overlooked 90's groups

Yeah the first two albums are very enjoyable to me, would have liked to see them play around that time.

i've never actually heard a st. johnny record. i remember them being pretty miserable during the whole major label thing. saw them open for elastica at the khyber pass in philly and they were really good though. they brought it. i felt bad for jim. he's such an awesome guitarist.

― scott seward, Saturday, March 17, 2012 3:01 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah the first two albums are very enjoyable to me, would have liked to see them play around that time.

i love the one st johnny album i have (speed is dreaming), but i much prefer bills follow on stuff under the name of grand mal.

I will second Grifters.

Or is that a first?

Is Catherine Wheel overlooked?

Soul Hat

Hey Scott, speaking of the Khyber, do you know this blog, archiving "local Philly bands and bands playing in Philly", many recorded at the Khyber in the early 90s, like Straitjacket Fits, Mike Rep, Pavement w Gary Young, GBV (Pollard w Cobra Verde, I think), Helios Creed, V3, etc
http://freedomhasnobounds.com/?p=1631

Whatever happened to Babe The Blue Ox? They had the tunes! And the voices, when it was hard to find either in indie rock, much less both in one band

(maybe it wasn't that hard, but I was jaded)

Is Catherine Wheel overlooked?

judging by their presence in used cd bins, i would venture to guess that they have been giving a thorough look-over

been given, rather

what about 90s australian band glide?

Jonathan Fire*Eater.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, January 13, 2003 3:45 PM (9 years ago)

Jonathan Fire*Eater overlooked? No way.

― hstencil, Monday, January 13, 2003 3:47 PM (9 years ago)

surely if the Grifters and Silkworm get a mention then JF*E should, too. either way, i got much love for all three of these bands.

The Nectarine No. 9 walk this

re: jonathan fire*eater, the walkmen are maybe slightly overlooked as far as 00s bands go

Retsin
Ninetynine
Versus
Citrus
800 Cherries
Baby Fox
Rome
Toenut
Laika
Secret Square
Fablefactory
Skylab
Heavy Vegetable
HiM (not to be confused with HIM)
Juicy
pretty much everything on Skin Graft

Will second/third/fourth all kinds of stuff upthread (Sugar Plant, Moose, Kleenex Girl Wonder, Sammy, Rose Melberg's various concerns). And I know they weren't exactly overlooked, but the Spinanes surely didn't get the attention they deserved.

not enough love on the sugar plant thread i started a zillion years ago:

The Official Sugar Plant Thread

and, don, thanks for the blog tip! awesome stuff on there. an entire void show i'd never seen! and a cool strapping fieldhands set too. all kinds of stuff.

What a fruitful thread. All of those shoegazing groups! Th' Faith Healers, Prolapse and Seefeel.

Blank - great call on Glide, a tremendous band. Great quiet-loud-quiet dynamics, heart-on-sleeve lyrics without being emo or cheesy, and not just overlooked but totally unknown (at least in the US) because their albums just never got released here. And then the lead singer died, damn shame.

This is a really great thread, lots of good suggestions.

Earl Brutus-I Know these guys have a few obsessive fans on here but really one of the most overlooked bands ever.
Ultrasound-The album should have been better but they had some amazing songs spread out on all their singles.
Jack-For fans of Strangelove
Animals That Swim-First album, Workshy is brilliant.
Moose-Those first three ep's are great.
Chisel-Not in the same league as Ted Leo & The Pharmacists but had two really solid albums.

For Squirrels - their album Example was one of my favorites in high school.

Real heavy early R.E.M. vibes on this one:

http://youtu.be/wCme2F4AD04

Land of Talk, even though they are active currently

KP otm as usual - Jack and Animals That Swim are brilliant bands that sadly faded away, though Anthony Reynolds just released a career anthology and Animals That Swim released a digital-only single last year for their first release in a decade.

Earl Brutus-I Know these guys have a few obsessive fans on here but really one of the most overlooked bands ever.

"obsessive"

thats the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me ..

(i am assuming i am included as being part of the gang ! ]

another that occurred to me the other day: TERMINAL CHEESECAKE. dubbed out, grunge-era drone noise of the "we want to be on blast first" sort, well suited to staring at walls, ceilings and/or carpeting. apparently featured russell smith who'd later go on to play in skullflower. never heard their earlier recordings, but i loved angels in pigtails, their sole LP for pathological records. the closing track, "BLOW HOUND", was always my favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZFjU2e0nfk

lol, edit: "PONY BOY". "blow hound" was my 2nd favorite, but i don't like it anywhere near as much now.

yeh that album is great, some top trolling of Nigel Kennedy too

Track 9: (i) N.F. Kennedy (ii) Kennephant Man (iii) Head Of Nigel

http://www.adamalcock.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/nigel_kennedy_gorzowie_3035396.jpg

as an american, this meant nothing to me at the time

thats the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me ..

(i am assuming i am included as being part of the gang ! ]

― mark e, Sunday, 18 March 2012 19:02 (2 hours ago)

That Mouldy Old Dough thread is one of my favourite threads on ILM. They only did two albums but I'd easily put them in my top ten favourite bands. I love that there's a few people out there that love them too, I just wish there were more of us.

Jack and Animals That Swim are brilliant bands that sadly faded away, though Anthony Reynolds just released a career anthology and Animals That Swim released a digital-only single last year for their first release in a decade.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing

Both bands that peaked with their debut albums but still did some good stuff later on. I remember being pleased and not at all surprised to hear Eddie Argos from Art Brut was a big Animals That Swim fan. Pink Carnations is probably my favourite song of theirs, brilliant lyrics. I didn't really keep up anything Anthony Reynolds did after the Jack albums, anything worth a listen?

Yeah, search Jacques - "To Stars" and Anthony's solo album, "British Ballads". Both equal to the 3 Jack albums.

Will do. Having an album called British Ballads is pretty great.

I wanna go back for a minute and give another shout-out to Kleenex Girl Wonder. I was just listening to Graham Smith Is The Coolest Person Alive for the first time in years and it so holds up. Highly recommended to those who are looking for something with an early-to-mid-'90s GBV flavor.

Holy crap I can't believe I forgot about For Squirrels. I used to have their album in high school too. They def had a heavy REM vibe. Good stuff.

I'm startin to remember more bands, but I will say that I really dug the album by Salt. They were like a Swedish grunge version of Elastica.

Animals That Swim and Earl Brutus without a doubt. I've done plenty of Brutus repping on here before so won't repeat.

New Boots was a great ATS song and believe me , only last week I broke out "I was the King..." . I reckon I am the only person in the world with an obsession for "Near The Moon"

On the Yank front, I'm seconding Versus ( Secret Swingers and The Stars Are Insane superb) And laying Swell (too Many Days Without thinking)

Could continue this all night.

rRope is getting a complete collection release (3LP) possibly by this spring. Via Deathbomb Arc.

Love Swell!!! And Animals That Swim. I listen to both bands almost every day.

I caught this band Nemo from Belgium, very randomly, back in the 90's and bought their first album, which is one of the better Pixies-inspired things out there (though nowhere near Mclusky). Shelled out big $ for the follow-up, which was not in the same league. I'll be plagued until I die by the fact that I don't know what song they finished the live set with, 'cause it totally killed the crowd of like 12 people at Brownies...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwpZ6_zUdEg

I think about what I was listening to in the 90s and who I'd consider to be "overlooked" and I end up in a totally different mindspace from most of you:

Girl Eats Boy
Fluke
The Hed Boys
Cyberactiv
Psykosonik
London Funk Allstars
Zero Zero
Elevator 101
Burger Industries
Mark Ink
Skin Up
Exposure
80 AUM
Apotheosis

etc etc etc

I know I slept on these bands until the next decade - Acid Bath, Acid King, Acrimony, Colour Haze, Electric Wizard, F/i, Spiritual Beggars, Nightstalker, Terra Firma, Sheavy, Sons Of Otis, Mammoth Volume, Circle, Motorpsycho.

Stuff I did listen to at the time: Dog Faced Hermans, Blacktop, Cosmic Psychos, Crunt, Dwarves, Gaunt, The Gories, Lazy Cowgirls, Pram, Chico Science & Nação Zumbi, The Screws, Souled American, Techno Animal. Natacha Atlas?

Cosmic Psychos.Yes!

Thin White Rope. Possibly a touch more late '80s

yeah, i thought of thin white rope, but in my mind they were a mid-late 80s thing. then again, i'm more about their first three albums than sack full of silver and the ruby sea.

Were Chavez overlooked?

Thin White Rope's version of Some Velvet Morning is.... just hear it

^ yeah, it's great. they do a good "rocket USA", too. both from the late 80s though.

Railroad Jerk

Didjits?

Have I wandered back into the glorious 80s again? their pinnacle "Hey Judester" was possibly 1959

hey judester (yes! their pinnacle!) was nineteen eighty and something.

"ANTS ARE CAVEMENT", my favorite 90's thin white rope track, very much in the spirit of their "some velvet morning" cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGA1MthVyHs

lol, "cavement"

Slant 6 - two great albums then split. was lucky enough to see one of their last shows on their only UK tour - Christina Billotte's guitar playing still sounds great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-FIZlwQTnI