Worst Of These Mid-Late 90s UK Bands?

But he didn't like the Bluetones

disliking the bluetones and not hating them as much as you hate reef/OCS/stereophonics are not the same thing. I can't imagine a world with reef in it where someone hates the bluetones more. perhaps if there were a ranking systems rather than an OPO situation, it might have been different. but hey, that's polls for you. if a thread with 300+ answers doesn't explain stuff, maybe polls aren't the way to settle this shit?

^ ignore grammatical errors there, my abilities in that area disappeared along with my will to live somewhere upthread.

I actually thought Bluetones were worse than Reef. Each to their own I guess.

But presumably you thought someone else was worse still. you didn't vote for them, why assume someone else is going to?

do you understand how polling even works?

obviously not :)

Actually I've just been reminded why I hated The Bluetones. They were on the cover of Raw Magazine when it changed from an open minded Heavy Rock/Alternative/Metal mag to a full on Britpop mag. I loved that magazine and it lasted about 2 or 3 issues tops because of that change, and The Bluetones symbolizes the whole thing for me just like Limp Bizkit on the cover of the last Melody Maker does for others.
Obviously that's just for me though and no reason why anyone else should have voted Bluetones.

You guys just dont hate britpop as much as americans hate nu-metal.

ocs were robbed

no. no they really really really really really fucking weren't.

stereophonics never recorded a fun, silly, 7-minute rave-up like 'get away'. they sucked precisely 100% of the time.

i agree that OCS sucked precisely 100% of the time.

i forgot Dom hated Space so much. Whatever happened to Space? they've been forgotten more than the others.

Surely someone on ILM liked Space?

louis?

space allowed their keyboardist to write precisely one song ('Piggies') and it was by 10,000 miles the best thing they did, hence they suuuuuuuck (and yeah, their main body of work is craven)

wonder if they will be doing the chicken in the basket clubs in 20 years time

following in the footsteps of gerry and the pacemakers

I confess to liking Space at the time. Some of their songs anyway. Dark Clouds for sure. You and Me Against The World is on an old mixtape that's still in my car so I must've enjoyed it at one point. I also recall being annoyed that I could never find their second album. On reflection that seems like a lucky situation.

I cant even remember them having a second album. The singles must have bombed. I do remember one of the band leaving though.

the second album had 'diary of a wimp' on it which i really liked

dont recall that at all

Every single one of those bands on that list were absolute turgid clunkers.

I scanned down the list in ten seconds and they were all there.

Copper Girl by 3 Colours Red was a good song though. Sorry

i think with the exception of seahorses (who are one of the worst groups of all time) and longpigs (who i've never heard), all these bands have one song (or more) i like. in most cases it's only one though.

Kula Shaker -- as indefensibly silly as they were -- were WAY better than most of these crappy bands, and Gene's debut was great.

funnily enough esoj, i thought love is the law by the seahorses was good (everything else was crap).
I actually saw the seahorses at the glasgow garage before the single was out. Love Is the Law was the only song anyone had heard.

tbh i can't remember how it goes!

alex otm about gene, love that first album

it sounded like it was off the second coming. I love that album but if you didnt then you wont care for love is the law.

space allowed their keyboardist to write precisely one song ('Piggies')

didn't he get one techno-noodle whoosh-out per album too? I liked Space at the time. They had the schoolkid whose mum let the Teardrop Explodes rehearse in her house in 'em.

haha!

i found the 1st space cd single "neighbourhood" that i got for 50p from Impulse Records in Hamilton. I barely remember it. I mostly rememember female of the species and that horrid track with catatonia.

the ballad of tom jones is funny if you're 13!

im glad i wasnt 13!

Worst Of These Mid-Late 90s UK Bands?

Just wanted to point out that shortly after this sequence of posts I encountered a British counterpart at work who was at this Glastonbury appearance and proclaimed it to be the greatest concert experience of his life; it took everything I had not to laugh in his face what with my memory of this clip.

the seahorses vocalist was by far the worst in britpop

mind you, the worst singing in that clip is the drummer

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha the chorus on that Glastonbury link is still fucking hysterical

yeah and the worst part is by the drummer. I thought it was chris helme until i realised he had stopped and it was the drummer who was even more out of tune.

hahaha I am having the exact same reaction I had the first time I played this; WHY IS IT STILL GOING

so you can hear the solo!!

The drummer out of Space died recently, i think. (he was the Teardrops anecdote guy wasn't he?)
heard Catatonia's Road Rage on the radio today, somewhat surprisingly.

who on earth was playing that?

every now and then I stumble across or search out this thread and listen to that wretched Seahorses video

it is always hilarious, and then tedious

you talking about ilx?

every now and then I stumble across or search out this thread and listen to that wretched Seahorses video

it is always hilarious, and then tedious

― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Thursday, October 20, 2011 3:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me OTM

link? fucked if I'm going through this whole thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18w84rpaqlg

Some quality vocals there

Not sure i've ever actually heard some of those notes before?

Oh god, this shit again!?!