Shed Seven...

[Pieface]

I liked the Bluetones

 

[g force]

First single - brilliant catchy pop tune, second one more of the same after that pretty shit

 

[twistedAM]

you're SO not missing out on much twisted

Oh I heard the shit on the radio and all that but lest we forget the amount of really good stuff coming out of the USA at the same time.

 

[Pieface]

I have to say - Britpop - it was a singles thing rather than an album thing for me.

 

[g force]

Yep, bar Parklife there were very few decent albums at the time but some great pop tunes.

 

[themonkeyman]

I loved Cast, I also quite like the LAs - There she goes

 

[Pieface]

Why are you winking?

 

[Sadken]

I saw Shed 7 at Phoenix festival in 1996. I literally could not believe or understand how people were enjoying it so much but they were going off like they were at Altamont or something.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Because he's a cheeky fucking chappie.

 

[Sadken]

the bluetones

I still really like their first album. Mark Morriss was actually a really good lyricist imo.

 

[ouchmonkey]

I still really like their first album. Mark Morriss was actually a really good lyricist imo.

poor man's paul heaton

 

[ovaltina]

I listened to Sleeper's album a week ago when I was bored on a train and plumbing the depths of my ipod. Awful stuff and now I can't get it out of my head. Let this be a warning.

 

[ouchmonkey]

you do know you can delete things off iPods don't you?

 

[stupid dogbot]

poor man's paul heaton

OOooh.

 

[Sadken]

I actually am quite poor though, so...

 

[stupid dogbot]

you do know you can delete things off iPods don't you?

 

[marksims68]

Cast - fantastic band. Mother Nature Calls is an awesome album. John Powr's lyrics are still good to this day.

Suede were good until Bernard Butler left, Coming up is an okay album but nothing like Dog Man Star.

Also, I like Elastica.....

*runs*

 

[twistedAM]

I actually am quite poor though, so...

you could still probably afford to have Mark Morriss play in your living room. Heaton might be beyond your price range.

 

[El Jefe]

made even better because his own band were such a pile of fucking cack, too. Ace book.

The Auteurs were OK, Black Box Recorder are fuckng brilliant, as is his solo stuff.

 

[Looby]

Anyone who made it onto a Shine compilation was and is still loved by me. Fuck you, the ninties never died

I think I've still got some Shine compilations somewhere.

I love Gene still and Sleeper and Suede were other big favourites. I was listening to Sleeper on Spotify the other night, I think they were great. Never really liked Shed Seven.

 

[ovaltina]

you do know you can delete things off iPods don't you?

It's too late now

 

[kittyP]

....nothing else they ever did is mind.

 

[Pieface]

Shed Seven were cack and the frontman looked like he might be a hobbit. I firmly enjoyed many songs from other mediocre bands of the period, however.

 

[King Biscuit Time]

My Girlfriend's a fan of Shed Seven,
She's particularly fond of Rick Witter,
I said bollocks to that,
Take off your hat
And let's have a look up your nose.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

It was a terrible time for music. Nothing good for anyone. I'm not sure we ever recovered from it.

 

[Looby]

Shed Seven were cack and the frontman looked like he might be a hobbit. I firmly enjoyed many songs from other mediocre bands of the period, however.

I quite liked The Bluetones too.

And I went to see James. Lost £100 at that gig too.

 

[El Jefe]

It was a terrible time for music. Nothing good for anyone. I'm not sure we ever recovered from it.

there was some absolutely great stuff on the fringes - Stereolab, Prolapse, the beginning of Mogwai, etc. The middle of the road is never where the interesting stuff is, and Britpop was pretty much as middle of the road as it got

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

there was some absolutely great stuff on the fringes - Stereolab, Prolapse, the beginning of Mogwai, etc.

They were all shit as well. I had nothing.

Maybe the Jesus Lizard & Royal Trux.

 

[El Jefe]

They were all shit as well. I had nothing.

muppet

Maybe the Jesus Lizard & Royal Trux.

there was shitloads of great stuff coming out of the states during britpop, it wasn't all bloody flannel shirts

 

[ouchmonkey]

It was a terrible time for music. Nothing good for anyone. I'm not sure we ever recovered from it.

I have to take issue with this as well - plenty of good stuff about at the time but not all lumped in with the spurious britpop nonsense.