Coldplay, Starsailor & the Stereophonics: Ten Years Earlier

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Imagine that these bands appeared in 1992 and you were hearing their songs on the radio then rather than now. Would you react to it any differently? Does their music sound turgid and uninspiring in 2002 because we've heard it all before and they're simply re-treading tried and tested ground, or would their music sound just as poor and unexciting had they appeared some ten years earlier?

― MarkH, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes (maybe) to Coldplay, no to the other two.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Had you said Travis, that would have hit the nail on the head for me...sort of post-baggy James revisited.

By the way Matt, hi...& where has everyone from the old boards gone??

― Jez, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think any of the above would have sounded *exciting* as such in 1992. Coldplay would have been mildly intriguing at the time, if only because the whole Buckley thing hadn't been done to death by then.

The other two bands are just plain dire so therefore the music would NEVER have sounded remotely exciting or inspired. Unless the year in question was 1949, perhaps.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

By the way Matt, hi...& where has everyone from the old boards gone?? Check Killmusic :)
― Matt DC, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wouldn't we have all gone ... oh more House of Love / Creation jangly guitar rubbish? (Or am I jsut so ignorant that I can't tell the difference?)
Actually I keep liking Travis songs when I hear them. I'm scared senility is setting in.
― phil, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah ha ... watch this

Ta da!

― phil, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Senility would only set in if you're willing to go see them in twenty years time at Butlins.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I find it hard to imagine these terrible bands sounding exciting in the 1930s, say, or even the Middle Ages. Boo, give us something fresh and exciting like Greensleeves again, the crowds would be roaring.

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I never listened to the Top 40 then so I wouldn't have heard those bands, and a life without ever hearing the Stereophonics would be a very happy one.

― DG, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I woulda felt the exact same way about them. They just don't rock.

― jel --, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Their suckage is timeless.

― Andrew L, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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