I'm digging Happy Mondays, Primal Scream. Recommend me more!

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I've been really getting into "Pills and Thrills" by the Mondays and "Screamadelica" by Primal Scream recently. Name me some other bands that sound like this, as I regrettably know very little about that sort of music. Optional: compare and contrast the band(s) to PS and the HMs. Thanks!

― buyabiznatch (buyabiznatch), Monday, 23 January 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 23 January 2006 21:27 (twenty years ago)

The Fall - The Infotainment Scan

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 23 January 2006 21:31 (twenty years ago)

search "madchester"... of varying quality: the Stone Roses, the Charlatans UK, Chapterhouse, the Farm.... uh, Kasabian?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 23 January 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Look for grebo acts, too, ESPECIALLY Pop Will Eat Itself.

― Dan (Poppie Power!) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 January 2006 21:34 (twenty years ago)

Heh.

Sultans of Ping FC!

― beaux knee (boney), Monday, 23 January 2006 21:50 (twenty years ago)

THE FARM - GROOVY TRAIN

this was the song that kickstarted the "baggy" movt in the UK. it was very influential, and still is.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 23 January 2006 21:53 (twenty years ago)

hahaha

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 23 January 2006 21:57 (twenty years ago)

dood how could I forget INSPIRAL CARPETS!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 23 January 2006 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Northern Uproar were TEH sh1tz0rz.

― beaux knee (boney), Monday, 23 January 2006 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Pulp - Separations

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 23 January 2006 22:15 (twenty years ago)

welcome to 1991

― Mitya (mitya), Monday, 23 January 2006 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Russ Abbot

(I'd link to the RA thread if I knew how)

― whatever (boglogger), Monday, 23 January 2006 22:44 (twenty years ago)

northside

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Monday, 23 January 2006 22:52 (twenty years ago)

THE FARM - GROOVY TRAIN
"this was the song that kickstarted the "baggy" movt in the UK. it was very influential, and still is. "

You are a madman, squire. Or maybe just drugged.

Groovy Train hit the top 40 in Sept 1990.

Happy Mondays "Bummed" - released 1988
Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray - Nov 1988
Happy Monday - Madchester Rave On EP - #19 UK Singles chart 1989
Stone Roses - Stone Roses album 1989
Stone Roses "Elephant Stone" - Oct 1988, UK top 10 March 1990
Stone Roses "Made of Stone" - Feb 89, UK top 40 March 1990
Stone Roses "She Bangs The Drums" - July 1989, Top 40 in March 1990
808 State - Pacific - November 1989

Add Pre-1990 releases by Inspiral Carpets, James, New FADS, The Mondays (Squirell & G-Man came out in '87) etc, stuff like "Hit The North" (charted in 1987) Fuck, even the Charlatans had a hit with "The Only One I Know" before "Groovy Train".

The Madchester/Baggy highwater mark is sometimes considered to be the Roses Spike Island gig, swiftly followed by their cancelling a US tour. That was May 27th 1990 which is why "Groovy Train" could be though of more correctly as one of the nails in the baggy coffin?

― everything, Monday, 23 January 2006 23:13 (twenty years ago)

Delakota - One Love (from 2004?)

― Tony Bleach (blackshoeswhitesocks), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:19 (twenty years ago)

Spacemen 3 - Recurring

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:22 (twenty years ago)

You are a madman, squire. Or maybe just drugged.

i were just yanking yr chain, guv.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:31 (twenty years ago)

Phew! Wotta relief. I seriously had to take a lie down there.

― everything, Monday, 23 January 2006 23:35 (twenty years ago)

anything you can find by the paris angels (sublime yet completely overlooked scally-pop)
the boo radleys: "giant steps" (cerebral scouse-psych; baggy goes to college and graduates from E to acid)
anything by the fall on fontana, plus "code: selfish" (which might, come to think of it, have been on fontana too ... ach well)
new order: "technique" (really, this is pretty much all you need)

see how you get on with that lot, then come back to us.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:36 (twenty years ago)

The Fall - Listening In (Lost Singles)
is a good comp of the 90s Fall dance sound

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:49 (twenty years ago)

I will say this though: Flowered Up's first record is way better than the Stone Roses debut!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:50 (twenty years ago)

They had more than one record?

― everything, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:01 (twenty years ago)

i don't know! i'm just talking out of my ass!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:04 (twenty years ago)

the second Stone Roses album is great!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Really!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:09 (twenty years ago)

People who hate it don't like guitar solos!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:10 (twenty years ago)

Check out Jesus Jones, and don't mind what people say about them. Those who dislike them don't have a clue anyway.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:10 (twenty years ago)

The second stone roses albums is fab.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:12 (twenty years ago)

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:12 (twenty years ago)

I don't have a clue, so please explain the similarities between "Pill, Thrills & Bellyaches", "Screamadelica" and Jesus Jones?

― everything, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:13 (twenty years ago)

I don't have a clue, so please explain the similarities between "Pill, Thrills & Bellyaches", "Screamadelica" and Jesus Jones?

It's in the bass and drums and production. The differences are in the songwriting and the vocal harmonies, which is where Jesus Jones win :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:14 (twenty years ago)

The second stone roses albums is fab.

The "Ten Storey Lovesong" single was great.

And that's it....

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:15 (twenty years ago)

Only those who don't like the FUNK hate the second Stone Roses album.

― Geir Funkro, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:18 (twenty years ago)

Not true. I absolutely despise funk, while I am just plain indifferent towards "The Second Coming". :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:26 (twenty years ago)

Geir is actually right - the only shared similarity I can hear is in the drum loops and the fat, crisp bass sounds. Otherwise those albums are all pretty different.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:32 (twenty years ago)

Personal opinion and all that but I'll take Screamadelica over Liquidizer, thanks.

― everything, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:37 (twenty years ago)

Jesus Jones were horrible.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:39 (twenty years ago)

yr fuckin' A right they were horrible. geir, seriously dude? JESUS JONES, ferchrissakes?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:41 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah ... and Oval (the British band on Icerink, not the German one)

― Tony Bleach (blackshoeswhitesocks), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 01:07 (twenty years ago)

pop will eat itself 'cure for sanity'

― keyth (keyth), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 01:20 (twenty years ago)

Jesus Jones were great because they combined Beatles-influenced arche-English melodic pop sensibilities with then very hip sounds. Thus they helped teach some people about the most important values of music.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 02:24 (twenty years ago)

oh geir, you so cray-zay!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 03:13 (twenty years ago)

try "it's great when you're straight...yeah" by black grape - i like em lots better than the mondays, personally.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 03:39 (twenty years ago)

x-post

Liquidizer was decent. The second one that broke big for 15 minutes in the US was awful (can't even remember the title right now). Perverse, the one no one anywhere paid attention to, was their pinnacle (I still listen to it in 2006).

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 03:42 (twenty years ago)

The Space Monkeys. Definitely The Space Monkeys. and the first New Fast Automatic Daffodils album. OK I am serious about one of those.

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 03:42 (twenty years ago)

I liked all of the nasty sounding songs on the second JJ album; there was a track on there that basically sounded like the band was soving sheet metal up their asses and shimmying.

― Dan (Awesome) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 04:03 (twenty years ago)

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the Wonderstuff - Eight Legged Groove Machine
I'll bet this doesn't qualify. It's sort of poppy sass, but I loved it for a year.

― Brian Jones (Brian Jones), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 04:34 (twenty years ago)

EMF!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 04:37 (twenty years ago)

The Soup Dragons!

― willem -- (willem), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 07:15 (twenty years ago)

Listen to the first Happy Mondays album ('Twenty Four Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)'). It's kind of funky but menacing at the same time. Don't be put off if you've heard the song 'Twenty Four Hour Party People' - the album sounds nothing like that.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 09:31 (twenty years ago)

Flipper's Guitar - Dr Head's World Tower. An ambitious combo of indie-dance (with brazen Screamadelica and Isn't Anything references), psych-pop (Brian Wilson, The Stones, Buffalo Springfield and The United States of America) and a generous slathering of The Monkees' movie, Head.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:17 (twenty years ago)

try "it's great when you're straight...yeah" by black grape - i like em lots better than the mondays, personally.
-- J.D. (aubade8...), January 24th, 2006.

i think it's a better album than any mondays album.

to threadstarter: you may like one dove and the orb.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:21 (twenty years ago)

That Delakota album is from 1998, and is pretty good. "The Rock" is exceptional.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:26 (twenty years ago)

yeah 'the rock' is fucking ace.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:31 (twenty years ago)

and i own it, inexplicably on 12", so never play it :-(

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:32 (twenty years ago)

ahh delakota ... from senseless things to that glorious album. and to think cass is now part of the ultimate baggy revival band - gorillaz.

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:41 (twenty years ago)

is it? i had no idea.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:46 (twenty years ago)

cass browne is part of the live band (drummer),and has a production credit on the odd b-side. suspect this is why no second album was sorted re delakota, which is a shame as that album showed real promise.

http://www.gorillaz-unofficial.com/biography/cassbrowne.htm

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:48 (twenty years ago)

jamie hewlett did all those senseless things covers didn't he, that makes perfect sense.

― cw (cww), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:54 (twenty years ago)

exactly .. (always keep your address book warm) .. i think that cover for Deadline magazine which had the senseless things decapitated was the height of the sensless things/jamie h connection - such a great magazine cover.

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 11:04 (twenty years ago)

How come we got this far without mentioning...Candy Flip?

― Dead Kenny (Dead Kenny), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:09 (twenty years ago)

also try: HIP HOP

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:14 (twenty years ago)

Then, three years later (ie 2009), get into TRIP HOP.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 26 January 2006 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Carter, the Unstoppable Sex Machine

I just like saying that.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Thursday, 26 January 2006 20:51 (twenty years ago)

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