90s guitar college rock indie... The 80s are back now so lets hope this comes next?

ppl talking about Dump up ^there just reminded me of this, from a thread I started 1,000 years ago:

Why won't he release the Dump album that has all the Simpsons samples on it? At least leak it onto the Internet or something. PLEASE!!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 18 December 2003 17:50 (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is this a real thing or just Snrub being a wacko??

Hey Yuck is really good! Never had heard of them.

Oh wait I actually have! Didn't realize it till I recognized one of the videos.

Did anyone else hate The Promise Ring as much as I did? I realize you don't have any idea how much I hated them, so I'll just tell you. A LOT.

A decade+ removed, though, I don't remember why. I mean, I'm sure I'd still find them useless as all fuck, but I don't think they'd trigger the rage they used to.

I don't know i remember listening to segments of that EP with the pink cover and being amused at the awfulness of it but otherwise I never even gave them the time of day.

I used to really like Promise Ring, circa the first two albums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MxiRqobPag

^ this was a pretty good Scarfo tune, Jamie from this band ended up in the Kills

i thot scarfo were great, both albums are v tight

The irony of me sitting here getting all misty-eyed over a song which goes "nostalgia must die" (which I probably once nodded along to cz I really meant it, man)

Speaking of mid/late-90s Britisher imitations of US college rock, my hat goes off to the guy who has put a whole bunch of (Urusei) Yatsura vids on the Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9yeYGbugwc

Further away from the thread topic, but no talk of 90s UK indie rock is complete without these guys imo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsU5b6LT0Wk

(was going to post some Ligament too but just got stuck in a loop of listening to the 5 Ligament songs on youtube instead)

who could forget this incredible thread

PROLAPSE: Classic or Dud

ran across a beatnik filmstars cd the other day (boss disque on merge) still sounded p tight

don't think i ever heard a beatnik filmstars disc, but i did see them (and archers of loaf!) open for the flaming lips sometime in the mid 90s. which seems totally relevant to this thread.

my personal BF album of choice is 'beezer' which is more of a comp than a proper elpee but v good

Dammit, I was just about to rave about the Beatnik Filmstars and then I realised that I still get them mixed up with the Flaming Stars

flaming stars are great! they reissued all their stuff a few years ago

Yeah, they were solid! Links to lots of other great but somewhat off-topic bands too....

were they in gallon drunk too?

I'm on a Blake Babies kick today, but I guess they predate the 90s for the most part (though they did creep into the first couple years of the decade). They could really do with a 2-disc anthology set imo.

were they in gallon drunk too?

Max was, also people in the Earls of Suave, Minxus, Terminal Cheesecake.

gallon drunk made some really great bad seeds records! good stuff

Gallon Drunk! Now we're talking.

The Rough Guide Two... chapel hill indie rock

I'm really liking the Yatsura song up there. For some reason it made me want to listen to the Drop Nineteens.

I have a whole lot of Flaming Stars records and 1 Minxus album and had no idea there was any connection! But then I think I bought the Minxus by accident thinking it was someone else (no idea who that would've been) and then didn't really like it.

Same drummer -> Joe Whitney

omg toenut are awesome

seriously, 'two in the pinata' must be one of the great lost 90s records, it's up there with swirlies' 'they spent their wild youthful days...' except much more lost

I'll check it out!

A guy I work with used to be in Toenut (he did the tape loops). They ARE awesome.

Jawbox! Slackjaw! Jawbreaker!

fucking seriously I'm not gonna shut up about this record

the bassist died shortly afterwards in a motor wreck, and he's fucking excellent here, so there's another reason to give it a spin

TOENUT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFT04yJBU0w

I always meant to check out the full album. I got "Test Anxiety" off a comp back in '97 or whenever and I still jam to that song. I can imagine they're awesome.

it's on Spotify. both albums are incredible, but the second more so

Test Anxiety is pretty awesome

first album suffers a bit because 'Seizure' up front is such a staggering standout, I think - second album is an absolute riot all the way thru

Toenut kicks ass.

think two in the pinata might be even better than '...glittering world of the salons', and coming from me that's a monumental call

TOENUT

staggering fucking album. keep saying it until yall wise

New Further comp:

http://cargorecordsdirect.co.uk/products/further-where-were-you-then

YES.

That band needs recognition- no matter how much anyone might think they're a poor man's Dino Jr.

It's all about "Quiet Riot Grrrl" really. Of my top 10 favorite songs in that genre.

they had a lot of filler but super griptape is a great rec

Isn't that their most Dinosaur Jr-y? I don't have that one yet.

their best imo, yeah quite dinoish

does honeyblood fall under the purview of this thread? the album's growing on me

i dunno but that album is excellent imo

see also TS; Alvvays vs Honeyblood

Had this Flower song float into my head today for some reason. Owed a huge debt to Sonic Youth but it's a good album nonetheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg7yG1RazTo

Album was called Hologram Sky btw, came out in 1990. Don't really know too much else about 'em.

Pre-Versus, right?