Forgotten Bands from the 90s

**stann** · 23/04/2007, 3:28 PM

Originally Posted by PAURO 7

Dr. Alban? Was he the guy who sang �Sing Hallelujah�?

Yep. More famous though for 'It's My Life', you know the one with the video where the young wan zips around in the white trousers playing tennis and trampolining and pouring blue liquid over everything.

**Pauro 76** · 23/04/2007, 3:33 PM

Originally Posted by stann

Yep. More famous though for 'It's My Life', you know the one with the video where the young wan zips around in the white trousers playing tennis and trampolining and pouring blue liquid over everything.

Yes, that's the one.

**superfrank** · 02/05/2007, 6:10 PM

On the topic whatever happened to Ocean Colour Scene? I'm sure they probably released more stuff but I can't remember anything since Profit In Peace.

**BohsPartisan** · 02/05/2007, 9:20 PM

Originally Posted by superfrank

On the topic whatever happened to Ocean Colour Scene? I'm sure they probably released more stuff but I can't remember anything since Profit In Peace.

Dunno but they played the Olympia in March and chinchilla and haddock are also part of Paul Weller's backing group.

**sadloserkid** · 07/05/2007, 4:53 PM

Symposium
3 Colours Red
Screaming Trees?
The Jellyfish
Soul Asylum (started in the 80s but only broke through for a few yearsin the 90s, their new album is quite good btw)
Sugar
Blind Melon

They're just the ones I'm not completely embarrassed to remember!

Also Jebus I never knew you were into Gene... how can two people hang out for 8 years without that one coming to light?

**Lionel Ritchie** · 08/05/2007, 1:13 PM

Originally Posted by sadloserkid

Symposium

Fairwell to Twilight was a good song. They'd not many more though.

Originally Posted by sadloserkid

The Jellyfish

There's no 'The'. Jellyfish were a bloody good band. King Is Half Undressed was a classic single. Think one of them ended up condemned to musical death in the rock'n'roll butlins that was Slashes Snakepit.

Originally Posted by sadloserkid

Sugar

Bob Mould is currently on tour playing solo, Husker Du and Sugar material

China Drum were a good mid-nineties band too. Their cover of Kate Bushes Wuthering Heights is the best cover-version of anything by anyone ever.

**BohsPartisan** · 08/05/2007, 1:52 PM

25th of May is another forgotten band I was only listening to this morning.

**CraftyToePoke** · 09/05/2007, 6:30 PM

Originally Posted by sadloserkid

Screaming Trees?

their frontman Mark Lanegan had a sole jobbie out last year i think, may have been called Bubblegum, but definately had a decent single,Hit The City, on it.

as for Blind Melon, didnt the old heroin do a job on the creative force in that lot, Shannon Hoon, iirc.

**The Good Son** · 09/05/2007, 6:36 PM

Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke

their frontman Mark Lanegan had a sole jobbie out last year i think, may have been called Bubblegum, but definately had a decent single,Hit The City, on it.

Isobel Campbell had him doing a duet album with her a year or two ago as well, 'Ballad Of The Broken Seas'. Quite good it was too.

**CraftyToePoke** · 09/05/2007, 6:39 PM

Originally Posted by The Good Son

Isobel Campbell had him doing a duet album with her a year or two ago as well, 'Ballad Of The Broken Seas'. Quite good it was too.

yes, that was a good tune too.

**Wolfie** · 09/05/2007, 6:43 PM

Anyone mention "The Real People" ?

**stann** · 09/05/2007, 11:55 PM

Originally Posted by Wolfie

Anyone mention "The Real People" ?

Wow, had forgotten all about them. Absolutely loved Window Pane!
Feck ya Wolfie, that's the night gone rooting through piles of tapes now.

Edit to add: that's just put me in mind of a few more bands of about that time I thought were brilliant. Maybe some of them were very late '80s into the '90s, but what harm.
Ultra Vivid Scene - Always put me in mind of Beck the way he played everything himself, but more blissed out obviously, less dancey.
King Of The Slums - Class act. Still think Barbarous English Fayre is one of the best albums I've heard.
and Paris Angels - All On You is just about the perfect dance pop song, easily the equal of anything St Etienne produced.

**Wolfie** · 10/05/2007, 8:29 AM

Originally Posted by stann

Wow, had forgotten all about them. Absolutely loved Window Pane!
Feck ya Wolfie, that's the night gone rooting through piles of tapes now.

Edit to add: that's just put me in mind of a few more bands of about that time I thought were brilliant. Maybe some of them were very late '80s into the '90s, but what harm.
Ultra Vivid Scene - Always put me in mind of Beck the way he played everything himself, but more blissed out obviously, less dancey.
King Of The Slums - Class act. Still think Barbarous English Fayre is one of the best albums I've heard.
and Paris Angels - All On You is just about the perfect dance pop song, easily the equal of anything St Etienne produced.

The Real People should have been huge. There were two brothers in the band, if memory serves.

It's years since I heard that first album ("The Real People" - 1990?) but it had some realy good songs on it. I'd taped it so its probably long gone. "Window Pane", as you say Stann, was a great tune.

They were a big influence on Noel Gallagher and actually offered advice and help on hearing the demo of "Columbia" and some of the tunes that ended up on Definitely Maybe.

Have to go out and buy the bloody album now - if its still available!!!

**tetsujin1979** · 10/05/2007, 4:33 PM

Catatonia, fell apart after Cerys lost the plot
I was mad to see them at Witnness in 2001, she went into rehab the previous wednesday and had to cancel.

**paul_oshea** · 10/05/2007, 4:57 PM

Soul Asylum are still going, quality band, just no promotional stuff. black gold is savage. loads of songs as good as runaway train. still going. its just people forgot about them/usual ppl who only listen to the radio to buy albums. LIke most of the crap bands out now ppl only buy their albums cos they heard them on the radio, thankfully they will all be forgotten soon, like strokes/that other crap irish band from dublin/white stripes/all those other crap bands in that genre of music.....though i am suprised the killers are still going.

**gustavo** · 11/05/2007, 8:17 AM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

like strokes//white stripes/.

They've been going strong for 7 years and 10 years respectively , dont see people just forgetting about them

**BohsPartisan** · 11/05/2007, 8:18 AM

White Stripes are on Album number six now Paul so I doubt they're going to fall into the forgotten category. De Stijl and White Blood Cells are classics IMO.

**paul_oshea** · 11/05/2007, 12:59 PM

ya but they are crap, no more of the sensationalism about them and all that, just like that dublin band that i cant think of, oh the thrills thats them. all this stuff is just a fad. gone in no time. gustavo when i say gone, i dont mean they still arent playing away i mean just no one has any interest, or at least 60% less than had when they were all hype. The one band that i thought werent all hype but went this way are soul asylum and htey have been around for 15 - 20 years. So just because they are still releasing albums doesnt mean scheiser.

Oh ya franz ferdinand theres another one.....

**BohsPartisan** · 11/05/2007, 1:06 PM

Listen, you like W.A.S.P. !!!
Anyway I agree with you on Franz Ferdinand and the Strokes, just think The White Stripes are a different animal. Last album wasn't great but they certainly are a fine duo.