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

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

yup that early stuff was awesome. I still like urban hymns though

super furry animals were great too

re Travis, makes sense to me: iirc U16 Girls was Gallagher-praised back in the day, so I assumed Travis were another Northern Uproar, Heavy Stereo mob.

richard ashcroft then became the presiding spirit of the post-dadrock interlull with his mix of ersatz sooooooulful whiteboy nonsense, limitless self-regard and gilded pubrock stylings

iirc he had a no1 single?

Travis came up alongside Embrace and the like, they were meant to be sort of New Serious Rock. Then their first single came out and was called 'U16 Girls', which kinda put paid to that.

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

Stereophonics should not be overlooked here.

Placebo too

how the fuck did they remain so popular

Placebo don't lead to landfill do they? Always thought they leaned a little rockier, plus make-up.

the only ppl i knew who liked placebo were boring 'weird kids' into nirvana, smashing pumpkins, radiohead etc

Texas are the link from bad 80s through britpop into landfill. Chris Evans music.

texas have no connection to landfill whatsoever

Man, Texas played my fresher's week along with Transvision Vamp, The Men They Couldn't Hang and lol Roachford.

Placebo begat JJ72 who were surely landfill

texas were as boring as any landfill

Texas, They drove the diggers.

texas were virgin radio mor stuff

they were terrible but chromosonally incompatible with razorlight and the landfill kids

Algerian Goalkeeper your conception of "landfill" is about as well-defined as your conception of "hipster" or "electro".

lso 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

Do you mean indie or Britpop? There's fucking loads of '95-'99 indie I still adore, but not really much Britpop.

someone on the other thread argues for JJ72, My Vitriol & some other chancers as being distinct from landfill, convincing to me.

jj72 and my vitriol were interlull bands

i still like 'snow' by jj72

Of course they're distinct. Landfill indie is a post-Strokes/Libertines phenomenon really.

They were both terrible, sorry.

Space at Shepherd's Bush Empire in 1998 - my first ever gig. ;_;

Voting Gomez cos I thought they were laughably shit at the time and I still think they're shit, so voting for them means I don't have to confront my britpop demons too much.

yeah, even the vines were only proto-landfill

mnstm interlull - travis, feeder, stereophonics

alt interlull - my vitriol, jj72, king adora, terris