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

This still sounds great, brilliant chorus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-s03-4rEXs

Most notable omission: Shed Seven

I can remember almost all these bands, I used to do my homework with the Evening Session on and they loved all this stuff. Bands I liked at least one song by at the time: 3 Colours Red, Marion, Dodgy, Gene, Echobelly, Kenickie, Menswe@r, Silver Sun... I think Marion are the only ones I still own anything by (7" of 'Sleep' on orange vinyl!) though. Worst of the lot has to be Midget though - a more juvenile, tune-free Symposium (who were in turn a more juvenile, tune-free Ash).

Does Republica belong here? they were always played on the evening session as they had guitars!

M@tt: the song 'Divebomb' by Number One Cup got a lot of evening radio rotation on its release and was probably also on these comp CDs which mostly featured the bands itt

nakh said he took the list from somewhere else so I think it was just a trick of the memory

When's the 90s UK pop metal poll coming? Some of those bands were pretty good.

― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, February 24, 2011 7:05 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

Chap go for it

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, February 24, 2011 7:08 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

Depends how many I can remember...

Therapy?
Wildhearts
Headswim
Terrorvision
Senser (if they count)
Kerbdog (think they were Ulster boys, though might've been ROI)

Who else? China Drum maybe?

nakh said he took the list from somewhere else so I think it was just a trick of the memory

― Jari Litmandem (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:28

yeah i subcontracted the listmaking duties to someone else, so liability accepted for any unwanted clementines found in your bespoke box of dead cockroaches

Chap take 50 noms from
How do the various members of Terrorvision spend their time these days?

Oh man, I had the Thurman album. They were local... I thought I had to...

chap: Joyrider? Skyscraper, or am I the only person who remembers them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FtTu0OniZg

forgot how popular that haircut was in the 90s

was it just pulp fiction or

http://i.imgur.com/7C0mr.jpg

For the pop metal poll:

Honeycrack
Skunk Anansie
Dub War (maybe not pop enough)

OH GOD NO NOT REPUBLICA THIS HAS GONE TOO FAR NOW

I have no memory of that catch single, it's weirdly creepy. LOL@ youtube comment:

Good song, but he sung it too camp.
I'd bum him though.
patmick9700 1 year ago

The Almighty
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Feeder (not sure if they're for the rawk list or should've been on this one but ugh)

Reef

lol pash

Thanks fellas, noms going on here now:

How do the various members of Terrorvision spend their time these days?

a lot of these guys went into a&r i'd bet, hence landfill 00s

the bands listed in the poll are like lammo's children really. the vast outpouring of popular art coming from the evening session's 10-year lock on national radio promo for new bands.

This is an astounding thread

http://i.imgur.com/sbfEK.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/43WTp.jpg

carp attack

looooool

'Quattro Formaggi' is such a peerlessly classic name for an anonymous 90s remix

Is there already a thread for britpop remixes?

cos I fuckin loved that shit. proto bloghouse hypem culture, or something.

the manics had dust brothers/chemical brothers remixes that were really good.

yeah they were good. I liked mu-ziq remixing the auteurs too (and Haines' subsequent comments).

Therapy? had a really good Photek remix done on 'em, got me into jungle that did.

Strangelove were pretty good. Brett Anderson was mates with them and does backing vocals on their album Love & Other Demons. The guitarist actually ended up being in Suede when Neil Codling left for the last album, the peak Suede years.

The was Alex Lee who was also in the Blue Aeroplanes round about the time of Swagger.

Therapy? had good taste in remixers: Sabres of Paradise remixed "Nowhere" too (but I can't remember what it sounded like).

Kerbdog (think they were Ulster boys, though might've been ROI)

From Kilkenny (i.e. the Republic)

Their singer is now an Lamacq-alike on RTE

David Holmes did some remixes for Therapy? too, don't think I ever heard them though.

I did like the Chemical Brothers remix of 'Toothache' by The Charlatans at the time.

Also, Therapy, before their first LP, were great - their original drummer, with the almost comically Norn Iron name, Fyfe Ewing, provided a trance-y house-y element that went awol as soon as he left.

Write in vote for shitty indie band Snug, who haven't yet been mentioned in this thread. The shitty indie band that shitty indie solo artist Ed Harcourt was in before he became a shitty indie solo artist.

The 90s UK music press really did use "Ireland" and "Northern Ireland" interchangeably. Ash and the Divine Comedy were always described as "Irish" and then turned out to be from NI and now I'm being surprised that Kerbdog weren't from NI.

Then again I may have been confusing them with Joyrider, as the two are pretty much the same band in my head.

(admission: I was in love with Fyfe Ewing and never quite forgave the band for letting him leave)
(second admission: a friend of a friend went to school with the singer from Therapy? and after many years of moping along to his angst-filled lyrics I was strangely disappointed when said FoaF reported that actually he had been quite popular and even - gasp! - had girlfriends and stuff)

Went to a Bluetones gig in Brighton once. 'Return To The 36 Chambers' by ODB played in it's entirety before they came on. That was good. They were okay.
Still love first Longpigs album.

Fyfe Ewing was a terrific drummer

Didn't like Joyrider much, but they were born out of the Cateran who were pretty good back in the day - basically Edinburgh's answer to Husker Du.

really scraping the barrel now

DG in your opinion what was worse shitty britpop or landfill?

landfill, can name at least two britpop bands

can't believe you guys continued without me :(

lol nineties indie kids, lauren laverne is never going to give u the time of day and u might as well admit

i had crushes on two of kenickie, neither of them the gofton siblings

kenickie drummer kinda looked like the stomach-baby guy from total recall

Scarfo are the elephant in the room here.

they are?

oh god i saw them (supporting seahorses lol before seahorses had released any material so i didnt know they were gonna be so bad)

then i saw the kills supporting primal scream

dudes bound to pop up with a 3rd band in 10 years time

i liked scarfo (and the first 2 kills albums for that matter) quite a bit

"hotel" put out a couple of singles as Fiji in between. 'cattlecount' was fantastic, probably my favourite song the dude was involved in

Kenickie C/D

CLASSIC and if i've said it once i'll say it a million times they had the SPUNKIEST BASS PLAYER evah oh my god swoon swoon swoon

― electric sound of jim, Friday, 24 May 2002 01:00 (8 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i cant even remember the bass player