FWIW, I also remember the Catherine Wheel.
My list of 1990s, ‘where are they now’, flying-under-most people’s-radar music (I’m sure that some of you will know these…):
Uzeda was from Italy and they toured around the US with Don Caballero and it seemed that for that one summer about 10 years ago they were set to get big.
I loved Codeine in the early 90s. I have no idea what’s happened to them or any of the members.
Another band from 10 years ago that makes a lot of people scratch their head is Acetone. Their album Cindy is not highly innovative or at the top of the technical proficiency list, but I love it still the same.
Bastro’s early albums kick total ass and yet not many people know of them. They were a three piece formed by David Grubbs (later in gastr del sol), some other dude who used to be in Squirrel Bait, and John McIntyre (Tortoise, Sea&Cake, etc). This is the last album I know of where McIntryre plays straight ROCK on the drums and he simply kills it. Bastro is tight, high energy, and IMO terribly under-appreciated.
I liked Codeine. Really good super slow stuff .Unfortunately the music i had of theirs was on cassette, and i dont have them anymore. The Catherine Wheel were a mediocre also ran band from the tail end of the ‘shoe gazing’ scene (early 90s) which also included Slowdive, Ride & My Bloody Valentine.
Ive mentioned them before on this board, but The God Machine were one of my favourite bands, and very few people i’ve met have heard them.
I really liked Come too, and saw them live supporting Dinosaur, which must have been 92 or 93. Chris Brokaw was their guitarist, but i havent heard any of his new stuff.
I’m going to check out Bastro though. McIntyres drumming rules, as indeed do his production skills.
English band Lush, who had one great song the title of which eludes me (snippet of lyric “I’m still unsure, you think it’s okay what you did to me, 'cause I’m so bad to him.”) and the rest was nice enough, but completely forgotten by me now.
I also still own an album by The Blue Aeroplanes which I listen to about once every four years, but won’t throw out either.
A friend of mine had a tape copied of a friend of hers of a fabulous Italian world musicy band. But this friend didn’t write the name on the tape. Basic description:
-at least most of it is sung in Italian
-world music influence with some African sounding stuff and some reggae stylings as well
-one of the really best songs features the naming of a number of left wing/human rights political figures like Karl Marx, Che Guevara, Martin Luther King and numerous Italian names that I can’t remember
the only other thing that my friend knew is that she thinks one of the female singers is actually Finnish
Can anyone name them, I’d love to get a copy of the album.