ok so far
Spice Girls - Wannabe Manic Street Preachers - Design For Life All Saints - Never Ever Dodgy - Good Enough Ocean Colour Scene - Day We caught The Train Reef - Place Your Hands Stereophonics - Mr Writer Blur - Girls And Boys Cast - Alright Gene - For The Dead Oasis - Live Forever Boo Radleys - Lazarus (re-released 1994 according to Nick) Menswear - Daydreamer Lush - Lady Killers The verve - Bittersweet Symphony (By request of LJ) Pulp - Common people Travis - Why Does It Always Rain On Me Gomez - Bring It On Bluetones - Slight Return The Auteurs - Chinese Bakery Paul Weller - The Changingman Kula Shaker - Tattva Space - Avenging Angels Embrace - One Big Family Seahorses - Love Is The Law Catatonia - Mulder And Scully Suggs - Cecilia Hurricane #1 - Step Into My World Shed Seven - Going For Gold Sleeper - What Do i Do Now Supernaturals - Smile Longpigs - She Said Northern Uproar - From A Window Echobelly - King Of The Kerb Dubstar - Stars Lightning Seeds - Lucky You Heavy Stereo - Sleep Freak 18 Wheeler - Stay Elastica - Connection Divine Comedy - National Express My Life Story - 12 Reasons I Love Her Babybird - You're Gorgeous Bis - Kandy Pop Geneva - No One Speaks Space With cerys Matthews (Catatonia) - The Ballad Of Tom Jones Republica - Drop Dead Gorgeous Levellers - What A Beautiful Day Feeder - High 3 Colours Red - Sixty Mile Smile James - Shes A Star Silver Sun - Julia Stone Roses - Love Spreads Warm Jets - Hurricane Monaco - What Do You Want From Me Mansun - Being A Girl Powder - Afrodisiac Terrorvision - Tequila Suede - Shes In fashion Moloko - Sing It Back Supergrass - Alright Portishead - Glory Box Tricky - Black Steel Ian Brown - My Star Kenickie - Punka Charlatans - How High Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar Belle & Sebastian - Legal Man Fatboy Slim - Praise You Gay Dad - Joy Campag Velocet - To Lose la Trek Black Grape - Reverend Black Grape Primal Scream - Kowalski Fat Les - Vindaloo Radiohead - Paranoid Android Massive Attack - Protection Prodigy - Breathe Underworld - Born Slippy (Nuxx) Leftfield - Open Up Super Furry Animals - God Show Me Magic Beta Band - Dry The Rain Orbital - The Box Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats Earl Brutus - The SAS And The Glam That Goes With It (nominated by LJ)
but please nominate some pop
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Madonna - Ray Of Light might as well be British. What about William Orbit - Water From A Vine Leaf?
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Massive Attack perhaps ought to be Risingson.
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe, but Protection was their big, mid-90's signature song.
Probably best to stick to best known songs.
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Probably should put some Beautiful South and M People songs in as there's fans of them on ILM
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Spice Girls - Wannabe Manic Street Preachers - Design For Life All Saints - Never Ever Dodgy - Good Enough Ocean Colour Scene - Day We caught The Train Reef - Place Your Hands Stereophonics - Mr Writer Blur - Girls And Boys Cast - Alright Gene - For The Dead Oasis - Live Forever Boo Radleys - Lazarus (re-released 1994 according to Nick) Menswear - Daydreamer Lush - Lady Killers The verve - Bittersweet Symphony (By request of LJ) Pulp - Common people Travis - Why Does It Always Rain On Me Gomez - Bring It On Bluetones - Slight Return The Auteurs - Chinese Bakery M People - Moving On Up Paul Weller - The Changingman Kula Shaker - Tattva Space - Avenging Angels Embrace - One Big Family Seahorses - Love Is The Law Catatonia - Mulder And Scully Suggs - Cecilia Hurricane #1 - Step Into My World Shed Seven - Going For Gold Sleeper - What Do i Do Now Supernaturals - Smile Longpigs - She Said Northern Uproar - From A Window Echobelly - King Of The Kerb Dubstar - Stars Lightning Seeds - Lucky You Heavy Stereo - Sleep Freak 18 Wheeler - Stay Elastica - Connection Divine Comedy - National Express My Life Story - 12 Reasons I Love Her Babybird - You're Gorgeous Bis - Kandy Pop Geneva - No One Speaks Space With cerys Matthews (Catatonia) - The Ballad Of Tom Jones Republica - Drop Dead Gorgeous Levellers - What A Beautiful Day Feeder - High 3 Colours Red - Sixty Mile Smile James - Shes A Star Silver Sun - Julia Stone Roses - Love Spreads Warm Jets - Hurricane Monaco - What Do You Want From Me Mansun - Being A Girl Powder - Afrodisiac Terrorvision - Tequila Suede - Shes In fashion Moloko - Sing It Back Supergrass - Alright Portishead - Glory Box Tricky - Black Steel Ian Brown - My Star Kenickie - Punka Charlatans - How High Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar Belle & Sebastian - Legal Man Fatboy Slim - Praise You Gay Dad - Joy Campag Velocet - To Lose la Trek Black Grape - Reverend Black Grape Primal Scream - Kowalski Fat Les - Vindaloo Radiohead - Paranoid Android Massive Attack - Protection Prodigy - Breathe Underworld - Born Slippy (Nuxx) Leftfield - Open Up Super Furry Animals - God Show Me Magic Beta Band - Dry The Rain Orbital - The Box Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats Earl Brutus - The SAS And The Glam That Goes With It (nominated by LJ) Beautiful South - Don't Marry Her
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Ok it's up BEST SONG Of These Mid To late 90s UK Bands.
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
It's one poll Stereophonics wont win on ILM. Maybe the Bluetones will walk that one ;)
Seriously, why did no-one vote Bluetones?
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 16:11 (fifteen years ago) link
because they were too inoffensive to be truly awful. and 'are you blue or are you blind', 'slight return' and 'if' have their enduring charms.
― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
They said that about M People.
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
and hitler
― DG, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
But he didn't like the Bluetones
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 21:46 (fifteen years ago) link
disliking the bluetones and not hating them as much as you hate reef/OCS/stereophonics are not the same thing. I can't imagine a world with reef in it where someone hates the bluetones more. perhaps if there were a ranking systems rather than an OPO situation, it might have been different. but hey, that's polls for you. if a thread with 300+ answers doesn't explain stuff, maybe polls aren't the way to settle this shit?
― ailsa, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
^ ignore grammatical errors there, my abilities in that area disappeared along with my will to live somewhere upthread.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I actually thought Bluetones were worse than Reef. Each to their own I guess.
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
But presumably you thought someone else was worse still. you didn't vote for them, why assume someone else is going to?
― ailsa, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
do you understand how polling even works?
― ailsa, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 23:17 (fifteen years ago) link
obviously not :)
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 5 June 2008 13:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually I've just been reminded why I hated The Bluetones. They were on the cover of Raw Magazine when it changed from an open minded Heavy Rock/Alternative/Metal mag to a full on Britpop mag. I loved that magazine and it lasted about 2 or 3 issues tops because of that change, and The Bluetones symbolizes the whole thing for me just like Limp Bizkit on the cover of the last Melody Maker does for others. Obviously that's just for me though and no reason why anyone else should have voted Bluetones.
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 5 June 2008 13:41 (fifteen years ago) link
You guys just dont hate britpop as much as americans hate nu-metal.
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 9 June 2008 23:45 (fifteen years ago) link
ocs were robbed
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 1 October 2009 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
no. no they really really really really really fucking weren't.
stereophonics never recorded a fun, silly, 7-minute rave-up like 'get away'. they sucked precisely 100% of the time.
― kell surprise (country matters), Thursday, 1 October 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i agree that OCS sucked precisely 100% of the time.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 1 October 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i forgot Dom hated Space so much. Whatever happened to Space? they've been forgotten more than the others.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 1 October 2009 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Surely someone on ILM liked Space?
louis?
space allowed their keyboardist to write precisely one song ('Piggies') and it was by 10,000 miles the best thing they did, hence they suuuuuuuck (and yeah, their main body of work is craven)
― kell surprise (country matters), Thursday, 1 October 2009 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
wonder if they will be doing the chicken in the basket clubs in 20 years time
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 1 October 2009 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
following in the footsteps of gerry and the pacemakers
I confess to liking Space at the time. Some of their songs anyway. Dark Clouds for sure. You and Me Against The World is on an old mixtape that's still in my car so I must've enjoyed it at one point. I also recall being annoyed that I could never find their second album. On reflection that seems like a lucky situation.
― everything, Thursday, 1 October 2009 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I cant even remember them having a second album. The singles must have bombed. I do remember one of the band leaving though.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 1 October 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
the second album had 'diary of a wimp' on it which i really liked
― i'm the unban spaceman (electricsound), Thursday, 1 October 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
dont recall that at all
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 1 October 2009 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Every single one of those bands on that list were absolute turgid clunkers.
I scanned down the list in ten seconds and they were all there.
Copper Girl by 3 Colours Red was a good song though. Sorry
― Fer Ark, Thursday, 1 October 2009 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i think with the exception of seahorses (who are one of the worst groups of all time) and longpigs (who i've never heard), all these bands have one song (or more) i like. in most cases it's only one though.
― i'm the unban spaceman (electricsound), Thursday, 1 October 2009 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Kula Shaker -- as indefensibly silly as they were -- were WAY better than most of these crappy bands, and Gene's debut was great.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 1 October 2009 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
funnily enough esoj, i thought love is the law by the seahorses was good (everything else was crap).I actually saw the seahorses at the glasgow garage before the single was out. Love Is the Law was the only song anyone had heard.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 1 October 2009 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh i can't remember how it goes!
alex otm about gene, love that first album
― i'm the unban spaceman (electricsound), Thursday, 1 October 2009 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
it sounded like it was off the second coming. I love that album but if you didnt then you wont care for love is the law.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 1 October 2009 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
space allowed their keyboardist to write precisely one song ('Piggies')
didn't he get one techno-noodle whoosh-out per album too? I liked Space at the time. They had the schoolkid whose mum let the Teardrop Explodes rehearse in her house in 'em.
― New Wavves (sic), Friday, 2 October 2009 02:01 (fourteen years ago) link
haha!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 2 October 2009 12:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i found the 1st space cd single "neighbourhood" that i got for 50p from Impulse Records in Hamilton. I barely remember it. I mostly rememember female of the species and that horrid track with catatonia.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 2 October 2009 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
the ballad of tom jones is funny if you're 13!
― kell surprise (country matters), Friday, 2 October 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
im glad i wasnt 13!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 2 October 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Worst Of These Mid-Late 90s UK Bands?
Just wanted to point out that shortly after this sequence of posts I encountered a British counterpart at work who was at this Glastonbury appearance and proclaimed it to be the greatest concert experience of his life; it took everything I had not to laugh in his face what with my memory of this clip.
― a misunderstanding of Hip-Hop and contracts (HI DERE), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
the seahorses vocalist was by far the worst in britpop
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
mind you, the worst singing in that clip is the drummer
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha the chorus on that Glastonbury link is still fucking hysterical
― a misunderstanding of Hip-Hop and contracts (HI DERE), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah and the worst part is by the drummer. I thought it was chris helme until i realised he had stopped and it was the drummer who was even more out of tune.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 2 October 2009 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link