lol midway still
― task force vs the brisbane punks (electricsound), Friday, 19 June 2009 11:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I was going to put Ned's & Senseless Things...
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 19 June 2009 11:51 (fifteen years ago) link
It would be the Delgados and all that.
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 19 June 2009 11:58 (fifteen years ago) link
they're probably a bit later than most of the stuff here
― task force vs the brisbane punks (electricsound), Friday, 19 June 2009 12:00 (fifteen years ago) link
JACOB'S MOUSE they were awesome
― it's the nuclear sex apocalypse, dude. i mean, c'mon. (stevie), Friday, 19 June 2009 12:00 (fifteen years ago) link
First of all... thanks for all of the suggestions so far!!
And yeah Fox, Superchunk and Archers of Loaf are both fantastic.
― Evan, Friday, 19 June 2009 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link
i saw the archers of loaf/small23 double bill in leeds (the duchess of york pub : rip).i loved it, but not sure sure the people i took with me (wife and friend) were too into it.been years since i heard the small23 album...oh, is that an urge to go a digging in the archives i feel on the rise.
― mark e, Friday, 19 June 2009 12:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Jacob's Mouse did a mean Britisher Amrep thing but as far as my record collection is concerned the UK didn't really get onto US-style college rocking until '95 onwards: Urusei Yatsura, early Delgados, Ligament, Spare Snare... uh, possibly some bands not on Che as well (Magoo, Scarfo, Pure Morning?)
(although what I might really mean by this is that I didn't really start buying 7"s until '95 onwards)
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 19 June 2009 12:15 (fifteen years ago) link
AoL! Oh man, yes yes yes. I also find it curious that GBV ain't mentioned. Get yourself B000.
My answer to everything: Brainiac. Hah.
Urusei Yatsura was ok.
― I GOTTA BRAKE FREEEEE (stevienixed), Friday, 19 June 2009 12:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Urusei dudes have got a new band called Project A-Ko. Their album sounds EXACTLY like Pavement. Not a little bit like UY did, but EXACTLY
― DJ MARTIAN IS A KING AMONG MEN. Dan Perry, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 (DJ Mencap), Friday, 19 June 2009 12:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I quite like Blumfeld but after the mid-90s they sounded more like George Michael than anything you'd call indie - not a dis per se, it was pretty cool but an acquired taste
― DJ MARTIAN IS A KING AMONG MEN. Dan Perry, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 (DJ Mencap), Friday, 19 June 2009 12:25 (fifteen years ago) link
dis per se - thought this was some sort of word art on first reading
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 19 June 2009 12:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Heh, nice
― DJ MARTIAN IS A KING AMONG MEN. Dan Perry, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 (DJ Mencap), Friday, 19 June 2009 12:28 (fifteen years ago) link
tripmaster monkey had a few good tracks
― task force vs the brisbane punks (electricsound), Friday, 19 June 2009 12:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Now there's a name I never got past.
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 19 June 2009 12:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All records.
― grandavis, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:08 (fifteen years ago) link
JACOB'S MOUSE they were awesomeThey did come to mind actually after I posted!
I loved Urusei Yatsura
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:21 (fifteen years ago) link
BRAINIAC yes they were great
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:22 (fifteen years ago) link
that band Wussy is the dude from Ass Ponys, so that's something
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:32 (fifteen years ago) link
don't forget, wussy are playing tonight with 90's guitar hero chris brokaw.
― scott seward, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:41 (fifteen years ago) link
ahem... i think yzall mean 3ra1n1ac, who absolutely ruled.
― it's the nuclear sex apocalypse, dude. i mean, c'mon. (stevie), Friday, 19 June 2009 13:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Who is Chris Brokaw? I saw him this year, at the aforementioned New Year show, and to me it was just some dude with an acoustic, not v memorable at all. Do I need to be schooled?
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link
agree with whoever said this stuff never went away. so many great bands.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:50 (fifteen years ago) link
chris brokaw was in come, who are kind of a tough listen imo.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:51 (fifteen years ago) link
He was also in Codeine too.
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 19 June 2009 13:54 (fifteen years ago) link
chris was in come and codeine. two great 90's bands. lots of people owe him money for ripping off codeine so much.
― scott seward, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:55 (fifteen years ago) link
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come are one of my top ten fave bands of the 90's. i love everything they did.
― scott seward, Friday, 19 June 2009 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
First album is top ten 90's for me too.
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 19 June 2009 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
AH right yeah obv I know Come & Codeine, but not to the extent I'd know who was in the bands. Apart from Thalia in the former's case.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 19 June 2009 14:01 (fifteen years ago) link
As per the Colonel's post there, love what he got up to in the 90s but I don't think yr expected to give the same love to his solo 'work'
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― DJ MARTIAN IS A KING AMONG MEN. Dan Perry, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 (DJ Mencap), Friday, 19 June 2009 14:02 (fifteen years ago) link
gotta give a shout-out to this album again, cuz i love it so:
Space Needle - The Moray Eels Eats The Space Needle
― scott seward, Friday, 19 June 2009 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Truly were a great pop band, as was Creep. what about Pond?
― Brooker Buckingham, Friday, 19 June 2009 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Glad to see Codeine getting props. My "90s" rock list:
Slint (end of 80s/early of 90s), Rodan, June of 44, Low, Codeine, Acetone, Silver Jews, Radar Bros.
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Friday, 19 June 2009 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
i love this stuff, but i'm not sure i want a resurgence? maybe i do. my band, whenever we get a little press, is referred to as mid-90s-inspired indie/college guitar rock, which makes me cringe, but what the hell. I like Pavement/Guided By Voices/Built To Spill ... has anyone mentioned the first Butterglory album? Eh?
― tylerw, Friday, 19 June 2009 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
i've got that self-titled glands record on right now. such a minor classic.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 19 June 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm not sure I'm ready for a resurgence either - on the other hand I'd vastly prefer it if modern "indie" bands sounded like this that whatever the hell current UK "indie" is try to achieve </old man>
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 19 June 2009 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link
there is already a pretty big amrep/touch&go thing going on right now.
anyway, these threads are good too:
Forgotten 90's alternative rock masterpieces WANTED
Criminially Underappreciated 90's Guitar Bands
overlooked 90's groups
― scott seward, Friday, 19 June 2009 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Its not so much necessarily a specific genre that I want to see reemerge... its just that popular music right now is very 80s... that is there is a whole style over substance thing happening. I'm not saying I think artists like Bat For Lashes is "bad," I just feel like theres more of a persona that is being marketed before anyone actually hears any music. Its part of this blog culture where we have to be obsessed with every move an artist makes no matter how insignificant (all TMZ style), and with downloading being so easy there is all of this high consumption and in the end its just songs/an image- and then its on to the next artist next week.
So basically I have just really been gravitating to a time where bands were making cohesive no-nonsense albums where the music was the focus. Shouldn't that always be the case?
― Evan, Saturday, 20 June 2009 00:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Wait that was bad wording...."specific genre that I want to see reemerge" I really just meant 90s resurgence
― Evan, Saturday, 20 June 2009 00:29 (fifteen years ago) link
wait, what the hell is Multiple Cat? i guess i could just look it up.
― scott seward, Saturday, 20 June 2009 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha yeah they're good. the song "Sad, Sad, Sad" is really musically sunny and catchy. Sound like Pavement a bit.
― Evan, Saturday, 20 June 2009 00:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, like I said GBV are a given. No worries.
― Evan, Saturday, 20 June 2009 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Interesting, not great, and very forgotton band from this era is Vodka. Jenny Wade on distinctive vocals, a couple of indie rock dudes on guitar, and an idiot journalist on drums. About four very nice songs on their album She's My Dream, and they don't sound like everybody else.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 20 June 2009 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Velocity Girl kind of went under in this thread so I just wanna say that the 6-track EP is so so great esp. if u like Unrest as the OP said.
― sleeve, Saturday, 20 June 2009 01:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey dlp I was just reading your posts about 18th Dye. People should talk about them more.
― Evan, Saturday, 20 June 2009 01:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I got out a box of old CD's the other day and put on Wattle & Daub by the Strapping Fieldhands. It's fantastic! I wondered why I really wasn't into it at the time.
― purrington, Saturday, 20 June 2009 02:06 (fifteen years ago) link
for me this is indie rock, fuck that fleet foxes shit
― latebloomer, Saturday, 20 June 2009 02:10 (fifteen years ago) link
here i go ~ out the door ~ of my apartment before ~ i miss my train and there is no way that is happening
― calstars, Saturday, 20 June 2009 02:38 (fifteen years ago) link
fieldhands rule!!!!!
This Is The Strapping Fieldhands Thread Cuz I'm Drinking Beers And Feeling Nostalgic
― scott seward, Saturday, 20 June 2009 02:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha, for sure! I liked that they played "Thorn" at that show as well.
What do you mean "regular rock"? I have my own idea, but...
― Evan, Thursday, 10 December 2015 17:16 (eight years ago) link
Taxidermists is pretty great! The slow parts sounded like Codeine.
― Evan, Thursday, 10 December 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
Toenut became Tyro and made an album, Audiocards. I wanted to hear it. It isn't ANYWHERE online so I had to buy the CD. This is the first time I've HAD to buy a CD in what seems like an age.
Anyway, Audiocards arrived today and it's completely wonderful and maybe only a few hundred people ever heard it idk. SO GREAT
― imago, Thursday, 9 June 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link
fucking amazing
― imago, Thursday, 9 June 2016 22:08 (eight years ago) link
I can't find my Pest 5000 CD :(
― Evan, Friday, 10 June 2016 01:19 (eight years ago) link
It's springtime so I'm injecting the 80s/90s jangle indie into my veins again
― Evan, Friday, 15 May 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
And wtf I lost my Pest 5000 CD as of 2016? I totally forgot. It's gotta be around somewhere...
― Evan, Friday, 15 May 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
I have both, which one are you missing?
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Friday, 15 May 2020 21:15 (four years ago) link
Both as in the lp and compilation? I have a digital copy of the lp but for sure need the compilation!
― Evan, Friday, 15 May 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link
Palimpsest? OK — DM me your address, and I’ll mail it to you (when conditions are once again favorable for mailing things).
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Friday, 15 May 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
is this the thread with the most Further talk or is it on The Summer Hits thread(s)?
...because I heard Dinosaur Jr's 1997 non-album single "Take a Run at the Sun" and holy shit, that is such a late-era Further song.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 17:46 (four years ago) link
Hey I'm down to talk Further all day. I'll have to check out that Dino Jr song... interesting to hear a sentiment where the tables turned involving those two bands.
― Evan, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
I know, that's what's so surprising, it sounds like one of Brent's songs from 1995-1996. But it's also pretty-atypical Dinosaur Jr I should add, it was recorded for an Alison Anders film and then released on its own, kinda sunny beach pop. I'd never heard it before today (I fell off the DJr bus around Where Ya Been).
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link