Britpop : Time For Reevaluation?

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Yeah, I had young parents, so there was a lot of late '70s/early '80s music in my parents record collection which I had been exposed to/was consciously listening to around that time.

Oasis were stupidly huge in 1996-1997, absolutely fucking stupidly huge. It wasn't just that they sold millions of copies of Morning Glory and played to thousands of people at Knebworth, they just seemed to be everywhere. I remember some episode of The Vicar Of Dibley being on in '96, and two of the main characters arguing over what kind of Oasis advent calendar they wanted "the Liam one or the Noel one", and there were a thousands more examples besides... there just seemed to be a point where you couldn't avoid them.

Having said that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOFT253yNHQ

I remember that. Still got a soft spot for Game On. Matthew invented emo remember ;)

Daniel Hewson

25 April 2014 1:54am
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Whatever you say about Britpop, the current UK music scene can't muster a worthy Glastonbury headliner, last year the Rolling Stones, year before U2. British Glastonbury headliners weren't a problem in the 90s. Where in Nick Clegg's 'modern' Britain are the Great British bands we used to produce? Or am I longing for W.G. Grace?

ithappens is as popular with the guardian commentors as a fart in a spacesuit for his article.

Well done!

and yes where in this guys modern Britain is Dublin?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av9Vn48fOEs

Tony Riviere

24 April 2014 7:19pm
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Though not a fan, I think Britpop reaffirmed what it was to be British, white and male. Black music informs so much of modern pop and rock (and there is nothing wrong with that) that it was most refreshing for bands to stick their heads above the parapets and wave their mojos in the face of the PC norms of journo-driven hip but utterly soulless media icons.

ILX's favourite sport: find the idiot, quote the idiot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWSrx41iyfg

xxp impressive how much of the article he can agree with while coming to the opposite conclusion

Fans replied in their thousands, demanding an explanation with many suggesting it could mean the long pined-for reunion.

"WHAT DOES THIS MEAN" one wrote, "DUDE" another said, with a third adding: "Oh my god it's happening".

This is the internet though, so obviously there was also a "Shut up I hate you".

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/quiz/2014/apr/25/quiz-how-much-you-know-about-britpop

yeah, I got 22

18, but with a lot of guesswork

Oh shit, I got 23. In my defence, this was the era I grew up in. ;_;

15 and so did I, albeit in NZ

27, please shoot me.

22 but only coz I read Select religiously every week.

(I'm far prouder of scoring 12 out of 13 on "Cornish or Dothraki" to be honest)

24. And life goes on.

Oh dear. I got 26.

Really wish it had been Heavy Stereo on the Yanks Go Home Select cover.

21. Tbf anyone who read MM/NME/Select around that time will score pretty well.

17, from Canada! I worked hard for that score. Select cost ~$10!

19, with a lot of guesses, and a reasonable number I got right by virtue of it happening around me (the Good Mixer was my local, I worked near Berwick St, etc)

19. but frankly i hate this music and wish it would die

I got 24. Who knew Parklife almost had a fruit & veg cart on the cover?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av9Vn48fOEs

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hermione008018 hours ago

This is just bonkers! Can you imagine, you are having a pint in a pub and suddenly Damon Albarn is there singing Parklife???!!!! I bloody love London! :)

I honestly think I would be overjoyed if I was having a pint in a pub and suddenly Damon Albarn was there singing Parklife

if it was Phil Daniels tho I'd glass the cunt eh lads

After you got his autograph?

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Anyone who concedes that they love music and then expressing anything other than contempt for 90's britpop should be fined at first and then sent to a gulag - the wank CD packing division. Ffs people still talking about this fucking dreck now :(:(:( and Albarn is still alive :(:(:(:(:(:(:( and lots of these cunts are still working bands :(:(:(:(:(:(

I think most of those posting comments only like that era of music. they were either at school/college just started work and when they got married or whatever they gave up on music (ok yeah like most "normal" people).
They're more in tune with the majority than we are though.

no no no no no, the actual majority of people don't give a milligram of fuck about this

I can't answer more than a few of those on the quiz but I still have a (distannt transatlantic) fondness for a lot of that mid-90's British music - as long as I don't have to hear them speak much.

I really loathe that era, it was the commercial triumph of the deluded morons, much prefer the chart music of now tbh.

seems like the last uk chart music movement that made majoritarian claims? idk, too young at the time thankfully, even so it seemed sort of ubiquitous in a lowering, britpop uber alles, wholely unfriendly way, even though i couldn't have cared less about it

those specious presumably fake statistics about however many cunts tried to get tickets to see oasis at knebworth

yeah but that's a presumed majority of a minority. pop music and the charts already well on the way by 1994 to being a ghettoized subslice of the population's musical experience, this last gasp of the Boomers or wannabe Boomers desperate for their reductive fax of rock and/or roll to be significant like the 1960s but much too late, using their media grip to pretend otherwise even as the media slipped away from significance itself

good-natured BBC journalists in on the charade covering Blur vs Oasis all baffled-like as if this iteration of popular music wasn't a crusty 30 plus year-old institution

I owe you a quid

rock and roll and The Teenager must be saved at all costs, too heavily entrenched in the consumer model now to let go when adolescence lasts well into yr pensionable years

xp?? lol?

nostalgia for a majoritarian culture probably itself relying on a mythic falsification that literally every person literally gave a shit about the beatles back in 1968 or whatever

almost a volkisch element to it, british people love this idea that all of the other british people love the same shit

find it hard not to write something like 'brotip' when i try to write britpop

19. but frankly i hate this music and wish it would die

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My first love was the Pet Shop Boys and I have never accepted boring, stodgy army reserve type cunts in music. So Neil Tennant knows the score.

I got 8 on that quiz, I win

I remember myself an my brother laughing at an MM cover about Britpop (94? 95?). We started saying "Brrrritpop"" in plummy accents and imagined that the ultimate Britpop band would wear suits and bowler hats.

and a sash?