My Britpop years
 

It wasn't all green fields, round here:

Blur (blah blah, I still like them)

Oasis (Initial enthusiasm faded fast)

Penthouse (Never listened to the actual records , but I bought them)

Meanswear (One song)

Sleeper ( Two songs)

Kula Shaker (One song)

Out Of My Hair (one song)

Northern Uproar ( Don't remember)

Elastica (one album and one song)

Echobelly (None, all rubbish)

Ocean Colour Scene (None, just got tricked into them while the Dadrock term wasn't in exsistence)

The Dandys (One song, I don't even know the other ones)

Plastic Fantastic (Abducted by Romo aliens)

Dexter ( See above)


The list goes on.......

I can't get past the two songs on Blur, Oasis I still put them on occasionally.

I can remember like two oasis songs, but still I sort of have a strong dislike for them. Foockin' lads...

I'm sure that list is missing these animal men who later became the awesome Mo' Solid Gold who had one of the most astonishing discrepancies between awesomeness of live show and shitness of records.

NO! Britpop ruined shoegaze

All shite.

well, except for Blur's eponymous album.

Well said... Well Said...

Pulp?

All shite.

They're great aren't they!

Glad you're enjoyng them.

More bands that i used to like:

Geneva ( castrated male vocalist)

Baby Bird (lo-fi wankery)

60 Foot Dolls ( I only remember one of their tunes)

Heavy Stereo ( fucking hell)

Happy Shopper perchance?

That's the one.

I sort of liked most of the Britpop bands for a short while. Pulp are probably the only ones whose albums I can still enjoy listening to now, though.

I think I am glad I have heard of only 3 of these bands.

thank god for the atlantic ocean

the Verve (just another junkie from Wigan)

I liked the occasional tunes of some bands here and there, but the fact that I don't own any albums of bands mentioned in this thread (or of any other "britpop" band) should speak for itself.

was it just that after siouxsie, the cure, the skiths, happy mondays, joy division, etc etc etc, why did it take british bands so long to start ROCKING ?

I mean, electrelane "rocks" but not really you know?

can you name me some british bands that are recent that ROCK? cuz I like to

Babyshambles:)

hahhah That's the one with the wan junkie that you brits have been going on about for a year or so right?

If Britpop didn't exist, would anyone have missed it? Really?

For me, Britpop = Meh.

Youthmovies!
http://www.myspace.com/youthmovies

Of course everyone was arguing over who was better, Oasis or Blur. The right answer was of course Pulp.

I love Pulp, they were the only shining light in a sea of anti-intelectual darkness. The Problem is you can do the 'oh-so-british' shit as much as you like but you will never do it as well as The Smiths or The Kinks.

We know you like to drink tea, like your beans on toast, like your football on a saturday..we all do, but please don't make a song about it.

Ever remember that shitty, well i dont know for sure if they were Brit, but they were called "Salad"?


now they were fuckin shit, my buddy used to like em and it drove me mad. Some DJ off MTV was the singer or something, jesus her lyrics were shockin.. i remember one went "why do you have to be so beefy"what a load of shit.


i had a brit phase alright though, although it was brief.

I bet that's really a quote from an unreleased sarramkrop LP :D

Porky,
Post pics of you looking brit-pop (shit-pop)

Post any pic of you for that matter, I need J/O material for later.

Never been all that attracted to Brit-pop. Guess there's some sort of hardcore yank going on somewhere in me? Loved Blur but that was with their self-titled so that doesn't count all that much.

An the winners of all this mostly mediocre stuff is............................boom................ .....................boooooooom................... ................booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooom..............................SUPERGRASS!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6Psj3nrusFY

WHAT.

Kula Shaker




jesus fucking christ



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This album was the soundtrack to my childhood because my dad and uncle worshipped the band. My uncle was also friends with them (??) or something, which resulted in their fat drummer borrowing the stool from my trap kit and then breaking it because he was so fat. Now they're a bunch of coked-up cocks.

if shoegaze got ruined by britpop then shoegaze can't have been that good in the first place.

salad weren't really a britpop band and they had a few good songs.

i liked parklife by blur and that one elastica album. i still think pulp were fantastic.

i started a thread about this. Went kinda wierd with people argueing about whats English and whats British and stuff
http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=24422

regarding Britpop bands i liked The Charlatans and The Bluetones. Supergrass were good too.

it was wierd. I went from having everyone hate the music i liked, to suddenly everyone loveing the music i liked. It felt strange. On the one hand it was great being able to talk to friends about music, on the other hand there was a hell of a lot of shite. And when you that pissed on Hooch and your 17(ish) you dont really care. I have some bad cd's as a result

What he said. Apart from the bit about Parklife.

It's a shame that St Etienne never quite fitted the mould because, in theory at least, they were the quintessential Britpop band. No record from that period gives me fonder memories of living in London than their 'Nothing Can Stop Us' single. Sheer snogging-in-the-sunshine amazingness.

fuuuck foreeeeeever

Thread needs more Pulp.

Also Blur are great. First few albums at least, they are the only ones I have.

i decorated the hallway and landing for the guy at the back (not the ugly one) years ago.

And i swear, i swear, Sarah Cracknell winked at me when i saw them in Southampton :o

Also: Parklife is so overrated. Modern Life is Rubbish is waay better.