An encyclopedia over all things highly forgettable.

The information you wish you didn’t remember, or knew in the first place. The horribly pointless stuff that keeps the mind from blooming out into the freedom and splendour it so much deserves.

The stuff that’s more often called 90:s Pop Trivia.

I can´t believe it´s…Airhead

Imagine this:

At one point in history, a record label deemed it to be a cool marketing ploy to make a strictly limited and numbered edition of a single with Airhead.

They were initially called Jefferson Airhead, but apparently the old potheads Jefferson Airplane wrote a cease and decist about using that name. The most amazing thing about that being that they’d actually heard of the sheer existence of Jefferson Airhead.

No one else has.

Limited in the Airhead-catalogue must surely mean single-digit numbers? Anyone knows? Anyone cares?

Swindie speak

Let’s open the gates of hell.

90′s Swedish indie – swindie – is the single most devestating source of mind exhausting super unnecessary trivia. You could start a new internet just for it.

This is going to be long and hard. Just let me introduce what’s maybe the perfect example – an icon – of this proud art form: Speaker.

* A short, neutral name prefarobly ending with “er”? Check

* Signed to highly forgettable label Stockholm Records? Check

* Drum and bass-remix? Check

* Moved from small town to Stockholm? Check

* Ambitions to make it big in Japan? Check

* Hot stuff in Expressen Fredag and regulars at Hannas Krog? Check

 

Apparently the first, Levis sponsored album did quite well for being major funded “indie”. So the follow-up’s budget shot through the roof and the band spent forever in Tibet to record their magnum opus: the Thomas Di Leva dressed Kula Shaker-like “Trace My Track”.

Haven’t heard it? Haven’t heard about it? Haven’t even seen it in the sales bin at Mediamarkt? Can’t hardly find a single article on the entire internet about it? But still it somehow scratches the back of your mind…

 

Speaker: “Vi cyklade nakna på stan.”
http://wwwc.aftonbladet.se/puls/9904/09/speaker.html

Cast metal box promo

The guy in The La´s who didn´t write “There She Goes” took out his frustrations with the ever-snoozing Lee Mavers on us, the consumers.

“It’s stoppin’ me dead tryin’ to make some tracks but my feet are feeling like lead
Stop being blead, stop being blead”

This was the golden days of corporate indie and money was rolling. Cast got to make a metal box promo for the album, exactly like PIL’s classic “Metal Box” album. Only this one wasn’t a classic.

I haven’t been able to find any proof of this on the web. But I know, because I sold it to a second hand store for SEK 40.

These Animal Men

Their guitarist called himself “La Hooligan”.

Gene-ric

What happens when four bankers get together after work?

Gene – that´s what.

As in “generic”

Elastica second album ever made?

The Moby Dick of indie?

A lot of signs points towards there actually being a second Elastica-album

There´s even a sleeve on the internet.

But no one seems to ever have heard it. And those who could´ve, doesn´t really talk about it.

There is a cover of Trio´s “Da da da” on it.

According to the unconfirmed rumours, of course.

There was a sighting of a copy of it at a Statoil petrolstation on the E4 outside of Gävle, Sweden (Tönnebro).

But once antropologists got there, it was missing again.

PS. This is getting scary. I actually have this LP and am about to prove it. Browsing my record collection. But. It. Is. Missing.

Kingmaker

You would think that a band who calls themselves Kingmaker would bring something new, big and exciting to the table.

However, you would be wrong.

Pond

The Sub Pop band Pond had a couple fairly successful 120 Minutes-songs in the midst of the grunge craze, of which “Agatha” was the lease forgettable.

The singer, who’s name thankfuly escapes me, used to wear a king’s crown.

Nuclear disaster

Either Ned or the dustbin. You decide.

Would you even consider lending some time to a group of no-hopes called Ned´s  Atomic Dustbin?

No?

Predictably, they were massive in the US.

Seagull-sounding guitars

Seagull pop

This I know:

Listening to Cast’s “Alright” – their pretty good power pop first single – I hear seagull-sounding guitars in the break part.

This sound had previously been sported by Oasis on their amazingly heavy “Colombia” and by Ride on the ”Nowhere” album opener entitled… “Seagull”.

Cast – Alright
Oasis – Columbia

There you go, memory.