I cleared out my CD collection when I moved house. I got rid of over 300. There was some absolute filth in there:
• The Cranberries (however brief it may have been, there's no excuse for it)
• Llama farmers (never fall in love with a blonde bassist - I should have learned my lesson with Brassy)
• Warm Jets - (why oh why oh why?)
• Gay Dad (except that one tune I forget which says a lot)
• Stiff little fingers (they were toss, weren't they? At least they were on the strength of the record i owned)
• several Fierce Panda compilations
• the 5th Six by Seven record
probably
Razorlight.
in fact i think razorlight
are probably the perfect answer to this question. In between liking them and actually seeing them, having had tickets several months in advance, i managed to develop an immense hatred for Borrell i'm sure many other people share.
The wait for them to come on was endless, then a huge 30:00 countdown came up across the stage, all the lights went off. Finally. And then it read 30:59, 30:58. It was a bloody 30 minutes countdown, not 30 seconds. People actually booed.
"As long as he doesn't take his top off" i said at one point, moments before the top came off.
Only gig i think i've left early when i've paid for tickets specifically to see the headlining band.
I still think Up All Night is a decent record
a 6.5/7 out of 10 effort.
But Borrell has done everything in his power to put me off listening to anything he's ever done again.
And the s/t was absolutely dire.
^^^ this
I actually really liked the first album. 'Golden Touch' is a class song. But everything since then has made me cringe.
The Vandals
hush your mouth!
vandals were awesome
Semisonic
oh noes
Was it the first or second Llama Farmers album?
Because the first one's great! Second one's a load of toss though.
I was also in love with the same blonde bassist ...
be careful
she comes on here sometimes
Second
Aye, the first had its moments (Jessica / PVC)
She comes on here?
*brushes hair into side parting and smiles sweetly*
jessica
is true ace
Seriously?
Well, if you're there, I love you. And you smiled at me at a gig once while you were playing your bass.
She'll remember me fo sho!
No she didn't
She was smiling at me!
Bloody internet identity theft...
No, definitely me
It was a big grin like this :)
And it meant "I don't know your name/ But I feel the same."
I wish I was sixteen again. Life was simple then.
Between 98 and about 2004 I'd almost always fall for mass-hyped bands
and buy criticially acclaimed albums and listen to them 'til I'd convinced myself I was enjoying them.
I think it was the Bloc Party album at the start of 2005 that was the final straw the broke the camel's back...
Talking of Final Straws I was a Snow Patrol fan for years. I don't feel stupid about this as the first two albums have some excellent songs on. And Final Straw has a couple of really good songs too. Couldn't be doing with the last album.
Going back to Razorlight I did buy their debut whilst still in my "buy whatever's hyped" phase. For all Borell's dislikableness and all round punchability it does have a few strong songs.
Bloc Party's...
debut was a fine album, especially for a mainstream indie album.
That may be your opinion but it sure as hell isn't mine.
I...
think it's one of those albums that will actually hold up quite well in years to come. I think 2004-2005 was quite a fertile time where the mainstream and trendy underground weren't that far apart, with hyped indie bands citing The Fall and Gang Of Four as influences rather than sounding like The Jam. All of 2004-2005's big names produced good, interesting and "credible" albums, it's just a shame that all of them also completely faltered on their second album.
^ agreed
its fantastic
5 of the 7
on your list are good.
^^
that.
But we might not be thinking of the same 5 !
gay dad
cranberries
Kula Shaker
and The Thrills seriously threatened my cool
^ ha ha
I remember Kula Shaker!
But I always get nostalgic for the crap bands I used to listen to when I was much younger so I can't ever throw them out, much as my street cred could do with that course of action.
The Thrills?
Are they uncool? I like their most recent album.
i still like them too.
There's
Absolutely nothing wrong with the various Fierce Panda compilations and double 7" packs. They were the best vauxhall conference league indie collections this side of a Snakebite City compilation.
My shocking youthful listening was probably Rachel Stamp's entire recorded output.
Well I agree to a certain extent
But they really, really haven't dated well. They were massively important to me at the time in shaping the direction my taste (or lack of it) would take me, but lurking in there was:
THESE ANIMAL MEN
THE BLUETONES
THE WEEKENDERS
CHINA DRUM
LUSH
SPLENDORA
STEREOPHONICS
CATATONIA (who I always hated)
SYMPOSIUM
I know they gave us Kenickie / Ash / Idlewild / Scarfo / Bis etc too, and I love the label in itself, but they did put out some terribly throwaway indie too.
Also regarding "Silent alarm" - agreed. Spent 3 months trying to see what the fuss was all about. I to this day, am still wondering...
Lush were amazing.
Absolutely amazing. Their decision to split was one of the most devastating points in my music loving history (equalling Mansun's split and Strangelove, too).
I still wonder what Miki's up to these days.
Raising a family
and doing vocals for an Eric Matthews project on the side. There's a couple of interviews from last year around.
Lush were amazing
and Catatonia were ace at the begining !
Symposium!
are guid.
Guns N Roses
I don't have a clue why.
ahem... Korn
What makes it worse is that my favourite was Life Is Peachy...
Crashland
I am so sorry
...
don't think i ever actually listened to them once! haha!
urgh, never liked terris though.
Modern Animal
should have been a classic single. But t'was never to be. They had another good'un too but I can't remember the name for the life of me.
crashland were great!
i'm not ashamed at all.
Me neither.
Their album is a lost classic !
counting crows :(
First album is an american indie gem.
It's a shame the literal 'Everything After' was utterly abysmal.
^ 5
CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES
Papa Roach.
Not much more to say on the matter!
papa roach!
oh god those were the days.
of severe misguided youth.
The Datsuns
Listened to the first record the other day actually. Sounds awful.
evanescence
yeah, I was 16, I only liked the demos though ( they were nice slow songs)
indie til the end
also seconding the cranberries
also the fratellis song creeping up the backstairs
the view superstar dj
love spit love song:
how soon is now cover
snake river conspiracy lovsong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH3qrMnpYD0
meg lee chin
all from being 16
I'm listening to the whole thing
good song in a lesbian club sort of way
Hahah I think you meant Superstar Tradesman
^the view fan
I meant this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRN-wTJWAYQ
let's rock out to the view
There's not a single band from Scotland I like.
Not even Biffy Clyro?
I never look back, in fact
I always move forward, not backward, upward not forward,
and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
brassy!
oh they were a bit awful :/ haha! i did like one of their songs though.
nofx, vandals...can't think of any more.
but gay dad were good! well i was 14 when they were first hyped up.
Brassy were ace!
bon...
jovi.
the darkness
I win. Comfortably. Also have the small shame of papa roach on my shoulders. What have I done?!?!?!
Again, taken into context, 'Permission to Land' is a great album.
Perhaps it is a bit of a guilty pleasure, but there's more fun to be had on it and more rocking out than the last 20 years of KISS' existence. Plus they get bonus points for subverting the charts with christmas songs featuring the lyrics 'don't let the bells end' and an entire song about genital warts (Growing On Me)
..
korn slipknot papa roach greenday nickleback my chemical romance and fall out boy
all shite
hahaha
apart from the last two, my cousins and i used to dance to these, plus ash and just a day by feeder
hahahahah#
good times. we were stupid but i have no regrets...
Ash are fantastic.
One of my favourite bands.
ash are awesomo
girl from mars is still one of the best pop-rock-3 minute bursts of joy ever recorded
nah way.
greenday will always hold a special place in my heart. one of the first albums i ever bought on Compact Disc. dookie is a fucking good album.
I still love Gay Dad.
I suggest digging Leisure Noise out and giving it a whirl. It's spangly.
well
it sure hasn't aged well.
And they were really shit live !
It's a glam rock album
...and you say it's not aged well?!
PAY ATTENTION IN THE BACK OF THE CLASS.
eagle eye cherry
seriously
blink 182
after you turn 15, it is no longer acceptable.
^ YES.
Blink 182, Sum 41, Bowling For Soup. All should be left to 14 year olds.
Hadouken!
June 2007 - March 2008
They're well shit. I can't even remember why I liked them, though they were good live, maybe that's why.
Aww, I still like 'em...
I duno, I think they can craft a pretty good song.
Leap Of Faith was pretty good
But other than that, they couldn't really.
(Have you heard the new album? It's bloody shocking)
It's okay,
I just feel like they've got a bit of potential in them, you know, like they need a chance. Some of the songs are dire, you're right.
But I duno, I just feel like they've got more in them, as if their best is yet to come.
declaration of war
was a marvellous attempt at a pop song laced with hadoukenness, theyve done well
but yeh dunno how long they can keep pumping out that same sound
they had 1 song.
and after they released 4 i realised this...
I always think
that the music I listened to when I first got into music is the more 'pure' possible.
I was well into Papa Roach and Linkin Park et al circa year 7/8. Also the Lighthouse Family and Oasis.
I just listened to music that I liked the sound of.
i dont't feel ashamed of any band i have ever liked
i like to think that every band i have liked have been a stepping stone to a better band so i would never 'regret' liking a band. plus i was never stupid enough to like razorlight. lol.
Kingmaker
Mega City 4
Ned's Atomic Dustbin (althoug I still have a sneaking love for Kill yr Television)
Those were the barren years.
some bad ones
Shameful list:
Lit
Incubus
Foo Fighters
Shed 7
Coldplay
Puddle of Mudd (Oh my god no)
The band that did 'Honest Mistake' shite
Lots of bad ones really. I also found myself watching Madonna's horrible performance at the Radio 1 Big Weekend last night on the BBC. WHY?? WHHHHYYYY?
no!! incubus are good!!
No!
That was a golden era! Frank and Walters too, Inspirals, er ok, maybe not them.
and as someone said up there^ Lllama Farmers first album is damn good, or was for me at the time anyway. I must dig it out again.
Yikes
I look back fondly on all those bands. Don't listen to them much now but they were happy indie years for me!
MrScagdenSir's choices
Not mattski's that is.
totally disagree on the cranberries front.
i'll still give them a listen for nostalgia purposes. good fucking times!
i've got a beauty:
In days when I would buy anything the Melody Maker said was half decent:
The Crockettes
No wait
Just found the Campag Velocet debut: Awful
The Great Brain Robbery was a great album
for about eight tracks. And 1939 Returning is a rare example of a single version being better than the album version.
SLF
certainly are not toss
avanGaäd
;D
i think you mean Avram Grant