Yes, they are, it's just you who are missing what good pop music is about.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:06 (fifteen years ago) link
(Although I must have put Kula Shaker in the wrong category, they would belong in one of the two middle ones)
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I knew Geir wouldn't let us down. Aren't Ocean Colour Scene a little bit too bluesy for you though?
― Billy Dods, Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Are there any britpop bands you hated? xpost
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Close run thing between Catatonia and Space
― Tom D., Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Re: The JPEG - I really don't like Liam's face sticking out at me like that.
i haven't heard half of these bands, so I'm voting for The Longpigs on principle. Who fucking names their band The Longpigs?
― Pillbox, Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:23 (fifteen years ago) link
lengthy rant removed
― chaki, Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:40 (fifteen years ago) link
dude
― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's just not Britpop.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:51 (fifteen years ago) link
You're offending Geir here, cover his eyes
― Tom D., Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:52 (fifteen years ago) link
ANYWAY. I don't recognize most of these bands. I *kinda* like the very very little I've heard of the Longpigs though that's probably just the Richard Hawley bias. Are any of these worth attention?
― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:53 (fifteen years ago) link
not really
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:55 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:55 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Figured.
― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:59 (fifteen years ago) link
The brave new dawn of rigorously monitored Nu-ILx.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:01 (fifteen years ago) link
seagal.jpg
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:07 (fifteen years ago) link
This is just like the scne in Blazing Sadlles when the fighting cowboys crash into the 30's dance number set.
― Billy Dods, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:10 (fifteen years ago) link
^ lOlTM
― Tom D., Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I've had a look at the mod board comments and it all seems a bit of an unholy mess so best to keep out of it.
I always thought the end part of Blazing Saddles would have been a brilliant ending to The Prisoner.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone going to say Britpop was an unholy mess?
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I always thought the end part of Blazing Saddles would have been a brilliant ending to The Prisoner
They're quite similar really, the endings I mean
― Tom D., Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:17 (fifteen years ago) link
but britpop never ended :(
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Stereophonics.
― zeus, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Dermot O'Leary manfully tries to prove that Britpop has never ended week after week on his scintillating Radio 2 show with torchbearers the Zutons and um Sharleen "nee Senga McGillicuddy" Spiteri.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Geir Hongro, Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:06 (1 hour ago) Link
Yes, Herman and every other single poster on this thread, and indeed on ILM.
― Neil S, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:28 (fifteen years ago) link
"every single other" above!
― Neil S, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Catatonia had one good song called Lost Cat, which was on C96 (bet a lot of you didn't know there was a C96, did you?)
Then they started to coin it by writing songs about issue X which was popular at time Y and lost me totally. Mulder and Scully and Road Rage indeed!
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:41 (fifteen years ago) link
"mulder and scully" and "road rage" were truly vile.
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:42 (fifteen years ago) link
"Millder and Skilly" and "Rrrrrrrrrrrrrroad Rrrrrrrrrrrage" you mean
― Tom D., Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:44 (fifteen years ago) link
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember Lost Cat, it was a nice song. Cerys had a good voice before she went for sounding like Shirley Bassey on steroids.
― Neil S, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:46 (fifteen years ago) link
She did not have a good voice
― Tom D., Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Jaw like a boxer.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:50 (fifteen years ago) link
True!
I thought she sounded good on that single I mentioned, that's all. Not defending later horrors!
― Neil S, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:54 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Neil S, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:29 (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Pretty sure you were right first time there
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:54 (fifteen years ago) link
'Bleed' by Catatonia is kind of a tune
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Catatonia makes my ears bleed.
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw Catatonia at Phoenix festival in '96 around the time of their 1st album, they were bloody awful and we left after a couple of songs. I think it was "You've got a lot to answer for" that drove us out.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I like a lot : Seahorses
I like some songs of : Cast (the La's songs on the 1st album), Gene, OCS, 3 Colours Red
I like their big hit : Sleeper
I can just about stand : Menswear
I fucking loath : Catatonia, Gomez, Reef, Shed 7,
Should be cudgelled to death with a very big cudgel : Reef, Dodgy, Kula Shaker, Longpigs, Supernaturals, Travis
Worst Band Ever : Stereophonics
Even Worse Band Ever : Space
― Dr.C, Thursday, 29 May 2008 11:04 (fifteen years ago) link
They did that horrible song with Space too. x-post
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 11:05 (fifteen years ago) link
How can you like The Seahorses a lot and hate Dodgy, who, until 1995, were basically the same band but not shit?
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 29 May 2008 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link
An I just want to say Ocean Colour Scene have the worst fans. Fucking hate them. Loads of them where I live and they were inescapable. And every single one of the people i knew who loved them had the same defence "but cradock is an awesome guitarist". In saying that i did like the intro to one of their songs (100 mile city or something)
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link
If you were gonna rob any of these bands' houses OCS would probably have the best record collection
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 29 May 2008 11:08 (fifteen years ago) link
re Dodgy. How can a band write something so great as "Staying Out For The Summer" then write something so inexplicably awful as "Good Enough"?
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 11:09 (fifteen years ago) link
The drop off from Homegrown to FPS is absolutely astonishing. I think there were about two good tunes on FPS, compared to at least half-a-dozen crackers on Homegrown.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 29 May 2008 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I knew a few people who loved Homegrown and just couldn't bear them anymore due to FPS. Boo Radleys fans like myself felt their pain(tho that album wasn't bad just the big single wake up boo was horrid)
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 11:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Aren't Ocean Colour Scene a little bit too bluesy for you though?
"Riverboat Song" is. "They Day We Caught The Train" is fantastic though.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 29 May 2008 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link
And "Free Peace Sweet" was the best out of the genius Dodgy albums. "Good Enough" was not the reason though.
Bet you guys cant wait for the britpop reunion package tours that will come. There's a big retrofestival at Strathclyde Park this summer for 80s bands (Contracts say only the big hits are to be played). In 10 years this will be Britpop bands.
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 11:32 (fifteen years ago) link
But that is true anyway. Most ILM'ers tend to think that pop music is about groove and rhythm and "soul", which is completely misguided. Good pop music is about really great choruses that you can sing along to, and a classic Beatlesque build-up to that chorus before it. And classic arrangements with lots of backup harmonies and stereo effects and flawless perfect playing. That is, not R&B but POP!
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 29 May 2008 11:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Geir & Nick agreeing didn't last long.
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 29 May 2008 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link