I'm amused that they mentioned Ratcat, tho' there's nothing wrong with "Tingles".
The indiepop kids here love Ratcat. Which I found odd, as when I was at school, it was the punk-ass skaters who were really into them, alongside the Dead Kennedys and such. Mind you, they are in a pop vein, and _Don't Go Now_ does get people dancing.
there's also AMG's classification system/taxonomy...
http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=C4464
No mention of The Mandlebrot Set, but Sweet William are there, which is good. A nice list of bands to go out and discover, in any case.
I mean, remember when Tingles came out - 6 tracks for five dollars, at the same time for the video for "That Ain't Bad". It basically lit the wick amongst the kiddies (of which I was one, then)...
Come to think of it, Ratcat (and Caligula!) did the O-week do at my first year at UNSW.
I've talked my below-average-hard-rock-cover-band into covering "That Ain't Bad". And "Getting Away from This World" is a forgotten gem, too.
A lot of Australian bands didn't make it. There are no Australian shoegazer bands there (what about Swirl?), not to mention no Minimum Chips, Ninetynine, Origami, &c. It seems that to the compilers, Australia is The Lucksmiths and The Cannanes.
Yeah, and where's the Clouds, for that matter... They weren't /that/ much like the Pixies.
Weren't the Clouds a Scottish C86 band connected in some way to The Boy Hairdressers?
http://www.twee.net/bands/c/clouds.html
I do love listening to a genre so obscure that not even the indie list makers list it :)