― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Friday, 12 August 2005 12:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Friday, 12 August 2005 12:26 (eighteen years ago) link
grassroots = just me knee jerking to an argument you weren't actually making i guess.
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Friday, 12 August 2005 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Friday, 12 August 2005 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Spice Girls & co may have knocked Britpop out of the mainstream, but the retained the pop melody. Which has never disappeared afterwards. Britpop put a definite end to the era when a "pop song" was supposed to be something made around a repetitive synth theme, adding a thumping bass drum, a gospel influenced female vocalist in the chorus (who was not allowed to appear in the video because they'd hire some model instead) and some rapper in the verse. That era has never returned.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 21 September 2006 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 21 September 2006 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 21 September 2006 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 21 September 2006 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link
END OF THREAD.
― Paul Edward Wagemann (PaulEdwardWagemann), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link
PLEASE PUT HIM OUT OF MY MISERY
― winter testing (winter testing), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Paul Edward Wagemann OTM.
People act like traditional pop wouldn't have existed anymore if this (bowel) movement hadn't come along, it's ridiculous.
Thank god for guerilla gigs or we'd all be listening to minimal house & crunk'n'b obviously...
― dance dance counter-revolution (fandango), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link
also, traditional pop - wossat then?
― winter testing (winter testing), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link
i do.
-- stevem
I do too.
― dance dance counter-revolution (fandango), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― dance dance counter-revolution (fandango), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― dance dance counter-revolution (fandango), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― winter testing (winter testing), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link
All-time greatest Scot contender Edwyn Collins did a song about it at the time:
"Its the same old story,Englands glory, Claming back the Union Jack my arse"
― everything (everything), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link
It never rang true from the start for me, and it felt like CLEARLY announced from the start too, unlike the natural progression of Madchester etc.
It also bugged me how it led to Northerners being thick monkeys and Southerners being clever cockneys all over again.
Of course it's totally fair to point out that the US "invasion" was waning, and yes the guitar element of the "summer of love" did seem to have fallen apart rather, as did the Hacienda dream.... still a moment of weakness hardly excuses a vicious ideological pounce & reinforcing of some *very* dubious 'values' I hardly feel any more refreshed by in the 00's than I did then.
Anyone sick of their Cigarettes and Alcohol yet?
I'm nostalgic for the early 90's too, but Britpop's "nostalgia" felt poisonous and manufactured from the word go.
Something does occur to me though... "Blinded By The Lights" vs. "Sorted for E's & Wizz"?
Maybe these thigns do come in waves but I'm wondering what exactly DID give the Britpop 2.0 movement such impetus? What was THAT reacting to? Destiny's Child?
― dance dance counter-revolution (fandango), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― dance dance counter-revolution (fandango), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― dance dance counter-revolution (fandango), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― dance dance counter-revolution (fandango), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Thursday, 28 September 2006 07:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 September 2006 07:44 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm dying here.
― Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Thursday, 28 September 2006 07:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Thursday, 28 September 2006 07:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Was, like, the Merseybeat groovy guy geezer guy geezers really the sound of the young Britain what I was grooving away to in them days of dearie Lord dearie Lord? Were there any ace records from the hit paRADE of the time? Would you 'ave got like ten points if you recalled the Trem El Oes, Billy J Kramer and like what his DaKOtas and grooviest of all groovy guy geezer guy geezers, Swinging Blue Jeans The?
― Jimmy Saveloy (nostudium), Thursday, 28 September 2006 07:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Leopold Boom! (noodle vague), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― winter testing (winter testing), Thursday, 28 September 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― trance pants devolution (fandango), Thursday, 28 September 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― trance pants devolution (fandango), Thursday, 28 September 2006 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― djmartian, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― jim, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― pisces, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― pisces, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link