Look, can we not sully these bands (and I am just as guilty as you) by including them in this thread?
― Just got offed, Friday, 30 May 2008 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Would you say the same about Placebo?
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 30 May 2008 23:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm past caring tbh.
― Just got offed, Friday, 30 May 2008 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I dont believe you.
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 30 May 2008 23:26 (sixteen years ago) link
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, Friday, 30 May 2008 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 31 May 2008 00:08 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 31 May 2008 00:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll leave that to Louis
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 31 May 2008 00:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Even an album like The Great Escape is deceptively complex. Far more going on than many would have you believe.
― Just got offed, Saturday, 31 May 2008 10:03 (sixteen years ago) link
-- 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.
― jeremy waters, Saturday, 31 May 2008 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link
It could've been worse. It might have been the wonderstuff or kingmaker.
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 31 May 2008 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Fer Ark, Saturday, 31 May 2008 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I hope not. Colonel Poo are you still doing the early 90s equivalent poll?
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 31 May 2008 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Perhaps we can help him by nominating early 90s bands. Kingmaker The Wonderstuff Carter USM Neds Atomic Dustbin
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 31 May 2008 14:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Sultans Of Ping F.C.
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 31 May 2008 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Cork is an anagram of rock.
― Raw Patrick, Sunday, 1 June 2008 00:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Corkists?
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 1 June 2008 00:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuck Rieg for reals.
― Raw Patrick, Sunday, 1 June 2008 00:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Where's Me Melody?
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 1 June 2008 00:37 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWsHXX_HLKs never forget
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 1 June 2008 00:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Raw Patrick, Sunday, 1 June 2008 00:49 (sixteen years ago) link
how did dance music sweep the nation with competition like this?
xpost
― jeremy waters, Sunday, 1 June 2008 00:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Did you used to some other login?
(Not asking sarkily).
― Raw Patrick, Sunday, 1 June 2008 00:53 (sixteen years ago) link
ogwhiaqi
― jeremy waters, Sunday, 1 June 2008 00:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Welcome back!
― Raw Patrick, Sunday, 1 June 2008 00:57 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 1 June 2008 11:15 (sixteen years ago) link
er, keyboardist. you knew what i meant.
unless i really did misunderstand what i was told o_O
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 1 June 2008 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link
grimly you just made me spit ice lolly over the monitor
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 1 June 2008 11:17 (sixteen years ago) link
hahaha
― Just got offed, Sunday, 1 June 2008 11:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I wonder if that keyboard likes cars.
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 1 June 2008 11:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I never quite understood the appeal of Catatonia.
― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 1 June 2008 12:02 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 1 June 2008 12:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 1 June 2008 12:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I got sick of Wu Tang pulling that "we're Welsh and we're proud" shit.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 1 June 2008 12:40 (sixteen years ago) link
And Kingmaker?
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 1 June 2008 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Convenient Welsh figures of fun for those of us struggling along in Welsh bands in Hull, Wales at the time.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 1 June 2008 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 1 June 2008 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
God I can't stand that pic of big-nosed Liam up at the top there.
http://static.nme.com/images/64_britpop_originals.jpg http://i28.tinypic.com/14l1qbo.jpg
― ledge, Sunday, 1 June 2008 23:21 (sixteen years ago) link
hah i just noticed Spice Girls are on that cover too.
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 2 June 2008 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
hahahaha oh fuck look whats just come out
http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/FCCD110.JPG Release date: 26-5-2008
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 2 June 2008 01:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Wonder if it will do as well as the John Power and John Squire albums did haha
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 2 June 2008 07:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i was shocked and dismayed to discover that mrs fiendish went to see reef, many years ago. apparently they were "a bit shit" and she only went "because my mate had a ticket". still, though. brrr. reef. boak.
herman: yes, those mid-to-late-nineties TitP lineups you mention are one of the reasons i've never been to the thing -- i associate it with irredeemable shiteness.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 2 June 2008 09:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw Noel Gallagher at Euston station at 9:30am this morning. He was leaning by the Cornish Pasty Company stall on his mobile. Someone shouted "Oi dickhead" at him.
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 2 June 2008 09:36 (sixteen years ago) link
"Someone" i.e. you?
― Upt0eleven, Monday, 2 June 2008 10:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think Dom's the type for the hasty expletive, more the thought-out devastating character assassination, followed by the insouciant "Jokes, bruv"
― Just got offed, Monday, 2 June 2008 10:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Grimly> I wasnt at the 1st TTP, but the 2nd and 3rd were awesome, you just had to avoid the shite britpop acts. The dance tent was awesome and the main stage wasn't too bad apart from when The Beautiful South and M People headlined. All their fans waited out in the car park til they were due on. I saw Reef at one of them though and they were dreadful. I remember loads laughing at them as they had been proclaimed as the future of british rock.
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 2 June 2008 11:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Wasn't the first T In The Park technically the Stone Roses on Glasgow Green?
― aldo, Monday, 2 June 2008 12:05 (sixteen years ago) link
no
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 2 June 2008 12:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Are you sure? There was definitely at least one year it was on Glasgow Green before it moved out to Strathclyde Country Park, Radiohead played it. 99?
― aldo, Monday, 2 June 2008 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait a minute, that's obviously bollocks, the radiohead thing. It definitely started on the Green though.
― aldo, Monday, 2 June 2008 12:24 (sixteen years ago) link