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

i second or third the Ajax catalog influence - i still have some in a box somewhere. discovered so many key bands and generated a lengthy wish list because of that distro.

may i mention the spinanes if they weren't already? manos and those early 7" are as good as it gets for me, along with seam and tsunami. and very jealous to the poster who saw versus a few weeks ago.

Barnaby: I'm so glad you are benefitting from this thread just as I am and was intending to upon creation! I've really been excited to talk about great bands that not many people are discussing these days.

Haven't heard Raymond Brake, but I love Polvo!... and if early Trail of Dead material is poor man's Unwound and I love all of that, then I am excited to hear poor man's Polvo for sure. Weird reasoning but whatever.

And yeah Spinanes have been mentioned. Great band! I've been meaning to pick up "Strand" when I find a copy. I have "Manos" and "Arches and Aisles" already. Both are great.

Oh and sknybrg will you be near NYC by any chance next Friday the 17th? Do you like Superchunk? Versus and Superchunk will be playing a free show together at South Street Seaport at 6:00pm.

Re the original question: No, let's hope it doesn't.

Fair enough?

Best almost-bill I saw in the 90s: Polvo/Drive Like Jehu/Superchunk in Boulder, CO. Polvo's van broke down or something, so they didn't show (which now really bums me out, but at the time I had not heard anything). Essentially, I had bought Foolish about a week before this show and then, about 2 days before it, had read a review of Yank Crime in Option Magazine essentially saying it was the greatest guitar record of the year (dates me, huh?). So, I went out and immediately bought it and was just blown away. I went back to buy the first Jehu record and the guy at the store just said "You know they are playing here, right?" Well, I did then. I have never been the same since that show. Gave Superchunk a big kick in the ass as well (I would not have wanted to go on after that band), they were way better on that tour than the other times I saw them. But shit, it was all about Drive Like Jehu. A group of people actually left the show chanting their name after their set, not to return for Superchunk!

just listened to this:

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/270/273052.jpg

for real underrated classic of the waning daze of the Am Rep empire...such a great band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZdimaf-YsE

Even though I came around to her Unicorn stuff, I'm so sad she didn't keep putting out stuff like that!

"will you be near NYC by any chance next Friday the 17th? Do you like Superchunk? Versus and Superchunk will be playing a free show together at South Street Seaport at 6:00pm"

damn - i'm on the wrong coast...but i'll spread the word to my nyc friends. thanks for the info, evan!
i was a fairly big superchunk fan and bought a lot of the merge catalog on sight for awhile. may need to go find those records.

"it was all about Drive Like Jehu"

yessir! i think i recall that option article and was lucky enough to catch jehu when they played in austin - summer of '94. love love love that band

Yesterday I went shopping and I was pleasantly surprised that not only music, but clothing fashion is also moving slowly away from the 80s and into the 90's. More depression and testosterone, less glam and gayness.

great, sign me the fuck up.

right on

No problem sknybrg! Sorry you can't make it.

i've been listening to a lot of jawbox and polvo lately. i don't think jawbox have been mentioned here at all yet.

True.. they have not! Shame. I'm also interested in that Burning Airlines project.

Jawbox were great. I'm still searching for a (used) copy of For Your Own Special Sweetheart, but that's really hard to find over here in The Netherlands (since it's OOP). I have their last selftitled album which I think totally rules.

True.. they have not! Shame. I'm also interested in that Burning Airlines project.

I really really liked (and still do!) the first one Mission: Control!. Never really got into Identikit, thought maybe its due a revisit.

Back when I was a concert promoter I booked Burning Airlines to play on Sept. 11 2001. I've still got the ticket stub somewhere... the crazy thing is they played and a pretty good amount of kids still came out to see the show! (to add to the weirdness, I also had Explosions in the Sky booked for later in the week, but they canceled out of good taste.)

Creepy!

I was a gonna say late Government Issue too. You was a good album in this mode.

Idendikit is underrated IMO

Reviving the thread to thank all of those who helped me discover Further (dmr thats you). The "Grimes Golden" EP is one of my favorite discoveries of the year.

Now I'm going to focus on finding some of that Cannanes material!

Oh, and I recently got myself "Across The Room and Into Your Lap" by Uncle Wiggly and its so fantastic. Recommended.

if there's any cannanes stuff you can't find or buy directly from them, let me know as i have all of it

Does anyone have a copy of Rex's "C" that they would be willing to, uh, "lend" me? eMusic doesn't have it and it's positively un-googleable.

I used to have a copy but no longer, sorry. Amazon.co.uk has it if you are in the UK -- here

Ajax Records!!!

The head honcho used to post on here. He's a top bloke.Last I heard he was riding the Ajax chopper out to the Merge do in North Carolina.

Versus
Shudder To Think
GBV
Grifters
Archers
Polvo
Codeine
Rodan
Bitch Magnet
Seam
Lilys
Slint

All the above mentioned, applauded and seconded.

I've missed loads, I know

Didjits - hey Judester, or was that 80s?

Swell - too many days without thinking

red house painters
american music club for the more maudlin moments

Versus reformed??!!!Fontaine Toups?

Who has seized the baton?
Pissed Jeans, Japandroids, Danananananananananananananananananananann.....aykroyd - what a stupid fucking name

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

― latebloomer, Saturday, June 20, 2009 2:10 AM (2 weeks ago)

otfm!

thirded

I really like the Japandroids. Saw them recently and they were very loud but/and very good.

And yeah "Too Many Days Without Thinking" by Swell is also one of my favorite 90s albums!

Hey electricsound, is there some secret way to buy tangible Cannanes material without spending loads? I happened to find and purchase "Short Poppy Syndrome" from an ignorant source for cheap (relative to amazon going prices).

hmm good q.. i'd been lucky to pick it all up either s/hand or from the band over the years.

i'm actually really surprised that their albums are so scarce. it probably doesn't help that most of their former labels are no more.

i can certainly hook you up with copies of anything you can't find at all

there's a $9 copy of 'arty barbeque' on amazon.. their best album imo

Great! Thanks! Do you mean physical copies?

Yeah Arty Barbeque has been on the top of my list so I might go for it.

sure, i can do cdrs

The Grifters were awesome one of my favorites. Crappin you Negative and Ain't My Lookout are the two good starting points. Red Red Meat's Jimmie wine Majestic is also fine.

Girls Against Boys - great sound, two basses w/some synth at points - Cruise Yourself I think is the best album.

Tar - if you like Jawbox, check these guys out. They had a good sound, maybe not as strong song writers compared to some other bands mentioned - Toast or Jackson are both pretty good.

Engine Kid - these guys had a sound a bit ahead of the curve as they would go from kind of mellow to near metal at points - Angel Wings is really good.

Silkworm - I really like the early albums way better than later on - In the West and Libertine are my recommendations from them.

Urge Overkill - they went from very hip to losers in like a summer for indie rock hipsters, but I really can still rep for their best stuff (which is probably the first one on the majors).

Mule - pretty obscure I suppose, but I thought they rawked the couple of times I saw them live. They have a heavy punk blues thing going on with some shouty beefheartian vocals. If you like the JSBX, you probably wouldn't mind them.

Braniac - very manic on record but that was really awesome to see live. I have to be in the mood for them, but they were unique.

New Bomb Turks - Destroy Oh Boy -- Their later records never did anything for me, but I thought this one was some good punk garage rock and kind of funny at times.

Six Finger Satillite - killer live band and Severe Exposure and Law of Ruins both have held up well as records.

Alot of the stuff mentioned here is the more indie pop stuff, but I grew up in the midwest so many of these bands were things I saw and got into.

Grifters is the best band in the world. Check out the mixes I made: use the search thread function for Grifters POX (and I have copies of those mixes if no one objects to me posting the link)

CaptainLorax you've really wanted some feedback on those for awhile now, huh.

Thanks for all of the recommendations earlnash! I love Grifters, Silkworm, Brainiac.

I realized I miss Codeine, I used to make fun of that sound and I sold the two Codeine albums I had.

eavn i love duster. do you listen to their new project, helvetia? not as good but enjoyable.

err, evan

Seconding Arty Barbecue love, my favourite Cannanes album as well.

I've managed to pick up quite a few Cannanes albums fairly cheaply over the years, didn't know they were hard to find nowadays.

No cutty I haven't checked out helvetia, definitely will right now.

Mule - pretty obscure I suppose, but I thought they rawked the couple of times I saw them live. They have a heavy punk blues thing going on with some shouty beefheartian vocals. If you like the JSBX, you probably wouldn't mind them.

Mule was fucking great...but actually I would even more recommend ex-Mule front dude PW Long's two albums on touch & go, with his next band P.W. Long and Reelfoot

here's the songs that were on my grifters mixes:
part 1
part 2

sample song #1 / for those who never heard grifters
one of the darker/harder songs. still very much indie

sample song #2
this one also sung by Dave. But Scott was just as good of a singer

well maybe not

evan, early cannanes cd for cheap, check it out

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300392487196

Thanks! I'm going for it!

Are there any new bands that sound like this?

The new Kate Nash single, improbably enough, sounds like Breeders/PJ harvey by way of Britpop.