Defend The Indefensible: Reef

(That is not a defense... as far as I am concerned, there is none. We had to endure ALL of their singles at ALL of the school discos, for one thing, which made them even more hellish than they already were.)

except it actually sounds like Robbie Williams

Oh yes, and does anyone remember "Yer Old"?

They were probably quite good at surfing. And they're not the Stereophonics.

That's the best I can manage.

You hate fun.

fin

1; They're from the South West.
2; They're good at football.
3; I do a fucking mean Gary Stringer impression.
4; One of them was called Kenwyn House which is surely the name of some stately home somewhere.
5; They do that retro-rock holler thing MUCH better than Kings Of Leon, who are just boring by comparison but get props cos they're really American.
6; I do a fucking mean Gary Stringer impression.

That's it.

• "Place your hands" was not too bad....
• In the videogram for the gramophone of the same name, the long haired bloke with the voice wears a grey cardigan not unlike the one I wore to school in my younger days!!!!

"Just found out that they took their name by jumbling the letters around in the name of their favorite band, Free."

amazing

Mighta faired better if they'd called themselves FEER.

And they're not the Stereophonics.

This is a flawless defence of anything in the world, except the Stereophonics.

PUT YOUR FINGURRRRRRRRRRRRRZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
IN MOIIIIIIIII HOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL#
ALLLLLLLROIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHTT

I quite like the AROIGHT-AH! bit.

As far as singalong student anthems of the late 90s go, there's a lot worse.

The guy's gurny face is quite amusing.

whenever i hear of this band i think of "it's your letters, it's your letters" above all else.
moral = if you are reef, even chris evans is going to make fun of you.

they were not as bad as the more 'serious' retro bands of the late 90s.

They had a number of bands doing an 'It's Your Letters' jingle on TFI, and Reef won a phone vote as I remember. The runner-up was Faith No More, with Mike Patton screaming the line over distorted guitars. But for a quirk of fate, Patton could be known in this country to this day primarily as the 'It's Your Letters' guy.

The most useless box set ever!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/93-03-Complete-Recorded-Works/dp/B007X4JDNQ/ref=sr_1_6?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1358782196&sr=1-6

They only made four studio albums, what exactly is there to put on 9 CDs?

Their unreleased masterpiece, Fart Sounds

ILX pre-covers... no wait don't bother.

Maybe Chief Keef and Reef could collaborate on an album called 'That's How I Spell Relief'.

or 'releef'

No results found for "gary stringer bell".

kind of surprised by this tbh?

Just found out that they took their name by jumbling the letters around in the name of their favorite band, Free. A shame, that

The fact that they loved Free was enough to get me to pull up "Place Your Hands" on YouTube.

(elapsed time = 30 seconds)

Fuck this band.

ftr the lyric is "place your hands on my hope". similar to "Kiss On My Lips", one wouldn't place their hands ON one's hole, but IN it. it wrecks the perfection of the rhyme but well...that's Reef.

(and yes I know the song is "Kiss on My List", but that was another 'misheard'.)

fuck this band

shan’t

I once saw Reef and Kula Shaker (when they were The Kays) on the same bill and it was, well, a really good show.

I'll get my coat.

PUT YOUR HANDS ON
PUT YOUR HANDS ON

lol this band really seems to be stuck in your head Neanderthal, judging by the last three revives

when it gets into my head, it's hard to get out.

no idea why it's in there today, somebody must have said "place your hands"

a friend of mine who was briefly enamoured of reef said to another friend around the time of their first album (1995 or so) that they were the best band since nirvana. still bringing that up today.

lol instantly thought PUT YOUR HANDS ON when I saw this thread title, good grief this band

I had forgotten I ever listened to this band, but this was me:

The fact that they loved Free was enough to get me to pull up "Place Your Hands" on YouTube.

(elapsed time = 30 seconds)

Fuck this band.

Listening now, they kinda sound like Rare Earth, who I have come to like, but the vocalist is awful, 10000x worse than the dude from Rare Earth. (It amuses me that Reef have a seven-minute song called "Robot Riff" that's seven minutes long, but I'm not about to listen to it. And if Rare Earth had done it, it would have been 17 minutes.) So once again, fuck this band.

he sounds like Mick Jagger being vivisected

so basically like Mick Jagger

AND THE WAY THAT I FEEL RIGHT NOW
OH LORD IT MAY GO