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

as a genre term I mean...

The Jam is the first band that comes to my mind when I hear the term.

nah that's white power pop

I always thought that "power pop" was a term invented by Chas De Whalley at Sounds in late 1977 in order to confer "movement" status upon a bunch of skinny-tied post-punk bands with 1960s-derived pop sensibilities: The Pleasers, New Hearts, Advertising, The Yachts etc. Then the term crossed over to the US in time for The Knack in 1979. But we've done this before...

If not for Geir I sometimes worry I would never have new display names.

Band: "Rock bands at their best when they .."
Crowd: "DO NOT ROCK!!!"

As for "September Gurls", yes, it is a good song. A good song from an OK album that generally still rocks too much. And the next Big Star album rocked even more, which was even worse.

You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro)

Yeah you're right Third/Sister Lovers rocks pretty hard, it's basically a metal album. Especially on tracks like Kangaroo, Big Black Car and that hard rock anthem Holocaust. If anything they got less rock with each album. The debut has songs like Don't Lie To Me and In The Street which are surely more rock than anything on the other albums, not that they are actually that rockin' at all. Big Star definitely had elements of all the B bands you listed, especially The Beatles and The Byrds.

Back to Northern Uproar, if you really think Town is a great song and Big Star's second album was just okay then I'm not sure there's any hope for you. Also I love the idea of you finding a song like this too noisy and screamy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS9BodOkvb0

Why do you have all these rules about what genres bands are? .

Why are you asking this question, this is Geir!?!?!

dunno why cast, kula shaker etc are missing from this list :D

Not "post" dad/brit rock?

nor were most of this list; they're certainly terrible enough to have earned a place

pfunk's rationale was that they were too big and obviously bad

i think a few on the list might be 'obviously bad'

bad schmad

it's a poor list and i thought we were going to call mulligans on it

ah well

mulligans?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulligan_(games)

These kids and their slang, tchoh!

if it was ran again i think there might be quite a few cries of "ffs not another britpop poll" and there would be some really pissed off ilxors.

stoked for thursday, cant wait

embrace are the worst

Voted My Life Story.

for those reasons personal to me, and also because "You don't sparkle" is such self-aggrandising rub, and that "7 (12) reasons why" is, um, alright I guess, but still indicates that I was right in thinking the bloke to be horrendously smug.

god they were awful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bYj2o7y4rk

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Achintya-Bheda-Abheda

सचेत तत् त्वम् असि

Achintya = inconceivable; Bheda = form; Abheda = Formless.

The same thing (God/Life) is inconcievably as well Form as well as Formless at the same time.
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totally love this song! used to busk this one,many moons ago ,great memories
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ha I wondered when Crispin Urquhart Newton Taylor was going to turn up

As the frontman of Kula Shaker, Mills received a great deal of media attention – as much for his outspoken nature as his music. After the demise of Kula Shaker, this attention ceased, although he still commands a great deal of notice in Japan.

Xpost I used to be a big My Life Story fan but even at the time I hated this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71j9CaAk3Ks

This must be one of the smuggest songs ever made. I remember Select giving their album 0/5 saying it was the worst album ever recorded.

As for Kula Shaker, again I was a fan until the album came out. I had a couple of the singles and me and my brother still have a laugh today about one of the B-sides which was called Crispian Reading From The Mahabharata, which is unfortunately not on Youtube. He was doing his reading over an instrumental version of Tattva.

The "Sound of Drums" single was pretty good, and seemed to suggest that they might actually improve and do good stuff in the future.

Then... not.

Oddly, I was shifting some stuff in the loft, and a scrap of newspaper had their interview (the flaming swasts one), where they were also asked about their ideology of having women not going out to work and only being allowed to bring up family, etc, and theur reply was "oh, yeah, think so", etc.

Back to Northern Uproar, if you really think Town is a great song and Big Star's second album was just okay then I'm not sure there's any hope for you. Also I love the idea of you finding a song like this too noisy and screamy.

Not too screamy, but the guitars are way too loud on that track. Same as with Oasis at their worst: Way too loud.

Oh and btw. Kula Shaker were great. Still are actually.

These five tracks were the best Britpop tracks ever, none of which too loud, rather smooth and pretty, with nice and clean guitar sounds, but all catchy, melodic and wonderfully poppy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpuh1WE-RVw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSUuRZR-9hA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hzrDeceEKc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf5gGwGVaTk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIzcRqyXGdk

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
those are 5 of the very worst

except for the dodgy. so call that 4. I just assumed you had put good enough in

They are not of the worst, but sure they are closer to softrock than Britpop. Which is good, good, good and nothing but good. Because softrock is a fantastic genre.

The sound of someone gargling with shit would be preferable.

that's liam gallaghers vocals these days. Beady Eye are even more softer and beatles-y ballady shite than Oasis. At least Noel knew how to rock and write rock songs, he likes all different kinds of music. Liam is basically geir in his taste of music. fuck soft rock.

The problem about Beady Eye is they have no good songwriters left (except Andy Bell, but "Twisterella" was 19 years ago!), but the fact that they have turned down the guitar amps is good. And the fact that Liam is the one who demanded Noel turn up his probably means that Noel solo will be better plus he is the superior songwriter.

Same as with Oasis at their worst: Way too loud.

Ha, this reminds me of a schoolfriend of mine who claimed Oasis were "just noise" - except this guy was into stuff like Deicide and Sepultura. In retrospect he had a point, taking into account the notoriously loud (for the time) mastering of the second album.

Yeah Noel and his various producers on the first 4 albums or so did a great job of representing what the Hacienda must've sounded like in his head after 15 E's and a pound of shrooms

Voted Northern Uproar for combining sludgy sloppy sub Spin DOcters guitar riffs with rudimentary drumming and hideous muppet vocals

country house is like #1 worst song ever

roll with it was far worse

true

roll with it didn't involve keith allen

both have some of the worst singing:

"doesn't DRINK SMOKE LAUGH / takes 'ERBAL BARFS" vs the entire chorus of 'Roll With It'

i never knew that line said herbal baths

was albarn on heroin when he wrote country aaase

He was on Meroin iirc

Dubstar should defiintely not be on that list, if only because of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VySsb6FogSo

IIRC, even Bob Stanley once said he wished he'd written it ...though to be fair, credit should be given to motiv8, who made it even more amazing.

i like the motiv8 remix but still prefer the orig

dubstar always had top b-sides too - 'a certain sadness' utterly beautiful and should have been on their album

I still really rate the first Dubstar album. I never heard the second one for some reason but the lead single was actually one of my favourite singles of the 90's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TaWwoXCj4c