Eve of Destruction: Music and The Bomb

william_kent

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I think of them of more like a post-Berlin Wall band.
I dated someone around 91 that was well into them. I didn't get it all although I guess it was better than when everyone started suddenly dressing like lumberjacks later that year and left me thinking WTF IS HAPPENING?!

I once worked with someone whose ex-boss was a member, he asked me 'have you heard of" and I laughed, but maybe I'm really thinking of 'Bentley rhythm Ace"? No, the guy was actually from neds, they ended up being the manager of a north of england arts centre
 

william_kent

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there was a period of months, many moons ago, when Neds atomic dustbin, Bentley rhythm Ace, and Carter the unstoppable sex machine could actually headline reading festival

I suspect their 'we need to top up the pension' reunion tour will attract about 9 people to a backroom of a backstreet pub

#vagaries_of_fashion
 

0bleak

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I have no idea, but I suppose Grunge wasn't near as big over there so you didn't have to witness the depressing sight of almost an entire generation suddenly dressing like lumberjacks.
 

william_kent

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I have no idea, but I suppose Grunge wasn't near as big over there so you didn't have to witness the depressing sight of almost an entire generation suddenly dressing like lumberjacks.

@blissblogger: I'm pretty sure the NME / SOUNDS endorsement of the style propagated by NEDS ATOMIC DUSTBIN, CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE, and the also runners, BENTLEY RHYTHM ACE had a name but it wasn't so snappy and I fail to remember it... can you enlighten us?
 

Murphy

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The Wonderstuff critique done in A+++ hate eloquence mentioned elsewhere here a few times might mention them, too tired to get the name of the writer, epic rage laser focused
 

0bleak

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@blissblogger: I'm pretty sure the NME / SOUNDS endorsement of the style propagated by NEDS ATOMIC DUSTBIN, CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE, and the also runners, BENTLEY RHYTHM ACE had a name but it wasn't so snappy and I fail to remember it... can you enlighten us?

grebo? baggy?
I would have taken that all day over lumberjack.
 

Murphy

cat malogen
It’s like Paul Calf channelling Nietzsche

fried, can’t think clearly, had multiple deaths this week and I’m in a corridor off the main ward full of distraught relatives
 

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blissblogger

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@blissblogger: I'm pretty sure the NME / SOUNDS endorsement of the style propagated by NEDS ATOMIC DUSTBIN, CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE, and the also runners, BENTLEY RHYTHM ACE had a name but it wasn't so snappy and I fail to remember it... can you enlighten us?

Neds Atomic seem possibly construable as 'late grebo'

One of Bentley Rhythm Ace used to be in grebo-aligned turned cackhanded-samplers Pop Will Eat itself

NME came up with a bunch of genres terms that didn't catch on, I can't remember the exact terms but things along the lines of 'snaggle rock'
 

catalog

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"bentleys gonna sort you out" was a class tune. Brummie car boot sale enthusiasts



I file them next to skint, proppelerheads etc. The brit pop counterculture.
 

catalog

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