Britpop : Time For Reevaluation?

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

St George's Day knees-up at The Red Lion in Leytonstone - 23rd April 2014

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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?

Orange Uproar

I scored 19 on that quiz, mostly down to being a student at the time and skimming other people's copies of Select/etc..

That yougov poll (pdf) from the other day tries to answer the do-ppl-give-a-fuck questions. But the only thing that jumped out at me was that lib dems lean strongly to Blur.

Next year is the 20th anniversary of
http://i.imgur.com/9CXDcGi.jpg

PATRICK EGGLE!

I actually bought the Orlando album a few years later and really enjoyed it for a while. Since then it's gone to the same place as my My Life Story albums.

Hell?

I was thinking it was more likely just in a box to give to charity but I do have a feeling I sold it on Amazon. I know it was going for quite a lot at one point.

Have never actually heard Plastic Fantastic, Sexus or Dexdexter. Should check them out.

I also have the Ornaldo album

THE BEATLES
two-page special

Did any of those Romo bands actually <i>sound</i> like 80s new romantics, or was the romo scene all about looks and image? My impression was the latter. Musically, La Roux were probably much closer to the sound of 1982 than any of the Romo bands would ever manage.

geir otm.

(and welcome back)

Loving Roxy Music stuck in the bottom corner in a Romo special

ha i know that one guy on the cover of that. hiya stuart!

The band was formed in 1997 by Supergrass drummer Danny Goffey and his girlfriend Pearl Lowe, the former vocalist with Powder.[1] The line-up was completed by co-vocalist Neil Carlill and guitarist Will Foster, both of Delicatessen.[1][2] Lowe and Carlill's dual vocals drew comparisons with Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood.[1][2]

I'd forgotten about the existence of Lodger. Think I only heard one single of theirs ('I'm Leaving')... didn't care about them at all.

I love kenickie's first album but always considered it "punk pop". It was so much better than the mallpunk garbage we got in the u.s.