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

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.

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)

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.

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

Heh, nice

tripmaster monkey had a few good tracks

Now there's a name I never got past.

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All records.

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

I loved Urusei Yatsura

BRAINIAC yes they were great

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

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

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

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?

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

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

He was also in Codeine too.

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

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

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

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.

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'

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

Space Needle - The Moray Eels Eats The Space Needle

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

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.

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?

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

I'm not sure I'm ready for a resurgence either - on the other hand I'd vastly prefer it if modern "indie" bands sounded like this that whatever the hell current UK "indie" is try to achieve </old man>

there is already a pretty big amrep/touch&go thing going on right now.

anyway, these threads are good too:

Forgotten 90's alternative rock masterpieces WANTED

Criminially Underappreciated 90's Guitar Bands

overlooked 90's groups

Its not so much necessarily a specific genre that I want to see reemerge... its just that popular music right now is very 80s... that is there is a whole style over substance thing happening. I'm not saying I think artists like Bat For Lashes is "bad," I just feel like theres more of a persona that is being marketed before anyone actually hears any music. Its part of this blog culture where we have to be obsessed with every move an artist makes no matter how insignificant (all TMZ style), and with downloading being so easy there is all of this high consumption and in the end its just songs/an image- and then its on to the next artist next week.

So basically I have just really been gravitating to a time where bands were making cohesive no-nonsense albums where the music was the focus. Shouldn't that always be the case?

Wait that was bad wording...."specific genre that I want to see reemerge" I really just meant 90s resurgence

wait, what the hell is Multiple Cat? i guess i could just look it up.

Haha yeah they're good. the song "Sad, Sad, Sad" is really musically sunny and catchy. Sound like Pavement a bit.

Also, like I said GBV are a given. No worries.

Interesting, not great, and very forgotton band from this era is Vodka. Jenny Wade on distinctive vocals, a couple of indie rock dudes on guitar, and an idiot journalist on drums. About four very nice songs on their album She's My Dream, and they don't sound like everybody else.

Velocity Girl kind of went under in this thread so I just wanna say that the 6-track EP is so so great esp. if u like Unrest as the OP said.

Hey dlp I was just reading your posts about 18th Dye. People should talk about them more.

I got out a box of old CD's the other day and put on Wattle & Daub by the Strapping Fieldhands. It's fantastic! I wondered why I really wasn't into it at the time.

for me this is indie rock, fuck that fleet foxes shit

here i go ~ out the door ~ of my apartment before ~ i miss my train and there is no way that is happening

fieldhands rule!!!!!

This Is The Strapping Fieldhands Thread Cuz I'm Drinking Beers And Feeling Nostalgic

Did Discus ever come out on CD? I think Boo Hoo Hoo was my favorite thing of theirs.

they deserve a boxed set. if my dopey brother can get a 4 disc career overview, then the friggin' fieldhands deserve one for sure.

Just downloaded a Discus rip from some blogspot. Hadn't heard it in a while. Damn, better than I remembered even.

Wow I really like Space Needle.

AH yes I am excited to see Versus open up for Polvo FOR FREE in NYC this summer.

!!!

did not know about this but now i'm excited too.

Or at least the excerpt I heard of "Before I Lose My Stlye"... to early to call maybe?

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

I have both, which one are you missing?

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

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

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.

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.

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).