Britpop era follow up to successful albums poll

I kind of admire the Manics for managing to cash in on the era without, in retrospect, having to bend much to it in sound, theme or image. They were always trying to introduce stuff that never caught on at all, like political history, ice hockey, or the pseudo yacht rock on this album

Are The View the 'same jeans' lot? I heard a busker doing that this week, and not so long ago saw a bride & groom taking the floor to it at their wedding (not as first dance thankfully). Both times I felt soiled just knowing what it was.

Kafuckingsafuckingbifuckingan

I feel rather proud I have no idea who this is referring to.

Kasabian.

I don't think that I've met anyone that has still expressed a liking for The View in years now, though yes, plenty of people who rep for Kasabian and Kings of Leon.

Looool, I'd forgotten about most of this stuff. Think I'll have to jump on the This Is Hardcore bandwagon.

i keep thinking i've never heard the view but i probably have and just dont realise it

i don't think i've ever heard the view. the one thing that redeems that list of albums up there is the thought of what a landfill era equivalent would look like.

Man this was sort of my era but I guess I'd decided most of these bands sucked after all by then and didn't much care for the ones I bothered to hear. Supergrass, Boo Radleys = OK. The Pulp I've never heard, even though I like(d) Pulp and everyone says it's good, because I didn't like the singles.

Things I might have voted for had they been on the list: Radiator (but I still prefer Fuzzy Logic), Six (but I haven't listened to it in a decade). I guess nothing by Gorky's counts as a "successful album" enough for me to vote for the follow-up...

You know what follow-up to a very minor Britpop "success" I did hear is the second Silver Sun album which I got for a quid in a bargain bin and is really fucking terrible, and I say that as someone who actually still nurses some vaguely fond memories of the singles from the first album, which I figure are probably beyond the pale for the rest of ILX

a couple of irl ppl I know rep for Silver Sun on the basis of them being "classic powerpop" or something like that

not sure I'm behind that drive

Were Catherine Wheel and Swervedriver not included because they're not considered Britpop, or weren't popular? When I visited in Fall '97, "Bittersweet Symphony" was playing everywhere. EVERYWHERE!

Pulp will take and it gets my vote despite the album being too goddamn long. But The Menace is not bad at all and shorter than its competition.

It says a lot that length is a factor in this poll

In It For The Money was the last Supergrass album I was really excited about. After that, the drummer's Moon-isms vanished,

I don't pay attention to Britpop drummers. Period.

I always thought Goffey was great, but drum geeks seem to think he was all-over-the-place.

I still think Supergrass when better for each time until the fourth album. Then they started moving the wrong way again, but the debut remains their weakest to me, not really getting good until the tempo is being slowed down towards the end.

Silver Sun

first album is great, and the best nigel godrich production imo

second is dire, it was clear that dude had completely shot his songwriting wad by this point

pulp slightly over supergrass

Blur or Supergrass. Leaning toward Supergrass.

― EZ Snappin, Friday, May 4, 2012 9:10 AM (2 days ago)

I listened to both and went with Blur.

The first Silver Sun album is genuinely great powerpop throughout, plus their 2000s albums are much, much better than 'Neo Wave'.

man what a huge load of shit

went for C'mon Kids... In my head I've written one of those 33 1/3 books about that album focussing on its classic status as follow up album to successful britpop release.

essentially, this thread in small book form.

even geir's posts?

i expect a lot of albums to get no votes here

Well, I voted "menace"

i dont think i ever heard it tbh. probably haven't heard most of these albums mind you. For everyone saying its a depressing list and its proof the 90s were bad.. just remember most of these sold sod all.

C'mon Kids is the one of these I've listened to recently and thought it still sounded fresh and good.

( and if This Is Hardcore is on here, why not OK Computer? )

(because that one was reasonably successful compared to the previous album)

(OK, TIHArdcore got to number one, etc)

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but we know that it tastes of pee
should be getting our tampons free
d.i.y. gynecology

impossible not to vote for pulp here...though i had no idea kula shaker had a second album, maybe i should listen to that before i cast my vote SIKE

i never heard that suede album either but i didn't even really care for coming up/post bernard butler suede.

i remember enjoying the great escape at the time but most of blur's stuff has not held up for me and i find myself just cringing at everything damon albarn does.

love 1st 3 Suede but man those 2 horrible horrible albums make me want to punch brett.

Trash is my favourite Suede song. Is that on it?

Trash is on Coming Up. Head Music had.. umm.. 'give me head, give me head, give me head muuuusic insteaaad' *looks up tracklisting* Electricity, She's in Fashion, Can't Get Enough.

no those sound shit.

they are

i want to start a thread for horrible album cover art from 1998-2002 era that looks like it was knocked up in photoshop in about 10 seconds and now plagues the shelves in Poundland up and down the country.

Prime examples:

http://www.140db.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/danton-supple-albums/suede-head-music.jpg

http://img.noiset.com/images/album/manic-street-preachers-lifeblood-cd-album-art-2051.jpeg

The London Suede?

This is even worse:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/A_new_morning.jpg

We had to call them the London Suede in North America because there was some country(?) act named Suede already. Ditto Bush "X"

charlatans uk?

i dont remember Nirvana US for some reason

feel schitzo everso psycho
Kicking at an old tin can
I feel real like a man like a woman,
Like a woman, like a man
I make deadspace feel like a head case
Take it like a teenage tough
I feel real now watching those wheels
And shaking that stuff,
Singing "I can't get enough"
Singing "I can't get enough"

Singing "I can't get enough"
Singing "I can't get enough"

Read more at http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/16617/#SSR7HiYP8lY8ow9U.99!

i dont remember Nirvana US for some reason

Nirvana paid Nirvana off

Yeah, Nirvana (US) agreed not to pass themselves off as a psychedelic band ever.

At which point, post agreement, Nirvana (UK) released a cover version of "Lithium".

The only thing worse that Brett on smack'n'crack was Brett cleaning up. 'Head Music' ("great big crack" indeed) is bad in places but 'A New Morning' is terrible.

― 'scuse me, while I Rim the Sky... (snoball), Friday, May 4, 2012 8:50 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If those were the ONLY TWO Suede albums that existed, and I were forced by gunpoint to listen to one of them, I'd choose A New Morning without any hesitation or doubt. I don't think either are very good, but A New Morning would win out just because it's got 'Obsessions' on it. I love those first three Suede albums, though, and the 'Sci-Fi Lullabies' B-side compilation (ESPECIALLY THE FIRST DISC) is essential, IMO.

feel schitzo everso psycho
Kicking at an old tin can
I feel real like a man like a woman,
Like a woman, like a man
I make deadspace feel like a head case
Take it like a teenage tough
I feel real now watching those wheels
And shaking that stuff,
Singing "I can't get enough"
Singing "I can't get enough"

Singing "I can't get enough"
Singing "I can't get enough"

Read more at http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/16617/#SSR7HiYP8lY8ow9U.99!

― thomp, Tuesday, May 8, 2012 4:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

She live in a house, she stupid as a mouse
And she going where the lights are on
She's shaking obscene like a fucking machine and she's gone, gone, gone...
She's cooking crack giving us heart attack

etc. etc.

still love that manics album.

She live in a house, she stupid as a mouse

See, I like that song

To be fair, he was on crack

my mate saw suede on the head music tour and said it was great and that the songs were really good live and that it was the production on the album that was really bad (despite the melody maker review praising it). The album after was just pure shite though.