Forgotten Buzzbands of DiS' Life-Time: 2000-2012
We started DiS 12 years ago today. A lot of bands have come and gone. Some of them hung around for an album. Some even managed two records (although the likes of Hope of the States basically got dropped the day it came out)
Let's have a thread trying to remember those acts who were crushed under the wait of The Hype. Bonus points if you can find quotes of what NME, Pitchfork and various blogs had to say or predicted.
Pretty sure this lot are the Terris of 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_GxwCHaFuY
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- Radiohead »[x]
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http://www.nme.com/reviews/joe-lean-and-the-jing-jang-jong/9816
The Majority of whom are now Toy.
Tapes N Tapes
Probably the biggest disappoint I've ever had at SXSW (someone told me they were like The Shins and Broken Social Scene, which got me excited... ), and yet they were lapped up elsewhere http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/6317-tapes-n-tapes/
First Tapes n Tapes album
was really great, everything else was pish.
insistor is still one of my absolute favourite tunes ever
I listened to it again just a few months back...
and while I was admittedly one who was swept along with the hype, I was left a little puzzled by what I saw in the record back then. Insistor is probably the best track, but there is a lot of filler.
Hahahahahaha
We actually walked past them playing at that, not being familiar with the venue thinking there was another room where the decent band must be.
I got railroaded on that Tapes 'n' Tapes hype.
All of the music press were going nuts about them after that SXSW, so I automatically assumed I loved them. First album was OK. Saw them at Reading and they were lame.
This!
Yep, they were largely the arse end of nothing at Reading 2006. Not worth the stagger down to the NME Stage at any rate.
Happy birthday DiS!
thank you
don't forget the photo
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11617-partie-traumatic/
I saw Black Kids at CMJ the year the buzz ramped up. They sounds like the a bunch of kids who liked the Go Team playing Bloc Party covers, which at the time woulda been the butt of several people's jokes. Boy they were taken seriously but a lot of people. I just drank the free Sparks+ and went about my day (admittedly, that year at CMJ I did see No Age, Dan Deacon and Deerhunter, which sated my music cravings for several months)
I still really like that Black Kids song
You know, the good one.
I'm probably the only person who really likes the whole album
No you're not.
I like it too.
Hurricane Jane?
Yeah, tune.
Their cover of Sophie B Hawkins' Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover?
They were called Black Kids
BUT WERE WHITE.
*mind blown*
Settle down
Two of them were black, I think.
*mind back together*
The Go! Team
Except Rolling Blackouts is completely amazing
Brother/Viva Brother
As much as people can dislike our songs you have to admit that they’re well written songs. It’s exciting and very romantic. I don’t care what some fucker journalist writes.
http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=1&title=viva_brother_s_short_career_in_quotes&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
http://www.nme.com/nme-video/brother---bands-for-2011/738771169001
and I take it some of you will vaguely remember this? http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4143232-disband-7--viva-brother
where's CG?
I think he went to see them a few times
yeah he did
them and Die Bratwurst
Did anyone see this from earlier this year?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/aug/13/viva-brother-lovelife?INTCMP=SRCH
I like this bit:
But if you say you're the future of music, or offer countless similar hostages to fortune, as Newell did, you're asking for them to be returned with interest. He agrees, and offers his regrets. "Much as I spoke it and gave it, I wasn't holding my head high at all, to the point where I was embarrassed. We wrote those Brother songs so quickly, we didn't know what we were doing – they weren't about anything. Just songs. And I had nothing to sing about. My life was fine. I wanted to be in a band, but I didn't feel I had a message – I just wanted to be a rock star. That's not who I was. I don't know why I did that. To prove something to myself?"
Singer is now in some god awful electro pop band.
can't remember the name its like pure love but not, name wise I mean. based In New York
Singer is in New York trying to be like Hurts in new band.
well
The Twang come to mind
they
headlined Brixton academy at one point???
The Twang! Forgot all about those bastards!
Milburn
One of many Arctic Monkeys coattail riders... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milburn_(band)
aw,no
Milburn were fun
Roll Out The Barrel is still sort of endearing
BITCHES N GLANCES
ROUGH ROMANCES
I wouldn't really say they were a buzzband would you?
No one really got excited about Milburn surely?
Saw an add in our local post office for...
... drum lessons from the Milburn drummer, so at least he's doing something useful. Still, they were better than Little Man Tate.
I think most of them are in reverend and the makers now
I quite liked Milburn
Half of the first album's top class but the second album's got a sort of Spaghetti Western vibe that's a bit odd. They were doing that Sheffield thing way before Turner made it popular and unfairly got labelled as copycats when it was really the other way round. Little Man Tate were piss though. Not sure how they got to do a second album when the first one was awful.
Agreed
Arctic Monkeys took their sound and made it a hell of a lot better. They're a world apart now anyway.
Milburn always used to be Arctic Monkeys support band on their first gigs.
Doesn't mean Milburn weren't doing it first though.
At one of those gigs my mate nearly walked out after Milburn played as he thought he'd just seen Arctics!
Our ATP quiz name was Milburn's Much Acclaimed Second Album
Weren't Milburn around pre Arctic Monkeys?
The Kayas
Cat On Form
were they ever a 'buzz band'?
Probably not
I just remember when I first started reading DiS Mike Diver or someone was going on about how brilliant there were and I thought they were total shit.
Doubtful
I recall giving them a bad review.
Good man
it must have been or someone then.
never heard of them
Steve Blood Red Shoes former band
They were brilliant live, misfired on their debut album, still listen to odd bits here and there.
I saw them too.
It was good.
Cat On Form were fucking mint.
The Peppermint Apes
George Pringle
(To this day, I don't know who this person was or if they were male, female or a band)
GEORGE
PRINGLE
she was never a buzz band
I just managed her for a while (hence her becoming an in joke), until the guy who managed PiL and Soul2Soul took over. I liked how she was making post-apocalyptic music, in a somewhat punk-rock manner using only garageband and a macbook's inbuilt mic. It mostly sounded like Arab Strap and Meanwhile Back in Communist Russia, so I liked it.
Sounds like I would too...
More like a really, really trust-fund Black Box Recorder:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhfr6_8GwlY
She's on the first Error's album too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqKX4zlxP0I
Her EP (Poor EP, Poor EP Without a Name) is great.
Carte Postale is one of my favourite songs. sean sent it to me as a present after a misunderstanding <3
I like it too.
Totally understand why some people would dislike (even hate) her music, because it is very much "oh woe is me, my comfortable middle class lifestyle is so wretched", but I'm not going to pretend I can't empathise with that.
radiohead?
Reverend and the Makers
I always read their name in a disgusted, hate-filled welsh drawl
Falco?
New Album out and NME feature a couple of weeks ago
remember the paddingtons
they were rubbish but angry and from hull
A mate tried to get me to go see the paddingtons
Thankfully I declined.
Ah, the Paddingtons...
The only CD I own that I've never bothered to rip to iTunes.
I saw them live at Exeter Hub.
Me and 10 others. It was funny! I still like that 'Sorry' tune.
Some of The Paddingtons are now in Skaters.
who are getting NME support and being touted by The Strokes.
Think Savages might have a bit more to them than Terris
Black Kids are the standard response here. When Pitchfork shows a picture of a dog and a 0.o (both later changed), your buzz band career is over.
Hard Fi
The Ting Tings
The Ting Tings make fun music
They're good at this task.
jakobínarína were great
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL64573D677D2C70EC
absolute travestry they split up so soon
one of the best debut albums ever
Great band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sCrvZcfqNc
Also, writing off buzz bands is a dangerous sport
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2012/02/top_ten_indie_buzz_bands_you_m.php
That said
Clap your hands, say yeah
CSS
This is a terrible list... It contains several of the biggest names in indie rock
can't work out if that list is tongue in cheek or not
dire journalism, if not
i like (i.e. hate) how many entries boil down to
it's been over a year since their last album, thus they have faded into obscurity
lol
I don't think the Dirty Projectors were ever expecting a stadium tour anytime soon.
the new Grizzly Bear album's going to make them huge
i can feel it.
Who were the worst buzzband?
Bromhead's Jacket, wasn't it?
FIGHT MUSIC FOR THE FIGHT
always on Burnout Paradise.
That's such a horrible video-game soundtrack.
The only good songs on it are by Adam and The Ants + Jimmy Eat World.
LCD Soundsystem and Jane's Addiction.
And Twisted Sister.(Not really Twisted Sister.)
The Killswitch Engages are on it as well
THIS! IS! MY! CURSE!
but yeah, it's mostly turbo dog dirt save for about 5 songs
Jane's Addiction's Stop is on it.
Fuck, they were atrocious
They had this sort of cutesy lovesong called 'Poppy Bird'
containing the following:
'The book she was reading was of an interesting nature/I knew I would some day want to date her'
deary christ
Bromhead's Jacket
Ha! I won a copy of their album in some 6music competition. It's still sitting on the windowsill in the cellophane.
I hope Lesley Parlafitt is OK.
sucioperro
komakino
blood red shoes
kubichek
larrikin love
wasn't that DiS Nottingham bill that you put on?
Blood Red Shoes don't really fit, they are still a day-time radio 1 playlisted band. Alt-J just opened up for them in California the other night. But I know you were being Jordan_229_2-ish about it.
are they? i know they've been playing fests but i didn't know they were still at that level
just that there was quite a big buzz about them five years ago. good on them.
larakkin love, komakino and kubichek all played DiS gigs, aye. Sucioperro were just mentioned all over the place on the boards at the same time. i've never heard them.
didn't sucioperro's entire thing hang on people saying
they know biffy clyro
Pretty much every review mentions it.
Still going as well.
I'm playing with them in a couple of weeks.
Before now I was totally stuck for an icebreaker.
My mate played with them lastweek
He said it was an ok gig. Couple hundred through the door I think.
they're cousins
or something
Kubichek!
Christ their album was strong.
Good call.
I quite liked Kubichek!'s album.
It didn't re-invent the wheel but the tunes were alright and dancey sometimes.
Similarly North-Eastern and exclamation mark-ridden: DARTZ!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2OLoHk8Cs0
Komakino: I saw them twice
And I have no idea what they sound like. Naming your band after a Joy Division song does not automatically make it good. She's Lost Control (Peel Session), for instance, were shit
Blood Red Shoes are not forgotten
They still have decent fanbase. Not that they were massive in the first place.
played gigs with both (Project:) Komakino & Kubicheck!
both sucked absolute donkey dong
who was your band?
You're being mean on Savages Sean
I offer you;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLrjSoqD5GY&NR=1&feature=endscreen
All mapped out eh?
Wow, what an awful band.
They were always destined to fail though. From Northampton. Signed after only 5 gigs... ouch
It's like Menswear all over again....
The Bravery
pretty sure the singer went on to write songs for kelly clarkson or someone.
wrote "she wolf" for shakira i think
That's the one.
Honest Mistake is a fucking tune though, right?
Or should I keep that to myself as a guilty pleasure? I only listened to it a couple days ago. The rest of the album is pants.
Brakes
kinda confuse me... they could be so good when they wanted to be. I think they just enjoyed being a bit scrappy.
BRAKES are great
Give Blood is a great album
yeah they had something
they were just erratic and messy and never really lived up to the few amazing songs they had in them
I don't think they had too
I think Brakes was literally a break from the bands the guys were playing in at the time.
it was probably a great release, smashing out 1min songs. well crafted ones at that. false builds & a good sense of humor.
i like the guys voice too.. kinda odd.. but intriguing
They still play End of the Road every year.
Good live band and good tunes.
Considering he's got at least a dozen songs better than this still to come, you've got to imagine that, by the end of the year, the Vines are going to be bigger than U2, Gareth Gates and Nickelback combined. This is a record you must own.
The Vines
but the Vines were pretty successful and then famously self-destructed
rather than just disappearing out of lack of anything more than hype going for them
or am I being too kind?
Well, it turned out they only had one good song
So I would say the hype outweighed the quality from the start.
they had more than one song
Highly Evolved was a pretty good album
It was catchy but it was also the most derivative album I've heard since that first Elastica album.
lol
this made me give their first album a quick blast there, it's REALLY bad.
that'll be why I haven't felt the need to listen to it in 10 years.
So much of that success was brought by the buzz though surely?
I like them (and still do now) but some of the write ups that preceded the first album were just ridiculous when you look back on them now.
THE LONG BLONDES
Forward Russia
LOVED both of these bands.
The former, especially.
I really liked The Long Blondes.
Once and Never Again is a stonking tune.
forward russia :(
I remember when Forward Russia came out
and everyone acted as if one of them pretty much invented music.
[PS The Long Blondes were a truly dreadful band, so glad the singer's solo career never materialised]
Dance To The Radio was a great label though
and released some brilliant singles during that time. In fact, with the likes of FR, Yes Boss, This Et Al... it was like Leeds was the new Sheffield.
Ha!
I came on this thread to post Frussia.
Miss them lots, but at least they left us two cracking and different albums.
Leeds music was epic for such a long time. Pulled Apart By Horses and Dinosaur Pile-Up got slightly big for a while and both were just formed from other bands (The Mother Vulpine etc.). Such awesome bands had preceded them.
My 2nd favourite to Forward Russia was This Et Al. The Figure 8 EP was a precursor to an album and was all kinds of brilliant and then, suddenly, they split. Travesty.
There's still some great noises coming out of Leeds...
Such as Black Moth, Blacklisters, Eagulls, Hawk Eyes, and Nope.
Loved both of them.
Didn't Long Blondes disappear because the guitarist had a stroke or something, not just because people lost interest or whatever.
Yeah, Dorian wasn't able to play anymore, real shame :-(
The fuck are Long Blondes forgotten.
I still listen to their debut regularly. Still hoping they reform one day if the guitarist gets better.
I KNOW HOW IT FEELS TO BE YOUR AGE
Yndi Halda
for wanky DiS types anyway
Team Waterpolo?
lolllllllllll
Luke Leighfield
He was a barrel of Lol's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSTsz8VzsI8
No-one in the world has EVER
loved themselves as much as the bassist in that video. Fucking hell.
Basically the cover stars of every Careless Talk and PlanB issue really.
I don't think that there were any I didn't like a lot, but groups such as The Research, Young People, Chicks On Speed, Smoosh, CSS, Prinzhorn Dance School, Oneida, Von Bondies and the Bellrays probably don't get much radio play these days...
Prinzhorn's album this year is really very good indeed
Oh, and The Pipettes, obviously.
+ The Research's debut was excellent; I still play it quite a bit.
They've split up now, I think, after an awful phase of introducing guitars into their sound.
Oneida
I don't think they could ever have been considered a buzz band?
perma-fringe psych powerhouses
or something.
seriously one of the most consistently brilliant bands going. c'mon.
I saw the Bellrays in Berlin a couple of months ago
They were great. I don't think I had any clue what they sounded like even though they had that year where they were kind of a big deal.
aren't
they the old Alabama Shakes?
iFoward Russia!
never seemed to FUCK THE FUCK OFF a few years ago. DiS had some perma-boner for them.
Oh
King adora: i hate to link to Wells ( R.I.P) but..
'The need for bands like King Adora - bands that reject and rage against the current tyranny of dressed-down, mumbling, half-arsed ming-mong anti-rock - to cut the mustard is all-consuming. This is a war for the soul of UK 'alternative' music. A war that the hippies, the folkies and the horribly deformed and hideously whining mutant offspring of the shoegazing scum are winning hands down. But to send King Adora over the top with a record like this would be tantamount to murder.'
Hyoed and destroyed in the same article
http://www.nme.com/reviews/4989
Always used to get these guys and Pink Grease confused.
The King Adora record isn't terrible....if you can ignore the lyrical content of most of it. there is about 4 decent songs on it.
The Go! Team
Dogs Die In Hot Cars
Global Cafe, Newcastle Student Union:
Ordinary Boys
Dogs Die In Hot Cars
Kaiser Chiefs
what a line up...
its outside of the remit but
JJ72 & Amen in the Newcastle Uni basement was a good juxaposed bill
Godhopping was a tune.
As was I Love You Because I Have To...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeywCfxYcas
SONG
Every song on their first/only album was a tune
oh wow, they released another album in 2008. had no idea.
Neither did anyone else
Ordinary Boys/Dogs/Kaisers.....
....I went to the Newquay gig of that same tour. Tint little venue. That was just plain crazy.
Elle Milano
Espen and the Witch
ELLE MILANO 4LYF
Were Elle Milano a buzz band?
Man they were good.
don't think they ever were really
they did a very wanky Burberry photoshoot with The Paddingtons, Patrick Wolf and Edward Larrikin, mind you.
What songs. Just.... what songs.
awkward moment googling ELLE MILANO 4LYF
and finding all the posts were by me
Wow, completely forgot about Esben
That was only all about 18 months ago wasn't it? Haha.
No wait I feel bad for laughing now
think it depends what you mean by buzzbands, innit
doesn't really mean the same over here as it does in the US because we have relatively few independent labels with national coverage and even less in the way of independent press that makes an impact, and you have to couple in that most people don't take British music an iota as seriously as American unless it's dance/grime/dubstep/whatever.
personally over here I'd use it to describe all those rubbish 'indie' bands that major labels have tried to foist on the world, lots of which have been mentioned already, so I'd add
Pull Tiger Tail
Boy Kill Boy
The Holloways
although, even with what I said above, I'd still throw Selfish Cunt into that bin.
Klaxons
those bloody Klaxons.
are still amazing
what band are you listening to?
The Parkinsons
I liked them
European answer to the Icarus Line?
They pissed a lot of people of I think.
Hadouken!
Surely!
DiSband #1!
http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/2467763
The Bees
My puns go over everybody's head
*fly over everybody's head
Ou Est The Swimming Pool
altho to be fair one of them dying is probably a good reason for them to fall off the radar and disappear. The Bee's above is a great show btw. Magic numbers? or are they actually still famous?
Has anyone heard Palma Violets yet?
This week's NME has them on the front cover as the best new band in Britain. Which means they could be the next Suede or be working at Tesco before the end of the year. Maybe somebody should start a thread dedicated to how they deal with being a buzz band...
heard them doing a Maida Vale session the other day
have honestly never heard such a crock of shit.
they could barely play their own song, and barely seemed to care.
fuck them
Fantastic!
Looks like Tesco might be hoping for a bit too much. Lidl it is, then...
they can back my ethical arsehole
and enjoy doing it
Palma Violets
Are utter utter crap, budget Libertines only moderately better than The Twang.
I call bullshit
Palma Violets, Peace, Alt-J and all this assorted hipster crap will be forgotten in six months.
i wholeheartedly agree
Alt-J
Are not a buzz band they are already a massive crossover success.
i halfheartedly agree with my previous statement
Alt-J are good
Palma Violets.. still.. no
Just checked them out...
Fucking hell, if they're the best band new band in Britain, no wonder Pitchfork keeps giving British bands such a hard time.
I like them.
Sorry
Jeniferever
Towers of London ;(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaoCX_T22SI
What's the opposite of nostalgia?
yestaglia?
poor
this is great though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHCvuJ2JIKU&feature=related
The way his voice breaks as he's shouting at the drunk guy
:D
Forward Russia!
Ha ha, I win.
Also: The Others.
Electric Six
Lift to Experience
Shut up
What a shit name.
Hoggboy
The buzz didn't last long!
Hoogboy!
Saw them play in melbourne, flogged the CD, told everyone the were the best of Ramones/Strokes and should be huge. They weren't.
Terris were fucking amazing.
Hit & miss live, but fucking SLAYED when they were on form. First EP was a proper work of art. Album was overproduced, but had some fabulous tunes on it. Dude wrote the best lyrics this century. FUCK THA HATERZ.
I do actually remember liking a terris song
Just the one though, something to do witches?
Searching for the Switches?
fabricated lunacy is a great song
I still have it on 7"
BEARSUIT
i think we're playing with them next week in Norwich
I still have my Bearsuit halloween 7" on blood red vinyl
and wrapped in mummy bandages... Unopened! I was hoping it would be worth squillions by now.
Still a going concern as far as I'm concerned
Though if there was a band whose profile was hit by the passing of John Peel it would be them. I still miss their shambolic "school band on illegal substances" sound but they done a good job reworking themselves as a shoutier Ladytron of late.
still good and releasing music
invalid
I still like
That Terris record..... Is pretty good!
The Music
Not well liked here as I recall, but they *were* hyped up pretty good, eh.
(I liked their debut.)
They were great
Much better than hyped up boring crap like The Strokes.
They should have been where Kasabian are now.
And Kasabian should be where The Music are now.
Test Icicles
they still rule
WE COULD DO WITH SOME MORE POISON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnu-WUJw0uY
7 years old and still rules.
The band Klaxons could have been.
Test Icicles were obscene.
I have their first 7" on green vinyl if anyone wants it. Dev's Lightspeed Champion project was/is shit, too.
STAY OUT THE WAY
TERROR AT THE BAY
:-D
love 'em
Still amazing!
Dev and Rory both done fairly well since Test-Icicles broke up. Rory running production for a some excellent bands and on top of his other successes (lightspeed champion, Blood Orange), Dev has just produced outstanding singles for Sky Ferreira and Solange Knowles.
^their mum
The Chalets
Dananananaykroyd
Spinto Band
Youthmovies/YMSS
Empire of the Sun
Jonquil
Spinto Band were in no way a buzzband
but they were fantastic anyway
they certainly were a buzz band.
I like The Chalets. Saw them a couple of times.
Spinto Band are still going.
The second Dananananaykroyd album was only out last year and was really good
No one seemed to care though
ycni:m
COMMISSION YOUR THOUGHTS! COMMISSION YOUR THOUGHTS!
and 'Schteeve' has yet to be toppled from my last.fm all time song charts.
*Lamacq voice* that really is uh something from another pop dimension altogether.
think he said something similar about 'Panda' by Dungen.
I WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT TO BE ABULLLLLLLLLLLL
TO GOOOOO THAAAAAAAAT WAAAAAAY
Ladyfuzz
were great for about five minutes
http://youtu.be/3eAufyfcsA0
The Automatic.
Both amusing and criminal that
Their star actually fadad when they got rid of the annoying shouty one. Either that or they were actually one hit wonders. I hope they still get royalty cheques dribbling in for Monster as for ages it was as ubiquitous as that whistling song and still seems to be a DIY SOS go to tune.
The annoying shouty one
is now in Goodtime Boys (http://goodtimeboysband.bandcamp.com/) who are doing pretty well for themselves (better than the automatic are anyway).
Stellastarr*
I loved that band
I saw them supporting the Red Hot Chili Peppers in Hyde Park in 2004.
They were the second best band that day (James Brown was the main support and he was by far the best thing).
RHCP stank the place out.
I'lll not hear a ruddy bloody bad word said against Stellastarr*
Fantastic band.
MY COCO
White Rose Movement anyone?
Finn is now in Genuflex
Do Me Bad Things
I used to enjoy them live. They were working with the same folks as the Darkness.
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
<3 always
this thread has just served to make me listen to most of these bands.
I've had a great time
Ditto! Great days, they were, for me.
Oh man
I was born in 1990 and so this thread is essentially my iTunes playlist from 14-18. Fantastic scenes, there is some incredible music in here in amongst the tosh.
I raise all of you this - never really a 'buzz' band but were one of the first acts to ape the Klaxons' sound and so were briefly talked about in 2006-ish. Truly the worst songs & videos I have ever encountered http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w28jCV9Jzw
this, always
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrzJ-NDRHgM
dave? dave? daaaave?
go to the bar and grab a beer
go speak to that dude over... there
such amazing rhyming
oh holy crap
Haven't thought about Trash Fashion in a long, long time. Played a gig with them once, the singer was an obnoxious twat and looked about 39 years old
The Young Knives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdRCOL9DbVg
HOT SUMMER, HOT HOT SUMMER!
This, for some reason, reminded of
Be Your Own PET
a lot of potential
but ultimately....nnnnrgh
Loved the young knives
Think their first two albums are both great
The Magic Numbers
are still knocking about. Pitchfork gave their first album 7.6. Blimey.
The sister is just about to release some solo stuff and is touring.
Well
I give you Gay Dad
End of thread.
that's what she said
Pull Tiger Tail
http://youtu.be/bBphn7ZV0og
Mumm Ra and The Upper Room
come to mind. I was rather fond of both.
Chikinki
man loved chikinki
IM PLAYING SCISSORS PAPER STONE< WITH ALL I OWN
the singer is now an accountant or something, is the boss of a friend!?!
The second album destroyed them.
It's fucking appalling, the debut is a great spin.
I remember reading this piece at the time...
http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=21387
Intriguing mix of the 'sort of dids' (The Ordinary Boys, YCNI:M) The ones who definitely did (Keane, Kasabian) the 'wow I haven't even thought about them in 8 years' (Eastern Lane, the Open, Hal, My Red Cell) and the, 'did anyone give a toss even at the time?' (Glitterati, Kid Symphony).
Also throwing in - Battle, Nine Black Alps, The 22-20's. The 22 f**king 20's.... there was a band that never justified the hype.
quite funny how many of those bands played DiS gigs at the Dublin Castle / 93 Feet East
HAL <3
partly cos it's my name
partly cos of What A Lovely Dance
Ha! Forgot about Hal.
Nit sure there was much of a buzz about them at the time. I saw them supporting Brendan Benson at Bristol Fleece and they came out drinking with us after. Lovely, wee little leprechauns they were!
A couple more....
My Awesome Compilation- Still love their stuff....I guess Hell is for Heroes might qualify 'n all.
juremember Volcano!
?
remember when sometimesitsbetternotostickbitsofeachotherineachotherforeachother came out and it was on mtv2 and vh1 all the time
Hot Club de Paris' second album is incredible
Think it wasn't as big as the first because people assumed it was a live album... they're still knocking about though, released a few EPs last year that were well received
The Kooks.
Elle S'appelle!
Brilliant, brilliant track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zugno-YHWho
Someone please create a Spotify playlist for this
thee unstrung
A guy I went to school with was in Thee Unstrung
He started going out with my ex after we split up.
Laughed so hard when they failed
That sounds well harsh
Mostly because I was bitter, he was a really top bloke
Miss Black America
If any thread deserved a carefully picked Spotify list
It'd be this one. Get to it, nerds!
Fields
I loved their debut. Brilliant live band too.
It's a real shame Atlantic screwed them about.
The Others
I was well into their debut at the time.
The follow up was rubbish. They played at Exeter Cavern a few weeks back, but I couldn't make it. Probably a good thing.
hamfatter
Ha! They were signed up by Peter Jones on Dragon's Den weren't they?
Very shrewd investment.
271 posts but no mention of Joy Orbison?
Wow.
Not strictly as buzz band..
He had a massive 12" with hymp mngo (however its spelt) and now is still pretty current. He's got a podcast on resident advisor this week.
he is still one of the more hyped artists in his scene
Especially with his work with Boddika
Sounds like some sort of strange tribute band.
I loved and still love The Voom Blooms.
Excellent band. I don't think they ever managed to release an album. Shame.
Pretty much my entire music taste
aged 17-20 falls into this category!
I'd like to add 'The Whip' to this list, who somehow turned up on a Coors advert not that long ago. And lets not forget that Chikinki got themselves onto a Saab advert! And who remembers their rotating headline tour with Kasabian in 2004?
The whole New-Cross 'scene' with like Thee Unstrung, The Others was perhaps the most pitiful thing the NME have done in recent times. Guerilla gig squat raves with Dominic Masters etc :(
nowt wrong with The Whip
though they did fall pretty hard, even NME gave tgheir debut 1/10
*their
Ah, come on, it was fun at the time.
The Subways.
Still going. Clinging on by a thread?
I WAS A CUB SCOUT!
LUDES!
must have done alright with florence and the machine covering that song on her album
LES INCOMPETENTS!
Isn't one of them now in some ALL NEW new Buzzband?
Maybe not, I get them confused.
Yeah, one of them is in Spector
and was previously in Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man as well
two of them are in spector
Consider me corrected!
I was trying to find out if it was more than one of them, but failed.
JJ72
No mention of The Stills...?
Still love their 1st album (no pun intended).
Autolux
:(
i love Autolux
Does anybody remember Lo-Fi Culture Scene?
They were still doing their GCSE's when they were getting hyped, I think.
Yep, couple of them can be found playing in Yuck
I never knew this. Pretty cool.
This thread reminds me a bit of the 7" revival that I think also happened c.2006
Did it happen? Either way I was tricked.
So many shitty songs...
They're still woo hoo-ing their way around
saw them live earlier this year
Cage the Elephant
yeah?
I love Dogs.
Haven
Good voice, though.
Still play at their local open mic night in Heaton Moor every week
The Von Bondies
Back in the day
the 'buzz' had me feverishly borrow the album from someone. Regrettable.
Easyworld?
:D
myself and gunty are fans
YOU WEAR YOUR MONDAY MORNING FACE
Mart took trolling to a pretty intense level in the end iirc, and then sort of just went away
Someone needs to make
a Spotify playlist for all this.
(The Von Bondies song you want on it is No Sugar Mama).
Delphic et White Lies
Les deux sont ennuyeux au taux le plus élevé et semblent être déjà oublié. Je suis bien avec elle, pas plus fade indie merdique
Merci pour la traduction, mais je ne suis pas un fan de la langue française.
Il sera peut-être utile pour quelqu'un.
l'uuuurgggh
Les Incompetents?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db73ZdfMWM8
2005 memories...
iLIKEtrains seemed huge in DiS terms when I first started posting on here.
Not sure I ever actually listened to them. Danananananananaananananananananananananananananananananakyrod and Johnny Foreigner had their moments too...
Leave JoFo out of this
remember?
:(
goodbooks
goodshoes
thelongcut
none of these compare to the might of RayGun
Bloody loved Good Shoes
The Longcut are still going
Saw them this year in Lincoln. Great live band.
All busy having babies I believe
but yeah, saw them at Great Escape this year and they were as great as they ever were
We are scientists
Anything produced by Paul Epworth
the ones I remember are
The Rain Band
The Burn
The Stands
The Crescent
Johnny Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXGxVz2vFs4 ignited a massive major label bun-fight. Then nothing....
Their album was really good
Shame 4 people bought it.
I didn't know they released one
That song was absolutely amazing, and deserved to be mahoosive.
The Burn
The had an album called "Sally O'Mattress". The worst name for an album ever.
what happened to those Black Rebel Motorcycle club people?
They had a very good album last year - Keep up!
lana del rey
ARE Weapons
(still like them tbh)
Morning Runner
Akira the Don
Wolfmother
Everything except 'Apple Tree' was shit.
Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong.
Have remodelled/rebranded themselves as Toy
Seems to have been successful too.
Not really
Joe Lean isn't in the band any more for starters
37 minutes of my life wasted
http://open.spotify.com/user/teepee_uk/playlist/4IAwEKZH2ZmPMCErEdKUgP
Hell is for Heroes
I still love the Neon Handshake however.
WE SMOKE FAGS
Yes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNnc0Xv-peE&feature=related
Egyptian Hip Hop
Without reading this whole thread.
LATE OF THE PIER.
Gone too soon. Assuming they are gone. Which seems so. (Cry.)
Yeah, girlfriend introduced me to them last year
love that album
The Virgins
saw them support, i think maybe band of horses
they stand of BO
stank*
Hockey
Tilly and the Wall
they had a TAP DANCER instead of a drummer and were briliant, then they got a drummer and went shit.
New album out this year though, preompted me to reasses them and the first album is still a beauty
theyve got a proper drummer now?
boo!
they were ace at electric picnic in 2006
Beat Control is an insanely good song
New Rhodes
Palladium
Boy were they bad. Saw them live once at Camden Barfly.
Laura Marling was the support. Now she was great.
Apartment
Can I just interrupt by saying what a brilliant thread this has been?
Absolutely top notch work.
Ditto
Also a good place to mention Meet Me In St Louis, broke up just as their name was being properly bandied about, the fools.
Don't think anyone's mentioned Anti-Folk yet, obviously Jeffery Lewis is still going but Moldy Peaches, Prewar Yardsale, Major Matt Mason, Schwervon, even Thomas Truax fell by the wayside.
My favourite thread of the year so far!
The Open
Glasvegas
They have just announced a tour.
Last chance saloon?
The Streets.
curveball!
Datsuns
Jet
D4
Electric Soft Parade (loved 1st lp)
Mull Historical Society (loved 1st lp)
Kings of Convenience
Frou Frou
Cajun Dance Party
Cats in Paris
Cherry Ghost
Dead 60's
The Fratellis
The Good, The Bad and the Queen
Hot Hot Heat
The Hours
Howling Bells
Jose Gonzales
Kid Harpoon
The Lodger
Louis XIV
Love is All
The Mooney Suzuki
The Morning After Girls
The Most Serene Republic
The Mummers
My Latest Novel
New Young Pony Club
Oh Laura
Operator Please
Passion Pit
Pheonix
The Pistolas
The Rakes
The Ruby Suns
Semifinalists
The Shaky Hands
The Strange Death of Liberal England
The Sunshine Underground
Thirteen Senses
Those Dancing Days
Tiny Dancers
Tokyo Police Club
Vega 4
The Veils
White Denim
White Rabbits
The Whitest Boy Alive
The Mummers
what a band
Frou Frou!
They were on the Garden State soundtrack right?
Yep. Duo of Imogen Heap and Guy Sigsworth.
Only made one album. Songs, particularly 'Let Go' (used in Garden State) have been used in loads of TV stuff. Talk of new material at some point, but don't hold your breath.
White Denim
what the fuck you on about. They are on their fourth odd album and it came out last year to rave reviews and bare bummage. Super wonderful sexy band.
the veils
are awesome though
had a new ep out this year
I loved their last album. Will check out that EP, thanks.
Kid Harpoon seems to boing remarkably well as a songwriter these days
doing*
For himself, or for others?
I saw him as support at a couple of gigs and I liked his early stuff. I was looking forward to the album, but it was disappointing.
Savages the Terris of 2012?
Really? I don't get DiS's lack of love for Savages. Most exciting band I've seen in a while, and I've seen a few. That's OK though, at least Pitchfork like them, so I think they'll be fine without you. I once saw Coldplay supporting Terris in Blackwood Miners' Institute. Where are they now, eh?
Mumm Ra
I can't remember them much. Weren't they awful landfill indie?
Who remembers Midget?
I bet no one does, actually they where probably pre dis!
Black Velvets
Had a decent start...glad I saw them at Reading in the day