I had no idea that Angelo Bruschini played guitar for Massive Attack. Just looked it up. Wow! I think of them as more electronic, but love the guitar 🎸 on the song Protection….
1st album by Longpigs is also a forgotten gem, not a bad song on it.
Hefner aka Darren Hayman, all time fav 90’s+ musician. He’s brilliant (at least listen to Hefners album “We Love the City”, tech released Feb 2000, but you know that means it was recorded previously lol) and still releasing things to this day. He has a new band called New Starts.
Sad that Catherine Wheel got the axe early. They're my favorite on the list, but I do understand they're an acquired taste and it can take a bit of work to get into their discography.
Interesting! I latched onto Belle and Sebastian in the 00's thanks to The Life Pursuit but I've gone back and really do appreciate a lot of their earlier works. I was never a big Oasis fan but I have liked some of their solo projects a great deal.
If you read the first paragraph after the list at the beginning, I say I didn’t include any bands whose first album(s) came out in the 80s. MBv’s first was in 1988. Primal Scream and Happy Mondays were also eliminated on that basis.
Therapy? are a massive omission from this list…anything from the last 35 years but especially Troublegum, Nurse and Infernal Love. More riffs than Metallica!!
They’re one of those bands that don’t really fit into Britpop or Grunge but around at the same times…toured a lot in the States with Helmet if that helps put them in a box…Troublegum has big hooks and choruses though so try that one
I feel like Sleeper is a big omission here. I’d also have included Ash, and maybe Shed Seven. Surprised at the number of bands on your list I’ve genuinely not heard of though!
And not because I particularly liked them or anything they were just everywhere it seems like. Someone even told me that there was a nightclub in London that solely played that one album of theirs.
I’m a big fan of the first (and third) Portishead and one of the Massive Attack albums, but I limited myself to rock and indie rock bands.
I’ve always thought of them as indie rock. You included spiritualized in your list.
I had no idea that Angelo Bruschini played guitar for Massive Attack. Just looked it up. Wow! I think of them as more electronic, but love the guitar 🎸 on the song Protection….
Massive attack is so good that they cross genres. I hear them all the time on KEXP and KMHD
Or anything about the Bristol music scene?? Massive attack. Portishead? Big gaping hole here in your list.
No My Bloody Valentine? They were better and more influential than 90 percent of these bands.
Agreed.
Love SFA and Supergrass!!
1st album by Longpigs is also a forgotten gem, not a bad song on it.
Hefner aka Darren Hayman, all time fav 90’s+ musician. He’s brilliant (at least listen to Hefners album “We Love the City”, tech released Feb 2000, but you know that means it was recorded previously lol) and still releasing things to this day. He has a new band called New Starts.
Sad that Catherine Wheel got the axe early. They're my favorite on the list, but I do understand they're an acquired taste and it can take a bit of work to get into their discography.
Interesting! I latched onto Belle and Sebastian in the 00's thanks to The Life Pursuit but I've gone back and really do appreciate a lot of their earlier works. I was never a big Oasis fan but I have liked some of their solo projects a great deal.
I don't know that Longpigs album. Also don't know Hefner. Excited to check them out. Thx.
And I don't know Sleeper! What is your favorite album of theirs?
If you read the first paragraph after the list at the beginning, I say I didn’t include any bands whose first album(s) came out in the 80s. MBv’s first was in 1988. Primal Scream and Happy Mondays were also eliminated on that basis.
Agree. I like at least one of those Noel Gallagher & the High Flying Birds and one of Liam’s albums more than most of the Oasis albums.
Therapy? are a massive omission from this list…anything from the last 35 years but especially Troublegum, Nurse and Infernal Love. More riffs than Metallica!!
Sorry, forgot to clarify that metal is not my jam.
They’re one of those bands that don’t really fit into Britpop or Grunge but around at the same times…toured a lot in the States with Helmet if that helps put them in a box…Troublegum has big hooks and choruses though so try that one
Ah, Troublegum is a Therapy? Got it. Downloading that album now.
Will do. I’ve never heard of Troublegum! Thx for the tip.
I feel like Sleeper is a big omission here. I’d also have included Ash, and maybe Shed Seven. Surprised at the number of bands on your list I’ve genuinely not heard of though!
Dude. What about Stone Roses??
Ha! 1989.
That was a strict rule you made for yourself lol. They ruled the 90s in my opinion.
And not because I particularly liked them or anything they were just everywhere it seems like. Someone even told me that there was a nightclub in London that solely played that one album of theirs.
Love that album. But their second album was unforgivably bad.
You know I only knew that one album by them come to think of it