5 posts tagged “echobelly”
God's Guest List pretty much sums up the band for me, and all the 90s britpop I loved, so take a listen if you've not heard them before. I'll leave Vu to fill in anything else interesting, I mean, I was like 12 in 96, I wasn't paying much attention... except to the Chart Show on ITV and Louise Wener jumping in to swimming pools.
- Chris "oh noes! dead frogs everywhere!" topher.
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Sorry, no music from me today (surely Vu will add some to the post?) but a heads up for all the UK readers.
Play.com are currently running a Best Of The 90s sale with albums and best-ofs from some of the best bands of the 90s from only £2.99 shipped. $6 in the US might get you a new album, but here we can't even pick up stuff in charity shops for that little so it ain't bad. Anyway...
Choice highlights so far include an Echobelly Best-Of for £2.99, Sleeper Best Of for £4.99, Manics' Everything Must Go £4.99, and my personal favorite, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince Best-Of, £2.99. I could go on forever as seriously, every row has a great band on them, so just check out sale for yourself.
- Christopher
Vu's Note: Sadly, I own all these albums you mentioned (plus about 75% of what is on sale at that store). 90s, baby....
Incidentally, in Suede news, singer Brett Anderson will be releasing his second album, Wilderness on July 7th at his concert that costs £30. Surely, you may think this is expensive, but as a way to pad the pain to fans, buying the concert tickets ensures a USB stick with his new album on it.
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This is the Britpop Top 7 on W♥M. Unlike the previous Top 7 entries, the selections of just Seven was quite hard for me. At the last minute, I had to drop Kula Shaker in favor of the obvious Shed Seven, purely based on their name. Get it ? Shedding Seven ???
Unfortunately, they're not the one spotlight, instead I have to go with Salad, because I get a lot of question about the W♥M banner. It is a vector of Marijne van der Vlugt, the singer of the band.
The last whereabout of Van der Vlugt is that she is the writer and singer of Cowboy Racer. Their website is at cowboyracer.com and they also have a myspace page so you can hear what they sound like.
PS, you would think compiling these Top 7 is easy because it's
basically just a collection of links, but it's not! Picking the best
ones is really hard, I had to weigh all the 29 articles carefully. Special runner-ups includes: The Bluetones (will write about their 2007 album next year), Supergrass (too famous), Space (not quite Britpop), Powder (too unpopular!), and Gene (too, well, too Gene!).
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12/24/2007 17:39:13
vu
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These days, Echobelly are just Sonya Madan and Glenn Johansson, but when they were at their height of their game, they were a full-fledge band with Debbie Smith (ex-Curve), Alex Keyser and Andy Henderson.
I own pretty much all their releases, and it's pretty hard to pick just one song to represent them (so perhaps we can re-visit them later). My favorite song of all time is "Insomniac", but I'm going to go obscure and pick a B-Side or something. Maybe you will enjoy "Bunty", which looks like it was recorded in a hotel room while on tour.
My favorite line is:
When I got there in the end
I caught you snogging with my friend
If she's pretty, if she's not
I saw you first, you broke my heart
And life's not fair and it's so cruel
'Cause you said I could be with you.
Two new songs, "To the End" and "Leviathan (demo)", are available exclusively on Myspace
 ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY
Everyone's Got One (8/1994) On (9/1995) Lustra (11/1997) People Are Expensive (5/2001) I Can't Imagine the World Without Me - Best of (2001) Gravity Pulls (5/2004) SELECTIVE COMPILATIONS
...Hold On (1995, includes "Give Her a Gun (live)") Home Truths (1995, includes "Today, Tomorrow.. (live)") Volume 10 (1996, includes "Fake")* Volume 14 (includes, "Natural Animal (live)") |  |
SINGLES/EPS
Bellyache (11/1993) Insomniac (3/1994) I Can't Imagine The World Without Me (6/1994) Close... But (10/1994) Great Things (8/1995) King Of The Kerb (10/1995) Dark Therapy (2/1996) The World Is Flat (8/1997) Here Comes The Big Rush (10/1997) Digit (1/2001) Tell Me Why (5/2001) Kali Yuga (10/2001) |
* Available later on the Sharks Patrol These Waters, Best of Volume 2
Rodney Bingenheimer is getting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 9th, 2007 (tomorrow). They're just handing out these things like candy, huh?? To the world, nobody knows Rodney, but if you were in radio (or happened to live in Los Angeles), you'd probably heard of him. He's probably one of the world's most famous radio DJ, at least very influencial on his "Rodney on the ROQ" show on KROQ Radio.
Rodney was the subject of the documentary Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003), which was directed by George Hickenlooper and produced by Chris Carter (not the X-Files creator).
Because it was produced by the bassist from Dramarama (Chris Carter) there was definitely a section about how Dramarama rose to fame in the US because of Rodney. Apparently, the band (formed in New Jersey in 1982), released their debut LP, Cinéma Vérité, in France under New Rose Records.
Rodney somehow got a hold of this record and started playing "Anything, Anything". He thought they were a French band (wow, their English is SO GOOD!). But it's all cool, because the airplay and demand for the band prompt the album to finally be released in America.
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Rodney was the first to play records by - and interviews with such artists on his KROQ show as: Blondie, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Van Halen, The Go-Go's, Nina Hagen, The Cramps, Nena, The Clash, The Cure, The Smiths, The B-52's, Billy Idol, Adam Ant, Echobelly, Ride, X, Siouxie and the Banshees, Bad Religion, Duran Duran, The Jam, The Bangles, The Runaways, Redd Kross, Bananarama, Joan Jett, Tom Petty, Dramarama, Teenage Fan Club, Suede, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Echo and the Bunnymen, No Doubt, Blur, Elastica, Belly, L7, Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Rialto, Placebo, Oasis, The Verve, Kent, Ash, Gene, Travis, Coldplay, Doves, JJ72, The Strokes, Starsailor, The Hives, The Vines, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and The Electric Soft Parade.
Trivia: Rodney, in the 60s, was best known as the stand-in for Davy Jones of the Monkees.
