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

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.

Dodgy were 1) better than any other Britpop act and one of the best things to come out of the entire 90s. 2) not really Britpop as they started out long before the Britpop boom and only sought to make guitar based melodic pop music. Musically they had more in common with Jellyfish and Crowded House than with Oasis.

there's prob a third category for the interlull between dadrock and landfill

gay dad
skunk anansie
feeder
terris
king adora
my life story
lowgold

i remember unbelievable truth sounding like exactly what you'd expect a band featuring thom yorke's brother in 1996 to sound like. t/f?

One of the Warm Jets went out with Zoe Ball. It's all coming back to me now. I'd better stop reading this thread before I start liking Marion again.

kind of incredulous that you all remember these people

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all of them = more reasons that i never read the music press while growing up

http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Yorke

Powder woman's daughter is that famous model

were they big in ankara or something?

Interesting to see you've forgotten The Supernaturals. They were of course great and not awful at all, but so were a lot of the other bands on this list, and I know those people without taste who hate all proper melodic music written after 1990 tend to hate The Supernaturals as well.

New board description:

those people without taste who hate all proper melodic music written after 1990

Good: dubstar, gomez, my life story (*), tiger

Some OK moments: divine comedy (**), dodgy, echobelly, embrace, gene, kenickie, longpigs, space, bluetones, rialto, unbelievable truth

Bad: hurricane #1, menswe@r, sleeper, northern uproar, nowaysis, supernaturals

Can't remember: 3 colours red, marion, puressence, audioweb, geneva, heavy stereo, monaco, 60 ft dolls, silver sun, symposium

Never heard: 18 wheeler, powder, smaller, jocasta, midget, number 1 cup, perfume, the gyres, warm jets

(*) My cousin was in My Life Story for a short while, so they get a free pass.
(**) I liked The Divine Comedy just fine, until "National Express". And then there was no going back.

Sorry Geir, are we forgetting to hate the Supernaturals?

http://lost-pixel.net/gal/Concerts/Andy_Yorke/02.jpg

Thom Yorke's Brother Andy To Release Solo Debut Album

The chorus of Smile only has one note, it can't be good.

Can we stop him? (xp)

'Thom Yorke's Brother Andy' is the solo project of Andy Yorke

DIV comedy more like

Song of bitterness and recrimination gets all the lyrics xcept for one word removed so it can show lots of people happy and dancing because they have a bank account. Named after the song.

Quite a few songs here would benefit from having everything except one word removed.

Like looking at the Burgess Shale, figuring out classifications - My Life Story go with things like David Devant and his Spirit Wife is that right? stringsy, drama pop?

Do Jack have a place here? Thought they were ok, but several of these ok.

stringsy, drama pop?

Divine Comedy f'rinstance

3 colours red - MCGEE YOU'VE DONE IT AGAIN
18 wheeler - <3 me some hypnagogic pop
divine comedy - an upper class Irishman, now I've seen everything
dodgy - iirc these guys were a kind of journo cult band, a la Shack or whothefuckever, before they started selling more than 12 records
dubstar - they had a buh-gina on their album sleeve, you can't say that about Heavy Stereo (without an off-colour joek)
echobelly - really liked 'King of the Kerb' when I was 15, lyfe's an education
embrace - someone should have started a 'rival' band called Shun
gene - they 'peaked' in like 94, 95 right?
gomez - NV nailed it, not gonna try and add to that
hurricane #1 - man it sucked when they soundtracked an ad for the Sun, went against everything I thought they stood for
kenickie - still burn bright in the public eye thanks to the drummer frequently posting underneath the status updates of LBZCer in exile Raw Patrick
longpigs - there is an American noize type band called this now, I lol inwardly every time I see it
marion - how ironic that the singer became addicted to the drug that his band's name sounds the most like
menswe@r - you really don't have to indulge them wrt to the @ you know
my life story - one of their sleeves from like '95 looks extraordinarily like 'MBDTF' (I saw it in a record shop the other day)
powder - how ironic that etc
puressence - always mixed them up w/ Pusherman
sleeper - great novelist
smaller - think they were constructed using a complicated system of mirrors rather than actually existing
space - let's not speak ill of the dead (one of them died)
audioweb - lol Ian Brown
bluetones - these guys still tour, like, all the time - they're effectively doing the same thing as like Marmalade and the Swinging Blue Jeans etc
geneva - didn't exist
heavy stereo - represented everyone from Scotland imho
jocasta - isn't this a name that unfunny ppl use to zing posh hippies if they already used 'Tarquin'
midget - had the worst logo of any band ever, look it up
monaco - "better front than Monaco" is my favourite underused expression for 'big breasts'
northern uproar - when I was 16 there was a petition to get them to play my town. They never played my town
nowaysis - say what you will about Tory governments, they produce some great angry music
number 1 cup - morelike Two World Wars & 1 World Cup (Number 1 Cup were British!)
perfume 60 ft dolls - I know these are two diff't bands but I know a girl who had a member of 60 Ft Dolls take a dump on her chest, so I'm keeping it this way
rialto - that guy was posh or something
silver sun - I saw these guys by accident like three years ago, it was tough going
supernaturals - ayo Geir
symposium - maybe they were prolife because they were technically still foetal?
the gyres - see Heavy Stereo
tiger - feel like these guys maybe had some 'good ideas' and 'no ability' to implement them
unbelievable truth - dancingandyyorke.gif
warm jets - possibly before their time? Or did they not play pleasant melodic postpunk like I 'remember'

^^ killing it

jocasta - isn't this a name that unfunny ppl use to zing posh hippies if they already used 'Tarquin'

Wasn't one of Fluffy actually called "Jocasta"? I would have to get the 2 CDS' I own off the shelf to check and they've had their annual play for 2011 already.

http://xplayitloud.blogspot.com/2010/10/long-pigs-tape.html

its true

Tiger... I had their album! Fucked if I can remember anything about it...

and fucked if u didn't, cuz u own an album by tiger

Also tried to like Divine Comedy because someone I knew really loved them but couldn't manage it

currently listening to the noise punk versh of long pigs

The chorus of Smile only has one note, it can't be good.

It all comes to a climax in the second half of the chorus, which has considerably more.

I went to see Tiger live. They were ok.

mullets their 'thing' maybe? The mullet band.

Hannon won the 2007 Choice music award for his 2006 album, 'Victory for the Comic Muse'. It was announced the next day that he left EMI by 'mutual consent'.

When the band Keane played at the O2 Arena in London in July, A Bad Dream was introduced by Hannon. He introduced it by reading the poem by W.B. Yeats upon which the song is based.

Hope he got paid for that

3 colours red - remember the Wildhearts? Exactly like that. McGee thought they were the most exciting band in the world in 1996, because he was a fuckwit.
18 wheeler - rubbish
divine comedy - bishops's son laughing at the working class
dodgy - Geir Hongro has shit taste in music. Also fat wanker in a porkpie hat.
dubstar - Stars is a good song
echobelly - King of the Kerb is also a good song
embrace - worst singer ever, not just for voice but also for lack of charisma, charm or stage presence
gene- lol Morrissey
gomez - lol students
hurricane #1 - ONLY THE STRONGEST WILL SURVIVE, THESE DAYS YOU'VE GOT TO KILL YOURSELF JUST TO STAY ALIVE
kenickie - the three songs people remember as still fun
longpigs - I quite like 'She Said'
marion - sub-Suede, right?
menswe@r - shooting fish in a barrell
my life story - hand-pisser
powder - Pearl Lowe is still famous for no apparent reason
puressence - they were 'New Grave', right?
sleeper - shut up shut up shut up
smaller - penis
space - lol Kaiser Chiefs
audioweb - they'd be bottom of the bill at every big outdoor Britpop-era event for about three years. I remember 'Policeman Skank' being kind of amusing
bluetones - shit
geneva - Tranquilizer is still a great song
heavy stereo - worse than 18-Wheeler, right?
jocasta - they were in a lot of record shop bargain bins, can't remember anything about them
midget - see also Symposium
monaco - filled a gap between mediocre New Order records I suppose
northern uproar - monkey.gif
nowaysis - shit
number 1 cup - my mind's blank here
perfume 60 ft dolls - you've merged two bands here, still not any good
rialto - two drummers
silver sun - shit
supernaturals - shit
symposium - you don't win anything with kids
the gyres - nadir of Noelrock, indefensible
tiger - mullets
unbelievable truth - at least he got to be the one without the wonky eye when they were growing up
warm jets - would've been bigger in the 00s I think. They weren't very good.

tiger - feel like these guys maybe had some 'good ideas' and 'no ability' to implement them

My favourite kind of band!

I forgot about Fluffy. Except now I can't bring them to mind at all. I think they were a bit like Brassy, but maybe that's just because the name is similar.

Name also dangerously similar to Fuzzy, who weren't British but were another girl-fronted* band of this era; released a Beach Boys cover version and then disappeared. (I have the album. God. I can say that about too many of these bands. Mainly the ones who didn't sell very many.)

* yeah, as a woman I feel a bit itchy that this is a thing to say about a band, but at the time it was; and now there aren't any woman-fronted bands, only lad bands and kooky girly Florences, so, uhh

the list was contributed by someone more knowledgeable in this field

than who, The Lex?

tbrr gender equality is perhaps the only thing this coterie had going for them, or maybe it's more salient asking why landfill was so entirely homosocial

What gender equality? Please give statistics to prove such an outlandish statement.