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[quote="Gollum's Cock"]Bastards all of you....

And nobody mentioned Tha Alarm................
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Gollum's Cock wrote:Bastards all of you....

So it's not just the English, then!

Gollum's Cock wrote:Bastards all of you....

And nobody mentioned Tha Alarm, Stereophonics, Catatonia and of course The Super Furry Animals.

Catatonia had something going for them, or at least it seemed that way to me on the cusp of my teens, when I'd have appreciated any band with guitars that had a girl singing with them. Plus, because of my Manics obsession at the time, I thought almost anything from Wales was just teh coolness - "Every day when I wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh!"

Super Furry Animals - God! Show Me Magic and Hermann Loves Pauline were daft class... but nothing more.

As for Stereophonics, they were just dire. Music for people who don't like music, that's what that was

All three of them were part of that post-Britpop hangover in the mid/late nineties, dull, pedestrian laddishness well and truly ruled the charts... least that's how it seemed to me at the time. The Manics, even post-Richey, should have been a thorn in the side of all that but they failed miserably. Hence my looking back a few years to when they had some spirit, and eventually even further to the other bands which I still love now.

Man, The Neutrons and that's it for Taff Rock.

Jeez it's almost as bad a Jock Rock.

Jock Rock?
Who did we have there?
Oh yes..
Big Country (nicely cancelled out the Skids really)

Hey, though...
JAMC were okay.

I won't mention Altered Images or Annie Lennox
Oh sh!t, I just did

that's SKIDS and we had SAHB, Nazareth, The Fire Engines, The Scars, The Patels, The Fannies, Orange Juice, Simple Minds...

Gollum's Cock wrote: TV wise class such as Pobl -Y -Cwm and Dirty Sanchez. Oow (just shot myself in the foot).

Oi! My aunt wrote some of the scripts for Pobl-Y-Cwm

Mind you, she did say it wasn't hard or taxing
She used to name the characters after members of our family, mind you "streamline the gorgeous sexual predator fully loaded with wit,charm and money" never appeared

Cmyru am byth....

streamline wrote:

Gollum's Cock wrote: TV wise class such as Pobl -Y -Cwm and Dirty Sanchez. Oow (just shot myself in the foot).

Oi! My aunt wrote some of the scripts for Pobl-Y-Cwm

Mind you, she did say it wasn't hard or taxing
She used to name the characters after members of our family, mind you "streamline the gorgeous sexual predator fully loaded with wit,charm and money" never appeared

Cmyru am byth....

Because there is no welsh word for "wit"

...but who needs wit when they've got spellings like Llanfwydurblibble?

& the longest URL on the web
http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerych ... och.co.uk/

Imagine proof reading that

You know, I swear some old U.S. soap opera had a town in it called Llanfair...weird.

I've actually been there.
It's just a railway station, as far as I can remember.
Don't suppose there's much room for anything else once the sign's up.

James Blast wrote:Man, The Neutrons and that's it for Taff Rock.

Jeez it's almost as bad a Jock Rock.

I would be inclined to agree with you about our fellow countrymen, but then....

Cocteau Twins? Cindytalk? Jesus And Mary Chain? Primal Scream?

Not bad!

I've even got time for Simple Minds, and I'm sorry but Annie Lennox is a goddess - FACT!

James Blast wrote:

Ah yes, I'd forgotten about that one.....

But as a plus point we do have Ivor the Engine, which makes up for a lot..

Plus, 10 points for anyone who can name the author of this quote:

"It's embarrassing that so few of us even speak Welsh, which is a truly lovely-sounding language."

James Blast wrote:Man, The Neutrons and that's it for Taff Rock.

Jeez it's almost as bad a Jock Rock.

You missed Bomb Disneyland

Gollum's Cock wrote:Plus, 10 points for anyone who can name the author of this quote:

"It's embarrassing that so few of us even speak Welsh, which is a truly lovely-sounding language."

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Gollum's Cock wrote:Plus, 10 points for anyone who can name the author of this quote:

"It's embarrassing that so few of us even speak Welsh, which is a truly lovely-sounding language."

Even more embarrassing for me, a Welshman, not to speak Welsh
I blame the English schools system!

Mind you, is a truly cunning linguist...

Just listened to it again, and yes it is pretty s**t (or Englishy as we say in Wales). Just happy to see that James Bradfield has lost a bit of weight, the lager loving ex mountain runner.

PS If I'm not mistaken TigerTailz were also Welsh.(anyone remember Love Bomb Baby)

saw this lot a good few times in the late 80's, early 90's. great live band got quite a few airings with JP

http://www.myspace.com/anhrefn

This thread has got me nostalgia tripping on my old Manics records now

Holy Bible is still the standout, but Generation Terrorists, Everything Must Go and even Gold Against The Soul (yes!) still have their moments. Maybe even This Is My Truth, at a push.

And listening to Motorcycle Emptiness again, after all these years, just slayed me. Remember many rainy days home from school on the train to that one.

boudicca wrote:This thread has got me nostalgia tripping on my old Manics records now

Holy Bible is still the standout, but Generation Terrorists, Everything Must Go and even Gold Against The Soul (yes!) still have their moments. Maybe even This Is My Truth, at a push.

And listening to Motorcycle Emptiness again, after all these years, just slayed me. Remember many rainy days home from school on the train to that one.

.....which in turn has made me remember some of their early interviews.

Always felt to me like a mixture of posturing & bravado, naivety held under enthusiasm. Behind it all there was a spark though, somewhat unfettered by cynicism.

That's what I don't see now.

Bunch of Arse! Clash wannabies

James Blast wrote:Bunch of Arse! Clash wannabies

Mebbes, but there are worse bands to want to be.