#121

I loved the first Album. I think it was a mixture of Kelly Jones’ voice which didn’t sound like any singers around at the time. Short sharp punchy songs and interesting song titles and lyrics. I tried with the second album but it didn’t have the pizazz of the first.
I lost interest after that apart from a few bits and pieces. I actually really liked the version of Handbags and Gladrags they did.
I always thought it was sad that they were this bunch of friends from the valleys who grew up together but they ended up sacking their drummer (who always seemed nice in interviews) then he later died.
Anyway I have to give them a 3 for album number one alone and the other thing… we named our son Kelly! He’s 16 now.

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#122

Stuart Cable was a GBOL. Great first album, couple of fun singles off the second too. Solidarity for being Welsh and playing here loads, and I’m giving them a five to balance out all the middle class English people in here calling them boring

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#123

Always thought the P&C album cover was a strong image. Just read this about it on the wiki:

The cover photograph was taken by Scarlet Page in autumn 1998 at a football pitch under the Westway in London, and was inspired by an earlier Annie Leibovitz photograph of a couple kissing outside a prison. The British journalist Tony Barrell did extensive research in 2007 to find the female model in the foreground. In the Sunday Times on 11 November 2007, he revealed the previously unknown identity of the model as 23-year-old Lucy Joplin. In an interview with Barrell, Joplin explained that the “faraway look” in her eyes was the result of an evening consuming absinthe and opium, and that she was paid just £75 in cash for the shoot.[3] The name of the then 23-year-old male model is Kipp Burns on loan from Mannique models, King’s Road.

Should have called it Absinthe and Opium.

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#124

Seems like it!

#125

I think the handbags and gladrags cover from the office is pretty good too

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#126

absolute zero kelvin

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#127

Genuinely thought it was one I slept on so put it on and was all “Oh god, THIS is called Dakota?”. Shaking my head.

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#128

Not sure I agree, beyond the superficial “welsh power trio” thing. Feeder always felt like they owed way more to Nirvana and, later, Foo Fighters. I guess the ‘rockist’ way of expressing it would be that Feeder felt like a rock band who were embraced by the indie press, and Stereophonics (on the first couple of albums at least) were the opposite.

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#129

Always thought Local Boy In The Photograph was a good song

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#130

he is one of those singers that seems to have no dynamics or variation in his voice, just this solid block of sound whenever he opens his mouth

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#131

early Feeder stuff was more Smashing Pumpkins than Nirvana influenced

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#132

hope there are no more bands named after musical equipment though, it’s quite a lazy way to name a band, Radiohead, Stereophonics, LCD Soundsystem, Toploader, just all a bit lads mucking around in the garage isn’t it

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#133

Laptop

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#134

bet whoever is using that thought it was way cool

#135

I quite like how early Microphones at least went with it and had songs about pre-amps and feedback loops and stuff

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#136

I had a mate at school who was absolutely obsessed with the stereophonics - bought everything they did, saw them a whole bunch of times, etc. then she got really into the strokes instead, then ended up moving away and getting into drum n bass, which was a plot twist I didn’t see coming. anyway, that’s my one and only stereophonics anecdote.

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#137

yeah I guess it’s ok if it’s subversive and not just get stuck in meat & potatoes rock

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#138

100%, fucked my 90s references there

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#139

you know what’s a good band name?

Smashing Pumpkins

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#140

AKA Skrillex