Stay tuned, as they say. These are three monster bands that people often name-drop when reliving the incredible and renowned legacy of ’90s … Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci: If proof were needed there isn’t a God, then just look at the success of the Stereophonics and the fact Gorky’s stayed relatively below the radar. WhatsApp. Pages in category "British indie rock groups" The following 158 pages are in this category, out of 158 total. Although the genre originated and was cultivated on independent labels, it is no longer exclusive to them. Criteria: Artists are ranked by their influence, musical and cultural impact, popularity, and innovation.This list considers "indie rock" to be a genre with a discernible sound rather than a designation of label status. INSPIRED BY PUNK, angered by Thatcher and in love with ’60s culture, the UK indie scene produced some of the greatest (and oddest) pop records of all time. Birdland were pathetic. No one bought it but that didn’t make it any less brilliant. It may sound harsh, but life’s too short to put oneself through such a wringer. Since their inception at the end of the 80s, The Wildhearts have split up and reformed again no less than five times – whenever they split up they somehow end up rocking together again. Nirvana. So, without further ado, here is my definitive list of the top UK indie bands of the early 1990s. These Animal Men: Brighton’s These Animal Men had it all; the swagger, the cool threads, the major label deal and the rock star behaviour. Tiger: Princes Risborough’s finest sons and daughter emerged just as Britpop was dissipating and at the moment Embrace were being held up as indie’s new darlings for one boring second, Tiger weren’t; they were however getting on with the task of being dead good. Their sound was genuine 1960s heritage in timbre. These 100 bands and artists' music helped define the "alternative" rock era of the '90s and influenced the next generation of indie rock this century. “It wasn’t all about laddish terrace anthems and Blur versus Oasis,” explains the veteran BBC 6 Music DJ. No it wasn’t. Strangelove: Bristol’s Strangelove were led by the wonderfully peculiar Patrick Duff, and they somehow channelled the spirit of glam rock and the darkness of Joy Division at the same time. After one album and a falling out they dissolved in 1999, but last year they came back with a magnificent album called ‘Play For Today’, a record you’ve almost certainly not checked out and one you would be foolish not to. Indie pop forever FTW! Their debut 1999 EP – ‘Mathematics’ – is a lost classic, although not in France and Italy, where the group were rightfully cherished. ‘Sleep’ made a top 20 splash, then singer Jaime Harding was arrested selling stolen garden gnomes for crack and things went downhill from there on in. Lush’s music was hook-laden, harmonic and edgy. NME cover stars with much expected of them, they criminally only released one album – A Life With Brian – and split a few years later due to a lack of productivity. The Servant: Formed partially from the remnants of underground artpop collective Minty (led by the late great Leigh Bowery), The Servant named themselves after a tremendously creepy Dirk Bogarde movie and featured the simian-obsessed Dan Black on vocals. Diese Liste zählt deutsche Rockbands auf. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead. Most of it in the UK in the early-1990s. Their debut album ‘Drink Me’ made no.16 in the UK charts. Babylon Zoo: Jas Mann (not to be confused with Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman) must have exploded with joy when ‘Spaceman’ was chosen for the new Levis advert in 1995. 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