even more so, now you've made your contribution :P
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
1) Oasis - Roll With It2) Blur Country House3) Ocean Colour Scene - Day We Caught The Train4) Dodgy - Good Enough5) Kula Shaker - Hey Dude6) Cast - Live The Dream7) Powder - Afrodisiac8) Supernaturals- Smile9) Catatonia - Mulder & Scully10) Space Feat Cerys - The Ballad Of Tom Jones11) The Divine Comedy - Something for the Weekend12) My Life Story - 12 Reasons Why I Love Her13) Sleeper - Inbetweener14) Lightning Seeds - 3 Lions15) Babybird - You’re Gorgeous.16) Bluetones - Cut Some Rug17) Reef - Place Your Hands.18) Shed Seven - Dolphin.19) Longpigs - She Said.20) Catch - Bingo.21) Embrace - All You Good Good People.22) The Levellers - What A Beautiful Day23) Jocasta - Change Me24) Nilon Bombers - Superstar25) Ether - Best Friend26) Mainstream - Step Right Up27) Midget - All Fall Down28)18 Wheeler - Crabs29) Robbie Williams - Angels.30) The Verve - Lucky Man31) Manic Street Preachers - The Everlasting32) Suede - Head Music33) Thurman - English Tea34) Northern Uproar - Town35) Menswe@r - Stardust36)Smokin' Mojo Filters - Come Together37) Ruth - I Don't Know38) The Seahorses - Ypu Can Talk To Me39) Republica - Drop \\dead Gorgeous40) Rialto - Monday Morning 5.1941) Travis - More Than Us42) Stereophonics - More Life in a Tramp's Vest43) Hurricane #1 - Only the Strongest Will Survive44) The Charlatans - How High45) Puressence - This Feeling46) Feeder - Buck Rogers47) Terrorvision - Tequila.47 of the shittest songs of the era. One song per band max. Anything else to be added?― ۩, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 1:22 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
47 of the shittest songs of the era. One song per band max. Anything else to be added?
― ۩, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 1:22 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm looking over this list again, and I think there's worse songs by some of these bands. I definitely don't think 'Lucky Man' deserves to be on this list, and I like 'Inbetweener'. Sorry!
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
dancing drinking & screwing are all highly enjoyable activities what the hell else would you even want to do, hooray for being poor
is my takeaway
― paolo amusing eclectic revivals (wins), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
I'm looking over this list again, and I think there's worse songs by some of these bands.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican)
Agreed.
Blur - Top Man/ Mr Robinson's Quango Oasis - All Around the World Cast - Guiding Star My Life Story - Strumpet Divine Comedy - Shouldn't be on the list..oh ok I've Been to a Marvelous PartySleeper - Nice Guy Eddie Menswe@r - We Love You Shed Seven - Bully Boy Kula Shaker - Crispian Reading From The MahabharataFeeder - High The Bluetones - Autophilia (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Car) The Charlatans - Tough one, did they have any terrible songs in the 90s? How High definitely isn't one.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
Robbie Williams - Strong
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
feeder - high got added in its place rememberhttp://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/0y0gMIOGyKaqj70K3eEprx
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
Mr Robinson's Quango has to be Blur's worst song, surely?
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
i would defend the bluetones on the whole. they get a bad rap.
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
you couldn't make it up
― dickbait (wins), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
first album was decent anyway
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
I'd argue that it's impossible to imagine the (mid-to-late) '90s without Oasis.
wish i'd been around to get in on this
― you poll a lot, but you're not saying anything (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
Oh, gees, All Around the World. Heard it again recently, it's just abysmal. I love the story that they had written it before DefMay, but set it aside until they could get the budget to do it properly. And then this was the best they could do...
Like, in the Hollywood-biopic, we begin with young Liam and Noel demoing that song as kids, and Noel going: 'one day, we will finish this, and this will be our legacy'. And the final scene has him sitting in the dark, post-bender, switching between the demo and the recording, crying over the loss of innocence and squandering of promise.
Except that I can't imagine All Around the World wasn't shit to begin with. Still.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
as good a place as any to show this again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfNqyjZcleI
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 7:13 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I honestly don't mind their first couple of albums (their second album especially), but that song that Kitchen Person mentioned ('Autophilia') really is incredibly, incredibly corny.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
The Bluetones were dreadful except for "Slight Return"
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 7:12 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Hmm. If we're talking about stuff that went onto the albums, then 'Top Man' is definitely far, far worse for me. But if we factor the B-sides into the equation, jesus...
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
trouble in the message centre ugh
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 8:08 PM (50 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
'If...' is better than 'Slight Return', for one. As are some of the album tracks like 'Ames', 'U.T.A.', 'The Jub-Jub Bird'...
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 8:11 PM (42 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
God, no! That's one of my highlights of Parklife alongside 'Badhead', 'London Loves' and 'Clover Over Dover'!
Wow, Trouble in the Message Centre is my favourite Blur song.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
Really? I always felt it was a bad Gary Numan rip
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
Bluetones songs I quite enjoy.
Slight Return Bluetonic Driftwood Carnt Be Trusted Putting Out FiresMy Neighbour's HouseEmily's PineZorroBroken StarrLast of the Great Navigators If... Down at the Reservoir
That's probably double the amount of songs I like by Oasis.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
― everyday sheeple (Michael B)
I've always loved the new wave feel of it. Also it's one of their songs that sounds nothing like any of their others in any way.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a567596/damon-albarn-country-house-and-roll-with-it-were-both-st.html
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
roll with it really is the worst oasis from their glory years.
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
If by The Bluetones is a very good song indeed
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
the music press did really lose the run of themselves in the latter stages of the Britpop era. heres the NME review of "the great escape".
http://www.vblurpage.com/articles/albums/escape_nme.htm
there was another review in MM ridiculously overestimating the album, calling it a classic pop record and comparing it to ABC's "The Lexicon of Love"
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
The Great Escape isn't a perfect album, but it's definitely not a bad one in my opinion. Just needs a couple of the lesser songs shaving off it.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
No, its not a bad album but the hype around it was so OTT and unreasonable
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
Ha, I like a lot of The Great Escape but they're comparing it to my favourite album of all time there. Just no.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:25 (nine years ago) link
I'm listening to All Around The World. It is literally the worst. I can't believe...
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
No wonder people think Britpop was terrible with this getting to number one. A song which sounds like it was written, lyrics and all, in less time than it takes to hear it.
Did people really buy this? For fun, or was it out of some strange misplaced civic duty? Fuck me.
xpost I'd love to read it again but I cant find it on the internet. I did buy the album on cassette on the back of that review.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
I hate Britpop now.
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
But that NME-review doesn't seem that bad, it goes in depth with the music, and even points out the flaws. He likes it much more than I do, but that's just a matter of taste. There's nothing inherently wrong in that review, and espousing a minority opinion should hardly be embarassing.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
xpost Haha, although I like the way the Bluetones kind of ripped-off All Around The World and made them much more tolerable. Mark Morriss had one of the better vocal ranges out of the second tier BP bands:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW8JG7om3i8
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
I'm listening to All Around The World. It is literally the worst. I can't believe...No wonder people think Britpop was terrible with this getting to number one. A song which sounds like it was written, lyrics and all, in less time than it takes to hear it.Did people really buy this? For fun, or was it out of some strange misplaced civic duty? Fuck me.― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 9:26 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 9:26 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Listening to Be Here Now on day of release, and especially after all the hype surrounding it, was an incredibly deflating experience for many reasons, but I particularly remember hearing this track for the first time and thinking "okay, this is just ridiculous".
The only reason I can think of that it got to #1 was that Oasis at that point still had a large enough fanbase that would buy any single that they put out. Maybe they were just completing their singles collections, or at least hoping the B-sides would be better.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
I think it's what such a big hit because of the way Noel sings "These are crazy days but they make me sheeiiiine"
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link
I remember my brother playing this album over and over and I remember sitting writing an email to a (baffled) friend as I was hearing it play through his door, detailing every stupid shitty new unbelievable 'worst bit ever', and All Around the World is the one that stuck with me for making me really mad
― kinder, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link
btw many x-posts but there's a Phonogram thread on I Love Comics
The best thing about All Around the World is that it is 9½ minutes long, and then there's a reprise of it at the end of the album. Like... I mean...
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link
I mean, 2 min reprise, but still.
Is All Around the World the one with the Yellow Submarine video? I agree that was the worst, though I'd argue that every single from Roll With It onwards was also the worst.
― popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
Mark Morriss had one of the better vocal ranges out of the second tier BP bands:
LOL no he wasn't. He was by far the worst. His best days were worse than Ian Brown's drugged up worst.
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link
.. Noel Gallagher said of the song, "With "Supersonic", I worried I was never going to write another song after that 'cos I thought, 'It sounds that good'... Two days later I superseded it by about 50 fuckin' times. The reason we haven't recorded that song is because there isn't enough money in Creation Records' bank balance to pay for the production of that record. When we do that record..." Noel also added when asked if there would be an orchestra on it, "Orchestras, man? It's not got to be one, it's got to be two".[citation needed]Noel described the song shortly before the release of the album: "I wrote this one ages ago, before "Whatever". It was twelve minutes long then. It was a matter of being able to afford to record it. But now we can get away with the 36-piece orchestra. And the longer the better as far as I'm concerned. If it's good. I can see what people are going to say, but fuck 'em, basically."[citation needed]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Around_the_World_(Oasis_song)
― piscesx, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link
Jamie Harding from Marion was, in my opinion, the best vocalist out of all of them. Better than any of the vocalists from the first-tier Britpop bands, I'd argue. Shame he was a Doherty-level drug fiend.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:27 (nine years ago) link
Jaime, rather.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
Jamie did indeed have a great voice and a great look. Really wish he hadn't thrown it all away.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
xpost some student next door blared "supersonic" two times in a row today. jesus im being plagued by britpop this week
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link