Some hero spent the late 80s and early 90s taping the Indie chart off the Chart Show every week. Luckily for us he kept the tapes and is slowly putting them all on You Tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT-dl7ubPRY

EA favourites on show include Codeine, Jesus Lizard and plenty of Mega City 4 for Rysie.

Favourite on screen fact comes during 'Medication' by Spiritualized:

"The band's hobbies include drinking, sleeping and whingeing"

Thanks for posting this link! Salut!

Of course, there were a lot of straight up dance records in the 'indie' chart in them years. That's cos 'indie' in this case meant, very specifically, 'on an independent label'.

Those were the days, eh?

This is great. But it depresses me. I hate nostalgia.

hip priest wrote:Some hero...

Hero is the word. Just having these names float across the screen... and the tantalising video clips. It seemed to be quite the thing to swing the camera round and round, no?

Thanks for posting this.

I'm going to throw this question in here where it might get a response. Does anyone remember a similarly low-budget ITV show from the early/mid nineties - it was shown about three in the morning and focused on trance music (as far as I could make out aged fourteen or whatever) but linked by these homemade skits and stunts... might have been called 'Flux'...? But I've never been able to find anything about it, like who the people behind it were... I have a feeling they might have been 'somebodies' but I just don't know...

Anyway. The Sundays! Rewind! Play!

johnnyshape wrote:Of course, there were a lot of straight up dance records in the 'indie' chart in them years. That's cos 'indie' in this case meant, very specifically, 'on an independent label'.

Those were the days, eh?

Actually, this used to be intensely frustrating. Here it was, the one time a month 'your' music was on the Chart Show, and they ruined it by showing some bloody computer music when they could have been showing, you know, the Family Cat.

'Dear Melody Maker,

Why oh why...'

Those clips are pretty good. Many of the bands featured are not very good.
Back To The Planet!!!!!!!

Thanks for the link. Brings back some good memories strangely.

I just remembered the graphics that pop up too. I'm willing to bet £5 that was done with an Acorn Archimedes. There!

Some of the bands may have been crapola, but I don't think we have any UK music shows today as good as this was which is sad.

This is a good one: Spacemen Three and My Bloody Valentine, and an 'interesting' video for Nirvana...

Throwing Muses appear in there too, which brought to mind the other frustrating/tantalising thing about the Chart Show indie chart. It was basically for me a companion to Mark Goodier's Evening Session in terms of 'getting into' indie music, and these ten second clips of bands like Throwing Muses were like weird visual clues - 'oh, that's what they look like - hey! show the whole thing!' For ages all I would know about the way these bands looked and dressed and moved was stitched together from completely unrepresentive ten second clips off the chart show...

...and in the worst cases, a photo of the band with a candle in front of it...

Loose Fit by the Mondays will always be excellent.