90s hard rock Nostalgia Fest of HELL (UK and Ireland)

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
Senser 12
Therapy? 9
Leatherface 7
Senseless Things 7
Compulsion 6
Ash 6
Catherine Wheel 5
Placebo 4
Wildhearts 4
Skunk Anansie 2
Symposium 1
Honeycrack 1
Skyscraper 1
Pitchshifter 1
Skin 0
Terrorvision 0
Rub Ultra 0
Reef 0
Real TV 0
Paradise Lost (Draconian Times onward, don't want any real metal sneaking in) 0
Little Angels 0
The Almighty 0
Apes Pigs and Spacemen 0
Baby Chaos 0
Blameless 0
Cecil 0
China Drum 0
Feeder 0
Headswim 0
Joyrider 0
Kerbdog 0
King Adora 0
King Prawn 0
A 0
Wolfsbane 0


Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:14 (fifteen years ago)

Pass

Satantango! (Matt #2), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:14 (fifteen years ago)

do a WORST TOO

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:16 (fifteen years ago)

Fudge Tunnel would have been my vote in a BEST poll

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:16 (fifteen years ago)

At the time I was definitely most into Therapy?, but their music sounds kind of tame now. I've got a soft spot for Dub War and Senser - both incorporated unusual influences and both put on a great live show.

Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:17 (fifteen years ago)

Fudge Tunnel are a bit too metal.

Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:17 (fifteen years ago)

i liked senser (1st album) have a few 7" singles too

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:18 (fifteen years ago)

listening again to the only song of any of these bands i know, 'waydown' by catherine wheel. not-a so good.

goole, Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:19 (fifteen years ago)

I found myself listening to Senser the other day thinking they surely had a track for the "90s songs to mention computers and/or the internet" thread. They were not as bad as their reputation but certainly not as amazing as I thought they were when I was 15. Also their lyrics are such a sea of bubbling free-association shite that even the song which does have a little rant about the people all being, like, just numbers on the government's computers, maaan, couldn't go on the thread because it would've taken too much explaining.

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:21 (fifteen years ago)

I have seen live:
Almighty
Headswim
Kerbdog
King Prawn
Paradise Lost
Pitchshifter
Skunk Anansie
Symposium
Terrorvision
Therapy?
Wildhearts

And Dub War, who I've only gone and bleeding left out.

Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:24 (fifteen years ago)

Pledge: A Tribute to Kerbdog’ is a tribute to album to Irish rock band Kerbdog. Despite splitting up in 1998 and only recording two albums, the band has influenced many present day bands. This album mixes up and coming rock bands with more established acts such as Frank Turner, Jamie Lenman (Reuben) and Dave McPherson (InMe). The album also features sleeve notes from legendary producers Jack Endino and GGGarth Richardson who worked on Kerbdog’s two albums. Furthermore, the album also contains notes from Kerbdog’s Cormac Battle, Simon Young (Kerrang), Ken McGrath (Rock Sound), Edwin McFee (NME & Alternative Ulster).

Well then!

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:27 (fifteen years ago)

don't think they should be on this poll but voted Leatherface

Jari Litmandem (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:28 (fifteen years ago)

I have seen live :

A (supporting The Jesus Lizard)
Catherine Wheel
Compulsion
Feeder (also supporting the Jesus Lizard on the same bill as A, grim)
Headswim
Leatherface
Senseless Things
Senser
Skunk Anansie (supporting Come, of all bands)
Skyscraper
Therapy?

Satantango! (Matt #2), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:29 (fifteen years ago)

Leatherface shouldn't be here and their Mush is by far the best album by
any of these bands.

reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:32 (fifteen years ago)

Skunk Anansie (supporting Come, of all bands)

I saw them supporting Killing Joke, of all bands

Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:33 (fifteen years ago)

next best probably Therapy - Troublegum.
very teenage and a bit dated but probably the best
example of Pop-Rock ever. Its mega pop. And Rocks. POP ROCK.

reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:33 (fifteen years ago)

I have only seen:

Senseless Things - not mad keen on them, but 'Too Much Kissing' was a sweet song
Therapy? - saw them once early on, supporting the Moving Targets or Bitch Magnet or some similar US band. Was okay, bought the single off the band
Skunk Anansie - supporting Come at the Underworld yay!

ka£ka (NickB), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:38 (fifteen years ago)

Therapy?

EZ Snappin, Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:42 (fifteen years ago)

First time I saw Therapy? was when they were on Wiiija and associated vaguely with Silverfish, Th' Faith Healers and those bands, wasn't it called Camden Lurch? They seemed far better than their contemporaries (i.e. they could play) but they pretty swiftly shed the Big Black / Jesus Lizard influences and moved into the popular "fraggle rock" genre, and started to suck big time.

I know a guy who has a Therapy? tattoo, the fool.

Satantango! (Matt #2), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:53 (fifteen years ago)

1st 2 eps and album (nurse) therapy? were awesome. Troublegum was pretty good and everything after was shit (esp infernal love)
The Wildhearts i saw many times live and were great apart from the last time i saw them where they played songs from their most recent at the time shitty album and ginger just abused the crowd and walked off after less than an hour. never cared for them since.

the 2 best bands by far on this poll though.

I do like Senser & Senseless Things though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2J7At5tUl4

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:00 (fifteen years ago)

john peel, mark e smith, miles hunt and more in that video. Hadn't seen it before.

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:04 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg9FA8h81NU

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:08 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAjgTQS3dSw&feature=related

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:08 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIZ3BrvLSqk&feature=related

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:09 (fifteen years ago)

still like those songs

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:12 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, I didn't really like that Senseless Things song all that much, but was amused to spot Patrick Fitzgerald of the Kitchens of Distinction in the video.

ka£ka (NickB), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:14 (fifteen years ago)

oh the shame of my past

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSBNURD7uKQ&feature=related

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:19 (fifteen years ago)

I'll just go ahead and post some Dub War even though I forgot to include em.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flmfN2pwU20

Good tune, I reckon.

Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:19 (fifteen years ago)

i think i saw dub war at t in the park 95

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:22 (fifteen years ago)

i didnt see compulsion because i went to see the jesus lizard on the main stage

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:22 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktDeuXe1AjY

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:23 (fifteen years ago)

i have their 1st cd with the bonus safety ep and the 2nd album. still dig em out occasionally

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:24 (fifteen years ago)

Same drummer as was in China Drum iirc

ka£ka (NickB), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:26 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ionsRr4d4Gk&feature=related

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:27 (fifteen years ago)

placebo are the best band on the list. i will also confess to having one king adora song i really love (suffocate) and possibly two or three feeder songs.

the first king adora album is so poorly mix/mastered, muddy as fuc

racing up the fuck charts (electricsound), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:30 (fifteen years ago)

shoulda had been in. Henry Rollins fave band at the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B53AWhlGLxg

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:31 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoaGW89TsDQ&feature=related

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:32 (fifteen years ago)

i love the song "Saturation"

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:33 (fifteen years ago)

The God Machine pissed on half these bands, shame they're not eligible really.

ka£ka (NickB), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:35 (fifteen years ago)

one of my fave bands ever are The God Machine

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:38 (fifteen years ago)

tbh they should be on here since they were based here for the 1st album

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:39 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpRxStKJbFE&feature=related

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:40 (fifteen years ago)

Compulsion's guitarist was Jacknife Lee. He's doing all right for himself.

DL, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:53 (fifteen years ago)

DON'T FORGET THE HORROR OF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3F92dD8iqM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_YKCstQTP8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFbcdXpgf-A

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:55 (fifteen years ago)

1991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTv3F_PhLEE

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:56 (fifteen years ago)

Chuck's a big fan of them iirc. I had a good few mates into them so i reckon i know that album word for word. Tbh they dont sound as bad as they did then. Am I getting old?

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:58 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOOcJobuZTc

they were fun at t in the park 95 actually.

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBwA362pq9o

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 23:07 (fifteen years ago)

I Terrorvision play loads - they were basically at every festival I went to in the 90s. Always quite enjoyed them.

Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 23:08 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VwurTcf8Js

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH_yivWallk

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 23:12 (fifteen years ago)

great songs

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 23:13 (fifteen years ago)

This was my favourite Senser track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7mZiumie1Y

Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 23:15 (fifteen years ago)

i still have my senser tshirt.

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 23:16 (fifteen years ago)

Headswim anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6YSRNyNV7Y

Very evocative of a time in my life, that album. I don't think they were too bad

Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 23:21 (fifteen years ago)

They were totally informed by grunge, but that track's nice and punchy, and I like the swirly organs they used.

Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 23:23 (fifteen years ago)

then they went radiohead, lol

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 23:39 (fifteen years ago)

Oh yeah, the one after Flood was duuuull.

Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 24 February 2011 23:43 (fifteen years ago)

i will vote for either leatherface (which yeah why are they here?) or Therapy?

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 February 2011 23:53 (fifteen years ago)

leatherface were always in raw and kerrang

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 23:56 (fifteen years ago)

plus colonel poo has got to have someone to vote for that isn't lol embarrassing

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 23:58 (fifteen years ago)

my fave therapy? track "neck freak" isn't on youtube :(

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 23:59 (fifteen years ago)

does this mean my green vinyl copy of troublegum is worth millions of dollars now

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 25 February 2011 00:12 (fifteen years ago)

i have that too

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 00:13 (fifteen years ago)

holy crap dude were both rich

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 25 February 2011 00:15 (fifteen years ago)

not my fave at the time (that'd be a tossup between wildhearts terrorvision and therapy) but senseless things swing it for me. 'too much kissing' is something i can happily listen to now, and i still say that final senseless things album is the pinnacle of all this... whatverthefuckgenre it was called (splatterpunk?)

NI, Friday, 25 February 2011 00:22 (fifteen years ago)

empire of the senseless?

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 00:49 (fifteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414WK62ZKKL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

no, 'taking care of business'. sounded like the wildhearts but without all the grottiness. amazing sounding productionwise, all chunky guitars, squalling feedback nailed to great songwriting - ideal for a 14yr old kid from the suburbs. don't think it got anywhere in the charts mind

homophobic asshole from empire.. is another great track though

NI, Friday, 25 February 2011 01:07 (fifteen years ago)

dont think i ever heard that. surprised you never gave me it that time we swapped cdrs many years ago!

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 01:12 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMzqMEPxJIo

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 01:54 (fifteen years ago)

i guess they went really poppy by then. its not the crazed demented cecil i supporting bands and at t in the park when ste constantly crowdsurfed

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 01:56 (fifteen years ago)

the cecil i remember
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvcwYAwo-aI&feature=related

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 01:58 (fifteen years ago)

i bet chap saw them live many a support act/festival. surprised they went poppier and ste grew his hair tbh

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 02:07 (fifteen years ago)

ffs how am I meant to choose between Wildhearts and Catherine Wheel

acoleuthic, Friday, 25 February 2011 02:10 (fifteen years ago)

I went through a very brief period of Ash fandom, round about the time of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayAAMlwGbKA

Kind of hard to argue that it stands up these days. Actually, there's nothing on the list that I'd be keen to hear ever again.

oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Friday, 25 February 2011 02:16 (fifteen years ago)

ffs how am I meant to choose between Wildhearts and Catherine Wheel

LOL you need to ask? catherine wheel is post shoegaze catherine wheel only if that makes it any easier

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 02:26 (fifteen years ago)

or is that the CW you like?

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 03:01 (fifteen years ago)

ESOJ is there an Aussie version of these bands? obviously Silverchair, Regurgitator ?

Actually i think i remember more Aussie "alternative" acts like powderfinger,paradise motel(who were great), you am i, magic dirt, something for kate, frente (lol home & away).

Im sure you could manage a poll out of it anyway.

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 03:05 (fifteen years ago)

Frenzal Rhomb were fucking awful btw

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 03:10 (fifteen years ago)

or is that the CW you like?

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 03:01 (20 minutes ago)

I like it all but Adam & Eve is godheeeead

acoleuthic, Friday, 25 February 2011 03:22 (fifteen years ago)

how the hell have these threads gotten so many replies

lex pretend, Friday, 25 February 2011 03:51 (fifteen years ago)

Lex did you ever listen to the evening session/friday rock show or watch The Word/TFI Friday or maybe even Noisy Mothers/Raw Power? Or read Kerrang & RAW? I assume not or you would know all these bands.

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 04:00 (fifteen years ago)

Voted Wildhearts.

Runners-up: The Almighty, Leatherface, Placebo, Therapy?. Wolfsbane.

Not convinced every band here (or even all my runners-up) are "hard rock."

xhuxk, Friday, 25 February 2011 04:19 (fifteen years ago)

heh, but you are the master of loose definitions!

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 15:02 (fifteen years ago)

Wow this is a terrible list, going to have to go with Therapy.

Matt DC, Friday, 25 February 2011 15:04 (fifteen years ago)

Who on earth were 'Cecil'? That's the least rock name of all time.

Matt DC, Friday, 25 February 2011 15:05 (fifteen years ago)

Honeycrack were really good. They were the "other" band next to Three Colours Red after the Wildhearts split up, and were WAY better than either of those two bands.

cosdeling barier chough a fat in a ballman thrantume (dog latin), Friday, 25 February 2011 15:12 (fifteen years ago)

Also, I used to love this when I was about 15:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flmfN2pwU20

cosdeling barier chough a fat in a ballman thrantume (dog latin), Friday, 25 February 2011 15:13 (fifteen years ago)

Bummed I can't vote for Stiltskin

ka£ka (NickB), Friday, 25 February 2011 15:16 (fifteen years ago)

I liked the Baby Chaos track that went "wash my hair and wash my clothes/shave my face and break my nose".

There's now a kiddy-punk band in my town called Chaos Baby.

cosdeling barier chough a fat in a ballman thrantume (dog latin), Friday, 25 February 2011 15:18 (fifteen years ago)

your kids?

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 15:54 (fifteen years ago)

who knows?

cosdeling barier chough a fat in a ballman thrantume (dog latin), Friday, 25 February 2011 15:59 (fifteen years ago)

I used to like Turn by Therapy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZYROCPg3Ww

which I knew before I was aware of much of Bowie's work. First time I heard Changes in a pub I was like "This is bullshit, some guy's ripped off Therapy's lyrics."

Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, 25 February 2011 16:02 (fifteen years ago)

lol

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 16:17 (fifteen years ago)

"that husker du song isnt as good as the original by therapy?"

sadly heard that said

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 16:18 (fifteen years ago)

which I knew before I was aware of much of Bowie's work. First time I heard Changes in a pub I was like "This is bullshit, some guy's ripped off Therapy's lyrics."

And "Stripper Vicar" by Mansun did this kind of thing too.

cosdeling barier chough a fat in a ballman thrantume (dog latin), Friday, 25 February 2011 16:19 (fifteen years ago)

you were a melody maker & raw reader, right?

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 16:20 (fifteen years ago)

I liked Select. I especially liked it when it came in a cereal packet.

cosdeling barier chough a fat in a ballman thrantume (dog latin), Friday, 25 February 2011 16:24 (fifteen years ago)

select sucked when it didn't come in a cereal packet

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 16:24 (fifteen years ago)

Raw was like, the tome of this kind of music, right?

cosdeling barier chough a fat in a ballman thrantume (dog latin), Friday, 25 February 2011 16:25 (fifteen years ago)

yeah. then it became a britpop mag for about 2 issues (one came free with a select cereal box) it died on its arse

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 16:26 (fifteen years ago)

My mate got a job working for a record label after piping up about how much A sucked during his internship. One man's loss...

cosdeling barier chough a fat in a ballman thrantume (dog latin), Friday, 25 February 2011 16:26 (fifteen years ago)

xpost, moral of the story is: All magazines should come in cereal packets.

cosdeling barier chough a fat in a ballman thrantume (dog latin), Friday, 25 February 2011 16:27 (fifteen years ago)

Dysfunction
Dysfunction is a function
Dysfunction
Dysfunction is a function
If dysfunction is a function
If dysfunction is a function
If dysfunction is a function
Then i must be some kind of

GEEEEEEENIIIIIIUUUUUUUUSSSSS

ledge, Friday, 25 February 2011 16:29 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGcdcVblZ-8

best thing ever played on the chart show

ledge, Friday, 25 February 2011 16:30 (fifteen years ago)

A really sucked, not as much as Feeder perhaps

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 16:31 (fifteen years ago)

Pitchshifter before they became commercialised shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pibkmNhirXM

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 16:32 (fifteen years ago)

You can't suture the future/Though you might try

I remember my mate Zoe walking into Our Price and asking if they had the new Pitchshifter. The attendant was all: "Pit Shifter? Doubt it."

cosdeling barier chough a fat in a ballman thrantume (dog latin), Friday, 25 February 2011 16:32 (fifteen years ago)

Our Price guy OTM

cosdeling barier chough a fat in a ballman thrantume (dog latin), Friday, 25 February 2011 16:33 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ7vmyMKRVk

Why did this band have to go so shitty? They even re-recorded this song.

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 16:45 (fifteen years ago)

makes me lol when people get nostalgic for shitty era pitchshifter

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 16:48 (fifteen years ago)

"Landfill" eh...

ledge, Friday, 25 February 2011 16:49 (fifteen years ago)

ps you are brian hurst and you saw them first

ledge, Friday, 25 February 2011 17:05 (fifteen years ago)

i dont get it

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 17:06 (fifteen years ago)

old nme thrills joek

ledge, Friday, 25 February 2011 17:09 (fifteen years ago)

Wonder what a British techno-rap-metal best-of from the 90s, with Senser, Dub War, Pitchshifter and Apollo 440 would sound like?

Probably god-awful, but.

cosdeling barier chough a fat in a ballman thrantume (dog latin), Friday, 25 February 2011 17:12 (fifteen years ago)

but someone would defend it

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 17:55 (fifteen years ago)

die cheerleader were amazing.

these guys had their moments too:

Compulsion - saw them many times, as they supported every band going. good live band, bit dull on record.
Headswim - first album fantastic: totally unique and bizarre psychedelic west country metal with some serious grooves. then they turned into coldplay overnight. inexplicable.
King Prawn - some decent tunes.
Senser - great in their heyday, still great now. brilliant live band. the last two albums (schematic and how to do battle) were really good too.
Skunk Anansie - initially brilliant, great live band, totally refreshing sound. quickly turned to mush.
Therapy? - good at first, became tired. screamager, teethgrinder and opel mantra remain tunes.
Wildhearts – some great tunes, some not so great. extra kudos for tim smith and devin townsend connections.

m the g, Friday, 25 February 2011 18:09 (fifteen years ago)

worst: king adora. loathsome.

m the g, Friday, 25 February 2011 18:10 (fifteen years ago)

Still have a soft spot for Trailer by Ash, though it isn't hard rock at all. Owned stuff by Compulsion and Senseless Things. Would find it much easier to vote for worst.

Never liked Pitch Shifter or Fudge Tunnel but growing up in Nottingham you get a bit protective of them anyway.

emil.y, Friday, 25 February 2011 18:15 (fifteen years ago)

mush by leatherface is as fine a rock album as the UK produced in the 90s. unreal great IMO.

he do the waka lyfe (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 February 2011 18:16 (fifteen years ago)

catherine wheel! obviously

don't care for anything else in the poll

Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Friday, 25 February 2011 18:22 (fifteen years ago)

in defence of (early) headswim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFQ1B0RU5Hg

m the g, Friday, 25 February 2011 18:35 (fifteen years ago)

didn't headswim guy form another band?

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 25 February 2011 20:09 (fifteen years ago)

Following the group’s split, Daniel Glendining formed a new band, BlackCar, essentially a solo project with occasional contributions from other musicians. He also composed the instrumental film score for Lindy Heymann’s 2010 low-budget British film, Kicks[3]. Tom Glendining also plays drums for BlackCar, dividing his time between the group and another band, The Tenebrous Liar[4]. Nick Watts now works as a graphic designer, but is still involved in the music business as he plays keyboards for the Danish alternative rock band Mew when they are on tour[5].

Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 26 February 2011 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

voted for Pitchshifter.

no pop, no style -- all simply (Viceroy), Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:50 (fifteen years ago)

were better as Pitch Shifter

Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 26 February 2011 02:53 (fifteen years ago)

well in spirit I'm voting for Pitch Shifter.

no pop, no style -- all simply (Viceroy), Saturday, 26 February 2011 03:13 (fifteen years ago)

Pitch Shifter was too metal for this poll along with the far superior Fudge Tunnel.

Algerian Goalkeeper, Sunday, 27 February 2011 00:29 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

i bet ilms indie ex kids will vote senseless things because of their early stuff

Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 13:07 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, I did buy the first EP and the first couple of singles when they came out. Was really into the Replacements at the time, and they were one of the few UK bands in those days that had that sort of sound. John Peel played them quite a bit iirc.

ka£ka (NickB), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 13:17 (fifteen years ago)

The early stuff is closer to melodic hardcore than indie, it's the mid-period you want for that.

a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 13:19 (fifteen years ago)

yeah well its too much kissing will get the votes here (i love that stuff and totally regret selling my 2xCD with it on it, but its not what this poll is about) but i love empire of the senseless which does count. But im voting wildhearts for the 1st album. 1st 2 therapy? eps & albums ran it close but infernal love was such a fall off and major disappointment it killed them for me

Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 13:29 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, I meant early Replacements btw. xp

ka£ka (NickB), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 13:29 (fifteen years ago)

I have a very rare copy of "Andii in a Karmann", and it's a (would have been a) fine mini-album.

Also got the artwork for it as well, so woo go me.

Voted Ash, for personal, but the Senseless things were that rare thing, saw them supporting the reformed Buzzcocks, they impressed.

Mark G, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 14:11 (fifteen years ago)

i loved senseless things.

the early singles, the albums etc just hit the spot for me (not so much the bands final album if i'm honest).

summary : when jamie h stopped drawing the covers they lost some of the appeal for me, as they seemed to want to become serious.

also loved compulsion.
live they were fantastic.
some of the records matched the live action, and the final album, (future is medium), is a bit of a lost classic.
they introduced electronics to the bands sound (signs that garrett was 'becoming' jacknife lee), and really fine tuned their songs into major earworms.

of course it should be said that i saw compulsion several times during '94-'96 when i was in my last throws of indiedom/student daze, so both these bands were probably the last guitar based bands i really fell in line with due to some longing for more nights of misspent freedom (the scary world of parenting loomed on the horizon when i last saw compulsion @ reading '96)

mark e, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 14:39 (fifteen years ago)

summary : when jamie h stopped drawing the covers they lost some of the appeal for me, as they seemed to want to become serious

Also, check the original art for "Empire of the Senseless" (also, title as evidence)
http://img.mp3mixx.com/images/covers/43/431687/alb_2450413_big.jpg

against the one they used for the "hey guys, a free copy of our first album as well, don't go!" 2CD set

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Oz5PSBzsL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Mark G, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:01 (fifteen years ago)

i miss that double cd now

Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:18 (fifteen years ago)

something i've always noticed about early/mid-90s 'Volume' mag-era Britrock is that they had an abundance of really really horrible covers. By the time I'd got round to buying CDs on a regular basis, the sale rack at my local indie was chocka with bands called things like Trud whose album art invariably featured a rotting potato with a man's face on it or a de-limbed children's toy doll.

barieling cosder chout a fagh in a ballme thrantuman (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:18 (fifteen years ago)

britrock is to blame for feeder,stereophonics etc KILL

Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 22:21 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Thursday, 3 March 2011 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

whoa wildhearts got a tanking. i think everyone assumed others would vote for them and gave others a vote?

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 00:03 (fifteen years ago)

a well-deserved victory.

m the g, Thursday, 3 March 2011 00:07 (fifteen years ago)

hah i hadn't even noticed who won

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 00:12 (fifteen years ago)

will wear my senser tshirt tomorrow in honour (if i can find it)

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 00:12 (fifteen years ago)

Huh, interesting and quite pleasing winner.

Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 3 March 2011 01:07 (fifteen years ago)

who voted for placebo?

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 01:12 (fifteen years ago)

I think it was an American.

Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 3 March 2011 01:21 (fifteen years ago)

ned doesnt vote

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 01:22 (fifteen years ago)

I never voted in this but "Troublegum" by Therapy? is one of my favorite albums ever.

NYCNative, Thursday, 3 March 2011 09:53 (fifteen years ago)

China Drum 0

I only now their retooling of a Kate Bush song.

Mark G, Thursday, 3 March 2011 09:56 (fifteen years ago)

Know

Mark G, Thursday, 3 March 2011 09:56 (fifteen years ago)

surprised Compulsion got that many votes.
i thought i was their only fan round these parts.

mark e, Thursday, 3 March 2011 09:57 (fifteen years ago)

By the time I'd got round to buying CDs on a regular basis, the sale rack at my local indie was chocka with bands called things like Trud whose album art invariably featured a rotting potato with a man's face on it or a de-limbed children's toy doll.

Hahaha, totally OTM.

Went with Therapy?, I did like a fair few of these bands but I think they're the only ones I'd ever want to hear anything by today. Some very good songs on Troublegum.

Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 3 March 2011 10:02 (fifteen years ago)

as i said earlier, i like compulsion.

Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 14:02 (fifteen years ago)

question is, why?

barieling cosder chout a fagh in a ballme thrantuman (dog latin), Friday, 4 March 2011 15:40 (fifteen years ago)

the 1st issue of britpop raw had the bluetones on the cover and came with select mag
in a cereal box

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 4 March 2011 15:41 (fifteen years ago)

oh wait it wasnt. it was
http://www.thestoneroses.co.uk/images/Raw1995_1.jpg

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 4 March 2011 15:42 (fifteen years ago)

haven needed some Poison album details

deeznults (DJ Mencap), Friday, 4 March 2011 15:49 (fifteen years ago)

Haven, the ninth-rate post-Britpop band from Bristol - them

deeznults (DJ Mencap), Friday, 4 March 2011 15:49 (fifteen years ago)

they were keen fans

deeznults (DJ Mencap), Friday, 4 March 2011 15:50 (fifteen years ago)

Oasis had the cover of RAW too :(

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Oasis-Raw-Select-Rock-Magazine-Dec-95-Liam-Gallagher-/280635720739?pt=UK_Magazines&hash=item4157314423

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 4 March 2011 15:52 (fifteen years ago)

Haven were an English indie rock band formed in Cornwall, England, in 1996, originally called Blew, their new name taken from a local holiday resort.[1]

nakhchivan, Friday, 4 March 2011 15:52 (fifteen years ago)

Select & Raw in a cereal box
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Select-Magazine-Dec-1995-Stone-Roses-X-Files-Blur-/290537173629?pt=UK_Magazines&hash=item43a55d727d

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 4 March 2011 15:55 (fifteen years ago)

Lots of Raw mags here (plus it seems theres a wrestling mag of the same name)
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw=raw+magazine&_sacat=0&_odkw=bang+magazine&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 4 March 2011 15:59 (fifteen years ago)

hey guys wanna get nostalgic?
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/raw.htm

Raw Albums Of 1992

1. The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
2. Alice In Chains - Dirt
3. Sugar - Copper Blue
4. Pearl Jam - Ten
5. Trouble - Manic Frustration
6. Def Leppard - Adrenalize
7. Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power
8. Faith No More - Angel Dust
9. Extreme - III Sides To Every Story
10. Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction

Raw Albums Of 1993

1. The Wildhearts - Earth Vs The Wildhearts
2. Pearl Jam - Vs
3. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
4. Def Leppard - Retro Active
5. Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise
6. Tool - Undertow
7. Nirvana - In Utero
8. Manic Street Preachers - Gold Against The Soul
9. Brad - Shame
10. Robert Plant - Fate Of Nations
11. Urge Overkill - Saturation
12. Iggy Pop - American Caesar
13. Raging Slab - Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert
14. Dream Theater - Live At The Marquee
15. Heart - Desire Walks On
16. Blind Melon - Blind Melon
17. Bad Religion - Recipe For Hate
18. Motörhead - Bastards
19. Brother - Cry Of Love
20. Sepultura - Chaos A.D.

Raw Albums Of 1994

1. Therapy? - Troublegum
2. Steve Perry - For The Love Of Strange Medicine
3. Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies/Sap
4. Soundgarden - Superunknown
5. The Black Crowes - Amorica
6. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
7. Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
8. Kyuss - Sky Valley
9. Dream Theater - Awake
10. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
11. Queensrÿche - Promised Land
12. Terrorvision - How To Make Friends And Influence People
13. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
14. Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - No Quarter
15. Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
16. Bruce Dickinson - Balls To Picasso
17. Megadeth - Youthanasia
18. Live - Throwing Copper
19. Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction
20. Marillion - Brave

Raw Albums Of 1995

1. Black Grape - Its Great When Your Straight... Yeah!
2. Oasis - (Whats the Story) Morning Glory
3. Supergrass - I Should Coco
4. Tricky - Maxinquaye
5. Radiohead -The Bends
6. Pulp - Different Class
7. Blur -The Great Escape
8. Verve - A Northern Soul
9. Cast - All Change
10. Rocket From The Crypt - Hot Charity

Raw Singles Of 1995

1. McAlmount & Butler - Yes
2. Black Grape - Reverand Black Grape
3. Supergrass - Alright
4. Pulp - Sorted For Es And Whizz
5. Foo Fighters - This Is A Call
6. Tricky - Black Steel
7. Goldie - Inner City Life
8. The Stone Roses -Ten Storey Love Story
9. Pulp - Common People
10. Oasis – Wonderwall

RAW's 90 Essential Albums For The 90s
(Published August '95)

• Alice In Chains - Dirt
• Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies/Sap
• Babes In Toyland - Fontanelle
• Baby Chaos - Safe Sex, Designer Drugs & The Death Of Rock¹n¹Roll
• Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction
• Beck - Mellow Gold
• Biohazard - State Of The World Address
• The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
• Blind Melon - Blind Melon
• Body Count - Born Dead
• Brad - Shame
• Bush - Sixteen Stone
• Carcass - Heartwork
• Danzig - II Lucifuge
• dEUS - Worst Case Scenario
• Dinosaur Jr - Green Mind
• Dog Eat Dog - All Boro Kings
• Entombed - Wolverine Blues
• Faith No More - Angel Dust
• Fear Factory - Demanufacture
• Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
• Green Day - Dookie
• Gun - Swagger
• Guns n¹Roses - Use Your Illusion 1
• Headswim - Flood
• Hole - Live Through This
• Jane¹s Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
• Killing Joke - Pandemonium
• Kyuss - Sky Valley
• Live - Throwing Copper
• L7 - Hungry For Stink
• Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
• Mad Season - Above
• Manic Street Preachers - Gold Against The Soul
• Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
• Metallica - Metallica
• Ministry - Psalm 69
• Misery Loves Co. - Misery Loves Co.
• Moist - Silver
• Monster Magnet - Dopes To Infinity
• Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
• Nailbomb - Point Blank
• Napalm Death - Fear, Emptiness, Despair
• Nine Inch Nails - Broken
• Nine Inch Nails - Fixed
• Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
• Nirvana - Nevermind
• Nirvana - In Utero
• Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
• Obituary - World Demise
• Offspring - Smash
• Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power
• Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
• Pearl Jam - Ten
• Pearl Jam - Vs
• Porno For Pyros - Porno For Pyros
• Quicksand - Manic Compression
• Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
• Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Bloodsugarsexmagik
• Reef - Replenish
• Rollins Band - Weight
• Satchel - EDC
• Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion
• Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
• Sick Of It All - Scratch The Surface
• Slayer - Decade Of Aggression
• Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
• Soul Asylum - Grave Dancer¹s Union
• Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
• Soundgarden - Superunknown
• Sponge - Rotting Pinata
• Stone Temple Pilots - Core
• Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
• Sugar - Copper Blue
• Terrorvision - How To Make Friends And Influence People
• Therapy? - Troublegum
• Therapy? - Infernal Love
• Tool - Undertow
• Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
• Various - Music From And Inspired By Natural Born Killers
• Various - Pulp Fiction - Music From The Motion Picture
• Various - Singles - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
• Various - The Crow - Music From The Original Motion Picture
• Weezer - Weezer
• White Zombie - Astro-Creep: 2000
• The Wildhearts - Earth Vs The Wildhearts
• The Wildhearts - Fishing For Luckies
• The Wildhearts - P.H.U.Q.
• Neil Young - Mirror Ball

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 4 March 2011 16:25 (fifteen years ago)

and yes lol at 1995

Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 4 March 2011 16:25 (fifteen years ago)


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