90s guitar college rock indie... The 80s are back now so lets hope this comes next?

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I felt like bands like Guided By Voices and Pavement, while I LOVE them, were a bit more obvious so I didn't mention them.

Oh and Mr. Poo if you like Bedhead I'd be a little surprised if you didn't also like Duster. I'd RIYL one if you like the other.

Evan, Friday, 19 June 2009 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link

Further?

Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 19 June 2009 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link

K I'll check them out, I've never heard of them.

Saw the New Year earlier this year, the nu-Bedhead band.

Colonel Poo, Friday, 19 June 2009 11:17 (fourteen years ago) link

Also, anyone heard of "Blumfeld"? They are like the German answer to Pavement.

Evan, Friday, 19 June 2009 11:18 (fourteen years ago) link

Looked up Duster and their albums are from late 90s which is about the time I stopped making an effort to keep up with indie rock, so I guess that's why I've never heard of them. Not that I stopped listening to indie rock completely.

Colonel Poo, Friday, 19 June 2009 11:18 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah the New Year is good but they don't have that same subtly... or something... that set Bedhead apart. Similar though.About Duster I guess that'll do it, they were a late 90s act. I'm still meaning to pick up their album that came out in I think 2000?

Evan, Friday, 19 June 2009 11:21 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah I loved them. Saw them at Reading festival once. 1st 2 albums a lot better than the later ones but they were all decent.

i've come to regard their final LP as their best, though i realise my love for this band goes deep enough to preclude clear-headed decisions

it's the nuclear sex apocalypse, dude. i mean, c'mon. (stevie), Friday, 19 June 2009 11:22 (fourteen years ago) link

the blumfeld album is decent. drassen auf kaution is a really good single

task force vs the brisbane punks (electricsound), Friday, 19 June 2009 11:23 (fourteen years ago) link

I missed it if these were mentioned but what about Superchunk or Archers of Loaf? Both two of my all time favorites.

Fennec fox which does grooming (ENBB), Friday, 19 June 2009 11:42 (fourteen years ago) link

I have a big pile of Superchunk CDs but never got into AoL.

Colonel Poo, Friday, 19 June 2009 11:43 (fourteen years ago) link

Also tons of AmRep stuff but that might be a bit on the heavy side for this thread.

Colonel Poo, Friday, 19 June 2009 11:45 (fourteen years ago) link

Really? Archers are just . . . i don't know maybe it's one of those time and place things for me but I was a freshman in college when I discovered Icky Mettle and it just blew my mind. It's still one of my all time favorite albums. Also, they were just great live.

Fennec fox which does grooming (ENBB), Friday, 19 June 2009 11:47 (fourteen years ago) link

Are the 3D's too obvious a suggestion?

Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 19 June 2009 11:48 (fourteen years ago) link

What's the UK equivalent of this? I can only think of stuff like Bivouac and Cable at the moment.

Colonel Poo, Friday, 19 June 2009 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link

lol midway still

task force vs the brisbane punks (electricsound), Friday, 19 June 2009 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link

I was going to put Ned's & Senseless Things...

Colonel Poo, Friday, 19 June 2009 11:51 (fourteen years ago) link

It would be the Delgados and all that.

Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 19 June 2009 11:58 (fourteen years ago) link

they're probably a bit later than most of the stuff here

task force vs the brisbane punks (electricsound), Friday, 19 June 2009 12:00 (fourteen years ago) link

JACOB'S MOUSE they were awesome

it's the nuclear sex apocalypse, dude. i mean, c'mon. (stevie), Friday, 19 June 2009 12:00 (fourteen years ago) link

First of all... thanks for all of the suggestions so far!!

And yeah Fox, Superchunk and Archers of Loaf are both fantastic.

Evan, Friday, 19 June 2009 12:01 (fourteen years ago) link

i saw the archers of loaf/small23 double bill in leeds (the duchess of york pub : rip).
i loved it, but not sure sure the people i took with me (wife and friend) were too into it.
been years since i heard the small23 album...
oh, is that an urge to go a digging in the archives i feel on the rise.

mark e, Friday, 19 June 2009 12:14 (fourteen years ago) link

Jacob's Mouse did a mean Britisher Amrep thing but as far as my record collection is concerned the UK didn't really get onto US-style college rocking until '95 onwards: Urusei Yatsura, early Delgados, Ligament, Spare Snare... uh, possibly some bands not on Che as well (Magoo, Scarfo, Pure Morning?)

(although what I might really mean by this is that I didn't really start buying 7"s until '95 onwards)

a passing spacecadet, Friday, 19 June 2009 12:15 (fourteen years ago) link

AoL! Oh man, yes yes yes. I also find it curious that GBV ain't mentioned. Get yourself B000.

My answer to everything: Brainiac. Hah.

Urusei Yatsura was ok.

I GOTTA BRAKE FREEEEE (stevienixed), Friday, 19 June 2009 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link

Urusei dudes have got a new band called Project A-Ko. Their album sounds EXACTLY like Pavement. Not a little bit like UY did, but EXACTLY

I quite like Blumfeld but after the mid-90s they sounded more like George Michael than anything you'd call indie - not a dis per se, it was pretty cool but an acquired taste

dis per se - thought this was some sort of word art on first reading

Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 19 June 2009 12:26 (fourteen years ago) link

Heh, nice

tripmaster monkey had a few good tracks

task force vs the brisbane punks (electricsound), Friday, 19 June 2009 12:31 (fourteen years ago) link

Now there's a name I never got past.

Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 19 June 2009 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All records.

grandavis, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:08 (fourteen years ago) link

JACOB'S MOUSE they were awesome
They did come to mind actually after I posted!

I loved Urusei Yatsura

Colonel Poo, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link

BRAINIAC yes they were great

Colonel Poo, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link

that band Wussy is the dude from Ass Ponys, so that's something

Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link

don't forget, wussy are playing tonight with 90's guitar hero chris brokaw.

scott seward, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link

ahem... i think yzall mean 3ra1n1ac, who absolutely ruled.

it's the nuclear sex apocalypse, dude. i mean, c'mon. (stevie), Friday, 19 June 2009 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link

Who is Chris Brokaw? I saw him this year, at the aforementioned New Year show, and to me it was just some dude with an acoustic, not v memorable at all. Do I need to be schooled?

Colonel Poo, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:49 (fourteen years ago) link

agree with whoever said this stuff never went away. so many great bands.

call all destroyer, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:50 (fourteen years ago) link

chris brokaw was in come, who are kind of a tough listen imo.

call all destroyer, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link

He was also in Codeine too.

Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 19 June 2009 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link

chris was in come and codeine. two great 90's bands. lots of people owe him money for ripping off codeine so much.

scott seward, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link

x=post

scott seward, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link

come are one of my top ten fave bands of the 90's. i love everything they did.

scott seward, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:57 (fourteen years ago) link

First album is top ten 90's for me too.

Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 19 June 2009 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link

AH right yeah obv I know Come & Codeine, but not to the extent I'd know who was in the bands. Apart from Thalia in the former's case.

Colonel Poo, Friday, 19 June 2009 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link

As per the Colonel's post there, love what he got up to in the 90s but I don't think yr expected to give the same love to his solo 'work'

xp

gotta give a shout-out to this album again, cuz i love it so:

Space Needle - The Moray Eels Eats The Space Needle

scott seward, Friday, 19 June 2009 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link

Truly were a great pop band, as was Creep. what about Pond?

Brooker Buckingham, Friday, 19 June 2009 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link

Glad to see Codeine getting props. My "90s" rock list:

Slint (end of 80s/early of 90s), Rodan, June of 44, Low, Codeine, Acetone, Silver Jews, Radar Bros.

Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Friday, 19 June 2009 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link

i love this stuff, but i'm not sure i want a resurgence? maybe i do. my band, whenever we get a little press, is referred to as mid-90s-inspired indie/college guitar rock, which makes me cringe, but what the hell. I like Pavement/Guided By Voices/Built To Spill ... has anyone mentioned the first Butterglory album? Eh?

tylerw, Friday, 19 June 2009 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link

i've got that self-titled glands record on right now. such a minor classic.

call all destroyer, Friday, 19 June 2009 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link

Album was called Hologram Sky btw, came out in 1990. Don't really know too much else about 'em.

feargal czukay (NickB), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link

Pre-Versus, right?

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 13:54 (eight years ago) link

oh right, i never knew that! can't say i ever listened to versus. any good?

feargal czukay (NickB), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 14:02 (eight years ago) link

yeah!

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 14:06 (eight years ago) link

This was my favorite Versus song back in the day. I don't know that they've aged all that well. Like Small Factory, they were kind of great in a particular place and time, outside of that...not so much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrVtTwWlw-4

dlp9001, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link

i was looking at some old SPIN issues on Google reader and the writer in there tears apart that Fudge album, the one with the really grotesquely 90's cover.

it's pretty decent though

hackshaw, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link

four months pass...

Oops, missed this revive. That Fudge album is great. "Drive" is all time.

Evan, Thursday, 10 December 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link

wow, evan, you were a prophet. now i know who to blame!

scott seward, Thursday, 10 December 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link

Don't shoot the messenger

Evan, Thursday, 10 December 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link

i actually dig a bunch of it. there are a lot of local bands here that do it well. my pal abby made a new video for local heroes potty mouth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzggDceQsTY

scott seward, Thursday, 10 December 2015 16:48 (eight years ago) link

my pal sal has a cool new album out too. i've known him since he was a toddler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQG2hK8uLy0

scott seward, Thursday, 10 December 2015 16:50 (eight years ago) link

the guys from the band sediment club brought a ton of 90's guitar rock to my store this year. i just like guitars and since regular rock doesn't really exist anymore, i will take all the dino/seb/helium action people want to throw out there.

scott seward, Thursday, 10 December 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link

a new day is dawning...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW2APDMXUOk

scott seward, Thursday, 10 December 2015 16:53 (eight years ago) link

just a big ol' stew of 70's/80's/90's/Now in that clip.

scott seward, Thursday, 10 December 2015 16:53 (eight years ago) link

Ha, for sure! I liked that they played "Thorn" at that show as well.

What do you mean "regular rock"? I have my own idea, but...

Evan, Thursday, 10 December 2015 17:16 (eight years ago) link

Taxidermists is pretty great! The slow parts sounded like Codeine.

Evan, Thursday, 10 December 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link

five months pass...

Toenut became Tyro and made an album, Audiocards. I wanted to hear it. It isn't ANYWHERE online so I had to buy the CD. This is the first time I've HAD to buy a CD in what seems like an age.

Anyway, Audiocards arrived today and it's completely wonderful and maybe only a few hundred people ever heard it idk. SO GREAT

imago, Thursday, 9 June 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link

fucking amazing

imago, Thursday, 9 June 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link

I can't find my Pest 5000 CD :(

Evan, Friday, 10 June 2016 01:19 (seven years ago) link

three years pass...

It's springtime so I'm injecting the 80s/90s jangle indie into my veins again

Evan, Friday, 15 May 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link

And wtf I lost my Pest 5000 CD as of 2016? I totally forgot. It's gotta be around somewhere...

Evan, Friday, 15 May 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link

I have both, which one are you missing?

Inadequate grass (morrisp), Friday, 15 May 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link

Both as in the lp and compilation? I have a digital copy of the lp but for sure need the compilation!

Evan, Friday, 15 May 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link

Palimpsest? OK — DM me your address, and I’ll mail it to you (when conditions are once again favorable for mailing things).

Inadequate grass (morrisp), Friday, 15 May 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link

is this the thread with the most Further talk or is it on The Summer Hits thread(s)?

...because I heard Dinosaur Jr's 1997 non-album single "Take a Run at the Sun" and holy shit, that is such a late-era Further song.

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link

Hey I'm down to talk Further all day. I'll have to check out that Dino Jr song... interesting to hear a sentiment where the tables turned involving those two bands.

Evan, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link

I know, that's what's so surprising, it sounds like one of Brent's songs from 1995-1996. But it's also pretty-atypical Dinosaur Jr I should add, it was recorded for an Alison Anders film and then released on its own, kinda sunny beach pop. I'd never heard it before today (I fell off the DJr bus around Where Ya Been).

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link


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