Probably one of the strongest tunes of the BritPop era. So tight and the drummer has got his shit together, big time. Yes, a fantastic song. Truly worthy of The Who status, without a doubt! The whole band killed it!
I was so glad when this song came out. I'd had enough of the Beatle-esque Oasis tunes even though i'm a Beatle fan. It's one of the finest Who type tracks ever recorded......
God I loved the Shine albums! Was always a in HMV seeing if a new one was out. They started coming out in ‘95 when I was 25. Truly the soundtrack to my youth.
This is a really great song . Nice Keith Moon style drumming, anyway, if you are reading this, id love you to check out the Poem that i wrote about Rock Stars. Simply just type in the following title to the search bar above.....Poem Rock Stars
I’m in NY , MTV NEVER aired this video. Thank goodness from 95 til 2000, my cable carrier carried Much Music from Toronto, and they played this and Good Enough. This is SUCH a great, powerful song, and it did NOTHING in the US. Thank you, Much Music, and you helped me discover so many other great UK (and Canadian) artists. I miss MM
One of the great adrenaline rushes of the Britpop era, up there with "Ready to Go" by Republica. Criminally underrated (even to this day, judging by the paltry number of views of this the official video, views which by now should be in seven figures at the very least).
Absolutely superb song from my childhood. God I severely miss the 90's what a decade to be young. Also, it cant only be me tbat hears so much of The Who through the song. If it was just the band playing then it become even clearer.
What was average and overlooked in the 90’s is musical genius today P.s decent drumming.... if you appreciate great drumming though listen to Jimmy Chamberlain’s absolute quality for the Smashing Pumpkins on their debut album Gish, different class 👍🏻
This came out just as I was doing my GCSEs... brings back so many memories. Listening to it all these years later my first thought is 'what amazing musicians these guys were' (and probably still are for all I know)
william mcmonagle I literally have no idea how I knew about this band because I was in the States and we had JUST gotten the internet a year or two before I heard this for the first time (I see this came out in '96, I think I found it in '99). I mean we had dial-up and I was downloading pirated mp3s wherever I could find them which was pre-Napster. I was the only one at my high school who was into music like this but American pop was so incredibly awful in the late '90s it was like the only thing I could listen to that wasn't awful lol.
Genius lyric... She lies sleeping in a half filled bed, her eyes No longer study her emptiness In a room there's only so much space (So much space) Two souls playing in loneliness
i remember this group. drummer matthew always wore a hat during their live performances. their other hits included 'staying out for the summer' and 'good enough'. classic indie / alternative tune :)
Deffo one of the most under-rated bands of the 90's, started off as a Who tribute band hence the comparisoms, f**k I miss the late 90's. Actually f**k I miss REAL music.😭😭
One of my favourite bands of all time. God I miss the 90's. As soon as the 00's came round, music took a massive nose dive and has in my opinion, never recovered. Each member of this band are awesome musicians, songwriters and performers. I really do miss the 90's. When bands were proper bands.
You all know... The rupture but then there's the hope! Spring days of yore and the light in her hair and eyes of the one you so deeply, dearly, totally loved beyond everything else. Don't forget the ones you truly loved!
Good song to evoke memories of the indian summer of my youth in 1996 - when 28! Perhaps I should've been busy settling down and making babaies by then but what the hell, I'm glad I wasn't now, looking back - else I'd have probably missed all this classy Britpop era!! :-)
Lol, I can't remember typing half of these things on UA-cam comments sections a few years ago but what I said in 2013 still resonates! I'm 51 now - so I now realise that even 'tail end youth' is long gone! I try to still look and keep young though by maintaining a positive outlook and keep highly active :-)
This was a tune that used to send shivers down my spine 22 years ago great guitaring and drums + the other great time from the era was can I dig it by the mock turtles
I instantly thought "The Who" after the intro. But really, the more I listen to this, it's really just the rhythm of the song and the drumming that makes them sound so much like The Who. The vocals and guitars do not sound like The Who. The bass playing is a harder decision. I think the *tone* of his bass sounds Who-ish, but he isn't a busy player like Entwistle. He sticks more to the rhythm and root notes while Entwistle would mix it up with more wandering melodic playing. It's a testament to how much the sound of the The Who was created by the drumming of Keith Moon.
Criminally ignored in the U.S. One of the best Britpop bands. Ever.
free peace sweet is a banger of an album
Probably one of the strongest tunes of the BritPop era. So tight and the drummer has got his shit together, big time. Yes, a fantastic song. Truly worthy of The Who status, without a doubt! The whole band killed it!
@George Duffy yeah I remember hearing them for the first time when I was about 15. Great band.
The drummer is the tighest of paradiddle kings.
Not just the drummer, great bass line
Nigel Clark the singer regularly visits my old cafe in my town but I keep missing him.
I was so glad when this song came out. I'd had enough of the Beatle-esque Oasis tunes even though i'm a Beatle fan. It's one of the finest Who type tracks ever recorded......
Okay, I’m gonna say it…THE finest pop song of the 90’s. Never gets old.
Agree 100% - Pete Townsend & Keith Moon would have been proud to have called this their work
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God I loved the Shine albums! Was always a in HMV seeing if a new one was out. They started coming out in ‘95 when I was 25. Truly the soundtrack to my youth.
The drums give The Who vibes - that's a great thing!
This aged very well.
Again, amazing drums.
One of the hidden gems of the 90s... I don't think this ever got the air play it deserved... A great track from a great album.
I remember hearing the chorus a lot at least
Yes.
This is a really great song . Nice Keith Moon style drumming, anyway, if you are reading this, id love you to check out the Poem that i wrote about Rock Stars. Simply just type in the following title to the search bar above.....Poem Rock Stars
This song was huge in the UK in spring/summer 1996
Considering I was familiar with it here in Spain, not sure if your assertion holds true.
The Pete Townsend guitar solo , brilliant
Wish it was 1995 again. I hate modern times. I hate 2020. I hate Coronavirus. This is brilliant. True essence of the 90s
I’m in NY , MTV NEVER aired this video. Thank goodness from 95 til 2000, my cable carrier carried Much Music from Toronto, and they played this and Good Enough. This is SUCH a great, powerful song, and it did NOTHING in the US. Thank you, Much Music, and you helped me discover so many other great UK (and Canadian) artists. I miss MM
It's great to know that some Americans have heard some britpop music :) in a room is a favourite 90s song of mine next to Elastica's waking up x
That opening drum fill though
Saw and met Matt the Drummer when he drummed with Ian McNabb and The Icicle Works on one of their anniversary tours. Great drummer and nice bloke 👍
Honestly Dodgy are an absolutely fucking awesome band. Amazing melody to their songs. They should have been absolutely massive!!
One of the great adrenaline rushes of the Britpop era, up there with "Ready to Go" by Republica. Criminally underrated (even to this day, judging by the paltry number of views of this the official video, views which by now should be in seven figures at the very least).
What an intro, one of the best drum fills on any intro aswell. What a track!
Their finest tune by a long chalk IMHO. Deserved to be a much bigger hit than it was.
I'm a mature listener...loved it then and still dance around to it on a weekend. TRUE TESTIMONY TO A TUNE ...
Absolutely superb song from my childhood. God I severely miss the 90's what a decade to be young. Also, it cant only be me tbat hears so much of The Who through the song. If it was just the band playing then it become even clearer.
1996 ruled for music and this was one of my most favourite records of that year, very good early summer hit. 😊😀
Paul John Leadbeater This one, and "Grateful when you're dead" from Kula Shaker. 1996 did not get any better than these.
CanalPSG oh bloody hell! I remember Kula Shaker when I was a kiddo..mum liked em. Tattiva or something was one I remember from them!
in a room probabaly one of the greatest songs ever writen!!
This is why I loved the 90s. Such good rifts, melodies and incredibly talented musicians! I loved and still love this band 😍
superb song, and some shit hot drumming, class little band, and so sadly overlooked, they were so tight.
great band - saw them 3 or 4 years in a small venue and they were still good.
Totally agree William,,,the drumming is fantastic!!!
What was average and overlooked in the 90’s is musical genius today
P.s decent drumming.... if you appreciate great drumming though listen to Jimmy Chamberlain’s absolute quality for the Smashing Pumpkins on their debut album Gish, different class 👍🏻
@@Optics2024 Love the Pumpkins, amazing band every member a superb musician great taste
the drummer has got his shit together.
And a great harmony singer too!
The drummer is great on this track.x
Jonathan Burley didn’t he always wear a hat
Matthew Priest on drums! He lives in Wilton near Salisbury and is a drum teacher among other things
That drummer is worth his weight in gold....and he doesn't look light
Goosebumps!!! What an absolute anthem 💪💪👏👏👏 It doesn't get better than this!
This lot weren't my bag at all in the 90's. But you've got to hold your hand up and say that this is a belting song - one of my guilty pleasures🙂
This came out just as I was doing my GCSEs... brings back so many memories. Listening to it all these years later my first thought is 'what amazing musicians these guys were' (and probably still are for all I know)
This guitar solo is one of my favourites of all time...magical!!!
This song is brilliant. it takes me back to summer of 1997 .loving life at 17 with love of my life.🙌🏻 🥰
Outstanding song from a great band.
Wicked tune. Britpop meets The Who
Love love love the middle eight. Woke up to it in 96 (I think) and it's stayed with me for 20 years. Thanks.
I thoroughly agree. One of the great songs of the decade.
One of the greatest drummers ever❤
Brilliant tune from a cracking band, who somehow went under the radar, shame because they could really rock out live.
william mcmonagle I literally have no idea how I knew about this band because I was in the States and we had JUST gotten the internet a year or two before I heard this for the first time (I see this came out in '96, I think I found it in '99). I mean we had dial-up and I was downloading pirated mp3s wherever I could find them which was pre-Napster. I was the only one at my high school who was into music like this but American pop was so incredibly awful in the late '90s it was like the only thing I could listen to that wasn't awful lol.
I remember Dodgy, Hurricane #1 and a band whose name was just A lol.
Genius lyric...
She lies sleeping in a half filled bed, her eyes
No longer study her emptiness
In a room there's only so much space (So much space)
Two souls playing in loneliness
Agreed. Perfect.
I get a surge of energy listening to this. Has to be one of the most overlooked gems. Incredible.
Fantastic drumming and guitar solo
Brilliant track this, highly underrated just like the band.
i remember this group. drummer matthew always wore a hat during their live performances. their other hits included 'staying out for the summer' and 'good enough'. classic indie / alternative tune :)
Thank you for your input.
How can they be ‘indie’ if they were on a major?
I play this loud on repeat during tough times. Absolute legend of a track 😎💪💪💪
Bloody brilliant band! Timeless 👏👏🫶🫶🫶🎸🎸🎶🎶🎶
Oh how I love this song. Sums up a really happy and important part in my life. I still come back to it, to remind me of good friends and good times.
Deffo one of the most under-rated bands of the 90's, started off as a Who tribute band hence the comparisoms, f**k I miss the late 90's. Actually f**k I miss REAL music.😭😭
Adding this to my quarantine play list ... forgot how utterly brilliant this song is!
Underrated and brilliant. Another classic banging tune from Dodgy 👌🏻
Just randomly started singing this at work the other day.
Great song.
Same for me just now. No idea why it’s come in my head after about 20 years
One of my favourite bands of all time. God I miss the 90's. As soon as the 00's came round, music took a massive nose dive and has in my opinion, never recovered.
Each member of this band are awesome musicians, songwriters and performers. I really do miss the 90's. When bands were proper bands.
It's like the Who meets the Byrds. Great.
+salvadormarley totally
TOP BAND
brilliant description!
You all know... The rupture but then there's the hope! Spring days of yore and the light in her hair and eyes of the one you so deeply, dearly, totally loved beyond everything else. Don't forget the ones you truly loved!
Good song to evoke memories of the indian summer of my youth in 1996 - when 28! Perhaps I should've been busy settling down and making babaies by then but what the hell, I'm glad I wasn't now, looking back - else I'd have probably missed all this classy Britpop era!! :-)
Not having kids at 28 is great.
Lol 28 is very young when you’re 35! This is the true tail end of youth & it’s well over once your 45!
Lol, I can't remember typing half of these things on UA-cam comments sections a few years ago but what I said in 2013 still resonates! I'm 51 now - so I now realise that even 'tail end youth' is long gone! I try to still look and keep young though by maintaining a positive outlook and keep highly active :-)
Pheonix festival!
glad to read " The Who " comments ,I've always thought that about this band
When it comes to good music I always get to this gem. Nothing in compare tu this beautiful tune. Still in 2023 boys.
Best band of the 90sin my book,what a track this is Brilliant.
Great drumming Kieth Moonish
It has a very 'Who' feel to it. Which is no bad thing.
i always loved to listen this while on the poppers and strong cider ,top class tuneage!
This was a tune that used to send shivers down my spine 22 years ago great guitaring and drums + the other great time from the era was can I dig it by the mock turtles
fantastic sound
Touring again in UK this year 😉
Brilliant. Takes me back to some great times.
A forgotten classic
This reminds me when I was a kid. This is such a good song!
One of the great tunes of yester year
Brilliant song and a great guitar solo !
Lovely tune, I remember hearing this back when I was a kid and really loving it
Great drumming
Love this song such an epic from its time its that retro 60`s sound mixed wth current sound l like.
shades of the Who
And THAT drum sound!!
Met the lads on Saturday and bought them a pint lovely fellas👍
a hidden gem
Ça ! .. c'est de la musique . 90's 🎸👍
totally adore this song...
i saw dodgy at reading festival in the 90s...great band...when i dig deeper some songs remind me of the Beatles...
More 'The Who' than the Beatles.
i forgot about these guys - awesome track to my old ears in sh1tty 2017
great song great band i met Nige at a wedding in evesham last year .really nice bloke
Amazing Tune! Still stands up today! dx
Good song. Always liked Dodgy.
Outstanding song from one of birmingham 's great bands that have emerged in the second city in recent years
I instantly thought "The Who" after the intro. But really, the more I listen to this, it's really just the rhythm of the song and the drumming that makes them sound so much like The Who. The vocals and guitars do not sound like The Who. The bass playing is a harder decision. I think the *tone* of his bass sounds Who-ish, but he isn't a busy player like Entwistle. He sticks more to the rhythm and root notes while Entwistle would mix it up with more wandering melodic playing. It's a testament to how much the sound of the The Who was created by the drumming of Keith Moon.
I was thinking the same...
Guitar sounds totally like the who as well ! The song Pete Townshead wishes he'd written imo
Absolutely timeless
Choon...very underated band...
Love 3 piece bands. Forgotten what a great wee album this was off.
Now THIS is power pop!
Another band i'm glad I saw play live with the original line up way back.
killer intro
great tune
A great band this song is their best
This is very impressive!
Memories of going cornwall with mate in a mini. Happy days
Class song
A bastard child of The Hollies and The Who. Great track.
I really love this band
A filmed backwards band who were looking forwards.
The MOST underrated band of all times
Along with Gene
Nah that accolade goes to Talk Talk from the 80s
Still a fine tune.
This choon sums up the 90s
Best song The Who NEVER did ?! ;-)
God Bless Brit Pop.
best musicians of the 90s brit scene
damn that drummer!
God how good is this