[Closed] Forgotten albums

I've recently dug this out from the CDs in the attic...

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Sitting in the back of my mates car the other day and he put this on..

It's been decades since I last heard it.. it was actually really rather good.

Funnnnnillly enough, was decorating the other day, stereo was disconnected, so shoved a DVD of music I found in the DVD player to play through the telly. Not that any of that is relevant, but the album from Simian "We Are Your Friends" was on there. 2002, apparently. Was a good album. Wonder what happened to em. Apart from the big remix of this by Justice, they disappeared...

Ps. Strange how old music makes people "feel young". Always makes me feel old... 2002 was 17 years ago!

Tango n vective by Mu-ziq reared it's pretty head this week. That compilation looks ace.

Bikebouy seeing as your mate likes Jean does he have a stash of Klaus Wonderlich 8 track tapes under the seat? Jarre best left to the French folk

Well, I have an album on MiniDisc that i recorded 20 years ago.   I sensibly labelled it 'We', so trying to google it or find it later was very hard, after I lost the disc itself.

Untll i found it last year in a shoebox of photos. It's utterly brilliant and its classification is not easy. They call it illbient apparently, but it's mainlyy jungle and ambient weirdness

'We As Is' is the album , and I now know DJ OLive was member

South

I've got 'from here on in' and 'with the tides'

Both really good albums from early noughties.

Colours in waves is just a great song

Can't believe they weren't any bigger to be honest, I think they got disillusioned with it all. Worked with James Lavelle IIRC

Hard band name to Google though

Also The Rain Band. Saw them supporting John squire in 2003 and they had a pretty strong debut album but then disappeared. 'the runaways' off that album is well worth listening if you can find it anywhere

[i]I sensibly labelled it ‘We’, so trying to google it or find it later was very hard[/i]
Great track that.

Why didn't these people realise someone was going to try to google them one day!?

Another favourite for this was

Still going https://therainband.co.uk/

@DezB I know what you mean, 'made me feel young' wasn't quite what I meant, more 'reminded me of my youth', which is something quite different...

‘made me feel young’ wasn’t quite what I meant, more ‘reminded me of my youth’, which is something quite different…

Yeah, makes more sense! Not like one of these "School disco" women: dressing up in ill-fitting school uniform and getting hammered to 80s music makes em feel young! 😆

Not so much forgotten, but just listened to after a looooooong time, and remembered how brilliant it is

Effing shonky forum.

Anyway, Train a'Comin by Steve Earle

Listened to New Boots & Panties the other day for the first time in decades. Forgotten just how good it is.

I especially like this song on LRD’s Darkdancer!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o5l6Yz5QyV4

I had that Loaded album! Bit of a blast from the past.
I thought Bran Van 3000 showed loads of potential with this album but it was a hard act to follow

The lyric
“Just because you're better than me
Doesn't mean I'm lazy
Just because you're going forwards
Doesn't mean I'm going backwards”
came to mind a couple of days ago.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p6yW2iiKRho

Good subject for a thread:

Hardest band names to Google

We
Them
The the
South
The music
The sound
Vietnam (remember 'welcome to my room' from earthed 5- this is a mountain bike website after all)
Stupid c_nt

I had that Loaded album too, a lot of the albums those singles come off I went out and bought and are great to go back to:

Sugar - Copper Blue
Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray
Therapy? (I thinks it's on some foreign release album)
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Suede - Suede
etc

Hardest band names to Google

Stupid c_nt

Unaware of these fellas then
https://www.discogs.com/artist/276341

(don't click if offended by rude words 😀 )

The OP album is what got me into Belly's first album Star. Borrowed in on CD from the local library and promptly copied it to tape. Been trying to find a track list of it for years with no success.

Distinctly remember going to see Belly at Newcastle Uni in 95 just after the second album came out - loved it. Then last night just found they released a third album in 2018.

Hardest band names to Google

A. Or Live.

The Bees - kinda in a similar time/ space to the Zutons

good thread and it reminded me that driving along the other day i remembered this cd that i have somewhere.
listening to it now

Fingerbang: were South on MoWax?

Anything by Cowboy Junkies.

Good shout nicko ,this popped up on my playlist this morning.

Saw them live ,very talented musicians

Ah...indie compilations...from the OP. 😆

I realise compilations are a mortal sin - but I remember having a few copies of Shine compilations - some bought, some recorded from mates. Anybody remember those? Definitely helped me see, by way of introduction to Do You Remember The First Time that His 'n' Hers was better than Different Class, and introduced me to The Wannadies through Might Be Stars long before You And Me Song was ruined by the film. Happy days.

Come back to this every so often, and it gets better every time. A proper 'lost' classic.

Ah…indie compilations…from the OP

I was putting my CDs back after decorating and this disc fell out, dunno where the box is -

Make it bang, combinating with slang
Manchester the dance capital of England 😀

Dan Reed Network: Slam.

Oh wait. It wasn’t forgotten, just the opposite so nobody ever went there again.

Re discovered one of my The Dickies (The Punk Singles) at the weekend.

Still love these guys. I heard their version of Paranoid long before I knew it was a cover version. When I eventually heard the Black Sabbath version, I thought it was awful in comparison.

As a result of these guys my interest in 'current' rock music scene is restricted to The Hives and The Datsuns. I find much else a bit self indulgent.

EDIT - there should be a link at the top of this post but it disappears once I post.

my interest in ‘current’ rock music scene is restricted to The Hives and The Datsuns. I find much else a bit self indulgent

You mean you haven't been arsed to look for anything since 2000 😉

Yup, probably about right.

First love is Electro / Hip Hop and its influences (Funk and Soul etc). When I fancy something a bit more raucous, these still do it for me plenty.

My bloody Valentine - Loveless. Very good cd from the 1990's indie scene. The full album is on youtube now too.

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This thread got me thinking, so I rummaged through my CD Collection and found this...

I forgot how awesome this still is, and what an impact it had back in 98' !!

Yeah 1998 🥺

Sitting in the back of my mates car the other day and he put this on..

It’s been decades since I last heard it.. it was actually really rather good.

I bought my car last year , it had a cassette player with this in it

I used to listen to it all the time when it came out
and this too

Listened to New Boots & Panties the other day for the first time in decades. Forgotten just how good it is.

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listened to this for the first time in ages the other day, forgot how much I like it

At the moment I can't stop listening to Blancmange 'Mange tout' It's a bloody cracking album.

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Nowt wrong with that, I’m 52.

🤷‍♂️

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Many many threads do that, not just music ones

Quality tracklist on the OP! 🙂

On Spotify, someone's made it into a playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5UCQd0mI4sLfnlwxC2miyU?si=Gl3v6ETZQvaxJxh5TR15Dw

The Shine ones are there too as playlists:

https://open.spotify.com/user/hippynmagic/playlist/5UjowlCwDC6ZCv6sGGkACo?si=k7PMa6vmSb6slcB_J_WjXQ

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Forgotten, probably for good reason!

Distinctly remember going to see Belly at Newcastle Uni in 95 just after the second album came out – loved it. Then last night just found they released a third album in 2018.

Belly reformed in 2016, I saw them play Bristol the day before my birthday, nineteen years after they last toured - the best birthday pressy I could have wished for.

Gail, the bass player, was undergoing treatment for breast cancer at the time, though you’d never know it from her performance. They were fantastic.

Like!

I keep all my cd's in the cupboards under my fish tank and most weeks I'll have a rummage around in the morning and dig out something random to listen to in the car on the way to work.

These were the most recent ones.

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I’m 65 this year! The first piece of music I can remember hearing on the radio was released in 1957!

another forgotten classic album and band

found this whilst clearing the loft, i bought the CD whilst waiting at B'ham airport arrivals for a girl I met MTBing in Glentress to land from edinburgh, my first encounter since divorce way back when. great album and i'm still friends with the girl 14 years later 🙂

Given up trying to paste image but Sinead O'Connor's, The Lion and the Cobra always brings back memories of wandering around Brighton on Summer days with my Walkman on (Troy - classic).

The Aliens Ate My Buick by Thomas Dolby, cracking bass lines good sound

First time I heard this, it was either my 18th or 21st birthday (the former I think). Weekday night, went to the pub with a mate who was a bit older, and got chatting to a feller who was the dad of someone I knew from school. On learning it was my birthday, he invited us back when the pub shut. He put a bunch of folky music on (much to my dismay he had no Crass or Dead Kennedys) and produced a bottle of damson wine he purported to have made the year I was born, a sure sign that we should drink it, so drink it we did. It was rank and the bottom of the bottle had this sludgy matter which he then "remembered" was magic mushrooms. Details sketchy from then on, other than a clear image of this bloke dancing around his front room to 70s folk records wearing nothing but a pair of step ladders.
Fast forward to 2018, (the bloke is now a Labour councillor) and I'm driving along one day when Spotify plays a song I'm sure I have heard before but can't quite place where. Welcome back, Roy Harper.

Gish - Smashing Pumpkins

Boing by Airhead.
Funny How is a lost classic single from the baggy era.
I love the whole album.
No idea what happened to them.

One Dove - Morning Dove White (They only produced one album....there was no way back or forwards from here)

Eat Static - 1994, Alien abduction meets trance!

Erykah Badu - Baduzim (R&B that set the standard)

Lamb - Gorecki (simply beautiful)

@teethgrinder - here’s the track list for Star, King and Dove, Belly’s three albums so far, (there’s a best of as well);

Star
1. "Someone to Die For" 2:04
2. "Angel" 2:58
3. "Dusted" 2:48
4. "Every Word" 3:33
5. "Gepetto" 3:24
6. "Witch" 1:35
7. "Slow Dog" 4:02
8. "Low Red Moon" 5:32
9. "Feed the Tree" 3:29
10. "Full Moon, Empty Heart" 3:02
11. "White Belly" DonellyFred Abong 3:36
12. "Untogether" 4:43
13. "Star" 1:27
14. "Sad Dress" 3:44
15. "Stay" 4:56

King
1. "Puberty. Tanya DonellyGail Greenwood 3:48
2. "Seal My Fate" Donelly 4:03
3. "Red" DonellyTom Gorman. 3:35
4. "Silverfish" DonellyGorman 4:00
5. "Super-Connected" DonellyGreenwood 4:25
6. "The Bees" Donelly 4:58
7. "King" Donelly 4:18
8. "Now They'll Sleep" DonellyGorman 3:14
9. "Untitled and Unsung" Donelly 3:33
10. "L'il Ennio" Donelly 3:45
11. "Judas My Heart" DonellyGorman 5:21

Dove
1. "Mine" 5:20
2. "Shiny One" 5:22
3. "Human Child" 5:39
4. "Faceless" 4:58
5. "Suffer the Fools" 4:05
6. "Girl" 4:44
7. "Army of Clay" 3:39
8. "Stars Align" 3:37
9. "Quicksand" 4:27
10. "Artifact" 4:20
11. "Heartstrings" 3:26
12. "Starryeyed" (hidden track) 3:05

The most timely of them all, complete with EU flag and lyrics drawn from austerity, but this was 1992 not 2019, I give you 'Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine', two blokes and a drum machine trying to make a point...enjoy

Not so much an album, as a song off a mix tape.

In the early nineties, a big part of life with friends involved imbibing banned substances. Music was of course an equally hectic ingredient.

I had this mix tape that so often seemed to accompany our tripped out nights spent in mates cars parked up in the local hills.

There was one song in particular that stood out from that tape for me, and would take me right back into that madness of putting tiny bits of paper on your tongue and waiting for the start of hours of surreal.

The tape though, got ruined, by my sister, who TAPED OVER IT, with some vacuous pop rubbish or something and so I never knew who the band were or what the song was called, only that it was so spot on for the time, and had a sample that went 'BABYLON'....before this heavy, heavy base line.

Six music had a thing the other week playing music from that time and I couldn't believe it when the song came on, on Lauren's show. Finally I could put that agony of losing your favourite mix tape to bed. Turns out it was this. Record bought! 🙂👍

Ah…indie compilations…from the OP. 😆

I realise compilations are a mortal sin – but I remember having a few copies of Shine compilations – some bought, some recorded from mates. Anybody remember those?

Yes!! When I read the OP's post I had vague recollections of those Indie tapes and couldn't remember their name. Off to try and find some copies on the Interwebs...

Tracklists here FYI

I remember having a few copies of Shine compilations

I've got one sitting in the car, stole it off my brother way back... Got some good stuff on it, but also a whole load of very forgettable crap.

I've been working my way through various "Top 100 Albums of All Time" type lists, they usually turn up a few gems. And again a whole load of forgettable crap 🙂

Current list is a bit AOR, I have to admit I've been skipping bits of it:
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Alecway_Aldwinbay/101_albums_that_changed_popular_music_by_chris_smith/

This one is/was more in keeping with the spirit of the OP's Loaded:
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/nme_500_greatest_albums_2013.htm

DEZB ---
Simian broke up, some of the group formed Simian mobile disco

also

youtube link

Holy Simian revival! Their first album, Chemistry is what we are, is a copper bottomed stone cold out on its own classic from 2001 There's a YouTube playlist.

Simian Mobile Disco's first album was pretty good, if slightly samey.

Thought Simian and SMD were probably related. I've got a fair bit of SMD. The temporary Pleasure album was good