Worst Of These Mid-Late 90s UK Bands?

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By call it a day I take it you mean "couldn't score a record deal anywhere in the world even if they offered to play for free".

They were at one point far bigger than Blur

So was fucking Runrig lol amirite?

20 years ago maybe

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You know what's ironic? Mods in the 60s liked really cool, modern music.

Then Weller came along.

And Ironically Weller on his new album is supposedly taking more chances than these wankers ever will.

Louis what are your thoughts on dadrock? Worse than britpop?

I don't like either term. The good bands like Blur and Pulp fucking transcended any narrow genre expectations. Nowadays the pub-rock Britpoppers are only too happy with their limited commodifications. Cunts. Fuckers.

Mansun haven't influenced any of the new bands have they?

Look, can we not sully these bands (and I am just as guilty as you) by including them in this thread?

Would you say the same about Placebo?

I'm past caring tbh.

I dont believe you.

Bizarrely, DJ Erol Alkan is a MASSIVE Ocean Colour Scene fan, and may even be releasing some stuff on their label (Mosely Shoals?).

You know what's ironic? Mods in the 60s liked really cool, modern music.

You know what's ironic? The music that Mods in the 60s liked sounded roughly the same as the music mod-revivalists in the 90s liked. Strange, huh?

The good bands like Blur and Pulp fucking transcended any narrow genre expectations.

When Blur were good, they didn't. It wasn't until 1997 that they did, and by then they were rapidly becoming less and less good.

I'll leave that to Louis

Even an album like The Great Escape is deceptively complex. Far more going on than many would have you believe.

Bizarrely, DJ Erol Alkan is a MASSIVE Ocean Colour Scene fan, and may even be releasing some stuff on their label (Mosely Shoals?).

-- Raw Patrick, Saturday, May 31, 2008 12:27 AM

as a sidenote, erol alkan's big musical epiphany was nwonw bands like smash and these animal men. he described early trash nights as "new wave of new grave", playing out tunes by the likes of marion and the longpigs.

It could've been worse. It might have been the wonderstuff or kingmaker.

Kingmaker!!!
A total dud embarrassment from my home town- I swear there is no jealousy here! How they ever 'made' it was beyond me. Does anybody ever still play their records?

I hope not.
Colonel Poo are you still doing the early 90s equivalent poll?

Perhaps we can help him by nominating early 90s bands.
Kingmaker
The Wonderstuff
Carter USM
Neds Atomic Dustbin

Sultans Of Ping F.C.

Cork is an anagram of rock.

Corkists?

Fuck Rieg for reals.

Where's Me Melody?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWsHXX_HLKs never forget

Forgot the charity shop coat and not much else look. Ugh.

Still, know the feeling which is why I bought a £15 H&M denim jacket which it doesn't matter if I lose.

"Paranoid pop has a new face" said the NME singles review.

how did dance music sweep the nation with competition like this?

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Did you used to some other login?

(Not asking sarkily).

ogwhiaqi

Welcome back!

I am well disposed to them because they let their keyboardist write one track and it was by far the best thing they ever did. I regard that as some kind of victory for the little man

we've done this before somewhere, but trust me: i think shagging my flatmate is probably the greatest victory the keyboard from space (and indeed his "little man") ever enjoyed.

er, keyboardist. you knew what i meant.

unless i really did misunderstand what i was told o_O

grimly you just made me spit ice lolly over the monitor

hahaha

I wonder if that keyboard likes cars.

I never quite understood the appeal of Catatonia.

i was thinking about the sexual proclivities of the keyboardist from space just then when i was in the shower -- no, not like that -- and i feel i should correct the record: it wasn't actually my flatmate he shagged. it was her mate (who, incidentally, went on to play in a variety of underachieving indie combos, one of which was staggeringly awesome and eclipses everything on this list several times over).

my flatmate shagged the backline tech.

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I think Catatonia were one of those "you had to be there" bands, where your enjoyment of them was proportional to the enjoyment you got by reading in the gossip pages of the weeklies about how they got blindingly drunk at some party or other. That, together with some fun singles and the "we're Welsh and we're proud" stance that was popular among a bunch of bands at the time, all added up to something more than the sum of its parts.

I got sick of Wu Tang pulling that "we're Welsh and we're proud" shit.

And Kingmaker?

Convenient Welsh figures of fun for those of us struggling along in Welsh bands in Hull, Wales at the time.

The singer dude was from one of the posh villages that seceded from Hull when we became a unitary authority. His mam and dad lived in a castle. The bass player dude was the one you used to see in the pub all the time. I know the drummer dude's brothers, nice guys.

God I can't stand that pic of big-nosed Liam up at the top there.

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hah i just noticed Spice Girls are on that cover too.