How have I only just heard this?

Bucket

It's great!

Bucket

The bit at 0:44 really reminds me of Jellyfish @Kebabkid @octatonic @Paul_C

stickyfiddle

Absolutely fantastic song. Where have you been?!

Make the most of this period in your life - you still have a load of awesome music from the past you haven't found yet. It's awesome. Once you hit 30 it starts getting much harder to find that same feeling. 

octatonic

stickyfiddle said:

Once you hit 30 it starts getting much harder to find that same feeling. 

I haven't had that happen to me.
It seems like most of my contemporaries are still listening to the same bands they were in the 90's.
I wasn't distracted by day job or family responsibilities so I've kept listening.
Don't stop listening.

Excellent tune- it was a bit of a summer anthem in Sydney in the mid 90's.

stickyfiddle

octatonic said:

stickyfiddle said:

Once you hit 30 it starts getting much harder to find that same feeling. 

I haven't had that happen to me.
It seems like most of my contemporaries are still listening to the same bands they were in the 90's.
I wasn't distracted by day job or family responsibilities so I've kept listening.
Don't stop listening.

Excellent tune- it was a bit of a summer anthem in Sydney in the mid 90's.

I'm very glad for you! Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places. But I'm certainly finding it harder and harder to find new (to me) stuff that I really love. 

not_the_dj

I thought that track was thoroughly ridiculed at the time. They were never a "cool" band and that might have been their most derided track. 


(For the record I like the band, I bought their albums and saw their gigs back then). 

octatonic

stickyfiddle said:

octatonic said:

stickyfiddle said:

Once you hit 30 it starts getting much harder to find that same feeling. 

I haven't had that happen to me.
It seems like most of my contemporaries are still listening to the same bands they were in the 90's.
I wasn't distracted by day job or family responsibilities so I've kept listening.
Don't stop listening.

Excellent tune- it was a bit of a summer anthem in Sydney in the mid 90's.

I'm very glad for you! Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places. But I'm certainly finding it harder and harder to find new (to me) stuff that I really love. 

It has become a lot easier with Spotify's 'Related Artists' tab.
I used to have to wade through music magazines.

This year it has been Silversun Pickups, Shinedown, Stone Broken, Puscifier, Show of Hands, Freak Kitchen, Blind Guardian that I've been getting into.

EricTheWeary

I saw them live. I'm guessing 1989 or 1990. My memory is of a great gig, although I used to drink a lot more in those days...

Somewhat mixed up in my head with The Icicle Works who I also saw around that time - their inclusion of Neil Young covers possibly some indication of the inner turmoil that was leading to the band breaking up around then. Their hit was Love is a Wonderful Colour if anyone wants to YouTube that.  

Kebabkid

Yeah, I can hear that Connor and Del Amitri were/are a great band and were superb live. Always liked the singer's voice.

Even The Hoosiers are incorporating some Jellyfish sounds and progressions in their recent stuff.

Bucket

Yeah I love the singer's voice!

I've just seen this song came out in 1995. At the risk of making some of you feel old, that is also the year I appeared.

I wish that'd been my birth-week number one or something. All I get instead is Take That.

fnpt

This is my Del  Amitri's favorite song:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TxbIU0X-lCI

english_bob

This is my favourite of theirs. I never really considered them a power pop band, but this is frickin' textbook.





Needless to say, if you like this sort of thing, you should go immediately to the daddies of the whole power pop thing- Big Star.

Bucket

@english_bob I've meant to check Big Star out for a while and am just doing so. I like it a lot!

axisus

Great band. Not the sort of stuff I'd buy mind you.

english_bob

Bucket said:

@english_bob I've meant to check Big Star out for a while and am just doing so. I like it a lot!

The ultimate cult band. You'll find that the first two albums, #1 Record and Radio City are fairly similar, but Third/Sister Lovers is a whole different thing.

It helps to know a little about the band's history- they were from Memphis and signed to Stax records, who were the biggest local label, only they were primarily a soul/R&B label and didn't really have a clue how to market a rock record and were having financial problems that led to issues distributing their albums. So while every music critic in the US thought Big Star were mind-blowingly awesome and didn't mind saying so, their records weren't in the shops!

Suffice to say, this was pretty depressing for the band, and that reflects in the content of Third/Sister Lovers, which they made for lack of anything else to do, with an increasing awareness that it would probably never get released. As such, it's pretty much a random collection of songs that never got edited down to a fixed running order or anything. It circulated as bootleg recordings for over a decade before getting anything like an official release.

If you've got Netflix, the documentary Nothing Can Hurt Me is well worth watching.

John_A

Bucket said:

The bit at 0:44 really reminds me of Jellyfish @Kebabkid @octatonic @Paul_C

Jellyfish - Great band!

Gassage

How? Because your fringe is of such forested proportions you can only see the bottom 1/4 of your computer screen.

Bucket

Gassage said:

How? Because your fringe is of such forested proportions you can only see the bottom 1/4 of your computer screen.

On a good day.

lasermonkey

If you're enjoying Big Star (and that pleases me greatly), I can heartily recommend The Posies and Teenage Fanclub.

Two of the Posies anded up in the later incarnation of Big Star, which is how I became aware of the Posies. I went to see the newly reformed Big Star at the Reading Festival in 1993 and, having read that half of the new Big Star were also in The Posies, and that they also just happened to be playing at Reading on the same day, decided to check them out. I was utterly blown away! Their album Frosting On The Beater is probably the best place to start.

Teenage Fanclub, or The Fannies as they are known by those who love them, are a band who have lazily been compared to Big Star for pretty much their entire career. Alex from Big Star loved them though, just as well, as some of his ashes are now taped to the inside of Norman Blake's  OM-18! Bandwagonesque is the album I'd suggest to start with, and then chronologically from then onwards (Thirteen, Grand Prix, Songs From Northern Britain, etc).

Majorscale

Del Amitris album "Twisted" is fantastic. That CD lived in my car for ages! Must dig it out...

thomasross20

Feel good!