..I quite liked Olympian even if it did feel like an album of lost Smiths b-sides.

cant remember the name of the album or any other details about them, other than they were Scandanavian possibly. Very Britpop-sounding though. There doesnt appear to be any info on them anywhere, but they were cracking. At the time...

is a great album, really tragically overlooked - I still haven't worked out quite why. Perhaps it was the curse of Chris Evans liking them. They should have re-released Jesus Christ as a single, instead of a slightly stumpy edit of Lost Myself. In fact, Jesus Christ is one of THE great lost singles of all time, in my book.

Marion - This World And Body - I've gone back to listening to this loads recently, and for the most part it's rather sexual. Unlike the Longpigs, it's fairly clear why they didn't get massive, and that reason is that their singer turned into a smack-addled twat, lost his looks, ended up in prison for burglary, and ruined everything. Obviously, if he did that now he'd be on the cover of NME every other week. But these were less enlightened times.

Cast were ALWAYS a steaming pile of dogshit. Actually, come to think of it, they were more like a vast silo of cats' diahorrea, left by evil vets to fester next to a primary school for blind spastic leper children in the midday sun. But you get my jist.

I thought of my own choices before I opened this thread, and people are coming up with most of them. I NEVER expected this one to be mentioned...

Yes.

Except "It's Lulu".

my favourite Boos album

Billy sent me a very nice email a few weeks ago which I've taken on board by continually forgetting to respond to.

but not my favourite Echobelly album !

that all the auteurs and black box recorder albums that you saw in shops had little stickers on the saying 'featuring the songwriting genius of luke haines'.

kinky machine : kinky machine
airhead : boing
mock turtles : turtle soup
rialto : (whatever their album was called)

I used to live for this on a Sat morning <3 <3 <3

Still the best thing on Youtube.

Agree re:Longpigs. Always thought their guitarist was shit hot.

x

i haven't heard this song in a while but here goes....

"there's a girl at the door and she's flaunting her all at the shy passer's by who pay all she affords, it was only supposed to be a short stint in the industry, now she's........mumble....erm"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bvLDHWYy_E

Still one of my favourite ever TV things. In fact, I've still got it on video.

Second Longpigs album good as well, though I was gutted that drummer Dee had left/been fired (?) 'cause he was nice to me when I stalked him at a Skunk Anansie gig.

Octopus album was okay, but didn't live up to the singles. Saved was fantastic, and Your Smile had EXCELLENT HORNS.

Apparently when Octopus supported the execrable Space they swapped Space's backing CD (for the middle bit of You And Me Against The World) for their own single, and were promptly ejected from the tour.

And they were named after the Syd Barrett song.

Commendable.

Collapsed Lung - C**ler
Done Lying Down - John Austin Rutledge
Baby Chaos - Love Your Self Abuse

Awful title, brilliant album.

were absolutely blinding - Living With The Human Machines must be another Great Lost Single.

But when they were awful, boy did they suck. Patrick's lyrics, when he wasn't singing vaguely about doom and Jesus, were atrocious. Freak might be one of the worst singles by a Band Off The Boil ever, although their cover of Moon River on the b-side was good.

The Good Will Out too, Now You're Nobody was a such a good song.

by Warm Jets is good
The Hybirds - The Hybirds
All Change - Cast
And of cousr Expecting to Fly

omg, id forgotton about them. i think that song was called 1962, no?

Yes.

Still going, too.

adorable. who were far far better