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

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Fudge Tunnel would have been my vote in a BEST poll

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.

Fudge Tunnel are a bit too metal.

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

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

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.

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.

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Well then!

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

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?

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

Skunk Anansie (supporting Come, of all bands)

I saw them supporting Killing Joke, of all bands

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.

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!

Therapy?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

still like those songs

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.

oh the shame of my past

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Same drummer as was in China Drum iirc

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

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

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

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

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

i love the song "Saturation"

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

one of my fave bands ever are The God Machine

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

they were fun at t in the park 95 actually.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

catherine wheel! obviously

don't care for anything else in the poll

in defence of (early) headswim.

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

didn't headswim guy form another band?

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].

voted for Pitchshifter.

were better as Pitch Shifter

well in spirit I'm voting for Pitch Shifter.

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

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

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.

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

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

Yeah, I meant early Replacements btw. xp

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.

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)

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

i miss that double cd now

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.

britrock is to blame for feeder,stereophonics etc KILL

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

a well-deserved victory.

hah i hadn't even noticed who won

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

Huh, interesting and quite pleasing winner.

who voted for placebo?

I think it was an American.

ned doesnt vote

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

China Drum 0

I only now their retooling of a Kate Bush song.

Know

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

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.

as i said earlier, i like compulsion.

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question is, why?

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

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

haven needed some Poison album details

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

they were keen fans

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

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]

Select & Raw in a cereal box
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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

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

and yes lol at 1995