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Elastica?
Salad?
Shed7?
A few that sprang to mind. All quite influential at their time one way or another and all short lived..
Pulp weren't short lived! They were going for flipping ages before Different Class and they kept going for years afterwards. Even if you discount the 80s stuff and the reunion they were releasing albums properly 1990-2002, which is about as long as Blur, for example.
If you're after shit Britpop bands that rightly vanished into the depths of obscurity after Oasis jumped the Status Quo shark with Roll With It, I nominate Menswe@r, Republica, Cast, and of course Ocean ****ing Colour ****ing Scene.
Oh and Kula Shaker. God they were awful.
Love and Pulp seem like strange choices - Love released, what, 6 albums - at least three of which are arguably classics - over a decade and Pulp were around forever and had 4 top ten albums.
Agree with muzzle,giant steps is an amzing album,one of my favourites,bombjack your're talking through your arse.
Maybe, however, it is a great arse. One big hit single then sinking without trace from the charts does kinda suggest they disappeared and were of their time (a bit like the OP question)
Completely agree with menswear.
I'd also add Mansun to the list of bands that quite thankfully never managed to trouble my ears again.
My contribution is Life Without Buildings. They genuinley only did one album, Any Other City, andit wasn't really a hit so not sure it counts.
But still, it was bloody brilliant and one that I think a lot of people on here would enjoy so fill your boots.
Bonus question time - who can cite the connection between their song 'The Leanover' and mountain biking?
Clearly their carriers were longer than my memory 🙂
OK
Can't say he wasnt short lived.
Republica
I got my first fumble at the school disco to Baby Get Ready To Go so they can do no wrong in my eyes.
Roper, I was just about to say Pulp!! Been active for the best part of 30 years but will always be exclusively britpop.
I'll add Scissor Sistors, Mika, the Beautiful South, Catatonia.
Yeah, Mansun! Funny though, they've got this hardcore following who have re-union events and stuff. We must've missed something!
Kingmaker!
Olive!
lucky7500 - MemberRoper, I was just about to say Pulp!! Been active for the best part of 30 years but will always be exclusively britpop.
I'll add Scissor Sistors, Mika, [b]the Beautiful South[/b], Catatonia.
Hang on! They've been going (in one form or another) for about as long as Pulp! 🙂
Hang on! They've been going (in one form or another) for about as long as Pulp!
And they've had 8 top 10 albums*! The scissor sisters had four in the top five then broke up and Catatonia had three top ten albums, two of them going platinum.
Mika was proper shit though.
*tip: Any band that's managed three platinum best of records probably doesn't count in this context.
PWIE
Gaye Bykers on Acid
Others I'd thought already mentioned Salad, Kula Shaker,
[i]Mika was proper shit though[/i]
I've read so many good things on this thread!
Good call BignDaft - Shed 7 would get my vote.
Saw them a couple of times and loved them.... And plop, they're gone without a trace.
Has anyone mentioned James yet?
I've read so many good things on this thread!
Wait, hang on, are you coming down on the side of Mika?
Anyone mentioned Republica yet?
If Porcupine tree are legit then so are Spin Doctors (oddly just finished listening to Pocket Full of Kryptonite an hour or so ago).
JJ72
The Seahorses
Hanson (Still about. My wife loves them. FML)
Garbage
Savage Garden
Toploader
Shed 7 would get my vote.
I once did a presentation at uni to one of the guys out of shed 7, that's my claim to fame.
Shed 7 got their recording contract by beating my mate's band in a battle of the bands competition.
I'm not sure if it counts as a claim to fame, but I've held it against them ever since...
And I'm slightly surprised that no-one's mentioned the awesome Bluetones yet!
Bluetones?
Spin Doctors did a UK tour last year.
Black Grape? Finlay Quaye? Freak Power
To a lesser extent, Supergrass?
**edit - balls, beaten by a few seconds!**
Toploader
I roadied once for this pile of musical excrement (NOT a claim to fame, more a memory that I would only approach when I'm in my happy place)
Horrid, horrid gig. Glad they are no more. The audience consisted of old people and giggling kids.
Rock N F'ing roll.
who can cite the connection between their song 'The Leanover' and mountain biking?
It was on the soundtrack to the Original 'Earthed.'
Garbage, hmmm Shirley Manson another frontwoman I had a bit of a thing about as a teenager, I can sense a theme here. Still listen to 'Heaven is Wide' on a fairly regular basis.
Hang on! They've been going (in one form or another) for about as long as Pulp!
True, and my sister in law is a huge fan, but I'd argue that in the public consciousness they're only known for the brief period when slightly dull jangly pop was 'in' 🙂 Actually I'll add the Thrills and the Magic Numbers as well.
Pretty much the same goes for Scissor Sisters. They may have sold a lot of albums worldwide but I'd be extremely surprised if anyone outside of the hardcore fan base could even name the 3rd & 4th albums without google, never mind a song that isn't one of the first three singles released.
That may be stretching the premise a little but I do think all my original choices are very much associated with short periods of time.
Terrorvision?
Saw them at Wolverhampton Wulfrun many years ago, and then a couple of years later they were doing our Uni ball - as I was setting my drums for our set earlier in the evening, Shutty wanders past, already pissed, and asks if I wanted to play instead of him!
I nearly included Reef on this list but the local rag recently suggested they're rehearsing for a comeback tour.
The Rembrandts
so much to say but wasted on the foolish
The Only Ones
Although maybe should be "bands that deserved to make it but didn't" category?
The Magic Numbers? They must be still going, they were in the Harry Hill Movie!
Shed 7 would get my vote.Saw them a couple of times and loved them.... And plop, they're gone without a trace
er they headlined Bingley festival last year. OK it's not Glasto but it's still a reasonably sized 3 day festival. The last one of the summer IIRC
Roachford
Doctor & the medics
Skunkanansie
Dumpy's Rusty Nuts
All of whom had their good points
my band supported Dr & The Medics at Bradford Uni in the late 80s.
and at different times, New Model Army, UK Subs, Psychosurgeons and quite a few more
</claim to fame>
anyway, back on topic, may I present:
Eldritch would periodically take them on tour up until about 5 years ago but thanks to signing a ridiculous record deal that he later decided was a bad idea, did nothing recorded since Vision Thing in 1990.
He has finally decided to give up the ghost with TSOM
Well, according to WIKI they're history:
Shed 7 - The band officially broke up in 2003, but reformed for a greatest hits tour in July 2007.[2] The band have continued to play shows around the UK periodically but have not released a new studio album.
Pretty much the same goes for Scissor Sisters. They may have sold a lot of albums worldwide but I'd be extremely surprised if anyone outside of the hardcore fan base could even name the 3rd & 4th albums without google, never mind a song that isn't one of the first three singles released.
That may be stretching the premise a little but I do think all my original choices are very much associated with short periods of time.
I'm pretty sure that this goes for most of the bands listed here, i bet the majority are still going in one form or another.
A couple more
Embrace
Stiltskin
Catatonia
They supported Pulp at their big Finsbury Park gigs. They were bloody awful! Mercifully short-lived though. I don't mind Cerys as a DJ. Just don't sing. Or attempt to write songs.
Embrace
Embrace are notable for having managed to drift bizarrely into vogue not once but twice.
Forgot about Elastica. And pretty much any band who's name started with 'The' in the early 00's.
And Spin Doctors may have toured but what % of people would know that? Certainly not enough to net them another top 3 album.
Shed 7 - The band officially broke up in 2003, but reformed for a greatest hits tour in July 2007.
I was there! 🙂
Goldie Looking Chain.
Their debut is also a contender for the complete Album thread.
How about the Au Pairs - one of my favourite albums ("Playing With a Different Sex") then.. poof!
'Headache for Michelle' off the album was recently covered rather beautifully by Terranova:
Goldie Looking Chain.
Your mothers got a Pen15 still makes me laugh.
😆