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

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?

Skinner still has NAM flashbacks

The Crooks are the vibrant new sound of Leamington in 2011. Taking the coruscating guitar lines of The Cribs and the insouciant sneer of The Kooks, etc etc etc [file copy]

http://goofygifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/funny-animated-gifs-army-flashbacks.gif

needs shopped with starsailor in it

Was the New Acoustic Movement part of the interlull?

― oppet, Thursday, 24 February 2011 16:51 (2 minutes ago)

def

remember i am klolt?

Turin Brakes

terrible memories

http://forum.emobucket.com/avatars/l.gif?dateline=1296391406http://www.u1ab.co.uk/images/4579_bow_ties.jpg

lol

Ha, second google result for new acoustic movement is ilm thread "New Acoustic Movement" - classic or dud?

no posts in nine years and STILL tops the results? rip NAM, you were always the best of them

3 colours red-Alan Mcgee said they were going to be the new Sex Pistols, they weren't
18 wheeler-Alan Mcgee claimed their last album was going to be the new Screamadelica, it wasn't.
divine comedy-Love this band even though I understand why he annoys a lot of people.
dodgy-One of the worst bands on the list. Good Enough is still a song that makes me quite angry, sorry Geir.
dubstar-I still love the first album and No More Talk from the second album. She wrote lyrics like she was Morrissey and they wrote music like St Etienne.
echobelly-The singer was quite cute but she had a really annoying voice, especially on their big hit Great Things.
embrace-The worst band on the list by a mile, his awful nasal singing voice and his big round greasy face! Maybe the worst singer in the history of music.
gene-Great live band who actually deserved more than just those constant Smiths comparison.
gomez-The 90's version of The Coral. I love the way critics thought the guy with the raspy voice was like a great blues singer or something.
hurricane #1-Another Alan Mcgee favourite until he forced them to put their big hit on an advert for The Sun which killed their career stone dead and he disowned them months later.
kenickie-Two great albums, they do not deserve to be on the list. Come Out 2nite is still one of my favourite singles of all time.
longpigs-The first album had some great singles and the second one was kind of a lost indie classic, the singer was a twat though.
marion-I loved this band do much at the time, shame the singer blew it by getting hooked on heroin and stealing some garden ornaments. I think they would have would have done a lot better maybe 10 years later when all those bands that sounded a bit like Interpol were getting signed.
menswe@r-I am probably the only person on here that bought the second album, I wouldn't exactly recommend it. I was so obsessed with them when they came about thinking they were the indie Duran Duran or something. I listened to the first album recently and it hasn't aged well, still love Day Dreamer though.
my life story-Another band I used to love at the time but they've dated so badly and the singer is obviously a moron. I used to think their first album was an indie version of The Lexicon Of Love, I would like to say sorry to ABC for that one. 12 Reasons Why I Love Her is quite a good list song.
powder-I only really remember Afrodisiac which rhymed had some good rhyming going on the chorus, Afrodisiac, shrink wrapped, cracker jack etc. The singer did a lot of drugs and married the drummer from Supergrass.
puressence-One of the more serious bands that had success after the main Britpop years, pretty harmless.
sleeper-I definitely had a big crush on Louise Wener but the band were not up to much at all. All there songs started with strange little keyboard intro's that had nothing to do with the song then it would soon go into the same boring tune each time.
smaller-The singer (Bagsy i think?) was mates with Noel Gallagher.
space-Out of all the bands on the list they've probably dated the worst. Try watching the video for The Ballad Of Thom Jones now and just keep in my mind that song was a top 5 hit, it's scary.
audioweb-Can't remember much about them, think they were a bit more dance than indie.
bluetones-Still like a lot of their stuff.
geneva-The first album had some great singles. The singer had a very angelic voice.
heavy stereo-Another Creation records discovery. The lead singer went on to write songs for Oasis and is now in Beady Eye, it just keeps getting better and better for this guy.
jocasta-The singer was an absolute nutter who took himself way too seriously. He got himself a huge drugs habit but was eventually saved and sent to rehab by Dot Cotton from Eastenders
midget-Think these guys were about 14 when they got signed and were a power punk three piece who had songs called Welcome Home Jelly Bean and Kylie & Jason, they were big in Japan.
monaco-Peter Hook's second band with David potts. I liked the two hit singles but the album was a disaster.
northern uproar-One of the worst bands on the list. First single was produced by James Dean Bradfield. Their fourth single was a ballad called Town that went "Going down so down town, where the streets are full of clowns" they probably thought it was going to be their Wonderwall but it's just one of those great Britpop ballads where the label let them have fun using an orchestra. Their comeback (and last?) single was inspired by Motown!!
nowaysis-Nothing to say about them.
number 1 cup-Only remember their miner hit called Dive Bomb, I used to hate it.
perfume 60 ft dolls-Perfume had a great single called Lover but not much else. 60 Ft Dolls were always in the NME going on about their drink and drug habbits. I used to think they were pretty bad but then another quirky Welsh three piece came about a couple of years later who were a million times worse. The lead singer went on to manage Terris.
rialto-Their songs always sounded like they were going for big Bond themes. They had some pleasant singles and the singer was one of the less annoying fopps around. They had 2 drummers for no reason at all.
silver sun-Still love their first album. I seem to remember them being called the British Weezer when they came about.
supernaturals-One of the indie bands that were supposed to be quirky or cheeky a bit Space or Dodgy.
symposium-They could have done well about 5 years later with bands like Hundred Reasons were doing well. They did pop punk and spit up on the verge of doing quite well. Andrew Lloyd Webber was a fan.
the gyres-One of the more ladsy bands, like an even poorer version of Northern Uproar. I don't think they were on Creation but I'm sure Alan Mcgee was involved in whatever bidding war there was for these guys.
tiger-The singer couldn't really sing and they were a bit shouty, the NME loved them for about 5 minutes calling them the new Fall. They had some catchy singles but a terrible album.
unbelievable truth-Thom York's brother was the lead singer.
warm jets-The singer went out with Zoe Ball..erm that's about it.

Scary how many bands I owned albums or singles by. I will be voting Embrace as the worst band on the list.

my life story-Another band I used to love at the time but they've dated so badly and the singer is obviously a moron.

OK, tale often told, it's about to be told again. In short...

He used to manage "PanicStation/Dingwalls", I was there during an all-dayer, not terribly well but bearing up, standing in the lobby getting some air, he comes out and insists I either go back in or leave. Like, you know, I was standing on his foot or something. "It's not that hot in there" he goes in and checks for all of five seconds.

Rialto were ex-Kinky Machine, right? If a pre-1994 lolindie poll is to go ahead, they have to be in it.

symposium got a bottle of my piss at V97

kinky machine were mark goodier's fave band when he did the evening session

I love that the third post on that NAM thread is Ethan going "I suppose this is as good a place as any to talk about Daft Punk..."

jocasta-The singer was an absolute nutter who took himself way too seriously. He got himself a huge drugs habit but was eventually saved and sent to rehab by Dot Cotton from Eastenders

Please tell me this is actually true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Arnold_%28musician%29

This is an amazing piece of Wikipedia vandalism.

In 2003 Arnold traveled to a Buddhist monastery in Thailand.[2] He was practically adopted by the abbot of the monastery who encouraged him with his music and that, in turn, opened new artistic horizons. Under the guidance of the monks, he engaged in the composition of an album in which the music was created by following cracks in the earth, which metamorphosed into pop rock melodies.

Lokutara was his debut solo album, written and recorded in Thailand with the assistance of the monastery's community.

dom or ferg?

Hailing from a working class theatrical family, the smell of the grease paint was so strong that at 14 years old he decided to leave his mother's home in Spain and return alone to England to study at the Rudolf Steiner School and join the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. Arnold was the youngest initiate ever to join the ancient order of which the poet William Blake had been a former chief. Bizarrely enough, Arnold completed the Orders’ Bardic teachings in 1990 and so, therefore, is actually a ‘Bard’. It was at The Rudolf Steiner School that he formed the band Jocasta with best friend Jack Reynolds. In 1994, Arnold and the band moved from Hertfordshire to London. Arnold originally intended to take a place at St. Martin's School of Art that he had been offered but instead took a job in Soho, working as a chef by day and a doorman by night in an illegal drinking bar.[1]

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

― Matt DC, Thursday, 24 February 2011 16:35 (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah well i get most things wrong round here. I apologise!

It's starting to occur to me that this is actually all true and not a work of vandalism at all - see this for example.