The Brit Box: CANON

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The Brit Box is Rhino Records' new box set repackaging - for an American audience - of the history of British indie music, 1984-1998, taking the story from the Smiths all the way to...well, you'll see.

I thought it would be a good one to do as a canon - MOAR FOOL ME as it took ages to type and typing really made me think the whole thing is incredibly badly put together. But don't take my word for it, go and use your TWENTY-SIX!!!! tickys yourself on the below.

[Poll #1092622]

(Also appearing on the Brit Box was "Common People" by Pulp, which I somehow forgot to include on the poll. I'm sure it would have done very well.)

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

haha "somehow forgot"!

Tom this item is foul and I can't tick any. Can we do this for some hip-hop/r&b collections to balance it out at some point please.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

YES! You would not believe how often I've looked for a good representative hip-hop or R&B "best...EVAR" mix to canonise.

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

Supergrass - Alright
Cast - Alright

Super Furry Animals - Something 4 The Weekend
Divine Comedy - Something For The Weekend

Do you see what they did there?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What's the betting that the compiler spent the academic year 1991-2 as an exchange student over here buying the NME each week?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

oh any of those random "r&b winter collection 07" compilations will do really! they're all ace. I'm quite sad at the poptimist lack of response to recent hip-hop based posts, how is it possible that british indie horrors can be venerated above Trina??

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha i managed to tick THREE -- probbly i shd have ticked flet also but i don't really remember that one

this feels quite backloaded to me, as a "veteran" of c86

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

what doesn't everyone call them flet?

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

It is a pretty shocking selection but I have no leg to stand on cos I ticked Sleeper. The shame.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Problem with those is that all the stuff's been polled on the chart and now polls. (Admittedly you could say the same for this lot and the Shine polls). Generally R&B has a very healthy lack of respect for its own history.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Obscurity ticks is about right - I've not heard any of those!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

There She Goes?! Never heard of it mate.

the lex of the gaze <--- laura mulvey joke

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha blimey i am goin senile under withering lexian scrutiny of course i ticked EIGHT not three

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I was being as generous as I was for the Sheeeyine polls and still only managed 24 ticks. And I LIKED indie! If I had only had 20 ticks then Dodgy, Sleeper, The Bluetones and Kula Shaker would not have made the cut.

They've picked the right songs though! Riverboat Song is always worth a tick as is Loaded.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

No, what?

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I admit I ticked Echobelly on principle, it's totally not their best song At all, in fact I can't even remember it, I just heart Sonya Aurororora and Debbie McGee (that's the right surname, yes) out of Echobelly.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

R-boat Song = too tained by Evans ugh ugh ew.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

21 ticks. insomniac is gr8. it's the 'no sleep at alll, carry me hooome.' one

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Haha totally the only person to have ticked Gay Dad.

I actually quite like this compilation. But nobody will be at all surprised by that fact.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Also your icon has answered the first question!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I like the IDEA of it a lot.

One thing it brings home to me is how much much much bigger a deal shoegaze is to Americans.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

no they haven't!

there's like ten songs that are wrong at least, but i'm getting dizzy scrolling up and down the page!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah there's some mad selections, and it's weirdly inconsistent. Like - Primal Scream - Loaded. Oasis - Live Forever. Pulp - Common People. Blur - Tracy Jacks. Spot the odd one out!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY, that is totally the key one, but also wot no black metallic/killing moon/24 hour party people or halleluiah/ten little girls/drowners/like ANY OTHER new order/early funny james/STOP/olympian/daydreamer or manage somehow/nancy boy

(i worked out a way of doing it without scrolling up and down ;))

SILVER SUN???????

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

SILVER SUN????

even silver sun's MAMS wouldn't have put them on this compilation! at least gay dad were notorious. should have been ultrasound/symposium/tiger/effing BENNET, anyone but silver sun, and AND IT'S NOT EVEN THE HIT, ie LAVA...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's hard to work out if the rationale is "the best tracks by these bands", "obscure gems for the US market", or both. Of course it might be that once you've licensed Common People and Live Forever your budget isn't going to stretch much beyond Thousand Yard Stare anyway.

The Mondays one doesn't seem an odd pick though! I mean if you want 1x representative of baggy that is the one!