NME's Student Disco Anthems Of All Time Poll

I was in a band called Sensoria (because we were all Cabs fans, obv). We were aiming for a cross between "Snake Hands Forever"-era Head Of David and Ministry, everyone thought we sounded like the Sisters. THIS MAY HAVE HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH OUR SINGER BEING AN ELDRITCH CLONE. We played with The Hunters Club and it all went a bit wrong somewhere - I remember being smuggled out to avoid fights. Which didn't stop us getting signed that night. Gary and I eventually ended up in Goat Science, which was more or less the Varikose Veins with me on bass (them having mutated into Forkeye).

For anyone trying to work out who I was generally, I was the DON'T LAUGH YOU FUCKERS painfully thin guy with the pretty long hair who used to hang about with Claire With The One Arm (she was friends with my ex-wife).

Fixed.

wasn't this DJ Krush? from '96?

mmmmmmmmmmph...pix? please? pretty please?

Sadly the link to the best one is now broked.

like i say, i never gothed up beyond wearing an unfeasibly long earring (with an asymetrical haircut) and a black jumper with holes in it. by the time i was at potterrow, i was busy rocking the "total wanker" look:

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/MeWithTab1995.jpg

NB: NOT JUST AN EXCUSE, I POSSIBLY HAVE THE LEAST PHOTOS OF MYSELF OF ANYBODY WHO EVER LIVED.

There. I have tried a bit harder.

Now I look like a fat bald her.

Yes.

But I tend to think of it as Shadow as we only ever played the Shadow mix, because the Krush version was rubbish. Shadow made it good. It's got a sample of Prince Geno and the Tailor Mades at the end too, which is great.

HI DERE!

We HAVE to do this

right, YES. how? anyone?

Right, pick a city first. Glasgow or Edinburgh? Then we can work on logistics from there.

btw, I absolutely do not want to be a student again under any circumstances ever.

but yes, i know. that's not an excuse. 19-year-old me (maybe 20, actually) really did need teh massive beats.

No it wouldn't because I'm not talking about the late 90s and I'm not naming not particularly good bands. But whatever.

(that thread is awesome, btw. Also I have discovered that I actually own a single by Blaggers ITA. And that Matty Blag is now dead)

Revive, since some drunken japery in the pub last night has led Grimly and I to start discussing the possibility of making Club 30 Something a reality.

I found this thread by googling for "teethgrinder" :-)

I had forgotten drawing on this thread.

I'd like to start an indie disco.

And when all the cool indie kids had come inside with their cool indie haircuts, blazers and ironic lunchboxes I'd lock the doors, nail their palms to the walls and play Reign in Blood over and over again until they all bled to death.

I don't think that's unreasonable.

I don't know what's more depressing, the fact that all my friends are into the NME anthems and not much else, or the fact that the anthems haven't moved forward or changed AT ALL in five years. Seriously, if I was paying £5 a week every week I'd at least want to hear something beyond a "will this standardised iTunes playlist do?" effort.

Club 30 does sound pretty amazing.

what are the current anthems?

or the fact that the anthems haven't moved forward or changed AT ALL in five years

indie having been squeezed out of the charts a reflection/cause (chicken/egg) of this seemingly

feel like no-one gives a shit about the charts -- trying to factor in my own total lack of interest but still think im right

duh duh duh, duh duh duh, duh duh duh du-duh du-duh

HM's question seconded. What are the big anthems now?

a leading music critic needs to know!

http://www.forum.mobilediscodirectory.co.uk/archive/index.php?t-28706.html

Or in short:

1.Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
2.Killers - Mr Brightside
3.MGMT - Kids
4.Rage against the machine - Killing in the name of
5.Tenacious D - Tribute
6.Journey - Dont Stop Belivin'
7.Bon Jovi - Livin on a prayer
8.Brian Adams - Summer of 69
9.House of pain - Jump around
10.Black eye peas - Pump it
1-jamie t-if you got the money
2-hot chip-over & over
3-kasabian-processed beats
4-lets go surfing-the drums
5-klaxons-golden skans
6-stone roses-fools gold
7-shed seven-disco down
8-hot chip-ready for the floor
Leftfield - Open up
Delerium - Silence
Faithless - Insomnia
Blur - Parklife
Stone Roses - Waterfall
New Order - Blue Monday
Happy Mondays - Hallelujah (Club mix)
The Big Pink - Dominos
Florence and the Machine - Dog days are over
The Editors - Papillion
1: Pendulum - Slam
2: Prodigy: Voodoo People
3: Killers - Brightside
4: Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
5: Fratelis - Chelsea Dagger
6: N Trance - Set U Free
7: Vengaboys - Boom Boom Boom (especially at Leicester Uni & Demontfort)
8: House of Pain - Jump Around
9: Fatman Scoop - Be Faithfull
10: Take That - Never Forget

Summer of 69?!

Shed Seven people!

no surprises there. the only truly offensive song in the list is the big pink one

Do you mean "student anthems" or do you mean music that actually gets played at students unions, in my experience they're entirely different apart from that 2004-2007 period when it would've been all the Fratellis and Razorlight and Bloc Party and what have you. Only Kings of Leon, Mumford & Sons and yer sub-MGMTs have really done much since then.

The last time the charts felt this disconnected from guitar music was around 1999-2001, which was when I was a student. And the non-cheese nights at my union were playing chart 2-step, eurotrance and the occasional US RnB or hip-hop crossover. My guess would be that this year's student anthems are Katy On A Mission, Pass Out, the two Roll Deep number ones, some of the Magnetic Man stuff and Kanye/Gaga/Black Eyed Peas.

I forgot about Florence and the Machine. I think I've blotted last year's fashionable women things out of my mind.

The first top 10 looks like it's probably accurate. The one featuring Leftfield and New Order and the Roses/Mondays is patently written by someone who is in his 30s, at Manchester University, or both.

7: Vengaboys - Boom Boom Boom (especially at Leicester Uni & Demontfort)

zing!