Some guitar bands have become successful, oh yes, but few of them were "indie", indie like the Bluetones or Gene. Coldplay, Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys, Muse etc they're as far from indie as Beyonce (well, maybe not Arctic Monkeys ...)
Anyway, I'm babbling. I'm not here to write a thinkpiece. I'm here to sift through the dregs of post-Britpop indie-pop and stand up for a few songs that got lost in the whitewash, songs that are actually really rather good if you ask me thanks very much.
I'm not talking about great songs by great bands who got acclaim. I'm talking about songs by fly-by-nights which they hoped might make them stars but got tossed out with the rest of despised indie trash, or actually decent songs by bands that got reasonably big but people kind of hate. Sappy cack. Drippy shit. Hollyoaks manrock. Etc.
These are good songs. I swear.
- Trains to Brazil - The Guillemots
- She's Got you High - Mumm-ra
- Suzie - Boy Kill Boy
- Monday Morning 5.19 - Rialto
- What a Lovely Dance - Hal
- Blossoms Falling - Ooberman
- This Feeling - Puressence
- Four to the Floor - Starsailor (you had me til Starsailor, you're thinking)
- Never Lose Your Sense of Wonder - John Hassall
- What You Want - Spector
- Might Be Stars - Wannadies
- She Fell Into My Arms - Ed Harcourt
- Emily - Steven Fretwell
- If You Can't Do It When You're Young, When Can You Do It? - theaudience
- It's Not About the Weather - Alfie
- Julie Christie - Spearmint
- How to be Dead - Snow Patrol (yes, I'm extending this to Snow Patrol, but no further ...)
- Re-Instated - Shack
- On and On - Longpigs
- Into the Blue - Geneva
- The Underdog - Turin Brakes
- Let Your Shoulder Fall - Matthew Jay
- Language of Fools - Tom McRae
- My Brittle Heart - Lucky Soul
- I Would Fix You - Kenickie
- To You - I Am Kloot
- The Hymn for the Cigarettes - Hefner
- You'll Never Walk Again - Gene (talking of Gene)
- If - Bluetones (talking of ...)
- If You've Never Been I Love With Anything - Embrace (oof, pushing it now)
- Lose Yr Frown - Electric Soft Parade
- What I Meant to Say - Ben and Jason
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