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

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

needs an interlull poll then

Thank god I had Ooberman to get me through.

and a bad triphop poll too. man that shit was everywhere

first start paying attention to music in 2000 so i feel i should remember more of this interlull stuff

remember that gloooooooorious song by andreas someoneorother

needs an interlull poll then

ENOUGH

For some reason this was my favourite joke at the time:

Me: Hey, you know that song, 'Glorious', by Anners Johnson?
Person B: You mean Andreas Johnson?
Me: Oh yeah, I forgot about Dre

LOLS & ROFFLES ETC

Why did I just tell people that? God, it was shit.

dont think there's enough aesthetic coherence in the interlull era, it's at least two separate streams, maybe a couple more depending on where u draw the lines

emil.y that is a wonderful joke and makes me nostalgic for xfm in the year 2000

xxp Ha, I am definitely going to use that joke asap.

That joke was http://www.dangerhere.com/issues/issue36-040202/outstanding_coley.jpg

Landfill = Many copies of record/cd were made, some sold, some did not, over time the owners attempted to get rid of those that they bought but do not play/want any more. But no-one wants them second hand either. So, they go to municipal dumps. i.e. land-fill.

So, Texas qualify as landfill, but not landfill indie.

Gomez? Dunno.

Rialto? Singles/albums sit in oxfam, priced at 25p, never move.

BooRads? Priced lowly, but then people go "Ooh, look: Giant Steps at 50p, they nuts?" so not landfill.

Etc...

andreas johnson....so technically it should be 'Hey, you know that song, 'Glorious', by An Ass Johnson'

agreed,
a) on emil.y's joke, A1
b) Incoherent interlull - there's also the regular fries, lo-fidelity all stars, campag velocet push from the papers around the turn of the millennium.

maybe the lex was right about uk music after all

There's a band called The Crooks currently playing on 6music. I fear we may have called the death of landfill indie too soon.

Was the New Acoustic Movement part of the interlull?