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

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.

http://i.thisis.co.uk/274136/article/images/1174534/1074832-vlarge.jpg

^ unfortunate band photo ahoy

Poor guy looks like he's been fished out of the Thames.

as in it was proven in britpop that women could participate and even compete in the terrible indie stakes xxp

if someone hadn't nominated florence (why?) then iirc the landfill lot was p much entirely male save for one of the lolzutons

I don't think that the problem with these bands was not enough women, it's just there were too many bloody blokes.

i guess britpop & its holdovers really did enjoy full spectrum dominance whereas landfill for all its ubiquity never really had the cultural heft....it was more of an uneasy synergy between retarded kids and 50 quid men / q readers with more disposable income than sense, the two groups frotting over a shared love for crap lager, chauvinism and their own stupidity

I met the guy from Jocasta at Glastonbury once, in the Guardian Tent. I almost literally bumped into him, stared as tried to place how I knew him before he for he piped up "my name's Tim". He was very chuffed to be recognised. June Brown was apparently there too, as I read about later, so I must have missed her by a few mins. Oh well.

The vast majority of women in Britpop were 'attractive' female singers backed up by Sleeperblokes. There were, admittedly, some exceptions in the form of actual female musicians, but nowhere near enough to suggest that Britpop was sexually progressive.

and even that lamentable state of affairs was more 'progressive' than landfill

He was very chuffed to be recognised

I'll bet

http://www.clashmusic.com/files/imagecache/big_node_view/files/theview_7.jpg

only one of these people has talked to a woman who was not their mother

Ah, the old Tim Burgess Tilt of the Head manoeuvre

yeah it was that one, and his mother obviously didn't mention that if he kept doing that, his head would be stuck in permatilt for the rest of his days

3 colours red - the sex pistols were almost as good as these, says McGee
18 wheeler - had a Bentley Rhythm Ace remix
divine comedy - like these in theory, only heard about three songs outside of F. Ted
dodgy - clue's in the title, lol hongro
dubstar - sexy pencilcase
echobelly - sleeperblokes on holiday
embrace - liked that kazoo track
gene - there's always been a smiths element to our dance music
gomez - still touring the first album in Australia
hurricane #1 - hurricane #poo
kenickie - THE BEST BAND IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
longpigs - dude was called Crispin
marion - dude was called Marion
menswe@r - guitarist joined the Spice Girls iirc?
my life story - bought 7 singles by these guys in 2003, haven't got around to listening yet
powder - had boy george's mate's ex-toy-boy's lovechild
puressence - pooessence
sleeper - worst woman in music ever
smaller - lasagne
space - dude who the Teardrop Explodes bullied into letting them rehearse at his mam's let them rehearse at his mam's
audioweb - aswadioweb
bluetones - pootones
geneva - US gene tribute band
heavy stereo - 3 colours red tribute band
jocasta - didn't exist
midget - stoner metal trio from Australia iirc
monaco - released the second best post-Factory New Order single ever
northern uproar - foetuses in cagoules
nowaysis - No Way Sis tribute band
number 1 cup - never ever heard of these
perfume 60 ft dolls - drag tribute to drunk welsh drummer
rialto - were a car
silver sun - dude stole jarvis' specs iirc
supernaturals - poopernaturals
symposium - had one song I liked on a MM giveaway CD, guitarist "helped out" Hot Chip and now spams dementedly as a social media adviser for unsigned bands
the gyres - tribute band to kevin smith batman comic
tiger - had several 2-page features written about them containing the words "they have mullets!" c+p'd over and over
unbelievable truth - belivable poo
warm jets - of spunky poo

I always wondered if Jocasta felt robbed at the success of Muse, who became the far more successful (and stupid) variant on the same kind of band.

The vast majority of women in Britpop were 'attractive' female singers backed up by Sleeperblokes. There were, admittedly, some exceptions in the form of actual female musicians, but nowhere near enough to suggest that Britpop was sexually progressive.

this is true! I remember the singer from Sleeper even wearing a t-shirt with s th like "another female-fronted indie band" on it. I seem to remember older 80's indie bands having more female musicians but might be wrong, it was so long ago. that said, the bands in that landfill poll are worse? It seems to be total sad sausage party apart from "Florence" and the 2 musicians in magic numbers. A pretty sad & fucked up state of affairs, really.

Thread needs more Terrorvision.

Terrorvision way too early for this, they had TWO remixes by Pop Will Eat Itself

that said, the bands in that landfill poll are worse? It seems to be total sad sausage party apart from "Florence" and the 2 musicians in magic numbers. A pretty sad & fucked up state of affairs, really.

tbh women everywhere are better off out of it

apparently sleeper's proto-viral marketing for the release of 'swallow' consisted of affixing fake calling cards in london phoneboxes

I seem to remember older 80's indie bands having more female musicians

They did, but they were actually "indie" bands

Really the only bands on this list I liked were Geneva (first album), Puressence (first two albums) and Dubstar (bits of each).

Where are Jack? Or were they too good.

Jack were def in that My Life Story/Divine Comedy Scott Walker fan club section but much better and less high profile.

the only things made by people in this list that i ever enjoyed were a) bits of dubstar's catalogue, b) echobelly's "great things" - tellingly i can't remember exactly how any of those actually go apart from their choruses

s0 thankful to 13-year-old me for having good taste in music and loving songs that still hold up today and that i don't have to be ashamed about

would have thought you could get behind the second Kenickie album Tim (if not the earlier stuff)

I never ended up checking it out I don't believe, I always read good things about it though.

& lex could maybe dig I Would Fix You

The other band in this entire vein I was quite into was Whipping Boy.

i hated kenickie THEN, s0 overrated

i'll refrain from posting about the band i think are basically kenickie if they were any good

Can't remember what I liked at the time that was along these lines. Drugstore maybe?

-they had that duet with the dude from The Unbelievable Truth's brother iirc

powder - Pearl Lowe is still famous for no apparent reason

I have always found this curious (even before rise of Daisy). She's not the only person who knows lots of other people - is she just really, really charming with glossy media types? Or is she nu-lab britpop equivalent of a society beauty/hostess? Lifestyle journalists seem to assess her very generously - 'ex-pop star turned designer' sort of thing.

Anyway, not my world, so I can't figure it out.

huh. Has a range at Peacocks if wiki is to be believed.

'ex-pop star turned designer'

Bit like Brix Smith?

Brix has at least been in the charts.

oops, apologies to Lowe.

"Afrodisiac" / "Shave Me" (Parkway Records 1995) UK #72

you weren't specific about what to vote for, so i voted best and please take one (1) vote from kenickie.

http://i.imgur.com/7r14J.jpg

Levitating wife looking pretty good there, Bela Lugosi less so.

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