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?

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

No, what?

[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?

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

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

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

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

[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?

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Flet is a bit underticked actually. It's the large one with E. Frazer and stuff.

[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.

[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.

[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!

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...

Re: SILVER SUN???????

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Silver Sun were better than all of those bands except Ultrasound, to my mind. The album with Lava on it is quite good. Not very British, but hey...

THE DYLANS?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I don't even remember TYPING the Dylans in.

My only Dylans memory (other than "Planet Love" - god help me I am now going to argue that Rhino picked the wrong Dylans song) - the NME not being able to get an interview with Bob Dylan for his 50th birthday in 1991 so instead running an interview about Bob Dylan with Bob. And the Dylans.

MOAR OF THIS SORT OF THING!!!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

obv.

yes, where IS convenience by bob???

also, no shed 7??????

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Dreadful collection, even though it has some good songs on it. I managed 26 with effort, but really, it's very haphazard.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I had no idea Placebo were British. :( Not that I contain a shred of patriotism but but but DUDES, Placebo? That is awful.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

carsmilesteve is British, but Squeaky Brian is some sort of semi-Canadian and the looming Scandinavian dude is, well, Scandinavian.

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

Oh, the long-forgotten horrors: Bleach! Thousand Yard Stare! Curve! The Catherine Wheel! To be banished safely back to history, surely.
Lack of appreciation for Primitive Painters curious, indeed.

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Why does everyone like How Soon Is Now? so much?

It doesn't help that it's top of the list, of course. LJ should introduce a rotate/randomise function to its polls to make them slightly less meaningless.

Good to see You're In a Bad Way doing so well, anyway.

for all intents never heard of

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

so i spent two minutes with this list and

have, for all intents and purposes, never heard of:
-Felt
-Shop Assistants
-Trash Can Sinatras
-Pale Saints
-Telescopes
-Chapterhouse
-Bleach
-Five Thirty
-Moose
-Family Cat
-Dylans
-Thousand Yard Stare
-Birdland
-Superstar
-These Animal Men
-Mega City Four
-Gene
-Dodgy
-Marion
-Silversun
-Gay Dad

(okay maybe I know a few names, obviously, but i couldn't tell you a single thing any of these bands had done)

justifiably obscure but *this* is not the one thing i know by them

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

-Mighty Lemon Drops
-The Wonder Stuff
-Catherine Wheel
-Curve
-Swervedriver
-Eugenius
-Nick Heyward
-Boo Radleys
-Menswe@r
-Sleeper
-Baby Bird (actually maybe this is the one song I know by them)
-Bluetones
-Super Furry Animals
-Divine Comedy
-Mansun
-Rialto
-Placebo

Felt

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Primitive Painters (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZLis7xkF0s) – low-budget video = standing around in 80s hat

Re: Felt

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

Dear god that's an awful video. They just need to try a bit harder...

Under-remarked upon: the similarity between Primitive Painters and T'Pau's Heart & Soul.

Britpop's Most Forgotten

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Being sick and bored at home I had nothing better to do (a lie) than to try to find videos for the ones with ZERO votes as of the now. I just might go back and tick the Telescopes...

Mighty Lemon Drops - My Biggest thrill (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDKJXG4aKfw)
Trash Can Sinatras - Obscurity Knocks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN4ZMSKP6_Q) (I love this kind of Amazing Pointless Machines, not entirely sure they didn't cheat filming it though)
The Telescopes - Flying (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcGWPpoIf4A)
Five Thirty - You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m9yNV_nYqY)
The Dylans - Mary Quant in Blue (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Paq6UuRsWsU)

[spittake.livejournal.com]

from the Rhino website:

shaped like a classic red U.K. telephone booth -with working lights -

!!!!