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".
― pick it up for ripple laser (onimo), Friday, 25 April 2014 12:10 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/quiz/2014/apr/25/quiz-how-much-you-know-about-britpop
― ۩, Friday, 25 April 2014 12:37 (ten years ago) link
yeah, I got 22
― Mark G, Friday, 25 April 2014 12:54 (ten years ago) link
18, but with a lot of guesswork
― A frenzied geologist (Tom D.), Friday, 25 April 2014 12:55 (ten years ago) link
Oh shit, I got 23. In my defence, this was the era I grew up in. ;_;
― emil.y, Friday, 25 April 2014 13:03 (ten years ago) link
15 and so did I, albeit in NZ
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 25 April 2014 13:11 (ten years ago) link
27, please shoot me.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Friday, 25 April 2014 13:13 (ten years ago) link
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)
― Branwell Bell, Friday, 25 April 2014 13:15 (ten years ago) link
24. And life goes on.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Friday, 25 April 2014 13:21 (ten years ago) link
Oh dear. I got 26.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 25 April 2014 14:13 (ten years ago) link
Really wish it had been Heavy Stereo on the Yanks Go Home Select cover.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 25 April 2014 14:14 (ten years ago) link
21. Tbf anyone who read MM/NME/Select around that time will score pretty well.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Friday, 25 April 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
17, from Canada! I worked hard for that score. Select cost ~$10!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 25 April 2014 15:19 (ten years ago) link
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)
― Turtleneck Work Solutions (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 25 April 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
19. but frankly i hate this music and wish it would die
― It's Pablum Time with (NickB), Friday, 25 April 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
I got 24. Who knew Parklife almost had a fruit & veg cart on the cover?
― ۩, Friday, 25 April 2014 18:44 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av9Vn48fOEs
St George's Day knees-up at The Red Lion in Leytonstone - 23rd April 2014
http://i.imgur.com/6GCQQqR.gif
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Friday, 25 April 2014 20:51 (ten years ago) link
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
― soref, Friday, 25 April 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
if it was Phil Daniels tho I'd glass the cunt eh lads
― imago, Friday, 25 April 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
After you got his autograph?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 25 April 2014 21:45 (ten years ago) link
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Updating the piano sing‐along for the twenty‐first century, The Gents cover tracks from Kylie to Nirvana, Talking Heads to Dolly Parton, The White Stripes to Hot Chip & Elvis to Britney Spears.
In a mash up of styles incorporating the cockney knees up, gypsy punk andboogie‐woogie piano The Gents lead their drunken crowds through the full history of popular music.
The Gents play on a proper old Joanna which is mounted on wheels and glides across any terrain with the greatest of ease, especially when pulled by a selection of nubile beauties –behold ‘Whores and Cart!’
Alongside set pieces, costume changes, comedy asides and kazoo solo’s, The Gents fully integrate their punters into the performance and encourage audience requests and kazoo participation. The Gents generally prefer to perform with crowds surrounding the piano rather than on stage, enabling them to fully connect with the audience.
With plenty of humorous banter, saucy singing and sexy outfits The Gents always make their shows something to remember. You’ll come away with a belly full of laughs, a smile on yer face and a bloody soar throat!
The Gents are available for private parties, festivals, street performances, corporate bookings, tv appearances, promotional work and, well, just about anything else you want to offer them really!
― soref, Friday, 25 April 2014 21:53 (ten years ago) link
http://wearethegents.com/files/photos/picture/31.jpg
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Friday, 25 April 2014 22:07 (ten years ago) link
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 :(:(:(:(:(:(
― xelab, Friday, 25 April 2014 22:55 (ten years ago) link
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.
― ۩, Friday, 25 April 2014 22:57 (ten years ago) link
no no no no no, the actual majority of people don't give a milligram of fuck about this
― you poll a lot, but you're not saying anything (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 April 2014 23:16 (ten years ago) link
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.
― J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de (Michael White), Friday, 25 April 2014 23:23 (ten years ago) link
I really loathe that era, it was the commercial triumph of the deluded morons, much prefer the chart music of now tbh.
― xelab, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:38 (ten years ago) link
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
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Friday, 25 April 2014 23:43 (ten years ago) link
those specious presumably fake statistics about however many cunts tried to get tickets to see oasis at knebworth
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Friday, 25 April 2014 23:44 (ten years ago) link
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
― you poll a lot, but you're not saying anything (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 April 2014 23:48 (ten years ago) link
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
― you poll a lot, but you're not saying anything (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 April 2014 23:50 (ten years ago) link
I owe you a quid
― Turtleneck Work Solutions (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 25 April 2014 23:51 (ten years ago) link
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?
― you poll a lot, but you're not saying anything (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 April 2014 23:52 (ten years ago) link
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
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Saturday, 26 April 2014 00:02 (ten years ago) link
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― popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Saturday, 26 April 2014 00:16 (ten years ago) link
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.
― xelab, Saturday, 26 April 2014 00:20 (ten years ago) link
I got 8 on that quiz, I win
― ogmor, Saturday, 26 April 2014 00:50 (ten years ago) link
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.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Saturday, 26 April 2014 00:56 (ten years ago) link
and a sash?
― ۩, Saturday, 26 April 2014 02:23 (ten years ago) link
Orange Uproar
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Saturday, 26 April 2014 11:01 (ten years ago) link
I scored 19 on that quiz, mostly down to being a student at the time and skimming other people's copies of Select/etc..
― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Saturday, 26 April 2014 12:05 (ten years ago) link
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.
― woof, Saturday, 26 April 2014 12:26 (ten years ago) link
Next year is the 20th anniversary ofhttp://i.imgur.com/9CXDcGi.jpg
― ۩, Saturday, 26 April 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
PATRICK EGGLE!
― Mark G, Saturday, 26 April 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 26 April 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
Hell?
― ۩, Saturday, 26 April 2014 19:44 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 26 April 2014 20:21 (ten years ago) link
I also have the Ornaldo album
― kinder, Saturday, 26 April 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
THE BEATLEStwo-page special
― bizarro gazzara, Saturday, 26 April 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
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.
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 26 April 2014 21:44 (ten years ago) link