britisher guitar pop/rock charity shop detritus of the 90s

There's something a bit "local band" about this so far. 3rd on the bill @ newcastle riverside, like.

will you be at richard h's wedding do, raw patrick? The "stag night" i mean.

Is that place still goin? (Riverside, I mean, xpost)

"cut some rug" was ok but was a 2-minute number stretched out to twice that long.

x-post no, i don't think so? Not for a few years.

Jack - Pioneer Soundtracks

this is a brilliant album! and no way were they ever Britpop, dammit.

also, no dissing of Lamb, if you please!

Is no one going to answer the pressing CAT CONCERN question.

Lamb? LAME morelike

Pioneer Soundtracks always turns up as a limited edition 2CD package. Strange notion of "limited."

I looked the Bluetones record up and it was a number one album! Fucking hell, I have to write about this on my blog... :-(

Oh yeah, and the No Parlez! of the nineties GREEN MAN BY MARK OWEN

it's a charity shop run by old ladies, the money raised goes to, er, some charity concerned with housecats somehow? I don't dare ask TBH.

Did that ultrasound one ever sell out of the limited 2CD edition, and go out as a 1CD?

I remember seeing The Bluetones at The Charlotte in Leicester in 1994, supporting (or maybe headlining over) Supergrass

Yes, this was a number one wasn't it? I forgot about that.

4/"things change" very sub-roses, some decent guitar playing but again, no tune to speak of. Also it's 5 1/2 minutes long!

I did get that "Ride" best of, similar price, it was quite interesting, but "Floppy haired pointy nosed indie boys? Do not need..."

Wasn't the Ultrasound album 2CD cos it was like 90 minutes long?

xxxpost

I've never seen the Ultrasound album in 1CD format, though it turns up surprisingly often on tape, complete with bonus lengthy freakout track so you get the whole 2CD content anyway.

Did that ultrasound one ever sell out of the limited 2CD edition, and go out as a 1CD?

― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2008 10:06

This would be a charity shop find and a half, for sure.

As a charity shop junkie I am distressed by the fact that a lot of them don't stock tapes any more... :-(

I did get that "Ride" best of, similar price, it was quite interesting, but "Floppy haired pointy nosed indie boys? Do not need..."

is that OX4? WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT. I will buy that off you if you don't need it because I totally need that. (it is really embarrassing that I don't have it, I know.)

The Ultrasound album isn't limited 2CD. It's an actual 2CD double. Last track lasts 35 minutes. I was kind of disappointed I couldn't find a copy on my trip to London the other week, cos I've been listening to/being emotionally ravaged by "Stay Young" a lot recently.

I think I still have four songs off Expecting To Fly on me iPod - the singles (not "Cut Some Rug") and "Putting Out Fires". From what I can remember, all the songs off it are much, much too long. I still kind of have a soft spot for them, though.

I once found the Spiritualized Ladies & Gentlemen promo complete with original "Can't Help Falling In Love" bits for 50p.

Needless to say it wasn't in a know-it-all Oxfam branch but in a totally out of the way place run by a sweet old lady to whom it was "all music" and these places always yield the best finds.

5/"The Fountainhead" is actually good! Well, good in parts. Pro: Some semblance of a tune, nice instrumental break. Con: let down by weak singing.

Note also that, had it not been for Babylon Zoo, "Slight Return" would have been a number one single.

Thank fuck for that.

Babylon Zoo - another charity shop reliable.

"Slight Return" should have been called "Tonight Matthew I'm Going To Be Roddy Frame."

6/"carn't be trusted" half-decent, again weak singing lets it down.

There seems to be a pattern emerging here...

7/"slight return" Yes! It does sound like Aztec Camera. Very obviously miles better than everything else on the album, singing seems stronger, even.

Pff! They wish!

OX4, Kate if we ever pass again, or you get a bad arm and need a DVD off a VHS from the pond, or, um, do another lolapalooza inline ewith an ILX comp, or, oh hell, when I see the CD again, sure.

8/"putting out fires", good backing track to a weak song. I can't remember any of the tunes so far, except for "slight return".

I'm getting a bit sick of this album now. 3 tracks to go after this one.

What is up with my typing at the moment? Every time I end a word that ends with an e, I end up typing the next word with an e in front of it, and have to go back through taking the extra e's out!

Like, just then.

I nevere did underestand the love (and there was love) for the Blueetones. "Generic" seemed to be the word.

And this got 9/10 in the NME at the time???!!!

I think you've got a busted keyboard mr gr0ut.

Well, exactly.

One of those bands that could soundtrack a good night out (i.e. the gig), I guess.

Have I seen them live? You know, I can't rememebr.

I think I crashed the wedding.

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Add to that list of charity shop mainstays, Spirea X - Fireblade Skies

9/"vampire" starts off downbeat & very nice, gets all upbeat and awful halfway through.

And let's not forget Primal Scream - Breathe Out But Don't Throw Up or whatever it was called.

It does seem weird, doesn't it? It feels like they were nice lads promoted above their station more than owt else - that, plus their appetite for touring was insane - I remember when their third album came out, they did a 52-date tour that somehow managed to visit Birmingham twice.

multi-X-post - I did see them live a couple of years ago, very much a greatest hits-type affair. I quite enjoyed it.

They were really lucky, getting to do this as a job for a couple of years. If they'd come out any other time they'd've been gluing their own sleeves together and using their mum as a roadie. I bear them no ill-will.

10/"a parting gesture", overlong, soporific, the worst track by miles.

one more to go!

You know you would rather be listening to 'Orgone Accumulator'. Why are you doing this to yourself Mr Pashmina?

'Be Here Now' is surely the answer to this question

Even 50p expenditures have to be thoroughly justified in broken credit feral crunch Britain.

Funny, "Be Here Now", I knew was a George Harrison song, now I find it was a Loop song too. Unless theirs was a cover version...

Do Oasis know what a loop is?

Oh yes - Countdown by Pulp.

They know what it mean, yeah yeaeh yeah yeah...

I see Petridish has given the "new" Oasis album a two-star review but four stars.

I'm going to resist the obvious punchline there.

IN HIS FORTIES AND STILL UNUSUAL!

Levitation's 2 albums, "Coterie" and "Need for Not" are very good, still.

Need For Not's the one that keeps turning up. Like millions, I didn't know there was nother one.

A-nother one.

i didn't know there were 2 Levitation albums either.
i have one album by them, no idea what its called though. buried deep deep deep in the archive.

There is another Lev album that only got released in Australia but you could get copies over here pretty easily.
It's called Meanwhile Gardens and unfortunately it's got the replacement vocalist after Terry left and he's pretty 'meh', but
there are copies of the album with Terry singing and it's grand, anyone wants one let me know.

Ooh, I'd be up for a copy of that! I got the import which is good in parts, I suppose, but I also got the "even when your eyes are open" single which has got terry singing on it, and that's much better.

You wouldn't have Dark Star "Geneva" as well, by any chance?

I've got a bunch of unreleased Lev stuff and I've always been meaning to get Geneva but keep forgetting, I could put my hands on a copy easily. Send me a pm. Dark Star might be reforming btw.

1st Levitation album, "Coterie" was a mini, with most of the tracks from the 2 eps, a couple of live tracks, and this great track "it's time" which I thought was their best one.

Dark Star might be reforming btw.

Oh man, I hope so. the only band I've EVER seen that was better than Dark Star was Van Der Graaf Generator, and even then, maybe. I heard the Dragons singles w/the 3 guys from Dark Star backing, they were OK, but not the real deal.

(webmail sent)

Dragons is actually just David, Bic and Laurence we just depping for some gigs.

I think someone told me Bic was doing guitar tech stuff for MBV recently. (webmail also sent).

I've never heard any Levitation, will check them out.

haha before i open this thread the first thing i think of is 'bluetones'

Dragons is actually just David, Bic and Laurence we just depping for some gigs.

― MaresNest, Friday, 3 October 2008 13:23 (7 minutes ago)

Last thing I saw was "Here are the Roses" (which I liked!) a year ago already, I'm out of date, obv.

I've never heard any Levitation, will check them out.

David F's youtube channel is as good a place as any:

http://www.youtube.com/user/OHMrecordings

Oh it's actually that David F. Thanks, will check it out when I'm at a computer with sound. Brings us back to Octopus..

It's "in his MID-forties and still unusual" :-P

Ah, Sir Henry. One of the comedy greats.

Oh, and I might just take you up on that offer, MaresNest...

I'vee often tried to watch that film, but I nod out pretty much each time.

One day...

The film? I've never seen the film. I'm talking about the unparalleled audio recording.

Why don't Nanny State Politically Correct Channel 4 screen it earlier instead of wasting our hard-earned screens with How To Dress Naked On Location and telling people how to live their tax-paying lives in FREE BRITAIN????

The film is well weird. DO NOT watch when loaded.

I d/l'd a bunch of audio (Peel sessions, etc) that I'm working through.

At times you get that "Oh, that's an old joke. Hang on, this is probably where eit came from and who invented it in the first place"

"You broke wind in front of her majesty"
"I'm sorry, I didn't know it was her turn.."

That sort of thing....

best line is obviously "My dear lady...I wouldn't even have liked to have been the first man"

"I'm afraid this is going to be an understandable mistake"

Oh god...so many

Charity shops in the smoke must be a slightly different beast to the ones up north. I've never seen half the stuff Marcello's listed in any up here (Lamb/Jack/Ride/Alpha).

Anyway the elephant in the room is surely this one...

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Part of me wishes "Ready To Go" was still blared before kick-off at every Football League fixture in England

Is it a part you can have amputated?

Maybe you should hear the nu-Britpop crap they've replaced it with...

I note the second wave of nu-Britpop is breaking through to the charity shop massive; Razorlight, Bloc Party and the Kaiser Chiefs now all regulars.

Menswear - Nuisance

Having just seen the cover for this album I realize I've been seeing it for years (decades actually) in charity shops and bargain bins without knowing (or caring) what it was.

I wonder what are the best selling CDs in charity shops, as opposed to the most common ones.