Shine - 90's Indie Compilations!!

[Lazy Llama]

The Shine CDs did have some good stuff on, the first one has The Smiths, New Order, James, Electronic, Pulp, House of Love, Elastica and The Charlatans.

They also had a bunch of dodgy (pun intended) shite as well.

Or am I just showing my age again?

Shine tracklisting
Shine Too tracklisting
Shine 3 tracklisting

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

The Boo Radleys' problem is that everyone seems to remember them for that awful Wake Up Boo song. But Giant Steps was a pretty good album.

 

[Iam]

The horror...

 

[selamlar]

I would say in my defense that I was quite young at the time, and

 

[bluestreak]

the first echobelly album is pretty good though. it all goes a bit pete after that though.

i quite like sleeper too. and the first mansun album is great.

after checking the tracklist for the first one i'm quite happily humming 'feel the pain'. and disliking pulp is quite frankly the work of a madman.

the rest of it is pretty much toilet.

i mean, cast. really. what was the point of cast? why would anyone bother?

 

[milesy]

"insomniac" by echobelly was good and "wide open space" by mansun was very good. nothing by sleeper was good though.

i had managed to eradicate cast from my brain until this afternoon

the 90s. tracksuit tops and flared cords and floppy hair. amongst other things.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

even shed seven have more good songs than the boo radleys, milesy.

they were so fucking cheerful. i mean, suede, now they had plenty of shit moments but basically made two decent records. gene had listened to enough smiths that they didn't make you want to smash the stereo, but the boo radleys? urk.

oh you man of petty ignorance...

GIANT STEPS !

and those shine compilations were crap

 

[Divisive Cotton]

the 90s. tracksuit tops and flared cords and floppy hair. amongst other things.

but women dressed sexier in the 90s

 

[twistedAM]

i mean, cast. really. what was the point of cast? why would anyone bother?

fucker...i was going to raise the stakes with The Bluetones but Cast take the fucking the puke cup

indeed The Automatic, Klaxons etc do shit on the 90s brigade from a reasonable height

 

[skyscraper101]

I mean the OP.... it has a distinct wiff of 'corr all the bands when I were young are much better than the bands now' post-youth nostalgia...

the second rung of brit-pop bands (gene, shed seven, etc) in the mid 90s were pretty average... if they were to come out now, they wouldn't get a look in. however dance music in the 90s was much better than it is now... swings and roundabouts...

I was born in '81 so I would have been about 14 in 1995. And yes all the bands when I were young were much better so ner!

(ETA except northern uproar who were proper shite)

 

[ohmyliver]

fucker...i was going to raise the stakes with The Bluetones but Cast take the fucking the puke cup

indeed The Automatic, Klaxons etc do shit on the 90s brigade from a reasonable height

I think they were both shite, but the Bluetones were shitter... at least Cast were a pale imitation of the band that the lead singer was in before (the Las) but the bluetones made a career out of ripping off old stone roses singles....

 

[gininteacups]

I remember having Shine 9, I thought it was great. I was 12 at the time to be fair... but I still like it now, to be honest. The 90's produced some amazing music.

 

[milesy]

the bluetones were much better than cast!! not that that's saying much.

 

[milesy]

neither of 'em were as good as the flying medallions though.

 

[milesy]

or weird's world.

 

[Kanda]

Oasis were the best band of the 90's.

*runs and hides*

 

[milesy]

you're right to run!!!

 

[half_eaten_arm]

louise from sleeper made me hard for a few years in whipper snapper days

 

[Kanda]

louise from sleeper made me hard for a few years in whipper snapper days

You had a continuous hard on due to Louise Werner???

 

[Fruitloop]

Cast were fucking lousy, but then the whole thing had pretty much turned to poo by the time they came along.

 

[Buds and Spawn]

Everything had gone to pieces for the indie scene by the mid-90s.... Those Shine compilations reflect the sad state of things... I can't bring myself to type the names of some of those quasi-bands...

But the Boo Rads - Ichabod and I =

It was so much better in the late 80s - early 90s

 

[bluestreak]

"insomniac" by echobelly was good and "wide open space" by mansun was very good. nothing by sleeper was good though.
.

which album was 'nothing' on, i don't remember that one.

 

[ohmyliver]

the bluetones were much better than cast!! not that that's saying much.

no, as I said they were both shite, but the Bluetones 'the bootleg stone roses' sctick just annoyed me more

 

[milesy]

nah, for me the bluetones were much more preferable. they weren't rent-a-northeners for a start

 

[chriswill]

Northern uproar were the best


I still listen to their first album today.

 

[milesy]

they had more than one?!

 

[sleaterkinney]

The Boo Radleys' problem is that everyone seems to remember them for that awful Wake Up Boo song. But Giant Steps was a pretty good album.

Yeah, they could put a decent tune together, I wouldn't put them at the same level as Shed seven at all.

 

[chriswill]

they had more than one?!

Yeah the second one was called Yesterday,Tomorrow,Today

It was rubbish