Oasis- Whatever
Charlatans- Tellin Stories
Personality- Damon Albarn
Gig- Cast 1996. Leeds Cockpit
Charlatans- Tellin Stories
Personality- Damon Albarn
Gig- Cast 1996. Leeds Cockpit
Favourite Britpop track and album. One only
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So how come you've nominated two? 
There's only one contender anyway: This World & Body by Marion. Light years in front of anything else of that period.
There's only one contender anyway: This World & Body by Marion. Light years in front of anything else of that period.
Song: Alright by Supergrass
Album: Parklife
Personality: Justine Frischmann
Gig: Blur at the Ally Pally in 94, with Pulp and Supergrass amongst the support acts!
Album: Parklife
Personality: Justine Frischmann
Gig: Blur at the Ally Pally in 94, with Pulp and Supergrass amongst the support acts!
Originally Posted by barbeler:
“So how come you've nominated two?
There's only one contender anyway: This World & Body by Marion. Light years in front of anything else of that period.”
“So how come you've nominated two?
There's only one contender anyway: This World & Body by Marion. Light years in front of anything else of that period.”
I'd agree with that, but always slightly distressing that they got lumped in with the whole Britpop thing.
Track - Just Looking
Album - Performance & Cocktails
Artist - The Stereophonics
Live Forever/Definetly Maybe & Lucky Man/Urban Hymns by Oasis & The Verve respectively were a close second.
Album - Performance & Cocktails
Artist - The Stereophonics
Live Forever/Definetly Maybe & Lucky Man/Urban Hymns by Oasis & The Verve respectively were a close second.
Track - Common People
Album - Different Class
Artist - Pulp
Personality - Jarvis Cocker
Gig - Pulp, Hyde Park, July 2011
Sorry but bloody hell I love that album.
Album - Different Class
Artist - Pulp
Personality - Jarvis Cocker
Gig - Pulp, Hyde Park, July 2011
Sorry but bloody hell I love that album.
Different Class by Pulp is the correct answer. Well done to all those who got that at home.
You can pick any song from it.
You can pick any song from it.
I'm really struggling with this because I think the best British album of the the 90s was probably OK Computer but I'm not sure if it qualifies really. Radiohead's first album was '93 so they were right in there at the time but it's still hard to put them as Britpop.
My original thought was Suede's first album, then Mansun, then Vision Incision by Lo Fidelity Allstars as a single but that was '98 and post all that, I suppose. Then I started questioning what Britpop was and who it included and suddenly Radiohead popped in my head.
Bowie's albums around then were really good as well - Black Tie White Noise for one. Better now than I realised at the time, I think.
Sorry for the long rambling answer when you wanted a name but I'm struggling.
If it's allowable then my answer is OK Computer and Vision Incision but those were really on the back of Britpop rather than bang in the middle. (I always think of the height of Britpop as being when Oasis and Blur were battling for number 1 in '95, the start being Suede's first breakthrough album and the media coining the term, and the end being....not sure).
My original thought was Suede's first album, then Mansun, then Vision Incision by Lo Fidelity Allstars as a single but that was '98 and post all that, I suppose. Then I started questioning what Britpop was and who it included and suddenly Radiohead popped in my head.
Bowie's albums around then were really good as well - Black Tie White Noise for one. Better now than I realised at the time, I think.
Sorry for the long rambling answer when you wanted a name but I'm struggling.
If it's allowable then my answer is OK Computer and Vision Incision but those were really on the back of Britpop rather than bang in the middle. (I always think of the height of Britpop as being when Oasis and Blur were battling for number 1 in '95, the start being Suede's first breakthrough album and the media coining the term, and the end being....not sure).
Song : I Am The Resurrection by The Stone Roses.
Album : The Holy Bible by The Manic Street Preachers*
* I don't really care for Britpop - I found the Seattle sound of the early 90's far more interesting, so I'm not really sure if the Manics class as Britpop or not - but they seemed to get (unfairly) lumped into the genre. Can I also cast a vote for The Verve being the most overrated band in the history of music? Well I'm going too anyway.
Album : The Holy Bible by The Manic Street Preachers*
* I don't really care for Britpop - I found the Seattle sound of the early 90's far more interesting, so I'm not really sure if the Manics class as Britpop or not - but they seemed to get (unfairly) lumped into the genre. Can I also cast a vote for The Verve being the most overrated band in the history of music? Well I'm going too anyway.
Track - Bloodsport For All
Album - 30 Something
Artist - Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
Personality - JimBob
Album - 30 Something
Artist - Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
Personality - JimBob
track - dark therapy - echobelly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcprozpNBFk
album - whats the story (morning glory) oasis
personality - noel.... yep hes a big knob, but also pretty creative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcprozpNBFk
album - whats the story (morning glory) oasis
personality - noel.... yep hes a big knob, but also pretty creative.
Originally Posted by Jim_McIntosh:
“I'm really struggling with this because I think the best British album of the the 90s was probably OK Computer but I'm not sure if it qualifies really. Radiohead's first album was '93 so they were right in there at the time but it's still hard to put them as Britpop.
My original thought was Suede's first album, then Mansun, then Vision Incision by Lo Fidelity Allstars as a single but that was '98 and post all that, I suppose. Then I started questioning what Britpop was and who it included and suddenly Radiohead popped in my head.
Bowie's albums around then were really good as well - Black Tie White Noise for one. Better now than I realised at the time, I think.
Sorry for the long rambling answer when you wanted a name but I'm struggling.
If it's allowable then my answer is OK Computer and Vision Incision but those were really on the back of Britpop rather than bang in the middle. (I always think of the height of Britpop as being when Oasis and Blur were battling for number 1 in '95, the start being Suede's first breakthrough album and the media coining the term, and the end being....not sure).”
“I'm really struggling with this because I think the best British album of the the 90s was probably OK Computer but I'm not sure if it qualifies really. Radiohead's first album was '93 so they were right in there at the time but it's still hard to put them as Britpop.
My original thought was Suede's first album, then Mansun, then Vision Incision by Lo Fidelity Allstars as a single but that was '98 and post all that, I suppose. Then I started questioning what Britpop was and who it included and suddenly Radiohead popped in my head.
Bowie's albums around then were really good as well - Black Tie White Noise for one. Better now than I realised at the time, I think.
Sorry for the long rambling answer when you wanted a name but I'm struggling.
If it's allowable then my answer is OK Computer and Vision Incision but those were really on the back of Britpop rather than bang in the middle. (I always think of the height of Britpop as being when Oasis and Blur were battling for number 1 in '95, the start being Suede's first breakthrough album and the media coining the term, and the end being....not sure).”
Radiohead were considered part of whatever Britpop exactly was during the nineties by many critics, and Thom kind of played up to it around the time of The Bends.
So, yeah, go with OK Computer! (I absolutely love Let Down in particular)
Originally Posted by Soupietwist:
“Song : I Am The Resurrection by The Stone Roses.
Album : The Holy Bible by The Manic Street Preachers*
* I don't really care for Britpop - I found the Seattle sound of the early 90's far more interesting, so I'm not really sure if the Manics class as Britpop or not - but they seemed to get (unfairly) lumped into the genre. Can I also cast a vote for The Verve being the most overrated band in the history of music? Well I'm going too anyway.”
“Song : I Am The Resurrection by The Stone Roses.
Album : The Holy Bible by The Manic Street Preachers*
* I don't really care for Britpop - I found the Seattle sound of the early 90's far more interesting, so I'm not really sure if the Manics class as Britpop or not - but they seemed to get (unfairly) lumped into the genre. Can I also cast a vote for The Verve being the most overrated band in the history of music? Well I'm going too anyway.”
With Everything Must Go, The Manics definitely made a play for being part of the Britpop bandwagon, so you can quite easily plump for them.
I love Britpop stuff, the soundtrack of my youth!
Album - Elastica's self titled debut
Track - Sleeper - Sale of the Century
Album - Elastica's self titled debut
Track - Sleeper - Sale of the Century
Song Oasis Cigarettes and Alcohol. Still remember hearing this on the radio for the first time and howling with laughter at the blatant T-Rex rip off. Then Liam started singing and I stopped laughing, Sat down very hard and phoned everyone I knew to say 'Have you heard THIS???'
Album Supergrass In it For The Money. Every song - every single one - is a stone cold classic. Why weren't that band huge??
Album Supergrass In it For The Money. Every song - every single one - is a stone cold classic. Why weren't that band huge??
Originally Posted by Pointy:
“With Everything Must Go, The Manics definitely made a play for being part of the Britpop bandwagon, so you can quite easily plump for them.”
“With Everything Must Go, The Manics definitely made a play for being part of the Britpop bandwagon, so you can quite easily plump for them.
”
Nope, it wasn't Britpop at all.
Originally Posted by Los_Tributos:
“Nope, it wasn't Britpop at all.”
“Nope, it wasn't Britpop at all.”
For many, it was. Plenty of music critics of the time and later have included it as a Britpop album, and I fully agree. The Manics always wanted chart success, so it was very convenient for them to tweak their image and appeal to a whole new crowd.
Besides, Britpop wasn't one particular sound, as evidenced by the contrast between, say, Elastica and Cast. Damon Albarn, a prime instigator of whatever Britpop really was, always felt acts like Massive Attack and The Prodigy were a part of his version of Britpop, but many music journalists of the time decreed to be a guitars-only scene.
Song: Common People - Pulp
Album: (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
Personality: Damon Albarn
Gig: Ocean Colour Scene - Stirling Castle '98
I'd say The end of Britpop was towards the end of '97. Oasis stalled with the over ambitious coke fuelled "Be Here Now" and Blur moved into a more Lo-Fi American sound with "Blur". A lot of the 2nd tier Britpop bands started to get dropped as they released albums that weren't as big as ones released at the height of the scene.
There's been a lot of good stuff mentioned so far in the thread though. I had a lot of these albums on tape cassette like Parklife, The Great Escape, Morning Glory and Different Class. It was around the time I changed over to CD so I also had Everything Must Go, Tellin' Stories and Blur on CD.
Album: (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
Personality: Damon Albarn
Gig: Ocean Colour Scene - Stirling Castle '98
I'd say The end of Britpop was towards the end of '97. Oasis stalled with the over ambitious coke fuelled "Be Here Now" and Blur moved into a more Lo-Fi American sound with "Blur". A lot of the 2nd tier Britpop bands started to get dropped as they released albums that weren't as big as ones released at the height of the scene.
There's been a lot of good stuff mentioned so far in the thread though. I had a lot of these albums on tape cassette like Parklife, The Great Escape, Morning Glory and Different Class. It was around the time I changed over to CD so I also had Everything Must Go, Tellin' Stories and Blur on CD.
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