This was inspiried by the Camden thread in the Social forum.
What bands fill your heart with joy from that period that everyone else probably forgot?
I'm talking
Marion
60ft Dolls
Whipping boy
Blameless
Longpigs
Menswear
Deus
The Frank & Walters
Babybird
I suspect some of these bands may not technically qualify as 'britpop' but what the hey.
Same era
Jocasta
Cable
Geneva
The Dandys
Daytona
....and no, I'm not reading from the back of a Shine CD
No
It's a 'best album...in the world' isn't it? ;-)
Hehe
I love all those bands :)
Babybird especially - one of those annoying 'Everyone knows one song, and thinks they know EVERYTHING' bands. God, how I know those bands so well...
Babybird = ace. And Whipping Boy. And the Blameless album is really good, actually.
I also have a huge soft spot for Shed Seven. I may be alone in this though.
Kinky Machine.
Family Cat.
I have a soft one for shed seven too
that maybe came out wrong...
and Deus
weren't British
sorry it's early
Deus
aren't even British.
I enjoyed Marion and 60ft Dolls at the time. 60ft Dolls were great fun live.
see above
ack
abandon reply.
Linoleum were ace.
Yes
they were !
YES THEY WERE!!
'Sing To Me' is one of my favourite songs. Ever.
I like all those
Also:
BLUETONES. I actually love that band. Shed Seven were good for a while too.
YES
Yes
That's all. Just YES.
i saw a band support Kula Shaker
in 96 called grassshow. they were fucking awful, so hopefully are totally forgotten
and i liked the bluetones
the lead singer looked like my dad
I remember Grass Show
They were Swedish I think. I may have bought one of their singles.
really!
i thought they were reel no hopers!
I own
two Grass-Show singles.
1962 being one of them. I liked it. But then I was 14/15, and very impressionable.
1962
that's the one. Where's thewarn? He usually crops up when people start talking about 1996.
grass show - 1962!
I remember that!
I didnt buy it, but I did tape it off the radio :D
The record shop in my town
used to have a lucky dip offer where you got three mystery singles for two pounds, I'm pretty sure that's where I got it from. I didn't think it was that bad. Kind of Wannadies-like.
well i only saw em once
and it was 10 years ago, so i'm not really the man to know, even tho i did claim to be up there ^^^^
I have a couple of Grassshow singles
weren't they on Food?
Yup
they were indeed. That may be the only reason I bought the singles. See also: The Supernaturals.
Did the Supernaturals do that song called
Smile?
I keep confusing them with Symposium
yeah they did.
..day before yesterday's man; wasnt built to get up; etc etc
ah yes, it's coming back to me now
That was Celine Dion, you fool
whatever
my heart will go on nonetheless
the new band
the hussy's are well worth seeing too.
They have a girl singer. and a myspace.
I saw the Hussys
the other week. I wasn't impressed, to be honest.
to be fair
i saw them at the same time as the research so anything would have been good in comparison.
I thought they were good fun. Quite catchy. I'd definitely go see them again.
something smells good
grass show were great!
in a fluffy, swedish, wannadies sort of way...
the album 'something smells good in stinkville' (yeah, rubbish title...) is very good. 1962, Alice and Cavemankind are personal favourites, and they did a fun (though obviously inferior) cover of All That She Wants, long before any ironic guilty-pleasure revisionism from indie types!
Longpigs are ace
the sun is often out blows my mind to this day
yes The Longpigs ARE ace
I really liked Longpigs for ages but didn't actually get my own copy of The Sun is Often Out until this year.
Also, I used to love Echobelly and Powder
Powder!
Afro disiac, shrink-wrapped, pre-packed...
I'm so playing my 7" singles this evening. I WILL feel young again, goddammit.
ShShShSHave meeeeeee!
is what they said
Gene!
Ballroom!
Ballroom
were so great !!!
Yeah!
Haunted By You = ace.
DEFINITELY Gene
I absolutely love Gene's first 3 albums. Shame they went downhill quite seriously, just like Echobelly in fact.
Gene at the Astoria way back in 1997 (I think) is one of my favourite gigs ever.
I've been listening to 6 Music for the last hour and they played As Good As It Gets by Gene and, a bit earlier, Marblehead Johnson by The Bluetones. Maybe they've got a Britpop theme going on today but they aren't mentioning it - in-joke between the DJs or something.
There are more
Northern Uproar
18 Wheeler
Ultrasound
Bawl
Number one cup (?)
Tiger
Ah. 'Race'. There's a forgotten classic for you.
TIGER!
"She's in the corner having a baby - RACE!"
and Shining In The Wood.
ahhh
hah yeah
i remember seeing them at the garage with someone like bis or dweeb.
gonna have to dig out my camden crawl 1 and 2 cds now, got loads of tracks on em by all these bands.
prolapse. they were good too.
I'M ON THE ROSE TILL THE MORNING'S OVER
OH YEAH!
I interviewed Number One Cup
I've got to go and listen to Divebomb again.
Divebomb = Classic
They were American though.
Hell yeah
A lost classic.
plus
Lush
Dweeb
Sleeper
Reef
Cast
Do Dodgy count?
I really liked Homegrown.
Babylon Zoo anyone?
one day
he will write a spherical song.
I saw them live
they played Spaceman first.
Half the crowd left straight after.
I remember all the 'cool' kids really loved
"that song off the levis advert" so they went and bought the single, only to find that the bit they loved only lasted about 20 seconds at the start.
I found that funny because it was funny
haha
I remember kids at my school being really disappointed when they bought that.
indeed
and their Top of the pops performance left me confused as to why they'd slowed down "the song from the Levis advert"
Boo Radleys
though they were going before and after britpop. C'Mon Kids is a great album.
I used to have a theory
that they were the first post-britpop band.
That is, the first of the britpop badns to try to go a bit weird and fucked up, with what's in the box (see what you got)
kent
midget
headswim
Kent
aren't british ( and are still doing records :! )
oh gosh
i have a headswim single somewhere. i saw them live once. they were Bad.
were they really britpop though? surely not.
longpigs, sleeper and the supernaturals are my three beloved britpop remnants.
i also kinda liked bennett. sorry.
oh christ!
and rialto.
i don't know how i forgot rialto.
I wish you had
:-(
i used to work with a guy
who was in headswim. he was kicked out before they "got famous", however, but I think his brother was still in the band then.
c'mon kids
is one of my favourite albums
Ride the tiger, Everything is sorrow etc
I miss the Boos :(
Make sure...
...you visit www.bravecaptain.co.uk then. Martin Carr's still knocking stuff out - and he just put a whole new album up for free.
C'Mon Kids
is an amazing album, it really is. I love how 'Giant Steps' and 'Wake Up!' got all the praise and then that got overlooked, but it's BRILLIANT.
Learning to Walk and Icabod & I were better ;-)
Lush
weren't Britpop.
Even if their last album was partly influenced by Britpop !
Haven't any of you people heard of
The Soup Dragons!?!?
Too early
Begone old man :)
These old man jibes are really starting to smart
YOU BIG GAY BEAR.
So if those are the also rans
who would you consider to be the rans?
I guess:
Oasis
Blur
Suede
Pulp
anyone else big enough to count? Manics?
what about supergrass?
mememe?
SFA?
Welsh, but I distinctly remember them as being lumped in with the scene.
practially all the bands mentioned above
I <3 long long time.
I have many singles by random bands I thought might make it big - see Octopus, Carrie and suchlike. Such happy days
mmm..
Symposium, Perfume, Bis, Hopper, all released classic singles.
ahh perfume
Lover was one of my favourite songs back when Steve Lamaqu was a God amongst men and Jo Whiley was actually cool. Bet I could still sing it word for word though.
Hurrah !
I'm not the only one who remembers Perfume !
Yes!
Carrie were fantastic.
Not strictly British but I really liked a band called the Young Offenders from around that time who did a bit of the Britpop thing.
I think my fave Britpop bands were:
Kenickie
Sleeper
Boo Radleys
Ash
Longpigs
Silver Sun
Terrorvision
Oo Kenickie! good one
mmmm Lauren Laverne
Silver Sun...
...are still going. They had a new album out last year (which was ace) and a new one coming in the next 2/3 months hopefully (which on the basis of what I've heard should also be ace).
But Silver Sun were rubbish
surely?
No
No.
kinky machine
were really ace live.
the frank and walters werent really also rans, they were around pre 1995. and quite frankly are the most underrated popsters ever.
I wish I'd have seen that :(
The closest I've got is Louis Eliot live on his own. Not the same :( The first Kinky Machine album is actually my favourite album of all time.
it is indeed an
underrated album.
i saw them three times, once supporting neds atomic dustbin, once playing with the manic street preachers and once on their own at manchester boardwalk.
louis eliot is the son of the earl of st germain, and is pretty minted from his aristocratic parents. though you can currently see him starring in both british airways and ups adverts on the telly.
Having said that...
...Louis Eliot kicked a bottle offstage in a temper tantrum at one gig and managed to wind me. Nice one.
But yeah, there are a load of bands from the above list that I miss. The Longpigs albums are still great. But I put on the Warm Jets album the other day and that had aged horribly...
I think
Elcka is the only britpop band that i remember and that wasn't cited.
I think I'll listen to 'nothing to lose' right now.
Did anyone mention
Salad?
Drink the elixir. Great stuff.
american !
and before britpop !
and great !
^^
that was for thommo...
Drink the elixir was so fun !!!
What about Revelino?
Speaking of which, one of their singles was in John Peel's most treasured record box...
I made a Revelino thread
one week ago !
With very few replies !
Happiness is mine is a lost classic.
But they were irish !
i had that
on a smash hits tape.
proof, if it were even needed, which clearly it isn't, that there was once a time when smash hits wuz GOOD.