Mo' solid gold ring a bell too.I was an avid britpop buyer for a couple of years but lot of stuff got sold or given away when i was moving houses.

Toilet wich salad song where you talking about?Here's a fan site.
http://www.anthonypaynter.com/pito/#

it might have been drink the elixir

Thought so.As far as i remember that's the best thing that they came up with.

One of their tunes can be found here:
http://thefaceoftoday.blogspot.com/2...y_archive.html

powder, that's the group i was thinking of when i said pearl

does anyone remember disco pistol?

cheers pork

here's another list of 90s indie pony
http://www.the-universal.com/artists.asp

Lo-fidelity allstars pissed all over Disco Pistol.Pearl was the singer in Powder and there is a song of theirs that was rad.I'm pretty sure that it was a b-side of possibly their second single(help me out guys as i'm getting old and senile).

i remember liking a pearl song at the time, but as is often the case with camdeny britpop stuff, i'd probably scratching my head if i listened to it now.

i just mentioned disco pistol because last year i had a housemate who was in that band, she was a twat.

Some lo-fidelity allstars mp3 in here:
http://robosexual.typepad.com/glob/2...lity_alls.html

Fucking Marion! Fucking Gene!

I've never heard of the Gyres, the Real People or Laxton's subperb. The rest of those bands all have songs of varying quality attached in my head. It seems a shame to put Pulp in there, they did more greatness than most in Britpop - in terms of 'no. of great albums', it's Pulp and Blur out of the Britpop crowd.

I notice that list omits Ocean Colour Scene. Who, annoyingly, are far less annoying now than they were at the time.

"Hello, Britpop nostalgia hotline, how may I help?" [...] "The band you are looking for are: Reef".

That list can make a grown man cry...
EDIT: Oh, yeah, who can forget The Seahorses, Love Me and Leave Me was one of my most favourite tunes for 1997...

Reef have died for our sins.The Gyres weren't that bad but for what i recall they weren't exactly that britpop either.I think that they have been thrown into the list because they were making music at that time.Laxton's Superb i spent 3 seconds listening to them and then i must have thrown the record away.Pulp and Blur are superior to most,i agree,with Pulp being what was really good at that particular moment in time(remember their britpop special tv appearance?Excellence personified).Ocean Colour Scene sucked a meaty cock then and possibly they suck it now if they are still in existence.

Oh, this thread brings back memories. I avoided buying the Menswear album but I think the first Sleeper album might have been the first thing I bought with my own money.

Bis straddled the thin line between annoying and great. I remember that one song they did that went "sugar, sugar candy pop" and that's about it. Anyone remember Helen Love?

Yes i do.She's been punished for her sins and i must have pushed her far down my brain to even remember she has been a musician who was talked and written about,let alone listened to.This is indeed a thread that brought back memories of a not so distant past.I just listened to Ultrasound's 'Stay Young' for the first time in 100 years.

100 years? C'mon, it was more like 9 years.....jesus, has it really been nearly a decade since Ultrasound?

Yes it has.I'm surprised at how good that song sounds now compared to the first time round.

Helen Love. You win the prize. In fact, you win all prizes from now on.

Someone ship this man the prizes.

In fact, someone ship him all the prizes.

Yeah yeah we're Helen Love oo-OO-ooh.

Put your foot on the fuzzbox baby.

And, for good measure, the timely classic, Does your heart go boom, the song which, in spite of any kudos I might lose by saying it, introduced me to Atari Teenage Riot (I had a single of theirs, but I hadn't realised how good it was).



Well done Iain. Well done for winning. Hail.