Whatever happened to Neds Atomic Dustbin?

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Ned's - best forgotten about, don't you think?

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(There wasn't much going on in Wolverhampton in the early nineties.)

in fairness its good, solid hi-tech rock music, but i haven't played the thing in years.

I liked Kulkarni mostly but that review just seems bitter about 18-yr-old nerds making friends

As for what happened to them, I dunno, and no, there was never a closet there, we just redid the drywall for effect.

Was that "All I Ask Of Myself Is That I Hold It Together"?

i just watched the video for "grey cell green", shit sounded pretty great today for some reason.

"Kill Your Television" still sounds fresh to me, but lots of their stuff..... ummmm......... not so much.

weird see cuz i just watched "kill your television" and it seemed pretty bad now.

Fair enough -- that's pretty much how I perceive "Grey Cell Green."

"De-SI-re!"

I love "Capital Letters" off that first album. The line "she'll break some hearts when she grows up/mine is one" kills me, though it looks corny written out like this.

God, "I'm Not Sleeping Around" polluted college radio far too long in '93.

IT'S IN-SIDE MEEEEEEEEE

re-united.

Neds will play God Fodder from start to finish in London, the city where it was recorded, on Saturday 19th December 2009 at 02 Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Needless to say, Neds will be playing the rest of your faves too. This will be Ned’s only other club show of 2009.

It has been found...

OK I'll admit it - I still love "Grey CEll Green". In fact, I listened to it on my way into work.

Happy is still a fave of mine, Grey Cell Green not far behind.

who the hell is clamoring for a live performance of God Fodder by a long gone "120 minutes" band?

Ned's Atomic Raggett

Indeed.

Ned's Atomic Trifle works more, though.

ned, what DID happen to your atomic dustbin? what if that thing fell into the hands of al-qaeda or something??

the most useless reunion ever? they were shite then, they will be even worse now. additionally i don't get that thing about playing old popular albums from start to finish today. that's extremely uncool. has rock music mutated into some sort of modern classic or what?

I always managed to avoid them for the most part, but I did like 'Happy' quite a bit.

Can seriously see this being some sort of tipping point for the whole 'play the album from start to finish' gig thing

IT HAS BEEN FOUND!

This is one of those bands, that like...made a lot of sense when I was 20 years old, but damn I'd feel mighty weird listening to them now.

first song to come up on random today for my bike ride into work? grey cell green.

Saint Etienne are doing Foxbase Alpha in order for 2 shows in London this year.

saint etienne? really? another shit band of the 90s. foxbase alpha again? that is vile.

Oh, i completely disagree with you. Foxbase Alpha is one of my favorite albums. Performing it in order is going to be great.

BTW, New Order were the first band I ever heard of doing this when they played Substance in order during a California show in 87 or 88.

Pink Floyd, Yes, Gong etc used to do it all the time back in the day.

Substance is a singles collection, though, and NO would just have been doing it to be contrary.

Seriously, this "playing albums live" shit is an abomination. I was cross about it earlier on, too, when I read about some other fucking no-marks reforming to do it (can't remember who, though). Self-important fannybawed dicks.

The only band who's done that thing right was Sparks last year, when they did literally every album in that London stand -- if you're going to go, go all in. And even then the whole point of the conclusion of the run, when they performed their newest album in full for the first time and then at the end of the set 'burned' all their previous albums one by one until only the newest remained, was that the past was and is nice and comforting and all but they're focused on the present.

Mastodon has been doing the whole album thing for their latest album on the current tour and it works pretty well, considering its a concept album. They put on a hell of a show, so I'm not willing to entirely dismiss the whole "play album front to back" quite yet.

who the hell is clamoring for a live performance of God Fodder by a long gone "120 minutes" band?

dudes they "reformed" in 2000 and just play a Christmas show every year, this is obv just a fun way to make the tenth iteration of that slightly different

Not for nothin', but I flew over to see the Wonder Stuff's reunion shows in London in 2000. I'm sure there are plenty who'd do the same for the Neds.

Mastodon has been doing the whole album thing for their latest album on the current tour and it works pretty well, considering its a concept album. They put on a hell of a show, so I'm not willing to entirely dismiss the whole "play album front to back" quite yet

That's a totally different case, though, as you say! Given the nature of the new album, I can't really see what else they could do ... but if they rock up in 10 years' time and say, right, FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY we're doing Blood Mountain in its entirety or something, they too will go on the dicks-to-suck list.

And anyway: Mastodon are a band with more than one song worth listening to, unlike the bloody Neds.

Fair enough, esp on that last point! I was just playing devil's advocate and pointing out that the entire concept isn't rubbish. Doing it for pure nostalgia kinda is, though I have to admit to having loved seeing Sonic Youth doing Daydream Nation. That was fun.

I think it's basically down to whether or not you are a huge fan of the band or not. I mean sensible types will say "Sparks -yay! Neds - LOL!" but there's a handful of mentalists, probably in the North of England who have not only been waiting for this for 15 years, but are also wishing the Mega City 4 were doing Tranzophobia at the same show. With 8 months to go until this legendary event occurs, I'm anticipating something bizarre like this being added to the bill.

The only time I've seen this done was when Brian Wilson did Pet Sounds at the Puyallup Fair, but if memory serves, he mixed up the running order and maybe played some extra songs in the middle. I love him so it was great.

I was listening back through a lot of their stuff, since Anna was talking about them on Freakytrigger radio show -- the good stuff still sounds great to me, although I suppose I don't have any big feelings for some of the, umm, deeper cuts. But I listened through most of the odd-and-ends compilation and enjoyed the hell out of it.

horrible video but the audio is pretty XD w/ crowd participation

Haha there is a vocals-and-strings version of "Cut Up!" And "Twenty-Three-Hour Toothache!" And "Flexible Head!" And "45 Second Blunder!"

"God Fodder" is a fun record from a happy time. Classic album? No. But it's got a lot of good songs on it. "Happy", "Kill Your Television", "Until You Find Out", and "Grey Cell Green" all still sound great to me. I'm glad to hear that they're still playing together.

Ha, god, I remember my flatmate playing me that vocals-and-strings version of Cut Up many years ago. I think I liked it, actually. Then again, I'd have been stoned, so ...

I went to the God Fodder show tonight, and I agree with the post about this being the beginning of the end for the "play the classic album" format (although I did like being able to go to the bar/bog after about song 8 without worrying abut missing anything) because come on now...

But I was kinda shocked that I knew pretty much all the words to every song. I must like them more than I thought I did! Or I just listened to that album so much at school it's ingrained in my brain. It was a really fun gig.

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i feel a real need to listen to shit like this again ... i mean, it's been 20 years so it's about time no?!?

answer : nedstock 2013.

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