You know, Belly. They had the songs, “Feed The Tree,” and, “Gepetto.” I love this band, almost as much as The Beatles.
The put out two albums and then disappeared. I mean disappeared. A Google search brings up nothing but old information.
The lead singer’s sister was in The Stone Roses.
Anyone have any information at all?
well, theres http://www.tanyadonelly.com/news.html , but that hasn’t been updated since middle of last year. Thats from a google of Tanya Donnelly.
Perhaps she’s concentrating on bringing up her daughter?
From the liner notes of Sweet Ride / The Best Of:
The force that pulled this group together and made it good - the differences in our personalities - was untimately a centrifugal force, and we flew apart.
-Tanya Donelly
She did do some work on the latest Throwing Muses CD, which isn’t bad.
Um, what?
Kristen Hersh, Donelly’s step-sister, is in Throwing Muses. No females ever in the Stone Roses.
Donelly started Throwing Muses with Hersh, and later split to help form the Breeders with Kim Deal (when it was Deal’s side project from the Pixies), and then Belly.
well, kinda!
I got the chance to meet Belly and Radiohead after their sets at a small club back in '94. Both bands BLEW the audience away, they rocked! I knew a radio DJ who would hook me up with backstage intro’s and whatnot. I met Tool this way. I say again, Belly and Radiohead rocked the house! They did a few songs together, as well, and that was just incredible. What an encore! It was a real thrill to meet them.
I’m sorry, but this question is a little too late, doncha think?
It’s like asking what happened to Mission of Burma or Golden Earring or Kid Ory or Antonio Vivaldi’s ensemble.
Ancient history, man. Let it go, and be thankful they got big enough to make a recording you could lay your hands on.
But to be more helpful, I suggest you plug their name, or the name of any other music artist you ever liked, into http://www.allmusic.com
I stand corrected. I have always confused *The Stone Roses * and Throwing Muses. Don’t ask me why. The sister was in Throwing Muses.
Kind of like how I always confuse *The Spiral Carpets * and the Affordable Floors. One of the two are from Pittsburgh, and I always get it wrong on which one it is.
Wow. I remember circa '93 and '94 a lot of good alternative music coming out. As it turns out, looks like Ms. Donnelly was one of the central figures pushing that music. And I never knew it. Hmmm…
That is so depressing that they broke up. I just never knew it. You see, I kind of stumbled upon Belly’s first album, Star. I knew of them from Feed The Tree and bought that album on a whim. It was that same visit that I bought Lucious Jackson’s first major album. I loved both albums. I wore Star out!
Then about two years later I just happened to be in a different music store and bought King and Lucious Jackson’s second album at the same time then, as well. Again, I wore out King.
I had just assumed that some day in the near future I would walk into a music store and see Belly’s third album.
Well, a couple years quickly turned into a decade.
Belly trully was a spectacular band. I will miss them.
And, Sanguine Spider, exactly what kind of favors did you have to perform to get backstage with Belly, Radiohead, and Tool? Hmmmm?
No favors of that kind. I just knew the right person to get me backstage… a DJ. NOT that I’m some sort of groupie for alternative bands or anything. I had no agenda. My pal even took me out on my 22nd birthday and I found out how much Goldschlager (sp?) hates me. One sniff even now makes me want to vomit. And I was trying to hold down an intelligent conversation with the singer for a band whose name escapes me right now but they only had one CD and one hit but I thought they were great. I was trying not to act like some drunken barfly/groupie as I slurred and swayed on my feet but he seemed to take it in stride. I don’t remember how I got home that night… my pal is a gentleman though.
I’ve also met Live, got to go backstage at their show but I did not get to meet Luscious Jackson who opened for them. I knew a guy who worked security and he got me two free tickets and two passes. The DJ also took me for free to see Primus when they were doing some sort of barbeque promotion/contest before their show. I wasn’t the contest winner but was able to meet the band anyway.
Too bad I never had the chance to meet Led Zeppelin, Heart (early years) or Pink Floyd.
And, frankly, that should get her her very own display cabinet in the Hall of Fame.
Them’s some GOOD bands, folks.
Another good place to look is www.rollingstone.com, their Artists A-Z section. Unfortunately, their entry on Belly stops dead at 1996, when the bafd broke up and Tanya Donnelly pursued a solo career. Apparently, dismal sales for King, and a backbreaking tour to support an album that was getting no airplay or chart action, broke them up. I can think of some other bands that should’ve cut their losses while they still had the love and goodwill of their fan base.
Since I got some good feedback on this thread, I’m going to take it to the next level and tell you why I started it in the first place. Recently, my wife had her ten year high school reunion. At the reunion the DJ was playing nothing but Jay-Z (sp?) and Ashanti and Beyonce. I know none of this music. This kind of was a downer for everyone, so we were brainstorming on what kind of music was popular with us in the '93 and '94 timeframe. Here’s what we came up with, in no particular order:
We tried to keep up with the latest trends, our group, but we always had the fallback, backup bands of Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, and Jimi Hendrix to listen to.
12 is 4 Non-Blondes.
Nyeh, we all go through each stage.
'93 and '94 had some awesome alternative albums from female artists.
Here are just some that I have listened to recently:
Breeders - Last Splash
Lisa Germano - Geek The Girl
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
Portishead - Dummy
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Laika - Silver Apples of the Moon
Luscious Jackson - Natural Ingredients
Kristin Hersh - Hips and Makers
Bjork - Debut
But the best of the bunch, and my favorite album of any type from those years, is Star. I had such a crush on Tanya… and I have yet to make it through Star without crying a little during Low Red Moon.
I have to admit I am pretty jealous of SanguineSpider; I never saw Belly live. 
Inspiral Caprets, maybe? I couldn’t find anything on The Spiral Carpets. I could be wrong here, though.
(I promise, Chicago Faucet, I’m not picking on you for not getting these things quite right. Just trying to help.)
Inspiral Caprets were British. Cool band. Life is probably their best album.
Noel Gallagher of Oasis used to roadie for them.
King was so underrated by most everyone, including myself, when it came out. I appreciate it much more now than I did then. It’s kinda like how the Cure’s album Wish was overlooked because it happened to the follow the greatness that is Disintegration.
Darn tootin’.
The first half of the 90’s spawned some great music. Any other shoegazers here? You couldn’t pry my Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, etc. CDs from my cold, dead hands. I went to so many Catherine Wheel shows (including a double-headline with Belly) I’ve lost count. I’m starting to here the influence of such groups in newer bands.
To add more to Chicago Faucet’s and Nightime’s lists of great artists from the first half of the 90’s:
Ash (“Girl From Mars” might be one of the best pop songs ever)
Radiohead
Adorable
Sebadoh
Yo La Tengo
Curve
Sugar
And a bunch of others I can’t recall at the moment.
Bump
Anyone? Beuller?
The wife has the underwhelming Tanya Donnelly solo stuff and she still listens to those two Belly albums. It is funny cause Belly was kind of how we met. Ya see, I was acquaintances with this really dweeby guy who was the organizer of the Belly Mailing List (the fact that the site exists is really kind of creeping me out – copyright 1995!!!). This guy was in love with this girl. She regards him as a curious specimen. I knew the girl through a series of other friends. I ask girl out (before I knew dweeby guy was totally in love, not that it would have really stopped me), dweeby guy basically freaks out and has his “tuff” roomates threaten me at the ever-so climactic Belly show at the dearly departed Liberty Lunch in Austin. Oh and he tries to ‘hack’ my computer. And tells her that I was only using her for the sex (like there is any other reason to date a woman…)
Eventually, I marry said girl and buy house and impregnate her. So in some fashion, I suppose he was right.
In other news, a quick Google search reveals that the other Boston girl rocker of the day, Juliana Hatfield, is still out there releasing music. And last year’s Breeders disc (Title TK) is underrated. It is good, especially if you are into the Pixies.
Ah, Sebadoh.
I swear that the name of the band was The Spiral Carpets. But I wouldn’t be surprised if you could not find anything on the Internet. They went defunct long before the Internet became commercially successful. *The Spiral Carpets * had a few minor hits on 120 Minutes.
Yep, sounds like Inspiral Carpets.
“Borrow” the following songs from Kazaa or Gnutella:
From the album Life: “Commercial Rain”, “This Is How It Feels”. “She Comes In The Fall”
From Revenge Of The Goldfish: “Two Worlds Collide” (probably their biggest hit on 120 Minutes), “Dragging Me Down”, “Generations”
Sigh…I thought I was the only guy who had a crush on Tanya Donnelly. Ooooh.
I thought the Throwing Muses were releasing a reunion album–really more like a Kristen and Tanya reunion. Looking around the 'net, it looks like it never happened. I note, however, that Tanya remains as hot as ever.
Let us not forget Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville…