Gene - I liked 'em

[MrsSprat]

I'm fessing up to this one like it's a guilty pleasure. I still do like their stuff. So did John Peel.

At the time they were criticised a lot for being Smiths wannabes. I still love Sleep Well Tonight and Olympian

Don't think they really got the success they deserved. Who's with me?

Sleep well tonight la la la

saw them at Reading yonks ago

Poo.

IMHO.

They had a couple of good tunes. Olympian was great.

Let's widen it out into Britpop also-rans in general. I give you this from Rialto. There's a band around called The Dears who basically have lifted Rialto's schtick wholesale.

Warm Jets - Never Never.

I liked this because it sounds a bit like Julian Cope until halfway through when it bizarrely turns into 'Johnny and Mary' by Robert Palmer . Bought their album for a quid in Record and Tape. Not terribly good.

I saw Martin Rossiter on a property programme a while back, showing off his lovely home and his wife and kids.

They never mentioned Gene but he did describe himself as a singer/songwriter.

Oh I just found olypian on youtube and feel all young again.

Ok much worse than gene. I fully admit to liking the new radicals. They make me feel all summery

olypian olympian

Martin Rossiter once kissed my hand! Sa-woooooon! It was a very small venue and he was standing on a speaker at the front and someone pushed me into him and he sort of kind of fell off . I was mortified, so he kissed my hand to say 'it's ok'.

I liked For the dead

I liked For the dead

They were rubbish but likeable. But then I liked a lot of rubbish bands back then.

I also liked The Warm Jets. I still have singles in a box in the shed

I went to college with Martin Rossiter, he was lovely. He had a crush on me (long before he was famous) and used to cycle up and down our road in the evenings until my dad told him to stop... Quite like his music too.

Olympian is a great album, I know they were a bit poncy, but they were great at the time.

Bronze, New Radicals 'You Get What You Give' is an ace tune. Every song Gregg Alexander ever writes sounds identical though.

Love that whole 1994/95 britpop stuff, it provided some welcome relief from the whole American grunge thing that had dominated the alternative scene before it.

Elastica
Gene
Echobelly
Sleeper
Shed 7
etc etc

Oh and Suede of course, I suppose they came first in about 93.

Oh good not just me then.

Yes - also very appropriate mention of Rialto, who also lurk in my CD collection. Wasn't the lead singer a viscount, or something else posh?

I guess the early/mid-nineties was when I bought the most music. So my collection is very much skewed to that era. 'Still Life' by Suede is another epic triumph!

As is My Insatiable One.

Brett Anderson dirty little weed of a man though.

It wasn't all good though, was it?

Oh God, Menswear

Mod wannabes ahoy!

I used to go to a club in Leeds called Brighton Beach, was full of Menswear style boys comparing bottom of trouser widths.

Very important in Moddyland, apparently.

this thread is making me feel old
think I read something recently about Louise Wener writing books these days

also I think Rossiter's voice is quite similar to Tom from Editors

I used to love Suede

Yes, he was scrawn. Blimey menswe@r! Just awful, as were Sleeper.

Anyone like The Auteurs? Luke Haines was a grumpy old man, but by god, he knew how to write a lyric or two.

Louise Wener quite successful chick lit style writer AFAIK.

There was this one excellent Glastonbury I went to, think possibly 95, they were all on, Pulp, Sleeper, Shed Seven, Elastica etc, and the sun didn't stop shining all weekend.