20 years on, how many of these do you remember?

Inspiral Carpets: Check, clearly.
The Family Cat: Eh?
Boo Radleys: Just About (but like everyone else I suspect, I just remember Wake Up Boo clearly)
Buffalo Tom: Just About
Spectrum: Nope, blank
Suede: Loved them, still do
Mudhoney: Just About (only just)
Swervedriver: Just About
Levellers: Of course (but was never that much of a fan)
Erasure: One of their biggest fans. 😳 😀

I was listening to Inspiral Carpets just yesterday.

Number 1…. excellent! 😉
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knew a lot less than I expect 5 out of 10…

That Buffalo Tom album – Let Me Come Over, I think it’s called – one of the best covers of all time.

And while I’ve always been a big fan of Erasure, I would never have put them down as “Indie”

Loving the on-screen graphics. I quite liked the Chart Show format. No presenters, with the little nuggets of information coming up on the screen.

I remember praying that the specialist chart wouldn’t be dance that week! Erasure are on there due to their label being independent, it used to throw up some unlikely chart toppers.

The info bubbles were great, very Ceefax

That Buffalo Tom album – Let Me Come Over, I think it’s called – one of the best covers of all time.

Love that album, Tailights Fade and Let Me COme Over takes me back to an important time in my life and will always be played in my house

Not from that album, but my favourite Buffalo Tom song (and that’s a fiercely contested category) was…

Inspiral Carpets: Yup
The Family Cat: Nope.
Boo Radleys: Yup, and not just Wake Up Boo – there was at least one other song I liked.
Buffalo Tom: Yup
Spectrum: Nope
Suede: Yup
Mudhoney: Yup
Swervedriver: Yup
Levellers: Yup
Erasure: Obviously yup.

So 8/10, that’s not too bad, and I remember watching the Chart Show at the time and wondering where the hell they found some of the bands on there from…

Spectrum were an offshoot of Spacemen 3, the Sonic Boom part, whilst Jason and Spiritualized were the other offshoot. Actually so was darkside I think?

Mudhoney – f-cking ace, particularly live.

Erasure are on there due to their label being independent, it used to throw up some unlikely chart toppers.

Yeah, I guessed that, plus it gave them a bit of credibility. 😆

Not from that album, but my favourite Buffalo Tom song (and that’s a fiercely contested category) was…

This came from their latest album that was out last year, a pretty strong contender and Tanya Donelly shows up too (my teenage crush)

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Boba Fatt – Member
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This came from their latest album that was out last year, a pretty strong contender and Tanya Donelly shows up too (my teenage crush)

That sounded great, will have to investigate that album further.

Yes, I remember liking Tanya along with Nina Gordon and Louise Post from Veruca Salt, Sonya from Echobelly and this lovely Dutch TV presenter turned frontwoman:

I saw The Family Cat play live at The After Dark in reading. The guitarist played a jaguar 12 string (I think) for that perfect early 90’s jangly indie sound.

Unfortunately they’re not on spotify. Superfuzz Bigmuff will have to do.

I was listening to 15 years on my ipod on friday.

IIRC, Polly Harvey played guitar and sang backing vocals in the family cat on a few tracks.

I was listening to 15 years on my ipod on friday.

+1 actualy, was a little random seeing as I’d just been idly wasting time on facebook and noticed that two of the girls I had massive crushes on as a teenager are now getting married (no not to each other, and not to me either). Not sure a modern re-make would work “I’m not really that upset about the girl from 15 years ago has packed and gone away becasue i didn’t really have to put any effort into finding out what she’s upto because I can just stalk her on facebook so I’m not really emotionaly invested in the whole process”.

Ohhh, and I’ve always though Radiohead were a bit rubbish, but if that was the scene they came from then it’s hardly suprising!

I saw buffalo Tom live last year.

They still sound great

Some of buffalo tom fellas solo stuff is excellent too. Junes 1992 I was just finishing my a levels and about to leave Stourbridge ( centre of the indie universe) and go to uni. Happy days. Seen all but two of those live.

how fit was the girl in the Boo’s video?… hubba hubba

Inspiral Carpets: Never got into them, a bit clean for me.
The Family Cat: Brilliant. Tell ’em we’re surfing stands up today – pure surf pop. I remember they had 4 guitarists (I think). Saw the a few times at the old JB’s.
Boo Radleys:

Just About (but like everyone else I suspect, I just remember Wake Up Boo clearly)

Buffalo Tom:

Just About

Spectrum: As said above, one of various spin offs from the mighty Spacemen 3. I always thought it was a Sonic Boom project? I loved that first (and only?) Darkside record, but the maddest moment was the free ‘Octaves and Tremeloes’ EP that you could send off for if you had the ltd edition kaleidoscope copy of Sonic’s debut album – although I can’t remember what the album is called…
Suede: Never got them. Saw them a few times, but not for me.
Mudhoney: Brilliant. Saw omn the solstice tour with TAD and Norvan supporting. Nirvana were total shit, Mudhoney blew them away. I think they had just released Superfuzzbigmuff
Swervedriver: Crap I though. Didn’t they have a guy with dreads? NME/Sounds etc calling them shoegazers – when I saw them they got the crowd going but not my thing.
Levellers: Loved them still sometimes go and watch them…
Erasure: Saw Wheatus play ‘a little respect’ at Bearded Theory this year if that counts….