this looks like a cool band, the missing link between the beach boys/love/all that late 60s blisspop vibes and mercury rev/polyphonic spree/flaming lips

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/Bellybutton_albumcover.jpg

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/Spilt_Milk_albumcover.jpg

 

not only have the band members worked with beck, remixed air and appeared on the lost in translation soundtrack but drummer/singer/songwriter Andy Sturmer is behind the music of J-POP maegastars Puffy AmiYumi

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Puffypic1.jpg

 

who have their own cartoon show called Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi.

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/HHPAYBanner2.gif

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/Puffy_AmiYumi.JPG

so anyone heard of jellyfish then?

I have their first album from 1991 on vinyl.

Very good songs.

 

The King Is Half Undressed and Baby's Coming Back are the songs their known for. Both minor hits than big hits though.

 

Deserved to be more successful.

I LOVED Jellyfish :wub: . They were the Feeling of their day (except I think they were much better)

 

I have both their albums & their second Spilt Milk is definitely the best.

 

Here are a few of their videos:

 

BABY'S COMING BACK from Bellybutton 1991

[flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytt9NvjoNv4.swf

 

A NEW MISTAKE from Spilt Milk 1993

[flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkfdLIx_kTY.swf

 

THE GHOST AT NUMBER ONE from Spilt Milk 1993

[flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-gfZe6rdHs.swf

 

HE'S MY BEST FRIEND (live on German TV) from Spilt Milk 1993

[flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2krsx7IUEQ.swf

 

Since their demise (due to a lack of commercial success) members of the band have worked with Beck, Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney & Nerina Pallot.

They got played on the radio in Australia. Bellybutton was released with bonus tracks- All Badfinger and McCartney covers. Much better than it sounds. Spilt Milk sounds like Queen-only good. There's also a box set of demos and live tracks. Good stuff!!

 

Maroon Five ripped of the Bellybutton sound note-for-note and had massive hits YEARS later.

cool will look at them laters

 

They got played on the radio in Australia. Bellybutton was released with bonus tracks- All Badfinger and McCartney covers. Much better than it sounds. Spilt Milk sounds like Queen-only good.

 

however that could be muse looking at some of the reviews.

Here's another of their videos which Richard didn't post.

Nice little song and clever video.

This was their biggest chart hit.

 

The King Is Half Undressed (No.39, 26th Jan 91)

I'd never heard of them before. They aren't too bad tigerboy. Interesting!!

Didn't McFly just cover Baby's Coming Back?

Didn't McFly just cover Baby's Coming Back?

 

Well it was a good few months ago now in McFly terms :lol: , but yeah, thats true

 

and also a certain credible seasoned songwriter called Eg White [ref: OMM p48 Jan 08] also covered i wanna stay home on his Turn Me On, I'm a Rocket Man album, which might be a contender for a great lost album...

 

...of which subject Jellyfish's Spilt milk gets loadsa respect on page 24 of the OMM today in the last of the lost classics article with albums by Matt Deighton of mother earth, hookfoot and the beckies.

 

Tom Cox who wrote the article says "its a bona fide overlooked classic, a great lost album" and could be the best album of all the 90s

I have 'The King is Half Undressed' on 7" - found it in a bargain bin for about 10p. Reasonably similar to jolly indie types The Wonder Stuff and, especially, Jefferson Airhead I reckon.

 

One of the big things about them was that the drummer used to sing. I think I saw them on The Word back in the day and he was perched at the front of the stage on his drumkit. Looked weird.

Edited January 22, 200817 yr by richie

I have 'The King is Half Undressed' on 7" - found it in a bargain bin for about 10p. Reasonably similar to jolly indie types The Wonder Stuff and, especially, Jefferson Airhead I reckon.

 

Jefferson Airhead - so they were supposed to be good indiepop band then (or did people think they should be called 'Jefferson Arsehole' insteed)??? was thinking of the name the other day (via White Rabbit-Starship obv) as they had been mentioned before and i thinking whether had anyone posted their vids and i had watched them?

 

and if they were like other guilty pleasures acts like the feeling, the hoosiers, s4girls and wondering whether they were of a similar kinda thing - actually the first wave of GP-pop (seeing as their name refs Jefferson Airplane- or were the first of this line toploader

 

I have 'The King is Half Undressed' on 7" - found it in a bargain bin for about 10p.

 

wow 10p - is this recent? i got the streets first single for 1p - but 10p sounds good to me. esp if its good vinyl - better than my cheapo cds

I bought it about a month after it hit the chart, so about February 1991.

 

Is the Streets first single ('Has it come to this'???) worth anything? I remember buying the Stereophonics first single on 7" for 10p as I thought from the name that they could be ok (they weren't) but sold it for £41 years after. Great bit of business that!

 

As for Jefferson Airhead, I wouldn't put them in the same bracket as Scouting for Girls or The Hoosiers but that's only cos I liked them as a teenager - now I think about it, they probably aren't too far off that.

 

Not as bad as Toploader though, geez!

Dragging this thread back on topic, did anyone hear Imperial Drag, the band that Roger Manning put together after Jellyfish. I'm listening to it at the mo and it is way better than I remember.

 

Not as bad as Toploader though, geez!

 

I blame them for all the Guilty-pleasures-pop-revivallers thing thats going on at the moment - tho dont know the orig of dancing in the moonlight - so it might be less cheesy than i image

 

 

Dragging this thread back on topic, did anyone hear Imperial Drag, the band that Roger Manning put together after Jellyfish. I'm listening to it at the mo and it is way better than I remember.

 

 

I dont know as i might be thinking of Imperial Teen and might be getting them mixed up - tho i think it might be this one as they are Roddy Bottums and got a new album out - so i guess i would have been reading about them instead of the other

Look who it is after working on the soundtracks to Borat .... the Movie & most famously Hugh Grant's/Drew Barrymore's "Music & Lyrics" ........ founder Jellyfish members Roger Manning & Jason Falkner are back, back, back, together.

 

But like a certain BBC Cop show they've moved on soundwise from 1973 to 1981, but this is just as brilliant musically as their former band.....

 

TV Eyes - She's A Study (2008) :wub:

 

Now look out for those inferior Jellyfish tribute acts Maroon 5, The Feeling, Scouting For Girls & The Hoosiers to radically change their musical direction with their next albums.....

Look who it is after working on the soundtracks to Borat .... the Movie & most famously Hugh Grant's/Drew Barrymore's "Music & Lyrics" ........ founder Jellyfish members Roger Manning & Jason Falkner are back, back, back, together.

 

But like a certain BBC Cop show they've moved on soundwise from 1973 to 1981, but this is just as brilliant musically as their former band.....

 

TV Eyes - She's A Study (2008) :wub:

 

Now look out for those inferior Jellyfish tribute acts Maroon 5, The Feeling, Scouting For Girls & The Hoosiers to radically change their musical direction with their next albums.....

 

i guess you can add panic at the disco to that list as well on hearing the new single :lol: