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

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

Geir's five are the least necessary youtubes we've ever had!

That list is made even worse by the fact I've actually seen about 75% of them live because they were perennial support bands and/or inevitably turned up at the bottom end of festival bills. Gene, Kenickie, Marion and Silver Sun weren't awful. I voted for Northern Uproar for being one of the few bands to actually force me to move somewhere in a live venue where I couldn't hear them; I think only Cast and the Mighty Lemon Drops share that distinction.

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Stereophonics & Ocean Colour Scene TROUNCED the others in the last poll
Worst Of These Mid-Late 90s UK Bands?

to think, some of this lot were maybe one coked up interview away from getting onto that invisible pathway to nirvana trodden by the stereophonics

oh man, i love Mighty Lemon Drops. why were they so bad live?

less than 12 hours to vote for kenickie guys

why has geir deejed this up with youtube vis?

Don't know which one to not watch first.

I'm going to not watch all of them one after the other all afternoon.

Had a lot of time for The Divine Comedy back in the day, Liberation and Promenade were both fine records with the Nymanisms tempered by some great popwise hooks. He started to go all foppish with Casanova and a couple of good later ones (A Short Album About Love, Regeneration) notwithstanding, it was downhill fast from then on.

Another forgotten one: Molly Half Head. So forgotten that they don't even appear to have a Wikipedia article or a mention in any!? I actually have an (the?) album, all I remember for sure is it's a digipak with a Paul Klee painting on the front.

Lol at "Bardsley is fond of pronouncing almost all of his consonants as z's".

Decently named blog that, btw.

worst record collection ever

http://replay.waybackmachine.org/19971108163436/http://www.beat.co.uk/beat/wonderwall.html

Seems an appropriate place to : Remember these?

http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20021207065059/http://www.beat.co.uk/wonderwall.html

Wel, it was working before: Try this one instead.

I like the odd Molly Half Head song, Barny is a great track. Think they had two albums, 'Sulk' and 'Dunce'. Only heard the first, which is patchy but some great moments there.

That Midway Still indie blog is great, shame he's abandoned it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pquBVIN_6Jk

Subcircus? I saw them at Reading '97, though all I can really remember about it was some drunk horny girl in the crowd standing almost bent double, grinding her arse into her bf's crotch. Distracting. Anyway, Subcircus. Eddie Izzard was a fan iirc.

DG is desperate for kenickie votes to excise the ghost of old ilx

ha

i hadn't thought of it that way but i can see it, def.....

voting Hurricane #1 cos they were fucking horrible and (at the time) I thought Andy Bell knew better. I had loved him so...... but really also because the dad rock contingent of this lot are the worst - H#1 pretty fairly represent that.

you cant, it manifests itself like in whistle and i'll come to you xp

well more like play missy elliott and i'll come to you

Hurricane #1 deserve at least a few votes for the lyrics
"Only the strongest will survive, these days you gotta kill yourself just to stay alive"

didn't they also do "Daniel Sturridge has gone to Chelsea"?

http://www.levellers.co.uk/www/en/image/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.levellers.co.uk%2Fwww%2Fupload%2Fblue-baby-grow-main+copy.jpg&id=302558

http://www.levellers.co.uk/www/upload/blue-baby-grow-main%20copy.jpg

comes with free bit of string for confinement of infants to within a two metre radius of the nearest tree

Anyone read this magazine? saw it in wh smiths today
http://bigcheesemagazineshop.com/images/vive-le-rock-2-big.jpg

Vive Le Rock being the name of the terrible song that Adam Ant did at Live Aid iirc.

revived the Bang thread for anyone who wants to pour scorn on it

space over sleeper then?

Smaller under Midget?

LOL @ results

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holy mother of christ you all deserve to lose your ears

10 of you anyway

ILM...outside! Now!

loooool

ilx:
http://v.tgdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/nixon-v-235x300.jpg

the top two are the only two of these i saw live