Britpop : Time For Reevaluation?

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just what ilm needs , more students!

http://soundcloud.com/stefan-carter-2/mix-for-one-media-radio

oh and nothing to do with the one media group
http://flyingrodent.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/we-all-got-to-go-some-time.html

at the risk of completely fouling the waters, did ilm ever have a britpop vs grunge poll?

Are you going to start one?

it should be nu-metal though since they both started roughly in 1994 after kurts death

Well, nobody really regrets Grunge, not in the same way...

yeah but nu-metal xp

nu-metal is where the yank and britisher ilxors can come together in rare unity of hatred

not really any sort of effective opposition then

you could try post-grunge

A friend wrote this work in-progress idea on Livejournal about a decade ago

"Idea for a 64-track compilation box-set:

called "Nuggets 3: artefacts from the Britpop era 1995-98": Dp you think the Rhino record label would go for it?

Disc 1
1. Kenickie "In Your Car"
2. Bennet "Mum's gone to Iceland"
3. Bis "Kandy Pop"
4. Catch "Bingo"
5. Smaller "God I Hate this town"
6. Disco Pistol "Say Something"
7. Snug "Beatnik Girl"
8. Dweeb "Scooby Doo"
9. Urusei Yatsura "Slain BY Elf"
10: Carrie "Caliafornia Screaming"
11.Sean Macguire "Today's the Day"
12: Straw "That song McGazz always goes on about"
13: Sympiosium "Drink the Sunshine"
14: Theaudience "A pessimist is (always) disspointed"
15: Electrascy "My Best Friends Girl"
16: The Supernaturals "Lazy Lover"

Disc 2

1.Mike Flowers Pops "Wonderwall"
2.The Supernaturals "The Day before yesterdays's Man"
3. Me Me Me "Banging Around"
4. Midget "Big Invisible Baloon"
5: Mark Owen "I am what I am"
6: Lodger "Leaving Here"
7: Travis "Tied to the nineties"
8: Lung Leg "Right Now Baby"
9: The Dandys "Dirty Weekend"
10: Headswim "Tourniquet"
11; Thurman "drinking Tea"
12: Kenickie "Punka"
13: The Young Offenders "That's why we lose control"
14: The Chicks "Let Me Go"
15: Northern Uproar "from a window"
16: whatever they were called "I hate Oasis (and I hate the Beatles too)"

Disc 3
1.Bis "This is Fake DIY"
2: Stereophonics "More life in a tramps vest"
3: Midget "Kylie and Jason"
4: Period Pains "Spice Girls (who do you think you are?)"
5: Electrascy "Morning Afterglow"
6: The Gyres: "Pop Cop"
7: Shampoo "Girl Power"
8: No Way Sis "I'm like to Teach The World to Sing"
9: Vyvyan "that one they had"
10: WhiteOut "One by them, and all"
six others

Disc 4
1.The Supernaturals "Smile"
2. Bennet: Someone always get's there first"
3. Bis: "Sweet Shop Avengers"
4: The Chicks "Daria"
5: The Montrose Avenue "One they did"

( others (suggestions please?)

15:Kenickie "Come out 2nite"
16: Lung Leg "Maid to Minx""

6: The Gyres:

christ, they were from Blantyre

IT's good but it's missing 'Your Woman'

What about a 'Britpop not from Britain' list - Grass Show, Cardigans, Superpunk, Fools Garden etc... Many more?

'Neue Zähne für meinen Bruder und Mich' by Superpunk is the best German Britpop song ever BTW.

Didn't Bob Stanley do a three-disc Britpop compilation fairly recently?

http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/images/rhino/cvrs/081227998356.320.jpg

He didn't compile it, he's on it though.

Common People (Brit Pop: The Story) is Bob Stanley's compilation.

Ah, fair enough.

Just looked at *that* track listing, better than the PostBox one.

jesus that box is a slog. went through it recently and so much of it is just BOOOOOOREDOM

I see BS couldn't get Blur or Oasis.

that led to me Stanley on early Britpop. hadn't seen it before

The Gyres documentary on youtube is a classic insight into the arse end of Britpop. The band themselves have been much mocked for the gulf between their Oasis-style 'We're Best Band In the World' rhetoric and their feeble tunes, but they're just young lads trying to live out their rock 'n roll dreams and don't come across as especially obnoxious. The real villains are the London music biz wankers who reportedly signed them as a tax loss. Weird documentary, as if BBC Scotland bosses ordered an unenthusiastic team to make it. Most of the talking heads offer faint praise or politely neutral comments. Duglas T Stewart appears feeding the llamas at Glasgow Zoo, in a cute Pet Sounds homage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l3_X30uQFc

Disc 1
1. Kenickie "In Your Car" - still listen to on the reg
2. Bennet "Mum's gone to Iceland" - whatever
3. Bis "Kandy Pop" - Manda Rin is a very nice lady
4. Catch "Bingo" - this is beyond shite
5. Smaller "God I Hate this town" - dunno, shit name
6. Disco Pistol "Say Something" - dunno, shit name
7. Snug "Beatnik Girl" - dunno
8. Dweeb "Scooby Doo" - dunno
9. Urusei Yatsura "Slain BY Elf" - this was good, would listen. SLAAAIIIIN
10: Carrie "Caliafornia Screaming" - vaguely remember this, my o/h has a Carrie tshirt for some reason, used to get 'cool movie' comments
11.Sean Macguire "Today's the Day" - wtf is this doing on here
12: Straw "That song McGazz always goes on about" - ?
13: Sympiosium "Drink the Sunshine" - I liked them when I was 15
14: Theaudience "A pessimist is (always) disspointed" - Why isn't Sophie still doing this stuff, she bangs on about britpop every chance she gets
15: Electrascy "My Best Friends Girl" - dunno
16: The Supernaturals "Lazy Lover" - someone bought me the Supernaturals album on tape, it was unsurprisingly terrible

Disc 2

1.Mike Flowers Pops "Wonderwall" - novlolty
2.The Supernaturals "The Day before yesterdays's Man" - go away
3. Me Me Me "Banging Around" - dunno
4. Midget "Big Invisible Baloon" - another band I saw more tshirts of/flyers for than heard
5: Mark Owen "I am what I am" - this is so lol, there's a video of him somewhere doing this jumping around desperately trying to look indie with stupid glasses on. Bonus shit points for actually saying 'I'm just doing what I'm doing and if anyone else likes it it's a bonus'.
6: Lodger "Leaving Here" - can't remember
7: Travis "Tied to the nineties" - already going shit by this point
8: Lung Leg "Right Now Baby"
9: The Dandys "Dirty Weekend"
10: Headswim "Tourniquet" - think I had a bunch of Headswim stuff on a mixtape, might go listen, maybe not
11; Thurman "drinking Tea"
12: Kenickie "Punka" - classic
13: The Young Offenders "That's why we lose control"
14: The Chicks "Let Me Go" - Chicks were amazing
15: Northern Uproar "from a window" - NO
16: whatever they were called "I hate Oasis (and I hate the Beatles too)" - Teen Anthems, is this the same as Jamie Theakston Superstar? Whither Helen Love 'Long live the Uk music scene'?

Disc 3
1.Bis "This is Fake DIY" - yay Bis (can't actualy remember this one)
2: Stereophonics "More life in a tramps vest" - Stereophonics became the bane of my life, I hate them
3: Midget "Kylie and Jason" - I liked Kylie and Jason, I don't know this
4: Period Pains "Spice Girls (who do you think you are?)" - thought this was hilarious as a youngster. Had a b-side called Daddy Buy Me A Pony iirc
5: Electrascy "Morning Afterglow" - this is ringing a bell
6: The Gyres: "Pop Cop"
7: Shampoo "Girl Power" - Shampoo rule, boys drool
8: No Way Sis "I'm like to Teach The World to Sing" - someone in my family had this single
9: Vyvyan "that one they had" - read about them in Just 17, thought they sounded cool
10: WhiteOut "One by them, and all" ?

Were Silversun around this time? Velocette? (They even got a Smack the Pony pastiche).

velocette got a Smack The Pony pastiche?? didn't know that.

nick b - no poll it seems but I did find
What meant more: Britpop to Americans or Grunge to Brits?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4_8ddd2chc

Kenickie's "I Would Fix You" got a SMP parody too, though aside from the butterflies, it's played pretty straight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6k-K23-ft8

Silversun were definitely around that time as I remember chatting to their lead singer and Marijne from Salad at an early Kenickie gig. The glamour.

I was going to mention the time when Jake Shillingford from My Life Story stood next to me at a urinal, but it seemed both lame and disgusting. His piss splashed on my hand.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 14:45 (10 years ago)

good times.

i once had a slash next to one of the three johns ..

oh, and daniel o'donnel ..

not at the same time of course, as that would be a total head fuck.

i once had a slash next to one of the three johns

I do this most times I go to the pub

Silver Sun were great

Nobody expected Oasis to collaborate with Metalheadz, but you wouldn't have thought the Left Banke was a massive stretch.

one of these happened though

http://www.neverunderdressed.com/beauty/the-look/beauty-icons-of-britpop

who were Angelica?!

I vaguely remember them.

Somewhere between Fuzzbox and Kenickie

the singer is now in indiepop meets comedy duo The Lovely Eggs

they sound great

Teenage Girl Crush on Deceptive Fifty

that gallery won't open for me, what a devastating tragedy for nostalgic sexism

If you can't open it, how do you know it's sexist?

I just remembered Fluffy.

Xps You just remember Angelica - 'why did you let my kitten die', possibly a cover of Ice Ice Baby...