tigerboy

Another forgotten 90s band were The Lemon Trees.

Child Of Love was my favourite track.

Unfortunately there's absolutely nothing representing them on youtube.

As for the Lemon Trees they were great (I saw them support Crowded House & have their album Open Book) formed by former World Party member Guy Chambers they wrote some fantastic tunes but lack a charismatic lyricist & frontman which is exactly what Guy Chambers found with some former member of a 1990s boyband.

as the bloke from OMC (thats Pauly Fuemana from the Otara Millionaires Club not OMD...'the primark Joy Division') would say How Bizarre....

The Lemon Trees..is it like totally random thought then or do you know both the Lemon Trees and Kinky Machine were signed to Oxygen Records..and is that what has linked in your mind...?

and yeah not found anything by the Lemon Trees either so cant comment - however youtube has got stuff like this:

and lots of stuff like this:

*another random link - actually bought these albums at the same time in the £1 sale the other week!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_%26_Cher_discography

 

somewhat iconic duo who was for a time one of americas biggest exports TOO the uk, (at a time when uk acts were invading america). best known for the 60's anthem 'i got you babe'.. it was possibly their weakest track imho. i recall seeing them on totp, the first time i remember seeing 'hippies'..

 

both solo and together they notched up a credible string of hits , but my favs were the 60's material. 'baby dont go', 'little man','the beat goes on' (refered too often and eminem refered to it in his hit 'lose yourself' i think it was...), 'bang bang' and chers 'gypsies tramps and theives'.

 

i wasnt too keen on her post surgery...lol.. think she became somewhat a joke.. but courted the pink pound successfully and had a huge hit ten years ago now with 'believe', though the only track i liked by her/them since 'gypsies......' was 'one by one' in 96...

One By One wasn't that from that album done by Cher where she would only sing songs recorded by blokes...(tho i was also reading the article on Robert hazard in the Guide the other day and it said that Cyndi Lauper had it in her contract that she would only sing songs by male autuers such as Jules Shear - of... Whispering Your Name - Alison Moyet fame)...like It's a Man's Man's Man's World (tho pity there wasnt a follow up where she could have done neneh cherry re-imaging woman instead)

and Cher did Walking In Memphis...as performed here in a loving version by the one and only....

as well as a 'reading' of The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore...tho why would anyone want any other version than the one by The Walker Brothers i dont know

was wondering if youtube would have the original version of the song on the site - it doesnt but its got theese instead by the 'Poundland Oasis'...

as for sonny and cher - there's a dvd box set of the sonny and cher show in the store...which if it gets any cheaper i might get as i think it might be cheesy fun - tho maybe i should watch Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In first

quite easily as it happens :P

tho i bet you could meet in the middle with love for either Susan Cadogan, Musical Youth or Nik Kershaw then (nope! no Gigi D'Agostino this time bla bla bla :lol: :lol:).

and anyway i bet there were much worse non-pop worthy records released in that megasuccessful saw chart hit era..look here's one now...and its fricking awful :lol:

however talking about simple minds...here's propaganda again and dont you think this first record is almost like proto-scarlet???

Just read on IMDb - Paul Newman has died!

Yeah tho it was not surprising - not shocked tbh...at least there will be a nice large obit to read on Monday

They are one of my fav bands at the momment, have the heard the album yet? its rather good.

not at the moment - just singles/tracks - but then again will be ages till i get round to getting it as if got about a zillion other albums from the sale (in addition to all the 100 hits ones) to get thru first....a backlog till about 2015 :lol:

interesting, though this would be better placed in 'retro' as the pop fans here prefer manufactured rubbish like the saturdays.

yeah its quite bizarre for this to listed in pop with all the saturdays threads...however maybe there's a discussion to be had here about how much the beatles could be seen to be a 'manufactured' merseybeat pop band - not manufactured in the pop idol way but more 'manufactured' as in refined by Brian Epstein from the raw materials, that raw lump that had been in Hamburg and at the Cavern Club (btw is it true that Erics is the where the Cavern Club is today and the Cavern Club is actually should be on the other side of the street)

I think something's wrong with me lately, first of all I much preferred Girls Aloud's new single to the new Sugababes single and I've always 'sided' with the Sugababes.

Yeah Sugababes newbie was disappointing on first listen - though it was gonna amaze totally - but listening to it they havent really improved on the original track

That's because most of the songs could be catergorised into one of two categories:

 

1 - Chart-based dance.

2 - Remixes of non-dance tracks.

 

And then there was the truly bizarre choices: Tubthumping and Hey Baby are by no stretch of the imagination dance songs.

tho some might say...if you are able to dance to them - they are dance songs :lol:

Personally, I'd release all the early ones - esp the ones that didn't originally have a CD. PLUS I'd also re-issue the No4 CD, since you need to take out a mortgage to afford to buy it

but if they are from like 25 years ago - wont there be like some singles you wouldnt be able to get the rights too now..tho dont know everything might be in the back cat of emi records now...in that case it would be easy...but if there was something on a tiny dance label i guess like records by the KLF if they were ever on Now - dont think they would be able to get the rights...but then again could just replace the track with something by scooter - dont think anyone would notice :lol:

christina just sounds like she's jumped on the electro bang wagon

and electro bang wagon that sounds like an ethical porn van to me :lol: :lol:

as for Britney - sounds like it will be very irretating after the 3rd play on the radio - even worse than scouting for girls...much prefer the old Cherion-funk sound of the maratone produced hits...

Britney Spears - Overprotected

Ladyhawke :wub: Hate KOL.

If Ladyhawke wins this round i guess the way its going the next Indie/Rock/Alternative soundclash will also feature Banannanarama (thats 80s pop act Banannanarama with 80s pop act Ladyhawke and not Jagjagjagjaguwajaguwar Jagjaguwar records Ladyhawk and Dananananaykroyd...tho that pairing might make some ultra indie types do a little sex wee)

What does everyone think of InnerPartySystem (except for the fact that it would be better if the name was InnerPartyDanceSystem as the potential for being mistaken for the latest AATW act would be greater and funnier)

By far their best song, they were never, ever going to follow that up.

Gay Bar was great as well - and didnt mind Dance Commander either...tho the rest of the album was a bit dodgy and after that..they became quite pointless..

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Glengarry Glenross

Sleuth

 

But these were adapted from stage plays anyway and there are many more.

 

Norma

but the point is not just a list of films that are adapted from stage plays...more about films thats are too much like stage plays that they could be seen to be totally redundant (i suppose the Sleuth remake counts as this)

and Glengarry Glen Ross is supposed to be a good film isnt it.

Talking about under-rated acts and Silver Sun another thread...reminding me about another great forgotten (and quite unlucky)band of the time Rialto...who did great Royal Cinematic slightly-franco britpop...all hail that earl of pop Louis Eliot....

and nobody has yet mentioned this under-rated powerpop act being in the chart...and i hope it doesn't take another McFly #1 to make people notice again :lol:

I've made my feelings on the period 1997 - 2000 pretty well known on here before!

 

Here's my handpicks from the chart - stuff I'd happily listen to right now...

 

25 The Divine Comedy - Generation Sex

28 Ash - Jesus Says

33 PJ Harvey - A Perfect Day Elise

 

...and I wouldn't want to own any of them. It really was a terrible time for music

in comparison to what 1981, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1992 :lol: :lol:

Paul McCartney

Solo

With Michael Jackson

With Stevie Wonder

With the Beatles

With the Beatles & Bill Preston

With Wings

With Ferry Aid

With the Christians etc on Ferry Cross The Mersey

With Band Aid

but that become a different question...as you could just follow that on with...

SASH!

With Sabine Ohmes

With La Trec

With Shannon

With Dr Alban

With Rodriguez & Peter Faulhammer

WithTina Cousins

WithInka

With Mikio

With Boy George

With TJ Davis

With Stunt :lol:

Another two bands that had some early similarities were Japan and Duran Duran. Even Nick Rhodes the Duran keyboard player could be mistaken for David Sylvian lead singer of Japan. These two songs have some similar pieces in the background music, keyboards I think.

 

Japan - Quiet Life

 

Duran Duran - Planet Earth

Tho one of these bands became Rain Tree Crow...the other became Arse Cow $h!t :lol:

Modern Talking were fab!

But...........

S/A/W were also fab.

Think Kylie, Jason, Donna, Sonia, Rick, Bananarama, Dead or Alive, etc................

Yeah agree with this person totally...and how could you disagree with someone who goes by the name 'pmachinery' with a little picture of propaganda.... :cheer:

and actually that is a good point to bring up the sequal to that big Stiff Box compilation that came out...not surprisingly the sequal to the Stiff Records box will be....drumroll please...

and even tho its been stated that it will feature Andrew Poppy, Propoganda, FGTH and 808 State...here's hoping All Saints, AdamSki and the frames get a look in as well...tho i guess noones bothered about Seal or Lisa Stansfield turning up tbh :lol:

IMDb Mini Biography By: W.B.

 

Barry White (II)

 

Date of Birth - 12 September 1944, Galveston, Texas, USA

Galveston....I wonder if he has ever sung this record then

it would be even funnier and ironic if had covered Jimmy Webb's Galveston to a sample of OMD's Tesla Girls (tbh i think it would be very easy to sing Galveston over the top)

Mini Biography

 

Trivia

 

Cancelled about one month of tour dates due to "exhaustion". [August 1999]

 

His daughter with Glodean White, named Brigette, was featured on an episode of "A Baby Story" (1998) on TLC, having her third child, Jason, with husband Jeff. They also have a daughter named Brittany and a son named Justin.

 

Parodied by Chevy Chase (as 'Very White') in a first-season episode of "Saturday Night Live" (1975).

 

Had a Beard since he was 13 years old.

 

None of his children are as big as he is.

 

Has been almost 6' 4" since he was 14 years old.

 

Ranked #78 on VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists.

are you sure this is not just a p***-take (tbh some of this information is funnier than what Chevy Chase has come up with on SNL -Chevy Chase he's the 1970s Will Ferrell - and after seeing Will's last film...think that be true :lol: )

I will not stand for that ... Luther Vandross and Alexander O'Neal are not worthy of being in the same sentence as Barry White. And whatever descriptive anyone chooses to put to White, insipid is surely not one of them.

well excepting O'Neal for a moment - if it was a contest between the 1980s and the 1970s with Vandross for the 80s and White for the 70s...think the 1980s would lose...no contest between the two...

dont know all of Alexander O'Neal's records..but at least with Fake and Criticize there are a couple of good Jam & Lewis funk-pop songs...however maybe it would be better not to bring up his last album where he covers Take That, Richard Marx and Barry White...as that is just gonna be one of those vomit-awful records aimed at clueless housewives in tesco....tho if you must watch O'Neal do Barry White..here is your chance now (tho obv the videos that follow it are better :lol: )

I'm not sentimental about sampling and cover version usually, unless a real hash job has been made with its use.

 

The Gary Numan sample in Sugababes probably is the great use of a sample as far as pop is concerned.

prefer this one...think this is a better record...

what do you think about the use of samples? modern (or not) tracks pinching hooks or riffs from our 'precious oldies'?..lazy? arty? acceptable? unacceptable?

..i wonder if this has got anything to do with the staurdays...however sampling can be a good thing

... discovering the originals

the video features Obama, Ziggy Stardust, Marc Bolan, Divine, Amy Winehouse and Klaus Nomi.....

 

think i'd rather search for videos by Bowie, Bolan, Divine, Winehouse and Nomi tbh....or SASH! :lol:

Its Scott Mills' record of the week. He did mention how its just Encore Une Fois all over again (the version he played had more parts of Encore Une Fois than the video version). Then he said how his songs always have one word to make people shout it over a similar kind of beat: he played clips of Ecuador, La Primavera and his favourite Adelante.

I loved Adelante...'sung' it so much (tho that sung might be nearer beatboxed) and went on about it that it became like my unofficial cachtphrase of the time as i mentioned so much - annoyed my mum by saying it rreally andom, probs bros too :lol:

Encore Une Fois brilliant record too - got quite a few SASH! records including S4 tho obv probs best viewed as an album act