britpop

[ContrarianLemming]

"Britpop is a subgenre of alternative rock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_rock) that originated in the United Kingdom. Britpop emerged from the British i (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_music)ndependent music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_music) scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s. The movement developed as a reaction against various musical and cultural trends in the late 1980s and early 1990s, particularly the grunge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge) phenomenon from the United States."

ergo;
Oasis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hzrDeceEKc), Blur (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlAHZURxRjY&feature=avmsc2), and there decendents; Travis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwh3FmpZ7kg), Coldplay (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmjPrdTNxQ0&feature=avmsc2), Radiohead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKd06s1LNik&feature=avmsc2), Stereophonics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D3p9PxsiU4)

Got any favorite britpop bands or groups?
or are you still listening to Nickleback?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY9tiMXjIhk

[Mike Foster]

The mid-90s was quite a good time for music, the best 'era' since the early 80s. If Britpop was 'about' anything, it would have been about enjoying your teens and early twenties, which I suppose is what all pop music should be about. The late 50s, mid-late 60s and glam had that similar 'fun' element, whereas most pop music in the 80s and since the late 90s has been more serious, for better or worse.
Favourite bands: Suede, Space, Shampoo(!), Lightning Seeds, Sleeper, like Blur and Oasis equally

[scarletghoul]

Hate to be a negative nancy but britpop is kinda lame. The Manics are sometimes classed as britpop though, I dont know if they count ? If so they're the exception.

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

Quite boring.

I really cannot stand Coldplay in particular. I don't see what the attraction is. I recall my sister once years ago bought an album of theirs and played it so I heard, and it was the dullest rubbish I had heard in a long time. Goes in one ear and out the other, leaving no lasting impression save this inescapable aura of utter boredom, and I usually don't get bored very easily.

And Radiohead is really overrated, albeit I do find their very first releases to be okay. But from thereon... Nightmare.

[ContrarianLemming]

Quite boring.

I really cannot stand Coldplay in particular. I don't see what the attraction is. I recall my sister once years ago bought an album of theirs and played it so I heard, and it was the dullest rubbish I had heard in a long time. Goes in one ear and out the other, leaving no lasting impression save this inescapable aura of utter boredom, and I usually don't get bored very easily.

And Radiohead is really overrated, albeit I do find their very first releases to be okay. But from thereon... Nightmare.

That sort of "mellow" rock isn't for everyone, the songs you might call "boring" I'd call "relaxing" but to each his own.

[Theoneontheleft]

Oasis is probably my favorite nineties band!:thumbup1:

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[Chimurenga.]

Suede were the only good band to come out of this.

I don't lump Radiohead in there. I enjoy them though.

[Theoneontheleft]

Suede were the only good band to come out of this.

I like Suede too.

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[Intifadah]

I remember being really into Oasis for a kid who hadn't turned 10 yet, probably because they were really easy to sing along to. I still think Definately Maybe and Morning Glory are great albums, I didn't care for any other mid-90s british bands too much though

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[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

I think Blur were/are a brilliant band. In terms of musicianship, they were one of the best bands to come out of that scene - miles more musically able/talented than Oasis. Suede were a great band too.

[Theoneontheleft]

This song by Blur really rocks!:thumbup1:
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[Jimmie Higgins]

Pulp! This album is still one of my favorites and it the most sublime collection of class-revenge fantasies this side of "Straight Outta Compton".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqgXzPfAxjo

Class anger in Mis-Shapes:

They think they've got us beat but revenge is going to be so sweet.
We're making a move. We're making it now.
We're coming out of the sidelines.
Just put your hands up - it's a raid.
We want your homes, we want your lives,
we want the things you won't allow us.

Class revenge fantasy from "I Spy"

Oh you didn't do bad, you made it out, I'm still stuck here oh but I'll get out.
Oh yeah I'll get out.
Can't you see a walks among you seeing through your pretty lives.
Do you think I do these things for real?
I do these things just so I survive. And you know I will survive.
It may look to the untrained eye
I'm sitting on my arse all day
And I'm biding my time until I take you all on my Lords and Ladies
I will prevail, I cannot fail.
Cause I spy.

[Jimmie Higgins]

... not about class, but one of my favorite songs from the 90s for its mood and and ominous feel. An excellent video too... I love how it builds and get's crazy (at around 3:40) as it progresses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXbLyi5wgeg&feature=related

As american Punk became pop-punk and american underground became "alternative" (and as "alternative" went from interesting groups to lame-ass Matchbox 20 bullshit over the course of the 90s) and hip hop went from innovative to homogeneous, britpop was a bright area for music for me. Around 1996-8 was "Common People" and "OK computer" while much of American "alternative" was nothing more than a marketing ploy.

Please, let's have some more topics about 90s music!:lol: I want to look up some more videos of my favorite punk and hip hop songs too!

[Theoneontheleft]

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[Scary Monster]

Suede, baby!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wKKeSbxGh8

Seriously, how arent Suede put up there with Oasis and Blur (whom i dont like)? Its really just Suede and a few songs from Pulp that i like from the whole britpop thing. It should be fact that Suede is one of the top bands of the 90s ;D

[Theoneontheleft]

I used to have this album.

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[Invader Zim]

I really cannot stand Coldplay in particular.

Coldplay were post britpop. Britpop, as far as is worth thinking about it, ended in 1997. Be Here Now was poor and Blur's Blur was deliberately totally unlike their previous britpop stuff. Similarly Pulp's This is Hardcore was utterly unlike the stuff they had been making earlier.


and there decendents; Travis (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwh3FmpZ7kg), Coldplay (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmjPrdTNxQ0&feature=avmsc2), Radiohead (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKd06s1LNik&feature=avmsc2), Stereophonics (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D3p9PxsiU4)

Radiohead were not 'decendants' of either Oasis or Blur, rather there direct contemporaries. For example Definately Maybe was released in 1994 while Pablo Honey was 1993.


The Manics are sometimes classed as britpop though

Which I never get, they were no more Britpop than Radiohead, and people don't classify Radiohead as Britpop. But I agree, the Manics are really good, I'm seeing them (again) in a couple of months.


This song by Blur really rocks!

But it isn't a britpop song, quite the reverse.


... not about class, but one of my favorite songs from the 90s for its mood and and ominous feel. An excellent video too... I love how it builds and get's crazy (at around 3:40) as it progresses.

Agreed that it is a good song with a good video, but as in the case of Song 2 it isn't a britpop song, being a total departure from what Pulp had been doing earlier in the decade, and deliberately so.

[Theoneontheleft]

I actually remember seeing a "Rhino Records' Brit-Pop" compilation with "Cornershop" on it, and it's inclusion kind of surprised me.

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"Kula Shaker" was also on that compilation as well. I used to have their debut album, before I moved. I really miss that album.:crying:

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[Theoneontheleft]

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[welshexile1963]

Britpop was/is shite imho! Listen to The Jam instead.

[Theoneontheleft]

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