90s guitar college rock indie... The 80s are back now so lets hope this comes next?

Now there's a name I never got past.

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All records.

JACOB'S MOUSE they were awesome
They did come to mind actually after I posted!

I loved Urusei Yatsura

BRAINIAC yes they were great

that band Wussy is the dude from Ass Ponys, so that's something

don't forget, wussy are playing tonight with 90's guitar hero chris brokaw.

ahem... i think yzall mean 3ra1n1ac, who absolutely ruled.

Who is Chris Brokaw? I saw him this year, at the aforementioned New Year show, and to me it was just some dude with an acoustic, not v memorable at all. Do I need to be schooled?

agree with whoever said this stuff never went away. so many great bands.

chris brokaw was in come, who are kind of a tough listen imo.

He was also in Codeine too.

chris was in come and codeine. two great 90's bands. lots of people owe him money for ripping off codeine so much.

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come are one of my top ten fave bands of the 90's. i love everything they did.

First album is top ten 90's for me too.

AH right yeah obv I know Come & Codeine, but not to the extent I'd know who was in the bands. Apart from Thalia in the former's case.

As per the Colonel's post there, love what he got up to in the 90s but I don't think yr expected to give the same love to his solo 'work'

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gotta give a shout-out to this album again, cuz i love it so:

Space Needle - The Moray Eels Eats The Space Needle

Truly were a great pop band, as was Creep. what about Pond?

Glad to see Codeine getting props. My "90s" rock list:

Slint (end of 80s/early of 90s), Rodan, June of 44, Low, Codeine, Acetone, Silver Jews, Radar Bros.

i love this stuff, but i'm not sure i want a resurgence? maybe i do. my band, whenever we get a little press, is referred to as mid-90s-inspired indie/college guitar rock, which makes me cringe, but what the hell. I like Pavement/Guided By Voices/Built To Spill ... has anyone mentioned the first Butterglory album? Eh?

i've got that self-titled glands record on right now. such a minor classic.

I'm not sure I'm ready for a resurgence either - on the other hand I'd vastly prefer it if modern "indie" bands sounded like this that whatever the hell current UK "indie" is try to achieve </old man>

there is already a pretty big amrep/touch&go thing going on right now.

anyway, these threads are good too:

Forgotten 90's alternative rock masterpieces WANTED

Criminially Underappreciated 90's Guitar Bands

overlooked 90's groups

Its not so much necessarily a specific genre that I want to see reemerge... its just that popular music right now is very 80s... that is there is a whole style over substance thing happening. I'm not saying I think artists like Bat For Lashes is "bad," I just feel like theres more of a persona that is being marketed before anyone actually hears any music. Its part of this blog culture where we have to be obsessed with every move an artist makes no matter how insignificant (all TMZ style), and with downloading being so easy there is all of this high consumption and in the end its just songs/an image- and then its on to the next artist next week.

So basically I have just really been gravitating to a time where bands were making cohesive no-nonsense albums where the music was the focus. Shouldn't that always be the case?

Wait that was bad wording...."specific genre that I want to see reemerge" I really just meant 90s resurgence

wait, what the hell is Multiple Cat? i guess i could just look it up.

Haha yeah they're good. the song "Sad, Sad, Sad" is really musically sunny and catchy. Sound like Pavement a bit.

Also, like I said GBV are a given. No worries.

Interesting, not great, and very forgotton band from this era is Vodka. Jenny Wade on distinctive vocals, a couple of indie rock dudes on guitar, and an idiot journalist on drums. About four very nice songs on their album She's My Dream, and they don't sound like everybody else.

Velocity Girl kind of went under in this thread so I just wanna say that the 6-track EP is so so great esp. if u like Unrest as the OP said.

Hey dlp I was just reading your posts about 18th Dye. People should talk about them more.

I got out a box of old CD's the other day and put on Wattle & Daub by the Strapping Fieldhands. It's fantastic! I wondered why I really wasn't into it at the time.

for me this is indie rock, fuck that fleet foxes shit

here i go ~ out the door ~ of my apartment before ~ i miss my train and there is no way that is happening

fieldhands rule!!!!!

This Is The Strapping Fieldhands Thread Cuz I'm Drinking Beers And Feeling Nostalgic

Did Discus ever come out on CD? I think Boo Hoo Hoo was my favorite thing of theirs.

they deserve a boxed set. if my dopey brother can get a 4 disc career overview, then the friggin' fieldhands deserve one for sure.

Just downloaded a Discus rip from some blogspot. Hadn't heard it in a while. Damn, better than I remembered even.

Wow I really like Space Needle.

AH yes I am excited to see Versus open up for Polvo FOR FREE in NYC this summer.

!!!

did not know about this but now i'm excited too.

Or at least the excerpt I heard of "Before I Lose My Stlye"... to early to call maybe?

Yeah though I corrected myself... Versus instead opens for Superchunk for free Polvo has their own free show with Obits opening. Going to both of them no question still.

Space Needle are the coolest! were the coolest.

Heres the schedule for South Street Seaport. If you are in NYC check out the shows relevant to this thread at least.

http://www.ohmyrockness.com/VenueDetail.cfm?VenueID=189

Yeah they are all free.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Qj2_OJsJQ

About Space Needle... I'm leaning towards Voyager. What do you think Mr. seward?

i love their 2nd album best but probably only cuz i heard it first and didn't hear the first album until years later. both worth owning though. and there was a reissue not too long ago that might just have both albums together.

I think I saw that it doesn't look like it includes all of both albums. Thanks though I will look into them further!

timely!!!

this is my show for viva radio tomorrow. all 10"s (until I ran out) (then I found a couple more)

http://deadheatnyc.com/tracks.DH37.mp3

Deadheat No. 37 [6/20/09]
Tiger Trap - Sour Grass
The Breeders - The Freed Pig
Archers of Loaf - Lowest Part Is Free!
Home - Mastermen
Liars - Grown Men Don't Fall in the River Just Like That
Rollerskate Skinny - Cushy Daughter
Further - Quiet Riot Girl
Strapping Fieldhands - Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
Pavement - Debris Slide
Grifters - Whatever Happened to Felix Cole?
Mirrors - We'll See
Moviola - Out to Graze
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - My Mysterious Death
Guided by Voices - Buzzards and Dreadful Crows
Modest Mouse - Convenient Parking
Teengenerate - Dressed in Black
Man or Astroman? - The Vortex Beyond
Flux of Pink Indians - Tube Disaster (JD Twitch Edit)
The Clash - Bankrobber/Bankrobber Dub