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I've been threatening to do this for a while... This one is for all you young ppl out there - here's what we had to suffer through in order for you to live with your modern shiny pop. Be thankful you ungrateful swine, sit on jauntygrandad's knee and let me tell you of a time when "independent" music (for that was its name) was FOR REALZ and underachievers were exalted above all else, and there was choice of weekly inky newspaper (both largely crap) that you could buy with a fiver and still have change for a Red Wedge concert. A time when the "nobody understands me" crowd were sporting Mozzer quiffs, not slipknoot hoodies. Realactual goths stalked the world, and weren't seen outside of Leeds. THANK GOD THAT's GONE EH! A sad era that ended in the deluge that was the last great Indie-Dance wars of 1989. And it started something a bit like... this:
Ok, so not a real poll cos i am a cheapskate, but: Which of the following songs on Indie Top 20 Volume 1 are Any Good At All?
Mickey Way (The Candy Bar) - A CERTAIN RATIO
Dickie Davies Eyes - HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT
Hang-Ten! - THE SOUP DRAGONS
Sometimes - ERASURE
Please Don't Sandblast My House - ONE THOUSAND VIOLINS
Loan Shark - GUANA BATZ
Oh Grebo I Think I Love You - POP WILL EAT ITSELF
You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends (Peel session) -
THE WEDDING PRESENT
Lover & Confidante - BLUE AEROPLANES
Transmission (Peel session) - JOY DIVISION
Turn The Heater On (Peel session) - NEW ORDER
The Grip Of Love - GHOST DANCE
Velveteen - THE ROSE OF AVALANCHE
Into The Groovy - CICCONE YOUTH
Completely & Utterly - THE CHESTERFIELDS
Sorry To Embarrass You - RAZORCUTS
I Could Be In Heaven - THE FLATMATES
Beatnik Boy - TALULAH GOSH
Throwaway - MIGHTY MIGHTY
The Day Before Tomorrow - BMX BANDITS
(Thanks to http://snow.prohosting.com/ukband/indietop20s.htm ) (I nearly put this on sukrat, but naaaa, indie=pop AS YOU WELL KNOW)
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Date: 2006-04-06 03:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-06 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-06 04:01 pm (UTC)I say that with a heavy heart.
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Date: 2006-04-06 03:07 pm (UTC)i like the way the indie top 20 (in those early days) had an "educational quotient" to fill of STUFF YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD YOUNG MAN as well as the "what's happening now" stuff. tho maybe that was cos there wasn't actually enough of it.
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Date: 2006-04-06 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-06 03:04 pm (UTC)i think i only know 5 (five) of those songs
also WHERE IS MAN FROM DEL MONTE BAND? i thought they were on every indie top 20...
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Date: 2006-04-06 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-06 03:26 pm (UTC)GOTH or BOSH
Date: 2006-04-06 03:05 pm (UTC)ciccone youth is ok, SY can do pop when they can be bothered not to do dirge
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Date: 2006-04-06 03:06 pm (UTC)Half Man Half Biscuit and Erasure are the only ones I'd be ticking there, but almost certainly out of ignorance of the rest rather than dislike.
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Date: 2006-04-06 03:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-06 03:07 pm (UTC)I like New Order but the words "Peel session" are harbingers of evil :(
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Date: 2006-04-06 03:10 pm (UTC)barrysarll came up with a TERRIFYING METRIC by which to judge anything: it involved drawing a line between PWEI's last LP and KINGMAKER'S and i have forced myself to forget the rest
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Date: 2006-04-06 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-06 03:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-06 03:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-06 03:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-06 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-06 03:21 pm (UTC)Lex you would like Talulah Gosh.
Into The Groovy is basically Sonic Youth doing Culturcide.
GUANA BATZ!!! These names were dusty legend even when I started reading the NME 2 years later.
"Sometimes" must stand out like 1xsore thumb if you actually listen to it.
Actually good record: "Sorry To Embarass You"
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Date: 2006-04-06 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-06 03:29 pm (UTC)i haf been to an football match with gregory from the razorcuts.
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Date: 2006-04-06 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-06 03:41 pm (UTC)(haha, i bought that creation comp from a charity shop about 9 months ago and haven't listened to it. i think i know like four different people on it, bizarrely...)
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Date: 2006-04-06 03:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-06 10:39 pm (UTC)Nothing To Say Spice
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Date: 2006-04-06 04:05 pm (UTC)I am of the opinion that "Sowwy to embawass you" is the vewy pawadigm of soppy indie jangle pop - in a good way. I loved it with all my heart when I was a soppy indie teen.
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Date: 2006-04-06 04:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-06 04:10 pm (UTC)Important Historical Qn
Date: 2006-04-06 03:25 pm (UTC)Re: Important Historical Qn
Date: 2006-04-06 03:28 pm (UTC)Re: Important Historical Qn
Date: 2006-04-06 03:36 pm (UTC)Re: Important Historical Qn
Date: 2006-04-06 03:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-06 03:29 pm (UTC)nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Date: 2006-04-06 03:33 pm (UTC)Re: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Date: 2006-04-06 03:41 pm (UTC)make it stop, pls...
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Date: 2006-04-06 03:49 pm (UTC)how wacky is that?
also, qn? what was that other indie compilation series what had FISH on the cover and an magazine as part of the packaging?
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Date: 2006-04-06 03:50 pm (UTC)Re: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Date: 2006-04-06 03:51 pm (UTC)http://snow.prohosting.com/ukband/Compilations/Volume.htm
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Date: 2006-04-06 03:50 pm (UTC)i have a few :-)
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Date: 2006-04-06 03:55 pm (UTC)Re: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Date: 2006-04-06 04:01 pm (UTC)Re: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Date: 2006-04-06 04:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-06 05:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-06 06:04 pm (UTC)You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends (Peel session) -
THE WEDDING PRESENT
Transmission (Peel session) - JOY DIVISION
Into The Groovy - CICCONE YOUTH
I Could Be In Heaven - THE FLATMATES
I liked all of those. In the last case it may be just that I knew them a bit and they were nice people, but it's quite good. I haven't listened to Half Man Half Biscuit in years, and I suspect I may not wish to stand by that one.
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Date: 2006-04-06 08:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-07 08:42 am (UTC)the actual enrique