Mo' solid gold ring a bell too.I was an avid britpop buyer for a couple of years but lot of stuff got sold or given away when i was moving houses.

Toilet wich salad song where you talking about?Here's a fan site.
http://www.anthonypaynter.com/pito/#

it might have been drink the elixir

Thought so.As far as i remember that's the best thing that they came up with.

One of their tunes can be found here:
http://thefaceoftoday.blogspot.com/2...y_archive.html

powder, that's the group i was thinking of when i said pearl

does anyone remember disco pistol?

cheers pork

here's another list of 90s indie pony
http://www.the-universal.com/artists.asp

Lo-fidelity allstars pissed all over Disco Pistol.Pearl was the singer in Powder and there is a song of theirs that was rad.I'm pretty sure that it was a b-side of possibly their second single(help me out guys as i'm getting old and senile).

i remember liking a pearl song at the time, but as is often the case with camdeny britpop stuff, i'd probably scratching my head if i listened to it now.

i just mentioned disco pistol because last year i had a housemate who was in that band, she was a twat.

Some lo-fidelity allstars mp3 in here:
http://robosexual.typepad.com/glob/2...lity_alls.html

Fucking Marion! Fucking Gene!

I've never heard of the Gyres, the Real People or Laxton's subperb. The rest of those bands all have songs of varying quality attached in my head. It seems a shame to put Pulp in there, they did more greatness than most in Britpop - in terms of 'no. of great albums', it's Pulp and Blur out of the Britpop crowd.

I notice that list omits Ocean Colour Scene. Who, annoyingly, are far less annoying now than they were at the time.

"Hello, Britpop nostalgia hotline, how may I help?" [...] "The band you are looking for are: Reef".

That list can make a grown man cry...
EDIT: Oh, yeah, who can forget The Seahorses, Love Me and Leave Me was one of my most favourite tunes for 1997...

Reef have died for our sins.The Gyres weren't that bad but for what i recall they weren't exactly that britpop either.I think that they have been thrown into the list because they were making music at that time.Laxton's Superb i spent 3 seconds listening to them and then i must have thrown the record away.Pulp and Blur are superior to most,i agree,with Pulp being what was really good at that particular moment in time(remember their britpop special tv appearance?Excellence personified).Ocean Colour Scene sucked a meaty cock then and possibly they suck it now if they are still in existence.

Oh, this thread brings back memories. I avoided buying the Menswear album but I think the first Sleeper album might have been the first thing I bought with my own money.

Bis straddled the thin line between annoying and great. I remember that one song they did that went "sugar, sugar candy pop" and that's about it. Anyone remember Helen Love?

Yes i do.She's been punished for her sins and i must have pushed her far down my brain to even remember she has been a musician who was talked and written about,let alone listened to.This is indeed a thread that brought back memories of a not so distant past.I just listened to Ultrasound's 'Stay Young' for the first time in 100 years.

100 years? C'mon, it was more like 9 years.....jesus, has it really been nearly a decade since Ultrasound?

Yes it has.I'm surprised at how good that song sounds now compared to the first time round.

Helen Love. You win the prize. In fact, you win all prizes from now on.

Someone ship this man the prizes.

In fact, someone ship him all the prizes.

Yeah yeah we're Helen Love oo-OO-ooh.

Put your foot on the fuzzbox baby.

And, for good measure, the timely classic, Does your heart go boom, the song which, in spite of any kudos I might lose by saying it, introduced me to Atari Teenage Riot (I had a single of theirs, but I hadn't realised how good it was).



Well done Iain. Well done for winning. Hail.

And the ONE SINGLE TIME I'M ACTUALLY ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT GIVING REP THE FUCKER WON'T LET ME.

Bum.

Never mind. I don't know whether to thank you or not for reminding me of the name of that Helen Love song which has, of course, sent it running through my mind instantly and loudly if such a thing is possible.

The artwork is very bisish isn't it?Graphic designers weren't working hard in mid 90s.

I think every lo-fi indie pop record was obliged by law to have a manga-type influence. I think they only got rid of that law last year.

The ' manga-modern comic-video games' graphics are the worst thing to have happened to record sleeves since the start of sleeve designing.They cheapen the music and make for nonsense at describing what might be on the record itself.

• Ash
• The Boo Radleys
• Blur
• Cast
• Dodgy
• Echobelly
• Elastica
• Gene
• The Gyres
• Heavy Stereo
• Laxton's Superb
• Marion
• Menswe@r
• Northern Uproar
• Oasis
• Powder
• Pulp
• The Real People
• Shed Seven
• Sleeper
• Suede
• Supergrass
• These Animal Men
• Thurman

i never liked anyone on that list at all. i never got into britpop at all. i despised it. thats not me thinking i am some musically better person and i wasnt into the grunge nirvana metal korn crowd either.

when i think back to that music it really send a shiver down my spine and not in a good way.

i did meet someone who had devoted her life to ultrasound and was writing a fanzine entirely based on them. she was very depressed.

As bad as this?

FUCK ME THEY'RE SELLING IT FOR £125! I HAVE A COPY! I SHOULD MAKE SOME MONEY!

I had the motherfucking promo tape of that motherfucking record.What is wrong with me?EH?

I can't criticise. To be fair, I think we were all hoodwinked by Local Boy in the Photograph (which I also have) which was, in fairness, and as much as it pains me, a fucking ace record. The first LP was gack though.

I'm going to get my box of 7"s from that era and see how much they're worth. I'm sure there's some rabid Secret Goldfish fan out there somewhere who wants my 7"s (oo-err).

I drew the line when stereophonics cropped up.There was wrongness in their valley rock that i didn't think existed at all.I'd give a leg to a wheelchair user to remember what secret goldfish sounded like.

Not that hot. A bit jangly, a bit faint.

I'm looking at this site now: http://eil.com/shop and according to the silly prices they're selling things at, I've got a hell of a lot of money in my 7"s box. Which is quite exciting.

whatever happened to che records?

i don't think there's much collector demand for 90s uk indie pop is there? i was looking at that stuff recently on amazon and it was all dirt cheap early delgados singles and whatnot.

I'd be surprised myself to be honest.Never say never in record collecting.

I suspect it's one of those cases where you want to sell your singles while the band are enormous. My unfortunate glaring wrongness as a teenager has resulted in some quite valuable 7"s. Stereophonics, Feeder, Placebo (although I still maintain Placebo's first album is great). Remember the golden days of Fierce Panda? I think Supergrass should make a million selling record again so my 7" of theirs goes up in value. An Elastica reuinion/ revival wouldn't go amiss either, especially as they were ahead of the game with the whole ripping off Wire thing that's in vogue now.

I think Che stopped a few years ago. There was a very short-lived off shoot, Rocket Girl. Lots of droney space-rock, just before it became post-rock. I have a wonderful Spacemen 3 tribute on that label. Low's version of 'Lord, can you hear me?' is among my favourite of their songs.

Shame Chemikal Underground stopped putting out good things sometime after they dropped Arab Strap.

I might be wrong but Rocket Girl is still doing business?Urusei Yatsura were on Che weren't they?Wultzer Jukebox was another label that i used to admire a lot.

urusei yatsura certainly put some records out on che.

maybe in 15 years there'll be a resurgence of interest in 90s indie 7"s... although i doubt it.

Again, Wurlitzer Jukebox, they were putting out a load of the space-y stuff that become post-rock. AMP/ amp were on there, no?

Urusei were on Che for their first two albums (the utterly crucial 'We are...' and the also excellent 'Slain by...'. They had an ep on Beggars Banquet, who folded about a week afterwards, I think they then had record company gay-ness for a few years, and then they put out the exceptionally overlooked 'Everybody Loves...' on their own Oni label.

Other notable entries in their discography include the ramshackle lo-fi affair that was 'All Hail...' ep which was on...er...their own Superhero records, I think.

Yeah. I have their discography commited to memory. Get me.

I have a double album by Amp but i've never been able to get into it as much as i'd like.For some reason everytime i put it on it reminds me of a boring version of the more spaced-out moments by Telstar Ponies(early singles by this band were gems to behold).

my favourite urusei yatsura release was the plastic ashtray EP. i scrawled urusei yatsura on my bedroom wall (at my mum's house) when i was about 15, it's still there.