Mark Morriss had one of the better vocal ranges out of the second tier BP bands:
LOL no he wasn't. He was by far the worst. His best days were worse than Ian Brown's drugged up worst.
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
.. Noel Gallagher said of the song, "With "Supersonic", I worried I was never going to write another song after that 'cos I thought, 'It sounds that good'... Two days later I superseded it by about 50 fuckin' times. The reason we haven't recorded that song is because there isn't enough money in Creation Records' bank balance to pay for the production of that record. When we do that record..." Noel also added when asked if there would be an orchestra on it, "Orchestras, man? It's not got to be one, it's got to be two".[citation needed]Noel described the song shortly before the release of the album: "I wrote this one ages ago, before "Whatever". It was twelve minutes long then. It was a matter of being able to afford to record it. But now we can get away with the 36-piece orchestra. And the longer the better as far as I'm concerned. If it's good. I can see what people are going to say, but fuck 'em, basically."[citation needed]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Around_the_World_(Oasis_song)
― piscesx, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
Jamie Harding from Marion was, in my opinion, the best vocalist out of all of them. Better than any of the vocalists from the first-tier Britpop bands, I'd argue. Shame he was a Doherty-level drug fiend.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:27 (ten years ago) link
Jaime, rather.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link
Jamie did indeed have a great voice and a great look. Really wish he hadn't thrown it all away.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:34 (ten years ago) link
xpost some student next door blared "supersonic" two times in a row today. jesus im being plagued by britpop this week
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:35 (ten years ago) link
Man, the centerpiece of my Oasis biopic will just be 45 min on the making of All Around the World, made like the bell-casting scene in Andrei Rublyev. Just going into every little detail as a bunch of cokeheads tramble all over this inane little childrens song.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:37 (ten years ago) link
Anyone else think At the Drive In had a bit of a Marion influence in them at times?
1.50 into this is basically a bit of a Marion song.
http://youtu.be/NrZ7ew8n5SU
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:39 (ten years ago) link
will this Oasis biopic have a man made out of sausages?
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 10:34 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
And great onstage too! I only ever saw Marion once, but they were great live.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I saw them too and they were fantastic. Why wasn't Miyako Hideaway a hit? Great song.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:43 (ten years ago) link
The Great Escape isn't a perfect album, but it's definitely not a bad one in my opinion. Just needs a couple of the lesser songs shaving off it.
As an innocent young man hearing it for the first time, I definitely though The Great Escape was an instant classic and deserved all the reviews it got. To use the gauche, corny references of the mid-90s, it was the Sgt Pepper's to Parklife's Revolver: lesser songs, but brilliantly conceived and produced. Yes, it doesn't stand up so much now, but it's still a pleasure to listen to pretty much from beginning to end. Mr Robinson's Quango is terrible and the Ken Livingstone song is too much, but otherwise I even like Top Man, which is just the Fun Boy Three played for laughs. Terrible lyrics, but even the best Blur songs (e.g. This Is A Low, as Taylor Parkes points out) have ridiculous lyrics.
No one writing up Britpop - at least the Blur end of Britpop - really seems to mention Martin Amis, which is strange, because his influence is so apparent on much of this stuff. London Fields, I think, more even than Money. He Thought of Cars couldn't exist without him, and he's in so many other songs. His reputation has suffered since the 90s in the same way Britpop's has. His style was also obviously a huge influence on many of the writers on the mid-90s music press. In Taylor Parkes' recent article you could still see those familiar sentence constructions - kind of comforting, kind of absurd.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:43 (ten years ago) link
What a sickeningly brilliant thread this is, it confirms my teenage hypothesis that 99.9% of people are diabolically clueless cunts who pretend to like music.
― xelab, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 23:12 (ten years ago) link
Since I discovered that Audacity has a function built into it so it emulates playing 45 singles at 33 1/3rpm, and because of this thread, I've been running various Britpop "classics" through it. 'Place Your Hands' by Reef slowed down is the funniest fucking thing ever.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 23:12 (ten years ago) link
― xelab, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:12 PM (42 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
And the other 0.01% are just cunts?
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 23:13 (ten years ago) link
Taste in music is 90% your geographical location/social networks/inherited physical and cultural traits and 10% the effort you put into socializing.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 01:52 (ten years ago) link
I've just reread some Martin Amis (Money and Success) and he is (or quite possibly ws) v great. Albarn mentioning him (London Fields specifically) in an early tiny Rolling Stone bit ws what made 13 or so yrold me read him, actually
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 03:21 (ten years ago) link
The most spot-on Pulp parody:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVibsNPXBx0
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 03:33 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tNUAumvfzg
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 03:45 (ten years ago) link
Jarvis Cocker (Pulp) - vocalsJonny Greenwood (Radiohead) - lead guitarJason Buckle (All Seeing I) - rhythm guitarSteve Mackey (Pulp) - bassSteve Claydon (Add N to (X)) - keyboardsPhil Selway (Radiohead) - drums
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 03:46 (ten years ago) link
― xelab, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
another great xelab post, can't get enough of that purple-faced transplanted Guardian commenter rage. keep tearing this place up chief
― From Tha Crouuuch To Da Palacios (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 07:05 (ten years ago) link
Just think..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 09:03 (ten years ago) link
(message ends)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 09:04 (ten years ago) link
did anyone enjoy the worst of britpop Spotify playlist?
― ۩, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 14:26 (ten years ago) link
you can add to it if you think we missed anything. Try not to load it with the same bands though. No more than 2 or 3 songs per band please.http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/0y0gMIOGyKaqj70K3eEprxorspotify:user:pfunkboy:playlist:0y0gMIOGyKaqj70K3eEprx
― ۩, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 14:28 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYIvxwFRplU
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 19:46 (ten years ago) link
Spitting Image was still going then?
― ۩, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 20:01 (ten years ago) link
Apparently so! This clip is meant to be from '96. Didn't see it at the time, though.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/10744192/10-ways-Britpop-changed-modern-manhood.html
― ۩, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
oh and added to that list of shit songs - TOPLOADER
― ۩, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link
Toploader were shite, but I didn't really consider them to be part of that whole thing.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 20:20 (ten years ago) link
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/culturehousedaily/2014/04/britpop-25-years-on-how-do-blur-and-oasis-fans-vote/
― ۩, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link
Yeesh. That must have been from the last series of spitting image, and kind of sums up how stale it had got.
Last word on britpop in comedy comes from the immortal fast show dyad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeYmvrtrq7I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClcwKgxu2wk
Give it a name, brothers and sisters.
― Prostitute Farm Online (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link
Spitting Image had gone stale long before then. grey john major was their last good idea
― ۩, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 20:54 (ten years ago) link
I posted the 'Colon'/'Indie Club' video above, but I'd totally forgotten about the 'Mr. Wells' sketch! Totally classic.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 20:58 (ten years ago) link
oh god we used to sing that Mr Wells at school :D
― kinder, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
along with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9DRc8gcBDY
― kinder, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
re: this http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/culturehousedaily/2014/04/britpop-25-years-on-how-do-blur-and-oasis-fans-vote/
"But according to the polling, 24 per cent of Blur fans vote Lib Dem — the largest minority — while a third of Oasis fans vote Labour..."
This sounded suspiciously wrong to me, given that hardly anyone supports the Lib Dems any more, and then the graph in the article looks even more wrong, with Blur supporters supposedly lining up as Lib Dem 24%, Labour 15%, Conservative 14% and UKIP 12% (which still leaves 35% unaccounted for). So I had a look at the data in the YouGov link and I don't get anything like those figures. It comes out Blur - Lab 41%, Con 32%, LD 14%, UKIP 12%; Oasis - Lab 47%, Con 37%, LD 4%, UKIP 12%. I just don't know where on earth the article gets its figures from.
(I know, I really shouldn't care)
― Turtleneck Work Solutions (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
99 percent of Blur fans vote?
― you poll a lot, but you're not saying anything (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 21:13 (ten years ago) link
Technically not Britpop, but French and Saunders doing The Cranberries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR44J1a9A8g
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 21:23 (ten years ago) link
Possibly a PhD or at least a potential Guardian listicle in the history of alt.com indie pastiches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rK8sN4p_zs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQamw4xxxHY
― Stevie T, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
Didn't Spitting Image do 'Charleslife' as well?
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 21:41 (ten years ago) link
Chris Morris' parody of the Pixies (entitled 'Motherbanger') is probably the most accurate parody I've heard to date, but it doesn't really fit in this thread :/
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 22:49 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5_sfkEkqA0
― everything, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 23:08 (ten years ago) link
Check out this great playlist I just found on Spotify!! Thought i'd share it! http://open.spotify.com/user/one-media/playlist/3o7LY1pjsKSpXRpjkQHr1G
― Kyna_Mavies, Friday, 2 May 2014 08:52 (ten years ago) link
hi completely new poster! welcome to ILX!
― you poll a lot, but you're not saying anything (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 May 2014 08:53 (ten years ago) link
slow on this, but:
"But according to the polling, 24 per cent of Blur fans vote Lib Dem — the largest minority — while a third of Oasis fans vote Labour..."This sounded suspiciously wrong to me, given that hardly anyone supports the Lib Dems any more, and then the graph in the article looks even more wrong, with Blur supporters supposedly lining up as Lib Dem 24%, Labour 15%, Conservative 14% and UKIP 12% (which still leaves 35% unaccounted for).
This sounded suspiciously wrong to me, given that hardly anyone supports the Lib Dems any more, and then the graph in the article looks even more wrong, with Blur supporters supposedly lining up as Lib Dem 24%, Labour 15%, Conservative 14% and UKIP 12% (which still leaves 35% unaccounted for).
Yeah, they've egregiously misread the figures: it's not that 24% of Blur fans vote lib dem, it's that 24% of lib dem respondents prefer Blur to Oasis – which seemed the oddest spike in the results to me (as I said upthread somewhere) since Blur support runs at ~15% in most other slices, but then it occurred to me it's prob because no-one votes lib dem & so there's maybe a small sample size problem.
It's the "Who is better – Blur or Oasis?" question on the first page of the results that they've misunderstood.
(I really shouldn't care either)
― woof, Friday, 2 May 2014 09:31 (ten years ago) link
btw does anyone have a playlist of shit britpop? i think it would be fun to listen to
― woof, Friday, 2 May 2014 09:32 (ten years ago) link
LOL
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Friday, 2 May 2014 09:40 (ten years ago) link
?
― ۩, Friday, 2 May 2014 12:47 (ten years ago) link