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An Alternative History of "Pop" Music: Part 2, 1982 -

Started by jamiefairlie, January 20, 2021, 05:43:47 AM

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Brundle-Fly

Concubine Rice #2 - Lone Pigeon Released on Domino in 2002.





Fractured Scottish Syd Barrett-esque lo-fi folk/ psyche rock via Smiley Smile for your pleasure.

Lone Pigeon AKA Gordon Anderson is a Scottish musician and co-founder of The Beta Band (which was formerly known as The Pigeons). Later he was a member of The Aliens with John Maclean and Robin Jones from The Beta Band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSeKP_HATNw&list=OLAK5uy_mOWDb80jgM7Ffy1HgQtms8nGJz5YhNyvw&index=13

Ballad of Ballard Berkley

Malcolm Middleton - The Best in Me



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDfeuBzisYQ

Arab Strap man goes solo. Beautiful desolation ensues.

QuoteIn 2002, Middleton, writing lyrics and singing for the first time, recorded and released 5:14 Fluoxytine Seagull Alcohol John Nicotine. Middleton has commented on the album, saying: "Hearing those songs back and singing them over and over again on my own made me realise how pathetic a situation I was in and helped me to change it. Listening to it now is quite harrowing. I can hear an old friend who was severely depressed, desperate and unhappy."

daf

Jingle Cats – Linus and Lucy



Featured on the album 'Rhythm and Mews' - released in 2002

QuoteJingle Cats were a series of Christmas novelty recordings from producer Mike Spalla. The songs were created by Spalla by mixing real animal sounds to match tones of the songs. His first album, 'Meowy Christmas' was released and featured over 1,000 meows, screeches and growls.



After several Jingle Cats and Jingle Dogs albums, Spalla also produced a Jingle Babies album, at which point, Billboard described the series as having hit a "brick wall".

DrGreggles

John Otway - House Of The Rising Sun
[Trad/Arr. Otway] {U-Vibe Records}
(B-side of Bunsen Burner single)



In October 2002 John Otway released a new single, Bunsen Burner, to celebrate his 50th birthday.
Long considered a one hit wonder, after Really Free reached #27 in 1977 (and got him on Top of the Pops), Otway's fans got together through an online message board to buy his new single in the same week to get him back in the Top 40 as a birthday present.
The campaign work even better than anticipated, and Bunsen Burner crashed straight in to the Top 10, peaking at #9 - and led to another TOTP appearance, and this time no one laughed at him trying to find the right chord.
Released as the b-side to his 2nd hit, this 'call and response' version of the The Animals' classic is now a staple of his live show - and far better than it has any right to be.
He'll still always be remembered for one thing though...

Brundle-Fly

Angels On Your Body - Lucky Pierre. Released On Melodic in 2002.





Just for Ballad of BB, moody cinematic electronica from the other fella from Arab Strap.

Lucky Pierre AKA Aidan John Moffat. Scottish vocalist and musician, born 10 April 1973 in Falkirk, Scotland, UK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ynPgeLreKQ&t=40s

Richard Youngs - Bloom of All



The second song on May, recorded in Christmas 2000, Easter 2001 and the last day of May 2001 in Harpenden, England.

jamiefairlie

Death Cab For Cutie - All Is Full Of Love

https://youtu.be/70inUBxuK8Q



A Bjork cover, it's taken from their second EP. "The Stability EP"

Ballad of Ballard Berkley

The Reindeer Section - Cartwheels



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igu_j_Nj-Zw

A few years before Snow Patrol became a big ol' boring stadia-filling band, their leader Gary Lightbody formed this short-lived Scottish indie supergroup featuring members of Arab Strap, Belle & Sebastian, Idlewild, Mogwai and Teenage Fanclub. Cartwheels is taken from their second and final album, and was used as the walk-on music for Daniel Kitson's A Made Up Story show in 2003. It's lovely.

Brundle-Fly

A Good Day To Be You - MC Honky.  Released on B Unique in 2002.







This luscious but cheesy orchestral spoken word track is not really indicative of the whole Beck in funk mode vibe of this fun album curio. It's weird to think Andy Partridge of XTC was suggested as a producer for this but he declined as he didn't think he was 'groovy' enough for the project.

I Am the Messiah is the only album by MC Honky, released in 2002. Supposedly a middle-age disc jockey from Silverlake, California, MC Honky is promoted by, and widely considered to be, Mark Oliver Everett (or "E") with Koool G Murder of Eels

To support the album, an actor would open Eels shows as Honky, to "prove" that he and E were two separate persons. E and MC Honky also engaged in a comic feud on the Internet, in which E hoped MC Honky would catch SARS.

The creator of the MC Honky artwork and videos is Ivan Brunetti.

A Good Day To Be You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJHc-HNx-I0

Shhh...don't tell Jamie but here's a more typical upbeat Hammond organ-driven track.

Sonnet No.3 (Like A Duck)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok-S5RN2keA


jamiefairlie

Interpol - PDA

https://youtu.be/-wyeuzCktC4



Released as the first single from their debut studio album, Turn on the Bright Lights, on August 22, 2002.

Ballad of Ballard Berkley

Ladytron - Seventeen (Soulwax Mix)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5AzVmJ6nus

Ladytron's original mix of this was released as the first single from their second album, Light & Magic. It reached the giddy heights of # 68 in the hit parade.

QuoteLadytron are an English electronic-music band from Liverpool. The band's name was taken from the song by Roxy Music (obviously). Brian Eno, once a member of Roxy Music, said in 2009: "Ladytron are, for me, the best of English pop music. They're the kind of band that really only appears in England, with this funny mixture of eccentric art-school dicking around and dressing up, with a full awareness of what's happening everywhere musically, which is kind of knitted together and woven into something quite new."

daf

Mr Smash & Friends - You're Blind



B-side of the single "We're Coming Over" - reached #67 in the UK charts in June 2002

QuoteMr Smash & Friends was formed by Madness vocalist Chas Smash with The England Supporters Band.



The press release read : "Madness' Chas Smash has delivered what will surely be the unofficial World Cup anthem for Our Lads' jaunt into the Far East this summer. Chas and a host of friends have got together with the England Supporters Band to record 2002's definitive football anthem, We're Coming Over. The track features the England Supporters Band's classic rendition of the theme to The Great Escape - known and loved by every England fan - together with Chas' epic roll-call of the England squads from 1966 to the present day."

Gregory Torso

Out Hud - The L Train Is A Swell Train And I Don't Want To Hear You Indies Complain



Out Hud featured ex-members of the riotgrrl band Raooul (who released a split LP with Skinned Teen) and a couple of guys from !!! and played a similar kind of electronic-rock-groove as that band, although for their first album they were purely instrumental. This is the centrepiece of their album S.T.R.E.E.T.D.A.D. and evolves over its long running time from a dancey indie electro track into some really sweet cello and guitar strum asmr


Gregory Torso

Plush - No Education



Plush is essentially Liam Hayes who plays proper pop music on a piano.

He appears briefly in High Fidelity playing one of his songs on his proper piano.

The album Fed, released in 2002, was followed two years later by Underfed, which featured demo versions of songs from Fed (some of them much better than the album, in my opinion).

Brundle-Fly

I was going to nom that, Gregory. Fed is another unsung great lost album.


Ballad of Ballard Berkley

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on September 12, 2021, 07:05:03 PM
Just for Ballad of BB, moody cinematic electronica from the other fella from Arab Strap.

Aww, thanks!!

Brundle-Fly

My Rules - The Futureheads  Released on Project Cosmonaut in 2002.





Taken from their debut EP. And so, the recycling of rock music soldiers on in earnest and ever-decreasing circles. This could've quite easily been released in 1978, but hey, they're a solid Nu-New Wave band who soon developed their own individual sound.

The Futureheads are an English post-punk rock band from Sunderland, UK, active since 2000. Between 2006 and 2008 they set up Nul Records to release their own material. Lineup: Barry Hyde - vocals, guitar, David Craig - bass, Ross Millard - vocals, guitar and Dave Hyde - drums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eUUrz1hpl8

jamiefairlie

Sigur Rós - Samskeyti

https://youtu.be/e8SHfKN11DE



Studio version appears on third album "( )", this is a beautiful live version taken from their "Heima" film.

Brundle-Fly

Ska'd For Life (Instrumental) - Orbital    Released on DMC in 2002.



Taken from the Back To Mine compilation series, an Orbital one-off track tipping a nod to ska. We've covered the Hartnolls back in 2000.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F1OEdwa60M

Mull Historical Society - Watching Xanadu



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_99BfZ3M88

MHS were the project of a Colin MacIntyre, from the Isle of Mull. 'Watching Xanadu' was a minor hit on the mainland, reaching no. 36 in the UK singles chart in 2002, presumably the second-highest charting single by anyone from a Mull, behind MHS's 2003 single 'The Final Arrears', which reached no. 32.

Runrig, from the Isle of Skye, have had higher-charting singles, but let them not trouble us here. Mick MacNeil, former keyboardist from Simple Minds, who hailed from the Isle of Barra, also featured on some charting singles. 'Watching Xanadu', failed to climb as high as 'Mull of Kintyre' by Wings, which reached no. 1 in 1977, and was about the Mull of Kintyre, the headland at the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula, and hence nothing to do with the Isle of Mull. Mull Historical Society failed even to match Arthur Mullard and Hylda Baker, who reached no. 22 in 1978 with their cover version of 'You're The One That I Want', so I have considered this song to be eligible for this thread.


Brundle-Fly

Monorail - Pugwash   Released on Vélo in 2002.





Barry Admin's age-old fellow Irish CaB nemesis but fuck me, he's a musical genius!

Pugwash are an Irish pop band fronted by Drimnagh-born musician Thomas Walsh. Pugwash has released six albums since its debut LP Almond Tea in 1999. Influences on the band's sound are regularly cited as including XTC, Electric Light Orchestra and Jeff Lynne, the Beach Boys, the Kinks, Honeybus and the Beatles,  though Walsh dismisses the Beatles comparisons as "lazy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwa3DNeVMKA

jamiefairlie

The Organ - I Am Not Surprised

https://youtu.be/6zs9yuTWrTE



Formed in Vancouver in 2001. This is from their second EP, "Sinking Hearts". They officially broke up in December 2006, due to illness and personal conflicts in the band.

DrGreggles

Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine - She Hates Me
[Allen/Scantlin] {Surfdog Records}
(taken from the Tuxicity album)



Imagine being able to make a Puddle of Mudd song bearable.


Brundle-Fly

Sowing Song - Candidate     Released on Snowstorm in 2002.





Stand out track from the superb The Wicker Man (1973) inspired Nu-Folk album, Nuada by the underrated Candidate. Composed before the suspiciously similar The Piccolo Snare by SFA.

Candidate are an indie band from the United Kingdom, whose music has been described as folk rock, "full of gentle, dark soundscapes" and an "overflowing sink" Joel Morris - vocals, acoustic guitar, Alex Morris - electric and acoustic guitars, vocals
Ian Painter - bass guitar, vocals, production.

Comedy fans will know brothers Joel and Alex Morris are the co-creators of The Framley Examiner website, Bollocks to Alton Towers, Adult Ladybird books, and write for Charlie Brooker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzwVPFPhBDg

daf


Brundle-Fly

Leaving Home - International Pony   Released on Columbia in 2002.





God, I loved this track. Almost proto-Frank Ocean?

International Pony is a band from Hamburg, Germany. It was formed in 1998 by Stefan Kozalla also known as DJ Koze, Daniel Sommer also known as Cosmic DJ, and by Carsten Meyer well known as Erobique. International Pony have released the albums We love Music (2002), Bass is Boss (2004) and Mit Dir Sind Wir Vier (2006).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Gpb6JESNg

Brundle-Fly

Quote from: Smeraldina Rima on September 12, 2021, 07:57:14 PM
Richard Youngs - Bloom of All



The second song on May, recorded in Christmas 2000, Easter 2001 and the last day of May 2001 in Harpenden, England.

That's delightful!

Thanks all. I was wrong about giving up on this thread post 20th Century. Great stuff being nommed. Silly stick in the mud, me!