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

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?'

omg the frank and walters BILE RISING

This is the thread where we reminisce over not particularly good Evening Session bands from the late 90s

my bile for sultans of ping, carter usm, kingmaker,wonderstuff remains the same as it was

Poor allocation of bile IMO.

dont think there was a unifying theme to early 90s indie as there was with landfill or britpop afterbirth

i guess there is that immediate pre-britpop, or proto-britpop stuff, then lol madchester drivel, then shoegaze epigonism, then crustie nonsense, and whatever carter usm/emf were

A guy in my class liked Kingmaker so much that every art project he did was a big picture of the singer's face.

also to save the thread becoming completely negative, is there any 95-99 indie yall would save? i still hear nice things said about the boo radleys frinstance

Northside will always win the lol madchester drivel poll (unless you allow the soup dragons in it)

giant steps by boo radleys was great

i'd love to know where the kingmaker portraitist kid is now xps

The band began playing and touring, before making their recording debut with "The Celebrated Working Man" EP. After this they signed up to Chrysalis Records and released a second EP, entitled "Waterproof" in 1991. They were also immediately courted by the music press, who invented a niche category for the band, which they dubbed "New Cool Rock".

thems were more innocent days i guess

The band rapidly fell out of favour. Paul Heaton of Hull's more well known band The Beautiful South heavily criticised them as being middle class pretenders, and the rot set in thereafter.

also to save the thread becoming completely negative, is there any 95-99 indie yall would save? i still hear nice things said about the boo radleys frinstance

― oddo futre wolf ganso kilgallon thome aldair (nakhchivan), Thursday, February 24, 2011 4:09 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

I Should Coco still sounds bracing and fresh.

Travis are the band that links Britpop to Landfill indie. T or F?

well they were the biggest band of that interlull phase i alluded to earlier, along with feeder etc

Oasis (1st album), Blur, Supergrass, Boo Radleys (minus that song), Suede,Verve(a northern soul),MSP (everything must go), Black Grape, Pulp were all good. Landfill just didn't have ANYONE going for it.

the verve's early singles and storm in heaven were great

'she's a superstar' is amazing