Whatever happened to Skunk Anansie

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I liked how the weeklies turned viciously turned on them after they didn't become MeShelle N'degewhatever, and I liked it even better that it didn't matter because by then nobody was reading the weeklies anymore, they'd all switched to Kerrang!!! Ha ha ha! Death to clever limey indie-pop shit!!!

― dave q, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Plus "Just Because You Feel Good" is the best(only) example of Calvinist-cool since 'More Songs About Buildings and Food' - need more of that, I say

― dave q, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hilarious watching IPC trying to pick a 'hard rock' band it was OK to like - oafs like Therapy? must've been cool because they did Husker Du covers (badly), right? QOTSA and At the Drive-in also got IPC's leprous kiss and suffered for it, or maybe they just sucked

― dave q, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

the guitarist drones on about his favoureie fx pedals each month in a guitar mag - 'this makes a crazy sound - used it for an intro to a song'

as i am even more boring + tech = i read his damn reviews

― a-33, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

They went and lived five years in the future - re: Starnge Days. Hence we will never see them again. (Horror of time travel paradoxes).

― Pete, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

One of them (the black guy w/short dreads) was in OK or the Evening Standard magazine last week showing off the beautiful decor of his bijou flat. It said he was forty years old.

― Snotty Moore, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh god, I'd forgotten about them. They were bloody awful. Angsty liberal bollocks played by people who by rights shouldn't have been allowed near a recording studio. "Intellectualise my blackness" my arse.

― Kris England, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

If I remember right they were an okay local-band-ish metal act, then they started doing ballad after ballad after ballad in a feeble attempt to "crack America". Ballistically awful video's too

― Lynskey, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

seven years pass...

The British hard-rock band Skunk Anansie are the latest ’90s-alt act to reunite, with a forthcoming greatest-hits collection apparently serving as a warm-up for a full-on new album and tour.

http://idolator.com/5263192/skunk-anansie-slip-back-into-their-old-skin

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 13:09 (fourteen years ago) link

Their upcoming gig here sold out in about a week. Not that I wanted to go -christ no!- just noticed when I was perusing the listings.

― Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 13:19 (fourteen years ago) link

^ luv this

i know a lot of people who don't take the awfulness of Official Awful Band Skunk Anansie as given, quite like them, had bought and listened to and enjoyed records without being aware they were an Officially Awful Band

n.b. i have never heard a skunk anansie record

― thomp, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link

Caught em a few time live before their debut came out, and they always tore the place up.

― chap, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 13:37 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah, I saw them early on in 1994-ish too, cos they supported Come at the Camden Underworld. Not mad keen, I'm afraid.

― Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

I was surpsied to see they were still around and a part of two songs on this forthcoming soundtrack:

"SUCKER PUNCH" SOUNDTRACK SET FOR MARCH 22nd RELEASE FEATURING ARTISTS ALISON MOSSHART, QUEEN, EMILIANA TORRINI, AND BJÖRK

SOUNDTRACK COMPRISED OF WILDLY REIMAGINED VERSIONS
OF CLASSIC SONGS

WaterTower Music is thrilled to announce the release of "Sucker Punch: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" on March 22, 2011. The audio companion to the film director Zack Snyder describes as "Alice In Wonderland with machine guns" has taken over two years to create, and will delight filmgoers and music fans of all generations.

TRACK LISTING:

1. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" - Emily Browning
2. "Army Of Me (Sucker Punch Remix)" - Björk featuring Skunk Anansie
3. "White Rabbit" - Emiliana Torrini
4. "I Want It All"/"We Will Rock You" Mash-Up - Queen w/ Armageddon Aka Geddy
5. "Search And Destroy" - Skunk Anansie
6. "Tomorrow Never Knows" - Alison Mosshart and Carla Azar
7. "Where Is My Mind?" - Yoav featuring Emily Browning
8. "Asleep" - Emily Browning
9. "Love Is The Drug" - Carla Gugino and Oscar Isaac

― NYCNative, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link

"Search And Destroy" - Skunk Anansie

There has got to be an ilm-based joke somewhere in this

― o0o00h really? (boxedjoy), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link

four years pass...

howard stern pronounces them the next big thing back in the day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU-ExhHPJ0I

― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 14:31 (eight years ago) link

"it's gonna be as big as Green Day!"

― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 14:32 (eight years ago) link

two years pass...

YES, IT'S FUCKING POLITICAL!
EVERYTHING'S POL-I-TI-CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!

― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Monday, 21 August 2017 20:03 (six years ago) link

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