3 posts tagged “great things”
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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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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www.weheartmusic.com
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
