Meanswear-Stardust
 

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Is this Menswear, the britpop band?

yep

A review of the album this track is taken from...

"Nuisance" (a self-deprecating title if ever there was one...) is a great and varied album. It mostly bounces along on the poppy guitars and excitable lyrics that can only come from having an average age under 22. Led by the fey, lithe, androgenous and handsome Johnny Dean, the boys examined such topics as bumming around New York, bumping into your ex girlfriends and being famous in 4/4 time with big choruses, cheery harmonies and classic lyrics (""Tess", he said "I don't understand how they grow tomatoes in a can...""). However, inbetween all the pop-rock lay some ballads that displayed a more serene side to the band, and a musical and lyrical maturity that was unexpected based on their public image, and largely over-looked by a music press intent only on building artists up to knock them down. "Being Brave" and "Piece of Me" are soul-searching gems that wouldn't be out of place on a Bright Eyes or Dashboard Confessional album, and the hidden bonus track "Nuisance" adds a further depth and musical expansion by being both guitarless and in 3/4 time.
Shamelessly borrowing from the Beatles, Kinks and Stones and yet creating a sound and an image that was unmistakably their own Menswe@r ruled 1995. With poppy guitar-rock now back in fashion and called "Emo", you owe it to yourself and your musical education to check out this album. Anything else just wouldn't be cricket eh?

EDIT: anyway, good track... I don't know how you keep coming up with these... :)

Oh the album is rather appaling but Stardust is a top tune.

It's fun... very pop. TBH, it sounds like something off RR, heh. ;)

ha!;)

i remember an issue of select that came out during the britpop period when TM & LR reviewed the singles and were disgusted by all that stuff, little did they know that in 10 years time they themselves would be making a record to trump the insipidness of anything the britpop rabble could achieve

The spirit is there; but Menswear et al, couldn't make anything approaching the majesty and grandeur of a Sonic Youth record. Listen to a Britpop album and then Rather Ripped back-to-back. You'll know what I mean.

Yep,i remember tha issue.It made for fun reading.I might get stoned for this but Stardust is better than anything on Rather Ripped.Weren't they the best dressed band in Britain(or so proclaimed the melody maker)?ha

that's debatable as reena is a tune not without redemption

Menswear were really well-dressed. They were hyped as being one of the most well-dressed bands in Britain. I'm not sure, but I prefer Rather Ripped somewhat; in addition to excellent songs like Reena; there is always that undercurrent of noise and dissonance, faint and muted it may be here, nevertheless it's there. It won't be there in a britpop album; not like the way Sonic Youth does it, not ingrained in the very DNA of their sound like Sonic Youth. :)

Christ's own. Here's something to make you feel old: That menswe@r record was the first album I bought with my own money. I still enjoy it for that reason.

Are you moving onto Sleeper next porkie?

AND FUCK YOU ALL THE SLEEPER HATERRZZ, THEY HAD SOME GOOD TUNEZZ.

breath deeper daydreamer. i can remember the exact way that cockmuncher said that and everything. i hear they work in insurance now.

Yes,'What do i do now?' is next on the agenda.

Simon was collecting glasses and djing at the Monarch in Camden for a while.He now manages Bloc Party.I don't know about the rest.

Insurance? How appropriate.

Good call. Nice work on avoiding the obvious Inbetweener one.

There was a lot of great-for-a-couple-of-singles girl-y groups come out of that era, wasn't there? Sleeper, Echobelly, Elastica, Salad, Posh, Kenicke (although they were great period), Bis... erm... ok, I'm sure there're more.

bloody hell