shine 8: aka "there's this new music sweeping the nation called...."

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

INDIE!! Methinks lovely Emily from this year's Big Brother may be a little confused about the newness (or not) of everyones favourite indie moppets - shall we help her out by picking out some highlights and lowlights, o poptimists? It's Shine Poll Eight: VOTE!!

[Poll #994681]

Comments

100% FOR REEF

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Long may it last.

Re: 100% FOR REEF

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

HA! As if!

??

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Ruth??
1962 - Grass Show?????

Re: ??

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I share yr bafflement. Maybe EMILY knows.

I used to get Symposium and Silversun confused. What a mistake-a to make-a!

Re: ??

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

even i'm at a loss re ruth, i think the other band were called grassshow rather than two words, though, and there *may* have been a promo of this in our house at the time...

GUESS!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I have seen TWO of these bands perform the VERY SAME SONGS in the live environment at the VERY SAME JIG!

Can you guess which two bands, o readers?

Re: GUESS!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Actually I have seen ANOTHER combo of those bands performing the above songs on ANOTHER occasion! OMG! I am queen of the world!!

Re: GUESS!

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I once saw Cast supporting Dodgy in London, and these songs were played. I can laugh about it now but at the time it was terrible.

[pot80.livejournal.com]

I quite like that Bush song!

I voted for Pavement in the "favorite" section cos they are my favorite band but truthfully I probably like "Beetlebum" more than "Shady Lane."

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Haha I voted for the Bush song too but so cannot justify it. I think it is the only Bush song that somehow slipped past popular consciousness, maybe a sort of comfy grungeish flash in the pan in the otherwise not-at-all-grungey moosick press at the time that everybody still liked whilst still wearing Nirvana t-shirts.

I listened to that Pavement album non stop on holiday in erm Mallorca I think!

A guide to atommickbraneish

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

The Charlie Twins = The Charlatans
Ver Manixx = Manic Street Preachers
THE MIGHTY BENNET = ???

Re: A guide to atommickbraneish

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

BENNET thou lackwit!

Re: A guide to atommickbraneish

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Oh come now it was hardly impenetrable code! This is all music-press terms anyway, not braneish :)

I feel a bit sorry for Tiger

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Can't pin down why exactly. I can't remember a band quite so obviously incompetent and unsaleable receiving any level of hype - maybe that was it. Anyway I ticked them.

Re: I feel a bit sorry for Tiger

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I think I missed the hype and got straight to the huge backlash - I actually quite liked them even whilst laughing at them for having mullets (even though I wasn't quite sure why this was SO hilarious but I did it anyway)... I ticked them too!

Prepare yourselves o initiates for my mystical revelation

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Tattva" is pretty good.

Re: Prepare yourselves o initiates for my mystical revelation

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

I thought Kula Shaker were the best thing since sliced cats for about, oh, 40 seconds. Tattva was the best, but I now find it execrable.

Re: Prepare yourselves o initiates for my mystical revelation

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The song you say is the worst is one of the only THREE redeemable ones!

Wot No 'Lastica

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I ticked way more than I should have, I'm feeling generous!

I can't remember how 'Hit' goes, but I'm fairly sure I liked it.

CHRIST I think I actually have Shine 8 on tape! ARGH.

Hit INFORMATION

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

It went:
"Hit!
I'm calling this a HIT!
I don't deserve it"

OMG BENNET

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

It is not quite 'Mum has gone to Iceland', but then that is the best song ever writ. This one is probably the third or fourth best, I would say.

This is probably my favourite Shine against stiff competition with Shine Four. Shine Four has no Bennet on though.

Also Audioweb >> The Clash

Peeler Tater

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This is totally around the time the Shirehorses were kicking round, weren't it?

SHIREHORSES SONGS THAT ARE BETTER THAN THE ORIGINALS:
- Single Bloke
- West Country Boy
- Peeler Tater ("oh b0ll0cks to it, let's have curry and riiiiiice")

Alas their version of Monaco was pretty poor. Blame it on the source material etc.

Re: Peeler Tater

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

oooooooooooooooooooooh yas

lovely lovely mansun

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i liked em just enough. sing ho for pompous prog.

Confessions of a student raver

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I don't know most of these seeing as I spent that time (96?) mostly worshipping at the temple of bosh.

In fact my favourite here (Mansun) I only know because of the remix that was huge in clubs at the time, and which I adore. In fact I have never knowingly heard the original until now - just looked it up on youtube. It sounds weird with guitars on.

Where is the Suede love?!?

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

This album was fantastic! This single was fantastic! And you people are voting for Mansun and Placebo? ARGH

Re: Where is the Suede love?!?

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Argh noes, I thought at the time that it was the weakest single off that album and feared it was the sign of terrible things to come. Sadly, that seems to have been the case. Even the b-sides, which were better, still didn't redeem it much. I mean, I remember being hugely disappointed by 'The Wild Ones' but at least it was backed with the awesome 'Modern Boys'! And closely followed (unless my brain deceives me) by 'New Generation'.

Trust me, I was itching to display some Suede love but I couldn't bring myself to tick a song I'd slated for ages, now could I? Just to make a point? I mean, what would that make me?

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Whut whut whut whut whut- I know I am late to the game here but HEDONISM, people, jesusfvuckingchrist, surely this was a masterpiece?

I was deeply in love with taping off the radio in this era, whatever it was and consequently have nostalgic crushes on almost all of this. I remained in love with the 'record' function until I went to tunaversity and discovered that student loans were for spending on CDs, however, so am not convinced is wholly that or else would have more unhealthy interest in Bullet For My Valentine than I do.

Confession: I shoplifted that Lightening Seeds album from Woolies. Lesson learnt, etc. but it was fvcking ace.