While it has been widely ignored, the post Britpop / pre "The Libertines/The _____/garagey" band era was kind of a dark period in UK music. UK had just witness one of the greatest talent and musical explosions of all time in the early 90s but by the late 90s, those bands had all either broken up, started to suck or completely change their sound. During this time, bands found it hard to garner success, specially with the charts being dominated by the Spice Girls/Westlife/whatever. To put it into perspective, Stereophonics was considered one of the biggest acts from the UK [...]
PLAYLIST: Nothing But The Sky - Ivy Back In Bloom - Sulk Shallow - The Catherine Wheel Gone Without Feeling - The Black Ryder Our Bovine Public - The Cribs Out - Charmin' Children Lenny Valentino - The Auteurs Bulldog Baby - Echobelly Coast Is Clear (Live In Manchester '91) - Curve Upper East Side - Experimental Aircraft The Cedar Room - Doves Money - The Drums Crocus - Gypsy Death and You Wide Open Space - Mansun Vertigo - Overcasters Heads Will Roll [...]
Oct 19, 2011, 11:04am
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90ndate keskpaiga lõpuosa. Mansun - Taxloss (Lisa Marie Experience Remix) ( mp3 )
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Toronto - As we approach our 90s party on Saturday, it is only natural for us to reflect on the decade that was the 90s. One of the things that I miss the most about the 90s was quality b-sides. B-sides were those other songs off a single, the ones on the other side of the vinyl that too often than not, were afterthoughts for most bands - crappy songs to be released just for the hell of it. However, the 90s was such a high time for musical creativity that many bands had so many quality songs that even [...]
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4 blokes from London in a band called Wheels , influences ranging from Blur to Buckley, Verve to Pulp (obviously). I'm just quite confused about the identity of this band, they come complete with a psychadelic logo, and Feel About Me is such an amazingly catchy pop song, backed by an excellent video, but I caught a strong whiff of american alternative , with George Runciman's switch in accent. Yet in Words , he swerves into Richard Ashcroft mode - nothing wrong with that, should be a compliment infact, but do we really need to revive [...]
During our enforced absence yesterday, I got myself reacquainted with late 902s britpoppers Mansun and their 1997 debut LP Attack of the Grey Lantern. And the internet being a repository of all things awesome, I ended up watching the video to single "Taxlo$$", in which the band decided that rather than using their £25,000 budget [...]
While Mansun broke-up years ago and their legacy is virtually non-existent, I still really enjoy their records, especially the first two. Their impressive 1997 debut, Attack Of The Grey Lantern spawned the hit Wide Open Space which seemed to actually overshadow the accomplished album it came from (at least here in North America). The following year the band followed their debut with an absolutely bonkers record called Six . To call Six ambitious...well ambitious doesn't even come close to covering it. Pretentious, sprawling, dense, funny, [...]
As Kula Shaker's first album in three years, Pilgrims Progress shows the band at their very best since releasing their 1996 debut. On paper, the template for album number four is much the same as their previous three efforts. But where Pilgrims Progress really shines is in its rare ability to present the sounds of another era in a setting that feels mature, fresh, current and progressive.
In 1997, as Oasis' gluttonous Be Here Now euthanised Britpop, a mutation occurred in the UK rock gene that has since yielded great things. Two events signalled that leery lad anthems and Wellerdom were to take a back seat in favour of art, perversity and tension. Radiohead's OK Computer was one. Attack Of The Grey Lantern knocking Blur off the top of the charts was the other. It's hard to pick what was strangest about Mansun. Was it the chain of frantic, over-cooked EPs that preceded AOTGL ? Maybe [...]
The Divine Comedy's tenth album, Bang Goes the Knighthood, offers no surprises for longtime fans. As usual, Hannon's wit and playful observations find success in a pleasant medium between folk and pop music. This effort, though, is a little more lighthearted around the edges and its lack of ambition results in one of Hannon's most inconsistent efforts to date.
By 1997 Britpop was truly dead and buried, leaving a lot of people awkwardly standing around in Target t-shirts unsure what to do with themselves. It seems laughable now but the release of Be Here Now was enormously exciting, something that felt like a real event. However, history shows that it left most with a bloated feeling, an album that seemed to sum up the excesses of the past two years. This musical indulgence filtered down to other bands, middling acts such as Gene overreaching themselves with their equally puffy Drawn To The Deep End , whereas [...]
Toronto - This song was the lead track off Mansun 's sophomore album - Six . For those who don't know, Mansun was a rock band out of England that came to prominence during the dark days of post Brit pop. They released their first album, a conceptual space prog rock album named 'Attack of the Grey Lantern' to critical acclaim. Their second album, Six, was probably another concept album and was also similarly critically acclaimed (check out this 1999 Pitchfork review ). I remember back in the day, when I still bought physical things like compact [...]
Within the episode, we have a password to get free admission into SPLIT , our monthly night that begins this Saturday, February 20th at Paris Wine Bar . PLAYLIST: Going Out - Supergrass Formed a Band - Art Brut Delicious - The Catherine Wheel Caroline - The Wedding Present Fifteen - Standard Fare Requiem - Killing Joke Leave Them All Behind - Whitey Poisonous Intent - Bad Lieutenant Contender - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Sun [...]
Legendarisk gimmick fra Mansun, der i 1997 istedet for at brænde 30.000£ af på en video, vekslede dem til fivers og smed dem ud over Liverpool Street Station i London. Det blev bandet efterfølgende anholdt for, men fik samtidig den slags medieomtale man, hvis man skal tro på klicheen, ikke kan købe for penge. Blink-182 kopierede stuntet fire år senere, under lidt mere ordnede forhold, i videoen til The Rock Show .
Mansun & My Vitriol, Oxford Brookes, 19 October 2000 2000 didn't look like a fun year to be in a band, if eking out a career was your bag: stranded at the arse-end of Britpop, before the Strokes and White Stripes provided a coherent new model for indie types to work towards or against. This gig found two bands on opposite trajectories--Britpop somebodies Mansun in freefall, emo nobodies My Vitriol looking for a break--but united in glum resignation. Not a joy to watch. [...]
Here's the thing about music in 2009: You can truly love a band, but still be what might be considered fairly behind on what, exactly, they've been up to. Take the Welsh trio the Joy Formidable, who have one of my favorite records of the year ; I'm just now finding out now that the clamorous outfit put out a new single, the pummeling "Greyhounds In The Slips," right around Labor Day. (It's available for download on their MySpace page , and those people who used to mainline UK mags' record recommendations at the end of [...]
It may strike as rather silly first, with what you glancing the start of a tl;dr article right now and expecting the sort of fawning that retrospectives tend to have, but I do not feel particularly passionate about Mansun . I wouldn't count them among my favourite acts and my listening habits involving them revolve around the occasional phase or a mood rather than constant love. They never created a masterpiece in my opinion despite offering two very solid contenders for that title. I like them quite a bit but I don't feel a passionate drive towards them, if [...]
What do THE BLUETONES and PIXIES have in common? Both bands' upcoming visits to Scotland will see them play an entire set made up of an old album, respectively Expecting To Fly (1996) and Doolittle (1989). Delving into the dusty archives of your back catalogue to promote a tour has developed into a common trend, especially for those artists whose heydays are becoming increasingly distant memories. Even a group as revered [...]
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