Worst Of These Mid-Late 90s UK Bands?

Dig a bit deeper into Northern Uproar's site and you discover they had a spot supporting on Mark Owen's tour. Ha!

I was on the guest list for the Glasgow show on that tour! Then I went to the pub with Northern Uproar. They were really annoying so I left and went home. The end.

SEAHORSES!

It was obvious then, and even more obvious now, that Squire had intentionally surrounded himself with a bunch of absolute no-hopers who would never, ever outshine him musically. NME were unusually spot-on when they said the only reason Squirehorses existed was so he could be Special Guest Guitarist in his own band, forever.

Dodgy had one good song - In a Room.

Great song, but their best single moment was "Staying Out For The Summer". Those fantastic backing vocals in the chorus: Classic all the way!

Reef were great. They get my vote. Place Your Hands on a pair of sharp scissors you floppy haired wankers. Almost as good as Toploader.

All of that list is cunt, bar 3 colours Red - for 'Copper Girl' only.

No wonder I was a Yankophile

I forgot about Toploader. They would've ran away with the poll though so maybe it's best I didn't remember them.

My girlfriend still reps for My Life Story, Rialto, The Divine Comedy and the like. It's the type of stuff she has on pre-recorded cassette.

mls were worse than the divine comedy IIRC

GENE are the worst. Really.

My guess it's between Stereophonics and Space for the win atm. Not enough people voting OCS yet.

OCS=genius

Stereophonics=not quite shit, but not the usual top Britpop quality either.

Space had 'The Female Of The Species' though, which was/is a great pop song. Stereophonics, begrudgingly, have 'Dakota' (although not in the mid-late '90s they didn't). Ocean Colour Scene had NOTHING.

my vitriol really weren't that bad - their first three singles are still great, before their own self-regard got out of control

OCS=genius

very liberal use of the word genius there. dictionaries the world over are angered.

Stereophonics.

Gomez are a band I don't have great feelings for but c'mon they're on a different planet to most of these piss-artists

Also, OCS, Kula Shaker and Space, aside from being infinitely preferable to the likes of The View or The Pigeon Detectives or Scouting For Girls, each have ONE song I really like. Get Away, Hollow Man (yeah I know Pt. 2 is a Dear Prudence rip-off, so what) and Piggies respectively. Don't ask how or why. Actually I haven't heard Piggies for four years, maybe I'd hate it now.

Ocean Colour Scene had NOTHING.

"The Day We Caught The Train" is a fantastic pop song. Easily in my Top 10 singles of the entire 90s.

OCS had 'sway' which is a tremendous single

Actually, Space are possibly not preferable to those aforementioned bands. I am well disposed to them because they let their keyboardist write one track and it was by far the best thing they ever did. I regard that as some kind of victory for the little man. I know there are a few Octopus' Contrarians out there but realistically I think it's the only example of a novelty one-off actually had more musical value than the regular shit. This probably says more about Space than their keyboardist.

Louis' back!!!!!

In addition to "...Caught The Train", "You've Got It Bad" was also a great single. OCS have always been great as long as they've kept some distance to the blues and written more Beatles-influenced stuff.

Ah there's no way Divine Comedy belong in this list; even just in terms of longevity they're way above anything else. My Life Story were, in retrospect, execrable.

Ugh, that horrible straining howl of the OCS guy. Sounded like he was about to bust a blood vessel.

Anyway, Jack.

Jack were the beatles compared to OCS and the like.

... that last sentence is crying out to be said out loud in a heavy East Lancashire accent

My Life Story, as I recall, weren't too bad either. Not essential, but completely OK and better than 99 per cent of American rock, R&B and hip-hop from the same period.

lol rubbish

Hmm, didn't see you weigh in on the '12 Reasons Why' poll that NRQ did a while back

xpost to Hongroe

I really wish someone would make an american equivalent of this poll.

Shed 7 own this thread.

where did their name come from? was it some kind of Blake's Seven tribute?

It's a shed you can see pulling into York railway station. I saw an interview where singer embarrassedly said "I should say it's coz I lost my virginity behind a shed when I was seven".

It's unfortunate that Catatonia bear the stigma of writing popular issues songs, though they did bring it upon themselves. There was only those two as I recall. Good band. First album is ace.

Some of these bands I don't know but I've always hated Stereophonics ("Dakota" aside), Cast, Ocean Colour Scene and Reef. Who wants my vote?

Vote OCS

Done.

The worst thing about Stereophonics is that they're still fucking going. At least all the others had the good sense to call it a day.

OCS are still going. Still very popular in Scotland too. They were at one point far bigger than Blur.

A MUST BUY FOR ALL INDIE/MOD/ROCK FANS !!!

By call it a day I take it you mean "couldn't score a record deal anywhere in the world even if they offered to play for free".

They were at one point far bigger than Blur

So was fucking Runrig lol amirite?

20 years ago maybe

Vote OCS
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You know what's ironic? Mods in the 60s liked really cool, modern music.

Then Weller came along.

And Ironically Weller on his new album is supposedly taking more chances than these wankers ever will.

Louis what are your thoughts on dadrock? Worse than britpop?

I don't like either term. The good bands like Blur and Pulp fucking transcended any narrow genre expectations. Nowadays the pub-rock Britpoppers are only too happy with their limited commodifications. Cunts. Fuckers.

Mansun haven't influenced any of the new bands have they?

Look, can we not sully these bands (and I am just as guilty as you) by including them in this thread?

Would you say the same about Placebo?

I'm past caring tbh.

I dont believe you.