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

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.

Saatchi's tory

Statutory Saatchi Tory

3 colours red - tried to like "Copper Girl" for personal reasons, failed
18 wheeler - i confess, i have both albums. they're rubbish
divine comedy - never really got it, though vaguely liked "Something in the Woodshed" because i thought any old hamfisted literary allusion was CLEVAR. father ted theme classic though
dodgy - zzz
dubstar - lifeless music + attempted ooh-aren't-we-naughty image annoyed the same part of me that hates Goldfrapp
echobelly, gene - zzz
embrace, gomez - can i blame these guys for the beginnings of the Mumford bullshit rootsiness thing?
hurricane #1 - lol
kenickie - nostalgia convinces me they were brilliant, don't dare listen again and realise they weren't
longpigs - obligatory "it goes on + on" joke here
menswe@r - blame them for time i spent not listening to Wire because Menswear "sounded like" them
my life story - at least they brought us that one ilx thread (also not as good as i remember)
space - hilariously terrible, which actually seems almost positive by comparison
heavy stereo - hadn't heard them but liked their name, wrote it on my science folder, discovered they were shit
midget - were they like Dweeb? where is Dweeb on this list?
monaco - had a confused misheard-in-gig conversation c.1998 where i thought we were talking about Monaco (who were crap) but the other guy was actually talking about Moloko (who were great)
northern uproar - when i was 14 i excitedly filled in a BMG "survey" and ticked that i liked indie. i got sent some badges for Northern Uproar, Sleeper, and Out Of My Hair. even then it was underwhelming
nowaysis - were these just a covers band? did they have some notable wacky gimmick?
number 1 cup - slight sore thumb here: adequate but unexciting USian Pavement copyists. i religiously bought records by all such bands back in the day
perfume 60 ft dolls - one of these bands was Welsh. that is all i can tell you about either of them
silver sun - i maintain that "Lava" is a pretty great tune, though watching the video or reading the lyrics always threatens to change my mind. got a promo of their bombed second album and it is dreadful. so
supernaturals - you've gotta smile smile smile smile smile smile fuck off
symposium - ah, the Hanson of pig-iron indie pop-punk
the gyres - i actually don't know who these dudes are. not just forgotten but never heard of. who are they?
tiger - sometimes the words "eat my house, tart venom" spring into my mind for no apparent reason
unbelievable truth - in Oxford we are all contractually obliged to pretend these guys were good and not just some dreary 16th-rate singer-songwriter maundering away in the empty back room of a pub

Part 1 of the bbc scotland documentary on britpop band The Gyres

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l3_X30uQFc

part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_plLiwB6Mfk&feature=related

part 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyHzdoI3UR0&feature=related

part 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNXvo0LbXic&feature=related

all youtube comments about how the gyres were "pure quality" are depressing

menswe@r - blame them for time i spent not listening to Wire because Menswear "sounded like" them

:)

seahorses,cast,ocs,blur,oasis et al were all too well known and probably would have skewed this poll. The lesser known shite deserves their 15 more mins of infamy

are divcom the only ones with an ongoing career?

if so, WHY???

Feel like the list could have done with an ambassador from Romo - Orlando I suppose.

Bluetones and Dodgy still going afaik xxp

Someone should do a 1990-1994 pre-britpop poll

The gyres docu is amazing. My friend used to have it on vhs.

Gomez also ongoing.

My dad likes Gomez.

Someone should do a 1990-1994 pre-britpop poll

Needs careful tuning to optimally troll shoegaze crew.

do a nominations thread!

Hard to work up much bile for Carter USM so late in the day tbh

I feel like they're pretty much dead and gone, whereas the shadow of britpop still lingers over us

still playing live afaik

I got an ad for their tour on my Facebook ad bar the other day.

Don't know how FB figured I might possibly be interested in Carter USM.

If they've been reduced to the level of Facebook pests and playing at the Hobgoblin, then I think their threat has been effectively nullified.

Hard to work up much bile for Carter USM so late in the day tbh

never forget.
my bile for sultans of ping, carter usm, kingmaker,wonderstuff remains the same as it was

i think a 90-4 poll might be a bit of a mess. and as i say maybe an extended exercise in getting people to say 'what the hell are Slowdive/Moose/etc doing next The Milltown Brothers/The Frank and Walters/Carter?'