ridic hype meant that wd never happen i suppose
my life story - sort of remember thinking these were ok but cannot remember anything about what they actually sounded like
powder - singer was called "pearl" can remember nothing else about these
puressence - no memory of these beyond vaguely familiar band name
sleeper - lol c-man. In retrospect, a couple of the tunes were OK or at least memorable.
smaller - who?
space - seem to remember liking idk one of their singles, can at least remember what they sounded like
audioweb - who?
bluetones - bought their album for chap from cgharity shop, was OK-ish but a bit flat iirc
geneva - nothing beyond vague memory of band name
heavy stereo - likewise
jocasta - who?
midget - who?
monaco - who?
northern uproar - laughable gumby music made by idiots no idea why these ever got coverage outside of the live reviews pages
nowaysis - you're having a laugh, right?
number 1 cup - wjo?
perfume - nothing beyond the name
60 ft dolls - see norther uproar
rialto - saw these on tv on some chatshow, seemed like a bad copy of pulp -humour +whiny lyrics
silver sun - can remember the name, nothing else
supernaturals - likewise
symposium - vaguely remember - somethign - about them, cant bring it to mind
the gyres - who?
tiger - one hit wonder w/o the one hit - seem to remember they they were ok, mainly remember ridic hype
unbelievable truth - who?
warm jets - who?

when did the UK become this factory for churning out forgettable, 2nd rate guitar acts w/loudmouth spokesperson? Pretty sure that it wasn't always like this.

Mad Lizzy Crumbs' blind cobblers' thumbs were a sight to behold
She was a rum old slapper and we always tried to get her pants off when she phoned

what would be the point of doing that?

Rialto's point of interest was they had TWO DRUMMERS. This was completely inaudible in their music.

voted embrace because of the terrible singer ++ ridic hype that never mentioned THE SINGER CANNOT SING

when did the UK become this factory for churning out forgettable, 2nd rate guitar acts w/loudmouth spokesperson? Pretty sure that it wasn't always like this.

Since a cottage industry built up that would receptive to pretty much anything with a guitar in the hope that they might one day make a good record.

... when shit started selling and it was realised someone could make some money out of it

Midget + Jocasta + Number 1 Cup + Unbelievable Truth.... are these real bands or is nakch pulling our collective leg?

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.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 24 February 2011 10:17 (2 hours ago)

this is what these polls are all about

i know unbelievable truth were real cuz they had thom yorke's brother

note 'ephemera' in poll title

I have a Jocasta CD Single.

nowaysis - Oasis 'tribute' act that put two of their own, original, songs on the b-side of their hit, because they're not totally stupid.

The Unbelievable Truth and Geneva are the two bands that could have been massive if they'd waited for two or three years and come up off the back of Coldplay and Keane.

Unbelievable Truth were pretty much the dullest band I can remember seeing live. Not even particularly bad, just boring.

Other Oasis cover bandsBlurasis
Burnage
Champagne Supernova
Ciao
Cloneasis
Definitely Might Be
Gallagher
Ha'waysis (North East based Oasis tribute band)
Masterplan
No Way
Noasis
NoAces
The Raid
Okasis
Oasisn't
Oasist
Rockin' Chair
Pasha & The Wonderwalls
Shakermaker
Supersonic
Wonderwall (also interviewed for Live Forever)
Acquiesce
Soasis
Bonehead's Bank Holiday (from Raleigh, NC)

I mean, Travis were basically one of these bands until their second album came out.