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Ride. Probably all of those early 90's shoegazing indie bands.
I saw Ride at Derby Assembly Rooms, probably '91? They were suitably upstaged by a support act called 'Verve', who shortly after had to change their name to 'The Verve' to avoid copyright issues with Verve records...
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CatatoniaThey 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.
Short lived?
Well, they were around from 1991 - 2001, had four chart albums, two number one, one Gold, one Silver, two Platinum, a bunch of chart singles, and Cerys has released eight solo albums, and tours regularly.
You may not like her voice, but she's a bloody good songwriter by anyone's standards, and I'll never miss an opportunity to see Cerys when she plays locally.
I've probably seen her more than a dozen times with Catatonia and solo, she's an outstanding performer, better now she doesn't drink like she did with Catatonia; there's a story about how she broke the sink and flooded the band green room at Moles in Bath which may or may not be apocryphal. They were allegedly banned afterwards...
Some more bands who sadly disappeared after one or two albums during the 90's - early 00's:
Tiger
Dark Star
Curve
Linoleum
Bellatrix
Tiger were fantastic, saw them several times, released one great album, 'We Are Puppets' followed by 'Rosaria', which is available, but was never promoted.
Dark Star the same, released a great album, '20:20 Sound', gigged a lot, were fantastically loud, with a drummer who used maraccas as drum sticks, then broke up before 'Zurich', their second album was even finished. Found a version on-line which wasn't the final mix, still very good, though.
God, how I [i]loved[/i] Curve! The amazing Toni Halliday! (Swoon). Saw them a bunch of times, particularly the Doppelgänger and Cuckoo tours, I can hear their influence in lots of newer bands.
Linoleum were fun, followed them around a few gigs, they released an album and 12" single in hand-made parquet-effect Lino sleeves.
Bellatrix were an Icelandic band, gorgeous lead singer who played amazing electric violin, one album then seemed to just vanish.
Such fond memories, sadly no photos, before the days of camera-phones and cheap digi-cameras, venues wouldn't let 35mm SLR's through the doors.
Tenpole Tudor
Haircut 100
Heaven 17
Big Fun
Fun Boy 3
Pepsi and Shirley
Amazulu
Martha and the Muffins
welsh band sang 69 guns....?????
Big Country......?
Betty Boo
Echobelly
on the matter of the THE THE possibly the greatest UK band of the 80s.....Soul Mining was the sublime and Infected the great album of the 80s
Such fond memories, sadly no photos, before the days of camera-phones and cheap digi-cameras, venues wouldn't let 35mm SLR's through the doors.
Yes, the good old days when everyone was able to enjoy the experience of a gig without some dickhead with a screen in their hand
[i]Fischerspooner
although I think "Emerge" is a fantastic track
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I love their second album! (Odyssey).. i think I'm in a minority though.
69Guns was the atrocity that was The Alarm. Joke band.
And Ride have reformed after Andy Bell left one of the Gallagher's bands. Didn't like Ride personally, but their were other "of the time " shoegaze bands
Catherine Wheel
Lush
er.. Mint 400?
The Magic Numbers, Badly Drawn Boy, Gnarles Berkley / Cee Lo Green, Paramore, Chase and Status, Bjork, Duffy, LMFAO, Jet, The Hives - one minute they're everywhere and the next - nothing, they're always the ones that catch me out - you hear something on the radio and remember you liked them and Google tells you they haven't made a thing in ten years.
Stackridge
Galliano hahahahaha
Bjork
Beg pardon?? 😆
Anyone remember Electrasy?
These annoying idiots definitely deserve a mention too:
Disturbing fact #1: One of them had Liv Tyler's baby!!!!!!
bands that did one great album (IMO) then 'disappeared':-
The La's, The Seahorses (note..NOT shirehorses !)
somebody mentioned Skunk Anansie but they have done a handful of albums
DezB thanks the Alarm, saw them several times in Wales as they seemed to have a monopoly....truly terrible band
Galliano, saw at Glasto worse were
Spin Doctors Two Princes
4 Non Blondes....though Linda Perry rules the song writing female world
Arrested Development...great album though first one
Len....Canadian rappers
Presidents of America....peaches
The only band mentioned that I remember fondly are CSS. Loved the first album, wife said it sounded like a shit female version of LCD Soundsystem
elsh band sang 69 guns....?????
Big Country
The Alarm was listening to them on Spotify, seen them live a few times when at school. First album still has few good tunes.
Sure I was told they merged with Big Country and tour now. This may not be correct
I think Mike Peters is doing lead vocal for Big Country, but not a merge per se. I could be wrong of course
Milli Vanilli - one album and they were gone..... 😀
Some great reminders here , I'd almost forgotten about Linoleum...
The Longpigs?
Their album, The Sun Is Often Out, is still one of my all-time favourites!
Heard Radio6 play 'Far' the other day.
Bjork
Beg pardon??
That's just edged past The Beautiful South in my list of silliest nominations in the thread...
artful dodger
then Craig David
How about these guys, part of that whole Keen-Coldplay-Snowpatrol axis of bland in the early noughties:
Another example from the Acid Jazz smugplosion in the early nineties
I was mad about My Bloody Valentine in my yoof. Very influential but very 'of the late 80s'.
the levellers? Have you run mad? Awesome band
I saw them at some folk festival or other (might have been Brampton). All I wanted to do was push them into a bath tub and scrub them down with a stiff-bristled broom.
Going back a bit, may I add Ram Jam? They made a great album (the one with Black Betty) but I never heard any more from them.
I saw them at some folk festival or other (might have been Brampton). All I wanted to do was push them into a bath tub and scrub them down with a stiff-bristled broom.
Ha! I saw them at Brampton too and one of my friends described them as a compelling argument for Sheep Dip.
Reef - although still going, had that moment in time, helped by tfi Friday, it's your letters. Been to see them a couple of times in the last few years still good in my eyes.
Saw them at Reading '95, only knew "the one from the minidisk advert" (It possibly had a different title)... They saved it for the encore, bastards....
Someone above mentioned the Hives, I'd rank them with lemonysam's definition of Ash. You forget about them, think they've only done one song, then you see them, mid-afternoon, at a festival and the set list is BAM, BAM, BAM, one excellent poppy-rock track after another.
Who remembers Ultrasound? Two albums and then nothing. 'Stay Young' was/is a great single.
Bjork
Beg pardon??
+1!
Elastica and Kingmaker.
Temporary indie superstars.
Ultrasound got back together for the Tim Smith (the cardiacs) gig and then released a new album. They are working on some more news songs and the occasional gig.
Moving slightly away from the charts...
Trapt were all over MTV just as Nu Metal was dying as were...
Taproot
Hed (PE)
Papa Roach (arguably one good album and lots of filler after that)
Warrant (again at the of of the hair metal reign)
Guess there will be loads of bands who were huge for an album or two but then vanished as the skate punk 'thing' dired up.
Bowling for Soup are arguably only known for a handful of singles / funny vids.
I can't think of too many others than New Found Glory (although still going I can only really think of one album).
How about "Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction" and "Sigue Sigue Sputnik"?
Definitely! I was thinking of adding Zodiac Mindwarp.
Sputnik made a comeback a little while ago I think. They were great fun though. Saw em live a few times. One time in Finsbury Park, first and only time I've experienced tear gas, which some kind person let off in the crowd for a laugh. Caused a bit of mayhem, which is (was, bit old for that sort a thing now) always welcome at gigs.
Papa Roach (arguably one good album and lots of filler after that)
I'd agree with that. I think it's because they stopped doing drugs.
Saw them live in Oxford a few years back. It was rock by numbers. You couldn't fault the performance or the energy, but it was all very clean, staged and soulless. It was almost like there were cues to do things that were meant to be impromptu.
[i]4mins in - say "HELLO OXFORRRRD!" (pronounce 'Oxford' incorrectly if possible); 8mins - talk about how happy you are to be here. Look really unhappy; 20mins - shout "**** YEAH!" (reason not important); 36mins in - insult small, unthreatening boy in front row's mother; 42mins - talk about how drugs are bad; 45 mins - talk about how drugs are bad because you've forgotten you've already done it; And so on... [/i]
How about "Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction"
They never even had a decent album 😆 the High Priest of Love E.P. was brilliant though. A lot more entertaining than most of the indie landfill.
Some really strange choices in this thread.
Anyone mentioned The Real Poeple yet ? Saw them a couple of times and always thought their early stuff was right good. For scousers.
Can I pre-emptively add Royal Blood to the list?
Can I pre-emptively add Royal Blood to the list?
No.
Can I pre-emptively add The Amazing Snakeheads to the list since the singer has decided to sack the rest of the band? I'm hoping him and the sessions musicians he has hired can prove me wrong.
Having just been listening to the wonders of Jack FM on the work shuttlebus, I thought I'd just pop in and say...
Alanis Morrisette
Saw them live in Oxford a few years back. It was rock by numbers. You couldn't fault the performance or the energy, but it was all very clean, staged and soulless. It was almost like there were cues to do things that were meant to be impromptu.4mins in - say "HELLO OXFORRRRD!" (pronounce 'Oxford' incorrectly if possible); 8mins - talk about how happy you are to be here. Look really unhappy; 20mins - shout "**** YEAH!" (reason not important); 36mins in - insult small, unthreatening boy in front row's mother; 42mins - talk about how drugs are bad; 45 mins - talk about how drugs are bad because you've forgotten you've already done it; And so on...
Their current stuff is very safe, very dull and generally a bit rubbish.
The whole nu metal thing was always going to be difficult to sustain - you start out cheesed off about something, make a good album that goes stellar, earn a load of cash etc. I guess it's quite hard to maintain the spark. Look at KoRn - first album was amazing but nothing else has really come close.
I'm quite partial to a bit of Zodiac Mindwarp! - those quality ditties like Back Seat Education, Elvis Died for You and Skull Spark Joker. But then again, I actually like a lot of hair metal like Poison, Skid Row et al.
The Levellers.Apparently they're still on the go too. Thank christ they disappeared off back into obscurity. Cider swilling, clown clothes wearing, bath-dodging, crusty tossers!
Binners, you will be delighted to know that I saw them last year, headlining the Ramsbottom music festival.
I was ripping some old CDs last night, and found Electric Soft Parade, Turin Brakes and Gomez, which all fit the definition I think.
As for Britpop - anyone remember Powder?
I also loved Longpigs first album. Waited ages for the second which turned out to be a huge let down.
Sleeper were good as mentioned but mainly because we all fancied Louise Whatshername.
How about Kenickie (had a soft spot for Laverne)?
Oh, and Gene? Loved Speak to me Someone and plenty of others off the album were popular although the lead singer came across as a plum.
Oh, and Gene? Loved Speak to me Someone and plenty of others off the album were popular although the lead singer came across as a plum.
I thought they had one really good song which they gave several different titles.
Sleeper were good as mentioned but [s]mainly[/s] only because we all fancied Louise Whatshername.
FTFY. 😉
I thought they had one really good song which they gave several different titles.
Hey, don't knock it, Red Hot Chilli Peppers have made a career out of it.
Sleeper were good as mentioned but [s]mainly[/s] only because we all fancied Louise Whatshername.
Well, no, What Do I do Now and Inbetweener were great pop songs. But, okay, probably 🙂