Here's the Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shop_Assistants Shop Assistants are a great example of the chaotic noisy indie-pop music in the UK in the 80s....
Christine's Cat: Your love is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aOaN91DelQ This is full of distortion and feedback. It has Christine Grant singing with members of Golden Dawn....
Band members Robert Smith and Kenny Forte went on to form Christine's Cat (who released a 5" flexi-disc, "Your Love Is", on Sarah Records), while Smith later resurfaced as The Besotted (who released a single, "Kaleidoscope" on the Blam-A-Bit label) and as a member of Meth O.D.who released several singles and albums throughout the 1990s.
The Golden Dawn: My Secret World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceJZJQX54wM You have to search for things like "Golden Dawn Sarah records" to avoid all the neo-Nazi bands that are also called...
The Golden Dawn were an indie pop/indie rock band from Glasgow, Scotland formed in 1986, who were signed to Sarah Records on the strength of a 9-track demo.[1] They had two hits on the UK Indie Chart in 1988 and 1989, with what have been described as "awesomely ragged, feedback-riddled singles".[2][3] The band were dropped by Sarah Records, when the tracks the band put forward for a third single for the label were rejected.[1]
Ride are an English rock band formed in Oxford in 1988. The band consists of Andy Bell, Mark Gardener, Laurence "Loz" Colbert, and Steve Queralt. The band were initially part of the "shoegazing" scene that emerged in England during the early 1990s.
Here's the Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shop_Assistants
Shop Assistants are a great example of the chaotic noisy indie-pop music in the UK in the 80s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU9fZkXHqns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOEEHgLjDMk
Other examples are We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Going To Use It[1], Pastels[2], Talulah Gosh[3], and I'd say Jesus and Mary Chain[4]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dcxgtc9so8
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n-27K79Kro
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxY4Q2TmQAw
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLhvsFwHjiQ
I'm probably going to post quite a lot of 1980s UK indie-pop to this thread in the next few weeks.
Christine's Cat: Your love is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aOaN91DelQ
This is full of distortion and feedback. It has Christine Grant singing with members of Golden Dawn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Dawn_(Scottish_band)
The Golden Dawn: My Secret World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceJZJQX54wM
You have to search for things like "Golden Dawn Sarah records" to avoid all the neo-Nazi bands that are also called Golden Dawn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Dawn_(Scottish_band)
Ride: Like a Daydream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zzo25t_eC8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride_(band)