Britpop : Time For Reevaluation?

which song from head music?

1. Menswe@r - Stardust
2. Cast - Guiding Star
3. Smokin' Mojo Filters - Come Together
4. Northern Uproar - Livin' It Up
5. Ruth - I Don't Know
6. My Life Story - Sparkle
7. Dodgy - Good Enough
8. The Supernaturals - I Wasn't Built To Get Up
9. Republica - Drop Dead Gorgeous
10. Reef - Come Back Brighter
11. The Seahorses - You Can Talk To Me
12. Rialto - Monday Morning 5.19
13. Travis - More Than Us

which song from head music?

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Even though they did some weak stuff on there I just can't be the one to name a song.

The title track.

so far we have
1) Oasis - Roll With It
2) Blur Country House
3) Ocean Colour Scene - Day We Caught The Train
4) Dodgy - Good Enough
5) Kula Shaker - Hey Dude
6) Cast - Live The Dream
7) Powder - Afrodisiac
8) Supernaturals- Smile
9) Catatonia - Mulder & Scully
10) Space Feat Cerys - The Ballad Of Tom Jones
11) The Divine Comedy - Something for the Weekend
12) My Life Story - 12 Reasons Why I Love Her
13) Sleeper - Inbetweener
14) Lightning Seeds - 3 Lions
15) Babybird - You’re Gorgeous.
16) Bluetones - Cut Some Rug
17) Reef - Place Your Hands.
18) Shed Seven - Dolphin.
19) Longpigs - She Said.
20) Catch - Bingo.
21) Embrace - All You Good Good People.
22) The Levellers - What A Beautiful Day
23) Jocasta - Change Me
24) Nilon Bombers - Superstar
25) Ether - Best Friend
26) Mainstream - Step Right Up
27) Midget - All Fall Down
28)18 Wheeler - Crabs
29) Robbie Williams - Angels.
30) The Verve - Lucky Man
31) Manic Street Preachers - The Everlasting
32) Suede - Head Music
33) Thurman - English Tea
34) Northern Uproar - From A Window
35) Menswe@r - Stardust
36)Smokin' Mojo Filters - Come Together
37) Ruth - I Don't Know
38) The Seahorses - Ypu Can Talk To Me
39) Republica - Drop \\dead Gorgeous
40) Rialto - Monday Morning 5.19
41) Travis - More Than Us

roxymuzak via FB nominated Kenickie - Punka

turrican didnt include anything by bands with a song already in it

I like punka and have the pic disk but it has to go in as nominated (plus the reactions gonna be lols)

Stereophonics - More Life in a Tramp's Vest
Hurricane #1 - Only the Strongest Will Survive

No way should Punka be on there. Brilliant song from a brilliant band (Same with Something For the Weekend.)

you guys have got me looking up Electrafixion singles at 2am. i hate u

I already nominated Town by Northern Uproar. It has to be that one for "I'm going down, so down town where the streets are full of clowns"

Edwyn Collins - The Magic Piper (Of Love)

The Charlatans - How High
Puressence - This Feeling

good call with turrican #1

mr writer is worst stereophonics but i guess we can only include early stuff

can we include britrock like feeder - buck rogers?

If you're including Britrock, then:

Terrorvision - Oblivion

Relieved I've only heard about half of that lot. Or at least that I've blocked out any memory of hearing about half of them.

Lodger - I'm Leaving.

no it has to be terrorvision- tequila. an actual hit too

looks like seandalai is requesting a spotify playlist!

1) Oasis - Roll With It
2) Blur Country House
3) Ocean Colour Scene - Day We Caught The Train
4) Dodgy - Good Enough
5) Kula Shaker - Hey Dude
6) Cast - Live The Dream
7) Powder - Afrodisiac
8) Supernaturals- Smile
9) Catatonia - Mulder & Scully
10) Space Feat Cerys - The Ballad Of Tom Jones
11) The Divine Comedy - Something for the Weekend
12) My Life Story - 12 Reasons Why I Love Her
13) Sleeper - Inbetweener
14) Lightning Seeds - 3 Lions
15) Babybird - You’re Gorgeous.
16) Bluetones - Cut Some Rug
17) Reef - Place Your Hands.
18) Shed Seven - Dolphin.
19) Longpigs - She Said.
20) Catch - Bingo.
21) Embrace - All You Good Good People.
22) The Levellers - What A Beautiful Day
23) Jocasta - Change Me
24) Nilon Bombers - Superstar
25) Ether - Best Friend
26) Mainstream - Step Right Up
27) Midget - All Fall Down
28)18 Wheeler - Crabs
29) Robbie Williams - Angels.
30) The Verve - Lucky Man
31) Manic Street Preachers - The Everlasting
32) Suede - Head Music
33) Thurman - English Tea
34) Northern Uproar - Town
35) Menswe@r - Stardust
36)Smokin' Mojo Filters - Come Together
37) Ruth - I Don't Know
38) The Seahorses - Ypu Can Talk To Me
39) Republica - Drop \\dead Gorgeous
40) Rialto - Monday Morning 5.19
41) Travis - More Than Us
42) Stereophonics - More Life in a Tramp's Vest
43) Hurricane #1 - Only the Strongest Will Survive
44) The Charlatans - How High
45) Puressence - This Feeling
46) Feeder - Buck Rogers
47) Terrorvision - Tequila.

47 of the shittest songs of the era. One song per band max. Anything else to be added?

oh shit how can i forget wake up boo

How High is a great song as is Wake Up Boo, even if it was the reason why all my friends made fun of me naming them as one of my favourite bands.

interesting there are no Elastica songs in the list so far. hard to think of a standout obviously-crap song from their big hits era.

I think we should stick to 90s songs. High would be a good 90s Feeder choice.

making a playlist
http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/0y0gMIOGyKaqj70K3eEprx

hey you put lucky man on there KP so wake up boo is on (its awful)

interesting there are no Elastica songs in the list so far. hard to think of a standout obviously-crap song from their big hits era.

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I was just thinking the same about Supergrass. Someone will nominate Alright now I'm sure.

fat les - vindaloo

i changed shed seven to going for gold via popular demand on my fb

Not sure how fair that is, but you are making the rules.

Good call on Fat Les but the Christmas song was worse.

okay a bunch of lesser known songs plus bingo by catch arent on spotify but erm enjoy
http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/0y0gMIOGyKaqj70K3eEprx

Songs can be added to it as they get nominated

Already following.

"Sad little indie boys stil want to fuck lauren laverne" Hey, that has nothing to do with. That first album is a classic and the second one is mostly great too.

ILM was like that back in the day though, DG loved to annoy said people. I wish he still posted.

Was looking forward to hearing Jocasta and Nilon Bombers and Thurman but they're not there. Alas.

yeah,
Ive added the band I really disliked though thats gonna be controversial with everyone else

DUBSTAR.

Disgraceful is a great album. Where's Lex when you need him? He'll have something to say about all this ridiculous Kenickie/Dubstar hate.

oh i liked punka by kenickie and that other single. I owned them. I think ILM is pretty much all love for kenickie.

Ive always been on my own here in dubstar-hate.

btw fun lovin criminals needs a mention. Not britpop but y'know... it counts and we know it

what was their worst track?

along with elastica and supergrass no one has nominated a Pulp track.

Quite right too.

or Saint Etienne.

I kind of like terrorvision oblivion. It's good dumb fun

tequila got the nod. That was truly awful

btw fun lovin criminals needs a mention. Not britpop but y'know... it counts and we know it

what was their worst track?

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The one that goes "I've got supermodels on my D!"

I went with the 10cc cover. That was awful.

btw with KP nominating Lucky Mam, I actually saw the verve play that in 1995 at t in the park(the gig they split up at) . they played a few others from urban hymns too (Come On and Rolling People)

'The Rolling People' being a fine blend of Funkadelic and Aphrodite's Child.

or a blatant piece of stealing.

american ilxors need to make a thread/spotify list of really bad mid to late 90s us music to go with this.

Turrican you got anything to add to http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/0y0gMIOGyKaqj70K3eEprx

Tequila was well after Britpop though. One of those terrible novelty singles by rock/punk bands - see also Outkast's Pretty Fly For A White Guy - which blighted my first year of uni. Terrorvision did have some Britpop era hits though with Oblivion and that song about the dolphins. But I never associated them with Britpop - they were a Kerrang! band, fun teen metal stuff I enjoyed listening to along with Green Day etc when I were a lad.
Just to add to the Oasis fan constituency debate... I was discussing this with Kerr on FB, but in Scotland a large part of Oasis's fan base was the dance crowd who'd been going to big raves like Resurrection in the early 90s, and their younger siblings, who were more my age group and had just missed out on that. I remember there was a point when Oasis went from being another band the indie kids and 'moshers' would listen to, to a huge band everyone liked - IIRC it was Whatever wot did it. During rehearsals for the school musical (ha!) at the end of 94/start of 95 that song was on all the bloody time.
There was a sense of excitement and optimism, with Some Like Say coming out and everyone willing the next album to be great. Seems ridiculous now, but Wonderwall was hyped up as having this Portishead thing going on. The album was a bit disappointing when it came out, but I still had good will towards them for a while, although I was moving on to Radiohead and other things.
It was exciting to follow the other new releases too. While I couldn't afford many albums, I got loads of 99p singles. And not just Britpop, but other things I'd read about in the NME, heard on Mark & Lard - Nick Cave, Tricky etc. So I concur with Turrican and others who look back on it quite fondly as a time of discovering music in general, tied in with the giddiness of youth - Supergrass's Alright captures that perfectly. It was nice that all the kids at school shared a certain number of cultural references and for a while I didn't feel like such an outcast, even if that was partly wishful thinking on my behalf. I remember this girl I really fancied who had been a huge Take That fan got into Pulp, which made me think I might stand a chance (haha!). I really wasn't jazzed by all the Weller, OCS stuff that it descended into and I moved on.

Outkast's Pretty Fly For A White Guy

Really?

Outkast's Pretty Fly For A White Guy

:D

Kenickie I don't really associate with Britpop in the strictest sense. They were certainly influenced by Britpop, but I'd associate them more with Pulp and the Manics: that regional indie/glam/glitter thing. At school they were one of the bands, along with Garbage, Hole etc, that all the girls who loved the Manics were into. As my male pals at the time were turning into mardy stoners who listened to Korn I wasn't supposed to like that kind of 'girl' music. God, teenage boys are the worst!

Was it revenge for The Vines' "Ms Jackson" ?