Worst Of These Mid-Late 90s UK Bands?

Are there any britpop bands you hated?
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Close run thing between Catatonia and Space

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?

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dude

Yeah, that's just not Britpop.

You're offending Geir here, cover his eyes

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?

not really

not really

-- Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:55 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Figured.

The brave new dawn of rigorously monitored Nu-ILx.

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This is just like the scne in Blazing Sadlles when the fighting cowboys crash into the 30's dance number set.

^ lOlTM

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.

Anyone going to say Britpop was an unholy mess?

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

but britpop never ended :(

Stereophonics.

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.

Yes, they are, it's just you who are missing what good pop music is about.

-- 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.

"every single other" above!

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!

"mulder and scully" and "road rage" were truly vile.

"Millder and Skilly" and "Rrrrrrrrrrrrrroad Rrrrrrrrrrrage" you mean

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!

I remember Lost Cat, it was a nice song. Cerys had a good voice before she went for sounding like Shirley Bassey on steroids.

She did not have a good voice

Jaw like a boxer.

True!

I thought she sounded good on that single I mentioned, that's all. Not defending later horrors!

"every single other" above!

-- Neil S, Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:29 (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Pretty sure you were right first time there

'Bleed' by Catatonia is kind of a tune

Catatonia makes my ears bleed.

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.

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

They did that horrible song with Space too.
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How can you like The Seahorses a lot and hate Dodgy, who, until 1995, were basically the same band but not shit?

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)

If you were gonna rob any of these bands' houses OCS would probably have the best record collection

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"?

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.

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)

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.

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.

Yes, Herman and every other single poster on this thread, and indeed on ILM.

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 & Nick agreeing didn't last long.

Actually I don't think there will be much of a market for Britpop retro, as Britpop was retro and that was the main reason for its existance. Britpop was all about the huge 90s need for new bands writing new songs in the old styles. Now the Britpop bands aren't new anymore, so for nostalgia we can go straight to the old sources (Beatles, Bowie, Who, Kinks, even Duran Duran) instead. Instead, Coldplay, Travis, Keane, The Feeling, Kooks and Kaiser Chiefs are among those bands who fill the need for new material by new bands in the old style.

all this thread and no mention of Marion.
Does that mean they were a good'un, or just forgotten ?

None of these bands would last two seconds on Britain's Got Talent.