Best English Band - The Nineties

[Screaming Lord Byron]

Poll question: Best English Band - The Nineties

Slimmer pickings here. I already know who'll win, if people aren't all voted out.

[TopesJunkie]

1. Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

4. not the Nineties

really are they? I know I saw them in 99, but aren't they really the major contenders for this decade we're in now?

I love Strummer, I'm not dissing you. The show I saw of him & the Mescaleros at Irving Plaza is on my top 5 of all time.

[TopesJunkie]

5. As much as anyone, I'd say.

It's hard to say the others were better.

7. Ok, I'm convinced

you really had to come up with a whole list of reasons to persuade me too!

[HuckleB]

13. I'll third the Mescaleros.

[dolo amber]

2. Underworld were/are brilliant

And I take exception at you condescending tone, mister. :P

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. It was a reference to 'Born Slippy'. I saw them twice by the way.

[dolo amber]

6. Well...

Good that you referenced the only song anyone here knows. :eyes:

Me: OMG, I love Underworld.

Normal Person: Who?

Me: Underworld...*big sigh*....Y'know, the song in "Trainspotting" that says "LAGER LAGER LAGER"?

NP: Ooooh yeah, I LOVE that song!

:(

I saw them last Oct. in Detroit, what I wouldn't give to see them in a *proper* setting ie. outdoors with about 40,000 people...

[Screaming Lord Byron]

8. I saw them in a tent on a beach with Bjork and 808 State and

in some abandoned railway tunnels in Glasgow in a somewhat altered state of perception.

[45th Med]

9. TRASH CAN SINATRAS!

Well, they're Scottish........I still love em!

[CanuckAmok]

10. Why did Wire never sue Elastica?

Seriously! Listen to Pink Flag, then Elastica's album, and answer my question...

Is it because Justine could kick Colin Newman's ass?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

11. Well. Imagine the scene.

Some marketing men are at a meeting,
'Hey guys, have you heard this' -holds up Pink Flag - 'this rocks, but the band, man what a bunch of shaved monkeys'
'Why don't we get a bunch of hot chicks to remake the album'
'Bingo! That's dealt with the christmas bonuses then! Another line?'

[mitchum]

12. Actually there was an out-of-court settlement

[vi5]

35. They never had to...Elastica paid them in advance...

The way most bands/dj's do when they sample someone. They actually got clearance to use the riffs in question.

[NashVegas]

14. Charlatans - Amazingly Underrated

I love love loved Us and Us Alone. A shame it didn't do anything here.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

29. Cool. That's where my vote went (although I love Radiohead - but

I knew they'd win, so I didn't need to vote for them)

[paulk]

15. It was close, but I had to go with radiohead

underworld gets best song, though, with "dirty epic"....

[Beaker]

16. Catherine Wheel.

by far.

[CanuckAmok]

18. Two concerts during which I've fallen asleep:

One was Bad Religion with Green Day and Doughboys

and the other was...

Catherine Wheel. They were so FUCKING BORING!

[Beaker]

41. The grateful dead was the only concert that put me to sleep-

I saw Catherine Wheel 4 times, and I'll admit that on their last tour, they didn't seem to have the same kind of energy that they had on the earlier ones. Same thing with their albums- their first few albums were fantastic, but the later ones, not so much.

[solinvictus]

17. Blur

They're great.

[RandomKoolzip]

19. The Bevis Frond.

I know, I know...who's that, right?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

30. That RandomKoolzip, he'd be a diamond.

[Hogarth]

20. I almost jumped right into this thread ...

... to vote for The Who. Then I realized how old I've gotten. In fairness to myself, though, I did spend the nineties buying up every album Pete Townshend made on his own. I think he's a master poet; and so, as I slink out of the conversation, I'll just add his band and his music as a moot, soft vote.

[HEyHEY]

21. supergrass

nah forget it

[Screaming Lord Byron]

31. Totally, they should've been in instead of Elastica. How stoopid of me.

[ZoCrowes]

22. Oasis

The only band up there that acted like a fucking proper rock n roll band. At least they had the good sense to throw TVs out of windows and feel up female airline attendants. Who cares if they weren't all that original neither was Radiohead. Everything Radiohead did Can did 25 years before. Blur and The Verve are runnerups for me.

[MrScorpio]

23. My Pick is 4HERO

I love these guys

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/handle-generic-form/002-7229703-8916059?action=next-page&target=templates/web-search/dispatch.html&start=0&search-option=search-web&websearch.field-keywords=4hero

[dawn]

25. I remember them! I only had Parallel Universe. :)

[MrScorpio]

26. This band is the bomb.

They recently put together a remix of the Astor Piazzolla song El Viaje.

This whole CD is nice

[dawn]

27. I will check it out. I looked at your link, too.

I had no idea they released anything after the mid-nineties. When I originally picked up Parallel Universe way back when, they were unknown to me, but I really liked that CD.

I'm definitely going to check out their other stuff now. :)

[dawn]

24. I was partial to both Blur and Suede in the 90s

although I also loved Pulp and Saint Etienne.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

32. My wife would kill me for not putting Pulp in. Guess I forgot.

St Etienne were great too.

[FDRrocks]

28. Elastica...

I actually bought thier album. They did "Drop Dead Gorgeous", right? Anyways I don't like Radiohead at all. I don't like that type of music. And I've listened to hard core bands that are deeper.

[Scottie72]

33. Um it actually was

Republica that did Drop dead gorgeous. Elastica huge hit was titled "Connection" Plus it had a really cool video..

[Screaming Lord Byron]

34. That was Republica, man.

[Loonman]

36. Blur, Suede and Oasis?

Excuse me while I vomit all over myself.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

38. Or Charlatans, Chemicals or Underworld. Is that better?

[Loonman]

39. I don't think any British bands stood out in the 90s

The 90s started quick, but stagnated quickly.

I can't think of a single, new Brtish band that particulary stands out in the 90s.

Spice Girls and bands like Wet, Wet, Wet dominated the British charts.

Need I say more?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

40. Actually, electronic music was much more prevalent in the UK charts

than the abominations whose names you just uttered.

[LSatyl]

37. Nobody can hold a candle to the Ozric Tentacles

the Ozrics *rock*. Too bad no one has ever heard about them. Psychedelic rock is out of fashion :(