Three from Simon

Simon, Alice and I stayed up til about 3.30 on Tuesday night searching for old videos from our Indie pop past.
Here are three Simon picked out:

The Charlatans



and the Sultans of Ping FC

Sometimes Always

Had to post another Jesus and Mary Chain video, this time the one with Hope Sandoval from Mazzy Star. In 1994 I was still obsessed with JAMC and totally fell in love with this song. I went to see their tour that year after buying a ticket for April and my French teacher.



Jim Reid and Hope Sandoval were the biggest power couple in my universe in the 90's. Move over Beyonce and Jay-Z.

Heavenly - "Our Love Is Heavenly"

Rip It Up

Sexuality

The first gig I ever went to was Billy Bragg, supported by Michelle Shocked and The BeatNigs. I went with my Dad and there was a boy from school sat in the row in front of me. Dreamy.

For Ellie

The Telescopes

Lush - Nothing Natural

What girl in 1992 didn't want hair like Miki's?

Keeping in touch with our indie pop pasts

ooh can someone please add weddoes you should always keep in touch with your friends because it seems fairly apposite but i dont know how to do the technical stuff

i think the sentiments of the song reflect not just friends but indie pop pasts too- if that makes any sense at all

Sorry For Laughing

Wow, I loved/love this song! I don't quite know what's going on with the goo but oh well. Videos were weird back then.

Kandy Pop

Pull the wires from the wall

Ok so these are all a bit recent, but i'm trying to avoid making the bed and searching for videos from the past is more fun than building a bed.

Arab Strap

Mogwai

Mogwai were the first band to come along in a long time that gave me butterflies in the tummy again. I haven't listened to them for a while, but just found this and i've got butterflies back again. I remember playing this really really loud when I worked in the record shop with Duncan. Mogwai were responsible for much of my bad behaviour in my mid twenties, they were responsible for my sister hooking up with her best ever boyfriend, they were responsible for me and Yuko going to Glasgow for no other reason than to visit the 13th note club. I got in so many places for free in those days, I felt like indie pop royalty, but really I was just a fat girl who talked about making zines and worked for a record company. I never thought I was a groupie, I always thought it was all about the music (and the beer), but maybe I was actually really annoying back then.

Ok so there's got to be some new music around that will make me feel like this again. I can't be totally stuck in the past can I?

Just like Honey

Why are you being so unreasonable now?

My Favourite Dress

Girlfriend in a coma

I went on a You Tube posting frenzy over on Livejournal yesterday, seems like a lot of my friends over there have similar late 80s/early 90s musical pasts, with a fondness for The Wedding Present and Jesus and Mary Chain ranking pretty high on the list. I said 'we should set up a blog just for posting videos on' and some people said 'that's a good idea' . So I did.

If you want to post to this let me know and i'll add you to the list of people who can depress us with their fondness for The Smiths.