Every other post seemed to be about the Cooper Temple Clause.

I remember the Kinesis/Reuben/Miss Black America DiS tour being big news at the time as well.

Biffy Clyro
Mclusky
Cat Power

at least on the boards

I remember having 'hurrah another year' before I started DiSing. I had always thought of it as a fairly interesting few songs with a kick ass 65dos remix attached. It wasn't until I came on here that I was made aware that they were the second coming and that 'Good Nature' was being heralded as the best thing to arrive in music since forever.

Well, whatever, i remember they got a fair bit of coverage.

It should be iDLEWiLD.

EVEN WENT TO SEE THEM IN CROYDON. YES, I SAID CROYDON.

And Boris?

Battles
Animal Collective
Liars
!!!
Tom Waits
Weezer
Les Savy Fav

if you don't like these, you're not getting in!

because, apart from anything else, there was an article and an email to the mailing list telling everyone to buy "Silent Alarm" and stand up for independent music.

Well, the DiS bands, hmm:

They're the bands on the label of course ...always in the news, rarely/never reviewed (fair enough) YMSS, Jeniferforever, etc

Favs that never quite made it: iLT, Blood Red Shoes, Jet Plane Landing, Mclusky, Longwave, Nine Black Alps, Amusement Parks on Fire

Favs that did: Los Camps! Muse

...It seems there was always a better American band that they sounded like... exceptions, of course (LC, Mclusky, APOF).

I remember wishpig talking me into getting a Less Than Jake album. Eek. Biffy Clyro was a gigantic disappointment. Ditto the Cribs.

There was all those emo threads I used to ignore. One good band in the lot (BE) isn't good. We all talked about how much we hated american emo and then everybody big-upped MMISL, the Brit equivalent, I didn't get that.

Jared used to hype an unsigned Arctic Monkeys all the time...remember him? I'll bet sean's kicking himself for missing that boat, eh.

A DiS board member found Arcade Fire before PF's 9.7 did. That was cool.

PF usually makes the right call (eg Mars Volta) but every so often it's the other way 'round (Hello Black Kids!). DiS reviews give added favor to many mediocre Brit bands. Field Music is good, but 10/10 good? I don't think so.

For all Brainlove's love of weirdness, he turned us on to a lot of great bands. Patrick Wolf, Liars etc. some notsa great Polysics.

Fullerov for Mountain Goats. Lyle for Mahogany. But these aren't really DiS bands like, say, Maximo Park is.

In Colin's time, DiS had more love of indie-pop and in Mike's time we get more guitar rawk love. The boards mostly mirror the latest PF review.

In general, I find the DiS reviews to be more and more reliable. A board consensus of American hating Brits to be able to pick the best American bands (like PF picks the best Brit bands).

I dunno, I'm rambling. Fuck it, I can't be arsed to edit this.

Modest Mouse
Ryan Adams
Shirley Bassey