Britpop : Time For Reevaluation?

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...

*must

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

ha i am/was into both and was unaware of this

also in what sense are the popguns britpop? other than their prodigious smack intake

I remember Fluffy

had no idea fluffy were regarded as part of britpop as the 'black eye' album is more punk/garage r-n-r.

then again, it has been a long long time since i actually listened to it.

anything on the evening session = britpop afaic

if it was a british guitar act it got labelled britpop. Just like during grunge top of the pops called the spin doctors and the lemonheads grunge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdzSAyOup1g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16indpzGa9U

Much (not all) of the Lovely Eggs stuff is pretty wonderful. They might have been my favorite old band discovered last year.

Okay, 20 years on from that stupid chart battle:

Blur
Pulp
Radiohead
Suede
Super Furry Animals
Supergrass
Verve (pre-A Northern Soul)

Fuck the rest.

surely we can move on from this list of standards ?

That seems, to me, pretty much it for what has endured in terms of '90s British guitar pop. The rest of the stuff I listen to from the '90s these days seems to be electronic/dance music and US alternative rock.

i realise ILM hates them now but surely any list without Oasis is somewhat skewed.

ps. glad you made the difference re electronic/dance - hence my original miffed groove !

Being from the US, I didn't get any of the negative press/attitude that seemed to hang around Dodgy, but I loved their Homegrown album. Haven't listened to it in 20yrs, but it sure was fun in 94/95.

did you know that the Bluetones have recently extended their 20th anniversary reunion tour by 18 dates due to popular demand? I'm not going because I don't like going to gigs, but I love the Bluetones

here's what the 'tones have been up since the band broke up

Four years ago The Bluetones, one of the last surviving foot soldiers of Britpop, took their bows and went their separate ways, spitting up - we assumed - for good. Singer Morriss became a wandering troubadour, on a never-ending solo tour, acoustic in hand, playing old hits and new tunes. He’s just put out his third record, The Taste Of Mark Morris. They’ve all been very good. His brother, bassist Scott, moved to Japan to utilise a nifty skill for graphic design and animation; drummer Eds Chester is an osteopath, while guitarist Adam Devlin has carved out a new identity as a guitarist for hire (most notably with excellent Socialist supergroup Thee Cee Cees) and, despite being genuinely sweet in real life, has a neat sideline as a superbly effective twitter troll (according to his profile “BLOCKED by: @piersmorgan @DailyMailUK @KTHopkins @KayBurley @Nigel_Farage @Scientology @lancearmstrong @Joey7Barton @U2 @Sting and @gwenstefani. Twice”.)

http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4149443-album-by-album-with-the-bluetones

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Oh yeah, while Britpop undoubtedly got a lot of coverage at the time, it would be beyond stupid to even imply that it was the only thing that happened/was happening in the '90s.

Oasis were undoubtedly at their best from 1994-1996, and incredibly huge in the UK for a couple of years, but I really struggle to find the enthusiasm to listen to one of their albums in 2015. I'm pretty much the same with other bands from the time, too, even Manic Street Preachers.

Turrican, have you listened to Mark Morris' latest solo album, 'The Taste Of Mark Morris'? it includes a cover of OMD's Souvenir

Eh!?

i'm with turrican on that particular demand !!?

oh shit, that album is full of crazy covers. gonna play now.

it wasn't a demand! just an enquiry

I like his versions of Souvenir and Love Comes Quickly, I'm going to go ahead and say that say that covering Duchess from Scott 4 was a mistake, though

he was a worse singer than the prat from the seahorses (which says a lot)

fair enough.

note (as cosmic et al know) : i aint no brit pop hater, as i have a LOT of the 2nd/3rd tier level stuff hidden away in the archive - just i get bored with the same names being dragged out ..